Big McIntosh's whole body felt flush, on fire with the heat that Jade had put into her and with the shock of what happened. Are you okay, Mac? "I'm okay, Jade?" She turned her head in time to see the stallion slump off her back and fall onto the floor. "Jade?"

"I'm so sorry," Jade fell to his plot and stared up at Mac, seeing her tail still raised sent another pang of need through him but, with the act complete, he had a little respite from what the poison had driven him to. "Night, please, I didn't mean to-"

"Jade, stop. It wasn't your fault, this was nothing like you." Mac felt anger, it poured to her from the parts that had joined with Night Reign. "Are you okay?"

"Me?" Jade stared up, unable to think of the angry face Mac wore as anything but for him. "You are asking me if I am 'okay'?" He shook his head and scooted along the floor to the corner of the bathroom. "I just raped you and you-" A dark hoof was pressed to his snout.

"You didn't rape me. You were poisoned and… okay next time, you go slower and more gentle." Mac blushed all kinds of crimson. "But first, before we point hooves, let's get the buck out of here." Luna, get word to Luna. Or the guard.

When the hoof left his snout, Jade Sight looked up at the mare standing over him. He tried to focus on her eyes, on her face; he wasn't ready to smile yet, but he stopped frowning.

He is looking in your eyes, he loves you. "Okay, how do we contact Princess Luna?" She looked around the room, struggling for the effort to pull her vision away from Jade's. Stepping over to the door, she opened it and looked out into the restaurant.

The waiter noticed the distressed-looking mare poking her head out the door of the gentlecolts. Finishing what he was doing, he trotted over. "Madame?"

"Please," Mac's tone immediately got a twitch of sympathy from the waiter, "my coltfriend has had an accident, is there another way out of here?"

"Madame, you and your friend are members of the Lunar Guard?" When the waiter got a nod from Mac, he smiled. "Then please, allow me to help. What do you need?"

Something to carry Jade. Somepony to help carry Jade. A way out of here that doesn't involve going past the patrons. "We need a tablecloth, somepony to help me carry him, and a way out that," Mac gestured at the diners.

"I understand, please lock the door from inside and give me a moment."

"Okay, lock the door." Mac pushed the door closed and, using her hoof, slid the little bolt across. "Jade, can you walk?" As she walked closer she saw the stallion's lip curl, his nose working. "Jade?"

"Back, please…" Jade tried to pull further into the corner.

"My estrus?" Mac suddenly put the clues together. "I am going to squish that bug so hard…" She backed away from Jade. "Help is coming." She tried to force a smile for her coltfriend.

A gentle tap on the door startled Mac and she spun around to open it. "Madam?" The waiter passed through a tablecloth and started to push into the room. "Your friend is-" Halting his words, the waiter narrowed his eyes. "This had better not be a prank."

"No, he got poisoned and," Mac would have bitten her lip if she didn't want to avoid any mistakes with her fangs, "and we just need to get him up to the castle, to the Lunar Guard… to Princess Luna." After a moment Mac thought to add, "And I can't go near him."

The waiter's horn lit and opened the small window set into the wall. "Let me get you out of here first, then you can see about getting up to the castle." In moments Jade had the white tablecloth wrapped around him, hiding his sweating body. "Monsieur, up you go."

Mac trotted up to the waiter. "Give him a moment to get away from the window… okay." Mac studied the waiter's face. "Thank you." She was shocked when, giving a wink, the waiter stole a quick kiss and lifted her out the window and after Jade.

Staring at his fillyfriend, having scuttled to the opposite side of the alley, Jade huddled under the sheet. "I… I might be able to fly."

"Then let's fly, you up front and me behind, should be able to keep your nose free." Mac spread her wings and watched Jade pull out from under the tablecloth. Bundling it up in his forehooves, he spread his wings and took off.

Tilting her head up, Mac got a good view of "Jade." Sure is a stallion, now flap your wings before you go blind. She blushed at Night's urging but took to her wings. Dinner was left behind her, Mac winged her way above Canterlot, chasing the stallion she really liked.

"What'cha doin'?" The familiar voice made Mac nearly fall out of the sky, she suddenly flapped her wings to get under control again. "Whoa, sorry to scare ya with my awesomeness…"

"Rainbow Dash." Mac gave a long-suffering sigh. "Lunar Guard business. Jade was poisoned." She suddenly had no idea why she actually said what was going on, it would make the Wonderbolt-mad mare just more interested. "Just trying to get him-" Mac cut off. "Dash! Come back!"

"Don't think of the cute mare behind you Jade, Night…" Jade's body trembled at the thought of her name. "Just get back to the castle and Princess Luna can put me back in that cage again." The thought of it didn't bode well for him.

"Hi there." Rainbow Dash flew in beside the bat pony stallion. "Got poisoned? Shouldn't be flying, that makes it spread faster."

Jade's eyes were wide, but to his relief Rainbow Dash didn't seem to be triggering the same reaction that Mac had. "Please, can you leave me alone, I just need to get back to-" Jade stopped talking, realizing they were over the castle. Circling, he headed to the landing area that led to the main hall, where his princess would be holding court.

"Rainbow Dash, he is sensitive to mares in… well, estrus." Mac blushed as she tried to hover down-wind from the platform; bat wings were made for gliding, not hovering.

