Lyra Heartstrings regarded herself as one of the sneakiest ponies in Equestria. It was this confidence that had led her to conceal herself in her roommate's closet. One of Lyra's favorite pranks was to pop out unexpectedly, surprising her friends and eliciting screams and shouts from them. In the case of the flower trio (her favorite targets) sometimes she could even get them to faint! She always had trouble when trying to shock Bon Bon though, whose closet she was currently trying to use as a base from which to spring her latest jump-scare.

Despite the high regard in which she held her own talents, the truth about Lyra's clandestine expertise was an entirely different matter... for instance Lyra had neglected to keep the bottom of her mint-green tail from peeking out beneath the slightly ajar closet door... Even worse, Lyra was also chuckling aloud to herself, unable to contain her amusement at her own brilliance.

"Hee hee! I'm gonna get Bonny so good this time!" Lyra spoke to herself as she tried to muffle her laughing with her hooves. The last time she'd tried to surprise Bon Bon it had been her laughing that gave her away, Bon Bon had walked right up to her hiding spot behind the curtains and revealed the silly unicorn stoically... Lyra could never understand how how Bonnie always managed to find her...

Lyra never paused to think that sneaking up on a former Special Agent of a highly secret government intelligence agency would be a difficult task for even the most seasoned of spies (let alone a goofy unemployed musician) - to her, it was just a fun way to play with her friend.

Lyra heard the door to the two mares' shared two-story cottage-home open and shut after permitting somepony to enter. "She's here!!!" Lyra whispered excitedly to herself, unnecessarily creating more noise that would give her away.

Sliding back in the closet for more concealment, Lyra felt something slimy on her butt... levitating it away, she caught a quick glimpse of what it was. "Oh ew, Bon Bon... you've gotta clean these after you use them and before you put them away..." Lyra floated the rather small-sized 'Cooler Co. brand Stallion Form #3 (size small) anti-estrus sex-toy' away from her, oblivious to the fact that it was colored a rather familiar shade of mint-green.

"Lyra? You home?" Bonny's voice echoed through the house as her hooves clip-clopped up the stairs toward her room.

"*Hee hee!*" Lyra chuckled out loud, even as Bonny entered the room.

Usually these amateur-level slip ups would have revealed the silly mint unicorn's shenanigans immediately, but Bon-Bon was badly distracted at the moment.

The cream-colored earth pony hurriedly entered her room, completely missing the obvious signs of a Lyra infiltration (such as an ajar closet, mint-green hairs, and a light-gold magical glow illuminating the closet’s cracks)... Instead she rushed to her blinds and pulled them shut before returning to her room's door and sliding the deadbolt lock (a necessity when rooming with a mare like Lyra) closed.

Bon Bon took a couple of deep calming breaths, trying to take stock of what had just happened. Reaching forward, she put the small silver pendant she’d just been given onto her desk. She'd just been returning from working at her sweet shop, when she'd caught sight of a familiar pegasus - though one she hadn't seen in a few years now, before he'd swooped down to her. She used to know his name - now she could only remember that it had 'Feather' in it... which unfortunately was fairly common when it came to pegasi.

"Agent Drops," the pegasus had nodded to her before handing her the pendant, "good to have you back."

Bon Bon looked down at the same pendant, now resting on the desk in front of her.... she hadn't received one in so long, but with the bugbear threat removed, perhaps she was finally being called back into service? She touched her hoof to the pendant, the magic contained within activating and opening a small magic window. Bon Bon pressed her hoof to the glowing aperture, starting the pre-recorded message meant for her.

A stern-faced Shining Armor appeared causing Bon Bon to sigh, "they still do the same boilerplate pre-warning... Haven't even updated it since Shining is now Prince of the Crystal Empire, huh?"

Shining addressed the room loudly, "Attention, attention. The following message is a Top Secret level classified correspondence. It is only meant for ..." Shining paused for a moment.

"AGENT SWEETIE DROPS," the magical video intoned in a robotic tone, before Shining continued.

