The Alter Accords.

The Alter Accords

Chapter Six: Rare Reactions and Stretching the Rainbow

‘Ever wonder how your day can go from ordinary to ‘what the buck is happening?’ Well that is how I currently feel as I look at Rarity asking me to come back to her place to sign a few things, well I hope it is just that, Twilight trying to pick my brain about every single one of my abilities, and Spike looking in confusion at the happens going on.’ Sighing as the red coated stallion looked at the three he took a moment to reflect on his day.

The annoying buzzing, it had started about five minutes ago if his internal clock was right, it hasn’t stopped and he was getting ready to levitate it and slam it against something except he realized he didn’t have a horn at the moment. Getting up and shaking out his mane he realized what he woke him up out of his new cloud bed: his new alarm clock.

‘OH right bought that thing last night on a whim since I can’t see the sun in this cave.’ Moving over to it and using his wing to tap the top of it to stop the buzzing that it was giving off. Once the dreaded thing had been silenced he smiled and shook himself again before heading over to the spring deeper in the cave. ‘I hate and love this thing, so convenient for washing up in the morning but makes the cave sooo damn damp, makes it nice and cool though so that is a plus. Though that just means I have to move out before winter or I will freeze to death in here.’

After a good long wash in his crystal clear cave spring and making him come out as fresh as could be he went outside to dry off in the wind with a quick fly. ‘If I stay in the cave I will never get dry, plus with how good the spring makes me feel, no matter how damn cold the thing is, I just can’t pass up a good fly. No matter how sore or tired I am when I wake up I always feel one hundred percent once I get out of there, swear that thing is enchanted or something.’ Star chuckled at the thought. He knew a bit of something about enchanting from Novo since while he specialized in transmutation and levitation he did dabble half-heartedly in enchantment, he knew any lasting enchantment without any kind of maintenance would fade. ‘Ok let’s see, today my plans are buck at Sweet Apple Acres till noon as Lego meaning I will have to shift before then, head over to Twilight as she wanted to talk about something and I said I would give her time. Then let’s see depending on how long that takes Rainbow was asking for either Velox or Novo to teach her ‘The Current’ which as long as Novo and Twilight are around we could stop anything bad from happening. So I will have to ask Twilight about that and tell her Novo wanted to meet her to oversee that and change to Novo when no pony is looking, so two shifts, easily doable but I really hope nothing beyond that. Pinkie wants to throw Lego and Novo a party but luckily yesterday I managed to convince her to wait at least till a house was built but I want to double check just to make sure she isn’t planning a surprise party and goes looking for ‘both’ of them at the same time or all ‘three’ of us.’ Shuddering at the thought he sighed when he realized that it was nearing the time to change and head over to S.A.A.

Landing just outside the Everfree, he quickly jogged behind some trees after making sure no pony was looking. After a momentary soft lightshow the rust maned stallion shook himself out as he took a leisurely pace to his destination. On the way he saw a few ponies he recognized, Fluttershy outside her cottage as his path took him close to it, she was currently feeding some birds. Lyra and Bon-bon as he passed through town, he would often visit the confection maker’s shop when he was Lego as for some reason when he was in that form he was a pushover for sweets, similar to how Velox was a sucker when it came to spicy food and Novo for sour items. Last pony he seen before his destination was one that confused him, Time Turner just had a look about him that always made each of his forms suspicious, he was never sure why.

Heading to the barn a smile came to him as he seen the freckled mare. “Howdy.” Responding to her howdy with a nod went to grab the wagon he used. “Ever since ya told us how you sped up the buckin’ we bought more wagons to help out, one for each of us and two extra, but still ah have a feelin’ you haven’t told us everythin’ about wha’ ya do. Ah get ya said a lot of things about small things all addin’ up but ah just don’t see how it can make ya that much faster, especially cause ya say ya take more breaks then us.”

