It's the hands...I guess...

Chapter 2: Rarity and Big MacIntosh.

Apple Family Acres – Main patch of trees -

"You are working too much, Mac." AJ, also known as the 'Element of Honesty', said sighing as she loaded the umpteenth basked of apples on a small cart next to her.

"Eeeyup! Ah'm fine, Bloom's still too little to buck those big trees. Ah can still do this mahself!" he answered chuckling as he rattled a rather giant apple tree with a bucking back kick of a single hoof making several dozen apples fall down.

"...Show-off." the mare muttered huffing as she dragged what looked-like being a cart full of several times her own body-weight in apples away with minimum effort.

"She could drag tha whole barn away without noticin' and AH'm tha one showin' off? Tha Element of Hypocrisy, that's-a what she is!" Mac said to himself with an amused tone.

"BIG MAAAAAAC!" in that moment a very young voice yelled happily as very young filly ran towards him.

"Bloom! What-cha doin' here?" the stallion asked with a wide smile that went soon covered in sweat as an adult mare joined the scene with her.

"Miss Cheerilee needed help and I said she could ask you!" Apple Bloom answered innocently as said mare walked forward.

"I hope I am not interrupting, Big Mac." she said with a gentle smile.

"N-NNO! Ah mean...Of course not!" the stallion answered a bit faster than what he had planned, but he still managed to sound casual.

It was no mystery to every single Pony in Ponyville that Big Mac had an Equestria-sized crush on the school teacher (even if SOMEHOW Miss Cheerilee herself was not aware of this), so his nervousness can be excused even just a little.

"Wonderful! Because I really need you right now!" Miss Cheerilee said happily.

"Warning! Sweating Ratio up to 3000%! Chances of Bucking-up everything and look like a foal...Darn High!" a loud mental alarm blared to life in Big Mac's head at those words as his tongue calmly formed several knots by itself.

"I was planning several outings with my students around Ponyville so to show them some of the everyday life of adult Stallion and Mares and even (if possible) have them try helping. Many students are having problems finding their Talents and so I also hoped that this will help them in that regard, along learning about all the work and dedication behind everything they see every day." the teacher explained.

"So I told her that you would have helped her by showing my classmates what we do here!" Apple Bloom added excited.

"She was quite insistent actually, she was somehow sure you would have jumped at the occasion to help me." Cheerilee said with a soft laugh.

"ET TU, BLOOM?!" the stallion thought in theatrical betrayal as he watched his younger sister and immediately understanding that indeed SHE KNEW about his ability to turn into an idiot when Cheerilee was in a ten meter radius from him, and still moving things so to have him in a position he could not refuse her!

"I know this is sudden, but I was really hoping either you or Miss AJ could accept! The Apple Family was behind the founding of Ponyville, so it would be a great way to include a tiny history lesson to the outing as well!" the mare said with a hopeful tone.

Behind her, unseen, Apple Bloom's smile turned slightly too 'Evil' for Mac's tastes.

"You will confess you like her even if it is the last thing I do!" the stallion didn't need to guess if those were the filly's thoughts or not, it was practically written on the young pony's forehead!

"O-Of course yah can have the students come here! me and AJ will show them how the buckin' works!" Mac answered with what he hoped was a convincing-enough smile as he absent-mindedly moved to give a new one-hoofed kick to the same tree…

"Huhuhu! Thank you! I am ready to repay you for your time, personally!" Miss Cheerilee said with a dazzling smile.

"Cute unplanned Innuendo Detected! Bucking-up in three! Two! One!" Mac's brain answered by itself deciding that it was high time for the Stallion to fuck-up in front of the girl he had a crush on while he was doing something he normally was perfectly capable of pulling off. (please raise you hand if that ever happened to you as well).

Mac's hoof in fact did not catch the tree fully, but rather hit the side of the plant making the leg twist in a VERY PAINFUL way that immediately had the stallion's brain catch fire in pain signals; Luckily some apples still fell down so he could play it cool by just biting on his tongue to not scream in agony.

"Oooh! Good kick!" Miss Cheerilee answered with a small clapping of her hooves.

