It was midmorning when the ponies began to tread into Sugarcube Corner, with a small private party set up for the nation's heros.

It was also where Rainbow Blitz, walking in with Elusive, paused, looked at a yellow earth pony for five seconds and fell over in laughter, holding his sides as he rolled on the floor. Elusive simply snickered, shaking his heads as the Earth pony in question sighed heavily.

“Yeah yeah, laugh it up,” Applejack grumbled holding her hat over her face. “Zicoro ain’t home and there ain’t any potion to turn me back ta normal.”

“Well, I can say this, AJ,” Blitz said through his chuckling. “I’m never letting you forget this!”

“Yer a real dick,” Applejack growled.

“At least I still have one,” Blitz grinned, ducking the tossed donut from a furious Apple.

“And that, Flare, is Rainbow Blitz in almost a perfect nutshell,” Dusk Shine said, gesturing from an orange pegasus to Rainbow Blitz wedging himself in next to Butterscotch who was sitting next to Bubble Berry. On the opposite side was this Flare, followed by Dusk Shine and then the female Applejack.

“Hey, I’m not all dick jokes,” Blitz said as Elusive pushed him even closer to the yellow pegasus.

“Yes, he has a fantastic tongue too, wonderful wings and makes the cutest sounds if you squeeze him like this,” Elusive leaned over and hugged Blitz’s sides under his wings. Blitz squeaked, face reddening as everypony started to laugh.

“Well,” Dusk said as he began to process what Elusive said. “That was more information than I ever wanted to learn about you Blitz.” He then tilted his head towards the pegasus. “This is Flare Warden, by the way. She’s-”

“The pony version of that girl from the other side of that mirror in your castle?” Blitz asked through a full mouth of his morning snack.

“The what version of who that lives in a mirror in your castle, Prince Dusk Shine?” Flare Warden hissed, glaring at the alicorn next to her.

“Blitz!”

“My, I can see it, in how you described her hair and face to us before,” Elusive said, tilting his head.

Flare Warden narrowed her eyes with Dusk now looking at the unicorn. “Elusive!”

“Although she doesn’t smell like you said she did,” Butterscotch said softly, blushing.

Flare tapped the table and leaned into look at Dusk. “You know what this other me smells like, Prince Dusk Shine of Friendship?”

“Butterscotch!”

“An’ she has them curves ya’ll rambled about,” Applejack said, looking at the pegasus as she reached for a breakfast muffin.

“You talked to your friends about how my body looks?” Flare seemed to be pushing Dusk backwards, her ears sharp in agitation while Dusk's were folded back in fear.

“Applejack!”

“And I’m Bubble Berry, and he has this biiiiiiig list about all the things he learned about her in his secret drawer in his bedroom,” the pink pony giggled with Flare Warden tensing up before grabbing the alicorn by the neck and pulled his head close to hers.

“You will explain this to me and we will have a talk about this later, understand?” she spoke sharply, waiting for the the alicorn to nod in affirmation before letting go.

“Bubble Berry,” Dusk glared at his friend. “WHY‽”

“Because I knew you would try to hide the list and I would only get in massive trouble with her later on so I decided to help you out now by telling her about the list before any hijinks happen,” the pink pony said while nomming some cupcakes.

“I thank you for that, mister Berry,” Flare Warden nodded her head while reaching for a pastry.

“Oh please call me Bubble Berry, any friend of Dusky is a friend of mine and I love to make new friends although I doubt I can be the same type of friend you are with Dusky as you two are sleeping with each other and I know that Dusky is straighter than an arrow.”

“Wait, a second, Dusk had sex‽” Blitz shouted, causing everypony to look at them with Elusive grabbing Blitz’s ear and tugging it down.

“Decorum!” Elusive hissed as Dusk and Flare blushed horribly with Applejack facehoofing and Bubble giggling the entire time. “We don’t shout those things out loud as it is very improper!”