Lego sighed gently; a few days ago Applejack had confronted him about his speed saying ‘Taint natural’. He went on to explain how because she and her brother did a dozen tiny little things it wasted so much of their strength, they hadn’t believed him but he tried. He also found out that day that he wasn’t as strong as Big Mac and AJ with one hundred percent accuracy. Remembering the tug of war they had to prove their strength meant nothing since he told them it was about technique.

‘Just as stubborn as the farmers over in Appaloosa, he had a different set of problems but cause I wasn’t a farmer for so many generations doesn’t mean I don’t pay attention to detail.’ Coming back to reality he just shrugged and went to grab the cart.

“Hey can ah ask ya somethin’?” Normally he wouldn’t bother turning around to answer, just making a motion to her to follow and ask, however it was her tone that made him pay attention, slightly subdued and worried. After a nod and a minute of silence she finally spit it out. “Why do ya work here now?”

He was prepared for a slew of questions everything from teach her how to buck so as not to waste as much energy, a rematch to tug of war and or to wrestle, buck a game of cards even. That…that question, of course, wasn’t on the list. “S’cuse me?”

Seeing his confusion she mistook it for something else it seemed and quickly stuttered out. “O-oh it is not like we mind it’s just…why doesn’t Velox work here anymore?”

Hearing the question out in full now he understood what she meant. “Efficiency.” The tilt of her head of course told him she needed more than that. “Before I came to help out Velox was doing about a third of what you do. Kinda not really helping if you ask me, I mean abit but not what you paid him for at all. So when I came along and improved things he kinda told me to take over since I do it better.”

The answer didn’t improve her mood like he thought it would. “Oh, so just matter of being bad at something and givin’ up.”

Lego in any form would have hated the look she gave, a mix of sadness, hopelessness, and something else he couldn’t identify which did slightly bug him. “Besides, he rather likes it this way.” He knew the response he would get even before he said that, seeing her look up sharply with a slight hurt look on her face. “Don’t get me wrong and don’t take this the wrong way, Velox would rather see you have some time to yourself. He knows how hard you work here with your family, just about all your time is taken up at the farm leaving nothing to you. Velox would rather give up something if it improved another pony’s lot by a great deal then to stubbornly continue and help only a tiny bit. So while he isn’t making money here anymore, and granted I make a lot less then what he did for all the work I do suits both him and I all the better. Means more time and bits to enjoy and improve things in you and your family’s life.”

Not wanting to talk anymore then that he grabbed the wagon and started to pull it outside, faintly as he was closing the door behind him he saw a smile on her face, faint, but there as well as a tiny voice saying ‘so it’s not cause of…’ and whatever she would have said after that wasn’t heard as the door closed.

‘Should I shift to Novo now or later, now would mean I would have to find a place to sneak off and I am already kinda late to Twilight’s, later would mean I would have to find an excuse to sneak off which shouldn’t be so bad. Buck it, I need a nice slow walk and I am already late, a few more minutes won’t hurt, and it would take longer if I shifted.’ Nodding to himself Lego moved on at his leisurely pace to the library as he promised the librarian that he would. On the way there he realized this would be the first meeting between Lego and the Unicorn, always before it was Velox and Novo that had met her. ‘Guess I will have to pay extra attention that I don’t say the wrong thing.’

It seems getting lost in one’s thoughts was the best way to kill time as he found his hoof already knocking on the door. “Twilight, I am here as requested.”

He was polite wanting to make a good ‘first’ impression with her, after all, it wasn’t every day you met somepony for the first time…again…for the third time.

When she opened the door she obviously had not expected his size as she game face to face with his chest before looking up. “Oh Hello are you Lego?” When he nodded she smiled though it was somewhat of a nervous one. “Come on in, I have closed the library for a while so we can talk, plus it’s not like most ponies come here on this day anyways, it was unofficially dubbed my day off on Wednesday.”

As he came in something caught his mind as he watched Twilight bump into a few things. ‘Suppose my size is intimidating best to reassure her.’ Giving a simple chuckle he looked at her and smiled. “No need to be nervous, I am big sure but I won’t take a nibble or something. Unless you’re sweet like candy, then you may have a problem.”

