Outside of Canterlot…

The village Hoofshot in the barony Trendshot

An earth pony foal sits on the ground near the front door of a house. He looks battered and holds his face with hooves. He emits weak sounds of crying and sobbing. Bruises were all over his body and made a strange view out of him, as the bruises different shades of blue, while his coat was red. His mane was also red, but in a lighter tone, but right now it was dulled, due to dirt in it.

He didn’t hear it at first, but another pony had walked before him. The foal didn’t acknowledge him, but looks up, after the stranger had coughs and so catches his attention.

At first, he didn’t saw a thing, as his eyes were blurry, but after blinking a few times his view get clearer and he saw the stranger before.

A really big pony, cladded in a hood, which surprised his body really good. So far, the only the foal could see his blue colored muzzle. “Huu...” was all the foal could say, as he still sobs.

The stranger still looks down at him, unimpressed by the sobs and crying. “How are you called little one… why are you crying?” he asks in a flat tone.

The foal calmed down. “Rune…Rune Scrabble…” he pointed to the ground before him… there on it lay the remnants of what looked like a child toy, specifically a toy train. The locomotive was smashed, while the passenger car was ripped into two. “Mean foal broke my toy.”

“Why had they done it?” the stranger asked him. The tone was still flat, but somehow a small portion of curiosity was in it.

Rune sobs a last time. “They said I don’t deserve toys. So, they broke it… and it was my favorite toy.” He looks at the stranger. The gray muzzle didn’t show any emotion. So, the next sentence shocked the little earth pony.

“I can repair it if you want.”

That makes Rune face light up. He looks at the stranger with eyes big and round and plates. But after a moment of joy, the face falters. “But… But it’s so broken…”

Now the muzzle shows an emotion. A grin… “It’s not beyond good and evil… just a bit challenging.”

Rune jumps up and hugs his front legs. “Thank you, mister…” suddenly he realizes that it had hurt. “Owh.” He rubs his own muzzle.

The stranger sniggers. “Thank me later. It would be better if you lead me to your home. I can’t work out here and you jumping against part of my tools didn’t help either.” This makes the foal laugh.

But he quickly starts to walk towards the house he had sitting before. He grabs the knob and turned it and walked in. The stranger waited a second before he followed inside. As he walked through the door he closed it.

Rune had looked at him but was surprised. The stranger didn’t use his hooves, but Rune wasn’t sure if the stranger was simply a unicorn and had used magic. But there had been a movement under the trenchcoated he wore, around where the wings sit, if the pony was a pegasus. But before Rune could ask a question the stranger spoke. “Is there a table or work-bench?”

“Yeah, the table in the living room.” Rune darted to the door, which leads to the room. The room was relatively small, still, it has a couch and a table in front with an outworn looking arm-chair while having a few regals on the wall. The stranger walked to the couch and sat. The remnants of the broken toy, which he had carried, were placed on the table.

“I would recommend that you tend your wounds.” The stranger talked while looking at him. Rune blushes a bit, as he had forgotten his pain. “Can you tend it yourself?”. Rune nodded again and quickly darted to the bathroom. w

There he grabbed a wet cloth and clean himself of the dirt. He winced as he himself in the mirror. He saw the bruises and areas of his face which were in a darker tone than they had been in the morning. Still, he collects his bravery and walked back to the living room.

As he was back in the room he was greeted by a strange scene. The stranger had put some strange tools on the table, tools Rune had never seen before. Also, he had pulled the hood back. Rune now saw that he was a unicorn. A deep blue coated unicorn, but with neo green mane. The foal was surprised to see that the mane was cut short, as it was ended just after three inches.

The stranger seemingly wasn’t aware that Rune had entered the room, as his back faced the door. “Are you planning to stand there all day?” the monotone voice broke Rune out of his starring. The stranger had been aware he had returned.

“No… No sir.” Rune stammers. He takes a few steps towards the couch. “Can I watch?”

The unicorn just turns his head to the foal. “No need to call me sir. Just can watch, but I don’t think that will be appealing to you.”

Rune starts to make big round eyes. “Please?” he asked in a begging tone. His mother couldn’t resist if he had this face, but the stranger didn’t show any kind of reaction. He held his neutral glance before he reached with one hoof into his trench coat. After a second he pulls an object out of it and shows it to Rune.