"if you are NOT the intended party of this correspondence, you must cease viewing of this message immediately. You are required by law to turn in this correspondence to your local constabulary or Royal Guard unit. If you are outside of Equestria and are not the intended party, please destroy this message and report this incident as soon as possible by express air-post. Continuing to view this Top Secret classified correspondence is a serious offence and will be punished to the fullest penalty permitted. This note is required by law. Thank you."

Bon Bon's eyes re-focused as Shining's bright white face video clicked off the screen, being replaced with the actual message... apparently to be delivered by Princess Luna.

"Greetings, Agent Sweetie Drops. I apologize for any confusion you may be feeling now." Luna looked apologetically at the camera. "I regret that we have not had a chance to work together since my return, your reputation at the Secret Monster Intelligence League of Equestria precedes you. You may not be aware that all of the Equestrian intelligence agencies have been re-organized to report to me, as it was in ages past."

Luna paused to sigh, giving Bon Bon a chance to seat herself and focus carefully on the message. Luna went on, "unfortunately S.M.I.L.E. requires you to return to active service. We are recalling you to assist in a search for a potentially dangerous creature who was stolen while being transported to Canterlot. Your successes in previous investigations involving new monsters factored greatly to your credit, and uniquely qualifies you for this mission."

Bon Bon grinned, happy to hear that she had managed to leave such a strong impression on the agency.

"The criminal group who snatched this monster also purloined an incredibly dangerous spell, one that my sister and I had thought we'd purged from all magical archives long ago... it allows a caster to corrupt free will, creating a true addiction that cannot be undone." Luna shivered. "As you can see, we have grave concerns for the evil that could arise with that spell in the public domain or even worse, in criminal hands... you must return to Canterlot as soon as able to receive a full briefing."

Bon Bon grumbled, wishing that Princess Luna would describe the kidnapped monster in more detail. Right on cue, Luna looked to her right, someone speaking to her from outside the magical recording's field of view, "Ah, Agent Drops, Twilight Sparkle informs me that calling the purloined creature a monster may be inappropriate... apparently she has had some previous experience with these so-called 'humans'-"

Bon Bon heard a muffled squeak of pure joy from behind her and exploded to her hooves, whirling to face her closet, where the noise had come from.

"-but we suggest that you treat them as you would any dangerous monster until the situation is under control-"

Bon Bon watched, shocked to her core, as Lyra burst forth from the closet, slamming her hooves in frustration on either side of the pendant and screaming at the Princess as if expecting a reply, "HUMANS ARE PEACEFUL, NOT DANGEROUS!"

Luna's recording had no reaction, of course, "-ward to seeing you in person, Agent Drops. Luna Out." The recording winked out of existence and the pendant vanished in a puff of self-annihilating magic.

Lyra's face was still a mask of anger, even as she turned to Bon Bon. "Can you BELIEVE what she was calling humans? Calling them monst- HEY!"

Bon Bon moved in swiftly, gripping Lyra's fore-hoof and twisting it behind her back slamming her chest onto the desk and pinning her upper torso. She quickly reached up with her other hoof and grabbed Lyra's horn, squelching it pre-preemptively from casting any magic and totally restraining the unicorn, just as she'd been trained.

"Lyra Hearstrings, you are under arrest for espionage, breaking the Royal Classification of Records legislation, and violation of the HAYTRIOT act." Bon Bon kicked Lyra's rear hooves further apart on the floor, spreading Lyra's stance too wide for her to free herself from Bon Bon’s submission hold.

"Jeez Bon Bon, take it easy." Lyra groaned, as her friend pressed her face into the wood of the desk.

"You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a military or Royal Tribunal... Lyra... what the BUCK were you thinking!?" Bon Bon barked angrily.

"What? I was just trying to surprise you?" Lyra whined. "I didn't know you were going to do some super-secret spy agency stuff!"

"Lyra, that was a TOP SECRET message... you're going to go to jail for like... 15 years for this!" Bon Bon growled looking around for something to restrain her friend with.

"WHAT!?" Lyra shouted, "Why? I... I could help! I could help you with the human... nopony knows about humans like me! I'm the head of the Human Enthusiasts Society!"

"Lyra, you're the only member of the Human Enthusiasts Society..." Bon Bon deadpanned.

