Flash Sentry pushed the button. The doorbell chimed out with a strange sense of finality. He ruffled his wings, fending off the midwinter chill, and tried not to think about how heavy the satchel at his side felt. A drunken drumroll of descending hooves came from inside, louder and louder until it stopped at the door. The door swung open.
“Good evening, what--Flash? You look freezing, come on in out of the cold.” Cadance ushered him in. She was half-dressed, her mane in curlers, mascara only covering one eye, flustered but warm as ever. She pecked Flash on the cheek, and shut the door behind him.
“Thanks, Cadance. Is Shiny here?”
“He’s in the bedroom. Please, come on up.”
She led him upstairs to the apartment proper, up into the kitchen. Flash caught a glimpse of Shining Armor’s meticulously-organised spice rack and caught the scent of fresh coriander and garlic in the air. Memories popped into his mind, sharing mushroom balti in this very kitchen, howling with laughter as a tipsy Cadance told the bluest jokes he’d ever heard over half a naan, Shining gargling milk. The image of his best friend with milk running down his chin, sweating from the chilli heat almost made him chuckle, but a wistful ache drowned it out.
All good things come to an end, after all.
They passed through the spacious hallway and into the master bedroom, where Flash saw him, stood in front of the dressing table, fixing the buttons on a burgundy dress shirt. His breath caught in his throat. Shining Armor’s thews were just visible through the rich fabric, he was no longer the stringy, rangy soldier that first took Flash under his wing, but bulkier, more defined, a true stallion’s stallion. He had sharp blue eyes, perfectly trimmed fetlocks, and the straight bearing of a general.
All of this was ruined by his dopey, guileless grin.
His eyes met Flash’s in the mirror, and that grin reminded Flash of sweating through training, long nights of drinking, the quiet moments after parade, their greatest triumphs and worst failures, stakeouts in the cold rain, photos in the paper, Shining’s breath on his neck behind the barracks on a warm spring day. The ache returned, so much stronger.
“Flash!” Shining Armor bounded up to him like a golden retriever and wrapped him in a crushing hug. He struggled to breathe for a moment, and then hugged back just as hard.
“You always did clean up nicely, Shiny,” he said, backing up just enough to look into his clear blue eyes.
Shining Armor laughed. “Thanks, bro. Me and Cadie are going to dinner at eight at Gustave’s new place.” He placed a hoof on Flash’s shoulder. “What’s up?”
Flash reached into his satchel, and pulled out a small box wrapped in twice as much gift paper as necessary. “I got something. For, uh, you two.”
Shining Armor and Cadance took the gift. “Should we open it?”
“Please, go ahead.”
Shining and Cadance combined their magics to unwrap the gift, revealing a steel fluted cylinder the size of a soda can, with a button on the top. Flash grinned.
“Press the button.”
A haze of purple magic pushed down the button. The cylinder opened up, and a pair of teaspoons poked out of the sides. One spoon handle was gemmed with a small sapphire, the other with a ruby.
Cadance looked at Flash, a curious smile on her lips. “...Teaspoons?”
“Magic teaspoons! They always return to the holder, clean, after ten minutes, so you never run out of teaspoons.”
The couple looked at him, bemused. “This is... this is possibly the most thoughtful gift you’ve ever given, Flash, thank you,” said Shining, “but, uh, why now?”
Flash swallowed the ache in his throat and suppressed a sigh. “It’s... it’s for your engagement.”
Cadance gave a gentle laugh. “...You know our engagement party isn’t for another month, right?”
“I know, but...” He paused, the words lost as soon as he opened his mouth. “I... I just wanted to say that you two are meant for each other, and you’ll be happy together. It’s... you guys take care of each other, okay? Both of you deserve each--what?”
Cadance and Shining Armor were both staring at him with expressions of utter horror. Before Flash could say another word, they were upon him.
“Are you resigning?” asked Shining, stricken.
“Are you moving away?” asked Cadance, worried.
“What’s wrong?”
“Has there been a death in the family?”
“Guys--”
“Are you ill?”
“Are you... ill?”