It was a cube, make out of multiple smaller cubes, which bore different colors. Rune looked at the cube. “I have a deal for you. I repair your toy, you can play with this toy.” He put another hoof on side of the cube and suddenly the side start to twist. Rune just stared with open mouth at the toy. “The goal of this puzzle game is it to arrange the cubes until all cubes on every side have the same color.

Rune just stares at the cube, still, he grabs it. He sat on the floor beside the table and start to twist the first sides. “Thank you, sir… Was is your name?” he ripped his glance from the cube. In all of this, he had forgotten to ask the stranger for his name. Ohh, how his mother would be ashamed of his rude behavior.

But to his surprise, the stranger didn’t seem to mind. “My name is Mech.”

Rune starts to grin and offers him a hoof. “Nice to meet you, Mech.” And with that, he put all of his focus on the puzzle in his hooves. He loves all kinds of puzzles and so it was no surprise that he enjoys this one, especially after he finished the cube for the first time. Then he found out that the cube started to glow, only to reset itself, but the colors had changed their position, so it was like a new puzzle.

He was so deep in the puzzle that he even forgot that Mech was there. The unicorn looked at him for a while. He studied how the Earth pony foal solves the puzzle, then he puts his own focus on the broken remnants of the toy before him.

The locomotive was heavenly damage. The metal was bent and twisted, the passenger wagon beyond all repair. He looks at the pieces. A normal pony would most likely throw them away, as they were now only thrashed, but they can’t do the things he can do. He reaches for one of his tools, something that looked like a screwdriver. For him, this broken toy was merely a challenge. And so, he began his work.

It goes one for the rest of the day. Both barely give a thought to the other one, as both were deeply in their doing… until the front door opens again and a voice called out, ripping both out of their focus. “RUNE…” a female voice called. “I’M HOME.”

… Scene change…

Rose Lily was tired. She had been forced to take the shift of a co-worker at the local burger-shot, as said co-worker had called, that she fell ill. “Yeah, she fell ill…after another night of party and drinking.”

Rose was normally a friendly earth pony. She takes care of her red coat and mane and also tries to have as much time for her son Rune as she could. But there are days like this one she wished she could simply throw everything down and get a breakdown.

But after taking a deep breath she calmed a bit. She knows her life as a single mother is hard, but she could bear it for the sake of her son. Still, she allowed herself to curse the world in her mind.

She had originally planned to spend the afternoon with Rune, but this plan was crushed. Now she wanted to go home. Rune maybe sad that they hadn’t their afternoon, but a nice meal and playtime should sooth this a bit.

As she planned in her mind, her hooves had carried her to the front door of the little house she could afford to live in with Rune. She walked through the door and closed it behind her. “RUNE…I’M HOME.” She called.

Rose her a gasp, then the light steps of a foal and in no time her son was there. He jumped at her leg. “MOMMY…” his voice trembles as he was surprisingly happy about something. “YOUWONTBELIEVEWHATAPPENEDTODAY…” he said, but due to what made him so happy, he got so active, that he speaks so fast that it was impossible to understand a word. But Rose just grins about her son behavior.

“Rune, take a deep breath and then for the start… what will I believe?” she asks in her motherly voice.

“An interesting story.” A voice said. Said voice was monotone, but unknown to Rose. So, her motherly instincts kick in. She pushes her son behind her and looked at the speaker.

In the door to the living room stands a completely unknown unicorn. He was deep blue, while his mane was in such a bright green, it made a strange contrast. But the most prominent feature was the fact that he wears a coat.

That was the thing that put Rose most on the edge. Ponies didn’t normally cloth. Royals and the upper-class wear them, also guards wear their armor, but all their cloth still show much of their body, the coat of this pony hide it. She fears for the worse.

“Mommy, what are you doing.” Rune pokes his head out.

“Rune, who is that and what is he doing inside the house?” Rose asks her spouse.

The unicorn looked at her. Her hopes that he was a bit intimidated by her pose were crushed as he didn’t show any sign of fear about her. “The bastard didn’t show a Celestia damn thing.” She thought to herself.

“Your son cried at the front door. I was curious why. I asked and offer my service to repair his broken toy.” The unicorn simply said.

The fact that he hadn’t threatened her had softened her up a bit, but after hearing the sentence she was up all again. “WHAT?” she cried out. Rune winces about her outscream, while the strange didn’t flinch.

