In the royal bedroom of the Princess, Princess Celestia was sound asleep on her bed.

A shadow began to slither into the room. Wiggling from side to side like a sidewinder snake, the shadow slithered up the bed and produced a rose within its claw. It gently brushed the rose against Celestia's damask cheek.

Celestia grunted. The figure poked her face again. Celestia opened her eyes and lifted her head to see who was disturbing her slumber.

Celestia grunted. "Ugh. What do you want, Discord?” She rested her head on her pillow, wanting to go back to sleep.

“I just wanted to spend some time together.” Discord brushed his paw along Celestia's neck. He pulled the rest of himself up and begin to curl his tail around her. “Some very intimate time. You know, like in the good old days, before we had our little falling out ...”

Celestia swatted the flower from Discord's claw, tossing it to the floor. “I'm sorry, Discord, but I'm not in the mood right now.”

Discord respected this and withdrew from touching, removing himself from her personal space. “Hmm.” Discord cupped his chin. “Ah!” Getting an idea, he snapped his fingers and disappeared in a flash.

Celestia grunted from the disturbance and buried her head in her pillow.

Twilight Sparkle and her friends, including Sunset Shimmer, arrived at the meadow where they had been invited to by letters sent out by Discord.

“Hey, girls!” Sunset Shimmer waved to them as she and Fluttershy arrive. “What's up?”

“Ah.” Rainbow Dash shot a glare at Sunset Shimmer. “If it isn't Hypnosis McShapeshifter.”

Sunset Shimmer frowned and looked at the ground. Fluttershy smiled nervously, placing a wing on Sunset's back to reassure her. Sunset gave Fluttershy a dreary look, Fluttershy's physical affection doing nothing to dissuade Sunset's feelings of guilt. Fluttershy opened her mouth to say something, but Rarity spoke over her.

“Now, now, Rainbow Dash.” Rarity said. “While I share your … concerns about Sunset's unique abilities, there's no reason to be so rude about it.” Rarity said. “Besides, Sunset Shimmer's been behaving herself, haven't you, darling?”

“Yeah ...” Sunset muttered.

“And I'm sure she'll continue to behave herself. Isn't that right?” Rarity asked.

“Or maybe that's just what she wants us to think.” Rainbow Dash flew up, giving Sunset a stink-eye. “After all, the pony who spends the most time with her is Fluttershy, who she admits to hypnotizing on a regular basis!”

“How can I make you understand …?” Sunset Shimmer muttered.

“Now, Rainbow Dash.” Fluttershy said. “Sunset and I do engage in regular, consensual hypnosis sessions, but we take great care to make sure we never overdo it. Never more than twice in a week.”

“Or maybe that's just what Sunset Shimmer programmed you to say!” Rainbow Dash accused. “Maybe you're doing it every night and you don't even realize it!”

“As loath I am to admit, Rainbow Dash has a point, darling.” Rarity said.

“Does anypony know why we're here?” Pinkie Pie blurted out, distracting everypony and taking the conversation on a detour before the situation escalated and broke into a fight.

“I don't know, Pinkie Pie.” Twilight answered. She put a hoof on her chin. “It's got something to do with Discord. He wants to see us for something … but I don't know what.”

“Given that, are we sure we want to be here at all?” Rainbow Dash asked.

A brilliant flash of light manifested in the air, making Rainbow Dash's question null and void. The misshapen form of Discord uncoiled and folded out from the sphere. As a result, one presumes an unintended side-effect of some misapplied chaos magic, (though with Discord, it was hard to tell where he did something unintentionally or not) Twilight Sparkle was doused with a splash of chocolate milk, leaving her mane dripping wet.

“Helloooo, everypony!” Discord greeted them, holding his arms out wide. “I'm so glad you all came! I wasn't sure you were going to make it.”

Twilight Sparkle grumbled. She lifted her wet mane from her eyes and glared at Discord, annoyed. “What do you want, Discord? Why did you invite us all here?”

“I'm glad you asked.” Discord said. “Let me explain.” Discord snapped his fingers, leaning back as a monocle, a top hat, and a tuxedo appeared on his body and a levitating cup of tea on a saucer floated near him. He sipped the tea. “You might find this difficult to believe, but Celestia and I, once, long ago were … how do you say, romantically involved.”

“You're right.” Twilight Sparkle said. “I do find that hard to believe.”

“Well, needless to say, what with the whole being turned into stone for a thousands year, you might surmise that she and I had a falling out.” Discord said.

“Gee.” Twilight said.

“No!” Rarity gasped. “Really?”

“No kidding.” Rainbow Dash said.

“Mm, yes, well.” Discord said. He dismissed the saucer and made the clothes disappear with another snap of his fingers. “Last night, I was hoping to get a little romantic tension. You know, get a little spark going, rekindling the old flame ...”

“And?” Twilight asked.

“She wasn't in the mood.” Discord said. “That's why I brought you all here.”

“What does any of this have to do with us?”

“I need your help.” Discord said. “To relight Celestia's flame and reawaken the romantic yearnings within!” Discord struck a dramatic, heroic pose. “And I need your help to do it.”

Twilight Sparkle regarded Discord with more annoyance. She exchanged glances at Rainbow Dash, agreeing with their eyes they should go, leaving Discord to his own devices to let his failed romance with Celestia fizzle, flicker, and burn out.

“Oh, please?” Discord begged, making puppy dog eyes and putting his hands together by his head.

Twilight pursed her lips. “I don't know … it sounds fishy to me.”

“Pretty please with a cherry on top?” Discord asked. “Come on, Twilight, be a pal! Wouldn't you do anything for a friend?”

Twilight grunted and sighed. Discord had struck at her weakness. She may not have liked Discord much, but she struggled to say no when she knew a friendship was on the line … even if was a friendship she'd just as soon not to have to make concessions for.

“Fine.” Twilight Sparkle said. “What do you need us to do?”

“Perfect.” Discord smiled at them, a creepy grin creeping on his features, making Twilight wonder if agreeing to this was not such a good idea. Fluttershy and Sunset Shimmer both grimaced.

Discord snapped his fingers. Everypony was overtaken by a blinding flash of light. One by one, each of Twilight's friends (and Sunset Shimmer) disappeared from the area in little winks of light. Once they had all been teleported away, Discord rolled and curled his body around himself, folding up his body until it was so compact he disappeared from sight.

Bubbles of light flashed and blinked out from existence, setting the girls in the air over a cliff which overlooked the Canterlot Royal Garden/hedge maze. The girls were suspended in the air by Discord's magic, and Discord joined them, appearing a minute later than the rest of them.

“Here we are!” Discord announced. “The Canterlot Royal Garden. Which I've taken the liberty of filling with all sorts of sexually deviant animals and creatures for you all to enjoy to your heart's content!”

“WHAT?” Twilight exclaimed. “Discord, you didn't mention anything about having sex!”

“Oh. Didn't I?” Discord brushed a finger along his goatee. “That seems a rather large omission to make, doesn't it? Oh well. You're here now.”

“Um, Discord?” Fluttershy asked. “I don't understand. How will us having sex in the labyrinth help your rekindle your relationship with Celestia?”