“Geeze, I made a mistake, okay?” Blitz grumbled, rubbing his ear.

“But in any case, may I introduce myself properly,” Elusive leaned over the table to shake her hoof while smacking the back of Blitz’s head. “I am Elusive Belle, proud owner of the Carousel Boutique and it is a pleasure to meet the mare that has captured our dear friend’s attention so thoroughly.”

“Likewise Elusive,” she said, shaking the hoof.

“I’m Rainbow McDanger Blitz, Wonderbolt extraordinaire and capable of creating a sonic rainboom,” the blue pony boasted, puffing his chest out. “No doubt you’ve heard of me, right?”

“Yes and beyond being of the Bearers of Harmony and being briefed on each of you, everypony remembers how you acted in that Grand Galloping Gala,” she said watching Blitz deflate. “Further to the point, you’ve been in only one Wonderbolt show so far and that was as a backup flier.”

“...shutup…” Blitz muttered under his breath, pouting with his hooves crossing his chest.

Snickering at her friend, Applejack tipped her hat towards the pegasus. “Well, Ah already introduced mahself, but Ah’ll do it again.” She pushed Dusk’s head towards the table and reached over his back to shake the mare’s hoof. “Ah ain’t normally a mare but Ah got hit by some Poison Joke and Ah’m stuck like this until Zicoro the zebra gets home or a certain somepony’s marefriend helps me out!”

“You raaaaaaang,” Eris cooed out from above them before stretching out the space so the draconequus could be sitting next to Butterscotch. “Nice to see you again, Flare and by the way, catch.”

Eris tossed a golden object that Flare caught in her hoof. Her eyes went wide before stuffing it into a pocket in her armour.

“Thank you so much Eris,” Flare Warden said gratefully, beaming at the draconequus who was drinking in some ceramic and tossing away the morning tea.

“Eh, least I could do. We both enjoyed it, right Butters?” she asked, pulling the pegasus closer with her tail.

“Yes,” he said softly, blushing as he looked away from Flare Warden.

“So what do you want, AJ?” Eris asked as she fixed the stetson hat now on her head, the farmer pulling back in surprise at the lack of her hat.

“Turn me back into a stallion, if y’all don’t mind,” Applejack said, shaking her long mane out of her face.

“Sure thing,” Eris said as she absently rubbed against Butterscotch. “Just promise me one favour, okay?”

“Deal,” Applejack said with a determined look on her face. With that, Eris snapped her fingers and Applejack was Applejack again, with a bulge in his throat.

Applejack was smiling broadly when Eris held up a blue flower in his face. “Time to collect my favour, Applejack,” she grinned as she blew the powder from the Poison Joke into his face. Coughing, Applejack waved a hoof only to realize that something was missing again.

“REALLY‽” she shouted, slamming her hooves into the table.

Eris simply laughed before vanishing with the stetson rolling onto the table and falling onto the mare’s lap. With a loud snort, Applejack put her hat back on with Blitz snickering at his post.

“So…” Elusive tapped the table. “What do we call you for the time being?”

“Applejack, silly. That’s Applejack’s mare name,” Bubble Berry said with a smile on his face with everypony staring at him.

Elusive sighed, shaking his head. “I know I will regret asking this, but can you please explain yourself? What do you mean by mare name?”

“I know that if Applejack were suddenly a mare, she would be called Applejack while you would be called Rarity, and you would be called Rainbow Dash, Butters will be Fluttershy, Dusky would be Twilight Sparkle, Flarey would be Flash Sentry and I’d be Pinkie Pie.”

Dusk Shine tapped the table before letting out a tiny sigh. “While Twilight Sparkle actually feels perfect and I am going to guess everypony here feels the same,” he received nods from his friends save for Berry who was busy eating more cupcakes. “How did you know that?”