"Really?" Rainbow looked to the hovering mare. "Got it, we are going to the princess." Straightening up, the cyan pegasus started stomping forward. "Everypony, out of the way. Element bearer coming through!"

Jade blinked in shock, watching as at least some Lunar Guard did back away. He slunk forward, trying to keep as far from the retreating ponies—particularly the mares—as he could.

"Jade?" Deep Dive took a step forward and froze when the stallion shrank back from her. "I'm not going to hurt you." She trailed off.

"Excuse me." Rainbow Dash stepped between Jade and the mare. "But you know that when a pony says 'Mango Midnight,' you need to listen, right?" Jaws hit the floor as all the bat ponies froze and stared at Rainbow Dash, not the least of which was Jade. "Good, now make a hole, need to get this… Jade was it?" At a nod Dash grinned a little wider. "Need to get Jade through to the Princess."

"Not supposed to ask how you know that phrase, but you do so." Deep stepped to the door and opened it. She threw the door open, startling Princess Luna and the inside guard. "Princess Luna!"

Luna lifted her snout, looking to the end of the hall where the interruption to her meeting with Moon Dancer was. She was all set to ask what was going on when a mare she recognized marched brazenly in. "Rainbow Dash?"

"Yup, got one of your bats here." She looked back in time to see Jade rush into the room and find a spot as far from all the ponies present as possible. "He was flying back with a friend… here she is." The doors closed behind Mac. "Poisoned or somethin'."

"Night Reign? Jade Sight? What is the meaning of this?" Luna looked from one to the other. Carefully, she re-wrapped the item she was taking from Moon Dancer.

"The poison isn't out of his system." Mac blurted. "He seemed fine at the start, but then-"

"She is in estrus, Princess. It must… it must be triggering that stuff." Jade let his shoulders slump, then the rest of him. "Please, Princess Luna, put me back in the cage."

"No!" Mac stepped forward, avoiding Jade's direction so as to not torment him.

"And what do you want instead, Night Reign?" Luna stroked her hoof over the collar adorning the arm of the throne.

"I take it," Moon Dancer looked between the two bat ponies in question, "that it is a drug to enhance his arousal?" A nod came from the Princess. "Well a simple enchantment to bind his body and put it in the hooves of one pony should free him from it."

All eyes, and indeed ears, were focused on Moon. Luna gave the mare a smile. "That would be wonderful, Moon. How long would it take to make that? What will you need?"

Moon looked at the stallion, then closed her eyes to do the math. "A gem, or something of a quality enough to hold the heavy control enchantment. Some time to work. A day. Maybe two." Moon Dancer gave a nod. "Such an enchantment is illegal except when sanctioned by a princess."

"Please, buy whatever you need to, make it as soon as possible." Luna turned to Jade. "But that doesn't help you right now, does it? Night, you are in charge of his incarceration. Is this okay with both of you?"

Mac gulped and nodded. "Your Highness, is this likely to wear off?" She looked over at Jade and gave a soft whine. He doesn't deserve this, what are you going to do?

"It should have worn off by the morning after. That it still affects him days later is not a good sign." Luna mulled over the problem. "Jade, come here please. It is not my time, relax." She passed Moon Dancer's collar back to the mare and waited for Jade to walk up to her. Using her magic, Luna reached out to the stallion and started to press sleep into his mind.

Recognizing the sensation, Jade beamed up at Luna. "Thank yo-" His head pressed against his hooves and his eyes grew too heavy to keep open.

Working magic over the stallion, Luna poked and prodded his "magical self," searching for the problem. "The drug is gone from him, but it changed him." She pushed past the barrier of the world and into the stallion's dream. Luna wanted to blush, she knew she probably was in the waking world. "Jade? Are you more comfortable like this?"

Jade was in a dream, a very naughty dream. Night Reign was under him and he had the stamina of stud stallions of days long past. "I don't want to hurt her again!" He shouted so hard the world around him wavered.

"Again?" Luna flicked her perception, seeing the ponies arranging to move Jade in the real world. "Night is a strong mare, do you think she would have followed you, if she felt hurt by you?"

He didn't stop, Jade couldn't stop, but his brain processed the question. Just then the dream world snapped, Jade was pushed from his dream and was once more awake. He first recognized the cage, the one Luna had put him in the previous week, when he had been affected by the poison the first time.

"You're awake." Mac lay by the door to the cage. "Jade, I hope you can realize that I really like you."

Jade's eyes went wide. "Night Reign, you-"

"Mac. Jade, call me Mac." Mac smiled at the stallion and got up. She walked closer to him, reaching down with a hoof to him. "I think you can find something to do while Luna's friend makes the bridle for you."

Aching, Jade stood up and stepped around the mare. Planting his snout under Mac's tail he inhaled. Mac had been in full control this time, Jade pondered why she would do it for a few more seconds, then the effect the drug imparted on him took over.

Author's Note

The pure white mare, lacking even a cutie mark, looked up from her seat. "New neighbors? It isn't my place to worry about such things." She tossed her green mane. "You would need to talk to my Mistress, Empress Mi Amore Cadenza. I only take care of naughty ponies who do the wrong thing."

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