"T-Thank you..." Mac answered still holding his screams back by sheer force of will.

"I will sign down the Apple Family Acres as our first outing then! Next we'll need to ask Sweete Belle if her sister Rarity will be open to the idea of showing us how she makes her dresses, do you want to accompany me?" the teacher asked to Bloom.

"Of course!" the filly answered.

"Then we will be on our way, have a nice day, Mac! I will inform you when we will have the dates of the outings ready so you can tell me if we need to postpone or not!" the mare said as both calmly walked away leaving behind the still smiling, and sweating for a completely different reason than the beginning, Mac.

Once sure she was out of hearing range the red-furred stallion fell on his back and…

"KYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" screamed to the heavens his pain while literally blowing back of several meters AJ that had in the meantime come to refill her cart.

A couple of hours later – Carousel Boutique -

Rarity Belle, Element of Generosity, was finally taking a pause after delivering a rather large order of formal dresses for a small birthday party in Manehattan she had been kinda surprised to be entrusted with.

"I guess that fiasco or not, the dresses I made for the Grand Galoping Gala DID catch somepony's eyes..." She muttered sighing once finished her cup of tea.

D-Dling-Dling!

The small bell on the top of her door rang quietly as an unexpected guest entered her shop snapping her out of her thoughts.

"Oh!" she uttered surprised.

"Y-Yeah, sorry to intrude..." Buck said unsure as he was forced to crouch down to not hit the ceiling with his head.

"You...You must be that masseur, the Heman?" Rarity asked unsure.

"Technically the right term is 'Human'. But I prefer my name Bu-Blackbeard." the poor man answered barely stopping himself from using his name (considered a cuss word in Equestria *apparently***) and using instead his nick-name with barely-hidden annoyance.

"And what I can do for you?" the mare asked cautious; strange creature or not, he had been hoof-chosen by Celestia as Head Masseur for the new Beauty Parlor at few meters from her own shop (one the Fashion Designer swore she will someday be able to afford visit!), so maintaining a good image as a Professional Dress-maker was Top Priority.

"I...Well...I need clothes." finally admitting defeat the man sat on the ground cross-legged while talking with a tone of pure shame while toying with the simple pale-blue shirt and pants he was wearing over his standard issue military boots.

"I beg you pardon?" Rarity asked taken aback.

"It is embarrassing..." Buck said, it had been YEARS since he felt that embarrassed truth be told.

"Please, do tell. I think I can help you." Being equally a gossiper, and so naturally nosy, AND the embodiment of Generosity itself, Rarity could not help but offer her friendly ear to the curious creature in front of her instantly.

"You ponies...Wear LITTLE in terms of clothes, right? Unless during fancy meetings or if we talk about accessories, right?" the now red-faced man mumbled.

"Yes? And?" she prompted.

"Your...'Privates' are hidden unless you need them...Humans can't 'pull them in'...so I need clothes to cover myself." Subtly was hardly Buck's main strength unless during missions, but he was not there to kill the mare though.

"Oh…Ooooh!" Rarity, now blushing herself, 'oooh!'ed in realization.

"I can only find fancy dresses...I just need comfy clothes for everyday life...And nobody here seem to have those. I was pointed here because you CAN make dresses from the ground-up, so I wondered if..."

"If I could make something 'comfy' and not too fancy for you." Rarity finished for him.

"Yep!"

The two stood there in uncomfortable silence with Buck randomly clearing his throat and Rarity doing her best to not look anywhere else on his body other than his face.

"...Sorry if I made this awkward." the man finally said sighing.

"Nono! Even if terribly blunt, at least it got the point across!" Rarity said while still looking pretty flushed.

"Thank you. So? How will we do this? I am not a pony." the former soldier asked confused.

"That is not an issue, luckily I once had to help Fluttershy, one of my friends, to dress-up some of her animal friends so I...have...the proportions still in mind..." the mare answered promptly before noticing what she was saying and slowing-down to a crawl as she spoke.

"Let me guess, monkeys?" Buck asked with mirthful eyes and highly amused by the mare's horrified expression.