“I had to make sure I had parties ready for any eventuality, including alternative versions of ourselves visiting,” Bubble Berry said it as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

“I truly despise the fact that that makes perfect sense,” Elusive said sighing into his hoof.

“Have you yet to throw a party for another version of you?” Flare asked, causing five of the ponies around her to shudder in fear of another Bubble Berry with Bubble Berry grinning at the prospect of a double Berry Party.

“Not yet, I am hoping to one day to be allowed to visit the human world so I can meet my double!”

“So....” Dusk said, changing the topic. “What are everypony’s plans for today?”

Blitz perked his head up, saying “I’m going to do some practic-”

“Nope, we’re going to the spa,” Elusive said with a smirk on his face.

“But, but, but-”

"I know you have a butt," Elusive said with his smirk growing. "And quite the nice one too."

"ELUSIVE!"

"That's not getting you out of our bet, though. I won it, and so you are spending the day at the spa with me." The white unicorn's smirk grew. "Or are you trying to break your promise?"

Blitz sighed and facehoofed. "No, I'm not."

"Good."

“Speaking of dragging winged ponies to places,” Flare turned her head to look at Dusk. “We are going to this human world and we are going to see this other me.”

“But I thought you wanted to a flyover and get a lay of the town,” Dusk said, gulping.

“That was until I learned that you were preening over a different me,” Flare said, poking his chest with a hoof.

“I’m never going to live that down, am I?” Dusk groaned, head pressed against the table.

“Nope,” Flare said as she rubbed his head. “I will never, ever, let you let live this down.”

“So…” Dusk said, still faceplanting against the table. “What about the rest you guys?”

“Ah going to do some work on the farm. Just because Ah’m a mare don’t mean Ah can’t do my chores,” Applejack said, placing her hoof on the table before letting out a sigh. “Gramps won’t let me.”

“But I guess you don’t have to do all the heavy stuff,” Blitz said, shoveling some more food down his mouth.

“Excuse me partner?” Applejack glared at her friend with Butterscotch meeping and hiding behind his mane.

“Well, you’re a mare right now,” Blitz said, waving a hoof around.

“And what does that mean?” Flare Warden said icely towards the now panicking Blitz.

“I-I-I,” Blitz began to stammer. “No no, I mean that you’re not a stallion anymore and you’re used to having a stallion’s strength-”

“Are you callin’ me weak just ‘cause I’m a mare?” Applejack glared at him. “‘Cause if you are, I can whup your tail any day I want, mare or not!”

“Likewise, and unlike the ‘bolts, I am trained to deal with troublesome ponies,” Flare Warden said with a glare of her own.

“Excuse me, I do believe Blitz was just making a harmless comment there and I do know for a fact that ‘whupping’ his flanks may not get you the results you desire.”

“ELUSIVE!” Blitz shouted, blushing across his entire face, slouching in his seat.

“Sorry, sorry, that was completely improper of me to share,” Elusive said with his own blush, looking very guilty.

Applejack looked at the two, from Blitz to Elusive and then back to the pegasus before her eyes went wide. “Really‽” she shouted. “All those times Ah yanked ya snoozing plot down from mah trees, all the times Ah pulled your tail, it was just a ploy for you to get your kicks‽”

“What, nonononoNO,” Blitz began to shake his head. “I mean, yeah I did like it but I swear, it was stuff that... happened.”

Applejack started at her friend before letting out an annoyed grunt. “Ah know you ain’t lying, but… seriously? Why by Solaris’s beard did ya never say anything?”

“I feel I am missing something here, what am I missing?” Dusk asked, looking around the table.

“From what I can gather, your friend Blitz likes to be victim of rough sex and gets off on being abused,” Flare Warden said, causing Dusk to blush as he once again learned too much about his friends.

“Actually, I’m into bondage and being the sub,” Blitz piped up. “All that heavy stuff is a bit offputting and I can’t really get into now as I am a ‘bolt.”

