Chapter XLVIII

At night, both Adam and Fluttershy arrived at Adam's home after a nice rehearsal dinner at Sugarcube Corner. "So...tomorrow is the big day." nervously began the pegasus mare, she was anxious for it. "Are you ready for it?" she smiled.

Adam just smiled in return, brushing her long pink mane from her eyes. "Of course I am ready for tomorrow." he assured. "Relax."

The mare took deep breaths to relax herself. "I'll see you at the wedding then." she nodded before floating up to the human and passionately kissed him.

"Can't wait to see you in your dress." he smiled after he returned the kiss. "Good night." he said before he hugged her.

"Good night." she responded back before she flew off back to her cottage to get a good night sleep before the big day.

Adam waved her off with a smile before he walked inside. He promptly got ready for bed.

At the same time at the local bar, Twilight sat at a corner table as she nursed her drink. "Twilight, what are ya doin' here?" asked a familiar voice. Twilight looked up to see that it was Big Mac who trotted up to the table and sat down across from her. "Not expectin' a bookworm like ya to be drinkin' the night away." he chuckled.

Twilight just sighed. "Just trying to forget my screw-ups." she explained as she looked down at her drink.

Mac nodded. "My sister told me what happened, such a shame." he began.

"Do you think I can be selfish at times?" she asked the stallion, curious.

"Well, from what my sister tells me, when somethin' doesn't go yer way as planned, ya start to act like it's the end of the world." he answered. "Even though that's not how life works."

She nodded in agreement. "Yeah, I need to work on that." she sighed sadly.

"Now Twi, cheer up, at least yer still young an' there's plenty of fish in the sea." he assured. "Or so they say."

Twilight nodded in agreement to that statement. "Yeah, but who would want a scrawny egghead like me?" she asked.

Big Mac just looked at her with a blank expression.

The next morning, Celaeno, her crew and Danni were held in the brig, their airship being towed by the enemy ship captained by Captain Walrus. "Okay! Rise and shine prisoners!" yelled the raccoon who captured Danni yesterday. "The captain wants to speak with Miss Celaeno." he announced as he opened the brig door.

Celaeno calmly walked out without a word, she carefully straightened out her clothes and hat before following the raccoon to her former captain's quarters that now inhabits Captain Walrus.

Walrus was inside behind Celeano's desk as he read the charts and ship cargo manifest. He was a large rotund creature with massive tusks, although half of the left tusk was gone, he also smoked a large ivory pipe. "Thank you Rocket." he mumbled through his jowls. The raccoon saluted his captain before he scurried away, leaving the two captains alone.

"You know it won't be long before the Storm King's officers realize that the ship and its cargo are passed due." she warned him. "Once they see what happened, they'll come after you."

"I'm already wanted by them, so what will they do? Increase the bounty?" he chuckled as he took another puff of smoke. "I'm already at 500 million." he smirked.

"What do you want from us?" Celeano snarled impatiently. "Easy, to take everything of value and then return you to your home so you can be tried and hanged like the treasonous parrot you are." he snarled in return. "Want to know what your bounty is currently at?" he asked with a smirk. She just stayed defiantly quiet. "One and a half BILLION." he chuckled. "And all for killing your King's favorite son."

"His son was a sick pervert who took advantage of every female he came across." she snarled as her anger started to boil.

"Including his own sister?" he began. Something inside Celeano snapped as she stabbed her sword into the desk and then grabbed the large walrus by the collar and pinned him against the wall.

"You don't have a clue about how much I want to just choke you until all the life is gone out of your fat ass." she growled. "I don't care what happens to me afterwards."

She was then shot in the back by a laser weapon, stunning her as she collapsed to the floor. Walrus looked to see his first mate Rocket who blew the smoke that emanated from the muzzle away. "No one lays a claw on my captain." Rocket chuckled sadistically.

In Ponyville, the sun shined brightly into Twilight's room. Twilight groggily woke up with a pounding headache, everything that occurred the night before was a blur. She got up only to hear the loud sounds of snoring. Confused, the mare looked next to see to see Big Mac fast asleep, splayed out on his back, drooling. That is when all the memories flooded back. "Oh no...I didn't..." she mumbled with shame.

