"Okay Vinyl, you are looking into my eyes, you are feeling the thoughts flow from your head." Cheerilee kept her voice even, low. She kept to the script. "Nothing will distract you from my voice. You cannot hear anything but-"

"No, it's not working." Vinyl shook her head. "Nothing has worked, cross that one off the list." She slumped back on the couch and gave a deep sigh. "I give up. It just doesn't get to me, none of it does." She used her magic to poke at her deck, luckily hitting the play for the last stored track.

The beat was slow, rhythmic. Cheerilee had relaxed and listened to her friend start to put it together, but there was only a beat. It reminded her of something and, with the quick wit of any teacher, she put it together. Getting up, she walked over to the deck and glanced at it. She picked up the headphones and walked over to Vinyl. "Put these on, and relax." She leaned down and kissed the top of her snout.

"Huh? Uh… okay, what are you going to do?" Vinyl set the cans on her head and slumped back again with a smile. "There is so many places I could take this beat, Cheery."

"I know where I want to take it. Are you comfortable?" Cheerilee got up on the seat her friend normally sat at, facing the deck. Setting her notes down on an inactive part of the deck, she set it to only output to the headphones and then began from the start. "Vinyl Scratch, you are relaxing, calm. You feel the music sinking into your head, into the deepest parts."

Vinyl closed her eyes nearly immediately, a smile on her lips. The beat was bouncing through her head, hitting all the right places to make her relax and calm. "Oh this is more like-"

"You don't need to talk anymore, only listen. You can't talk, your mouth is relaxed, your tongue feels so very heavy." Cheerilee was ad-libbing, but felt it was needed. "Just listen to the beat, listen to my voice. The beat. My voice." She looked at her friend intently, noticed the unicorn looked completely relaxed.

"You will obey me only because you want to obey me. If you don't want to obey me, you won't." Cheerilee was very careful with this bit, Maud had helped her with it. "If you think anypony is in danger, or if you are in danger, you will no longer obey me."

Vinyl could hear the words clear as day, they flitted through her head and soaked in, riding on the smooth beat. This is pretty cool. I get it now, I really can just stop and leave it all. No wonder the others don't mind this. She knew what was coming next, they had agonized—together—over every single word.

"If you want to slow down, relax, you can say the word 'Breezietale' and until you want to obey me again, you will not have to. If I say the word 'Featherbrain,' you will not have to obey me until you want to again." Cheerilee watched Vinyl's lips curl up in a smile and she too couldn't stop grinning, happy to simply be able to help her friend. "While within your house, and until tomorrow morning, you will only think of yourself as male, you will think in all ways as if you are a stallion."

She knew it was the first step, the one they had talked about so much, and Vinyl had agreed with it when they planned it, but now it was entirely different. He was going to think he was a stallion in every way. Oh buck... Vinyl's eyes opened, he tried to talk, he looked up at Cheerilee and tried to speak, but his whole mouth felt numb.

"When the beat ends, you will be affected by everything I have told you, except your mouth and tongue are yours again." Cheerilee saw the manic smile on her friend's face and then hit the pause button.

"Bucking Tartarus!" Vinyl shot up, throwing the headphones off. "This… this is working. How is this working? I feel… I feel like…" He stopped and looked to Cheerilee. "I don't actually feel that different, but there is… there is a lot of confidence. I feel like I could strut around town and ignore everypony!"

"Uh, don't do that." Cheerilee climbed down from the mix deck. "So, music was the key." She strode up and felt Vinyl immediately push up against her, the unicorn's snout pushing into her mane to inhale deeply. Oh wow...

"Yeah, I know the wording. I mean, I know it is all these words, all this stuff is… I know what it is and where it is, but it works. I can say Breezietale and-" Vinyl froze, realizing how she was acting and talking. She shook her head and grinned. "Okay, that was odd. How do other stallions have all this… this confidence?"

They don't you ninny, why do you think I am so head over hooves for you? "You would have to ask one. Are you sure you are okay with this, Vinyl?" Cheerilee lay back on the couch, beside where Vinyl's indent was.

"Yeah, this is… okay, it isn't exactly how I thought I would feel, but it isn't like anything bad can happen. I owe Maud an apology… and a 'thank you.' " Vinyl turned and, unceremoniously, flopped beside Cheerilee and put a foreleg around behind the mare's back. "I was hesitant, you know."

"Hesitant about what?" Cheerilee snuggled in against Vinyl, her body fitting perfectly, her head leaning into the curve of her neck.

"About letting you get closer. You are a mare… oh boy you are a mare." Vinyl did what he thought was both expected and felt right. He kissed Cheerilee quickly on the lips. "The cutest one I know, and smartest."

"Pfft," Cheerilee tried to blow the compliment off, "you have done stuff for Princess Twilight, she knew you by name. How can I be-" Her words were cut off, a pair of soft and hungry white lips were pressed to her own.