He laughed too heartily at his little joke as it made him close his eyes and thus missing the blush that Twilight had on her face. When he had finished the laugh the lavender Unicorn was already turned around to grab a few items: quills, parchment and paper, ink vials, ink remover, and a few other odds and ends.

“I was expecting Novo or Velox but it’s good to meet you finally. I must say though you weren’t what I expected. I am just glad I recognized you from your brother’s description.” The chuckle she gave was still nervous sounded even if it was genuine.

“Would it help if I said Eeyup a lot, been told me and Mac’ look alike so I suppose I could get away with an imitation.” This had the result that he wanted, causing the Unicorn to laugh and seem to melt the tension from the air. ‘She has an adorable laugh the way her voice is and how she tries to cover her mouth like that.’

With that the questions started out normal, which one of brothers was the oldest? Answer: Lego, since technically it was the form that Star had first woken up in but he didn’t say that part. What could Lego do? Besides being exceptionally strong with his refined tactile telekinesis and a decent amount of strength over all, he was very detail oriented and analytic, something that made Twilight smile and for some reason have a slight tinge of pink to her lavender coat. Next were her questions about Novo though it was mostly a recap of his transmutation and telekinesis. Velox was the last and the only question she had there was if he had helped in the discovery of ‘The Current’ to which he answered he wasn’t sure.

When he was asked for an example that he could remember of Novo’s prowess he shrugged and said. “He studies a lot to be able to transmute anything into anything else so, take a pick and he can most likely do that.”

“You said you had a refined tactile telekinesis can you give me an example of that somehow?” A simple request that was hard to fulfill with what he had on hoof.

Looking around he spotted a coffee cup that he picked up with one hoof then set it back down. “I can also do minute changes to the field on the fly so to speak.” When she asked for an example of that he had to think for a moment before an idea popped into his head. “Don’t move.” He told her simply. Walking over he placed his hoof against neck and didn’t move it, however the way he was shifting an altering the field at his hoof felt as if he was kneading her neck causing her eyes to roll up in her head and she slowly sank down to the ground despite him asking her not to move.

And this is of course how Rarity and Spike walked in, Rarity gave out a very dignified ‘Oh my.’ Before she asked a simple question that if answered would solve most things. “I hope we aren’t interrupting dear, you did tell us to drop these books off as well your repaired bed covering.”

‘Come on Twilight answer her; answer her in a way that won’t be incriminating with how you look right now.’ He pleaded to no pony in particular but the universe itself.

The answer that came was as such. “Hurblurbglerblachcurb.”

‘Buck you too universe, buck you too.’ The sigh he gave showed his disappointment at the situation but it was taken as something else by the other Unicorn in the room that wasn’t drunk on the pleasure that his hoof gave.

Taking a moment to look between Twilight and Lego then back again she said words that ignited fear in the large stallion. “This looks familiar where have I seen it before…and you look familiar as well.”

‘Oh buck, buck, buck, buck.’ “I-its cause I look like Big Mac I am sure.” He was slightly backing up from the eyes of the seamstress wanting to do whatever he could to hope she didn’t recogni-.

“OH, no it couldn’t be?!” With those words Lego nearly bolted, however he looked to the door to find a light blue glow closing it.

‘Panic mode activated, engage distraction techniques!’ “Um oh Miss Rarity did you see the curtains over there they look just dreadful.” He reasoned that being the Element of Generosity would cause her to look it over at least to assess it.

She didn’t even blink from him, only smiled. “Why I do believe I have seen a few articles with you in them, or something along those lines.”

‘Wait why does she look like that, why would she…oh she reads those magazines…OH BUCK SHE READS THOSE MAGS!’ The large pony was cursing Photo Finish for abusing his need for money a couple of years ago now and put her on the list that would give a standard response of ‘Buck you’ when they asked about something. “I-I have no clue what you are talking about.”

“Actually now that she mentions it, I think I seen you in some magazines as well, and Velox and Novo.” It was a recovered Twilight with a nodding Spike that spoke that line. “Something along the lines of fashion I believe.”

