Romp

For the few seconds Rainbow Dash was engulfed in pitch black, surrounded by the wet, slimy lining of Twilight’s throat, all she could think of was the panic wracking her body. She was about to die. Every instinct within her told her she was about to die. So it came as welcome consolation that she could cling to one very real line of hope:

This was all in Twilight’s imagination, and at any moment, she should wake up from it.

Sure enough, as Rainbow closed her eyes, trying to block out the feeling of the saliva drenching her coat, the familiar whistle of magic filled the space around her. The world flashed once more to bright white, right before she collapsed.

“Oomph!” Rainbow landed muzzle-first against a rug. Opening her eyes, she took in the familiar sight of the castle library.

Sighing in relief, she rolled over onto her side, allowing herself a moment to catch her breath as the dull sound of rain somewhere outside calmed her nerves. Her heart continued to race in her chest, but everything else – the pain, the soreness, the disgusting yuckiness of Twilight swallowing her whole…

Rainbow blinked. She glanced over her side to find Twilight standing above her.

“Buh!” Stumbling to her hooves, Rainbow stepped away from the mare. “What the hay, Twi,” she yelled as she stared at the normal-sized alicorn. “You ate me? What’s up with that?!”

Twilight backed away, flicking her ears to the side. “I-I’m sorry, Rainbow! I didn’t want you to think I didn’t have it in me to fight, so I… just… ”

Rainbow stared at the mare, taking slow, deep breaths in hopes of calming her nerves. With a groan, she said, “I didn’t expect you to do something like that. Didn’t you hear me scre— I-I mean, shout at you before that?”

“Huh?” Twilight tilted her head. “I thought I heard you say something, but I just figured you were trying to taunt me.”

“You thought I…?” Rainbow blinked a couple times as her eyes drifted down in thought.

Well, maybe she doesn’t know I was scared after all.

For a few seconds, Rainbow stood silent, contemplating all that had just taken place. Now that the adrenaline was fading, there was one prominent thought that was beginning to well in her mind.

She lost.

She lost a fight to somepony.

She lost a fight to somepony like Twilight.

Rainbow couldn’t believe it. How in the world had she managed to let a friend like Twi manage to win at a fight of all things? Sure, the circumstances were a bit bizarre, and it’s not like she had had a proper brawl with a giant pony. But to lose to somepony like Twilight? No matter the circumstances, that was way too lame. She was stronger than this. Braver. There was no reason she should have lost to the mare.

And there was no way she would allow herself to lose again.

“…Rainbow Dash?” Twilight took a tentative step toward the silent pegasus, who continued to stare at the rug in thought. “Are you okay?”

With a raw chuckle, Rainbow tilted her head up. “Yeah. I will be at least, right after I kick your flank at a rematch.”

Twilight froze mid-step, eyes widening at her friend’s words. “Y-you… want a rematch?”

Rainbow nodded, closing the gap left between them. “I want a rematch. Right here. Right now.”

Pulling her head back a little, Twilight stammered, “You mean, you don’t find it too weird?”

“Look, I don’t care how strange or different this is,” Rainbow said as she lifted her head higher, looking down the end of her muzzle at Twilight. “That’s not the point. You like what you like, and I respect that. But I like what I like as well.” Leveling her muzzle with Twilight’s, she said, “And you do know what I like, right?”

Twilight blinked. Slowly, she nodded in understanding. “You like to win.”

“And I will win,” Rainbow finished, stepping back from the mare with a confident grin. “Now cast the spell. I’m so taking you down.”

Twilight stared blankly for a moment at her friend. Eventually, with a tired smile, she sighed, bringing her horn to a glow once more.

“We’ll see about that.”

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Rainbow shielded her eyes from the blinding light of the spell, though she noticed this time it didn’t last as long. Pulling away her foreleg, she took in the vast emptiness of the white world once more.

“Hey, um… Twi?” Rainbow pivoted around, steeling her nerves as she prepared to take in the sight. Sure enough, directly behind her stood Twilight, just as tall as she was before. This time though, she found the sight a little more tolerable. “So, like, can I ask what exactly this is?”

“Hm?” Twilight tilted her massive head. “What do you mean?”

