Luna sat proudly on the throne and Mac felt a sense of rightness; day had transitioned into night and now every nerve the mare had, was alight. "Be strong." Mac looked at her brother and reached her leathery wing up to rub AJ's big snout. A soft murmur from the door caught both their attention and before Mac realized, her brother had swapped positions with another stallion.

Just as Molestia was turning back to the door, she saw movement there and noticed "her" stallion wasn't there. "Where is Bodyguard?" She glared at the pegasus guard that stood straight and tall beside the light night guard.

"It is late, Your Highness." The pegasus wore a grim look.

Outside the door, Applejack looked in shock. "Bright Sunshine?"

"You know my rank, recruit. Use it." Bright did smile though, the surprise on the new guard's face was as priceless as it was cute. "Now move that plot of yours, we need to get out of here before Her Highness comes looking."

AJ lifted his hooves and followed. Immediately the ache between his back legs started, pulling a sharp wuff from his throat. "Lieutenant, I am going… going to need another shower." It was just ten paces to get him hard and ready, but AJ had the sand to maintain the march.

"Figured, come on, move it now… quick, MARCH!" Bright didn't want to look at the stallion, the smell of him was enough to cause his own desire to rise. Maybe we both need a cold shower?

For some reason Applejack trusted her commanding officer to guide him, hooves moving with practiced precision, but they weren't going to the showers. "Uh, sir?" The barracks too, they passed. "Sir, where are-"

The perfect, constant pace had been all to Bright's advantage. He stepped three paces quickly and turned his head, catching Applejack clear on the lips. Both stallions froze like that and Applejack felt a tremendous ache below him, perfectly accompanying the burning in his lips. But he is a stallion! Applejack blinked, then again. He is just the kinda stallion Ah like. The kiss broke. "Bright? Where can we go?" It was just like back on the farm, if AJ had a stallion home for the evening. Don't look like there is a barn here… pity.

"I'm an officer, but not right now. I have my own bunk." Bright's lips burned, along with another part of him. He spun around and led the way, their marching forgotten as the two stallions galloped to the officer quarters, slipping inside and into his own room.

Inside the small room, the smell of "stallion" was heady in Applejack's nostrils. "Bright, what are we going to do?" If either of them was a mare, Applejack could think of plenty of things, but what stallions did together was an absolute mystery.

"You can't be… are you a virgin…" Bright suddenly blushed. "Before I ask that, I really should have your name."

Applejack cringed from using his real name, then he remembered what Princess Thunder-flanks had called him. "Bodyguard… Body Guard then?"

"I heard her say that, good a name as any in the guard. So, Body, are you new to this?" Bright leaned up to the bigger stallion, nuzzling his cheek.

AJ nodded. "Well, from this point of view. Ah… Ah was a mare before…" He saw the shock on Bright's face. "If'n ye don't want-"

Bright silenced Applejack with a kiss, another deep one. It melted all kinds of resistance in AJ, brought him to a much more relaxed place. Without the cool night air, and with the stimulation of the kiss, neither stallion lost any hardness to the delay.

"I guess that answers that. Well, being big butch stallions, we are supposed to forsake softness, weakness… but I love to cuddle. Normally, having another big stallion in me would be a delight…" Bright leaned to the side, bending his neck down so his snout was mere inches for what AJ had to offer. "Body, you are too big for me; but I am not a stallion unused to size. On my bunk, Body, and on your back."

The bed didn't look nearly big enough, but AJ decided to just go with it. Climbing up, in all his armor, he rolled to his back. Bright moved quick, was "behind" Applejack, catching his back legs with his own forehooves. "What are you going to…?" His question tapered off as the other stallion dipped his head down, Bright pressing his tongue to the base of Applejack's shaft and licking all the way to the tip. Words failed the former mare.

Bright drew back down and gave "Body" another long lick. "Musky, I guess the Princess really did want you for herself, after all." He licked again and again, feeling his partner quiver and tremble. At last, though, he licked the shaft from base to tip and instead of pulling back, he pursed his lips and pressed down around it. Knowing how to treat another stallion well, Bright's hoof gently began to rub and stroke around the two heavy balls that were on offer.

Applejack threw his head back, eyes wide in shock. Marching all day, then marching down again earlier had put him on edge, but he held back the wave of pleasure. Barely. Bright was on a whole new tack, slurping down over the huge shaft. It is bulging his cheeks, oh my I can see his throat bulge when he goes down. Bright's angle meant that he could only keep one eye on his partner, but he could see that he had done good letting Body see his throat swell.

Having no experience in a male body before, Applejack never knew what was coming until a tightness gripped his balls and squeezed them. Rolling his eyes back, AJ felt the squeeze rise up, flowing deep into him and up into his shaft. "Ughh…" The first shove of his hips was met by a gasp from Bright. Clamping his snout tight around the huge shaft, he worked it to his throat and then tried to relax. The flood of seed came, forcing straight down into his belly.