He simply waves his hoof towards the living room. “If we continue this conversation in there, it would be easier.” He walked back in the room. Rose stared at him for a moment, but follows, mostly because Rune already walked to.

As she arrived in the room, she was shocked to that the stranger had occupied the table before the couch. Various unknown tool laying on the table, some of them looked more like torture devices. The stranger had already sat back on the couch, with Rune beside him.

Wary Rose walked to them but set herself in the armchair, so that she faces both. “So… What is now the story?” she asks after a moment of uncomfortable silence.

Rune was the one who told the story, as the stranger continue to work on the toy before him. Soon the foal came to the end of the story. “And then I played with the cube until you came home.” He ended while showing the cube to his mother.

She stared at the colorful cube. Rose was a bit fascinated by the cube. “Ok… but who broke your toy?” she asked.

Rune mumbles something incomprehensible, so Rose repeat her question. But deep inside she already knows the answer. “The twins…” Rune mumbles finally out.

Rose released a breath she didn’t know she had inhaled. “Ok. Did they also beat you again?” Rune nodded weakly. Rose gets out of the chair and walked to him. She grabs his face and took a good look at him. She was shocked to see the bruises on it. “Come let’s patch you up…afterward, I made you a nice hay sandwich.”

Rune look in her eyes. “With fried egg? And chess baked over it?”

“Yes, with egg and cheese.” She said and Rune runs out of the room.

Rose looked after him but then looks at the stranger. “Can I leave you alone str…” she interrupts herself, as she knows now his name. “Can I leave you alone in her Mech?”. As an answer, she gets a grunt. Not wanting to let Rune wait any longer she accepts it as an answer and made her way to the bathroom, where Rune already sat on the floor.

She quickly patches up Rune, then she walked to the kitchen. But halfway she stops as she remembers something. The stove had broken down two days ago and she didn’t have the chance, or money, to call a repairman. But right now, dread filled her. She had promised Rune something, but she couldn’t fulfill it and that hurts her. So, she turns around to look at her son. “Rune, I just…”

She wanted to say more, but the monotone voice of Mech sounded, but out of the kitchen and not the living room. “If you still want to make the sandwich, I repair the stove.”

Just was at the door and looked into the tiny kitchen. Mech really stands before the stove and she saw that the plate of the stove was red. “Ok. Rune can you please wait in the living room. I will make you the sandwich.” Rune jumped as he was happy and rushed to the living room. Mech walked past her and also goes to the living room, leaving her alone in the kitchen.

Rose stood there for a moment, before going near the stove and hoovers her hoof over the plate. She was hot. A smile starts on her face. She walks towards the fridge and takes some ingredients out and start making the sandwich. Out of a strange feeling, she made two. She places both on a separate plate. Then she placed the plates on her back and walked back to the living room.

Rune played again with the cube, but Mech had put some of his tools back and so there was some space for the plates. Rose quickly places them in the free place. “Rune put the toy away. Eat it while it warm.” The foal looked up and practically jumped at the steaming food.

Mech looked at the eating foal, keeping his neutral face, then she shifts his glance towards the other sandwich. “What is the deal with this. Is he supposed to eat both?”

Rose blushes a bit. “No…It for you. As a thank you for fixing the old stove.”

Mech looked again at the sandwich, then at her. “There was no need for a compensation. Still, I accept it.” He grabbed it with his hoof and then takes a bite. His face starts to lite up a tiny bit. “Delicious.” But before he takes another bite he suddenly rips it in two. One part he keeps, the other he offers Rose.

The mare was a bit surprised. “What?” she was a bit set back. “Do you dislike it?”. Mech didn’t answer, instead of her own stomach rumbles as she was suddenly aware that she hadn’t eaten since the morning. Shepley, she accepted the half and eat it.

So, all three eat in solitude. And Rune was the last to finish his sandwich. The foal let himself fall back into the couch. while rubbing his hooves all over his belly. “I’m full.” He declares then he burps loud.

Rose looks stern at him. “Rune, something like this is bad behavior.” She scolds him.

“Ok, mom.” He mumbles. Still, he wanted to grab the cube again, but Mech's voice stopped him. “I’m done.”

Both Rose and Rune look at him. The unicorn just points to the table and both start to make big eyes. There was a complete toy train. “You did it,” Rune said in disbelieve.

