More than he bargained for

I dashed outside the farm house as the skies continued to grow darker by the second.

"Desire, she's no doubt behind all this. I need to find Celestia and found out how to stop this before it's too-"

Suddenly I was tackled from behind and was pinned to the ground face down. Obviously I couldn't see who my attacker was but I soon realized who upon hearing her voice.

"And where do you think yer heading to in such a hurry?"

"Applebloom! Now is definitely not the time for wrestling!"

"Your gonna have to make time......because I was waiting for the perfect chance to get to know you a bit more and I'm not letting you slip away from me."

I immediately felt her more than eager hands reach for my belt buckle.

"Not you too Applebloom, the last thing I want to do is bang my girlfriend's little sister!"

"I hope you're willing to reconsider cause I'm not letting you go otherwise."

I began to struggle but unfortunately this was Applejack's sister making her just as rowdy and tough (also I taught her how to put people in headlocks to impress Applejack, who knew that was going to bite me in the butt?). Luckily I was able to slip out from underneath her and began backing up slowly from the lust driven mare, only to have a certain orange Pegasus land on my back and began nuzzling against my cheek.

"Hey Sam. What are you up to?" Scootaloo whispered into my ear.

But before I could respond the Pegasus suddenly glowed bright green and was thrown off my back, I turned around to see Sweetiebelle sweetly smiling back at me.

"Hey, Sam I was wondering if you wanted to go have a picnic with me? I made chocolate chip muffins just for the of us."

"Sorry Sweetiebelle, I'm trying to save the world right now."

"But I made these special, they'll get cold."

"Maybe some other time, just not right now."

"Right, because he's spending "close quality time" with me." Applebloom said proudly.

"No, way. He's going to spend "quality time" with me." Scootaloo said stepping in front of the earth pony.

"I'm afraid not, last time I checked he was spending the afternoon with me." Rarity said stepping onto the front porch still wearing her maid outfit.

"Rarity!?! Wha-What are you doing here?" Sweetiebelle said dropping her basket of muffins.

"Uh, nothing." The snow white mare said blushing wildly as she began covering herself.

Before I knew it all four began arguing with each other, I covered my ears as their volume started to increase by the second until my tolerance couldn't take any more.

"Will everypony just be quiet!?!?!?!" I yelled.

Immediately each mare became silent, I sighed loudly.

"Everyone......just.....go......home. Please?"

The CMC's broke off and headed home, Rarity stood there on the porch.

"That's means you too Rarity."

"I know. I'm just waiting for something."

I sighed loudly, walked up to her, and planted a small kiss on her cheek.....only to have her French kiss me hard on the lips for a full minute. Once that was done she sighed in satisfaction, brushed some of her mane to the side, and blew me a kiss right before disappearing in a magical flash. Now that's over, where was I again? Oh right, saving the Equestria from destruction. I headed for the train station only to see Applejack exiting out the freshly docked train, she smiled and waved as soon as she spotted me.

"Howdy Sam, came by to welcome me back home. That's awfully sweet of you but I'd definitely want to know the rascal that sent me on the wild goose chase. Boy let me tell you-"

"Actually Applejack we have a situation."

"How major?"

"On a scale from ity bitty problem to potential world crisis, I'd say we're about screwed if we don't get to Canterlot soon."

A minute later a train headed straight for Canterlot just pulled up to the station.

"Care to enlighten me on the facts on the way there?"

On the way there I hesitated at first but eventually told Applejack everything from my first time hearing the cursed voice in my head to meeting Desire to what just happened a few minutes ago. As I told my story her usually happy smile became a concerned straight face then finally to a frown.

"I know what you're thinking." I said sheepishly looking down at the train car floor.

"Oh? And what's that?"

"That I'm pretty much the most perverted/untrustworthy person you ever met and that now you want nothing to do with me now."

"Actually.....that's not the case at all."

"What?"

"Sure I'm surprised to hear that you were messing around with my friends all over town but it's not like I haven't seen something like this happen before."

"Are you saying this happen before?"

"More often than you think. There's been several incidents dealing with several mares going after the same stallion which when you actually sit down and think about it makes sense. As you can already tell the mare population dominates compared to the stallion population to a fault which means there's not enough of 'em to go around."

"So competition must be high."

"It used to be until we decided on this rule that allows stallions to be shared between mares so competition won't be a problem."

"So......like a harem?"