The other stallion was holding on for dear life, but all Applejack could feel was wave after wave of release, glorious, blessed relief. The whole day being pent up meant nothing anymore. He knew his face would look silly, all stallions looked silly when they lost themselves. Seen enough myself to know that. But he didn't care. With his lips around AJ's length, Bright felt his belly swell a touch before he started to pull back. The huge flood had already abated and now all he got was a nice, musky spray into his mouth. Waiting until the new guard stallion had let off his last, Bright slumped forward, resting his full belly against AJ's lower belly and setting his cheek to the huge stallion's barrel.

"Ah gotta tell ya." Applejack felt his nature, even in this odd form, biting at him. "Applejack." It felt so good to say his name, to confess it—it hadn't been much of a lie, but giving the false name still felt like one. "Muh name's Applejack."

"Figured. None of the guards who were there when you were put in that would say it, one of the unwritten rules." Bright reached a hoof along AJ's side, pushing armor aside to rub soft white fur.

"Ya don't care?" Applejack was shocked, more than that, startled. "Ya like colts, don't'cha?" He reached up to the other stallion's ear and played with it.

"Yeah, and you are a big one." Bright arched his body, his own rock-hard shaft making itself acquainted with AJ's plot. "You like stallions too, right?" The question seemed a little shocking and fitting, all at once. Applejack nodded. "There we are, this will work great."

AJ was about to ask something, but his brain blanked the moment he saw Bright reaching to a little pot of something on the desk beside the bed. Popping the top off, Applejack knew immediately what this was. "Grease?"

"Kinda." Bright lifted himself up, pulling back. "A little less nasty than regular, but this stuff has its uses." Rubbing one hoof down around Applejack's tail-hole, Bright watched their face intently.

"What… oh…" The meaning sank in, thankfully before any actual "sinking in". "Uh… I never… well… even as a mare…" Applejack took a deep breath. "Ah'm gonna regret not trying. Go ahead, Bright."

"I'll go easy, Body." Bright rubbed the stallion's plot with one hoof, giving a big smear of the grease into his hole with the other. Applejack groaned, surprised at how good it felt to be rubbed there. There was the sound of Bright's hoof getting another dollop of the stuff but this didn't land on AJ.

Then there was something pressing to Applejack's rear, trying to go in somewhere nature only intended to be an exit. Trying to relax, AJ let out a soft groan as Bright had his way with "nature" and the back-door both. Pushing inwards, the hot depths of the other stallion grabbed and gripped at Bright, trying to deny him further egress, but the lube did the job quite perfectly.

AJ wanted to buck, wanted to pull, wanted to be able to do anything but, on his back, he had given the other stallion all the control. When Bright's belly pressed against Applejack, both stallions let out a soft sigh. "Yer gonna start the buckin' now, right?"

"Bucking? Who have you been with?" Bright drew back slowly and then, just as slow, pushed in. "A gentlecolt goes just as fast as is needed." It was taking a boat-load of self control, but Bright lived up to his promise, bringing slow thrusts, driving deep into Applejack only to pull nearly free again.

Applejack was rock hard again, his eyes staring upwards, but something made him dip his head. Looking down, he spotted Bright's gaze, hungry, needy. "Faster now." He saw the other stallion grin and immediately he shifted gear. The thrusts came faster, but they still weren't "bucks". "Darn you, I want you to buck me yer colt!"

The words were the first and last straw in one. Bright started driving hard, letting his strong leg muscles deliver his shaft into AJ, in what both could only describe as a bucking good time. Bright caught the other stallion's eyes again and he beamed in delight. The tightness inside him grew and, before he knew it, Bright was losing control and bucking madly, finally sinking himself deep and unloading.

With heat blossoming in his plot, Applejack trembled in bliss. It wasn't an orgasm, not really, but the sensation that your lover had been repaid for their services already rendered. When the weight of the other stallion flopped on his lower body, AJ reached down gave a little tug at Bright.

"Hold on, Body." Bright drew back a little, pulling himself free before climbing up and onto the crowded bed. He didn't care if AJ was in their armor or not, it was time for some cuddles.

Molly screamed at the scrying mirror. "How dare he! How dare he… my Bodyguard's first orgasm!" Pillows and cushions flew in her magic-fueled rage. "Come here, pet!" Twilight raced over, remembering herself enough to step in beside Molestia's legs and pressing her shoulder gently against her.

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Mac stood easy, normally she would be walking around, pulling or pushing heavy things; but there was a strange weight that being constantly alert had. Halfway through a quiet night, another guard stepped in through the door and touched her with a wing. Mac didn't flinch, she had known the fellow Night Guard was coming before she had even touched the door. "Change in shift?"