The toy was completely repaired. The locomotive was again in shape, the wagon, which was beyond repairs was it again. But most importantly the color was full again, in addition to that he even had added a new wagon. Mech grabbed the toy and places in Rune’s hoof. “A train is not only for personal transport, so I add a wagon for good transport.”

The foal carefully touched it. It felt strong, but all wheels move again. The small dents in the metal were absent and it even had both buffers at the end of the wagon, although one had missing since even before it gets smashed.

Rune puts the train carefully aside. Then he jumps to Mech and throws his hooves around his neck as much as he can. He starts to sobs uncontrollably and cries. “THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU…,” he said, between all the tears and sobs.

Mech moves his legs and awkwardly puts them on his back. There he moves them in a staging motion and rubs over his back. It looked like he didn’t have an idea how to deal with this situation. “No problem Rune.”

Rose herself was also near crying. “How can I repay you?” she was so happy that Mech was able to repair the toy, which had been the favorite toy of Rune.

Mech just looked at her. “No money. Just allow me to stay here for the night.”

Rune looked at his mother, his eyes red from all of the crying. “Please mommy…” he begs. But that was unnecessary.

“Ok. Mech… it would be my pleasure if you stay for the night…”

Any answer from him was cut short as Rune jumped on the table, while he screams in a high pitch voice.

Rose grabs him from the table. She throws an apological glance towards Mech, who just waved his hoof. “And it is my pleasure to stay.”

The rest of the evening they sat in the room. Rune was on the floor playing with his train and with cube alternating between both. Rose was beside him and takes part in the playing, while Mech just sat on the couch observing both. Time flew by and suddenly Rune starts to yawn.

Ros jumps at this immediately. “Rune you are tired. It’s enough playing for the day. Come I tuck you right in your bed and then you will sleep.”

“But mommy, I’m not that tired.” Rune tried to defend himself but interrupts himself with another yawn. Still, he didn’t defend himself, when Rose grabs him up and start to carry him out of the room. “Night Mech.” He weakly said, while waving to him.

Mech didn’t say a word, but still the unicorn waves back.

In Runes room, Rose was quick to tuck her son into bed. The foal shifts himself deeper into his covers and from one second to another her was asleep. Rose looked at his peaceful pose. Then the earth pony mother bends down and kisses him on the forehead.

Quietly she tips out of the room and closes the door behind her, but not without throwing a last glance at the sleeping foal. She takes every detail of his features in, his red coat and mane and she silently thanked the two sisters that Rune was in every part her son. With a happy smile, she walks back into the living room, but made a quick dash to the kitchen, where she had grabbed a hidden bottle of wine and two glasses.

She returned to the living room, where Mech had changed his seat and sat now in the arm-chair. So that he faced the door rose had a chance to get a really good look at him. Well, the coat still hides much if his body he didn’t look as dangerous as he looked at first. His neutral glance, he seems to keep the whole time was more the one of a pony, who observe an experiment. In this moment he seems to stare at a point of the door.

“So, now we both are alone. Do you want to dink with me?” Rose asked him.

He blinks one time, then focuses his glance on her. “Had he been in a trance?” she wondered.

“Yes. Something to drink would nice. I want to ask a few questions. And I believe the questions would be upsetting, so intoxicating with alcohol would keep the tone light.”

“…Are you asking if I would sleep with you as a reward for fixing my son’s toy?” she asks in a sour tone. In her mind, Mech moved from being a nice stallion to asshole in mere seconds.

“I have no interest in sexual intercourse, also, you may still wear your work clothes…” he points to the skirt from the burger shot, which Rose somehow had totally forgotten about. “… but you wear a knife under it. That indicates me that if I try to force this on you will use it.” All the time he kept his neutral face and tone.

Rose snort and shakes her head, letting her mane fly freely. Still, she walks to the table and places the wine bottle and glasses on them. “How did you tell I have the knife on?”

Mech leans forward and grabs the bottle. “By your reaction when you had seen me. You assume that I’m a possible threat to your son. The pose you had assumed was partly a motherly instinct, still, you had self-defense lessons, which affected the stance. That indicates you had problems in the past… Problems with a more violent nature… and being a mare mean that possible threats are ponies bigger than you, so arming yourself is a logical step.” He leans back, letting it sink in.

