About a month after she joined CHS, Twilight invited Sunset and myself over to her house.

When we arrived, she met us at the door and after saying hello, grabbed our hands and dragged us to the garage, with the pair of us giving a quick greeting to her parents as we were pulled through the kitchen, where we found weight equipment and a heavy duty treadmill.

“So what is all this?” Sunset asked.

“I was curious about how Talisman was saying she was enhanced. It was obvious during the fight when you jumped nearly twenty meters up to me. I want to gauge how much you are enhanced.” She said to me.

Sunset and I shared a grin. We had neglected to tell Twilight that I had started out male, and we currently had a bet on how long it would take for her to figure it out.

But with me currently having breasts that were quickly approaching D-cups, it might take awhile. I honestly wish the damn things would stop growing. They make it hard for me to run and practice my hand to hand forms.

“Sure.” I said with a shrug. “At least you asked me to wear gym clothes.” I added. “What do you want to test first?”

She motioned to the treadmill. “Cardio and respiration first.” She said as she held up a heart monitor band.

I lifted my compression top and put the strap on and climbed onto the treadmill as I pulled the top down. I helped Twilight put the respiration mask on me and made sure that the hoses were out of my way.

She moved over to a computer and started the treadmill.

Over the next twenty minutes, the speed and incline of the treadmill increased to the maximum for the machine, nearly fifty kilometers per hour and a twenty five degree incline. After another ten minutes at that pace, I was just starting to get winded and Twilight was getting annoyed.

“Okay” She said as she set the machine to slowly cool me down and stop. “That means that you are definitely in a class of your own when it comes to stamina.”

I still had the tube in my mouth, so I just looked at the pair and waggled my eyebrows, causing Twilight to blush and Sunset to laugh.

“That is not what I meant!” She said as the machine stopped.

Unhooking myself, I stretched out.

“That was fun. What next?” I asked, making Twilight grumble cutely.

“Now we test your raw strength. Take off your shirt so I can attach these sensors to you.” She said holding up several small devices.

I looked at her before pulling my top off and resituating my two sports bras.

“How much is your allowance to afford all this stuff?” I asked.

“She gets a pretty good one.” A male voice replied

We turned and saw a white skinned and blue haired male standing in the doorway.

“Hey Twily. Who is this?” He asked.

“Oh, this is Sunset Shimmer and Talisman Stryke. My new friends from Canterlot High. Talisman, Sunset, this is my older brother Shining Armor.” Twilight said, introducing us.

Shaking his hand, I asked Shining, “So rescued any princesses lately?”

He frowned. “Do you have any idea how many time I have heard that joke?”

“Probably for the rest of your life?” I replied as we moved to the weight bench.

“Okay Twi, how much weight do you want me to start with?” I asked after she had secured the sensors.

“Start with seventy kilograms.” She replied.

“On top of the bar weight right?” I clarified.

“Yes.” She replied as she moved to her computer.

I loaded the weights on the bar and turned to Shining. “Spot me?”

He nodded and moved behind the bench.

Laying down, I got a good grip on the bar and started pumping out reps, slow and easy.

“How is that?” Twilight asked as she monitored the sensor feeds.

“Pretty light actually.” I replied, feeling no strain.

“Okay, stop and increase the weight to one hundred kilograms.” She said, jotting down notes.

Shining and I quickly added the weight and I began again. After another twenty reps, I was still feeling no strain, so Twilight had me up the weight to one hundred twenty five kilos.

The process continued until I got to three hundred kilos, at that point, I started to notice the weight.

“How is that?” Twilight asked.

“Feeling it now.” I replied as I maintained my pace and form.

She had me bump the weight another fifty kilos.

Now I was actually struggling, and Shining had a look of disbelief on his face as I finished another set of twenty reps.

“Okay. I think that is it for the weights.” I said, a slight tremor in my arms.

“How were you able to bench press three fifty like that? I can barely manage two hundred right now.” Shining said.

I looked at him, smirked and winked say, “Get good.”

Shining huffed and blushed.

“Don’t feel bad. I have been enhanced to be stronger and faster. But I still have limits.” I said with a genuine smile.

“Okay, so you have a serious strength advantage when it comes to raw weight you can lift. Now I want to see how much force you can put behind a punch. Strike this force plate please.” Twilight said, gesturing to a flat black plate with wires running from it.

I went to my bag and got my hand wraps and grappling gloves out. After putting them on, I went up to the plate.