"I AM SO SOR-"

"BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Rarity's ashamed plea went soon eclipsed by the human's thundering laugh as he was moved to tears in a matter of seconds.

"Wha?"

"Oooh! I believed it was only a Human trope having the Alien race define us 'Monkeys'! Oooh! I love this, don't worry, I am not offended. If we have to be technical Humans and Apes DO have common ancestors, so it is not exactly an insult if you ask me!" Buck said still chuckling.

"Alien?"

"To me you are, and the same goes for you about me!"

"True..." Sigh! "Thank goodness nopony got offended. Now, returning to the matter at hoof, yes, I should still have the 'prototypes' of those dresses, so using those as a base should not be a problem. But I still have to take measurements." Rarity said looking positively relieved.

"Thank you! Other than my 'masseur suit' I only have my camo gear so I was really getting desperate." Buck answered grateful.

"Let's start then...T-the upper part of your clothes please...Lose them." the mare asked a bit stiffly.

"I will keep my pants on, and I have 'specific' clothes covering my male parts, I won't expose a thing. And those I can draw for you how they are made so I won't take them off either." he said with a reassuring tone.

"Thank you." Rarity answered grateful as she watched him remove his upper clothes to remain bare-chested and gasping at the absurd amount of scars on his back and front.

"Uh?" he asked confused.

"Have you, have you left a dragon chew you?" she asked shocked as she could barely spare enough brain-power to have her measuring tape take the man's measures.

"Ah! Those scars? Noo, those are souvenirs of my time as a soldier back in my world: few bullet wounds here and there, some knife wounds, a couple of burning marks from Molotov Cocktails, one or two scars from barbed wire...Nothing out of ordinary, the newer ones though are from the mine that SHOULD have killed me but instead brought me here between you ponies, sure I still took some shrapnel along the ride that luckily never went too deep to be impossible to remove, but hey! I am alive!" he answered cheerfully with a thumbs-up.

"A mine?"

"Imagine a metallic disk big as a dish and with a button on top, you hide it underground and as soon as your victim steps on the button on top it activates, when they lift their feet BOOOM! Thousands of red-hot sharp fragments of metal explode on their face soon followed by a huge flare of fire. It is not unusual to see an adult human like me get torn to pieces by one of those." Buck answered with disturbing detachment.

Rarity simply stood there horrified, even just the absurd amount of scars on his back was frightening, but the thought of the alternative being simply getting turned into a red smear was almost enough to have her faint on the spot.

"WHY WOULD SOMEPONY USE THOSE THINGS?!" she screeched.

"Bad men, crazy idiots that believe their ideals to be the gospel of God and ready to kill every 'infidel' that does not follow their ideals...I was part of a group of soldiers tasked with removing those things from the battlefield, we were taking those away after the other soldiers FINALLY decided to sign-up some peace treaty so the abandoned mines needed to be manually removed." He answered shrugging and making the paler patches of skin of his scars faintly reflect the light in Rarity's shop for a moment.

"And one of those things exploded on you?" Rarity asked worried.

"Not on my face, it almost got one of my men. Poor boy was a fresh recruit, barely out of Academy and forced to take this mission because the people in charge wanted that field 'cleaned' as soon as possible, you know...For good publicity; the poor boy shouldn't even have been there in the first place. Once he saw that we had almost done he relaxed, got careless and stepped on one...I saw his eyes grow wide when we all heard that damned Click! Noise and watched him stop moving. There is not much you can do in those cases without somebody fully trained in disarming mines working right under your shoe, it was then that the boy panicked." Buck said shaking his head.

"And? And?" Rarity asked as she barely paid enough attention on a sub-conscious level to the measures she was writing on her notepad.

"As I saw the idiot try to 'Run Away' instead of waiting for me and my colleague Johnny to disarm it safely, I did the only thing I could think of: I tackled him on the ground and tried to cover him with my own body and take the blunt of the explosion myself." Buck answered simply.

"W-W-WHY?!" the mare asked scandalized.