“I’m not ill, I--mphh” Cadance pushed a thermometer between his lips before he could finish his sentence.
“If you’re leaving, I’ll give you the best references possible--”
“--I’ll talk to my contacts in the palace, we can help set you up wherever you need--”
“Guys, guys, guys,” said Flash, backing away and laughing. “Nothing’s wrong with me. Really, it’s nothing. It’s just, you guys are getting married, Shiny won’t be my Equastes any more, and things will be different after--Okay, you guys have got to stop doing that.”
This time, the pair were looking at him with shock and affrontery, eyes wide and jaws dropped, rearing back, faces twisted in a mixture of outrage, sadness, and a plaintive request for sanity.
Cadance was the first to break the silence. “You think we’re going to let you go just because we’re getting married? Flash! Where did you get this idea?”
Shining Armor put two hooves on Flash’s shoulders and said, “Flash, you’re my LPBEF. Little Pegasus Best Equomenos Forever. What am I?”
Flash hung his head, but grinned as he whispered, “You’re my Big Unicorn Best Equastes Forever.”
“Exactly. Forever.”
Cadance leaned in close, nuzzling Shining, close enough that Flash could smell the rose and jasmine of her perfume. “I knew I shouldn’t have left all those Good Housemare back issues in the sitting room, I’ve spooked him...”
“No, I think he’s just been a featherbrain,” said Shining. “Flash, if anything was going to change between us, I’d have told you when I asked you to help pick out the ring!”
Flash’s forced grin felt far less forced. “But with you guys getting married, won’t you wanna...”
Shining snorted. “What, have kids? Equomenos or no, you are not getting out of babysitting duty.”
“Heh, I was more thinking the whole, y’know, closest possible bond thing.”
Cadance gently nudged her fiance out of the way, and cradled Flash’s chin in a hoof. “Flash, honey. Baby. Sweetie. You are a wonderful part of both my life and Shiny’s. We are not in competition with each other. You don’t take my husband away like some stealing shadow, you’re a light that shows up facets of him I’d never otherwise see. I wouldn’t dream of coming between you two, and I want you to be in our lives for a very long time.” She extended a wing to rest on his withers, and looked him straight in the eye. “You understand?”
“Yes ma’am.” Flash looked back at her and smiled. The ache in his chest was gone, but his eyes felt oddly wet. In an instant, he wrapped his wings around the both of them. “You guys are just--I’m sorry, you’re gonna have me bawling like a foal here--I’m lucky to be in your lives. Thank you.”
After a minute he withdrew his wings, but Cadance was still holding on to him, her grin strangely pointed. “Hey, boys, I have a proposal.”
Shining Armor cleared his throat. “Sweetie, you’re doing that look again.”
“I’ve simply no idea what you’re talking about, Shiny.”
“That thing with your grin--”
“No idea! As I said, I have a proposal: why don’t the three of us confirm exactly how comfortable we are with both sides of our relationship. That way we can all get used to it, so it won’t feel awkward...”
Flash cleared his throat. “Well, uh--”
“I always forget how subtle you aren’t, Cadie,” said Shining, rolling his eyes.
Cadance held up a wing to quiet the two of them. “Now, why don’t we start by letting you two get comfortable with me being in the room while you show each other your, ahem, feelings.” She fluttered into the air and landed gently on the bed. “I’ll just be sitting over here, on this bed, with this pillow stuffed between my thighs.”
Shining Armor laughed. “What did you have in mind, honey?”
She held out a hoof. “I hadn’t thought that far ahead. Honest! Maybe you could show me how you two normally begin these things.”
He grinned, and turned to look at Flash. “You heard the lady, Corporal. ’Ten Shun!”
Flash Sentry immediately stood to attention, clicking his hind hooves together before moving them shoulder-width apart, clamped his wings to his sides, and looked directly ahead. With his right wing, he snapped off a salute. “Sir!”
“At ease, corporal. Present yourself for an informal inspection.”
“Yes, sir.” His wings ruffled, his legs spread an inch wider, and his tail flicked.