“It won't.” Twilight Sparkle answered, crossing her front legs and narrowing her eyes. “He doesn't want to renew a romantic relationship with her. He wants us to have sex because he's trying appeal to Celestia's voyeurism so he can rut her.”

Discord gasped, putting a hand over his chest, seemingly offended. “How dare you, good sir Twilight! How dare you suggest such a thing. My heart burns for Celestia.” Discord brought both his hands over his chest, looking up to the sky. “I do truly want to renew our failed relationship.”

Discord closed his eyes, turning silent. He glared at Twilight, feeling her judgmental, unbelieving gaze and grumbled.

“And I want to rut her.” Discord said.

“That's what I thought.” Twilight said.

“You still all already agreed to help me out.” Discord reminded her. “So, in you go! Make sure you have fun in there!”

Discord wiggled his fingers before spinning around and directed his claws at the labyrinth. His magic followed the direction of his movements, tossing Twilight Sparkle, Sunset Shimmer, and the others all into different parts of the labyrinth, where they let out a series of grunts upon impacting the ground.

“You could have made the landing a little smoother, Discord ...” Rarity grumbled, brushing the dirt off her mane.

“Oh, one little thing before I go ...” Discord said. He snapped his fingers, and a giant scoreboard appeared over the labyrinth, with yellow L.E.D lights displaying zeros beneath pictures of each of the girl. “You'll be given scores on your, ah, originality while you're in there, and none of you can leave until after at least one of you reaches a high score within the next twenty-four hours. Toodles!” Discord waved them good-bye and left.

“What?” Twilight Sparkle exclaimed again. “That's not fair! Discord, get back here!”

“He's gone, Twilight.” Applejack shouted over the garden walls.

“Now what do we do?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“Uh, find some exotic magical creatures and make kinky love to them like Discord said?” Pinkie Pie answered, jumping up and down to communicate over the hedge maze.

“What? No.” Rainbow Dash said. “He totally tricked us. We're not gonna do what he says!”

“Aw. Why not?” Pinkie Pie asked.

Rainbow Dash tilted her head in confusion. “Pinkie Pie, do you want to have sex with some monsters Discord plucked out of Celestia knows where?”

“Maybe!” Pinkie Pie shrieked, giving a answer which didn't commit to one way or the other.

“Um … I mean … if you want to do that, Pinkie Pie. Um … that's your right, and we won't stop you. Will we?” Fluttershy said.

“We won't, Fluttershy. That's Pinkie's decision.” Twilight answered. “And we may have agreed to give Discord our help, but that doesn't mean we have to engage in this … crassness if we don't want to.”

“Yeah!” Rainbow Dash pumped her hoof in the air. She rocked her hooves as she chanted. “Ri-ot! Ri-ot! Ri-ot!”

“Come on, come on.” Discord said, returning to the scene, dragging Celestia by the hoof. “I've got something I want to show you.”

Celestia broke her hoof out of Discord's grasp. “What is it that you want to show me so badly that you have to come into my throne room and drag me out by the hoof to see it right away?”

“Look. Look.” Discord pointed at the cliff edge. Set up on were two lawn chairs with a table in between them, and lemonade refreshments, including a pitcher and two glasses on the table.

Discord, giggling like a child, watched and jumped up and down as Celestia approached the chairs and cautiously climbed into one and sat on her haunches.

“Is that ...” Celestia squinted to be sure she was looking at what she thought she was looking at. “Twilight Sparkle and her friends?”

“Yes.” Discord answered, slithering into the other chair with a pair of sunglasses rested on his forehead. “I brought them all here for you. I did a little study into the recent encounters Twilight and her friends have been having, and I put something for each of them in the labyrinth for them to make sweet, sweet music with them … all while you can watch.” Discord took a nonchalant sip of lemonade.

“I see.” Celestia said, nonplussed. “Discord, are you trying to seduce me?”

“Noo! Whatever gave you that idea?” Discord said. He stirred the straw in his glass. “I mean, just because you weren't feeling in the mood last night, I set everything up so you could watch and brought you all the way out here, doesn't mean I'm trying to seduce you, does it?”

Celestia nodded, accepting Discord's facetious statement. Her gaze focused on the labyrinth, where Twilight's friends were all moving slowly around, evading corners and avoiding any potential encounters. “And … what if Twilight Sparkle and her friends refuse to participate in this activities, as they are doing now?”

“Oh, no problem.” Discord waved his hand. “I put some flowers in there. Special flowers. Flowers that when approached, will blast Twilight and her friends with an aphrodisiac gas that will make sure they continue to play the game.”

Celestia blinked twice, giving Discord a blank stare. “I'm sorry. You have flowers ... which shoot aphrodisiac?”

“Yep.”

“Discord … if your primary, ultimate goal was to get me in bed with you, did it not once occur to simply spray me directly with the aphrodisiac?”

Discord raised his finger, trying to form a response. He was silent, rubbing his chin in contemplation. He had not thought of such a straight-froward solution. “You're right. I'll take the girls out of the labyrinth.”

“Oh, no.” Celestia said, sipping her lemonade. “That won't be necessary. I'm rather looking forward to enjoying this. I'm quite eager to see what all the girls will come up with.” She leaned her neck over to get a better view of what was going on in the labyrinth. “Go, Twilight Sparkle! You can do it!”

Twilight Sparkle paused. She turned around and looked up, waving at Princess Celestia smiling at the sight of her mentor watching over her. The Princess would make sure Discord didn't pull any funny business.

Wouldn't she?

Twilight Sparkle made her way through the labyrinth, trying to find an alternative exit so she wouldn't have to play Discord's game. Truth be told, she might – might even have helped Discord with his crazy plan, if only for Celestia's sake, not his. She deserved to have someone who could love her the way only a, well, lover could. But him leaving out the tiny detail of him expecting her and the girls to have sex irritated her to no end. She wanted to get out of the labyrinth and slap him upside the head with a newspaper, telling him “Bad Discord! No treat for you today!”

Twilight's attention was drawn by a patch of bright color contrasting against the dark moss green of the bushes. Coming closer to inspect it, she found a sunflower.

“A sunflower?” Twilight asked. She hunched over to inspect it further. “I don't remember there being any sunflowers in the Royal Garden.”

The sunflower reacted to her presence, straightening up and aiming at her. Like the water from a clown's fake flower, it shot out a puff of pink gas from its bud, smothering Twilight with an obnoxious lavender scent.

“Ugh!” Twilight grunted, stepping away from the flower and waving her hoof around to clear the air. “What is that?” Twilight felt a shiver go through her body. “Why do I suddenly feel so … lonely and needy?” She blinked, but her eyelids wouldn't raise all the way up, giving her a sleepy expression.

“Hello, Twilight.” A husky voice said from behind Twilight.

“Huh?” Twilight turned around and saw Cadence staring at her with a seductive expression on her face, smiling softly and making bedroom eyes.

“I thought I heard that you might be feeling a little … lonely.” Cadence said, her voice at least three octaves and a decibel lower than Twilight remembered it ever being. “I thought I could come by and … cheer up.”