"As his captain it was my fault for not checking if there were other mines around, the squad's well-being was my responsibility, so I acted on it. He was still younger than me even if I am barely forty-three 'he still had his whole life in front of him' I thought, so I tried to save him." he answered smiling.

The young mare was actually at loss of words, sure in her youth she had red books filled with valiant heroes risking their lives to save innocents, but now she was seeing the results of somebody actually shielding someone else from danger, and the result was not as 'dashing' as her books implied, and yet the real thing was still even more awe-inspiring than the fictional version.

"You have been foolish, darn heroic, but mostly foolish." Rarity said sighing as she finally put her mind to her job and properly took measurements, secretly surprised by the fact that she DID also take measures of his legs without even noticing.

"You were working on auto-pilot while listening to me, so I took the occasion to sneak my legs in the measurement." he said smirking.

"Very well played." she admitted amused while lightly slapping his shoulder with a hoof.

"And yes, I was a damn idiot, but it needed to be done. That boy had no place in that kind of mission yet." the man added as he re-dressed.

"If we have to be precise the fault lies mostly on the ones that forced that boy in there and then HIM for underestimating those infernal traps you talked about..."

"Yes?" Buck asked curious at her troubled expression.

"Clothes I can do, shoes though...Those are out of my field of expertise. But I know a mare than can help you with that." Rarity answered unsure while watching his feet.

"Thank you, now that we have the measurements, let's talk about money so I will see how much stuff I can order." he said nodding.

"Blunt as a rock..." the mare muttered shocked.

"Sorry, force of habit."

"I wouldn't worry about money if I were you though, considering the fact that you work in a Beauty Parlor frequented by Princess Celestia herself!"

"Stop right there, I am not seeing a cent from that place."

"WHAT?!" she said shocked.

"Yep! Technically the other ponies working there with me should 'Teach me' how to massage you others depending if you have wings, horns or neither...But I am seeing my 'Teachers' getting a little pushy when dealing with certain customers, so they take most of them and I can't honestly be paid for a job I am not doing. My being a 'creature' doesn't help either." the man answered annoyed.

"They are stealing your customers?!" Rarity asked shocked.

"Yep! Luckily their contract will expire next week so I will have the parlor all to myself, but I am still worried about lacking Test Subjects to see if I am really ready to do it by myself." Buck explained.

"So you never had time to try what you learned..." Rarity said biting her lower lip.

"I have experience, shall we say, with Lyra, Bon bon and Zecora...But nobody else so I am not sure if I am good enough." he answered shrugging.

"..." at that the dress-maker walked a little away and gave her back to the human to cover her red face.

"But you are qualified?" she asked.

"Listening to Celestia-"

"PRINCESS Celestia." she corrected.

"She insists on me calling her Celestia, or Celly," he answered unsure making the other splutter in shock.

"Listening to her, I am good, but seen how gentle she is, she may as well being saying that just to not hurt my feelings." he finished saying sighing.

"Say..." Rarity drawled-out with a way-too-casual tone.

"Yes?" the man answered with narrowed eyes.

"Just hypothetically, would you be open to the idea of paying me with a full-service massage?" Rarity offered still not looking at him.

"Full service?" he repeated while mentally calculating the total fee with the 'US Dollars to Equestrian Bits' conversion formula he managed to figure-out with Celestia's help.

"Yes." she said.

"Uuuhm...Four full sets of clothes and we are even then." he offered.

"WHAT?! Too much! I offer two!" Rarity replied scandalized.

"Three, last offer. Boxers for my bits comprised."

"Tch! FINE! You humans must be very attached to your money." she humphed in annoyance.

"Hey! You were the one trying to rip me off!" he countered amused.

"I WAS NOT!"

"..."

"...Okay, MAYBE I may have tried that...but just a little!" she admitted blushing.

"Huhuhu! Nice try. Come on, find a table comfortable enough to lie face-down on and I will start immediately. Just give me five minutes to go back and take my oil." Buck said cracking his knuckles.

"And bring some scented candles too!" Rarity yelled to his retreating back.

"Aye, aye!"

