She wasn't in her bed. Fluttershy was chained up in her own living room, settled on her side before the large stove. She gasped; her body was her own again, and for another night the curse had been dealt with. For a few moments, the monster inside her was still awake and sat in the position she herself was thrust to when it had control. It looked through her eyes, it felt with her hooves, and she could hear stray thoughts from it.

"That's new…" Her mind reeled at the memories of the night's activities. A mental image of Midnight flashed up in her head, and the creature she knew of as "Flutterbat" gave a mental snuff against it. There was no anger, and in fact Fluttershy could feel a little affection from her other self. "She is nice to play with. You need to be good for her."

She didn't get any feeling back from Flutterbat, but given how well the night had gone she was excited at the possibility of things being in control. Her memories, like normal, were flashes of sensation. Sight and smell were two big parts of Flutterbat's awareness, and the biggest of them came into sharp clarity.

The chain jerked tight, yanking back on her collar. Fluttershy coughed in sympathy with Flutterbat's memories, but along with the memory was the conclusion that she didn't like the chain being pulled on for any reason.

A sharp smack on her snout. Again Fluttershy reacted, lifting both forehooves up to her nose as the lessons of the night came to her.

Training. This was all training. Flutterbat had been given some lessons by Midnight, and they seemed to work. She could see more things now, Flutterbat's reaction to the stimuli Midnight had given. It was far rougher than Fluttershy herself would ever treat an animal, but Flutterbat was wilder than anything she had dealt with before.

A sound caught Fluttershy's ears and they both swiveled a moment before her head did. Midnight was walking into the house from outside. Little things about the way the other mare walked clued Fluttershy into what she had been doing. "You fed them all?"

Midnight was taken aback by Fluttershy's coherence. "Somepony had to. I didn't think you would be yourself today. Is it just a night thing?" There was a measure of weariness in Midnight, along with the feeling of a job well done.

"Yeah." Fluttershy, even with the mare who was helping her most intimately, was still shy of talking about her other self. "She doesn't like the daytime much, it's too bright for her." Her hoof reached up and gently poked at the lock on the collar. "Could you… um… unlock this for me?"

"It's not chained up or anything. Once she settled down there she was happy to just sleep the night away… and most of the morning." Midnight floated the key, that had been sitting on a table on the other side of the room from Fluttershy, over. Unlocking the collar, Midnight was engulfed in a tight hug.

"Thank you so much." Holding nothing back, Fluttershy wrapped Midnight's neck with forelegs and wings. "I can already feel the difference. You really took her for a walk, and then let her have apples? How did you get her to sto—" Fluttershy's eyes widened. "Oh!"

"Wait!" Midnight pulled back from the not-unwelcome snuggle. "You remember it all?" Her heart sped up, and she almost panicked at the thought that the nice mare remembered all the things she had done to her.

"Yup!" Fluttershy's grin was as wide as ever, and her ears perked forward. "It was perfect! I don't think I would do things quite that way, but it was what Flutterbat needed."

"Flutterbat?" Midnight was confused, and stated as much. "I am so confused about all this. I thought you meant for last night to be a fetish night, and then I found out you really turn into a werebat pony. Then I figured you would be really stupid like that, but she is not dumb at all. Now you tell me you can remember it all?" Slumping to her rear, Midnight sat down firmly on the floor of Fluttershy's living room.

"Please, I don't want to cause a fuss. She was just getting so out of hoof, and I needed somepony to help, and all my friends were bad choices for their own reasons and then you came along and—" Fluttershy's flood of apology came to an end with a hoof pressed to her snout.

"It's alright. As long as you are alright with it, that is." Midnight's hoof moved up and down as Fluttershy nodded. "Good. There is nothing to apologize for then. You are sure this is what you want?" Again her hoof went up and down. "Good."

When Midnight's hoof drew back, Fluttershy was inclined to apologize again. The alicorn's hoof paused in its retreat, and Fluttershy had a moment of panic, but then she simply giggled. "I'll stop apologizing if you relax and don't worry about the things you don't understand. Deal?"

"Deal. You are a lot different from the Fluttershy I knew in the other world." Midnight used her magic to fill a kettle with water and put it on the heat. "Everypony is. This world is like the old one, but everything is brighter, deeper, amazing!"