She got off the bed and quietly trotted over to the bathroom. Her eyes were bloodshot and her mane was a mess. She took some morning after herbs and washed her face before she went back to her room and started to gently shake the stallion awake.

"Mmm...good mornin'..." he said groggily as he stretched and yawned. "...is breakfast ready?" he asked before he realized that he was not in his room. "Oh..." he blushed once realized where he was and who he was with.

"Yeah..." Twilight awkwardly began.

Silence fell between the two as they tried to figure out how to properly handle what just happened. "So...how was it?" he asked.

Suddenly, Starlight barged into the room. "Hey Twi, we're out of cheese whiz again-" the mare stopped in her tracks to see both Twilight and Big Mac in the same room together. The sight of it all caused Starlight to sneer at the sight. It only made the whole situation much more awkward than before.

Dash struggled to calm down a five-month-old foal the refused to stop bawling. "Come on Zap! Mommy has an important day today and I can't drop you off at the foalsitters if you keep crying!" said a sleep deprived Rainbow Dash who was desperate to attend her best friend's big day. She tried to rock the foal's crib to calm him down, but that still did not work.

A knock on the door broke the constant bawling and she quickly got to the door. "Make this quick!" she groaned as she opened the door to see Fluttershy's younger brother Zephyr in his tuxedo, clean-shaven and with combed back mane. "Now what?" she rolled her eyes, she was in no mood to deal with the stallion's flirting.

"Uh...sis asked me to check-up on you and all..." he smiled sheepishly. He obviously noticed the loud bawling coming from Rainbow Dash's foal. "Well...that must be your foal." he said as he trotted over to the crib to see the little foal, crying out loudly.

"He wouldn't stop crying all damn day and night!" complained an exhausted and frazzled Dash as she crashed on the couch. "I don't know what's wrong!"

Zephyr just started to gently rock the crib. "I think I know what's wrong." he nodded before he leaned his head into the crib and began to make funny faces at it. It wasn't long before the shrills of tears were replaced by laughs of joy. Dash was confused.

"What?!"

"Little Zap here was complaining about being bored." Zephyr explained. "And that you always diaper him too tightly." he continued matter-of-factly.

"How the buck would you know that?" asked a skeptical Dash.

"Oh, I understand 'foal'." he smirked.

Rainbow Dash's face fell into confusion. "You're kidding...?"

The stallion picked little Zap up and placed him on his back. "Back in high school I took all four years of home economics." he explained as he started to expertly rock the foal on his back to lull him to sleep. "Sometimes they just need a warmer place to sleep." he smirked.

Dash was stunned yet slightly impressed at how Zap was at long last asleep, but a thought still nagged her. "Why would you decide to willingly take four years of Home Ec?".

"To meet mares." he smirked, trying to be smooth.

"How did that work out?" Dash said skeptically.

"Hit and miss." was all he said about his prospects. He then gently and easily placed the foal back into the crib. "There we go, he should stay asleep for at least an hour or two." he tucked the foal in.

"By the way, how come you never became a foalsitter or nanny, or stuff like that?" Dash said, as she tried to hide how impressed with the stallion she was.

"Parents are far less willing to let a stallion foalsit than a mare." he explained with a shrug. "So," he began with a smirk at Rainbow Dash. "need and stress relief before we go?" he flirted.

Dash responded with the only way he would understand...with a buck to the face.

"Look, Mac...about last night..." Twilight began nervously and awkwardly. After a quick shower and an awkwardly silent breakfast, Mac was about ready to leave.

"What about last night?" Mac began. "Ah guess this was yer first one-night roll in the hay?" he chuckled as he remembered his first one-night stand and how awkward that was.

Twilight blushed. "Yeah..." she hid her face from the sheer embarrassment.

"Look, it was just a roll in the hay, and nothin' more." he assured her. "Ya had a need and ah did the polite thing and help ya out." he explained with a reassuring smile.