Ten minutes later – outside the shop – Right under Rarity's workshop window on the shop's back -

Spike the dragon, assistant of Twilight, saw the 'Closed' sign on the door and knew that the mare was very likely closed in her small workshop in the back of her boutique to create something, so he decided to see if he could stalk-OBSERVE her while she worked, conscious that when she was really into creating something she was mostly oblivious of the rest of the world.

It was in fact mere 'instinct' if she could still hear the bell on her door even while working.

So, the small dragon decided to see if he could look at her working from the window as usual, until he could work out enough courage to confess his feelings for her that was as far as he felt able to go with her, and there he was organizing the usual wooden crate he normally used to reach the window to look inside.

"AAAAAAAHN!" and the long, pleasure filled moan in Rarity's voice almost had him topple over.

"W-W-W-Wha?!" Spike gurgled-out as she rapidly climbed the box to watch through the mirror and see the mare of his dreams lie face-down on her desk with her head on a pillow while the infamous ' new strange masseur' of Ponyville was working his magic on her.

"OOOH-Ooh! OOOOH! Uuuuuhm!" and somehow easily ignoring the mare's moans that instead were already drawing the dragon crazy.

Meanwhile – Inside Buck's head -

"The back, around the spine, is the more sensible part...I guess because it has to withstand the weight from four legs instead of two...I need a Pegasus to see how gentle I have to be around the wings though, I also want to see if the area around the horn is a good place to massage a Unicorn, maybe Magic stresses those muscles too? Massaging mom's legs was easier, at least she didn't moan!" the man thought sighing.

Arf! Arf! Arf!

"...I get it that he is spying on us, but that boy could at least TRY to not pant!...Is he blinking at least?" Buck thought curious as he watched with the corner of his eyes towards Spike to see the small dragon do not miss a single instant with his already blood-shot wide eyes.

"Not my problem, he looks harmless. I was like that when I was younger, so this time the show is on me."

Fawp! Fawp! Fawp!

"...Okay, I can tell by ear what he is doing and why easily enough, and I cannot blame him either considering how young he looks, but it is still disgusting!" he thought grimacing as he decided to NOT look towards him anymore.

Outside World -

"Rarity? Miss Rarity?" Buck said with a low voice.

"Uh-hu?" the mare muttered while still looking blissfully unaware of what was happening around her.

"I am gonna try something, please tell me if it is relaxing." He asked.

"You can do everything you want to me, Honey..." she answered with a lustful whispering.

Fawp!Fawp!Fawp!Fawp!Fawp!Fawp!Fawp!Fawp!Fawp!Fawp!Fawp! (Speed x10)

"Ugh! Okay." he answered gagging a little.

Said that his right hand moved towards her horn to delicately massage the skin around it and, to his chagrin, gently run two fingers along its full length up and down.

"Guooooooh!" the mare answered with a bestial growl as she started kicking out with her back legs and trashing lightly on the table.

Fawp!Fawp!Fawp!Fawp!Fawp!Fawp!Fawp!Fawp!Fawp!Fawp!Fawp! (SPEED x100!)

"I guess it means I am doing well..."

"OOOOOOH! SPANK ME! SPANK ME!"

Fawp!Fawp!Fawp!Fawp!Fawp!Fawp!Fawp!Fawp!Fawp!Fawp!Fawp! (SPEED x1000!)

"What the!?" Buck said shocked.

"SPANK THIS DIRTY SLUUUUUT!" the mare bellowed as she was, unknowingly to Buck but NOT to Spike, VERY CLOSE to her 'sweet ending'.

**FAWP!FAWP!FAWP!FAWP!FAWP!FAWP!FAWP!FAWP!* (Kaio-Ken TIMES THREEEE!)*

"CALM DOWN-ARGH!" as the poor ex-soldier tried to calm down Rarity, she kicked back stronger than intended nailing him on his crotch making him fall forward, the surprising lack of balance (and the mind-crushing pain of a horse kick to the balls) had Buck fall forward and blindly grasp for something to latch on…

His right hand in fact unconsciously grabbed her horn in a crushing grip while his left slammed on the desk, but only after landing on one of the mare's butt-cheeks with a very loud SLAP! Noise fully describing how much unforgiving strength there had been behind the impact.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" the orgasm, as there was no other way to call that scream, reached volumes never before heard as it shook ALL Ponyville, making Zecora simply sigh and add a new name under her mental "Buck's 'Victims'" list; Lyra and Bon-Bon instead huffed in annoyance at somepony else stealing their toy.

