Stranded

Outside, the rain fell relentless over the city, the people were running in all directions trying to cover themselves from it and to avoid that the cold wind caused havoc on them. However, inside the house marked with the number 442 B, the atmosphere was warm and cozy.

Jack woke up thanks to the murmur of the rain against the windows, slowly; he let the noise take away his drowsiness. His room felt warmer than usual, not that it bothers him; on the contrary, it seemed to fill him with joy.

Meanwhile, Luna was still sleeping peacefully curled up against Jack's body. The sensation of her soft fur on his bare chest made him sigh with pleasure.

Unable to move freely, Jack accepted that he would remain on the bed for a while and returned to entangle his arms around Luna. He spent several minutes just listening to her breathing and the faint sound of the rain. He began to move his hands to and fro along the warm alicorn's body noting its smoothness and firmness. After a while, he felt how Luna began to shake and was even more surprised when he heard her purr, as if she were a cat receiving attention from its owner.

He was so immersed in the goddess's reactions that his hand went beyond the limit of her waist and ended on her buttock. Luna's fur on that place was different; it seemed to be thinner and allowed him to touch the soft skin underneath, especially on the moon of her cutie mark.

Jack couldn't help but be charmed by the texture and his fingers began to dance on her mark. Luna's purring increased in intensity until she moaned softly; he also noticed that her wings began to spread. Filled with curiosity, he took his other hand to one of the wings and gently ran his palm from the base to the tip letting that his fingers entered between the smooth feathers over and over again.

Luna let out an intense and passionate moan which left Jack stunned, not only that, the room had begun to fill with an intense aroma of wild blackberries that somehow seemed to cloud his thinking.

Jack stopped his movements in the moment that Luna incorporated her body over his, she placed her front hooves on either side of his head and looked at him as if she were a lion about to attack its prey.

“L-Luna… I can explain it…”

He said, but Luna didn't want to hear him and without giving him a chance she joined her lips against his with passion.

Jack opened his eyes fully surprised by such action and tried to move away from her, but Luna applied even more force avoiding it. The taste to blackberries of her mouth was intoxicating and he finally let go of his inhibitions fully ceding to the kiss.

She took the lead during the first few seconds invading his mouth to tangle her tongue with his. Jack couldn't sit still and took his hands to either side of her rear, squeezing them over the moons of her marks causing Luna to moan into the kiss and taking the opportunity to invade her mouth instead.

Luna moaned again and was willing to let Jack take her to experience something she had longed for a long time, however, something in her mind seemed to break like a fragile crystal and the voice of her sister started to sound with an old adage.

"No one is if free of its influence, not even us, my dear sister. One kiss and the seal will break, a second kiss will make you crave it, but even if the third kiss arrives, if it is not real, your heart will break and it will never heal. Luna, you must be careful of to whom you give your love."

Suddenly, she parted from him and as if she had seen a ghost, her face showed terror, the blush that had spread to the tips of his ears vanished and so did the aroma of blackberries. Jack, that still was holding her between his arms wanted to speak with her, but Luna began to mourn and in a flash of white light she disappeared leaving him in utter confusion.

***---***---***

“Herr General, telegram from Berlin.”

Krause took the letter and read it silently. He rose from his desk and picked up a book in which he began to look for something. His finger pointed an address written on it; he read the name muttering and looked back to his subordinate.

"Call Strasse, tell him that the man he wanted to find died two weeks ago, I myself shot him in the head, also, tell him that we found nothing in his laboratory, just nonsense notes and indecipherable shit, we burned the place to the ground."

“Sofort, Herr General.”

Once the soldier left the room, Krause looked through the window, his eyes fixed on the towers of Remington Company.

"I still don't understand why the Führer insists on supporting men like Strasse, his theories are nothing but bullshit. There are more important things at stake, we can't afford to waste time on that kind of crap."

"Krause, you shouldn't bother about it, while you and I achieve our objectives, nothing else matters."

A woman dressed in black emerged from the shadows walking sensually towards the German general. Krause felt her hands caressing his back; he turned around and grabbed her by the waist tightly.