Rose raises an eyebrow. He spoke in his neutral tone and so it sounded al logic, even as it was a bit far stretched. “Yeah, that comes close to the truth. And you the first moment I saw you, my mind had scream THREAT. Are you a soldier or sellsword?”

Rune flicks his hoof and one tool appeared. A pipe wrench, but with sharp blades on it. He uses one blade on the cork of the bottle and quickly he decapitates the bottle. Not pulling out the cork, he simply cuts the part where the cork sits from the bottleneck.

“To answer your question. I’m a soldier, but I’m bound in the service to the dawn. I have many talents but don’t worry. My order forbid mindless slaughter. I’m allow defend myself, but forbid from first strikes.” The display of skill and tone somehow calm Rose.

She casual grabs a glass and offers it to him. Mech gets the idea and start to fill her glass, then pour some whine into his. He then puts the bottle down and takes his glass. Both clang them together and then takes a mouthful of wine. “Bah. I forgot this a cheap one.” Rose said after swallowing.

“Indeed. Plain, cheap and if I would bet… it is stretched with antifreeze.” Mech said. Then he empties his glass in one gulp and so Rose did the same. Then a small silence was between them until Mech spoke up again. “But a real question right now. How dried is your financial situation?”

This question causes a serious shift in atmosphere. “Ah, I see… a question for I should need to be intoxicated.” She throws to Mech a death glare, which the unicorn stallion just ignores. “Well, not as bad as it could, being a single mother taking minimum wage jobs, but there are moments … let’s say there is always an alley where you can buy things a normal shop didn’t offer… food, drinks, activities…”

Mech holds the bottle up again. Rose accept the refiling of her glass. As Mech puts the bottle down again. “No father?”

Rose drink again. “Before Rune was born I had worked in the cottage of the baron of this barony as a maid. Stressful job, but the pay was good. The biggest downside of the job was the boss…the lord was a handful. One of the old nobles, who thought that he is a noble and being a unicorn meant he was superior over us lonely peasants, especial us earth ponies.” She takes a gulp of her drink. “Being a noble asshole, ruling over us is a tiring task, so its natural that the maids must serve him…if you catch the drift.”

Mech just looked at her. But he nods and so he mentions her to continue.

“Well, if have hated it, but I tried to save up a sum and then leave… but one day the protection failed. I carried Rune. I confronted my boss and wanted to leave. And the bastard throws a tantrum, I get pregnant just so that I can steal his title and lands. He throws me out, without any coin, but the order to abort. He even ordered some shady goonies to follow me and confirm that I abort… they even had the order to do it personally if I should keep the bastard.”

She looks into Mech eyes. And was surprised as she saw that on his face were hints of suppressed rage. “Don’t worry at last the goonies weren’t so stupid to try it. I was able to convince them that the father wasn’t the lord, but some one-night stand. So, I was accompanied back, where I apologize to the lord. I’m allowed to keep the foal but on my own. Most ponies in town won’t really employ me, as they fear I run around, let stallions jump on me and then try to get money from them.” She ended her telling

Mech reaction was surprising and strangely pleasing. He crushed the glass and looked at her. “Should I kill him?” he asks in his monotone voice.

This somehow brightens Rose mood up. The few stallions she came in contact since Rune’s birth, all retreated and tend to follow the official story with the false assumptions. So now meeting somepony willing to believe her and even offer her action was a nice relief. “Isn’t that against your orders?”

The unicorn’s face didn’t falter for a mere second. “It may interfere with my last order, but killing him would be acceptable by the overlord protocol.”

Rose just laughed, by didn’t think further about it. “Leave him… I don’t think being stupid is an excuse for killing. “

Mech shows the tiniest grin before his face became neutral again. “Right. An old proverb… Don’t weep for the stupid; you’ll be cryin’ all day. “He grabbed the bottle and take a swing directly out of it. “But another question… Rune has potential in him. He shows a really good adaptability to the challenge of the cube, so why didn’t he get a solar ship…”

Rose put her empty wine glass down. “Cause he’s my son… It’s all this again.”

She reached for the bottle and Mech handed it over. “Rose a last question… Why does Rune limp.”

That makes Rose froze. She stays so or a moment, before finishing the bottle in the last gulp. She put the bottle down and looked at it. Then she looked Mech in the eyes. “How do you know about it.”