Twilight, being reminded of her recent sexual experience with Cadence from a few days ago, developed a pink blush on her cheeks so hot it could be used to fry an egg.

“NOPE!” Twilight exclaimed. She turned around and galloped as far, far away from “Cadence,” assuming it was Cadence and not some clone or Changeling or something, as she could. “Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope! Not happening. So not happening.”

Elsewhere in the labyrinth, Rarity and Applejack met up with each other, turning around corners which led them to the same path.

“Oh! Hello, Applejack. I wasn't expecting to see you so soon.”

“Yeah, same here.” Applejack adjusted her hat. “Y'all got any ideas 'bout how we can get out of this place?”

Rarity shook her head. “No, I'm afraid not, darling. All we can do is just wander around and hope we find the exit. Will you join me?”

“Of course. What are friends for?” Applejack walked by Rarity's side. They turned towards another corner, knowing there was no point in them going back down the paths they came from.

“Gosh, it sure would be nice if we had some breadcrumbs or something.” Applejack said. “You know, so we could track where we've been.”
“Mm, yes, quite.” Rarity concurred. She held out a hoof for Applejack to stop. “Wait here. I have an idea.” Rarity turned to the side and dug her horn into the garden wall. She moved her head in a circle, forcing her horn through to make a circle in the hedges.

“There.” Rarity said. “We just have to keep doing this, and we'll be able to track where we've been.”

“Uh-huh.” Applejack nodded.

“Why are you looking so skeptical, Applejack?”

Applejack raised her hoof and pointed at the wall

Rarity looked to see the bush was growing at an unnatural rate, using overgrowth to restore the parts Rarity had cut and shored to their original state.

“You didn't think I would make it that easy, did you?” Discord shouted from above.

Rarity sighed. “It was worth a try.” She and Applejack resigned themselves to the fact they would have to be in the labyrinth for a little while and went further down the path they were on.

“Oh dear.” Rarity put a hoof to her chin. They had come across a fork in the labyrinth's path, with two alternate paths branching off from where they were. Rarity turned to Applejack. “What do we do? Do we go down one path, or do you want to split up?”

“Hmm. Give me a sec. I need to think this through ...” Applejack sat down on her haunches, cupping her cheek as she weighed the benefits of staying together against the detriments of splitting up. More hooves to cover more ground was a good thing, but if they were separate, they couldn't protect each other from whatever Discord was going to throw at them. Then again, the labyrinth was small enough they could hear each other if they shouted.

Rarity's ear twitched.

“Rarity?” Applejack asked. “You all right?”

“I'm fine, darling.” Rarity said. “I just thought I … heard something.” Rarity's ear twitched again. A smile began to creep along her face, which unnerved Applejack.

“You sure you're all right, sugarcube?” Applejack asked.

“Fine.” Rarity repeated, her eyes becoming dilated. “Just fine.” Without waiting for Applejack's input, she turned towards the right path of the fork and went on it.

“Rarity! Wait a minute!” Applejack reached out a hoof. She sighed and shook her head. “Well, guess there's nothing else for me to do but go down on the other path.” Applejack stood up, ready to carry on without Rarity, and took the opposite path.

Rarity was lured in by the sound she was hearing. It sounded familiar, like music. A tune she had heard before.

“Aaaah … aahhh ooooh ...”

Rarity couldn't help but nod at the tune and she hummed along. She followed the music to the source, unable to resist the siren call.

The music grew louder, which Rarity took to mean she was getting closer. She found an opening in the hedge maze walls, where the music was at its loudest and clearest. She peeked in the opening and blushed.

Inside the opening was a small clearing where a towel, a radio, and a lawn chair were set up and laid out. All of this was a secondary matter to Rarity, whose attention was more drawn by who was in the clearing – a large, equine fish-creature covered in silver scales with a red gem in its chest, reading over a magazine, humming along to the music on the radio. Rarity recognized the creature as being the same fish creature with whom she had a sexual encounter with a few days ago at the beach … when she was supposed to be supervising her sister Sweetie Belle, no less.

That was a little embarrassing for Rarity.

The creature noticed Rarity, lifting its head up. “Oh. Hello.” The fish-creature reached over and used its fin to turn off the radio. The fish rose up to its full height, closing the magazine and setting it down. “You must be Rarity. I've heard a lot about you.”

“Er, yes.” Rarity said, nervously walking into the room with her. “Well, there's certainly a lot to be said about me. What exactly did you hear?”

“That you were a beautiful pony with a coat like ivory and a mane like a princess.” The fish said.

“Oh. Well … I do try to always look my best, darling.” Rarity ran a hoof through her coiffure.

“I just wish I realized I'd had met you already when that weird donkey came to meet me.” The fish said.

Rarity's eyes widened. “I'm sorry?”

“Yeah.” The fish said. “I remember you. At the beach, remember? Do you remember me? Oh! Where are my manners?” She bowed. “I'm Rhythm Photon.”

“Of course I remember you, darling. How could I forget?” Rarity said. “It's a pleasure to formally make your acquaintance.” Rarity bowed in kind. “But something you said concerns me. You say a weird donkey came to me?”

It's Discord. Rarity thought. It has to be Discord.

Rhythm Photon nodded. “Yes. He came to me and said if I went to stay in his labyrinth for a little while, I could have sex with a beautiful pony. I just wish I had realized he was talking about a pony I had met already.”

Rarity's cheeks were dyed pink. “Oh, goodness, darling … I didn't realize you could be so … frank about this sort of thing.”

“Well, it's what I do.” Rhythm Photon said. “Sing and lure ponies into the ocean, have my way with them, and … let them go. It's funny, really. I never once thought to do to the same pony twice.”

“Er, not that I'm questioning your lifestyle choices or anything, but … why?” Rarity asked. “Why do you do that?”

“My kind feeds off love and adoration.” Rhythm gestured to the gem in her chest. “Having sex with ponies is my way of getting that love to sustain myself. Of course, it wasn't until that donkey suggested to me that I might get more love from doing it to the same pony more than once. But I think I've done enough explaining.” Rhythm Photon's expression turned seductive and predatory. “Why don't you come over here?”

“Oh. Um, well, I … I, um … see, the thing is ...” Rarity sputtered, before turning stiff at the sound of Rhythm Photon vocalizing.

“Aaaah … aaah.”

Hypnotized, her head rocking back and forth, Rarity marched towards Rhythm Photon with the stiffness and professionalism of a clockwork wind-up toy. Once she was close enough, Rhythm Photon curled her tail around Rarity's body before using her fins to lift Rarity up.

Rhythm Photon continued singing as she flicked her forked tongue across Rarity's nose. It tickled and made Rarity giggle. Rhythm Photon continued to sing for a few minutes more until Rarity was nice and firmly under her control. With this done, Rhythm photon adjusted her grip on Rarity, curling her tail around Rarity some more. She stuck her tongue out and move forward, plunging her tongue into a place on Rarity where a proper lady's tongue should not go.

“Oooh!” Rarity squealed as Rhythm Photon's tongue invaded her insides, squirming around inside her like – well, like a fish. “Darling, if we keep meeting like this, I think I'm going to develop a thing for giant fish-creatures!”