"That's more like it, my brave and strong soldier."

She said seductively, Krause smiled and kissed her frantically, starting on her lips and going down her chin and to her neck. A knock on the door stopped him and Krause cursed under his breath.

"What's going on?!"

"Mein General, Emil returned, you may want to see this."

"All right, I'll be there in a moment."

"It seems that our fun was ruined."

Said the woman while moving away from him.

"Anyway, I think I better go find something else to do."

She grabbed her purse and walked toward the door, Krause looked at her with suspicion.

"What will you do, Elena?"

"Hmmm... I do not know, considering that the issue with Remington's partner was resolved thanks to your persuasion, I may have to go to the rescue and see what happens. See you around."

***---***---***

Jack looked for Luna through the whole house, but it seemed that she had vanished from the earth. Feeling defeated and sad he went to his study. The clock marked noon while Jack changed the vinyl on the turntable. The voice of a woman singing in French began to be heard throughout the house and Jack slumped in his chair.

"Stupid, what were you thinking?" He said to the air. "Better said, you didn't think at all, you just acted and took advantage of her. Well done, animal, you can bet your ass that you traumatized her for life, she will never talk to you again."

"That is not true."

Jack turned in the chair, Luna stood before him with her face partially covered by her hair and rubbing her hoof on her leg.

"Luna..." He started. "Forgive me, what happened this morning was something..."

"Something that shouldn't have happened?"

She said almost sobbing; Jack could swear that she was disappointed.

"Listen, Jack, it wasn't your fault, it was me who took advantage of you and for a moment I left my instincts take control over me and... well… I did what I did. I have suffered so many years of loneliness that for a moment I thought..."

She couldn't continue and bowed her head to hide her tears

"Luna? You can tell me anything.”

"No, never mind, I swear it will never happen again."

The sound of static marked the end of the vinyl; Jack got up from the chair and walked towards Luna to hug her tightly. A moment later he placed his forehead against hers and looked at her eyes, they seemed to beg him to make the first move, but the moment was interrupted by a series of knocks to the door. Luna's ears jumped as if sensing something and the goddess muttered something after hearing again the knocking on the door.

"But who the hell can that be?"

Jack walked to the door; Luna screamed and ran to block it with her body.

"What the hell is wrong with you?

"Jack, listen to me, do you remember that I told you that there was something important we needed to talk about?"

He nodded with annoyed expression as the pounding continued with its methodical pace.

"Well, something happened yesterday... it was very funny if you think about it..."

Luna had begun to sweat and her nerves were betraying her.

"Dear Princess, can you confirm if it's safe to enter?"

Jack said following each knock on the door, Luna felt cold and emptiness in her stomach.

"How did you...?"

"It's Morse code for all the hells!" He made a pause and then. "Goddammit! You let someone see you?! "

Jack screamed and Luna giggled nervously.

"It was an accident, your housekeeper was in the house and she found me in the kitchen and..."

"Mrs. Robinson ?!"

Jack yelled, this time taking his hands to his head and pulling his hair.

"Y-yes... she saw me and fled terrified from here but then, she returned with an officer... whom turned out not to be a constable..."

Jack stood paralyzed, in his mind he saw himself lying on the ground under a beam of light rocking on his body sweating nonstop and saying that everything had gone to hell.

"Jack... Jack! Snap out of it!"

Luna yelled and hit him in the face.

"You son of... the moon... that hurts!"

"I had to do it."

"Luna, how did you let someone see you? Do you know the problem that you get us into?"

"I know it was stupid of me, but listen; the man behind the door is someone on who we can trust."

"How the hell you know that?!"

"Long time ago, I was connected to the element of honesty... although I'm no longer attached to it, I still can determinate when someone lies... please, you have to trust me and listen to what he has to say."

Jack looked at Luna, sighed deeply and nodded. She smiled, walked to the door and began to hit in a different pattern. Once she finished, she took the door knob and opened it giving Jack a good view of the man in the other side, he was dressed in a gray coat over a black suit.

"Damn the weather of this city, a sunny day for thirty of rain and wind."