The smile on the white Unicorn’s face grew to a grin at that. “Oh my Dear Twilight, I think he is a talented pony that has been in more than just that.”

With that he then initiated Extreme Avoidance Protocol Omega. “Bailing.” He said simple and dove through a window breaking through the glass in the process.

As he was running as fast as his large slow body could carry him he distinctly heard. “Oh do come by and visit me at the Carousel Boutique, I am sure we can measure you out in fine detail for something that fits your size.”

Lego was sure his coat hid his blush pretty well normally if he got one, but anypony looking would swear he was glowing at that point.

‘-And then I am going to make sure Photo Finish and her little Playfilly magazine will get their come uppens…I am glad I didn’t say that out loud that sounded awful.’ Novo thought to himself. Taking a slight moment remember how Photo took advantage of the knowledge that she knew he could shift to model for her in his various forms then of course offering the largest form a lot of money for some risqué photos to publish in a more private venue he agreed and got a lot of travel money that helped him out for a good time. Was he proud he did it? Buck no. Did he really need those bits? Indeed he did.

“Dash, Come down I am ready to teach you now.” More to get his mind off what had happened more than anything else but there was no answer to be had. “Dash, I am going to teach you ‘The Current’ but only if you come outside.” Before coming here he had asked where she was, apparently she had been seen coming to her home to take a nap and hasn’t left yet. ‘In a too open of an area to change to fly up so, guess I have to do it the other way.’

The horn on the Unicorn’s head started to glow that forest green of his magic as several balls of metal came out of the bag. ‘Cost most of my bits when I got it so long ago but Tartarus if saddle bags that are bigger on the inside then they looked was worth it.’

The balls slowly took a darker green as he put more magic into them to transmuting them into a different shape and combining them to that of one large flat but slightly curved disk. Moving and laying upon the disk he smiled. ‘Self levitation may be beyond the power of most Unicorns, however I am not levitating myself, I am just levitating something I am laying on hehe. Suck it loopholes.’

Rising up in the air like this though did cause some stir as it had not registered to other ponies he was levitating something else and not himself, it didn’t matter though. “DASH!”

This was shouted as he had gone right through the cloud like any non-Pegai would and was in her bedroom where she was sprawled out in as many directions as she could possible go snoring up a storm.

‘Nope, not in the mood right now.’ Levitating a piece of cloud over the rainbow maned sleeping beauty he transmuted the cloud into water and let it fall on her.

She came up sputtering as if she was drowning saying something about batting down the hatches. “Alright fillies, mare up and get those port holes sealed and those…huh, what happened to the ship?”

Novo had no clue where to start with any of what she said so just ignored it. “Rainbow Dash, I thought you wanted to learn ‘The Current’, but if you want to go back to sleep I will see myself out and call it a day.”

This seemed to cause her to rapidly focus on the Unicorn talking and got to her feet quickly. “Oh of course I do, I mean it seemed so awesome and so…how are you in my home right now, I thought I locked the door.”

The answer was him just sinking through the floor with a smile. “I will give you 10 minutes to get your mind in order, should give Twilight time to find us since it’s about time for her to show up too.”

The sentence following his lowering through her floor made him laugh. “Ponyfeathers, that was cool!”

“You have to tell me the trick on how you were levitating yourself, ponies seen you do it and-” Twilight was cut off with a hoof to her muzzle from RD as she smiled.

Pulling it away a second later and waiting to see if she would continue the cyan mare chuckled. “Alright Egghead, learn the tricks later, it’s my time now, so what do I do?”

“Well for today we are going to just do some stretches.” Novo said, having done some research on how to go about this for others.

The athlete normally wouldn’t object to stretches as she knew their importance but. “All day stretches, oh come on, that is boring, sure they are important not to pull a muscle but not just them all day.”

Blinking a moment Novo had to register what she meant before chuckling. “Oh sorry I think you are thinking of muscles stretches. What we are going to do is stretch your channels and slightly direct them. If I am right this should help you have the proper amount of flow depending on how tight your channels are now. However I do want to warn you, doing this will make it hard to fly for the next couple of days.”