Vinyl's heart beat fast as a drum, but he didn't care what happened, he wanted to make sure his compliment wasn't ignored. Closing his eyes he pressed a little harder, heard Cheerilee make a hungry little noise and squirm.

When the unicorn's tongue invaded her mouth, Cheerilee's eyes widened, but then Vinyl broke the kiss from her. "What… wow…" She gazed up at the very different pony. "I… I… what was I saying…?" She giggled when a hoof booped her snout.

"There you go. So, I was scared that this brilliant and adorable mare—who had very openly told me she wasn't into other mares, who I liked a lot to boot—became all I could think about. I love you Cheerilee, at first it was just like the closest of friends, like Tavi. But then…" Vinyl gave a sigh.

Cheerilee had to push to get the height she needed, but she nuzzled the underside of Vinyl's muzzle. "But then what? You gave in and let her love you back?"

Vinyl nearly snapped her head down so fast that it knocked Cheerilee away, if he weren't holding her against him it might have. "But you said-"

"I can't be a little confused too?" Cheerilee challenged Vinyl. "You aren't the only pony with hangups, with issues. But we are working on yours first, okay?"

"You mean… okay, that is more than I can really think about right now." Vinyl reached out with his magic and flipped the deck to random and turned the speakers back up. "There we go. Now, what do we do next?"

"Next? You want to keep doing this? I think Maud said to only do it for a week before talking to her again." Cheerilee squirmed a little in Vinyl's grip, her tail flicking a few times, to the beat.

"No, I meant today. It's only noon, we have a whole afternoon ahead of us. I am so not ready to think about the future right now, Maud… she seemed to know what she was talking about, so I am going to step out on a bit of a limb here and say I will trust her to know what to do. Besides, it isn't like we have to do anything." Vinyl felt one of Cheerilee's hooves reach over his thigh and stroke down lower. Something felt a little odd, like there should be something there, that wasn't.

"Too fast?" Cheerilee didn't pull her hoof back, but she stopped advancing on Vinyl's vulva.

"No, just… you told me I think I am a stallion. Where you rubbed… I feel like there should be something there." Vinyl reached his own hoof down and touched the spot, squirming a little. A hoof smacked his own.

"Stop that, okay, so the next little step, if you want to feel something there. Ponies can have a prosthetic for this, naughty ponies." Cheerilee slipped out from under Vinyl's foreleg with a little effort, realizing that she only got away because Vinyl relaxed. Reaching to her saddlebags she had dropped on the floor, she pulled out just the toy she had talked about.

"A strap-on? Huh," Vinyl thought about it a moment, "that might work. Can you put it on me?" He shifted and rolled, bracing his back hooves to lift him up, forelegs pressed to the couch still. Vinyl knew he was presenting, but he was presenting to Cheerilee, which made it all kinds of alright to him.

Cheerilee lifted the toy up between Vinyl's back legs, aided by the DJ having a much shorter tail. Holding it in place with one hoof, she pulled the first strap down and between the pristine, white back legs and around Vinyl's quarters.

Vinyl's breathing was a little faster, he felt a touch uncomfortable with the "thing" down under him. A pair of clicks sounded and he felt two straps tighten. "That… that it?"

Thinking a moment, Cheerilee smirked. "Vinny, you are seriously telling me, in all your escapades, you have never worn a strap-on before?" She felt Vinyl's body shiver at the masculine name. Slipping forward, sliding up beside Vinyl, she leaned up and nipped the unicorn's neck. "Well, Vinny?"

"Vinny… okay, I like that." Vinyl turned and nipped at Cheerilee, giving the mare a nibble on the ear. "But now it's on me, what are we going to do?" He wasn't really sure still what he wanted, apart from Cheerilee.

"Well, let's sit back down and see how that feels to you." Cheerilee leaned back and sat, watching as Vinyl did too, she noticed her look down between her back legs. "Don't like the color? We can get more… fleshy, ones."

Vinyl reached and stroked the thing, it felt like rubber of some kind, but just the fact it was there and jutted out, how his brain told him something should, strangely helped. "Okay, you got me, this isn't bad."

"Good." Cheerilee wanted to do this for a while, but without a stallion-friend it was a little beyond her. She leaned sideways and angled her head down.

"What… what are-" Vinyl choked off his words, watching as Cheerilee sank down against his belly, kissing and licking the toy. Without realizing it, Vinyl set a hoof to the back of Cheerilee's neck, stroking under her mane. There is just something… something empowering with this. Vinyl froze when a hoof strayed down, stroking his folds. It felt a little alien and all so right at the same time. He groaned appreciatively.

Cheerilee bobbed her head up and down, feeling Vinyl's hoof helping to guide her as she sucked and worked at the toy. All the while, she explored Vinyl's soft folds, she worked her frog to find the spots that made her tense up, and the spots that made Vinyl's hoof tremble a little. The deep groan started above her, she heard and felt it vibrate through Vinyl's diaphragm.