"Nuh-uh! Twilight came to a couple meetings a while back... before she complained that all my scientific drawings were 'overly-erotic' and 'fetishistic regarding hands to a fault'." Lyra adopted a cloying falsetto tone when mimicking Twilight's remarks.

Bon Bon groaned, "Shut it Lyra, you can't help. I have to turn you in and get to Canterlot..."

"W-wait Bonnie... couldn’t you just deputize me? Then I could help and wouldn't have to go to jail!" Lyra pleaded.

"No, Lyra… Sheesh, that isn't even a real thing. Now be quiet until you get a lawyer to help get you out of this." Bon Bon began pulling a tassel from her curtains, hoping to bind Lyra's hooves with it.

"Hey Bonnie... what's up with this pose though? Couldn't you at least buy me dinner first?" Lyra looked back with a goofy grin and an eyebrow waggle.

Bon Bon felt her heart bump in her chest. She knew the inane green unicorn was just joking around using the first thought that popped into her head, even given the crazy situation, and yet... she had to wonder if Lyra didn't actually know how deep Bon Bon's feelings for her best friend truly ran. Bon Bon had always felt like Lyra was dropping little innuendos, inviting her to take their relationship to a new level... only for her to realize that the unicorn was just incredibly daft. Maybe. Probably.

"Hey Bon... are you the good cop or the bad cop?" Lyra chuckled, wiggling her beautifully shaped rear-end.

Bon Bon blushed. "Sh-shut up Lyra! Stop joking around, you're in a lot of trouble!" Still, Bon Bon had to take a moment to consider if she could really arrest her friend, her friend that she had a bad crush on. Maybe... maybe she could let this slide, and get Luna to retroactively pardon her after she got to Canterlot.

"Oh my Officer Bon, trouble? You are a bad cop then!" Lyra made goofy bedroom eyes at Bon Bon while flicking her tail.

Bon Bon couldn't help but start laughing, releasing her friend who proceeded to sit next to her and laugh as well. Bon Bon couldn't help it... as much trouble as she knew she could get into, she just loved her best friend. Lyra always knew how to push her buttons in just the right way to get her to forgive her for her antics, time and again. It was that same, deep love that made Bon Bon so nervous to confess her romantic attraction: she couldn't risk the precious friendship she did have.

As they finally wound down and ceased chuckling, stress now completely dissipated from the previously extremely tense situation, Bon Bon spoke up. "Lyra, I just can't stay angry at you, you goofball... I've got to get to Canterlot and you need to stay here and lay low until I'm back with further instructions."

Lyra squee'd in excitement, shaking as she replied, "D-does this mean that I'm your deputy secret agent?"

"NO." Bon Bon grabbed Lyra by her shaking shoulders, affixing her with a serious gaze. "You are not a deputy, and you are not investigating the missing human - you are staying confined to this house until I'm back from Canterlot." Bon Bon sighed, rubbing her temple with her free hoof... the last thing she needed was an overeager Lyra running some haphazard investigation. "Just... just promise me you'll stay at home, stay quiet for a couple of days, OK?" Bon Bon looked to her friend.

What she saw was disconcerting - Lyra seemed to have a thousand yard stare, a smile as manic as one of Pinkie Pie's after discovering you'd broken a pinkie promise... she was shaking with energy.

"L-lyra!?" Bon Bon shook her friend, "w-what's wrong?"

Lyra murmured, "I-I almost forgot when you were arresting me... humans. Human are real." Lyra jumped to her hooves on Bon Bon's bed before shouting out loud, "I KNEW IT. HUMANS ARE REAL!" She began bouncing up and down as Bon Bon tried to grab her. "REAL HUMANS. HUMANS REAL. THERE'S A REAL HUMAN OUT THERE BON BO-"

Bon Bon finally clamped Lyra's muzzle shut with her hooves. "SHHHHH.... Holy Celestia Lyra, what don't you understand about keeping this mission a secret? Stop shouting out loud about humans." Bon Bon considered a moment with a sigh, "although... I guess that isn't any different than a usual afternoon for you Lyra... still, no human talk, or else!"

Lyra's whimper escaped from her pinned shut muzzle.