Twilight sighed, nodded, and accepted his explanation, since he was the expert in those kinds of things after all. She highly doubted that there was a book about such things. "So...just move on and pretend that what we did was no big deal?"

"Twi, it's just sex, it's no big deal." he chuckled before he turned to leave. "See ya around." he bowed slightly at the mare before he walked out the front door.

Twilight looked on, still not sure. She just sighed dejectedly before she walked off to her room to hide from the embarrassment. "Hey Twi, what's wrong?" asked Starlight who followed her up the stairs.

"Me and Mac used each other to fulfill our carnal desires and he treats it like it is no big deal, how is that possible?!" she asked Glimmer with confusion and confoundment.

"So I am guessing you are not the type for that stuff?" Glimmer assumed. "Well, it's called 'emotional detachment', you have a need, he/she has a need to fill, you both happened to be available, you fuck, that's all." she shrugged.

"You know Glimmer, I don't want endless one-night stands, I just want companion ship." Twilight sighed with shame. "And I feel my heart pulling me in a certain direction..." she said cryptically as a realization came upon her.

1999

Danni was lead down the long bustling corridors of the secret underground facility at the nearby Air Force base by her boss. "We just received intelligence reports from Israel that a double agent working for the Chechens has stolen a copy of the Grey Book." explained Danni's superior while Danni read the file she was given earlier.

"So why me again sir?" she asked.

"Because Vidal is out with measles and Madison is on leave." he explained as they reached a large mission control room and laboratory full of scientists and technicians. "You are all we got."

"And why would they steal that book?" she asked as she followed her officer to his office that overlooked the large room.

"Why else? To get the bomb." he explained bluntly as he closed his office door once the pair was inside. "This morning we got word that Russian physicist Vladimir Belinski was kidnapped from his Italian residence a few days ago." he broke Danni the news. "If there is anyone who could build them a time machine, he is the best bet."

Danni looked at her superior with worry. "You know the only way the Chechens could've known about Project Chronos and the bomb is if someone within the Israeli intelligence community leaked information to them." she explained.

"That's what they are investigating now, but we have no time to waste." he turns over to a large metal safe behind him and opens it to reveal an old journal. "Your mission is to travel to the year 1,605,403 CE, rendezvous with Adam Grey himself, and use him to help you deactivate the bomb before the Chechens get it, understood?" he asked as he handed the journal over to Danni.

"Understood, sir." she stood up and saluted to him before she accepted the journal.

Danni methodically and carefully attempted to pick the lock on the brig door as the rest of the captors nervously looked on while they kept watch. Danni probed the keyhole with some metal pins, until she soon heard a small 'click' sound. "Got it." she whispered happily as she then pushed the door open.

She and the entire parrot pirate crew quietly rushed out and grabbed whatever weapons they could find.

They soon quickly knock out any raccoon they see without disturbing the rest. Danni carefully peeks above deck to check the area to see Captain Caleano herself tied up to the main mast with about a dozen raccoons maintaining the ship while they kept watch for any suspicious activity.

"Okay, on my signal." Danni whispered to the parrot crew as she waited for the perfect opportunity to surprise them. She was just about to give the signal when the ship's bell rang out.

"Storm King's ship dead ahead!" yelled the lookout. Suddenly, the entire raccoon crew got into battle stations.

"CHARGE!" yelled Danni, giving her parrot allies the signal, and with weapons drawn at the ready, the entire captive crew burst out from below deck and used the distraction to fight off the enemy raccoon. Danni looked out across the sky to see a black and purple airship with what looked like turquoise glowing eyes on it. Then she saw what looked like canons being aimed at her. "Oh shit..." she said with dread as the enemy canons fired.

For a brief moment, everything slowed down, and everything went into a deafening silence. She felt herself get thrown clear across the deck from the sheer invisible force that punched at her chest. She found herself clinging to the deck railing as the commotion around her unfolded in agonizingly slow motion. She felt her stomach turn as the ship began to fall out from beneath her. Falling?!