Shining’s muzzle was so close to his neck that he could feel the warmth of his breath as he exhaled, a warmth like stepping out of the cold on a winter's day, and yet somehow this very warmth set him shivering. He suppressed a sigh of pleasure as Shining leaned forward and kissed his neck. It had been too long since they’d done this, almost weeks, life and work and his own damned sense of awkwardness getting in the way and burdening him with that familiar ache.
With every touch of his captain’s lips on his neck, he was unburdened.
Flash inhaled deeply through his nostrils as the kisses worked their way up to his jawline, fighting the urge to tackle Shining Armor in a kiss, mash his lips against his and blurt out his undying love for him like a desperate, hormone-addled teenager. He wanted to roll on his back, spread his hinds as wide as he could, and beg his lover to take him.
“Oh.” He stayed silent until Shining Armor nipped his ear. All his captain had to do was hold the rubbery triangle of his ear gently in place with his teeth and send his warm, rough tongue sliding up and down and he would melt, every time. Flash almost turned his head to kiss him, but tamped down the urge. He could hear his own heartbeat in his ears. He wondered if Shining Armor could feel it on his tongue.
“You’re tense, corporal,” growled Shining Armor. “Lay down. Your captain is going to give you a massage.”
Flash lay down on his belly, letting out an ‘oomph’ as Shining Armor sat on his lower back. The massage began slowly. The first touches of hooves on his back were tentative, testing. He spread his wings wide and let them flop on the floor, and was immediately rewarded with a gentle telekinetic preening.
“Oh-ohhnn...” Flash couldn’t hold in his moans as the pressure increased, Shining’s hooves working out the knots in his back, all while gentle, tingly magic straightened and smoothed his feathers. Shining Armor bore down on Flash’s rock-hard shoulder muscles until they were supple, and each time he finished working on one set of muscles, he paused to lean down and kiss Flash’s neck, little pecks, licks, and nips. After working out a particularly stubborn kink from Flash’s withers, he sucked on his neck hard enough to leave a hickey. He chuckled as Flash writhed underneath him.
Shining Armor shuffled backwards until his haunches were squarely on Flash’s rump, and squeezed down with his thighs. He ran his front hooves from the top of Flash’s neck to the base of his spine while he pushed his groin down, letting the pegasus feel the heat of his loins on his lower back.
“Shiny, sir!” Flash’s tail lifted with such speed that it whipped against Shining Armor’s cutie mark. He couldn’t lower it, revealing his ass and his plump balls for all to see.
He turned his head and arched his back, pushing his rump upwards into Shining Armor’s groin. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Cadance. She bit her lip, red in the cheeks and wings spread wide, grinding into the pillow between her legs. Her voice was husky as she spoke:
“I recognise that move, mister...”
Shining Armor chuckled. “Would you believe that this little birdie taught it me?”
She grinned like a horny shark. “I’ll be sure to thank him properly. Please, darling, continue.”
Flash inhaled deeply as his captain stood up, taking the weight off him. He was about to move when Shining leaned down to kiss the back of his neck again, where his electric-blue mane met his coat, and then he felt something hot and satisfyingly weighty rest on his rump.
Shining Armor’s half-hard cock was dangling onto his rump. There was probably a droplet of precum on the tip, drizzling out onto his coat. Flash bit his lip. His captain’s cock had the same mesmerizing effect on him today that it had as a raw recruit. It was a dick worthy of respect. He loved its size, on the large side but not intimidating, loved its musk, loved the way it would twitch and shift under his hooves, but most of all he loved its heat--Shining Armor’s cock always felt warmer than any flesh had a right to be.
Shining Armor shifted, and the tip of his half-erect cock rested squarely between Flash’s buttocks. Flash moaned.
“Sir...”
“Yes, corporal?”
“Sir, please.”
Shining Armor growled, “Come and get it, corporal.”
Flash Sentry rolled over in an instant, fast enough that his own hard dick slapped against his stomach, and pulled--yanked, even--his lover down. Shining Armor landed on him hard enough to knock the air from his lungs, but it didn’t slow him, let alone stop him. He threw himself into the kiss and his captain pressed his rough lips into his, forceful but deliberate, giving his beloved exactly as much aggression as he wants, as much as he needs.