“This,” Rainbow said, gesturing with her hooves to the barren landscape. “Can’t you think up something a little more interesting?”

Twilight glanced around. “Oh! Yeah, sorry. Since this spell is still new to me, I’ve been focusing most of my attention on—”

“Yeah yeah, whatever,” Rainbow shouted as loud as she could over Twilight’s voice. “Just throw something together, will ya?”

“Did you have anything in mind?” Twilight asked, softening her voice slightly.

Rainbow shrugged. “I dunno. Uh… maybe something like the Everfree Forest? Throw in a couple mountains or something?”

“Hm…” Twilight tapped a hoof to her chin, eliciting a soft thump that still managed to rattle Rainbow’s body. “Let me see.”

For the next few seconds, Twilight’s horn glowed a dull indigo as the world around them morphed into blurry shapes and colors. Rainbow hovered in front of the mare and watched the shapes take the form of something more familiar. Slowly, the outcrop of a dark forest similar to the Everfree began to take shape beneath them, beyond which the outline of a few mountains crested the horizon. With another flash of bright light, the sky transformed from the empty white before into an amber glow, illuminated by the projection of a sunset somewhere beyond the mountains.

“Heh. Now this is more like it.” Rainbow nodded in approval, then examined the landscape carefully in relevance to Twilight’s height. The trees beneath them stood to just within the height of her fetlocks, though from what she could tell, the mountains beyond would still easily dwarf her. Twilight had done well to add a few rolling hills here and there as well, and squinting off to one patch of forest in the distance, Rainbow could make out what appeared to be a river leading into a small lake.

After a while, Twilight’s horn faded, and with it came a long sigh. “Phew… didn’t expect that to be so hard.”

“Well hey, you did a great job,” Rainbow shouted. “Looks like the real thing to me!”

Twilight smiled, glancing away. “Th-thanks.” Gulping, she muttered, “You know Rainbow, we really don’t have to do this anymore. We can switch to one of your ideas if you—”

“Roundtwofight!” Rainbow shouted quickly as she slammed into Twilight’s muzzle with the force of a thrown punch.

“Ngh!” Twilight’s head swung away from the impact, leaving her jaw sore where the pegasus landed.

“I’ll call this one the Rainbow Jawbreaker!”

Flying around Twilight’s muzzle, Rainbow spun her body to aim her hooves beneath her jaw, bucking with all her might against the leading edge.

Twilight’s head snapped back, a pained grunt resonating through her chest as she clenched her mouth shut. Instinctively, she raised a hoof to her chin.

“WHOA!” Rainbow rolled to the right, barely dodging the massive hoof that lifted beyond her. “Heh, gotta watch out for that.”

As Rainbow banked around the giant alicorn, Twilight growled through the throbbing pain in her mouth. Already, she could feel the endorphins of her body – or, at least her imagination – flooding her system. She spun around, knocking over dozens of trees beneath her with the snap of bark beneath hooves. Her ears flicked out toward the sound before she looked down.

Twilight stared at the swath of destruction she had left in the forest beneath her. With merely a simple motion, she had managed to do the same amount of damage that only some of her strongest spells could ever hope to do.

Her heart began to beat harder in her chest. It was just like the dreams. It made no sense, but the sight of it all… the destruction. The power of her size.

A pleasant shiver cascaded down her spine.

With a devious grin, she lifted her head to the horizon, slamming a hoof down against the carpet of trees beneath her with a resounding crunch. Grinding her hoof against the earth, she closed her eyes and laughed, a haughty laugh uncharacteristic of the mare.

Some distance behind her, Rainbow’s ears flicked away from the sound. Something about Twilight’s laugh rekindled the fear she had only just managed to subdue. It wasn’t the kind of laugh you would expect to hear from somepony like her. In fact, it was eerily similar to the kind villains typically used in all the fights they previously had.

Rainbow shook her head. She was just letting the situation get to her. There was no way Twilight was evil. She was just enjoying herself, laughing at… the sound of crushed trees beneath her hoof.

“Okay, yeah, that’s definitely weird,” Rainbow mumbled to herself as she sped around Twilight’s posterior. “Let’s see if I can snap her out of it.”