She shook her head to re-focus herself and saw that the ship was indeed in a state of free fall. Suddenly, the ship in its free-fall listed to port and she suddenly found herself off the ship and plunging to the Earth below in a state of shock.

In Ponyville, Adam got up to be greeted by another warm sunny day, a perfect time to hold a wedding. He happily took a shower, shaved, combed his hair and then methodically put on his suit to look immaculate for his bride-to-be. He looked at his reflection with a smile, glad that he was finally able to experience this day that he waited for so long.

He rushed out the door and got on the rented carriage that waited for him outside of his home. The carriage then traveled to an area just outside of Ponyville, his and Fluttershy's favorite spot to be when they needed to be alone and relax, both of them felt that it would be fitting to hold the ceremony there.

Once he arrived, he saw Fluttershy's mother and brother, along with Rarity, Applejack and Rainbow Dash, with Princess Luna herself at the altar ready to officiate the wedding.

At Fluttershy's cottage, Rarity helped her friend Fluttershy, the bride-to-be, into her wedding dress. "Rarity, this dress is gorgeous, it's just what I wanted!" said the pegasus in complete awe at how well her friend made it.

"Anything for my friend's most important day." Rarity assured with a smile.

Fluttershy went over to the nearby mirror to check herself out. Her mane long and flowing, with flower clips all over it, and butterfly shaped earrings. She almost cried tears of joy from the sight, her lifelong dream was about to come true.

At the apothecary shop, Zuberi dusted all of the glassware when he heard the front door open. He looked up to see Twilight trot inside. He just re-focused on his task. "I have a vow to fulfill first you know?" he began.

"Look, I know that." Twilight began, nervously. "And..." she struggled to find the right words.

"And what..?" he looked at her with apprehension.

"And...I want to keep it platonic between us until then." she admitted as she walked up to the counter the zebra stood behind. "And when the day comes that you fulfill that vow, I'll be waiting." she blushed.

Zuberi looked at the mare, stunned. "Twilight, you are a wonderful mare, but, you don't know how long that'll be, it could be years for all I know." he began, still apprehensive about this.

"I'm in no rush, I just enjoy your company is all." she give him a reassuring smile.

Zuberi smiled back. "Well, want to help me clean around and then maybe grab some lunch at the nearby cafe?" he offered her.

"More than anything, more than anything." Twilight beamed.

The wedding went by without a hitch as both Adam and Fluttershy ran down the aisle as rice rained down on both of them. They soon reached their white carriage as they waved to all the guests. The plan was for the newlyweds to spend a nice long night consecrating their marriage at Adam's home before leaving in the afternoon to take a train to Canterlot so they can catch an airship to Neighpon and spend two weeks there for honeymoon.

The carriage soon took the couple away as they waved their wedding guests and family farewell, although it was about ten minutes later that they arrived at Adam's house. Adam got off the carriage first before Fluttershy floated over to the human and landed in her arms. "Now I'm going to show you how we humans carry your brides through thresholds." chuckled Adam as he carried the mare bridal-style to the front door.

"Oooh, this feels much more romantic that riding on someone's back." happily giggled Fluttershy who blushed.

Adam happily carried his new bride inside his home and open the stares, trying to make sure to focus on not only his bride, but also where he was stepping as he carried her up the stairs. "So, you want me to delicately take the dress off, or roughly rip off into shreds?" he smirked as he carried the mare to his room.

Fluttershy thought about it for a minute. "Hmm...I'll let you surprise me." she smirked seductively.

The human chuckled at that. "Non-stop until dawn I am guessing?"

"Plus one hour afterwards." smirked the mare. "Your new bride demands it!" she said jokingly in a snotty tone.

Adam kissed the mare as he finally took her inside his room and locked the door behind them.

Danni looked up to see a clear night sky above her. She could not remember anything past the initial impact of the water as the ambient sounds of the forest became clear as well. She slowly looked around and saw a burning fire with her own clothes perched on sticks presumably to dry them. Although that quickly brought a new realization to her, she looked underneath her thick blankets to see that she indeed was completely nude.

