There are partial spoilers about S6 EP5 in this chapter, if you don't want them then watch it first then read!

"My gosh, who would that be?" Twilight stepped out of the kitchen, a mixing bowl hovering beside her, a wooden spoon twirling in it. The whole room had gone quiet.

Muffins leaned over to Rainbow Dash and kissed the surprised mare on the lips. "Gotta go to work, you keep my spot warm." The alicorn got up and looked over to Twilight and gave a happy nod. Turning, she began a prancing-trot out to the front.

Pony heads lined the doorway, watching the gray mare reach the end of the hall and open the door.

"Oh, hello there. Have you come to… invade?" Muffins looked at the dragon standing before her.

Light blue of pelt and standing a little larger than Muffins' shoulder, the dragon flared its wings, revealing one to be shredded and torn. "Is this the castle of the Princess of Friendship?" The snarl had the alicorn raise an eyebrow. She nodded. "Then I have completed my mission, father…" The voice wavered, raising in tone almost to feminine levels, then started to topple forwards.

Green-yellow magic caught the lightly armored dragon before they hit the ground. Muffins could feel they were completely out of it. "Twilight! It's for you!"

"Gosh, what do you think happened to… her? She looks like a 'her'." Twilight trotted up to the door, Gel at her side. Four of her best friends were right with her. "Muffins, can you bring her in, we need to see what is wrong with her. Dash, can you fetch a nurse and doctor from the hospital? Where is Fluttershy when we need her?"

Ponies scrambled to follow and pass on commands and Muffins stretched her energy easily to carry the dragoness into the room where moments ago there had been revelry.

"Everypony, I think the party is over, but it will be back again next week when the Friendship Rave will begin again!" Vinyl was doing a great job, she got the ponies that were just trying to rubber-neck to move on out, herding them out the door and back to town. Twilight gave her a wave and a smile and got a blown kiss back.

"She is waking up." Muffins called the princess over and Twilight trotted back to the table where the dragoness was sprawled out.

"Ugh, let go of me, I need to get to the castle… to the princess... father…" The dragon tried to knock away Muffins' magic and, as one of the big claws raked at it the alicorn had to actually struggle to keep her from breaking loose.

"Who are you, you are at my castle, what is your name and are you okay?" Twilight poked the half-changeling's bubble with her own magic, gently dispelling it. She stepped right up beside the dragon and had a talon suddenly wrap around her throat.

"You are the princess? The Princess of Friendship?" Slitted orange eyes looked right at Twilight, boring into her.

"She is the princess and ah don't care much for how you're treating her." Applejack half turned, one leg twitching, her body on a hair trigger and aimed at the dragon's arm.

"But you are tiny… weak… father must have been wrong." The dragoness slumped, letting go of Twilight. "He told me you could save us, you could stop the madness that he foresaw."

"What madness? What are you talking about?" Twilight clopped a hoof, she was fed up with the pronoun game and wanted some answers. Her magic reached out and she stopped the clawed hand that reached for her this time, her power intertwining with the digits. "If you don't tell me I will hold you and wait for the doctors to sedate you. You need care, you need-"

A great sob cut Twilight off, the dragon flexed her hand in the grip of the magic, finding it unyielding. "The dragons, all of them. I wasn't good enough to take over leadership and… Lord Garble…" She stops a moment. "I am Ember, daughter of Torch. I bring warning and beg aid. The Dragon Lord is rousing the dragons, they will be coming soon."

The news was enough to shut down Twilight's magic with shock. "How… how many?"

"All of them, dozens. When Lord Garble calls them, even the most scattered and peaceful of us will throw themselves to his side, they simply can't resist the Word of the Lord." Ember looked at her left claw. "I couldn't even resist it at first," she then flared her right wing, the damaged one, "he commanded me to slash and destroy my wing…"

The suddenly crying dragon was caught up in gentle magic, Twilight unable to resist the plight of the wyrm. "Then what can we do to stop him?" The words seemed to shock the dragon.

"Stop him? You don't understand, he will bring an army of dragons down upon you, you can't stand against that!" Ember railed at the way her warnings were taken, didn't these ponies realize how destructive a dragon could be?

"I beat down a dragon once." Muffins stepped forward, letting her eyes tilt out to the sides. "He ate a letterbox and that is just not nice."

Ember sneered. "How did you do that?"

"I picked up a rock, I flew up really, really high." Muffins spread her wings and mimed flight. "I flew so high I had to puff and gasp for every breath. Then I dropped it on him."

There were a few snorts, most from Pinkie Pie, but the other ponies started to giggle and soon even Ember couldn't stop herself from chuckling. A mare in white uniform bustled into the room. "Somepony needed…" She froze and almost fainted at the sight of the quite battle-ready dragon.

"Please, can you tend to her wounds?" Twilight gestured with a hoof to the dragoness.

"Of… of course." Nurse Snowheart nodded and started pulling out things from her little pack she had with her. She began bandaging and dealing with the worst of the wounds Ember had.