Rarity paused.

“You know, when I woke up this morning, that was not a phrase I thought I was going to say. Oooooh!” Rarity moaned and blushed at Rhythm Photon's continued affections, a blush reappearing on her cheeks and a bit of drool escaping down her chin.

Meanwhile, Applejack was making her way down her path. When she reached the end, she came across a sight which made her halt, inspiring the same feelings of embarrassment in her as Rhythm Photon inspired in Rarity.

“Hello, Applejack.” A centaur greeted her. A being which was a white-coated pony from the waist down, and a white-skinned hoo-man from Sunset Shimmer's realm from the waist up, mimicking the pony Rarity Applejack was familiar with and the human Rarity Sunset Shimmer knew. It was a doppelganger of Rarity recreated in the appearance Rarity had during a little incident at the Crystal Empire involving the mirror leading to another dimension and an enchanted vest Cadence had been trying to get rid of. It was even wearing an identical vest.

“You remember me, don't you?” The centaur doppelganger Rarity asked.

“Oh no.” Applejack said, backing away. “I'm not playing that game again. I am so out of here.”

“Oh, but Applejack!” The centaur Rarity got up and galloped over, getting behind Applejack. “Didn't you like it when your friend turned into this? When she became a handsome, buff centaur?” The centaur Rarity placed a hoof on Applejack's back, trying to pin her down. “A hardworking mare like you … it's understandable that you would appreciate a woman with some muscles.” As she growled out this last word, the centaur Rarity put two hooves on Applejack and forced her to the ground.

“Didn't you like it when I was on top of you?” The centaur asked, running her hooves over Applejack's Cutie Marks.

Applejack said nothing.

“When I was on top of you … when I dominated you and your body.” The centaur whispered. “When I mounted you? When my tail was inside of your plot?”

Applejack bit her lip, beginning to shiver as the centaur continued to rub her up and down with her hooves.

“Come on, Applejack … just submit.” The centaur whispered. “I can give you that pleasure again … but you need to submit. Just … submit.”

“Y-yes ...” Applejack muttered, shaking. A blush was on her cheeks. She didn't know why, but the more the centaur said it, the more appealing the idea of submitting … of letting go and losing control, sounded. “Just need to … submit.”

Applejack took in a deep breath and sighed, relaxing her body.

“Good girl.” The centaur said before climbing on top of her, digging her front hooves into the ground and shoving her tail into Applejack's plot. Applejack screamed in pleasure.

Sunset Shimmer ran before coming to a halt, panting and needing to stop for breath.

“Grah! Where is Fluttershy?” Sunset Shimmer shouted. “I'm not doing anything of a sexual nature without involving and consulting Fluttershy first!”

“Why?” Discord asked.

“Because I love her, duh!” Sunset Shimmer shouted back. “How would you feel if somepony you love got into your crazy shenanigans without consulting you first?”

Discord turned to give a glance at Celestia.

“I don't know.” Discord snapped his fingers. Two sunflowers sprouted from the ground Sunset Shimmer and blew pink gas on her.

Sunset Shimmer waved her leg around, trying to clear the smoke and coughing. “Ugh. I don't care how much aphrodisiac you spray me with! I refuse to do anything without Fluttershy's involvement first!” Sunset Shimmer, to show her determination to her position, sunk her haunches firmly into the dirt, even as her tail wiggled about and suggestively spanked her Cutie Mark.

“Wow.” Twilight said from across the labyrinth. “You really love her, don't you, Sunset?”

“Yes.” Sunset Shimmer answered.

Much to Sunset Shimmer's relief, Fluttershy appeared on the other end of the path. “Sunset?”

“Fluttershy!” Sunset smiled.

The two of them ran up to embrace each other, but Sunset stopped short of coming into contact with Fluttershy.

“Wait. How do I know you're the real Fluttershy and not a clone Discord put in the labyrinth?”

“How do I know you're the real Sunset Shimmer and not a clone?”

“Tell me. Tell me something only the real Fluttershy would know, and I'll tell you something only the real Sunset Shimmer would know.” Sunset Shimmer said.

“Oh. Okay.”

The two of them leaned towards each other, whispering sweet nothings and passionate secrets into the ears of the other. They pulled back and shared a tender gaze between them.

“It is you!” They both exclaimed. The two of them hugged each other in a loving embrace.

The flowers Discord summoned raised up. Arching themselves over, they both puffed out more gas onto Sunset and Fluttershy.

The two ponies shivered for a moment. They parted from each other and looked into each others' eyes, sharing a wordless yet eloquent exchange. With Fluttershy's unspoken permission, Sunset Shimmer pressed her hooves against Fluttershy's chest and proceeded to push her to the ground, kissing her passionately. Fluttershy wrapped her hooves around Sunset's neck, returning the affection and shoving her tongue into Sunset's mouth.

“Whoo!” Celestia cheered., raising her hoof in the air. “Let's hear it for the happy couple! What will they think of next?”

“You're disgusting!” Twilight Sparkle shouted.

“I'm also the Princess.” Celestia retorted.

“Grr. You won't be for much longer if I have anything to say about it.” Twilight Sparkle grumbled, moving forward through the labyrinth. “That is, if I ever get out of this labyrinth.” Turning a corner, Twilight was startled to find Rainbow Dash resting against a wall with Sunset and Fluttershy lying next to her, with Rainbow Dash's legs wrapped around their necks like pets.

“Rainbow Dash?” Twilight asked.

Rainbow Dash opened one eye at Twilight. “Oh. Hey, Twilight.”

“What happened here?” Twilight asked. “You've got Sunset Shimmer and Fluttershy with you, but I could have sworn I just heard them doing something somewhere else.”

“Oh, yeah.” Rainbow Dash said. “No, these are just clones of Sunset Shimmer and Fluttershy. Clones, who I might had, I've just had one heck of a wild time with.” Rainbow Dash said.

“Aww. I missed that part.” Celestia murmured. She turned to Discord. “You're recording this, right?” Discord hesitated before smiling and nodding. Taking care not to let Celestia see him, he snapped his fingers and summoned a video camera. Twilight ignored them.

“You want a turn with them?” Rainbow Dash offered, gently pushing the clones forward. The clones each gave Twilight suggestive looks.

“Uh, no thanks, I'm good.” Twilight said. “I can't believe you of all ponies would go along with this, Rainbow Dash. Being made to entertain the Princess by … by … you know.”

Rainbow Dash shrugged. “Eh, it's not so bad once you get used to it. You just gotta learn to relax …”

“To let go ...” The Sunset clone said.

“To submit ...” The Fluttershy added. Twilight couldn't put her hoof on why, but hearing Fluttershy tell her to submit in a low, low voice caused her to shudder in fright.

“Right. And enjoy the causal sex with no emotional attachment or expectations of a call the next morning.” Rainbow Dash said.

“Uh-huh.” Twilight said. “Why do I get the feeling that's your favorite part?”

Rainbow Dash replied with only a smile.

“Rainbow Dash!” A voice called. “Rainbow Dash!”

Rainbow Dash bolted upright. “Is that Tsukuyo?”