Fluttershy reached a wing up and rubbed at her neck with it. "You are very different to how I imagined… well…" Fluttershy abandoned her first attempt at describing her thoughts. "When Twilight spoke of what happened during the Friendship Games…"

"Everyone thought I was a monster. Figures." Midnight slumped down to the floor completely and closed her eyes. "I thought I was a monster. I guess I just believed what somepony else told me too much. Turns out I was just a pony." The first gentle touch against her mane sparked memories of their first time playing together, and Midnight tucked her ears back and relaxed.

More comfortable with animals than she ever was with ponies, Fluttershy appreciated that Midnight could inspire the feeling in her that made her just want to pet and hug the bigger mare. Stroking down Midnight's mane, she gave one of her ears a gentle rub.

The kettle's whistle interrupted the moment the pair were enjoying. Midnight's eyes snapped open, and Fluttershy giggled. "I'll get it." Both of them said the words at the same time, but Midnight's magic was quicker.

"Thank you." Fluttershy prepared a tea pot to brew in, and together the pair set about making a nice pot of tea. Fluttershy even lifted down her biscuit tin to set some treats on the tea tray as well. "Now, tonight…" She was almost too on edge to ask, but when she saw Midnight's smile remain firmly planted, she continued. "… I want you to be there when I change. That is the one moment neither of us can remember."

"Really? Interesting." Midnight fetched a biscuit and a cup of tea from the tray. "And I think I would like to see the changes as they happen."

The day was slow, lazy, and relaxed. Both mares consumed tea and biscuits that things just seemed normal to both of them. The sun was soon dipping down, and as it did Fluttershy fetched the heavy collar and chain. "I should put this on now."

"You have some time. I was interested to see how Flutterbat would react without it." Midnight took one look at Fluttershy's stricken expression and immediately relented. "Maybe another time. Okay, let me put it on you." Her magic wrapped around the collar and lifted it from Fluttershy's grip.

Fluttershy's worry and nervousness evaporated as the iron collar closed around her neck. The chain might not be connected to anything, but with Midnight there she felt safe. A loud clack sounded as Midnight worked the lock into the collar. "Thank you."

It wasn't full dark yet, and the moon wasn't out, but Fluttershy could feel Flutterbat prodding and poking. If it had been any other time she would have clamped down on the sensation out of fear, but Midnight Sparkle was with her, and Midnight wouldn't let her hurt anypony.

"Wait, aren't you only supposed to change at night?" Midnight almost stepped back from Fluttershy, but the look the mare shot her locked her in place. She watched as feathers seemed to reform into large, leathery membrane, and the mare's ears lengthened. Her heart beat faster as Fluttershy let out a squeal, and without thinking she reached out and hugged the mare.

With the changes started, Fluttershy blanked out. Midnight wrapping her in a hug was the last thing she felt. Flutterbat took a moment more before she was in control, but when she slid herself in the driver's seat, she was being cuddled. Pressed close to the big dark mare's chest, Flutterbat's instinct was to lash out, to break free. "Eeeee…?" Her squeak was more confused than angry, despite the collar she hadn't had anything to be angry at Midnight about.

Midnight jerked back and looked down at the confused werebat. "Well this is the strangest situation I have been in." Midnight looked at the confused bat for a moment longer and laughed. "And I once nearly ripped two worlds apart. C'mere."

Flutterbat exclaimed in surprise but this time when Midnight hugged her, it felt much more genuine. Just as she opened her mouth to bite the silly pony, magic grabbed her. Forcing her jaws apart, she felt the sticky stuff cover her fangs, then the claws on her thumbs, and finally thick rubber boots on her hooves.

"Still a little bitey." Midnight booped Flutterbat on the nose. "So you will probably be wearing this gear for a while longer." She kissed the restrained batpony on the snout. "It's still light out, and I bet you don't like walking around during that, so why don't you relax there and I will get you dinner?"

Leaving Flutterbat to lurk in the living room, Midnight went to the kitchen and found the treats Fluttershy had told her about that day. Floating the jar to the bench, she opened the top and immediately had an excited bat rush into the kitchen. "You like zap apple jam?"