"NO. Bad Lyra." Bon Bon released her and headed toward the door, "in any case, I have to get going to Canterlot immediately, there's no time to waste. Equestria needs me." Bon Bon snagged a metallic suitcase she'd stashed under her bed for such an occasion.

"B-bonnie..." Lyra called out, just as Bon Bon's hoof touched the door, making the earth pony pause. "Your best friend needs you too, OK? Be safe out there."

Bon Bon felt her heart melt as she looked back at her friend and secret crush, who seemed deflated and concerned that she may be heading into danger. "Don't worry Lyra... or should I say best-est friend deputy Lyra." Bon Bon knew she may regret saying that, but she couldn't stand to see her friend depressed and deflated.

Lyra instantly began to smile and shake, her excitement rising, she began to open her mouth. "Does this mean I can hel-"

"Deputy of staying at home for 5 days, and not going outside." Bon Bon winked, rushing out the door so that she would have the last word.

"NOT COOL, BONNNIIIIIEEEE!" Lyra moaned out, slamming her face into the bed.

She could still hear Lyra's whining as she ran down their house-path to the street, if she hurried she could still catch the late overnight train out of town to Canterlot and be there by morning...

Back in the house, Lyra picked her head off of Bon Bon's sheets, gathering her wits. "Still... the thing about deputization is that you've been empowered to make critical decisions..." Lyra popped up and rushed into her room, navigating through the chaotic mess of discarded clothes, papers, and books to her walk-in closet. Opening the door she entered her closet, now converted into, as she liked to call it, the Main Archive of the Human Society, technical drawings, blurry photographs, pseudoscience textbooks, faux-research papers on human society (many penned by Lyra herself) were neatly organized on carefully prepared shelving "...and if there's anyone in Equestria qualified to conduct an investigation on a human, it's Deputy Secret Agent Lyra Heartstrings."

Bon Bon had just made it onto train as it was pulling out of the station. Unfortunately, unlike most of the overnight express trains to Canterlot, this one was actually moderately full, which meant that there were no completely empty cabins. Bon Bon felt like maybe getting some shut-eye, so she didn't want to sit in the general seating car. Opting instead for the next best thing that she could get, she picked a sleeping cabin with what looked like two Canterlot University students, both unicorns. The other cabins had a mix of families with mewling foals or more senior citizen ponies that snored louder than Rainbow Dash had at Lyra's last slumber party (which had been a major tease of an event for poor Bon Bon).

They'd welcomed her in, insisting that she have one of the two large benches all to herself, passing her one of the thick woolen blankets so she could get comfy for the long ride to the capital city. They'd introduced themselves quickly, with smiles.

The very talkative unicorn mare, with her orange main and tail and light peach-yellow fur was Glitter Shine and had just started at Canterlot U, a freshman studying general magical arts with a concentration in Earth-Pegasus-Unicorn social integration (good luck getting a good job with that basket-case of a course Bon Bon thought snidely), though the future barista was pretty cute, especially with her braces and big bright blue eyes. If Bon Bon was in the market, and had more time, she might endure a painful lecture over ciders from the idealistic student about how she was culturally discriminated against as an Earth pony, in order to take her home for a one-night tumble in the sheets. She could teach her all about oppression with some of the toys she had back home. Bon Bon grinned.

The stallion unicorn was wearing a varsity jacket, and appeared to be fairly athletic. His taupe fur complimented his short-cut black hair and well-cut jaw. His name was Silver Glint, and he'd barely mumbled a few words about how he was going into his fourth year in business administration. From what little she'd gleaned from the overly talkative Glitter Shine, Glint was her 1st-year adviser/mentor and they just happened to both have family back in Ponyville and had run into one another during the weekend... Bon Bon believed that story about as far as she could spit, especially with the googly eyes the young mare was making at the older colt. She wouldn't be making any sort of a deal out of it, as much as it was probably against school policy for Silver Glint to be 'mentoring' Glitter Shine in such an interesting fashion. Bon Bon sighed, looking at the sleeping form of the young co-ed mare, as she lay curled up on the opposite end of the bench from her 'friend'... such a waste... she really didn't understand what mares saw in other stallions: so rough, so rugged... and after a few pokes in the plot Bon Bon had decided that they weren't well-equipped to truly satisfy a mare... oh the things she could teach that girl if she had the time.