It was, as an enormous spider with the top half of a pony was skittering along the garden walls with its eight legs.

“Rainbow Dash! Where are you?” Tsukuyo called.

“I'm here!” Rainbow Dash shouted back. “I'm here! Sorry, guys. I gotta get in on this.” Her wings fluttering with excitement, Rainbow Dash went up to the air and flew towards Tsukuyo, leaving the Sunset and Fluttershy clones behind.

The two clones watched Rainbow Dash with a air of sadness to them before turning their gaze on Twilight and flashing suggestive smiles at her.

“Don't even think about it.” Twilight told them.

The two clones looked at each other before coming towards Twilight.

“Oh, come on, Twilight.” The Fluttershy clone said. “Just look at what happened to Rainbow Dash. Maybe if you tried it, you wouldn't think it was so bad ...”

Hmm. I wonder if I could use my horn to teleport out of here? Twilight thought. Worth a try! Her horn building up an intense white glow, Twilight teleported to another part of the labyrinth.

“Wha -hey!” Discord said. “No teleporting! That's cheating! Obviously, I didn't teleport-proof it enough.” Discord snapped his fingers, and Twilight felt a surge of energy in the air. “That's better.”

“Well, it was nice while it lasted ...” Twilight muttered. She heard the bushes rustle behind her. “Huh?”

Cadence jumped out from behind a hedge. “Hello again, Twilight.”

“Oh, not this again. Aaaaaah.” Twilight 'screamed' as she ran away, being chased down by Cadence.

“Hey!” Pinkie Pie shouted. “No fair! Everypony but is getting some fun! When I do get a turn?” Bushes and leaves rustled to Pinkie Pie's side. A yellow blur jumped out from the hedge wall and tackled Pinkie Pie, taking her for a tumble along the floor until they landed and settled, Pinkie Pie being pinned by strong lion claws.

“I believe I can help you with that.” The Sphinx said, licking her lips.

Pinkie gasped, her eyes filling with rainbows at seeing her friend again. “Sphinxie! But wait, aren't you supposed to be guarding the temple?”

“Discord has promised he's seen to it the temple is well-cared for in my absence.” The Sphinx said. She brought her face close to Pinkie's. “Now, hold still … like I told you, it's been awhile since I had any relief … and even longer since I had two releases so close to each other.” The Sphinx begun by licking Pinkie's chest with her rough cat tongue.

Celestia giggled, holding a hoof in front of her mouth. “Oh, everypony's having so much fun together! Well, except Twilight Sparkle.”

Discord shrugged. “What are you gonna do?”

Celestia gave a sweeping gaze of the labyrinth, taking the time to look at each and every pony and their activities.

“Discord ...”Celestia leaned back in her chair. “I think I'm ready.”

Discord scrambled to his feet. He dusted himself off, trying to make himself presentable. “Already? I didn't think you'd be ready so soon! I was expecting at least another hour.”

Celestia gave him a blank stare. “Is this your way of telling me no, after so much build-up?”

Discord flashed a smile which brimmed with confidence. “Of course not, my dear.” he snapped his fingers, and both and Celestia disappeared in flashes of light.

Discord and Celestia appeared in Celestia's bedroom, sunlight shining through the window being the only source of light in the room, the rest of the room in a sunset shade.

“What do we want to do?” Discord asked, barely able to contain his excitement. It was written all his face and body. “I mean to say, how do you want to proceed from here?”

Celestia's attention was caught by a hand mirror on her desk. She picked it up in her hoof and stared at it for a minute. A smile formed on her face as she got a devious idea.

A beam of golden light radiated from her horn and swept over the mirror as she cast an enchantment on it. “Discord?” Celestia asked, turning to him and hiding the mirror behind her wing. “Why don't we do something different?”

“Different?” Discord said. “Different how?”

“How about … you hypnotize me?” Celestia offered, raising a flirtatious eyebrow.

Discord smirked, being a big fan of this idea. “Absolutely. After all, my dear, it's only natural that you would come to recognize my innate superiority and wanted to be dominated by me.”

Celestia rolled her eyes. Talk, talk, talk.

Discord closed his eyes. He opened them, showing his eyes replaced by swirling spirals of blue and yellow colors. He lunged his serpentine neck forward at Celestia, who raised the hand mirror in front of him, placing it between herself and Discord, reflecting his hypnotic eyes back at him.

“Ooh ...” Discord muttered, caught off-guard and taken in by his own hypnosis.

“How about for a change, you be the submissive one for once?” Celestia asked, holding the mirror up to Discord's face. “Yes. You want to be submissive.”

“I … want to be submissive.” Discord repeated back mindlessly.

“Keep looking at the mirror.” Celestia said. “Let the pretty swirls in your eyes hypnotize you. You want to be hypnotized. You want to be dominated.”

“I … want to be hypnotized.” Discord said. “I want … to be dominated.”

“You're always in control.” Celestia began to walk backwards, taking the mirror with her. Discord followed her, his eyes glued to the reflection of his hypnosis, trying to make sure he kept eye contact with his reflection. “Always controlling and manipulating events towards the outcome you want them to have. But tonight, we're going to do something different. Tonight, I'm going to take control of you. Understand?”

Discord nodded.

“When, and only when you have your release, will I allow you to come out from under my power.” Celestia said.

Discord nodded again.

“Good.” Celestia purred. “Now … get down on your knees and genuflect before me.”

Discord did as his mistress told him to, placing his hands on the ground as he sunk to his knees.

Celestia giggled. “Well, I guess I won't be needing this anymore!” She tossed the mirror onto her night stand. “Now, come here, slave. Approach me.”

Discord got up and walked towards her.

Celestia held out her hoof. “Not like that. I want you to crawl towards me like the goddess I am.”

Discord nodded and got back down on his knees. He crawled towards Celestia like a snake still trying to get used to its legs, his balance shifting from side to side.

“Good.” Celestia said. Celestia walked backwards, and Discord followed her until she stopped, reaching the side of her bed. Celestia climbed up onto her bed and gestured for Discord to follow her, nodding her head at him.

“Come up here, my servant.”

Discord hesitated, reaching up one claw on the mattress. “Yes, mistress ...” He skittered up the bed like a gecko climbing up the side of a tree.

Celestia reached over and bit down on Discord's horn, grabbing it and using it like a lever to pull him forward.

“You're here to serve me.” Celestia told him, a satisfied smile on her lips. “You're here to pleasure me. You exist to serve me. ”

Discord nodded his head up and down.

“Don't just do that. I want to hear you say it.”

“I'm here to serve you.” Discord said, the spirals going strong in his eyes. “I exist to serve you … what was the other one, again?”

“You're here to pleasure me.” Celestia repeated, a bit more firmly than before. “Discord, if you're resisting somewhere in there and trying to antagonize me by pretending to forget what I just said, it's not funny.”

“Why would I want to antagonize you, mistress?” Discord asked with a genuine smile.

Celestia smirked, crossing her legs and leaned back, satisfied with his answer. “Good. Now, I want you to pleasure me.”

Discord bowed his head. “How, mistress?”