"Yeah. It's your first night, but even we wouldn't leave a sister to stand watch all evening." The other mare's voice was warm and Night already whispered to Mac the name of the mare who resided in the armor.

"Thank you." Mac gave a stretch, finding her wings reaching up and out as she did so. Night's influence on her body was a subtle one, just as subtle as her changes on Mac's speech had been. Long Glide. She was the finest flier in the Night Guard. Brave but not strong. She looks like she works on Long's weaknesses. Mac nodded and left the great hall.

There were more bat ponies in the hallway and Mac felt a little lost suddenly. Cave, Soot, Deep, Sharp. The names were not useful to Mac, but an urge in her caused her to wave. "Hi."

"The new mare speaks." The stallion that Night had labeled "Soot" gave her a smile. "Sooty Rose." He held up a shod hoof and Mac lifted her own, clopping the boots together with a slight clang.

"Night." Mac's voice caught a little. Sorry, I thought you would want to keep your own name a secret. "Night Reign." Mac added the full name herself, trying to warm up Night in her head. "Still getting used to all this."

"Oh, you are fine, Night. Every one of us was disoriented at first. Nopony knows why Princess Luna chooses the armor for each of us opposite our real genders… confusing is what it is." Sooty looked down at his own hoof. "Better than the alternative, right?"

"Eeyup." Mac grinned at being able to use his favorite word. Agreement and acceptance all in one, "eeyup" really covered a lot of ground usually, although of late things had been a little different. "Do you all name yourselves after your armor?"

Four sets of slit eyes suddenly focused on Mac. "Deep" was the first to open her snout. "What do you know of it? I… when I put the armor on, I got a sense of a name, felt a little different too." There was a little mumbling of agreement. All of them refocused on Mac again.

"Yours was different?" Sooty stared at Mac, making her think that the stallion could actually see Night within her.

"Uh…" Mac took a deep breath.

"Stop, hold on, we are being horrible. She has been through a lot, and if she knows a little more than us that is great." Sharp smiled at Mac. "Somehow, I get the idea you know my name is Sharp already?"

"Eeyup." Mac replied without hesitation, the tension smashed by the mare named Sharp. "Night Reign… she is inside my armor, since I put it on, she is inside my head. She told me your names… Sooty, your name was just Soot, right?"

Sooty blinked at Mac. "Uh…" He blushed. "I thought it was a little too… stallion. I wanted it a little softer. Sooty sounds nicer."

Mac had been on watch for half the night but felt restless. We could try flying, or go for a run. "I'm going out." She started walking and then realized she had no idea where she was going. I don't know this part of the castle. "Uh, where is 'out'?"

"Down this hall, then left, then straight on to the main gates. We're all off as soon as our shift-change arrives, we could all head out somewhere?" Sooty's eyes gazed around the mares in his presence.

Obvious, but he is a nice stallion. Mac froze at the thought. I like stallions and mares, Mac, sorry. "Eeeeeyup…" Mac's mind couldn't handle normal words, or even Night's words, all he had was his own staples.

"Great!" Sooty smiled widely, unable to help admiring the mare.

"Guess it can't hurt, show the new mare around." Cave gestured down the hall. "And here come our replacements now. Can you fly yet, Night?"

She's talking to you. Night's voice in Mac's head broke her from a daze and she realized that she would have to get used to being addressed like that. "Oh… not really… no, actually." She gave a sigh.

"Then after lunch we could show you the basics, enough to get you in the air." Cave's voice held a hint of something that Mac didn't pick up on. "Well look, it's a perfect mix."

Two stallions and two mares arrived. "About time!" Sooty trotted up to the replacements, giving each a hoof-bump. "Got the new girl to show the ropes to." Mac could clearly see good-natured camaraderie. Ushered along by Cave and Deep, she had no alternative but to follow along with their little group. "Four gorgeous mares to have lunch with? The Night Guard really is heaven!"

"You wish!" Sharp bopped Sooty in the shoulder with a hoof, the pair trading light blows. A shrouded figure was moving up the hall, layered in cloaks and dark clothing. They were also being escorted by two Night Guard.

When the procession had passed, Mac turned to the others. "What was that?" She looked, watching as the stranger left sight. "Was it even a pony?" I know not.

"Got me." Sooty shrugged. "Why don't we go to that new fruit bar?"

Author's Note

Molestia looked up from her television, the closing theme-song for My Little Pony could be heard. "Well, it definitely didn't happen like that. For a start, there is way more tentacles in those pods than the show would lead you to believe." The alicorn squirmed a little in place. "As for the question, Cadance's magic didn't throw them all out. It bound just one of them. I am sure you will see in future chapters of this delightful little story, but conditions in the Crystal Empire are likely very different than how you expect." Molestia lifted a hoof, beckoning a pony over. Immediately, the pony had their snout between the Princess's back legs. "Now, run along, unless you want to call next?"

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