The neutral glance just stared at her. “When I say him walking in…when he vanished into the bathroom… when he runs to greet you… Always the same pattern of his steps. The first three steeps normal, but the fourth start to differ. If he walks a longer track, it gets clear. He didn’t rely on his left hind leg, he pulls it more with him, instead of putting weight on it.”

Rose let herself fall backward, pulling the bottle with her. As she half sits, half lay on the couch she hugged the empty wine bottle, as it was a stuffed animal. “When he was six, he had a friend, the daughter of the neighbor… Firejocker… both were near the forest, playing there they games. The neighbor watched over both, while I had been forced to do another double shift… Anyways Rune and she climbed on a boulder, but since it was covered in moos both miss their steps and fall down. Both hide it, wanting to appear grown up, not crying about hurting. Well at the evening Rune starts to get feverish, the girl too. I came home from work and was greeted by the sight of doctors in my house.”

She looked at Mech, but couldn’t make him clearly out as the alcohol had intoxicated her. “Can you imagine how horrified I was… coming home and my son was there in his bed, red because of fever and crying…” She looked up to him. “The doctors had said, that both had fallen into a special kind of poison ivy growing there. It was a special kind, so the antidote war rare and thus not cheap.” Suddenly her eyes start to water. “And since I had not the best sick insurance, my options are limited.”

A lump starts to grow in her throat. “The damn bastard had explained to me there, that the money was so rare the only option was to get enough antidote to prevent Rune from dying, but cripple his leg as the poison damage his muscles there, or simply don’t give him any at all. In the best case he would comply lost his leg and worst case he gets a casket.”

She suddenly hears a shifting beside her. Again, she looks up and saw, that Mech stood beside her. Carefully the stallion entwines her the bottle. “Why did the doctor say this? Aren’t doctors here to heal the sick.” The voice was neutral, but Rose swore that she heard underlying rage in it.

“Because he then offers me a third option… I get enough antidote to fully heal Rune, but he wanted … a compensation…” Rose admitted.

“Don’t say… the special kind?” The drunken mother just nodded. “Do you accept it?” A long pause, then she nodded again.

“And the worst of it… The bastard crossed me. Rune gets crippled, the girl even too as the antidote was to less. And the blame was pushed to me. He claimed that I forced myself on him to ensure Rune’s healing despite the shortcoming of hers. And they believe it.”

She looked up to Mech. Her vision blurry due to the sheer number of tears in them. “Rune lost his only friend back then… I was the scandal of the village… the whore… only cause I fool-ish jumped on a pipe dream of saving my son.”

A low grumble emits out of Mech. “Did he had any reason to betray his Hippocratic oath?”

This makes Rose a bit sober. But still, she has enough alcohol in her, that her tongue spoke free. “Yeah. The Lord, the sperm donor for Rune, had made him a special offer. In cases Runes get hurt and comes to him for treatments, the doc only gives him minimal treatment, all while doing everything to discredit me…” She looked at Mech and the tears start to flow down her face. “…JUST SO THAT I CAN SUFFER… THAT HE HAS THE POWER TO COMMAND SOMETHING LIKE THIS…”

The tears now free run down her face and suddenly she feels how Mech awkwardly puts his hooves around her. She accepts his hug and buries her face in his neck. “He harassed me, bucked me, knocked me up… Rune is nowhere a threat to his noble claims, still, he does everything to ruin me… I can’t get a decent job here, I can’t get decent treatment for my son, for Celestia and Luna’s sake, cake and sanity…” She looks deep into Mech eyes. “I even can’t escape this Tartarus-hole.”

Mech starts to pad her back, while she simply cries more and starts to grow tired with every second. “I just want peace. I want to raise Rune without stress, with giving him every option, heck even with a father figure. Is it too much to ask?”

Mech just lets her cry, then he slowly stands up and lifts her up and start to carry her in the bridal state. Carefully he carries her to her room, and place her on her small bed. With tender care, he places her on the mattress and covers her with her blank. “Sleep for the night. Tomorrow the world will change.”

Rose couldn’t really keep her eyes open and let the tiredness overcome her. Soon her breathing hit a quiet rhyme. All while Mech stood there and watch her in her sleep.

Author's Note

Just to clearify something.

RAPE is bad, blackmailing someone/-pony for sex is bad. Don't do it in RL.