As Shining Armor pushed his hips down and pressed their cocks together, thick and hot and twitching with excitement, Flash realised that he was mirroring his captain’s dopey, guileless grin.
“How does it feel?” Cadance had slipped off the bed, her muzzle now barely an inch from Flash’s face, her mane wild and her eyes wide. Even from a yard away, Flash could smell the honey-musk scent of her arousal.
“It feels good, mnnf, so fucking good, Princess Cadance, your fiance is so fucking good,” babbled Flash, “he knows exactly what--exactly--ohh...” He trailed off as Shining Armor started kissing down his body. The captain felt his way down with his lips, his eyes closed, inhaling deeply through his nose and taking in Flash’s scent. Flash squirmed. He couldn’t decide if he should feel embarrassed for the sweat of his afternoon workout, or glad that his lover was able to take it all in. He hoped that the faint scent of his sweat was mingling in Shining’s mind with the tang of Cadance’s arousal. Ponies remember smells like nothing else, and the thought of his scent becoming intertwined with Cadance’s sent a warm quiver through Flash.
Flash gasped as his lover’s lips reached his navel, and bit his lip when his lover reached forward and took his cock into his mouth. Shining Armor sucked hard on the tip, hard enough that his cheeks hollowed out, and then lifted his head until Flash’s hips lifted up with him. Flash hissed through his teeth at the overstimulation, but murmured happily as Shining let go with a *pop* and licked his way down the shaft.
Shining Armor lapped at his beloved’s balls for a minute before looking up at Cadance. “Pay attention, sweetie, you just might learn something.” He winked at her before resuming his licking.
Cadance stood up and gaped in mock indignation. “I might learn something? Shining Leodegrance Armor, you know full well that I taught you everything you know about fellatio!”
“You sure it wasn’t the other way around, Cadie?” He nuzzled the base, pushing his lips hard against the spot where the balls met the shaft, feeling the ribbed muscle underneath the skin and occasionally flitting his tongue out to wet it.
“Oh!” Cadance threw her head back theatrically, “How very dare you! Sucking cock has been a family tradition for centuries, Shiny! Auntie has ended wars with those lips!”
Flash inhaled sharply as Shining Armor sucked a ball into his mouth with some force. “Honey, please don’t talk about family when we’re being intimate, it throws me off my game,” said the captain between mouthfuls.
“‘Off your game’ indeed, baby--you’re being too hard on poor Flash. Like this!” Cadance dropped into place and shoulder-bumped her fiance out of the way before slathering her perfect pink tongue over Flash’s balls. She licked, kissed and nuzzled, moaning with appreciation for his jewels. She did not suck them in as her husband did, but instead opened her lips wide while pushing her head forward, letting the balls slip inside her warm, wet mouth. Her lips and face were smoother, softer than Shining Armor’s.
Flash felt his heart buzz inside his chest as Princess Cadance looked up at him with wide, innocent eyes, her cheeks bulging. The alicorn of love and romance, a literal demigod, was showing off her considerable carnal prowess. He could only watch in awe.
Cadance squeaked when Shining Armor nipped her ear. “Maybe he likes a bit more action,” he said, and held Flash’s cock with telekinesis, sending several rings of force pulsing up and down the shaft. Flash moaned girlishly at the sensation of being milked. Shining Armor pressed on, engulfing the cock as his fiancee licked the balls. He took half of it in one gulp and forced his own head down, swallowing constantly. His lips grasped at the sides as he worked downwards, tears forming in the corner of his eyes, until the cock was buried in his gullet and Flash was writhing in pleasure.
At the very base, Shining paused to rub his nose against Cadance’s, and then lifted his head, coughing as the tip fell from between his lips. A thick rope of drool connected his mouth to the cock. Before he could wipe it away, Cadance shot forward and licked the trail of spit, kissing it back into his mouth before ducking down to suck the dick herself. She went down smoothly, taking it halfway in with ease, her cheeks swelling with each stroke but not gagging or choking. Shining Armor licked the base of the shaft as she sucked and drooled.