About an hour after pulling out of the station Bon Bon was already snuggled in on the comfy sleeping bench getting ready to nod off to the rhythmic 'clickety-clack' of the train's soothing background sounds, when she heard muffled chuckling from the other side of her cabin. She watched secretly from her side of the dark cabin as Glitter unfurled herself from her solo cocoon and slide over to the other side of the bench where her partner lay.

As soon as Glitter escaped her blanket, the small cabin was flooded with her powerful musk. Bon Bon knew she'd sensed something, but the girl was smart enough to keep herself and her pheromones under wraps. Now though, the air was thick with the smell of pure sex... Bon Bon's nose twitched. Either Glitter was on her heat or she'd been hoofing herself under the covers... Probably both.

Bon Bon watched, transfixed as she nudged Silver Glint with a giggle. Stirring him.

"Zzznngh? Whozzat?" He murmured groggily.

"Shhh. Glint it's me." The musky coed whispered.

"Glitter? What is it? There's no way we're there yet." The stallion groaned, yawning.

"We're not, but I can't wait anymore - I need you inside me, NOW."

Glint sat bolt upright, now instantly awake. "Wh-what? Here? Now? What about whats-her-name... Bon Bon wasn't it? She's right over there!"

Glitter chuckled, "Shh! She's asleep, there's no way she'll wake up."

Glint still seemed nervous about this. "I don't know Glitter this seems like a bad ideaa-ahnnnnn...." he moaned as Glitter's hoof began to stroke his half-hard stallionhood.

"Hmm?" Glitter said, looking into Glint's pleasure-filled face as she stroked up and down his hardening length with her delicate under-hoof. "I didn't hear you right, Silver Glint... Did you say your idea is you want me to be bad?" she whispered with a mischievous grin as her horn lit, a soft blue field wrapping around Glint's balls and tugging them in time with Glitter's strokes.

"Unf!" Glint moaned, as he leaned back, letting the freshman mare stroke his cock to full erection.

Bon Bon continued watching, not wanting to interrupt at this point mostly because of the embarrassment it would cause all involved. Maybe they would have a quickie and get back to sleep. Despite his fairly impressive length and girth, Glint did look like a quick-shot to Bonnie: not that she knew that much about stallions.

Glitter shifted her hoof down to the pair of large testicles, letting Glint's fat sausage slap against his belly. She then traced her magical field up and away from his balls and encapsulated the whole shaft with her aura, squeezing and pulling at it as she enjoyed watching the effects of her ministrations on the stallion's face.

"Glitter - y-you... umnn... you're making too much light!" Glint whispered, pointing out that her blue field had essentially made a giant glow-stick out of his penis.

Glitter smiled evilly, "well... I'll just have to cover up that glow then, won't I?"

Glitter dipped her head, engulfing the fat head of Glint's stallionhood with her mouth. After tracing her tongue around the flare a couple of times in a move that surprised Bon Bon for just how experienced the young freshman co-ed was, she slipped the Stallion's thick shaft down her throat.

"G-Glitter!" Glint moaned, leaning back on the bench, reaching his hoof down to put it on the back of her head. He groaned silently as Glitter slid partway down his shaft, before gagging when she reached his medial ring.

Bon Bon's eyes went wide as she could clearly see the thick bulge in Glitter's throat. Glint applied pressure softly to the back of the young filly's head, and slowly, with the most obscene choking and gagging sounds, she swallowed past his thick ring. Bon Bon covered her mouth in awe, watching the medial ring slide down Glitter's throat, clearly bulging her esophagus outward.

'That girl must have been a sword swallower in a circus in a past life,' Bon Bon thought.

With her nose now buried in Glint's pubic fluff, and his entire length down her throat, she began to slide up and down - just small amounts - only an inch either way.

"Celestia damn it, Glitter." Glint whispered in agony, "you are such a buckin' little slut." He reached with his free hoof down to Glitter's supple flanks, both mounds poised beautifully in the air (Glitter had dismounted the bench to get a better angle at Glint's shaft and now had her flank up in the air as she rested her fore hooves on Glint's lap) and playfully slapped at the taut, fleshy globes.

