Apples, Cutie Marks, Philosophy, Oh My!

30 minutes earlier

The purple dragon rapped his talons on the hardwood of the farmhouse door of Sweet Apple Acres. From inside came the familiar clip-clop of Applejack's hoof steps and soon enough she swung the door inwards as she greeted her guest.

"Howdy Spike, how's it goin'?"

He was still frustrated from Rainbow's bullying and Twilight's misunderstanding, so he responded sulkily, "I'm fine.... I was wondering if I could get some of the Apple family’s apple butter- the door to the Ponyville Library needs greasing."

"Sure thing buddy! Though you seem a little down. Is somethin' wrong?" The farmpony eyed her small friend quizzically.

Spike grumbled under his breath, but did not respond with a positive confirmation. AJ raised her eyebrow at him but did not press. Instead, she turned hoof back inside and said, "Come on pal, I got an extra jar in the cellar"

He followed her through the house and down some stairs into a crude cellar, with dirt floors and walls, reinforced by strips of wood. Stacks of barrels were fermenting, as well as several glass bottles. There were also crates labeled as all sorts of other supplies, from various flower species, to wheat, to seeds of all kinds.

At such "Wow Applejack, you guys are sure ready for anything down here! Now I know where to come if chaos ever reaches Equestria, ha-ha."

She looked at him, "Well, funny as it may seem to you, that's exactly the point of stocking up so much. No matter how peaceful things seem, it's always good to have a backup plan." She turned towards a wall of crates and started rustling through them, until she came up with a large jar of Apple Butter. "Here ya go! This one's on the Apple family, no worries, ok? Do tell Twilight hi for me, will ya?"

"Thanks Applejack! Although I don't know if I want to, she wasn't being very nice earlier."

"Yeah, what's up?"

Spike proceeded to explain how Rainbow Dash had rushed into the library to put some query past Twilight, when she had taken offense at his suggestion that she would be able to get the apple butter for the door quicker than Spike. It was still baffling to him as he told the story, but AJ’s face was contemplative, as if she had some insight into the situation.

After he finished his story, she said, “Tell ya what, hows about I come over with you and slap that grease on the hinges properly for ya, ‘cause I gotta talk to Rainbow myself."

Spike brightened at the prospect of less work for himself, and eagerly agreed.

“Just gimme a minute, I’ll meet you out front. Gotta find something around here.”

Applejack swung the door shut behind her and adjusted her saddlebags, before nodding to Spike to confirm that she was ready to head towards Ponyville proper. For a while, they walked in a companionable silence, but soon the small dragon broke it and asked, “What do you need to see Rainbow Dash for?”

Applejack hesitated, not willing to reveal the depth of her relationship with the Pegasus to her younger and still-maturing friend, but eventually she answered, “Well, I’ve been meaning to give her a gift that I promised, but I haven’t seen her in about a week and so I figured this would be a good opportunity, as I finished my duties a bit early today."

Finally, they reached the front door. Applejack winced as Spike demonstrated the squeal of the hinges, but quickly and professionally applied the butter. Soon enough, the door was swinging smoothly and silently.

Spike beckoned towards the orange pony to come inside. A strange scent permeated the ground floor, and Twilight's assistant noticed Applejack's eyes widen. He didn't know what it meant, but he proceeded to climb the stairs.

It was odd. Normally the Element of Honesty was also humble and patient, yet he could sense that she had grown irate behind him; instead of waiting in the library portion of the house as she would have normally, she was behind him, egging him to ascend to Twilight's room faster.

He reached the second floor and swung open Twilight's door.

The scene before him was out of this world- one that Spike would never have imagined, except in his wildest dreams. There was pony-juice splattered across the room, sprayed on walls and ornaments, even the ceiling! The source of the lusty smell was obvious now and, unlike when he had been downstairs, it was no longer strange. It was intoxicating.

He was fascinated by the display before him.

Eyes wide in a mixture of fear and embarrassment, Twilight Sparkle was staring at him with a slack jaw, unable to believe she had overlooked his existence. He saw Rainbow Dash dangling from magical violet cords, clear liquid dripping from beneath her tail. She was hanging from the ceiling, her hooves and wings bound so that her crotch-tits were the only things dangling below her body. Twilight was also disheveled, the fur around her muzzle darker with moisture.

He was unable to utter a word, and could only stare at such a transfixing picture before him, feeling a stirring deep within his body. His thoughts were interrupted as Applejack gasped behind him.

Her cry was terrible: an awful, undulating sound that came from the deepest part of the earth pony, as if her world had been shattered. The violet magic that held Rainbow Dash in the air dissolved and the pegasus crashed to the floor, crying out, "Wait, AJ! PLEASE!!"

Spike turned towards where Applejack had stood just in time to see her tail whip around the corner of the staircase. He heard sobbing and the clop of sprinting hooves, and then the slamming of the front door. Rainbow Dash leaped up and pushed him violently aside in pursuit of her friend.