Cadance planted a kiss on the top, smirking at the blushing pegasus. “So, Flash Sentry. Who gives the best blowjobs you’ve ever had?”
“Your captain?” said Shining Armor, “Or his beautiful fiancee?”
Flash gave a breathless laugh. “What makes you think it’s either of you? Maybe it’s your sister, Shiny...”
Cadance sucked on the very tip and let it go with a pop. “He’s still lucid enough to be smart with us, sweetie. We can’t have that.”
“Stay on his dick, baby. I know just the trick.” Shining Armor gave a few last tender licks to his balls and then worked his way down. He licked and kissed Flash’s thighs, the skin under his balls, kissed between his cheeks, further and further downwards.
Flash shook his head weakly. “Sir, if you do that I’ll--I’ll...”
“You’ll cum your brains out, I know,” murmured Shining Armor. “Now be a good corporal and lift your legs.”
Flash cooed with anticipation and lifted his hind legs as high as he could, spreading his buttocks wide. Shining Armor dived straight in, planting his lips and tongue on the pegasus’s tight hole. Flash’s eyes rolled back at the sensation, a rough tongue in his ass while a divine beauty sucked on his cock.
He was conscious of just how wanton his moans were as Shining Armor ate him out, but not in the least embarrassed. His captain’s rimjobs were never gentle, they were usually a matter of stretching him out and wetting him as a precursor to being fucked silly, and they were guaranteed to drive him out of his mind. Receiving blowjobs made Flash’s legs turn to jelly, giving blowjobs made him feel wanted beyond measure, but getting his ass eaten out with his legs up in the air like a luggage-lifter at a fancy bordello was something else entirely. The first time he’d ever been rimmed he’d started blabbing out his love for Shining Armor, spilling his devotion and admiration in the purplest of language, expressing his desire with words that would make even the most lovestruck teenager cringe vicariously.
Princess Cadance bobbed her head up and down his shaft, her efforts working in sublime concert with her husband’s. Her head twisted from side to side with her strokes, lips massaging the shaft, petite tongue gliding carefully over the sensitive tip, matching up to the thrusts and curls of her husband’s tongue as if she knew what he was going to do before he did. Drool ran down the sides and onto Flash’s balls, which she stroked with feather-light telekinesis. She was clearly unafraid to get a little sloppy.
“Guys, I can’t, I’m gonna--”
Cadance pulled up, her lips clamped tight over the tip, two sets of telekinesis stroking up and down the shaft.
She winked.
He came.
The princess swallowed noisily. The flow was intense. She was skilled enough to avoid getting cum up her nose or down her airway, but she could not keep up with the pace. Thick seed ran down the spit-slicked sides of Flash’s shaft, all the way down to his balls, where Shining Armor raised his head to lick it up. Cadance’s throat worked furiously, eyes scrunched shut in concentration, swallowing as much of each powerful spurt as she could. As the flow petered off she relinquished the head, her pink tongue lapping at rivulets of sperm as they slid downwards, occasionally kissing the few pearly beads that welled up from the tip.
Shining Armor and Cadance kissed each other before climbing upwards to each kiss Flash Sentry. Shining’s kiss was solid and forceful, pressing his whole body against the pegasus, where Cadance’s was quick and fiery, nipping his lip as she drew back. He greedily accepted the mouthful of thick, bitter cum from each of them.
He looked between the two of them, in a daze, and said a single word. “More?”
Cadance flittered into the air, and landed on her rump on the writing desk, scattering quills and papers. Shining got to his hooves and pulled Flash up with him, before dragging him over to his fiance, the pegasus’s face inches away from Cadance’s wide-open thighs. Flash grunted as his captain mounted him. The unicorn nuzzled his mane and sniffed deeply.
“Don’t keep royalty waiting, mon petite écuyer...” said Shining Armor, his horn lighting up.
Flash Sentry was no mage, but he recognised the sound of a lubricating spell.