Never had the green pony ever seen somepony’s eyes bug out as much as Dash’s did just then. “A couple of days with trouble flying! Oh fine but this better work.”

Twilight took that time to smile and nod. “From what notes he has given me it should work easily, but it will take a few days to get you where you need to.” Seeing the look on her face Twilight cut off the question she was going to ask. “I already scanned your channels the other day when you were sleeping, I knew you would want to do this and I needed a proper reading which I gave to Novo to compare.”

The Unicorn could see how upset she was but a huff of air and she was looking at the one in charge. “So how do we do this, pull ups, wing ups, curls, what?”

This was the moment he was dreading, he had told neither of them how he was going to do this up to this point but said it would work. “Well what I have planned may seem…well intrusive, but it’s the only thing I can think of.” Seeing his blush both mares raised their eyebrows. “What I am going to do is transfer my mana directly into your body slowly but enough to put pressure on your channels, this of course will feel weird through your entire body.”

Rainbow Dash couldn’t care less though when she heard her lavender magic friend gasp she turned her head sharply to her. “What, is that something bad?”

Twilight shook her head and stuttered “N-no its not, I mean for other ponies no, but for Unicorns, its ummm.” She got no further in her speech as she was just pawing at the ground now without looking.

Either ignoring it or just not getting it the flyer shrugged and turned to the instructor. “Ok so how do we do this?”

If Novo had been drinking something he would have spit it out at the turn of phrase she used. “We lay down fact to face and I place the base of my horn against your forehead where you would have a horn if you were a Unicorn. While non-Unicorns don’t have a horn to help them with magic, it doesn’t mean mana can’t flow through that spot as a gateway still.”

“Fine, but I hope you brushed your teeth.” He about flipped his shit when he heard that before she finished with. “I mean with us that close I am going to have to smell your breath for a while.”

Novo wasn’t the only one who had nearly flipped as Twilight was blushing as red as could be. “R-Right, let’s get started.”

The cyan mare laid in the grass on the clearing they had chosen for this training and watched her teacher slowly get down and face her. One more apologizing if she felt weird he slowly pressed his forehead to hers.

‘Ok, this has to be the laziest training I have ever done. Laying around and doing nothing, touching foreheads like this, has to be some kind of egghead training if they are making such a big-oh!’ Rainbow Dash was ripped from her thoughts as she felt the warmth pouring into her slowly through the contact in her forehead. ‘Well he did say it would feel weird, kinda like something warm I drank going to my stomach only instead its going all over, relaxing actually.’ She could feel her eyes slowly drifting closed and without realizing it synced up her breathing with his. ‘MMMM maybe I can get him to do this after my work outs; it is like my whole body is being rubbed all at once.’

She most likely didn’t notice her sighs growing louder or the effect it was having on her wings, slowly making them extend, though Twilight sure noticed. ‘Oh there is that knot I got the other day from doing the fantastic filly fla-oh that is nice, hehe its like his hooves are everywhere touching just right~’

All too soon it was over however as she felt the warmth slowly pull away and out of her leaving her almost cold feeling. She was shivering when she opened her eyes to see the colt’s blushing face as he backed away quickly muttering sorry a few times.

She didn’t know what he was going on about but when she tried to stand up she found her legs were limp as noodles and her wings out to her sides not obeying any command she gave them. “Huh, what?”

Twilight waved to Novo as she told him she would take it from here as she levitated a towel from her saddle bags. “Um Dash you may want this.”

Reaching up for the towel with a confused look on her face she managed to weakly grasp it. “He wasn’t joking around when he said I might not be able to fly, but it did feel really good and not weird at all.”

Blinking for a moment Twilight quietly asked. “At all, not even a tinge?” when the mare shook her head she seen the Unicorn’s eyes go wide for a moment muttering something about a matching compatibility. “Umm anyways the reason you need the towel… you see.”

When she whispered the reason in her ear several woodland critters in the Whitetail Woods ran in fear. “THE BUCK?!”

This made the next training session the next day very awkward to say the least, not just for the two training but for Twilight who had to watch the rather intimate act.