"AAAAAAAH!" a second scream though was heard following Rarity's with barely a split second difference.

"WHO'S THERE!?" the mare said horrified.

"...Just a cat..." Buck said once glanced outside to glare at the red-faced, completely ashamed small dragon that had also fell down from his perch and was already running away.

"..."

Once again they stood in a very uncomfortable silence as Rarity finally noticed the HUGE wet spot she had just created on the front of the man's clothes as dripping noises from her desk could still be heard in the background.

"...Two extra orders of clothes if you swear to tell this to absolutely NOPONY!" the very flustered mare offered.

Sigh! "Have no fear, the room where I give massages is sound-proof for this reason, apparently my massages have this effect on my customers...I guess that is also why my colleagues refuse to let me service whoever comes." Buck answered waving her concerns away with an uncaring gesture of his hand.

"I can bet." she muttered, what Stallion could accept a blow to their pride as huge as another creature having mares scream in pleasure like she did with a mere massage?

"If just a Massage of his feels like this...Human females must be the most satisfied creatures ever..." she thought flushing just a tiny bit redder.

"By the way, feel free to pass by our beauty parlor whenever you want, I will make you a nice discount on the full service, as a thank you for the clothes."

"..."

"...The effect is not as strong as this was if there is not a too long pause between visits." he then added very awkwardly.

"I'll keep that in mind." she whispered shyly.

"Now, can I wash myself in your bathroom? I am sticky." he said bluntly making Rarity's face almost catch fire from how red it got.

"Oh, my goodness!" in her still-pleasure-clouded mind she could barely manage enough brain-power to summon her fainting sofa in time to collapse on it unconscious.

"...That was unnecessarily over-dramatic." Buck muttered with a raised eyebrow.

Two days later – Beauty parlor 'Small Paradise' -

"Ah'm not sure, AJ!" BigMac said uncomfortable as he and his sister sat in the waiting area near Rarity.

"Rarity insisted in him bein' good, and she asked Twilight for a favour and Twi asked the Princess, Mister Blackbeard will massage ya for free until you recover as the doctor said." the farm mare answered huffing.

"I was worried about it, but her Highness readily accepted...But I can understand why as she too knows him." Rarity added.

"Ah just pulled a muscle!" Mac said whining.

"And if ya want to be back buckin' as usual to impress Cheerilee next month ya need somepony to help along with massages." AJ answered annoyed.

"A-A-AH'm not THAT desperate to show-off..." he answered lamely.

"Say that to somepony who believes ya." his sister answered huffing.

"Good evening! What can I do for you?" A Stallion with a brown coat asked showing a dazzling smile.

"We have an appointment with Blackbeard." Rarity answered uninterested.

"Ah...Him." the stallion answered dropping the smile instantly.

"Yeah, him." AJ replied with narrowed eyes.

"I can help you just as well as him if not better, he is busy at the moment as well." he tried saying before a shadow was cast over him covering him completely.

"Daaarn, ya're one darn big fellow..." AJ said impressed.

"Good evening, Blackbeard!" Rarity said with a small smile.

"Hey there, Rare!"

"I will take it from here, Sensible Touch..." Buck said.

"I am here to-"

"I will take it from here." the human repeated bending down to look at the Unicorn in the eyes.

"...Since when your eyes are that cold?" the pony couldn't help but ask gulping.

"I am imagining you as target practice." the man replied with a chilling smile.

"Umpf! Beast." the stallion answered huffing haughtily as he walked away offended.

"Sometimes I wonder if his horn was shoved up his ass until it came out from his forehead when he was born." he muttered sighing making the girls cringe at the joke while Mac simply chuckled.

"So ya are mah masseur?" Mac asked curious.

"Yep! You are Mac?"