The man said as he put his umbrella in the basket and took off his raincoat. Jack instantly recognized his voice.

"Doctor Turner?"

"Ah, Jack, my boy, you're a real devil, you know that?" Turner hugged him. "You were able to fool me the day we met, luckily you dropped this, without it I would never have managed to find you."

Turner handed the blue feather to Jack and turned around to bow before Luna.

"Good afternoon, Your Highness, I hope not to be inopportune."

"Don't worry, Doctor, we were expecting you."

"Excellent! We have much to discuss."

"Wait a minute!" Jack interrupted. "No one is going to discuss anything with anyone until someone explains to me what the hell is going on here."

"Does the Princess didn't talked with you yesterday?" Turner asked.

"Yeah... about that... yesterday we couldn't discuss anything... there wasn't an opportune time." Luna said somewhat nervously.

"Oh well, better late than never, by the way, have you read the news this morning? Apparently, someone caused big troubles in a downtown bar; the customers threw the poor guy into the sewer."

Jack hung his head in shame, it was a fortune that no one recognized him; after all, the guys who attacked him were as drunk as him.

"Jack, are you okay?" Asked Luna.

"Yes! Everything is fine!" He answered quickly. "Doctor Turner, you can start with your explanation."

"Okay." He started. "Over the past months, I have been detecting certain physical events of unknown origin. Scattered Thunderstorms of small-scale, variations in temperature in specific areas of the city, things like that."

"They sound as normal things of the weather to me." Jack said.

"That was exactly what other scientists of the museum told me, but in the places where each one of these events occurred, I always found traces of magnetic force and of a chemical element unknown to us, I have decided to call it "Turnonium "."

Jack rolled his eyes. "How original."

"I like it." Luna said. "It's fun trying to say it."

Jack looked at her and just shook his head.

"As I was saying." Tiberius continued. "I isolated a sample of the element within this small detector; surely you remember it, Jack." He said while showing them the strange metal device. "This little thing gave a big jump a month ago and I traced the nearest coordinates of the place where the event had happened."

"A month... that's the same time that Luna has been here." Jack muttered.

"Elementary, my dear Jack. After analyzing the readings, I concluded that the energy discharge must have been enormous, this would have implied an explosion of some sort, however, no explosions or anything out of the ordinary was reported, only a huge bank of fog that had settled over this part of the city, which I found strange since there weren't weather conditions for the fog to appear."

"The fog of the Everfree forest." Luna said in amazement.

"It is possible that this non-destructive force was released during an event in the line of space-time where, at some point, our world and Luna's were connected causing a transition between them." Concluded Turner.

"So... that was not a dream, I really was in your world." Jack told to Luna.

"So you met Equestria? Lucky bastard, you and her are the reliable proof that Einstein's theory of relativity is one hundred percent real." Said the Doctor.

"Okay..." Jack said. "Let's say all this "timey whimey spacey wacey mumbo jumbo" is real, still, I don't understand what are you trying to take out of this, Doctor Turner."

"All I want is help her to return to her world, but under one condition."

"It seemed too good to be real." Jack replied. "Tell me, Doctor, what is that condition? Because there's no way I could let you put her in danger."

Through all this, Luna looked at Jack with amazement.

"Put her in danger? I would never think about it, all I ask is that when the time comes, she would let me accompany her and thus experiment by myself something as amazing as the trip between dimensions."

For a moment no one dare to say something else, Jack looked at Tiberius and then to Luna. She smiled and nodded. Jack sighed, got up and offered his hand to him.

"You must promise me that nothing bad will happen."

"Science is a dangerous lover, Jack; you know I can't promise that."

"I... I know it, but... I don't want..."

"Jack." Luna caught his attention. "Nothing bad will happen, I promise."

"Okay, so be it." Jack shook hands with Tiberius. "Now that we settled this, how will you open another portal to Equestria?"

"Open a portal is not an option, we will have to track upcoming events, unfortunately, there was an incident in my laboratory a couple of weeks ago and part of my research was lost, something about a fire, I wasn't in town so I could only recover a few things."

