Re-Enlistment

Trying to sleep while having your crush pressed against you in an intimate way makes it really -really- hard to sleep.

Pun not intended...

Moon Sight was hugging me from behind, and Lantern Light was pressed against my belly, making it very hard to avoid rubbing our nethers together. I honestly tried my best to make sure it didn't happen, but soon after he fell asleep his body decided that it was time to do more than just cuddle.

Everypony knows that when you're sleeping, at least while comfortably naked and a stallion, your genitalia like to do exercises so they can be 'ready for the big day'. This meant that I was doing my best to avoid waking Lantern Light up as his... stallion... pressed into mine.

And he told -me- not to get aroused. The nerve.

I had tried to squirm out of the way, so things wouldn't be even worse for when he woke up, but any movement just made both of us harder. On top of that, Night Breeze was hugging Lantern from his rear and getting nocturnally frisky.

So, I was left to my fate of staying awake all night in the midst of ponies that haven't had any sort of release for about a thousand years, including myself. I did my best to not make things any more excited, but I can’t do a whole lot to help the situation when being sleepily grinded on by a mare, and stallion with a raging erection.

***

I wasn't able to sleep a minute for the entire night, just doing my best to stay calm and not wake anypony up by making things...sticky. You’d think that would be an easy task, since ponies are usually naked in the first place. Not as easy when you're being teased by sleeping ponies who don’t actually know they're doing so.

A loud knock at the door both made me jump, and wince as I realized that it would be the Royals coming through the door to wake us up for the day. When they came through that door I was certain they would make some kind of joke or--

It was Princess Luna.

"Night Guards, Your housing arrangements are... Oh. Oh my." She covered her face that was lit by a bright pink blush as she turned away from my helpless peeking behind the bedsheets.

"If you need privacy we would be more than willing to-" Luna whispered.

"Help me! Please!" I whisper shouted, interrupting her.

"What do you mean? Do not most ponies...do... this sort of thing?" she replied, still hiding her face.

"They're still sleeping and I'm trapped between them!" I replied, my ears folded back and face burning in embarrassment.

Her horn lit up, and wrapped me in a magic field. "Well, then let me help you." she stated, and I flailed my hooves to try and break her grasp but it was too late.

There I floated, flailing desperately, in front of the Goddess of the Night, Princess Luna, Co-Ruler of Equestria, with the largest throbbing erection in my life after an entire eight hours of grinding and teasing.

I wanted to die, but I could only settle for trying to hide my shame and my face with my hooves, as I curled into a distressed fuzzy batpony ball of hormones and sexual frustration in the air.

Thankfully, she had the grace to not drop me on the floor in shock, and gently placed me on the floor where I could will myself out of existence in peace to escape the flood of embarrassment.

"Novel Thought, was it?" She asked, and my face burned brighter than the sun that not only had she found me like this, but she -knew my name-.

"Y-y-yes." I squeaked, barely even audible to my own ears. I decided to just nod my head when she asked again.

"Do not worry, Novel Thought. I have lived long enough to know the... desires... of ponies very well. Do not be ashamed, as this was not your fault." She placed a hoof on my side to comfort me, but it made me feel even worse as I tried to squirm away, making my erection flop around and leading to me being even more embarrassed as I hid it with my hooves again.

After an awkward pause, and noticing that I was tearing up from my situation, the Princess spoke again.

"We will leave now, so that you may... Ah... relieve yourself... in peace. Come to the Dining hall when you are ready, and bring your companions with you." She stated, before making a hasty retreat from the room and closing the doors with a slam.

"Wha?!" I heard three voices shout from the bed, before a more startled voice yelped "What the hay?!"

"Ha-ha! Lantern Light is hard!" Night Breeze taunted.

I heard a moment of giggling at Lantern's expense, which was followed by silence.

"Where is Novvie?" I heard Moon Sight ask.

Please don't find me. Please don't find me.

"There he is! D'aaawww, and he's hard too!" Night Breeze cooed, looking over the side of the bed at my scrunched up form attempting to hide my throbbing hard-on.