Wagging her tail rapidly, Flutterbat tried to reach up and past Midnight to get at the jar. A sting of pain blossomed in her nose, and she gave an angry kee if alarm before trying again.

"No!" Midnight smacked Flutterbat's snout again. "Sit!" The word finally seemed to get through and Midnight smiled down at her pet when Flutterbat parked her plot on the floor. "Good girl. Sit!" She floated a glob of the rare apple jam out and floated it down.

Flutterbat held her excitement until the smell of the jam was right before her nose. Snapping forward with her mouth, she tasted an explosion in her mouth that had her kee loudly with excitement. Looking up, she barely remembered to sit back down again before the next glob of the best thing she had ever tasted landed in her mouth.

"You like that, don't you?" reaching out with a hoof, Midnight rubbed just behind one of Flutterbat's ears. For her part, Flutterbat tilted her head back to sniff at the hoof for traces of apple jam, but then become completely distracted by another glob of the stuff floating to her. "Good girl. Sit."

As Fluttershy roused from her second night as Midnight's Flutterbat, she felt the oddest sensations. She was still a batpony, and Flutterbat was still mostly in the driving seat, but her wild side was tired after a full night spent having real fun. Memories stirred easier this time, and Fluttershy could immediately remember the excitement of having zap apple jam, and then chasing a stick for what seemed like forever.

Fluttershy couldn't move on her own yet. In her head, she nuzzled at the wild batpony, and got a sleepy surrender from them. Suddenly she was dropped in a world of enhanced scent and sights. Things seemed alien to her sharper-than-normal eyes. "Mmfmfmfm?"

Yawning, Midnight looked at the batpony curled against her side—nearest of the fire of course. "Up before dawn? Wanted one last snuggle before giving up for the day?" She reached up and gently rubbed at the other mare's ears and head. "You are such a good girl, and a big softy when you realize that being naughty just doesn't fly with me."

The softness surprised Fluttershy not one bit, what did surprise her was still being treated like Flutterbat. Then it hit her: she still looked like Flutterbat, and with the gag/teeth guard in place she couldn't refute the opinion. Though she wanted to explore what being in the body of a batpony meant, Fluttershy couldn't fight the excellent ear rubbing she was getting, and happily melted back against Midnight.

Naughty thoughts came to her, and Fluttershy happily slid down into a submissive mindset. Her brief fling with Pinkie had taught Fluttershy much about herself, and about her tastes. With a happy little whimper, she nuzzled up between Midnight's back legs.

Midnight nearly jumped at the first nuzzle from who she thought was Flutterbat. Not realizing what she was doing, she lifted her back leg and gave Fluttershy better access. A gentle lick along her vulva jerked Midnight's body tense like a bolt of lightning. She froze in place as another lick, and another, and more still started working at her.

It was Midnight's turn to melt as the batpony nuzzled against her, lapping away all of Midnight's resistance. "F-F-Flutter…" She realized what might be the cause of the sudden softness, and grinned. "Am I right? Is that Fluttershy in there?" Her answer was a more firm lick, and a gentle suck on her clitoris. "Y-You don't have to do… do this…" Midnight couldn't win. Leaning in, she pressed her muzzle to Fluttershy's hindquarters and started reciprocating the pleasure.

Though Midnight was larger than her, Fluttershy had scooted down enough that of the two of them it was Midnight who had to bend to reach. Her fangs were safely encased, as were her claws, leaving her free to nibble gently and wrap her big wings around Midnight.

Squirming against each other in shared bliss, Midnight and Fluttershy took turns tipping over the edge into orgasm, and the pair would have remained so if dawn's light didn't stir them, along with the sound of hungry animals.

Fluttershy was panting, nearly exhausted. She twitched her ears at the sounds of a particularly upset bunny—locked outside for probably the first time in his life—giving her a stern talking to through the door. At that moment the touch of the night left her. Her wings transformed back to the feathery, soft masses they were usually, and her ears seemed to shrink to normal as well.

Midnight was asleep. Fluttershy barely managed to disentangle herself from the bigger mare, and pulled a blanket over her. "Thank you." She set a little kiss on Midnight's cheek before prancing outside to face the day.

Author's Note

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