"That doesn't sound good." Luna said.

"Don't worry; this is where we will need Jack's help."

"Sorry? How am I supposed to help?"

"It's simple, your steel company is key, I need that you build certain parts and components to create a machine with which we will keep tracking any event where the Turnonium appears."

"Seriously, you have to think of a better name for it." Jack said laughing; Tiberius didn't found it so funny. "Well, that's easy, I just need the schemes, but it will take some time and a good explanation for the workers."

"Fantastic! Now I need one more favor."

"And that is?"

"I need a large space to build the laboratory and a place to sleep, if you don't mind."

"What?! Do you really expect me to...?"

"You can use the basement, is huge down there, also, you can occupy a room, there's plenty." Suggested Luna.

"Thanks for supporting me, Luna, why don't you offer him my clothes too?"

"Don't be so childish, Jack, is the least we can do for him."

"All right, you heard her, Doctor, welcome to the Remington house."

"Splendid! I'll start bringing my things, but first, I have something for you, Your Highness."

The doctor took his suitcase and extracted a small box; he opened it and showed her the contents.

"These earrings are made of siderite; your feather for some reason ended on them it began to spin rapidly and emitted a faint light blue glow. Maybe they can be good for something."

Luna felt amazed by them; something in them attracted her and her magic began to react trying to wrap them.

"Allow me."

Jack took the earrings and placed them gently in her ears. The siderite reacted instantly, a faint glow covered her entire body for a few seconds and her magic power increased considerably.

"How do you feel?" Tiberius asked.

"I feel... I feel great, like a new alicorn." Luna rose from the ground with a single flap of her wings and gave some stunts in the air before dropping down.

"These earrings feed my magic, not enough to open a portal, but now I feel I can do more things with it. Thank you Doctor."

Luna hugged Tiberius; he remained stunned for a moment but returned the gesture.

"You're welcome, my dear, now if you'll excuse me, I have to go, I'll be back before the sunset."

Turner took his raincoat and umbrella and was about to leave but Jack stopped him.

"Remember, Doctor, no one should know that Luna is here."

"Don't worry, son, my mouth is a sealed grave, see you later."

With that, Jack and Luna were left alone again.

"Are you hungry?" Asked Jack.

"I cook; I want to try this new energy." Luna replied cheerfully.

***Some Hours Later.***

"Luna, where are you?" Asked Jack.

"In the library."

She answered.  Jack walked down the hall followed by Tiberius. Upon entering the room, they saw her sitting on the couch reading the same anatomy book that almost broke Jack´s nose.

"That book for some reason has become her best friend." He said mockingly.

"I don't blame her, if I too were a being from another world lost in a strange place, I would also try to know everything about my new surroundings." commented Tiberius. "Thanks for helping me to arrange my things in the basement."

"You're welcome; I hope to have those pieces as soon as possible."

"That would be great, now that the siderite has renovated part of her energy; it is possible that she can sense new events easily, even if they're small."

"By the way, where did you got those earrings?"

Turner grinned. "Let's say that I borrowed them from the British Museum vault as my retirement fund."

Luna closed the book and sighed deeply. "I hope this works."

The alicorn closed her eyes, her horn began to glow and soon the rest of her body was wrapped with the same energy. Jack and Tiberius tried to approach her, but Luna opened her eyes and looked at them intently while saying no with her head. Her eyes turned white, glowing with such intensity that the whole room lit up.

"Luna! Luna!"

Jack screamed and no answer came from her. He saw Luna arch her body while a luminous cocoon appeared around her. Within the cocoon, the body of the night goddess began to change, the fur was replaced by soft brown skin, hands and feet replaced her hooves, her long tail disappeared as well as her horn, the long wings turned into a tattoo that covered her back and her mane went from blue to black hair.

The spell finished with a burst of energy that threw both men to the ground.  The cocoon fell slowly to the ground and it disappeared leaving behind a new being. Jack immediately stood up just to be shocked by the sight.