"Eeyup! And this is mah sister AJ."

"Pleased to meet ya!" the mare said tipping her hat.

"You two remember me my cousins living South, same accent." Buck said amused.

"Good tha hear, Ah guess. So you accepted tha help me?" Mac asked.

"Yes I did. Bring that twisted hoof on my table and I'll fix ya good!" he answered with a thumbs-up.

"Do you think he will be okay enough to buck trees by next month? He and his family are hosting a school trip and he and AJ need to show how it works." Rarity asked.

"Buck trees?" the man replied confused.

"Kick tha tree until apples fall down." AJ explained.

"Uhm...if he comes here daily...And if that day he does not over-work...I think that MAYBE we can pull it off, just in case let AJ do most of the showing while you instead speak and explain...A couple trees you can do, but do not over-do or it will take FOREVER for your leg to recover." Buck answered.

"Ah'll keep that in mind." the stallion answered as he was helped by the man inside the isolated booth.

"Ya think Mac will be okay?" AJ asked worried.

"Do not judge Blackbeard by his appearances, he knows what he is doing." Rarity said sighing ashamed.

"Wha?"

"Nevermind."

"AJ?" a new voice asked.

"Oh! Miss Cheerilee! Good Evenin'!"

"Good evening, Cheerilee." both Element bearers said greeting he school teacher.

"I heard BigMac was hurt and that he was here to help his recovery, is he okay?" the mare asked concerned.

"He is okay, Cheerilee. He will recover in a flash." Rarity answered with a reassuring smile.

"Maybe we should-"

"Ya will have your school trip, we promised and we'll deliver." AJ interrupted her with a determined smile.

"Then I will go wish BigMac a swift recover." Cheerilee answered nodding.

"Yes, I think he will...NO! WAIT!" Rarity realized too late the drama as the mare had already opened the door and.

"EEEEP!" and slammed it closed immediately after with a furious blush on her face.

"...Exactly." the dress-maker said groaning.

"Ya okay?" AJ asked.

"OF COURSE! HIHIHI-NO! Everything's fine!" Cheerilee answered sitting near them still with her eyes looking very wide and berating herself as a giggle tried slipping out of her control.

"Ookay..." AJ muttered unsure while Rarity simply sighed and shook her head.

One hour later Mac, he too quite flushed, walked out accompanied by a smirking Buck that didn't even try to stop his laughing fit as both teacher and farm stallion failed to look at each other without turning redder.

"SO! This was the first massage, I will wait for you tomorrow at this hour, okay?" the human asked as if nothing was out of ordinary.

"Yeah." Mac muttered ashamed.

"How do you feel, Mac?" AJ asked.

"Ah'm fine...Miss Cheerilee?"

"Yes Huge-I MEAN! BigMac?" Cheerilee answered.

"Ah'm sorry for what ya saw and-"

"NONO! IT'S OKAY! I LIKED-I MEAN, I DON'T MIND!"

"He was just-"

"I-I-I-IT'S FINE!...L-Listen can I offer you something? Like a drink or something or-or-or..."

"A-AH would like that! But Ah'm offerin'!" Mac said immediately.

"O-Okay! I am thirsty-I mean I am hungry-I mean I like them big-EVERYTHING YOU OFFER IS OKAY!" The teacher said spluttering as she hurried towards the door.

"Soo...He will pass by your place tonight?" Buck interceded greatly amused.

"Tonight! Yes, Tonight is okay! I-I will be waiting for you, Mac and-" Thud! As she was answering the mare slammed her face against the door.

"Hihihi! I pushed instead of pulling! Silly me...Hihihi!" still giggling shyly Cheerilee FINALLY opened the door to leave in a great hurry making her giggles faintly echo inside the room.

"What just happened?" AJ asked confused.

"Nothing much, the gist of it is that your brother has a date tonight with the girl." Buck answered sitting on the floor to give a friendly pat on Mac's shoulders.

"Now it's your occasion, buddy! Show her that you also have a nice personality other than a nice toy and you'll hit the jackpot!" he said laughing.

"Ah got a date…With her…" Mac muttered incredulous.