"He better not've done any funny business while we were sleepin' !" Lantern cried, and got pat on the head by Night and Moon.

"I think he's not the one who's been doing any funny business, Barn-case." Moon teased, ripping the sheets off to reveal his indecent state, and covering me in the sheets as they fell to the floor over me.

"Darn it, Moon! I know both you mares are Filly-Foolers, but you don't gotta go making a spectacle of a stallion's... stallion!"

"Hey Novvie, I bet Lantern here can help you out with that large erection you've got going on down there!" Night Breeze called out, moving the sheets around in search of me.

"I ain't a barn-case!" Lantern yelped, trying to pull sheets over himself.

The sheets came off of me, and I bolted for the bathroom and desperately tried to lock the door, but I was too panicked to do it properly. The door swung open, and Moon Sight picked me up in her forehooves and flew back to the bed.

"C-can we -not- do this, please?" I begged, being dropped onto the mattress with a bounce before my head landed right next to Lantern's Stallion, barely an inch away.

"I actually agree with Novel on this one!" Lantern yelped again, frantically moving himself away from my face as I curled into a ball and tried to cover myself in pillows.

***

After a short eternity of teasing by Night Breeze and Moon Sight, they settled down and we all got ourselves ready for the day, albeit with a lot more teasing and attempts to get me hard again, which is surprisingly easy.

The four of us agreed to a truce to not continue our teasing outside of the bedroom, and we moved quickly past Tower Shield and Halberd to escape their uproar of laughter at having heard us through the door the entire time. We were the only group of bat ponies in the dining hall, and the food was left out and getting cold.

"Wow. Guess we were fooling around a lot longer than we thought." Night said, and we moved over to serve ourselves breakfast.

"Rainbow apple-stuff!" I cheered, previous embarrassment forgotten as I filled two bowls and excitedly trotted off to eat at a nearby table. I heard some whispering and giggles from the three behind me, but i was too busy enjoying the apple goodness to really care.

***

We wandered around the Palace for a bit in search of Princess Luna, before running into Captain Shining Armor and his entourage of a few Royal Guards.

"Oh, there you are! We've been looking for you. All of your housing arrangements have finally gone through, so you'll be able to move into your own homes now. You can always move into the same home, as that would give us more to work with when the other Night Guard come through. Would any of you be wanting to share a house?" The Captain asked.

"Moonie and I would love a house together!" Night Breeze cheered, wrapping Moon Sight in a hug while she blushed from being called 'Moonie' in front of the Captain.

"Splendid! What would you two be looking for?" He pointed to Lantern and I.

"Separate housing!" We both blurted out in unison, before looking at each other and then looking away awkwardly.

Shining Armor blinked a few times, before saying "Well alight then. Follow Gale Wind here, Night Breeze and Moon Sight. He will take you to your house. Lantern Light, follow Cross Wind to yours. Novel Thought, I'll take you to your home myself." He held a hoof to his breastplate, before waving a hoof to dismiss the others.

After they had departed, he started talking to me. "That was interesting back there. Care to explain what happened?"

"U-um... Misunderstanding. It's awkward and I don't want to talk about it." I quickly squeaked out, looking at the floor to avoid his expression.

"All right, I won't press." He raised a hoof in apology, before continuing. "Now, I've gotta be honest. Getting all this housing on such short notice has lead us to cutting a few corners. Those of you going into single housing will be getting the short end of the stick, as these houses were some of the ones that were damaged in the Changeling attack. There might be some squatters there, so that’s why I sent some Royals along with your friends."

My ears rose in interest. "You mean that there’s homeless here, after the attack? I would've thought that it would be a priority to find them housing before us. After all, we've been living in luxury while we waited." I pointed out.

"That's true, but you're also guests of the Princesses. You've also been unjustly punished and not given a trial beforehoof."

"If it's our homes, we can take in ponies in need, right?" I asked, still looking at the floor as we walked through the streets of Canterlot.

"Well of course, just don’t be surprised if somepony takes valuables of yours and leaves in the night." Shining warned.

I nodded, and he tried to strike up a few more conversations along the way but I wasn't feeling very talkative after learning of all those ponies without a home.