Luna was now a beautiful woman of long dark hair, the tone of her skin contrasted with the intense blue of her eyes. A mole on her forehead was the only vestige of that great horn and if Jack still had any doubts, the pair of moons still drawn on her buttocks will surely give him the answer.

"Luna..."

There was a tone of sadness in Jack’s voice, yet, Luna didn't hear him. She was marveled watching the movement of her new fingers, then, she took her hands up to her face to touch it gently.

"It worked... it really worked..."

A huge smile appeared on her face; Jack knelt before her and covered her with his jacket while he helped her to her feet. Luna wrapped her arms around Jack's neck for support and ended face to face with him. Once more, Jack was lost in her eyes and images of their brief morning encounter appeared in his mind, Luna took the opportunity to rub her cheek against his.

"Jack, I think our guest needs some clothes."

Tiberius said smiling. Jack tried to hide the blush on his face and she just laughed like a little girl who had just committed a prank. Slowly, Jack took her to his bedroom where he helped her to sit on the bed. He opened the closet to look for something that could fit her.

"This will fit you perfectly." He said as he pulled a white dress and some underwear. "Now that you're human, certain things must change."

"I know, do you think that I “ate” part of your library just for fun? I have wanted to do this for some time, but the lack of something to feed my energy stopped me."

"I understand, still, why did you did it?"

"Does it bother you?"

"It isn't that, but I feel that this goes against your nature."

"I'm still the same, Jack, just my body changed, I can still use my powers, see?"

Luna made a vase levitate with a snap of her fingers.

"I just need to take off the earrings to return to my natural form, also, now I'll be able to leave the house safely without causing a scandal or a global crisis."

He chuckled. "You're right about that."

"Maybe now that I have this body..." Luna bowed her head trying to hide the blush on her face with her hair. "You'll find me more... appealing..."

Her last words were barely a whisper; Jack could almost guess them but said nothing. He asked her to turn around, the image of her bare back made him swallow. Gently, he placed the bra over her breasts and secured it. He told her how to wear pantyhose and turned around to give her some privacy. Luna laughed but followed his advice. Finally, he helped her to wear the dress which settled with her figure perfectly.

Luna looked at her reflection in the mirror, she had used clothes before, only on special occasions like the gala or the summer celebration and never felt comfortable wearing fabrics, but the dress she was wearing now made her look young and beautiful. The dress exposed her shoulders, over one of them Jack dared to plant a kiss before looking at her the mirror.

"You look precious."

He told her and Luna wanted to kiss him again at that moment, but Jack stepped back leaving her disappointed.

"I think that Tiberius is waiting for us, we better go back."

She nodded and took his hand. Both returned to the living room where Tiberius was reading the newspaper.

"You're a box of surprises, my dear. For a moment I thought something bad would happen, but I was wrong, you look spectacular."

"Thank you, Doctor. If you do not mind, I would like to eat something, the spell wore me out and I want to regain some of my strength."

"I agree with her, this day has been quite busy and I also feel a little hungry."

The three laughed and were about to go into the kitchen when three knocks on the door took them by surprise.

"Who can it be?"

Jack looked at the clock, it was almost nine in the night, he thought that it might be someone from the factory so he headed for the door followed by Luna and Tiberius. In the moment he opened the door a chill ran through him, on the other side of the door stood a woman dressed in a red dress.

"Hi my love, how have you been?"

She told him before she hugged and kissed him passionately. Luna felt sick by the scene and turned to the side with teary eyes. Tiberius that was holding her hand noticed that she tightened her fingers over his.

"Elena? What are you doing here? I thought you were in Morocco."

Jack asked her once their lips parted.

"I was there, beautiful place, but I needed to return to London for business and decided to surprise you..."

When she noticed that Luna and Tiberius were standing in the room, her mood changed from cheerful to hostile, mostly after seeing Luna with one of her dresses.

"I did not know you had visitors."

Elena's words almost oozed with poison, Luna began to feel furious.

"They are friends of mine."

“Oh, will you introduce me to them?”

"Yeah, sorry..." Jack swallowed before continuing. "Luna, Tiberius... I would like you to meet Elena Zehirli... my fiancée..."