“Stop fighting your making it harder to flow into you.” The grunt that Novo gave off was matched only slightly by the grunt that RD gave off.

Twilight had been subject to her friends rant about what happened after she discovered her state and how she should have known it was feeling ‘too good’. As she went on to describe how it felt Twilight became aware she was feeling something as well.

Jealousy. ‘It is said only two Unicorns can sync so well with each other, well technically I suppose he is just syncing with Rainbow, but still, for two ponies wavelengths to be at the same biorhythm is like finding your special somepony.’

“Stop pushing back, you’re not really strong enough to do anything with it yet and you’re just making it harder for me to push in.” The wording of it was meant to be pure in intent but with how things were going, Twilight couldn’t think of it that way.

‘Oh come on, that one was on purpose I know it.’ Twilight had read about contests of strength like this in one of her rarely read bedroom romance books but to see it in the flesh was something else.

However what came next she knew was going to happen from the start, even if Dash was stubborn as a mule she just didn’t have the pressure to back up her talk this time, and thus she gave out a sound.

“Mmph.” Biting her lip and then starting to whimper as she couldn’t hold the front up any longer before sucking in a large amount of air.

Twilight couldn’t watch anymore, even if her mind wanted to examine every single part of him teaching another pony this technique, she just couldn’t anymore. ‘I never wished so hard for an experiment to end quickly.’ Another whimper came out of Dash to accent her point except a tone of pleasure came with it. ‘Oh come on, you can’t tell me you didn’t do that on purpose.’

Dash had been staying at Fluttershy’s cottage the last few days as the training continued and despite her best friend trying to get her to talk and boast about how well her training was going, she just couldn’t, well at least not till today, she had done something so embarrassing that she had to confide in somepony.

“Its…its awful Fluttershy!” blushing as she said that and grabbing a nearby pillow on the couch to cover her face with a groan. “I did something that was absolutely not cool in front of him.”

Hearing a clack of something on the coffee table in front of her, she peaked from her pillow to see a cup of tea in front of her. “Oh come now, it can’t be that bad.”

Sighing and taking the cup she sipped on it and found it did help to calm her down. “Well the training has me stretching my channels now, something to help me use magic as a Pegasus better, more manipulating weather or something.”

The pink maned Pegasus nodded to her friend and gave her a hug as she went to sip her own cup of tea. “See so far so good right, I mean you said yourself that you can feel the difference when you were kneading the cloud fluff in your comforter easily even if you feel weak right?”

Nodding with a smile she couldn’t help but see results happening already if a bit slowly. “Ya, I just wish it didn’t feel so- I mean not like its bad it’s just-I am sure he could do it another way and just-AHHH it’s so hard to explain.”

Feeling a frown come to her head she ruffled her mane only to feel Flutter sit beside her and hug her. “Take your time, I am not going anywhere to just let the words come to you.”

“Thanks Fluttershy, that is just what I needed to hear.” Taking a sip of her tea after the yellow Pegasus let go to take her own sip Dash felt the words come to her. “I mean it’s not like its bad, just when he uses his horn to touch to my forehead to push his mana into me it’s just so-.”

The crash of a tea cup was heard as well as a gasp as Rainbow felt her head turned quickly. “He’s doing what?!”

It was louder than the pro flyer could ever remember hearing her friend and what more she sounded angry. “Look its nothing special I mean he just pushes into me and ya sometimes I fight him but in the end it has to be done and it does kinda feel good, I mean that is kinda why I ca-.”

Dash was almost happy she was cut off by her friend just then before finishing what she was saying. “That, no good, rotten-.” Followed by Fluttershy flying out of her home quickly…well for her.

“Oh I think this is bad, I got to catch her quick before she does something.” Of course the moment she tried to take off her wings wouldn’t lift her, and with how weak she was feeling, running was the speed of snail at the moment. “Oh horseapples.”

Novo was having a good day today, so far Rarity had been in her boutique the past few days with a large order and couldn’t stalk him in any forms asking to find Lego or asking him to come with her.