Glitter groaned around Glint's cock, the rumbling making him react as well. Glint lit his own horn, a reddish aura appearing around Glitter's dock as he yanked her tail up and out of the way...

Bon Bon could almost feel the wave of pheromones from the filly's plot assault her face, even from the other side of the cabin. She was treated to the sight of a tiny, tight tailhole poised atop a swollen and grasping plump opening. Glitter's love button shot in and out of sight, each throb exposing the deep pink flesh within, the walls connected with strands of sticky mare juices.

'I think this little filly needs it bad.' Bon Bon thought.

"Buck Glitter!" Glint moaned, moving his magic from her dock down to her marehood, as she continued to bob her head up and down, deep-throating his erection. The red aura traced past the sensitive area between ponut and pussy, before teasingly gripping both her lips together.

Glitter slapped at Glint's thigh's with her hoof in annoyance, bobbing up and down faster.

"Unghh...." Glint groaned, "did you like that Glitter? How about... this?" Glint's aura pinched and squeezed at her hot clitoris, and instantly Glitter moaned and shuddered, a spatter of juice squirting from her love-opening to the cabin floor.

Bonnie's nose was assaulted with the powerful smell of Glitter's heat, the potent juices filling the cabin with the smell of sex and desire.

Glitter's blue aura re-lit and went back to her rear-end, pushing Glint's magical field out of the way. Bon Bon watched as Glitter formed a small cylindrical magical construct and plowed it into her marehood, fucking herself with her magic as she fellated Glint. Even more surprisingly, she saw the same blue aura direct Glint's magic up to her asshole, inviting the red magic field to play with her backdoor.

'Yep, she needed it pretty bad.' Bon Bon confirmed to herself.

As Glitter continued to slam into herself with her magic -l while Glint toyed with her tight little ponut and her juices splattered to the floor with regular frequency, Glint suddenly stiffened.

"Gl-glitter... slow down. I'm going to-!" Glint tapped on her head to get her attention.

But Glitter didn't slow down.

Instead, she quickened her pace, moving up and down on as much as she could handle of his erection. Glint went cross-eyed as he squeezed the young mare's head, his hips bucking up and down off the bench. Through the mare's neck-fur, Bonnie could see Glint's flare widening out and throbbing, obscenely making it seem as if Glitter's neck had some strange bulge in it... he was obviously cumming deep inside the mare's throat.

A moment after Glint stopped shaking, Glitter withdrew. The long slow process of pulling herself off the thick, long stallionhood culminated with a *smack* and *pop*, as the aftermath of Glint's explosion flowed down the sides of his shaft, which now limply sat in his lap like a floppy thick sausage.

Glitter immediately began to lap up his semen from his shaft and lap, as she continued to pound into herself with her magic.

Glint huffed, still catching his breath as he leaned back and let out a happy sigh. "*huff* *huff*, ahh.... s-sorry babe, your skills were too much for me, as usual!" He reached for his blanket, preparing to slide happily back to sleep. "I hope you can get your fix using your own mag- *hnk*!" He was cut off as Glitter put a hoof over his mouth.

"If you think I'm going to let you blue-ball me Silver Glint, you've got another thing coming." Glitter whispered as she reached with one of her hooves and picked up the limply deflating cock, stroking it harshly. "My heat is totally peaked, and if I don't get your spunk in my pussy, I swear I'll walk out this door and buck the first colt I see."

Glitter's impassioned demand aside, Glint's stallionhood continued to shrink and retract into its sheath, even as Glitter struggled to hold onto what was now a small slimy noodle. "S-sorry babe... you know it takes a few hours before I'm 'back in the saddle'... I'd do anything if I could to speed it up, you know that."

Glitter swore under her breath before she got an evil smile. "Anything?" She ceased the pumping of her magic into her marehood, pulling it out with a squelch.

"Woah woah woah, I know what you're thinking about, but we agreed no spells in th- *hrk*!" Glint shuddered and his eyes twitched as Glitter's blue magic aura slipped around his tailhole.

"I think I just heard you say, anything, Silver Glint..." Glitter grinned, leaning in to stare down the stallion with her sultry, needy eyes.