“Full force?” I asked

“As hard as you can hit.” Twilight said in a no nonsense tone.

I looked at the plate and the wooden pillar it was attached to.

I turned to Sunset. “Get ready to call a contractor.”

“Why a contractor?” Shining asked quizzically as I snapped around and delivered a full force blow.

The pillar shattered and the plate became lodged in the far wall, bent from the impact.

The dust settled, and all of us were surprised.

“Right. Always pull my punches.” I said in a hollow voice. If that had been a human, they would be leaving in a body bag.

“That plate had a maximum of nearly nine thousand newtons. You went off the scale before it was destroyed.” Twilight said. “It was over nine thousand.” She added in awe.

I couldn’t help myself, I hit the ground laughing.

The others stared at me as I rolled around.

“Whoo, I needed that.” I said, brushing myself off and stood up.

“What was so funny?” Twilight asked.

“Just an old show I used to watch.” I replied. Though I am glad that some anime didn’t exist here. The ‘IT’S OVER 9000!’ gag was old when the memes started.

The others shrugged as Twilight and Shining’s parents came out into the garage.

“What happened here?” Their mom demanded.

“Just doing some testing. It appears that my strength was a bit too much for the pillar. But I will have a contractor here to make an estimate and I will foot the bill for the repairs.” I said, forestalling any lying on Twilight’s behalf.

Girl has a worse bluff than Applejack and that is saying something.

“Oh, well thank you very much. You are quite the responsible young woman. I’m Twilight Velvet and this is my husband Night Light.” She said.

“Pleasure to meet ya ma’am. I’m Talisman Stryke and the redhead over there who is most likely checking out my backside is Sunset Shimmer.” I said before looking over my shoulder to see Sunset looking off to the side with a blush. “Don’t worry love, you can look.” I told her.

Velvet laughed. “You two are dating I take it?” She asked.

I nodded. “Since Christmas.”

“Would you two like something to drink?” She asked as Night Light inspected the damage.

“What did this?” He asked as he pulled the deformed plate out of the drywall.

“I punched it.” I replied to him before turning to Velvet. “Something to drink would be lovely. Also, could I trouble you to use your shower? I got a bit of a workout today.” I inquired.

“Certainly. Right this way.” Velvet said motioning for me to follow.

After showering, I joined Sunset and Twilight in Twilight’s room.

“So basically you are at least three times as strong as a normal human.” Twilight said in summary of her very long winded explanation of the results.

“So basically, watch my strength when I am doing things.” I replied as I brushed my hair.

“Yes. I’m not sure how to even begin to test you magical potential though.” Twilight replied.

“Well,” I started as I began to juggle balls of ice that I formed. “We can always find a lake or canyon that hardly anyone goes to. Though that is only going to be good for some of my spells. I’m not doing any summons unless the situation requires them.” I finished.

“You have summons?” Twilight asked, her eyes wide

“Yup. Choco/Mog, Shiva, Ifrit, Ramuh, Titan, Odin, Leviathan, Bahamut, Kujata, Alexander, Phoenix, Hades, Typhon, Neo Bahamut, Bahamut Zero, Knights of the Round, and then a Master Summon.” I said. “The Bahamuts and Knights of the Round are the most powerful ones.” I explained.

Sunset and Twilight then began talking about how my magic compared to Equestrian magic. I looked around the room at Twilight’s many bookshelves. There were a lot of advanced books on physics, chemistry, math, computers, and electronics on most of the shelves. There was however a decently sized collection of manga on the shelves with her fiction books.

“Hey Twilight. Mind if I browse through your manga?” I asked.

“Sure. Though most of it is not translated.” She replied.

“That’s fine. I might be a bit rusty, but I know how to read kanji.” I replied.

I had learned how to read and speak Japanese when I was stationed in Japan for six years since I didn’t want to be one of those foreigners. I had actually gotten pretty fluent at it, not up to the level of a native speaker, but enough to be able to hold a decent conversation that didn’t take forever as I stumbled over the words.

Browsing through the titles, I pulled out a couple and read the first few pages and put them back since they didn’t catch my interest. Then I pulled out one particular one that did catch my interest, but more for the content than anything else.

“Oooh myyy.” I said, my voice temporarily deepening as I said, almost on reflex.

“What is it Talisman?” Twilight asked.

“Oh just stumbled upon your eroge stash.” I said as I read book.

“Eeep!” Twilight squeaked as she tried to tackle me to retrieve the book.

I looked at her as she literally climbed on top of me to pry the book out of my hands.