"Pretty much. Although we call it a herd here."

"So what are you sayin?"

"What I'm sayin is I'm willing to share you if it means keeping the peace between me and my friends."

"I see."

"Please don't take it the wrong way."

"I don't, in fact...........I think it's a great idea."

The train stopped at Canterlot and we both raced up to the castle only to see the others already there waiting for us.

"Ah, there you are darling. What took you so long?" Rarity said batting an eyelash in my direction.

"Rarity, how did you get everyone here so fast?"

"Oh, we teleported here."

I gave myself a mental facepalm for forgetting about instant travel.

"Hey Sam, Rarity just told us something pretty interesting." Rainbow dash teased.

"Oh, boy. Here goes." I sighed.

Applejack and I took turns explaining everything, even the herd idea.

"Whoa Sam, you're more interesting than I thought!" Pinkie squealed while bouncing up and down.

"I-I Think the herd is a great idea....only if you all think so." Fluttershy said timidly.

"Well discuss this later. We have something to do, where's Celestia?" I asked.

"In her throne room like always." Twilight pointed out.

"Let's go!"

We quickly entered the throne room to see the esteemed regal Princess sitting on her mighty throne.

"Hello everypony, what can I do for you today?" She asked sweetly.

"Princess, we have a major problem."

"Oh Sam, I assure you there is no problem."

"But the sky-"

"Is a new form of weather, thank you for noticing."

I squinted my eyes at the princess, as if something was telling she wasn't what she seemed.

"You're not Celestia."

"What? Of course I am."

"No, you're not."

"I don't understand."

"Sam, what are you doing?" Twilight whispered but I ignored her.

"If you are Celestia......you would know what color jacket I was wearing when you first appeared to me."

Celestia began sweating on the side of her face.

"Of.....course I know that. It was blue."

I shook my head.

"I mean red."

"No."

"Purple?"

"Trick question: I wasn't wearing a jacket. Got you red handed Desire."

"Damn it!"

"Celestia" glowed a bright purple before becoming Desire.

"You were always too smart for your own good."

"It's a gift."

"Well you're too late anyway, Equestria's mine for the taking."

The mane 6 took a step forward ready to unleash a devastating form of magic.

"Oh please, like you all can destroy me. I'm fully immortal now thanks to Sam's magic! But I'm willing to make a deal."

"What kind of deal?" I asked raising an eyebrow."

"I end my reign of terror and leave this world peacefully......if Sam comes with me to live in my palace he will be my sex slave." Desire said biting her bottom lip.

"What?!!?!" We all asked in unison.

"That's my offer, take it or leave it."

"We'll leave it!" Rainbow barked loudly.

"Hold it, it's my decision isn't it?" I asked.

The Pegasus became quiet after that. It was now up to me to make the decision: Sacrifice myself to become a sex slave for Desire in order to save everyone? What would your answer be?

"I'm getting bored. Do we have a deal or not?" Desire said rolling her eyes.

"Yea, we have a deal." I said shaking her hand only to have a giant "D" burned into my hand.

"Sam! What are you doing!?!?!" Applejack yelled.

"Sacrificing myself for the greater good."

"But that's crazy!"

"I know....but it's the only way."

With a snap of her fingers Desire and I disappeared in a giant flash leaving only my black Stetson hat behind on the floor Which Applejack picked up and held close to her as she began to weep silently to herself. Everyone went home after that, as for Applejack she laid in my bed still weeping to herself when a bright light appeared. She gasped loudly when she saw a transparent version of me appear in the middle of the room.

"S-Sam? Is that you?"

"It is."

"Where are you? Are you okay?"

"I don't know exactly yet but I assure you I'm alright."

The cowgirl looked down sadly at the hat in her arms.

"I suppose you want this back."

She handed me my hat which immediately became transparent at my touch, I put on my head where it so rightfully belonged.

"I also came back because I've been meaning to give you this."

I pulled out a ring from my back pocket and slipped it on her finger which immediately became solid.

"W-What is it?"

"It's a promise ring. As in a promise for me to one day return to the cowgirl that roped my heart at first glance."

"That's pretty corny, but it's thoughtful."

"Yeah well, I better get back now."

"So this is goodbye?"

"For now, so what we say from where I'm from is "See ya later, Alligator".

"See ya later, Alligator?"

"In a while Crocodile."

With a final flash of bright light, I was gone.