Vinyl rocked his head back against the couch, grunting loudly and bucking his hips to shove his shaft deep into Cheerilee's mouth. He felt on fire, pleasure radiating from his groin in waves that had him grinding his hips upwards again and again.

Except for the taste and feel of rubber it was absolutely perfect. And as far as imperfections go, it ain't big. She stroked her hoof along Vinyl's entrance still, feeling moisture soak her fur, and didn't care one wit about it. But she wanted more, she realized she wanted Vinyl on her back, inside her. Her own mind grew too aroused to even register that it wouldn't be Vinyl in her, she just wanted her… him.

"Buck…" Vinyl let up the pressure, but drew Cheerilee's head up and kissed her soundly. "More?" He felt the insistence in his voice, in his intentions. He nuzzled Cheerilee's lips and snout with his own, giving her little kisses that she returned eagerly. Guiding a hoof down her body, Vinyl stroked down her lower belly and rubbed a slow figure-eight around her teats. "More now?"

Cheerilee could only nod, kissing and making little sounds of agreement. She finally got her voice under control and nodded. "Yes, yes more." The hoof rubbing her arousal higher by the second descended more and she cried out as it slipped along her vulva. "More please…"

Vinyl's horn lit and he lifted Cheerilee up, held her cradled on her back before him. He got to his hooves and strode through to his bedroom, snouting and nuzzling the mare constantly.

When she dropped to the bed, Cheerilee felt the urge to roll to her belly, to give Vinyl her back. Like a good mare would for her stallion. But Vinyl was having none of it. Pinning her in place with her forehooves, she felt the unicorn's belly press to her own.

He shoved forward, Vinyl thought he had been lined up right, but he was a bit off. "Don't you dare laugh, not a peep. This is my first time." He had another shot and once more missed.

Cheerilee barely got the first part of a snort of laughter out before she felt the thick dildo shove into her. Wet from plenty of arousal, and foreplay, she just groaned and stared up at Vinyl, at the outline of her head and mane. "Buck me…" He is a stallion… The part of her that just wanted to curl up with a male and have foals, a white picket fence, all that—it purred.

The toy wasn't real, but it was real enough to the mare under Vinyl, and real enough to him to make each thrust mean something. He drove forwards, drew back, drove forwards, pulled back. He built a rhythm just like when working his deck. He heard Cheerilee's voice raise in pitch, timed his thrusts to make her cry out at just the right times.

Rocking against the stallion that Cheerilee now couldn't deny Vinyl was acting like, she felt him change his angle, again and again. He is playing me… he is making music with us… The revelation only enhanced Cheerilee's pleasure, her satisfaction in the moment. She felt the beat increase steadily, felt the thick toy claim her body's depths over and over and, when her being trembled around that single point of interaction, she let out the loudest cry yet, and was silenced by a kiss.

Vinyl didn't climax, he… she, didn't feel that hot rush, the strike of lightning as his… her, body unleashed everything into his… her mare. "Oh Celestia bucking Luna under a cloudy sky…" She slumped down against Cheerilee, the hypnosis gone from her brain.

The two mares lay together, each feeling each other's heartbeat, breathing, and twitches. But they were a little too precariously close to the edge of the bed.

"We gotta move up a bit, or we will fall off." Vinyl nuzzled and kissed at Cheerilee's snout. "I don't know if I can keep us together, even using my magic."

"Shh." Cheerilee returned the affection. "If we fall, we fall. But we will fall together." Just as she said it she felt their combined weight start to shift. "Oh horse-apples. Okay, but I want more cuddles."

"Cheery, I got all the cuddles you need. That was fantastic, I… I dropped the hypnosis, we can try it again tomorrow." Vinyl leaned up and started to pull back. Easing slowly, she drew the big toy from Cheerilee and tried to fumble at the straps. "Ah buck it. Scoot up." She climbed back up onto the bed, following Cheerilee and eventually landing beside her.

As Cheerilee cuddled against Vinyl, she felt the rubber toy between them. "Keeping it on?" The unicorn nodded to her, giving a little grunt. "Well, while it is there and all, maybe we could do some more things?"

Vinyl's eyes widened, she felt a devilish tingle of pleasure sprint down her spine and back up. "Hey, can't a stallion have a little cool-down?"

"Oh, I guess." Cheerilee leaned in and nuzzled her way into the short-cut mane of Vinyl's. "So how was it?"

"It was… it was pretty neat, I don't think it is me." Vinyl sighed and leaned her head up a bit, giving Cheerilee more neck to work with. "Don't get me wrong, you were amazing, that… that sex, it was all amazing, but I don't think I want to feel quite like that. Too 'stallion,' if you catch my beat."

"So something in the middle?" Cheerilee's snout worked full-time now, ruffling through the blue forest, rubbing her cheek against Vinyl's neck constantly.

"Something in the middle. I definitely want to talk to Maud." Vinyl shivered at Cheerilee's efforts, pulling closer to the other mare. "The feel of the toy was neat, but I am a mare, I like being a mare… some of a mare. Life is complicated."

Author's Note

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