Of Pain and Pleasure
chapter 3
Previous ChapterI stood in the epicentre of the chaos, screams started around me from the guests in the stands as dark purple and green began to envelop the ground around me swirling faster outward than most could run it seemed to stretch on reaching now past the great house we had been staying in, beyond the fences as far as I could see in any direction masses of black purple and green began to rise noiselessly amiss the screams of the populous I dared not to step out of my circle instead trying to call to Rina and my partners to run to me but the colour rose up and time seemed to slow as I shouted.
As I was trapped, above you could see essentially a massive dome building of purple, green and black it reached its zenith and faded to black before exploding into white and the brightness dissipated. what stood where a huge house and grounds were before was now something akin to chaos and cartoons on the face of reality, like a sticker of colour.
The stables were no more replaced by sugarcube corner and two market stands - one for apples and another for carrots, further out the gazebo still stood in in plain white cloth whilst thankfully the house stood unchanged. However these changes were not the strangest, as the field that suddenly changed the landscape around me finished dissipating I spotted pony's real walking talking ponies.
My jaw hung loose I whipped my head around to where Rina was so fast it hurt only to have my fear confirmed standing where Rina had been in a mixture of confusion and misaimed anger was the one and only Rainbow Dash. I slapped myself so hard I could feel my hearing ring after I spun my head around the area I missed the detail but it seemed a lot of people were here and many were replaced... frantically I spotted one of the slave boys' "YOU! ... GO SHUT THE GATES OPEN THE HOUSE AND GET EVERYONE ON DUTY - THIS IS NEITHER PLAY OR A DRILL DO IT!"
he responded well I suppose in shock taking the orders running to his nearest partners and running to the jobs set out whilst they try and comprehend what just happened. I breathed in deep looking at my circle of grass which seemed to now be surrounded by wood and cautiously took a step out - I didn't change or disappear so I walked to the chariot RD was trying to get herself free from the chariot several of the leather leashes were now on her as if she had changed places with Rina perfectly Mel had simply passed out and... Spike well I'm in shit creek without a paddle the multi millionaire owner of the house has been exchanged with a dragon baby...
Thoughts run through my head I made eye contact with RD only to get her to scream and furiously try to escape the reins, I sprinted to the Gazebo dodging pony's and humans alike getting to the announcement system that was thankfully still in operation.
"Alright everyone SILENCE!..." my voice boomed and slightly screeched at the end with feedback causing those who were awake to stop, wake some of them who were out of it and the rest remained on the floor. "As you may be aware something has happened I want all of you to make your way into the house and let the on duty slaves know your names and if you're missing anyone. AS for our....'guests' if you understand what I'm saying please come here I would like to try and figure out what just happened."
I had several screams and shouts from the crowd several groups from where the stables were and the gazebo as people ran into the apparent safety of the house I pulled the boy I recognised as he was directing people in, "right when people are in take the phones and cut the power we cannot afford this to be tweeted or some shit before we can try and figure this out. for our privacy and perhaps an unwanted interest from governments etc." He nodded and ran back to the house shouting to the other volunteers as he went. I had slowly a crowd of ponies approach the gazebo people and ponies seemed to be like oil, they would fearfully avoid each other in passing to get to their locations. I spotted RD and Melissa arguing with spike between them over where I was before once more I lifted the mike "Mel... Just come here" I saw her head turn she shouted something I couldn't quite hear her but they seemed to trudge over to me anyway.
I had exactly 32 Ponies before me, I wasn't sure of whom to talk to so I made my way into the middle of them, the tallest seemed to only just reach 5 ft at the top of their ears. I watched as they parted around me coming to RD, Spike and Melissa.
"ok listen up I am the current leader here of the original population we are called humans you are at a private function for adults only - are there any children? and does anyone know how you arrived here?" as I finished I could hear a faint sobbing but also RD had finally gotten out of the reins much to her blush with Spike's help she blasted off towards me only stopping in front of me to point at her apparent issue with the bit.
I removed it carefully her eyes showing anger and distrust as expected she moved her jaw about before starting.
"Alright from who I can see here it's just spike underage, as for how we got here.... " she looked a little sheepish before continuing "I think Twilight might have been involved er, local magical expert, egghead etc." there was a bunch of groans, mumbling and all out shouts thrown around.
"ENOUGH!" even without a megaphone chatter seems to die down "Thank you, so you're not sure either... right in this case I want you to ask me any questions you feel you have before we go into the house you see to the left of you so we can discuss this all like adults understood?!" I scanned the crowd as hooves shot up from various ponies I noticed and took in some of the ones I knew from the show, Big Mac at the back, Mrs Cake who was quietly sobbing and a few others I kind of recognised but didn't know their names. I took the first question from one at the back near Big Mac,
"So... We aren't in Equis anymore?" a shyer blonde and skyblue unicorn asked.