“You can start by coiling your body around me.” Celestia said. “Wrap your body around mine as a display of your affectionate for me.”

Discord nodded. His wriggled his body as he moved towards Celestia, slowly looping himself around her like a coiled up garden hose. Celestia grinned as her body when her body covered up in Discord's furry loops., kept out of sight.

“Good, good. You're doing great.” Celestia moved her head forward and bit down on Discord's chest fur, playfully tugging on it before giving it a lick. “Now ...” Celestia said as she pulled away. “I want you to pleasure me … go … inside … and rut me.”

Discord nodded and rolled his body around, his coils twisting and moving on Celestia's body. He pierced her and rocked her, going up and down on her to stimulate her.

“Oooh ...” Celestia moaned. “Yes! Yes, that's it! More! Faster! Faster! OOOOOOOOOH!”

Celestia leaned back her head and panted after Discord had brought them to both a level of sanctification with their respective releases. While Celestia's tongue hung out from her mouth and she panted for breath, Discord, freed from the hypnotic influence after his release, as per Celestia's command, slowly began to unwind himself from her body.

In the labyrinth, Twilight Sparkle was running around, trying to avoid the lustful and crazed Cadence. She idly looked up ahead and noticed something, an absence which made her stop in place.

“Huh.” Twilight raised her eyebrow. “Discord and Celestia seemed to have left.”

“Hey there, Twilight ...”

Twilight grimaced. She gulped and turned around to face Cadence.

“Why do you keep running away?” Cadence asked.

“Because I don't want to have sex with you.” Twilight said. “Once was more than enough!”

Cadence pouted. “Oh, was it? Really? Is that all?”

“Yes.” Twilight answered. Cadence walked towards her, causing Twilight to back away. “Don't come any closer!”

Cadence complied with Twilight's demands, stopping and giving a soft smile.

“Why are you smiling like that?” Twilight asked, narrowing her eyes in suspicion. She heard something move behind her, and her eyes widened in realization as she understood what was going on.

Twilight turned around and was face-to-face with the bud of a sunflower. The sunflower took in air as if taking a deep breath, then hissed as it released a massive puff of pink gas into Twilight's face.

“Gah!” Twilight exclaimed in disgust, covering her eyes and backing away.

Cadence giggled. “You know … if you don't want to get aphrodisiac in your eyes, maybe don't turn around to face the flower when you know it's about to squirt aphrodisiac on you.”

Twilight stomped her hoof into the dirt. “Yes. Thank you, Cadence, for that wonderful piece of advice.”

Twilight shuddered when she felt something feathery wrap around her sides.

“You're welcome.” Cadence whispered before nuzzling Twilight's cheek.

“I … no.” Twilight said. “No!”

“Oh, come on.” Cadence pouted. She give Twilight a little kiss on the neck. “You know the aphrodisiac is going to affect you. It's going to have you burning here in a minute. Why not just give up and do it with someone you'd enjoy?”

“Because, because, uh … oh.” Twilight's head rocked, her eyelids getting heavy again. She closed her eyes in and leaned into Cadence as Cadence gave her a kiss and started to suckle her cheek. Cadence's wings moved around her, curling up and down and massaging her sides. Cadence's tail whipped about, playfully flicking Twilight's haunches. Twilight couldn't resist it anymore. She gave in. “Oh, all right.”

Twilight pushed Cadence off.

“But before we do this, there's one thing I have to know.” Twilight said. “Are you the real Cadence under Discord's influence, or a clone?”

Cadence shrugged, still wearing a smile. “What difference does it make?”

“Well, if you're the real Cadence … I'm going to feel really bad when Shining Armor finds out about this. But if you're a clone, then I can get away with it without anything on my conscience. Like Rainbow Dash said, expectation-free sex.”

Cadence giggled. “All right. For what it's worth, if it makes you feel better, yes, I am a clone.”

Twilight took a step forward, before taking a step back. “How do I know you're really a clone, and not just programmed to say whatever it takes to get me to have sex with you?”

“Could a non-clone of Cadence do this?” Cadence tilted her head to the side. Her head became half-melted as if it were made of wax, wiggling and waving before reforming into a perfect replica of Twilight's head on Cadence's body.

“Probably not.” Twilight nodded, accepting the clone's word as truth. “But that's really freaky. It's kind of a turn-off.”

“Sorry.” The clone said as she changed her head back into Cadence's. “Better?”

“Much.” Twilight said. She tensed up, ready to pounce. “Now get over here.”

“With pleasure.” The Cadence clone bounded forward, planting a big kiss on Twilight's lips. She wrapped her legs around Twilight's neck and pulled her close, forcing Twilight into kissing her back. Twilight didn't fight it, wrapping her legs around Cadence's neck in return. They kissed with burning lust audible in their moans, as their tongues wrestled in their mouths, their bodies wrestled to the ground, rolling around in the dirt like pigs while they slobbered over each other like … animals.

Er, uncivilized animals.

“Mmm … mmm.” Twilight moaned. She ran her hoof through Cadence's mane, stroking her hair.

Cadence ran her tongue over Twilight's teeth. “Mmm, yes … that's it … that's a good girl.”

Twilight moaned again, accidentally sucking Cadence's tongue further into mouth with the passage and exhalation of air. Both of their eyes widened at this happening, but Cadence flashed a naughty smirk while Twilight blushed.

Getting over it, Twilight Sparkle moved her rear end closer Cadence, flicking Cadence's Cutie Mark with her tail. Cadence sighed lovingly and pushed into Twilight's mouth again, wiggling her tongue against the roof of Twilight's mouth.

“Mmm …” Twilight's blushed grew brighter, but she ignored her embarrassment and focused on giving her love to Cadence. If she were a Changeling, she'd be getting quite the meal right now.

“Mmm … mmm.” Twilight continued to moan. She felt Cadence's hoof press into her chest, drawing a circle into her fur before trailing down.

Twilight grunted and her eyes widened again as she felt Cadence's hoof get close to the forbidden zone. Twilight broke into a sweat, bullets of liquid racing down her face as she couldn't decide whether to draw a line and stop the Cadence's hoof … or let her continue on her way.

It was edging dangerously close now …

It lightly brushed against the edge … Twilight gave an involuntary shiver, beginning to want it now. Beginning to want Cadence to shove her hoof in and make her scream for more.

“Twilight?”

Twilight rocketed to her feet, bucking Cadence off and kicking her, sending her sliding across the ground. How convenient Applejack was here to make the decision for her!

“Hey, Applejack!” Twilight said. “What's up?”

Applejack tilted her head, looking at Cadence's overturned rear. “Uh, what were you two doin' just now?”

“I'm sorry?” Twilight asked, pretending like everything she done with the Cadence clone hadn't happened. “I'm not sure what you're referring to.”

“I see how it is.” Cadence said, getting up. “I see how you are. But oh well.” Cadence brushed her cheek against Twilight's. “Maybe we can do this again some time. Call me.” She swabbed her tail against Twilight's chin before turning and leaving.

Twilight rubbed her chin, feeling where Cadence had touched it. “And after Rainbow Dash said I wouldn't have to call anypony, too … “

“What?”