The dragon was more than a little shocked. "What are you doing?" Ember sneered as she spoke but none of it seemed to phase the nurse.

"Helping you, it's the right thing to do." Snowheart checked over the wing and winced. "This isn't going to heal at all without… well, healing magic. We don't have anypony here who could do that."

"You… you mean I might be able to fly again?" All the anger, hate, and foulness drained from the dragon as she asked, she had no idea ponies, or anything, could heal the damage she herself had done.

"Well, yes. It would be best to get to Canterlot as quickly as possible, if you wish to restore the wing membrane." The nurse began to pack up her bag, giving one bandage a last tug to make sure it was on snugly. "Rest for a week and do get yourself to a magical healer, your wings are too pretty to have like that."

Ember blushed brightly at the compliment but the nurse was gone before she could even stammer a reply. She glanced at the princess of the castle and saw her talking to the dark black pony.

"Gel, you made sure Princess Celestia knows?" Twilight rubbed the changeling's shoulder with a hoof.

"No… I don't know what is up, it is getting harder and harder to reach out like that and this time... Maybe all of me in the Crystal Empire is starting to take its toll?" Gel wobbled a little. "It was like my gooplicate wasn't even there, I couldn't feel it at all…"

Twilight reached a protective wing over the stallion. "It's okay, I love you too much to push it. Dash?"

The blue mare leaped forward and saluted. "Best flier in Equestria, reporting." She wore the cockiest of looks. Muffins felt her heart swell, her lover certainly wasn't boasting too much.

"How quick can you get to Canterlot with a message?" Twilight held Gel close, not sure now if it was to reassure him or herself. Dragons were coming, lots of dragons.

"Round trip? Give me a day." Rainbow Dash knew it was pushing it, but that was what she lived for, pushing it.

"No, you don't have time." Ember looked between the ponies, how well they worked together and began to plan to bring more resources in. "The dragons will be gathered soon, if you don't stop this before then, nothing will stop Lord Garble. You need… you need to challenge him, you need to become the Dragon Lord by defeating him. You must leave before tomorrow night and fly as fast as you can."

All heads turned and listened. Twilight was first to speak up. "So what you are saying is, if he gets all these dragons together not even Celestia, Luna, Queen Twisty and all of Equestria could stop them?"

Ember nodded and held up her claw again. "Stop me." The words were simple and Twilight leaned in, her magic bracing against the claws. The feeling as Ember flexed something, her talons seeming to light up with a darkness that just sliced through her magic. "Like that. We don't use that power lightly, not a lot of dragons can even do it, but enough can."

Twilight nodded slowly. "Can Garble?"

"He can, all who share the line of Dragon Lords can. My father was a Lord, so I inherited it." Ember looked around at the ponies. "So, think you can beat him?"

A new pony, yawning as they walked in, stopped and looked up at the dragoness. "Oh, hi!" Spike lifted a hoof to wave. "Twilight, do you know there is a huge dragon in the dining room?"

"Ember, this is Spike, our resident expert on dragons. Spike, this is Ember." Twilight gestured between the two. "Well, he was our expert, until you arrived. So we have to fly to the dragon kingdom, beat down a Dragon Lord and take his power and then?"

"And then? I am going to help you lock my people into subjugation!" Ember snarled. "To have a pony as the Dragon Lord would make every one of my kin be directly under your hoof."

"It's a nice hoof. It is a better hoof than this Garble's, I wager." Gel stepped forward and eyed the dragoness. "And that is why you are here, isn't it? If Garble kills all the ponies there will be nopony to stand against him."

Ember nodded, her motives exposed. The strange dark pony stepped closer and tilted his head, examining her wing. "What are you do-" She got no further, the odd pony was flowing, reaching out like a puddle of tree-sap!

Everypony watched, and everydragon, as Gel worked himself over the torn and destroyed wing. His body wasn't much decreased in the end, since the membrane he had formed was thin, but he seemed to stagger a little. "That should hold at least long enough to get wherever we are going."

"How did… what… what are you?" Ember flexed her wing, it still hurt but the black substance that spanned the spars looked… well, perfect.

"He is Gel, and he is one of the best ponies I know." Twilight reached a wing over the stallion, leaning over to kiss his cheek.

Plans had been made, all ponies that could fly were going to that evening and the target was the dragon lands. But while everypony else prepared, Twilight was alone with Gel.

"What is going on?" Twilight's voice was full of concern, she didn't want to show it before their visitor, but she knew something was wrong with her lover.

"I don't know, I can… sort of feel that my gooplicates are still doing what I last told them, but I can't reach out beyond… well, this." Gel gestured to his present gooplicate, an amalgam of the two he had kept in the Castle of Friendship.

"Is that so bad?" Twilight leaned in and nuzzled him, provoking the changeling to reach forward, cuddling Twilight and more, he flowed up and over her head. He worked down very slowly, letting her watch as he sealed up over her forelegs and wings, locking them in place.