"Good evening sleepy head." said a familiar voice. Danni looked over to see Caleano, also nude in nothing but her feathers and without her peg leg, eating mashed fruit and smoked bugs. "About time you woke up." she said seemingly without much care.

"What happened?" Danni said confused as she tried to sit up, body sore.

"You plunged into a lake and I saved you." she explained as she ate.

"And the rest of the crew?" she was concerned since it was just her and the parrot.

Caleano just glared at the human female. "You're all I found." she answered ominously. "And don't worry, I've seen you mammals naked before, it's no big deal, we're both females." she said as she finished her food. "Here, I got you some meat." she gave Danni a piece of cooked meat on a stick.

"What's that?" Danni asked suspiciously as she got out from underneath the blankets and reluctantly accepted the offering.

"Raccoon." Caleano smirked.

Danni looked at the parrot captain with concern, but decided to not press further since it'll probably the only protein she would get in a while. She took a bite of it and started to eat. "So where are we?"

"Don't know don't care, all I care about is finding the nearest port town I can find and start a new crew, the Storm King probably thinks I'm dead so now I am finally free to do whatever." she explained like it was no big deal to her.

"Well, all I care about is getting to Ponyville as soon as possible." the human revealed to the former captain.

"Ponyville? Is that in the equine ruled diabetes inducing fantasy land called 'Equestria'?" Caleano asked. "Why would you want to go there for?"

"Because a member of my species is there, and I have a mission to complete." Danni answered sternly and coldly. "The survival of my species depends on me completing this."

The parrot tried to absorb what she was told. "How about this..." she began. "...we stick together until we reach port, and then you go on one ship, and I'll go on another." she proposed to the human.

"The sooner the better." she added.

"By the way, here's your bag." Caleano said before throwing Danni her large duffel bag. "Found it hanging from a branch."

The human caught her bag and then opened it to see that all of her items were still intact and appeared functional, especially Adam's diary, and her personal CD player. She took it out, placed the headphones on her ears and began to play the first song on her custom CD.

Adam towered over Fluttershy, especially when on top, but that made it all the more exciting for the mare as she felt her mate deep inside her. She gave out a serious of cute yelps and moans, especially when the human would nip at her neck and ears. She felt like she was in complete bliss, like she and him were in their own little world where they could forget all of their problems for just this one magical night. "Harder..." she grunted in a low husky tone, she loved how guttural her voice sounded when in the mood.

The human just kept his pace, the sound of his body slapping against his bride echoed across the candle-lit bedroom. He tried his best to please the one thing in the world her cared about most, but became increasingly difficult as her insides began to form a tight squeeze around his member, surely a sigh that she was ready to peak again at any moment and milk him for what it's worth.

"Oh...I love you..." he blurted out suddenly.

"Just don't hold back..." grunted the mare. "...I want it all..." she said through clenched teeth.

It was not long before both lovers arrived at their end, both emitting loud primal grunted as he pumped his seed inside of her. The mare just turned her head and made-out with the human, exhausted and full of fundamental lust for each other. Once the mare let her inner grip around her lover go, he pulled out and got off from on top of her but never once stopped the make-out session as he did. That seemed to be the cycle so far for this night, foreplay, mate, make-out, repeat, non-stop.

"Round six?" Fluttershy smirked teasingly between passionate kisses.

"You know I'm not a stallion, I can't recharge as fast." Adam smirked in return as he brushed the mare's long pink mane.

"Yeah, but at least you have more endurance than one." she said as she went over and nibbled the human's neck, one of his weak spots. "And you promised me all night long." she said with an innocent tone that hid an inner kinky side to her.

"You horny little mare." smirked the human as he spanked the mare's rump, eliciting a cute yelp from her.

"Oh, you're just asking for it!" she smirked as she ran her hoof across the sensitive tip of his member, eliciting a soft moan and shivers from him.

Adam just blushed from that before he leaned in and started to resume the make-out session with his new wife. He felt like today was a new chapter in his permanent stay in Equestria, and he was going to savor every last minute of it when possible.

To be continued...