“Nothing.”

“So, uh ...” Applejack began the conversation awkwardly, not sure how she could begin it any other way. “You feeling okay?”

“Yeah, I'm fine. How are you?”

“I'm okay.” Applejack said. “Kinda thirsty, though.”

“Yeah … now that you mention it, I could go for a drink, too. Having sex will do that to you.”

Twilight and Applejack looked around.

“Where are we gonna get water in this here maze?” Applejack asked, scratching her head through her hat.

“I don't know.” Twilight said. She looked up at the cliff side. “And Discord and Celestia are gone, too, so we can't ask them for help.”

Applejack grimaced, her irises dilating in surprise. “Oh no … what we are gonna do? We can't stay here and have sex with all these magical beings forever! We got responsibilities to attend to! Chores to do! Trees to buck!”

“Books to read!”

“And even if we could shrug all our responsibilities and do that, we'd still need a reliable source of water!”

Applejack started breathing heavy. What if they couldn't get water? What if Discord and Celestia didn't come back and they were stuck in this labyrinth forever? They'd die of dehydration! She'd never get to see Apple Bloom again!

“Applejack.” Twilight said, placing a hoof on her friend's back to comfort her. “Applejack! We don't need to find a source of water. We have one right here!”

Twilight gestured to the sunflowers.

“The aphro-whatever flowers?” Applejack asked. “How are they gonna help?”

“It's simple.” Twilight said. “All flowers require water to survive, right? So we all need to do is find a way to extract that water from the flowers and we're safe. Thankfully, I know just such a spell that will let us do that.” Twilight smirked, satisfied with herself.

“Uh, Twilight?” Applejack said. “It's a good hypothesis and all, and I'm glad you've got a spell you think can help us out, but you're forgetting something. These are magical flowers. Magical flowers made by Discord. They might not play by normal plant rules. And even if they did, who's say the water that doesn't have something … Discord-y in it?”

Twilight shrugged. “Well, it's worth a shot. Unless you want to go without water.”

Applejack paused. “I never said that.”

“Then you'll do it with me.” Twilight said. Her horn lit up, a reddish aura emanating from it. It reached out two rope-like strings of magic which went into both herself and Applejack. They were lifted in the air and their bodies vibrated as the magic caused changes in them. They both sprouted fangs from the upper lips of their mouths. The magic faded, setting them down.

They went up to a pair of sunflowers. Opening their mouths wide, they bit down on the flowers' stalks and sucked the water out from them. The sunflowers let out pitiful squeaks as they were drained by a pair of pony water vampires, their petals wilting as their precious substances were sucked out from them.

But they were evil, Discord-based aphrodisiac flowers, so it was okay, right? Right?

“Ah!” Twilight exclaimed in relief, pulling away after she pulled a decent amount of water from her flower. “That's much better, wouldn't you say?”

Applejack mumbled an agreement, still nursing the water out from her victim of a flower.

Rarity passed by them, looking gleaming. She saw the two of them and gave them a look of confusion. “What are you two doing?”

“Sucking the moisture out of the flowers so we don't die of dehydration.” Twilight said. “You want to join us?”

Rarity gritted her teeth. “I think I'll pass, darling. I'll find my source of refreshment elsewhere.”

“Suit yourself.” Twilight said. She went back to draining the water out from her chosen victim, er, flower.

Rarity walked further down the path, feeling quite perturbed by the sight she had seen of her two friends biting down mercilessly on some (mostly) harmless flowers and draining them like bloodsucking carnivores.

“Hey there.”

Rarity turned at the voice to see another one of Discord's monstrosities he had brought to the labyrinth. This one wasn't pulled from any of recent histories, though, instead being a cow made of oozing purple slime, who was idly swinging her tail with her hoof.

“Hello.” Rarity cautiously greeted her.

“Heard you might be looking for a drink.” The cow said.

“Yes, I might.” Rarity answered coyly. “Why do you want to know?”

“Well … it just so happens that I have some milk, right here, if you want.” The cow said, lifting up its hind leg and showing its udder.

“Thank you for the offer, darling, but I don't think I'm comfortable taking milk from a cow.” Rarity said.

“I don't have to be a cow.” The cow said. Its gooey form rose up and reshaped itself, turning into a deer. “I could be a dear.” It reshaped itself again, turning into a pony. “Or a pony.” It changed shape once more, becoming a taller, lithe shape with arms at its sides, resembling something from the other side of the mirror. “Or even one of those hoo-mans from Sunset's dimension.”

“I think I'll pass.” Rarity said with a blush.

The goop creature shifted back into a cow. “All right, fine. I guess you can join your friends in sucking water from plants like a mosquito.”

Rarity bit her lip and looked to the side.

A few moments later, Rarity came back down the path the way she came, her bloated stomach swaying and jiggling back and forth, forcing her to walk slowly.

Twilight and Applejack stopped stealing water from the plants and rose up at the sight of their friend.

“Rarity, are you okay?” Twilight asked.

“I'm fine, darlings.” Rarity said. “I just got a little carried away, that's all.”

“Your stomach is huge.” Twilight observed. She gasped. “Oh my Celestia, you're not pregnant, are you? Rarity, I swear, if Discord got you -”

“No, no, I'm not pregnant.” Rarity said.

“Oh. Then what's in your stomach that's causing it to be so big?”

“Milk.” Rarity said before walking off.

Twilight nodded. “Ah, okay, milk …wait ... milk!?” She cast a glance down the path to question Rarity, but she was already gone.

Celestia and Discord napped together next to each other in Celestia's bed, resting up after their activities. They awoke and greeted each other with a smile. They move their muzzles towards each other and kissed.

They got out from the blanket and went out, going up to a parlor stand and ordering two chocolate parfaits.

They found a table and sat down opposite each other, gazing fondly into the others' eyes.

“Isn't this nice?” Discord asked, raising his chocolate parfait up to the sky. “You and me, together again.”

“Yes.” Celestia answered dreamily. “It certainly is.” She took a sip of her parfait. “Though I can't but feel as though we're forgetting something, though. Something … important. One small little detail ...”

Discord gasped, dropping his parfait and spilling it on the ground, clenching his hands to sides of his head. “We left the girls in the labyrinth!”

Celestia reared back. “I'm sorry, we? If I recall correctly, I was not the one who put the girls in the labyrinth trying to get something from you, and then forgot to take them out once I had acquired it.”

“Oh, hush, Celestia.” Discord waved her off. “There will be plenty of time for you to pass the blame later, after we correct your grievous error.”

“Discord ...” Celestia collapsed onto the table, burying her face in her hooves. After a moment, she smiled and shook her head. It was all part of Discord's crazy charm.

Discord snapped his fingers, teleporting them out in flashes of light. There was another blink as Discord returned to his chair. He snapped his fingers again, causing the spill parfait to crawl and undulate back into its cup. The cup stood upright and levitated into the air, placing itself on the table.

“There.” Discord said. “Good as new.”

He snapped his fingers and disappeared again.