‘I swear if there isnt a double entendre in there I am an Alicorn.’ He was on his way to Twilight’s place now hoping to talk to her about the training with Rainbow Dash. ‘Things are starting to get weird with that training, I mean I don’t really need to be there are this point, Twilight can do it without me right? Brain I am right, right?’ His brain gave a shrug as he sighed. “Well at least it will make her feel more comfortable; she looked down right down, like a nearly drowned and kicked puppy cause of yesterday.”

It was the noise she made that had made him lose his concentration yesterday, a cross between a squeak and a gasp, decidedly feminine, and one hundred and twenty percent sexy. He couldn’t shake the image of her face from his mind as he pulled back quickly leaving a nice sized portion of mana inside her. He had to quickly excuse himself both to cover up his shame that he reacted to the sudden surge of pheromones released as well as to let himself calm down while she did the same. When he came back she had the look that he had seen and he called it a day quickly at that.

He heard a commotion down the street and looked to see what the cause of it was but all he seen was a yellow and pink coloring coming down the way towards him. ‘Maybe Fluttershy knows what is up, I will ask her to see if-HERK.’

Novo found he suddenly had no motor control and all his muscles had locked up as one Fluttershy was glaring at him and speaking. “YOU!”

‘Brain report quick, what did we fuck up now? Why won’t our body move?’ His brain merely responded with. ‘I’m givin’ ‘er all she’s got captain, but she aint budgin’.’ Quickly he asked the source of the problem what was up. ‘Body what the buck?!’ Poor body was in a state where he couldn’t help anything at this point. ‘Hableflable, hasinfrasn, HERG, Error, Error, 404.’ If the Unicorn could express anything on his face now it would be confusion. ‘Da buck is a 404 error?’

“You Mister have a lot of explaining to.” The stern voice of the suddenly compelling Pegasus commanded.

‘Dude you’re busted, tell her you checked out her flank the other day and get your punishment!’ If he could glare at his brain he would right now, however with his body locked up he couldn’t even talk to her if he wanted.

The glare was getting worse in its compelling nature the closer she got. “You are going to tell me why you are forcing Rainbow Dash to do…do…THAT with you!”

His heart was pumping harder in his chest than ever before as if it too was under pressure. ‘I write this statement in good will and clean conscience, I leave all my worldly possessions-’ Hearing his brain write out its will he swore to kill it by drinking so much later.

“FLUTTERSHY!” The voice of his savoir called out, a voice he had been avoiding for a while now, but at this moment sounded of sweet angels coming to guide him to a better tomorrow. “Why on Equestria are you using ‘The Stare’ on poor Novo here?”

For his part he would have kissed Rarity’s hooves if he could move, however those eyes, those terrifying green eyes kept locked on to him. “He, he, did terrible things to Rainbow Dash, she wouldn’t know what it is but I read more than her so I know.”

A crowd was starting to gather now, well where the stare wouldn’t be aimed at least. “Surely he wouldn’t do something as terrible as to use this on him right?”

“He was forcing Rainbow Dash to Mana Meld with him!” A ripple of gasps came from many Unicorns of which there was basically only two in ponyville that was currently there, though among them was the one who had been defending him.

“HE DID WHAT?!” Suddenly a stare was given to him from Rarity as well, but its effects, if any, didn’t exist as far as Star could tell.

‘So, brain, mind writing out my will as well, I mean if you are done with yours.’ The Unicorn felt he had a good life, not one he could remember for the most part, but it had to have been good…right?

“Stop, it’s not what you think!” The voice was Twilight who was levitating a tired looking Rainbow Dash that she had found in her violet aura. “She is trying to master a technique that uses more mana then her channels can manage at once and a one way Mana Melding is the only way. I have double checked and there is nothing else that does what it does, this is also by Dash’s choice isn’t that right?”

Said weakened athlete nodded rapidly as she was set down. “Rarity, Fluttershy, Lyra, do you three really think I would be tricked into something like that or do so against my will, I mean it’s me!”