Flapping her wings harder, Rainbow sped out and beyond Twilight’s left side. Once she gained enough distance, she banked right, pitching her body against the air above her as she began to speed toward Twilight’s barrel.

Twilight’s laugh subsided into an elated giggle as she lifted her hoof, examining the imprint made deep into the earth. She was just about to turn her head to look for Rainbow when— “Ungh!” Something slammed hard and deep between the ribs in her side, knocking her off balance.

“RrrrRAGH!” Rainbow Dash pushed against the soft, thick coat of Twilight’s barrel before bucking away into a hover. She watched Twilight stumble for a moment, before tripping on the edge of a hill below.

With an earsplitting crash, Twilight fell side-first into the forest below, leveling hundreds of trees before flattening the soft soil of the hill. Dirt and debris scattered across the landscape as a cloud of dust columned out from all around her body.

“Whoa…” Rainbow stared wide-eyed at the destruction her single blow to Twilight had caused. The alicorn lay flat against the forest, a swath of exposed earth left in her wake, as the amber sun cast a dull shadow across the world beyond the rising dust.

Blinking free the shock of the sight, Rainbow sped down toward her friend. “Twilight!” she called out, panic etched into her expression. “Twilight, are you alright?!”

Rainbow brought herself to a shaky hover over Twilight’s exposed side. Her head lay still against the ground, an outcrop of trees split or bent haphazardly along her muzzle from the impact of her landing. Rainbow could see her eye stirring beneath closed lids.

Suddenly, something familiarly warm and thick wrapped around her body. “Oh buck.”

Grabbing Rainbow out of the air with a fetlock, Twilight opened her closest eye and brought the pegasus to the ground.

“MMNGH!” Rainbow slammed into the soft earth, filling her mouth with dirt and splintered bark. She coughed up the debris as Twilight temporarily lifted her fetlock, only to bring her hoof squarely back down against her side.

Twilight slowly stood up, being careful to keep the tiny pony pinned beneath her hoof. She could barely make out the sound of Rainbow’s yelp as she shifted her weight upright. A rush unlike any she could remember coursed through her veins. Her heart pulsed strong and slow against her chest in tune with a pleasant throbbing between her thighs. She grinned wildly as she slowly pivoted her hoof against the coat hairs of the pegasus she stood over.

Several stories below, Rainbow wheezed and hacked for her life as the weight above her shifted off and on against her side. “Tw-Twilight, this… hurts! St-stop it, please!”

Twilight bent her head down, pivoting an ear toward the ground. “Sorry? I didn’t quite catch that, Rainbow.” She lifted her hoof slightly. “Can you repeat that?”

“Nngh… I s-said… this is t-too— OWWww…!”

Twilight rested the weight of her hoof against the pegasus once more, silencing the puny voice by merely resting the muscles in her foreleg.

So this was what it was like to experience true euphoria. Twilight had never felt such incredible happiness as she did now, and the strange physical stimulus that came from it only added to her excitement. A warm, wet sensation began to form from somewhere behind as she closed her eyes, lifting her head to the sky.

For now, she would allow herself this one moment to throw out all academic reasoning. Who needed it anyway when you could live to feel this good?

Drawing as deep a breath as she could, she opened her mouth, and shouted at the world.

Rainbow clenched every muscle in her body as the deafening sound echoed against the earth, the trees, even the mountains miles away. Her head span from the pain of the hoof pinned against her, and her ears rang from the monumental shout of her friend.

Finally, after several seconds of ensuing silence, Rainbow felt Twilight’s hoof lift up and away from her, revealing the glow of the sun illuminating the devastated world around her. Her eyes slowly fell closed as her muscles instinctively retracted.

Twilight had kept her eyes closed, soaking in the echo of her all-powerful voice, before she eventually turned her attention to the pegasus crumpled beneath her.

She blinked.

Rainbow lay beneath her against the ground, clutching herself with her forelegs in a fetal position as her body convulsed.

Suddenly, whatever pleasure Twilight had gained from the moment vanished, replaced by an overwhelming wave of nausea.

“Rainbow Dash!”