“Understandable; we Guards can’t really let our personal private lives leak over and it would be very awkward to explain that the bruise you have is not due to work but some private fun time with your special somepony,” Flare said, smiling at the other pegasus. “Trust me, nopony wants to go through the classes of what is okay and what is not okay more than once.”

“Tell me about it,” Blitz said with a huff. “If I have to attend one more It’s not okay to bang your coworker seminar because Raindasher can’t stop bragging, I’ll scream.”

Flare giggled, shaking her head. “Artemis’s bat ponies are normally good but quite a number of them have got a talking-to due to them swapping stories about their wing fetishes,” she said with a roll of her eyes. “Moon Dancer, for example; stellar mare and guard but flash a wing at her and-”

“We know,” Blitz and Elusive said in unison, both smirking.

“Ooo, do I need to make a party for her too?” Bubble Berry asked with a wide grin on his face.

“No, she said she had to go back to Canterlot after we finished up in the showers,” Blitz said before turning to face Elusive. “How did we fit three ponies in your shower, anyways?”

“I am quite frankly at a loss myself but I am not complaining,” Elusive said with a smirk reaching his eyes.

“Me neither buddy,” Blitz said with big grin on his face. “And what did I tell you about bat ponies?”

“Oh yes, I swear while your tongue is simply amazing, what her tongue can do,” Elusive began to fan himself, a blush across his nose.

“Yeah,” Flare cooed. “Prehensile tongues are the best.”

“Eeeyup,” Applejack said, grinning to herself with everypony looking at her. “What? Ah had a tumble with some bat pony farmers in the past.”

“I think I know what you are talking about, but I’m kinda nervous to say it as Blitz would tease me,” Dusk said.

“Dude, I’d…” Blitz paused and tilted his head, ears flicking as he thought. “Eh, actually, yeah, I’d tease you for not knowing what a blowjob is.”

“I know what a blowjob is, I am not that inept,” Dusk hissed, cheeks red.

“Well, it’s my job to teach you, so I might need to do a review with you later, Dusk,” Flare said with a husky tone, with Dusk opening his mouth and raising a hoof before his eyes opened up. Closing his mouth and lowering his hoof, he nodded his head with Blitz smiling with pride. “Good, you passed your first test; understanding double meaning,” she said with a chirp, booping his nose. “You get a blanket for when you sleep on the couch tonight.”

“But wait, it’s my cast-”

“Dude, you’re sleepin on the couch,” Blitz said.

“But we’re not sharing a be-”

“You are sleeping on the couch,” Elusive said.

“But-”

“You’re sleeping on the couch partner,” Applejack said.

“Bu-”

“Trust us, Dusk, you are sleeping alone on the couch,” Butterscotch said.

Dusk opened his mouth to protest again when Bubble Berry leaned across the table. “Do I need to throw a you-are-sleeping-on-the-couch party for you?”

Dusk let out a tiny sigh, hanging his head. “I’m sleeping on the couch tonight.”

“Good colt,” Flare patted his head before turning to face Butterscotch and Bubble Berry. “We all know what Dusk and I are doing, but what about you two?”

“I’ve got to tend to my animals,” Butterscotch said with a weak smile.

“I’ve got so many parties to plan for-wait, is throwing a party about bondage in bad taste?” Bubble Berry tapped his chin with everypony doing a spit take.

“I would say so, dear,” Mrs. Cake said, surprising all the youths. “Also, while I do not mind you all having such a healthy sex life, I would kindly ask you all to keep it down as this is a family diner and I would very much like it if my children’s first words were not penis, bondage or the like.”

“Yes ma’am,” they chorused in unison before beginning to depart.

Author's Note

Welp it begins again and this time, you get to have a say!

Well, in deciding who goes first.

Will it be Applejack at the farm, Rainbow Blitz and Elusive at the spa or Dusk Shine and Flare Warden at the human world?

http://www.strawpoll.me/12601449

YOU TELL ME!