The boast seemed to work on the ponies as the crowd started to dissolve and slowly the stare that held him in place weakened till Shy turned her head away from him. He felt himself drop hard to the ground feeling weaker than anything he had ever felt before.

Feeling a set of hooves helping up he looked to see Rainbow Dash trying to help him up. “Thanks. The buck was that though, felt like if it went on a minute longer my heart would have stopped.”

A giggle was his response. “You just took ‘The Stare’ harder and longer than anything I have ever seen, pony or animal, by all rights you should have passed out. This makes you, for sure, twenty percent cooler.”

Laughing tiredly he started to droop. “Thanks I think, but I think I will nap now, sounds good.” And he went limp.

Somewhere in the distance he heard RD say. “Eh, maybe your only ten percent cooler instead.”

Twilight had laid Novo up in the spare bedroom as she let Dash explain everything to the ones who needed to understand in the library below. ‘I don’t want to be there for when she explains that last session. Bad enough I remember it, I don’t need to hear about it.’

She had a brief remembrance of the most intimate part of the training before shaking her head and running a scan on Novo. “You’re lucky you know.” She said to no pony in particular. “I have seen the Stare calm ferocious beasts into submission, yet you sat there and was just petrified instead, either it was your innate high magic pool that saved you, or your will power even if you didn’t realize you were using it. It’s why Shy was expecting you to answer her questions instead of just being frozen like that.”

Finishing up her scan and finding his reserves of mana were much lower than normal from fighting off the stare as well as physical exhaustion, from what she didn’t know, she let him rest and went downstairs.

“-when I realize what happened I turned around to look and it was everywhere.” She heard Rainbow say in a tone of voice that spoke volumes of her embarrassment.

Lyra, Rarity, and Fluttershy stood stark still mouths agape with Rarity being able to speak first. “Well you are quite the lucky mare then aren’t you?”

Dash of course was confused. “How is that lucky, I don’t want to have to stop training early cause that happens every time no matter how nice it feels.”

“You mean you don’t know Dashie?” the musical inclined pony asked her. The shake of a head said she didn’t as Lyra continued. “It means you’re in perfect sync with him, that is beyond rare! I mean the only other couple I know of beside me and Bon-Bon is Princess Cadance and Shining Armor.”

“Eww can we not talk about my brothers compatibility?” Twilight asked as she took a seat with the girls.

However it seemed while they all agreed to that, Dash was struck silent. ‘Guess she finally understands what they mean when they say synced.’

“T-Twilight, perfect sync isn’t like, Perfect Sync right?” Dash asked in a panicked tone. “Like a special somepony type perfect sync right?” When all she got was a nod the multicolored mare seemed to want to fly away but just fell over in her chair. “But he is an egghead, a cute egghead sure, but he is just doing this to teach me and it’s not like he is good looking or anything.”

Rarity couldn’t help but smile as she looked to her friend. “You realize you just called him cute out loud right?”

With eyes bugging out and hooves moving as quickly as possible she was running out the door. “I-I have to go do somethingbye!”

Twilight sighed and leaned her head down on the table as a question was asked by Dash’s oldest friend. “Twilight, couldn’t you take over for Novo and help her train, I mean surely if this keeps up Dash will be too embarrassed to continue her training that she is working so hard for…if you don’t mind me asking that is.”

Placing her hooves over her head she sighed and shook her head. “It’s not so simple as that anymore Fluttershy.” The Pegasus of the group looked at her as she explained it. “So to summarize because she has already felt her perfect sync, anypony else to try will feel wrong to her, I mean there are varying degrees sure and its possible to have more than one match but…I mean I know what to look for but can’t stop it because of how strong I am so it would be no better then what you thought Novo did to her if I were to try.”

“I will do it.” It was Rarity that spoke up. “I will help. I am not the most powerful of Unicorns like Twilight but I should be able to help with training tomorrow. Any friend would do the same I am sure.”

Twilight wasn’t sure how this would end, but the willingness to help a friend in need to reach her goals even at the discomfort of your own morals inspired her to write a new friendship lesson to her teacher that night.