"I'm sorry but no this is Earth, 3rd planet in the solar system next?"
another closer to the front by looks of it a local blacksmith by looks of the hammer on the side of his flank he was a chocolate brown and an orange mane with a moustache, he was also a short but stocky earth pony. "when you say... adult function... what do you mean a meeting or something?" I tensed a little at this he must of noticed giving me a suspicious look, "can you take spike away then this is not for underage to hear..." she gave me a look then rolled her eyes and took spike out of the gazebo and out of earshot. "so the function is a party hosted by myself and the owner of the house here, who has seemingly disappeared in exchange for spike as ironic as that is. anyway the party is a fetish party I don't know what your sexual / fantasy or relationships are like where you come from but this is a little unusual even for here everyone here is over 18, has an interest in it and has given consent." I had a wide range of looks just as one would in our world it seems ponies have different levels of open mind. Mrs Cake raised a hoof next I waved a hand to her and she started to address the crowd, "Alright sorry about my sobbing a minute ago, I just realised I have Pinkie back well in Ponyville so I'm worrying over nothing, now I know there's some of you whom dislike some of the adult events that go on in Ponyville this sounds an awful lot like them so lets just keep calm, polite and wait for Twilight and the princesses to sort this out for us I'm sure we can get along peachy." I'm glad she stood up in that moment as a lot of frowns and glares disappeared replaced with nods of agreement and voices of content.
I looked over the multi colour crowd taking a breath "RIGHT! lets get you all inside then and we can start trying to put this together with the humans there - from here we'll have to take things slow as far as I'm aware this is the first time Human's have made contact with another sapient race and well it looks like you're all as shocked as they are..." at that I and others started directing ponies towards the still open doors of the house RD, Spike and Big Mac waited back giving me a quizzical look as others started to look at the type of clothing the boys at the door were wearing and some blushed, some looked disgusted and some... well looked enthusiastic.
I walked slowly to the back were they were and brought up the rear RD took the initiative "Ok you, you might be right in a lot of things but you seem to be the calm one here almost too calm about it all - if you're telling the truth," I nodded before responding "to be honest I'm freaking out a little here as I guess everyone else is but I manage hundreds of people daily from several different companies - I sometimes get into at least somewhat similar situations and need to control them. sorry to put you on edge - you three seem to know whats going on I'd appreciate the help inside." RD stared at me for a bit as did Mac but eventually they sighed and trudged onto the house wherein we found a mixture of people and ponies separated by a divide in the grand hall - the tables keeping people and pony separate.
Humans and Ponies stood opposite each other the house slaves by Mac, RD, Spike and myself I could spot confusion and most worryingly fear within both parties. "everyone... settle down something has happened leading us to have our first meeting with another sapient race and I'd like this to be a good first contact so I'd like all of you ponies and human alike to take a deep breath and relax - we will sort this out. now... I need a moment with the house team." I stopped and half the humans stayed where they were as I called over the house slaves they looked as worried and fearful as anyone.
"alright I need a list of who is missing and the keys to the gates then I need you all to help me can you do that for me?" I had nervous younger submissives who in all likely preferred me taking the responsibility and control here so the majority nodded whilst the few who didn't looked towards the three behind me,
"ok I need a dinner vegetarian made up and better chair situation for the guests focus on your work and report back to me I also want one of you to go and find the walkie talkies and send one to me before distributing them throughout the teams - you lot if you don't want to help fine I won't force you but I need you to keep calm with the rest of the human guests understood?" I got a mixture of nods and confirmations before waving them off turning to my guests.
"So first things first lets get our people calm, safe and comfy before trying to figure what happens next or indeed perhaps your princesses as that pony said will sort things out before too long" Mac nodded before RD continued trotting past me and jumping onto the table "OK Ponies we've pulled together before and this is no different, we're here, we're safe and we need now to work with these ... humans... to keep things together until the princesses sort this issue out in the mean time I along with Spike and Big Mac Apple will try to sort things out for us would anyone else like to volunteer?" a few hooves shot up as a human Domme fainted on the other side I walked up shoulder to shoulder with Dash.
"that goes for us too - we've got this issue and we will meet the problem with the expected poise of humanity I want you all to come to us if you have issues or questions but I want everyone to remain here until this issue is resolved we have no idea how the media, government and even the science behind this will react to leaving the area without first exploring the possibilities. further more I asked the house slaves to work with me on this so try to think of this as ... an alien holiday I will permit you all to have one phone call today to sort out your arrangements for the next week and I will fund this myself as a precaution only I wouldn't want to raise alarms unneeded but we now need to think about those transferred to their world and they who have been transferred here and how we can get along."
there were numerous agreements on both sides of the tables and RD had started talking to a couple of ponies while People started to raise questions with me - the first contact could of been a disaster but thankfully we had somehow kept the peace.