Spike winced from the impact as he fell to the ground and then looked back at Twilight. She was still frozen in place and slack-jawed, unable to form proper words for her assistant.

So he slowly backed away, to process this new information about ponies that he had never experienced before.

Meanwhile, Elsewhere

A certain cluster of residual magical energy had floated from the library window and was now drifting its way towards a peaceful cottage. The quaint dwelling was situated near the Everfree and had a green sod roof and a large field behind it, filled with critters of all sorts, caravanting and hooting around. The glow ignored those specimens, searching for pony to infest, as the spell that had summoned it required. Soon enough, a pink mane came bobbing from the back door, humming a sweet tune and carrying a bucket of oats to toss into a food trough.

It arrowed in on it's target, and the cream colored pegasus gave a tiny 'eep' as it invaded her body.

"Umm..." Fluttershy looked nervously around as she felt a tingling grow from her hooves up through her body, confused as to what had assaulted her, for she knew that something had.

The warmth flooded to her hindquarters and she let a tiny mewl escape her throat as the pleasurable feeling urged her to find a place of privacy. The need to satisfy the heat between her hindquarters overwhelmed the decision making complex of her brain and she dropped the oats where she stood, turning to flee back into the cottage.

Angel bunny started gesturing wildly as she dashed past him, but she ignored his query, brushing him aside, until she reached her room, where she slammed the door and locked it.

"Ohh.." The pegasus moaned as she sat on the edge of the bed, "what's going on here? I just need..."

She touched her forhoof to her now-dripping heat and sighed at the stimulating contact. Moving her appendage in circles around her swollen slit offered some relief, but it was not immediately enough. She knew that she would have to work harder in order to satisfy her desire, in order to function properly again.

So an image started to form in her mind, of a certain stallion whom she  had been attracted to for a very long time. The muscular farmpony, brother of one of her best friends, materialized behind her closed eyes. She imagined caressing his muscles after a long day of work, providing comfort to somepony who gave the fruits of his labor to sustain others.

The motion of her hoof around her marehood grew more rhythmic as she fell into her semi-trance, fireworks of sensation spiraling from her hindquarters, up her spine, exploding throughout her body. Soon enough she was no longer in her own room, clopping with her imagination, rather, she was laying in Big Macintosh's embrace under the shade of one of his apple trees

Wrapped together, they had been cuddling for the last 10 minutes. Fluttershy nibbled at the red stallion's neck, planting soft kisses along the length, nuzzling his soft fur and inhaling his scent. She felt something bump against her belly as his member started to unsheathe, the dark end swelling into her, growing more as it made contact with her body. She started shifting around to stimulate it further and continued the gentle application of her lips to him. Reluctantly, she pulled away from the embrace. but only so that the two of them could do so in a more pleasurable fashion

Now she was sprawled out on her bed, rubbing her chest and belly with one hoof and her clit with the other. Underneath her, she could feel blood flowing into her wings, the pressure of her laying on them stimulating as well. Her hoof grew moist as the vision continued.

He was standing over her now and his member was fully erect, the tip glistening with precum. She whimpered gently in anticipation of what was to come, but wanted to pleasure him first. She leaned forward and wrapped her trembling lips around his shaft, moistening the hot skin with her saliva, stroking up and down the length. Withdrawing most of the way, she suckled the tip, flicking her tongue over the mushroom head and tasting the salty fluid that was emitting more profusely. Big Mac grunted with satisfaction at her contact, slowly shifting his hips in synchronization with her head, plunging the slightest bit deeper with each perpetuation of the motion.

Fluttershy was halfway off of her bed, her back arched as she massaged her marehood furiously, her sopping hoof inserted nearly all the way into her opening. At the same time she was sucking her other hoof, licking the appendage as she imagined it to be the dark shaft of a fully grown pony. Her juices ran from her heat, between her buttocks, soaking into her pink tail. She moaned loudly and flipped over so that her chest was on the bedframe and her posterior was presented to the open air behind her. Taking both forehooves, she reached around and spread herself wide, inserting one hoof to go deep and using the other to tickle her nubbin.

She leaned against the apple tree, wrapping her hooves around its thick trunk, offering her nethers to the stallion of her heart. Big Mac sighed huskily as he inserted his rod and she cried out at the contact, longing for it to remain how it was yet wishing that he would penetrate deeper. A dilemma that she didn't mind in the least, so long as the friction continued.

And it did.

He pumped furiously into her, widening her love hole and causing uncharacteristically loud noises from the usually meek pegasus. As he felt her reaching climax, a wet 'schlick' noise accompanied the removal of his shaft as he pulled out. Leaning down, he nuzzled the upper hole before sticking his tongue where his member had been, to taste the infatuating tang of her sweetness.

"Hnnghhh!"

Fluttershy cried out as her ejaculate gushed out of her lower lips, trickling down her legs and matting her fur. Blushing at the thought of what she had just done, she wondered what had compelled her in the middle of her duties.

Perhaps she would never know.