***

We came up to a gated house with a small vegetable garden in the front, with a cobblestone walkway leading from the gate to the door. It was tucked in between two other similar houses, excepting mine was painted purple with silver trim around the windows and door frame. The walls were wooden, with a tiled roof and a gutter leading over the wall to dump onto the street.

"Well, here you are. Home sweet Home. Here's the keys." He floated a keychain with two keys on it to me, and I clipped it onto my foreleg's armor.

"Do you need rent or anything for it? I don't have an--" I was saying, before he interrupted.

"Nope! Don't worry about all that. It's part of being a Night Guard. Your housing and groceries are free to help compensate for the thousand years of pay you would've gone without."

Holy Celestia, that guard was actually right! We're getting a thousand years of missed pay!

"Thank you!" I blurted, and caught myself before I wrapped Shining Armor in a hug. I settled for a pat on his shoulder and backed away sheepishly.

"Hey, don't worry about it. Feel free to enjoy your home and do what you want with it. I have to go settle the few remaining Night Guard that are still snoozing. Come back to duty in a week, we’re going to be reviving the next set of ponies after we do a performance review." He gave a salute, and I returned my own before he left.

I fumbled around with the keys to my new home, exhausted from not sleeping the entire night, before accidently dropping them on the welcome mat. I bumped my head on the door with my helmet as I leaned over to pick them up, and heard buzzing from behind the door.

Too tired to really care, I successfully opened the door with a turn of the key, and walked into my new living room. There was two couches facing a fireplace, deep crimson carpet that was joyfully fuzzy to trot on, and a desk with a lamp in the corner.

I heard buzzing again from deeper in the house, so i decided to investigate the noise. It was probably just a bug or something, since these houses had apparently been abandoned for a while and it would be up to me to repair and replace things.

I found a bathroom with a toilet, sink and shower tub, along with free hoofsoap. Not finding the buzzing, i continued my investigation of the house and found the dining room.

There was a simple wooden table with four chairs pulled into it, and a bowl of some kind of paste thing resting on top of the table. I didn't want to touch it, but it seemed cold. Must've been left during the attack. It was strange that it hadn't rotted or anything though.

I tried to move away from the table, only to find that my hooves had been stuck to the floor by the same paste that was in the bowl. This paste, however, was getting hard very quickly.

I wrenched my hooves out of the hard slime substance, making it chip and crack where it had hardened, to come face to face with some weird, bug pony thing!

Standing there in shock, it buzzed angrily at me and barred its teeth.

"Whoa! Whoa, hey. Easy!" I tried to reassure the thing, as it lifted itself into the air with four insect wings and moved toward me. It also had a horn with holes in it, and now that I notice, its body was chitinous like a beetle!

"Hey! I'm not gonna hurt you, just explain what the hay is going on!" I begged, my hooves getting stuck to the floor again as it spat some green mucus substance at me. My body was slowly becoming trapped in this slime stuff, and the Bug pony was hovering right up against my face.

I blinked a few times, before noticing something.

"You have really pretty eyes."

The bug pony stopped growling at me, and dropped to the floor as it stopped hovering.

"What did you just say?" It asked me, turning its head sideways as its wings twitched.

"Um... I like your eyes? They're really pretty." I said again, certain that I had said the wrong thing, but no going back now.

This seemed to have stumped the bug pony, as it did a double take between looking at my slime covered body and the situation we were both in, before looking at me again.

"You're trapped in resin, captured by a Changeling, and you tell me that -my eyes are pretty-?" It asked in disbelief.

"Well...um...yeah?" I finished lamely.

"You're not going to kill me?" it asked, still in disbelief.

"Why would I do that?"

"Because I’m a changeling." It stated flatly, as if it was obvious that -that- is the first thing I should do upon seeing a changeling.

"Well I'm a Bat pony, so I don't see the problem?" I offered, not really trying to break out of the resin anymore and just talking with the changeling.

The changeling stared at me for a long time, before letting out a frustrated shout and smacking my resin coated self with a holed hoof.