In the labyrinth, Sunset Shimmer had used her shapeshifting magic to turn into her lamia form, and had wrapped all of the girls up in her writing coils, playing with them as if they were dolls. It was obvious the aphrodisiac in the labyrinth had gotten to her and drove her a tiny bit insane.

“Fluttershy and I are the goddesses of sex, drugs, and rock and roll!” Sunset proclaimed, moving Fluttershy closer to her. “And you will worship us … by making sweet love to each other where we can see you!”

Applejack tossed a glare at Rarity. “Uh, yeah, nope. Not happening.”

“Oh my.” Fluttershy shivered. “Um, drugs aren't very nice, Sunset … and, um, rock and roll can be very loud.”

“Hmm.” Sunset scratched her chin. She wrapped an arm around Fluttershy's neck and put a hand to Fluttershy's cheek. “All right. We'll be the goddesses of sex, highly-stimulating teas, and musical triangles instead, okay?”

Fluttershy nervously smiled and nodded. “Um, yes. That sounds much better. But … would you mind putting my friends down?”

Sunset Shimmer looked insulted at this suggestion. But thankfully, before she could act out on any impulse which she might come to regret later when she had a clear head, all seven of them were enveloped in a pink glow.

“Twilight?” Fluttershy said.

“I don't know. It's not me.”

They were lifted up out of the labyrinth and carried safely over to the cliff. There, the magic dissipated, dropping all of them onto the cliff in a disorganized pile.

Removed from the influence of the labyrinth, Sunset Shimmer's head began to clear up. She rubbed at her forehead, feeling dazed. “Ooh … what happened?”

“Girls!” Discord shouted, he and Celestia coming towards them. “Girls, are you all right? Listen, I am so sorry about what happened. I didn't mean to leave you in the labyrinth, I promise!” Discord raised one hand while putting the other over his heart.

The girls all stood up and and congregated. Their brows furrowed in annoyance, they looked to each other, asking for signs of judgment.

“Sorry?” Twilight asked, stepping forward and speaking for the group. “You leave us in this labyrinth full of all kinds of crazy monsters looking for sex for six hours-”

“Six hours?” Celestia asked. She looked at Discord. “How long were we asleep?”

“Without ANY source of food or water, and you're sorry.” Twilight said. “Well, I'm sorry, Discord, but 'sorry' just isn't going to cut it this time.”

“Yeah!” Rainbow Dash said, crossing her legs. “We're mad at you.”

“Six hours without access to a mirror!” Rarity cried.

“And we're still very upset that you tricked us to get us into the labyrinth in the first place.” Fluttershy said. “Do you think if you had just asked us to do this so you could get woo Celestia, we would have said no?”

“Well, I, uh ...” Discord stammered.

“For the record.” Rainbow Dash said. “We would have said no. Well, I would have. But don't think that lets you off the hook!”

“You know ...” Twilight said. “Celestia's not innocent in all this either. She permitted Discord to go through with his game. She forgot to take us out of the labyrinth before she and Discord left.”

“Yes!” Discord said. He got behind Celestia and cowered behind her, pushing her forward. “She's the one you want!”

“Uh, Discord!” Celestia gasped, offended. She rolled her eyes. “Though I shouldn't be so surprised.”

“You know what I think?” Twilight said, raising her brow at the Princess and Discord. “I think we should throw them in the labyrinth.”

Twilight was met with overwhelming support for this idea. All but Fluttershy and Sunset Shimmer raised their hooves and cheered “Yeah!” in agreement.

Twilight Sparkle and the others advanced towards Celestia and Discord.

“Oh, would you look at the time!” Discord said, gesturing to a non-existent watch on his wrist. “We really must be going!”

Discord and Celestia turned around, only to see a pouting Shining Armor and the real Cadence blocking their path. They looked rather upset.

“Hello, Discord.” Shining Armor growled. “If I heard correctly, you coerced my sister into having sex with a clone of my wife. What, rigging and winning a bet and doing it once wasn't enough for you?”

Discord didn't even bother to make any halfhearted attempt to defend himself. He raised his hand and tried to snap his fingers to prepare a teleport out for him and Celestia, but Twilight Sparkle blasted his hand with her magic, preventing him from snapping his fingers and completing the spell.

Twilight grabbed both Discord and Celestia with her magic, lifting them into the air. Glaring at them, she swung around, tossing them both into the labyrinth.

“Serves you right!” Rainbow Dash said as the two had a rough landing.

Sunset Shimmer dispelled her magic, changing herself back into a pony. She approached Fluttershy and placed a hoof on Fluttershy's shoulder. “Whew! It's been a long day. What do we say we go back to our house and cuddle?”

“I would like that.” Fluttershy said.

The rest of the girls fawned and cooed at Sunset and Fluttershy's display of affection. “Awwwww!”

Rarity could barely hold back her urge to squee. “They're so cute together!”

“See?” Pinkie Pie said. “See? I told you! I told you they were cute together! But you didn't believe me!”

“They are.” Twilight said. She scratched the back of her neck. “Listen, Sunset Shimmer … we're sorry about questioning you before. When you were in the labyrinth, you refused to do anything without Fluttershy. You were dedicated to her. And then when the aphrodisiac drove you nuts, you wanted to make Fluttershy your 'co-goddess', heh-heh.”

Sunset chuckled. “Heh-heh, yeah … don't remind me.”

“I think if you were really hiding something from us, you would have let it slip while you acting crazy. After all, you didn't have to pick Fluttershy out, but you did. You singled her out from the crowd, even when you weren't in your right mind. Now, I don't know about your girls, but I'd call that dedication.”

“We might have had good reason to be suspicious, what with the whole hypnosis ...” Twilight made her eyes spin around, causing a rattle in her head. “But we can see now that you two really do love each other. We promise, we won't question your relationship any more.”

“Thanks, girls.” Fluttershy said. “I appreciate it.”

“Let's go back.” Sunset Shimmer said. “You know, to the cave … where we first, you know … where it all began.”

“Let's.”

And so Sunset and Fluttershy went back to the cave where Sunset had first seduced Fluttershy …

Meanwhile, Discord and Celestia continued to struggle in the labyrinth.

Author's Note

Credit where credit is due - the idea of Discord being the hypnotized one came from a conversation between Light Mask and Ms_Fruit_Bat.

The goo creature is a reference to a suggestion by an Alphamon Onouryuken on the same sight, suggesting a goo girl for a story. I didn't really give it a whole lot of attention, but I decided to throw Alphamon a bone for offering the suggestion.

The goo creature also takes the form a cow, referencing an unused idea I had for a female cow with hypnotic flashing horns for Rarity's story.

Another unused idea was making a retcon which revealed that all of the encounters between the ponies and monsters were actually due to Discord's influence, but I realized this wouldn't work as, in Shying Up To Sunsets, the starter of this series, Sunset Shimmer did everything on her own initiative.

Yet another unused idea (Hmm, I discern a trend) was ending the chapter on Twilight and the girls chasing Discord and Celestia, trying to throw them in the labyrinth rather than succeeding. I changed it to focus more on Sunset and Fluttershy so there was a better sense of closure around the series.

Well, that's it, then! I hope you enjoyed this story from start to finish. Thanks for reading and all that good stuff.