“No need to be ashamed.” I said. “Everyone has a stash. Well, maybe not Sunset, but she has a reasonable excuse.”

“Still, it is embarrassing.” Twilight said. “And I kind of have a fantasy that will never happen.”

“Oh, and why is that?” I asked.

Twilight mumbled something.

“Come again?” I said.

Sunset snorted. “That’s what she said.”

I gave her a flat look. “Not helping love.”

“I like futanari okay. Go ahead and laugh. My ultimate fantasy the will never happen because they aren’t possible.” Twilight said, shoulders hunched as she held the book to her chest.

Sunset and I shared a look, silently agreeing that our bet was a wash.

“Nothing is impossible.” I replied.

“What? Of course it is. Intersex people exist, but they rarely have functional male genitalia that is of any reasonable size. A true futanari can’t exist.” Twilight said.

“I know you were just introduced to it recently, but you are forgetting about magic.” Sunset replied.

Twilight looked at her with a look of confusion, to which Sunset gestured to me.

Twilight’s head snapped around so quick we could hear her neck pop.

“I started out as a male, but my magic decided to adapt my body when I started cross-dressing. I have two fully functional sets of plumbing. I have a newfound respect for what women have to go through.” I replied.

I had always known that monthly cycles were never pleasant for women, but that was possibly the most uncomfortable and disgusting thing I have ever dealt with. And considering I had to help a medic deal with a gut wound where the guy’s insides had become his outsides, that is saying something.

Twilight looked at me with awe, but then became crestfallen.

“Just my luck, I find the girl of my dreams and she is dating someone already.” She said sadly.

“Well, one thing we haven’t told you about is Equestria is that the population is heavily skewed towards females. They outnumber males on an average of four or five to one. Some places are even higher than that.” Sunset stated.

“What does that mean?” Twilight questioned

“It means that monogamy is the exception, not the rule.” I replied. “Granted, if you were to want to give it a go, you would have to let go of any preconceptions about how relationships work.” I added.

“Well, according to most anthropologists, humans aren’t supposed to be monogamous either. It is a social construct that came about from religious groups that wanted to control the populous in early history.” Twilight said.

I blinked. Of course she would have studied how humans have interacted and formed relationships. She researches everything it seems.

“Well, just so you know, relationships aren’t things you can research or learn from books. You have to just get out there.” I replied. “You can’t always apply logic to them. Nor do they always work like the books seem to tell you they do, gesturing to some of the romance novels on her shelves.

“I know. I saw it when Shining Armor and Dean Cadance dated. They didn’t work out because they are just too different.” She said.

I shrugged. “It happens. The big thing with relationships is compromise. If you can manage that in a way that there is a comfortable balance, then things can work.” i replied.

“If it helps you out, the way multi-partner relationships in Equestria work is that usually there is a lead mare that is ‘in charge’ if you will of the day to day organization of the household. Smaller groups with only two or three additional mares are easier to manage because everyone can be in a single bed, but some can grow so large, the mares have to have assigned rooms and they have to work up a schedule for the intimate moments.” Sunset added. “The smaller the group, the more equal say eveyone gets. But since we do have enough similar interests, while each having our own individual interests, we can do things together and still have our own thing that we can do.” She added.

Twilight was thoughtful. “I will think about it. This is a lot to take in.” She said.

“That’s fine. There is a lot to consider.” Sunset replied.

We took our leave from Twilight’s house a little while later and headed home.

“That actually went better than I thought it would have.” Sunset replied. “Though you were right about the quiet, bookish ones.”

I laughed. “It isn’t always true, but it is often enough to be a thing.” I replied.

Sunset nodded. “We are going to need a bigger bed.” She added, causing me to laugh.

Author's Note

Another day, another update. I have seen some comments on the pacing of the story. Keep in mind that I am doing this as a slice of life so there will be time skips throughout the story. Also, regarding the trial for the Crusaders, as Talisman was not a family member of the trio, he would not have been able to go to the trial, and would have only had second hand knowledge of what the results were from Rarity and Applejack as the trio are minors. I see the country that the EqG verse is set in has laws similar to Europe and Asia when it comes to minors committing crimes to keep the media circus down. I also see them as maybe mentioning the story once in the news and then just providing an update when it is released to the press to keep from glorifying the crime, as the media here is want to do. Just keep in mind I do have plans for the Crusaders, ones that will give them a chance to something with their lives, even if they have to cool their heels in jail for a year or so.