"We have some time, just a little, enough to-" Gel was whispering it into the trembling mare's ears, he felt her body fight and struggle but, even without the horn blocker, she didn't use her magic. He was interrupted though as there was a knock at the door.

"Twilight, it's me." Applejack's voice came through the door. "Can ah come in?"

"Sure, come on in." Twilight felt her mouth and throat work, she almost purred as she realized Gel was playing with her. Not that she wouldn't have answered the same.

"Twi I… oh, sorry I will…" Applejack's eyes were wide as she beheld what Gel was doing, sealing up and over Twilight's plot, leaving just the alicorn's tail and mane to show her color. He relaxed his grip on the mare's throat, letting her talk.

"No, stay." Twilight smiled and stood up, feeling Gel relax around her. "You should see this, this is how I… well, I have a thing for this." Twilight explained, using her magic to close the door behind Applejack as the earth pony walked in.

"What is he doing to ya Twi?" AJ was intrigued, she stepped over to the pair and walked around them. Her friend's belly bulged a little but as she watched she saw ripples moving around within the alicorn. "He is inside you?"

"Yeah, it feels really… oh, really good." Twilight almost melted in place.

"Uh, is that for you too?" Applejack pointed a hoof down between Twilight's legs, the apple-centric pony now looking a little, hungry.

"No Applejack, if he makes that, it means it is for somepony else." Twilight still had control of her own voice but was happy to play along. "Would you like it?"

There were a hundred voices in Applejack's head telling her to say 'no' and run. "Yes…" She blinked as she said it, not realizing the voice in control was the one really turned on by the idea. It was just Gel, after all, and Twilight. The stallion was practically the most honest changeling AJ had ever met, to be fair though, the only one she knew well. "How does it feel in there?"

Something seemed to happen, AJ saw a twitch at Twilight's throat. "Would you like to find out?" The voice was Twilight's, but not. Applejack couldn't work out how, but she knew it was Gel using some trick. She took a deep breath, Twilight had given her a lot to think about with their game the previous night…

AJ was suddenly wondering why she was nodding.

"Hold still, this will probably feel odd." Gel flowed forward slowly, deciding to give AJ the light treatment first up. He worked up her legs, feeling the mighty limbs that could kick with the power of a cannon twitch.

"It feels strange, like putting on tight socks." Applejack mused, looking down and smiling. This certainly wasn't so bad. "Hay, hay now, what 're you doin' back th-" The mare's mouth fell open and she groaned as a thick shaft pushed into her, deeper and deeper. It didn't matter she wasn't wet, it didn't matter she wasn't stretched, Gel seemed more than a match for both problems. "Twi he… he's inside me!"

Twilight watched her friend taken by her lover, she watched as AJ stood up stiffly and pushed her rump up in the air. "Oh, he is letting you keep your head free. Oh sweet Celestia, look at… I can't fit all that!" Twilight had spotted the shaft under Applejack's belly, the exclamation causing the orange mare to look down too.

"Well, hello thar." AJ grinned down, this felt a hundred different kinds of wrong, but also right. It didn't hurt, it felt pretty good actually and they were each adult ponies. She took a deep breath and, tail held high, Applejack trotted around behind Twilight, who obediently lifted her plot up.

"Be gentle, both of y-" Twilight's voice caught as she was mounted and Gel made sure his aim was true. A grunt left the alicorn's throat as she was quickly penetrated by the huge shape. The thing that surprised her was how easily it fit. Had he really stretched her that much?

Applejack felt power, not just in her legs but in the position. She kicked her powerful back legs and shot forward, deeper into Twilight. At the same time, though, the shape inside her bucked inwards. "So that's yer game?"

Gel was having a ball, he loved nothing more than drinking gently from mares who were having fun. He had gained and lost lovers this day, but so long as he could make ponies happy he was happy.

The changeling pounded in and out of both mares, letting them role-play their fun out. He was satisfied when Twilight came first, her legs locking up as she pushed back and moaned. Gel decided it was AJ's turn and increased the pace within her, her own hips seeming to respond to the pace as she pounded Twilight with speed and strength.

"Twi!" Applejack managed to half call her lover's name before speech was beyond her, waves of pleasure radiating not only from her vagina and vulva but also everywhere else. The tight sleeve Gel held her in enhanced her pleasure and she slumped down onto Twilight's back, her legs gone weak, panting and smiling like a filly drinking her first hard cider. "You… you both… you both come back quick…" Applejack was staring down at the mane before her, she worked a little of it in her mouth giving it a little tug. "Come on Twi, you ready for another?"

Twilight's eyes flew open as Applejack bucked again, her body was ready, but only thanks to Gel's 'endurance training'.

Author's Note

Oh look, it's another $#&$#%& Ember story, oh no... wait, what, she isn't trying to screw Spike? She isn't the Dragon Lord? What madness is this?

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