"The worst part about this, is that I would be able to tell if you're lying! I can feel your emotions, and you're just curious! No anger, no hatred, no deceit or anything!" It raved.

"What's even more confusing, is that you're genuinely attracted to my eyes!" It spat out, and I cringed. "How is that even possible?!"

"Um... Ponies?" I offered, before I was smacked again and the resin around my chest and left forehoof broke away.

"Do you know what I was going to do to you, pony?" I shook my head. "I was going to trap you in resin, and suck out every bit of love that you had in your body. I'm starving, I don't have the energy to shapeshift anymore, let alone defeat a Royal Guard! Then you go and say something completely off the wall and... I can't even deal with this! This situation was -not- in my training!"

I was busy freeing my other hooves from the resin while it ranted on, and finally wrested control of myself from the hardened substance.

"You're -still- not angry at me! You're just a big fuzzy ball of confusion, concern and curiosity! What is wrong with you?!" It shouted, and I wrapped it in a hug so that the changeling might calm down and get a grip. A moment after I hugged it, I felt something getting drained out of me and pulled back in shock.

"Ohhh that’s -much- better." It moaned, swaying a bit before righting itself.

"What did you just do?" I asked, worried and confused at his behavior after my hug.

"Well, I siphoned off your affection. You're reeling from the mood shift right now, but you just gave me enough to last the rest of the day if I don't exert myself too much."

We stared at each other for a moment, neither of us making a move as we stood there.

"So..." I trailed.

"So..." It mimicked my voice perfectly.

"Wait, You do voices too?!" I exclaimed, completely forgetting any kind of tension as I had a voice buddy now!

"What?" It asked, disarmed.

"Voices! Say stuff in my voice again, that was cool!" I cheered happily, moving a little too close to the Changeling's face for comfort.

"Would you get out of my face?" It said in my voice, to which I squeaked in delight and trotted in a circle happily before facing it again.

"What should I call you? My name is Novel Thought!" I exclaimed.

"I think you should be called Maniac. I've never seen a pony get such harsh whiplash from their emotions being drained..."

"Oh come on, it's not that bad! What's your name, buggy?" I stopped pacing around the room and stood next to the pile of shattered and goopy resin.

"Don't call me 'Buggy'." It warned.

"Well, then what's your name?" I asked again.

It paused for a while, but I couldn't tell what it was thinking because its eyes didn’t have pupils. They were more of that strange grid that flies have, except it was a turquoise color and shiny.

"I'm not telling you my name. I still don't trust you, and you could betray me at any moment."

I fell down on the ground, tears welling up in my eyes as I cried out "Why don't you like me, pretty bug pony?!"

Its ears folded back in shock at my display, before it looked concerned and walked towards me slowly.

"I just want to be friends and you don’t want to be friends because you don't l-like m-m-meee!" I sobbed, tears water-falling from my eyes.

"By the first chrysalis, this is bad." It mumbled, as I twitched on the ground while crying. A small puddle was forming underneath me.

I felt a hard hoof touch my shoulder, and I quickly looked up into its pretty blue eyes.

"I really think your eyes are pretty! Why won't you believe me?!" I cried, burying my head in my hooves as the changeling desperately tried to calm me down.

"Easy there, Novel. Easy. Everything will be alright." It said, rubbing my cheeks with its hooves.

I took my helmet off and scrambled up, knocking the changeling over with me on top of it. I wrapped my armored hooves around its torso and squeezed him in a hug that Moon would be proud of.

"I knew it! You're trying to kill me!" It cried out, making me recoil in shock as I blurted out an explanation.

"No-no-no-no! I was giving you a hug! You said everything would be fine! Please make it better again!" I shrieked, about to cry again.

"You... what?!" It shouted, as I flinched backwards.

It looked up at the ceiling and shouted in exasperation, "Queen, what have you done to me?!"

I swayed to the side a bit, knocking over a vase of flowers.

"Is it just me, or is the room spinney?" I slurred, before falling on my side and crushing the small table that had propped me up.

The changeling stood over me, looking equally confused and concerned.

"Hey, you're spinney too!" I mumbled, before blacking out.