"Yep! And you only needed to get stiffy because of my massages! HAHAHAHAHA! You'll thank me later." Buck answered sounding proud of himself.

"Nay...Ah'm thanking ya now!" Mac blurted-out.

"What do you-WHOA!" the human barely got the time to say before the stallion pounced on him.

"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!"

"I GET IT! I GET IT! NOW STOP KISSING ME! I LIKE GIRLS DAMMIT!" Buck bellowed as he tried to dislodge Mac as he was keeping thanking him in-between kisses to his cheeks.

"MAC!" AJ and Rarity yelled as they tried to peel the stallion away from the human.

Meanwhile – Right outside the Beauty Parlor -

Very well hidden in the shadows of the apartment building right in front of Buck's massage parlor, Luna the Night Alicorn was spying inside with narrowed eyes and a growl escaping her throat every now and then.

"First my beloved sister, then two mares, the zebra and now the brother of one of the Elements of Harmony...I am seeing a pattern here..." Luna growled-out.

"He is trying to build trust so to befriend the Elements and my sister Celestia...But why? And why is Celestia so adamant in defending this human beast? He even has a stallion sexually harassing him for no apparent reason...I must investigate this..." the Alicorn muttered.

But she could not spy personally, not yet at least! Celestia will immediately suspect she is up to something…Luckily she had the right stallion to use as a spy, her dear nephew Blueblood was used enough to high-class treatments that he will surely discover immediately any form of fool play, and then Luna will pounce on that proof and stop whatever plan that creature was trying to move forward!

Luna was not about waiting and hoping for the Elements to resolve everything like her sister Celestia preferred doing, it was clear that Blackbeard had a plan to fool even the most powerful magical artifact of Equestria! And she will be damned if she will let a strange creature mess with her beloved subjects!

"The hunt is on, Blackbeard! I hope you are ready as I won't show mercy! Bwahahahahahaha!" Luna said erupting into mad laughing.

"WHO'S THERE?!" Buck yelled with furious eyes as he came out from the parlor to look for the source of the clearly-evil laugh.

"Eeep!" the Alicorn squeaked as she hurriedly teleported away.

"...Maybe I imagined it..." the human muttered shrugging while returning inside.

Omake – The Aftermath Series: Spike -

Twilight was worried, it had been DAYS since her beloved assistant Spike had returned in a great hurry to close himself in is room to NEVER get out, not even for eating, and now the Unicorn was really fed-up with this situation!

"SPIKE! GET OUT! NOW!" Twilight bellowed throwing the door out of its hinges with her Magic and FINALLY watching her assistant walk out with dark bags under his eyes and a vacant expression on his face as if he wasn't recognizing his surroundings.

"Finally you got out! I haven't seen you in DAYS!" the mare said relieved.

"Heya Twi...I was...I was...Busy..." Spike answered with a faint voice as he looked around with empty eyes.

"You okay?" she asked confused.

"Yeah, yeah I am good...I am good...I am just...I'll just g-go and check if we got mail..." the small dragon answered while pointing at the door with his left arm that somehow had grown HUGE, almost twice the size of his whole body, and showing lots of well-developed muscles.

"Have you been lifting weights?" Twilight asked.

"No…No...I-I don't think...I-I-I am So-sorry, Twi...I gotta get back..." Spike answered as he walked back inside his room in a zombie-like manner.

"Oh, for Celestia's sake what are you doing in there!?" Twilight said with an annoyed growl as she followed him inside his room and…

"OH GOD IT'S EVERYWHERE!" and her deafening scream of disgust was then heard everywhere as she saw the results of Spike's seclusion.

Several days later -

"What do you mean 'I burned down the Library, it was the only way'?" Rainbow Dash asked shocked as she watched a new library being built on the ruins of the old one.

"Why don't you ask that to 'Mister Super Soaker' next to me?" Twilight answered bitterly making Spike look down in shame.

"...Have you been lifting weights, Spike?" the pegasus asked curious.

"NO COMMENT!" Twilight yelled in answer.

"Eeep!"

End of the omake -