A pink hoof settled on the back of his head, and he looked forward. Cadance was absolutely sopping. Wetness spread from around her pussy all down her thighs, almost to her knees. Her fur was a hot pink where her juices had darkened it, and the fine hairs around her pussy were soaked, droplets of clear liquid clinging to them like dew. Her slit glistened with arousal, open just slightly at the base, occasionally winking bright pink, her clit poking out from her puffy lips.
Flash swallowed. Cadance’s legs twitched restlessly, as if she were struggling not to grind her thighs together. He would keep her waiting no longer. He darted his muzzle forward and lapped from the base of her sex to the clit, curling up his tongue as he licked. Two hooves in his mane and a husky sigh were his rewards. He licked again, pausing to suckle on the clit, savoring her clear and light taste, like rainwater with a dash of honey.
Shining Armor’s flare pressed into Flash’s ass, and he couldn’t help but whine pathetically into the princess’s pussy as it spread him wide. He mumbled grunts and obscenities as the first inch pressed in, and then pushed back against it, crying out from sheer sensation as more slipped inside. The medial ring slipped inside him, and he gave a full-body shiver. He turned his attention back to Cadance, sucking on her clit, licking her, tonguing her deep inside, desperate to taste her. She cooed, clamping her thighs around his head and running her hooves through his mane.
The thickness, the heat of Shining’s cock, the sensation of being stretched wide, the way that his tail was trapped between his back and his lover’s belly, it all merged in Flash’s mind, pushing him far past thought and into sheer bliss. Shining Armor was not a light pony, and Flash had to spread his legs slightly just to stay stable. The dick in his ass felt impossibly hot as it pushed inside and pulled back out, his hole gripping every vein and bump tightly. Twinges of pleasure coursed through his own half-hard cock as Shining Armor bumped his prostate, making him leak a fes last drips of cum onto the floor.
He could feel Shining Armor’s cheek pressed against the back of his neck, and knew that his eyes were scrunched up in concentration, his blue tail whipping frenetically from side to side.
“So freakin’ tight, Flash, you feel so fuckin’ good, you’re just--”
The captain’s words were cut off by Cadance’s increasing cries. She clamped her thighs so hard around Flash’s head that his cheeks ached, pulling him into her pussy, humping his face, grinding against his nose.
“--it, lick deep in my pussy, tongue in as far as you can fucking push it, pretty pegasus slut--”
Her sex completely covered his mouth and nose. Flash couldn’t breathe. He could see nothing but the pink of her thighs, blackness tinted the edges of his vision, and all the noises of sex were dulled to his ears. As dots of light swam through his vision, he felt overwhelming wetness, soaking his chin and flowing into his mouth and nose.
Suddenly, he could breathe. Sound came roaring back. A second later, he realised that Shining Armor was literally roaring into the back of his mane, filling his ass with cum. He didn’t stop thrusting as he pumped the pegasus full of seed, white sperm spilling out around his cock.
Flash licked at Cadance’s quivering, post-orgasmic slit a few last times, and the trio collapsed onto the carpet.
Flash laid back, aching in all manner of wonderful ways, vaguely aware of cum running down his thighs. Cadance slipped down next to him, cuddling him, and kissing her own juices off his lips. Out the corner of his eye, he saw Shining Armor cleaning his cock with a spell.
“Corporal Flash Sentry,” whispered Cadance.
“Yes, ma’am?”
“As the Princess of Love, I hereby decree that you are always welcome in our bedroom.”
Flash grinned. “And the rest of the house, ma’am?”
“We might send you to the kitchen for a snack run,” said Shining Armor. The other two giggled.
Cadance sniffed at the air. “We need a shower. C’mon, boys, we can still make our reservations if we hurry. I’m sure they can wrangle an extra seat,” she said, glancing at Flash.
“I’ll be with you guys in a sec. We got, uh, love stains all over my letter to Twiley. It’s a short thing about the engagement, I want to rewrite it real quick.”
Flash and Cadance both leered at him. “I’ll wash your back,” said one, and “I’ll wash your belly,” said the other. Shining Armor sagged, and grinned.
“Fine, fine, you got me, I’ll write the letter later,” he said, laughing. “I’m sure I’ll remember.”