"Glitter, h-hun." Glint nervously chuckled, as her magic played over his tightening pucker. "I kn-know that you're thinking of using Starswirl's spell of stallion reconstitution... but we agreed that you wouldn't play with my butt and we both know that magic spell needs to be applied directly to the prostATE! *EEP*!"

Glint squeaked as Glitter leaned in with her smirking grin, watching his face. Her magic field spread Glint's asshole and slid into his anus, finding the thin membrane between his rear cavity and his prostate. Her mind quickly recalled the spell she'd memorized one afternoon at the library, firing it directly into the stallion's prostatic glands.

Immediately, she could see her blue glow emanating from within Glint, spreading from insideq his abdomen and down through into his large testicles, before reaching his sheath.

"H-hot... hot... HOT!" Glint began to whine, as Glitter covered his mouth with her hoof to prevent him from making too much noise. He whined a muffled scream as she continued to pump magic into his tailhole. Suddenly, his cock slipped out of its sheath, rapidly growing with each heartbeat, pumping full of blood.

"Oopsies, maybe that was a bit too much energy?" Glitter smirked with her tongue out, enjoying the power-trip she'd just applied. She pumped one more large burst of magic into Glint's ass before withdrawing her magical field, then just sat back and watched as Glint twisted and moaned, clutching his lower stomach and balls as they throbbed with pain... all while his stallionhood continued inflating.

"Mmmm, good boy." Glitter smiled as she continued stroking the stiffening shaft, while all Glint could do was to continue mewling about how the heat he felt pulsating through his loins.

The penis throbbed back to its original full girthy length... but continued throbbing. Each heartbeat seemed to be pushing more and more blood into the stallion's length. Glint's eyes were shut in pain as he gritted his teeth, Starswirl's spell having much more than its intended effect. Like a balloon that was being overfilled, the organ could not grow any longer, so instead it swelled outward, thick veins popping out of sides that had bulged outwards so that they were almost as thick as the flare - itself now a truly intimidating mushroom shaped cap the size of a hoof. Glint's stallionhood was now a monster.

Bon Bon watched in amazement - dicks were not her thing, but this one was now scary looking.

Glitter leaned back and licked her lips, as the stallionhood finally finished throbbing, the thick piece of meat was just as long, but now was as girthy as a pony's foreleg.

"Mmmm... mama-like!" Glitter chuckled as she shifted around and sat in Glint's lap, her back to the moaning stallion. She used a flick of her magic to lay the thick sausage between her butt cheeks, the heavy dark organ landing against her with a hearty *thwap*. Glitter could feel immediately that the shaft wouldn't fit between her tight buttocks, it rested on the outside of her asscheeks... so she used her magic to pull her cheeks apart. With a little bit of effort, she wedged the thick sausage in between her cheeks and released her magic, sandwiching the shaft between her buttocks and up against her still sopping marehood.

"MMnnn- buck!" Glint moaned out as Glitter began to grind her flank up and down on his lap, his stallionhood fully hotdogging Glitter's hot rear. With each grind, he could feel the filly's heat on his painfully thick shaft, as it became more and more slathered in her juices. He couldn't stop his biological urges as he began to hump back against the hot young unicorn, his thick flare drooling pre-ejaculate as it plowed into Glitter's dock.

"OK, that's enough foreplay, now I need my medicine." Glitter moaned as she dragged her bottom up Glint's shaft one last time, until she perched over his flare, aligning it with her winking opening. "This is gonna be good..." She whispered as she lowered her hips onto the fat cock head.

Bon Bon's focus was on the union of the two co-eds, but she grimaced in pain as she watched the young freshman mare's lips stretch... but ultimately fail to admit the ridiculously thick shaft.

"Oomph... ooh..." Glitter bit her lip in frustration, "I-I don't think it's going to fit Glint." She looked back over her shoulder at the unicorn with a look of despair and fear in her eyes: she wanted it so badly - but she could tell that her little marehood couldn't handle Glint in his current state.

"Horseapples." Glint grunted out, his stallionhood throbbing harder than it ever had before. "You ain't getting out of this one Glitter - you broke it..." he placed his hooves on Glitter's hips as his horn lit up and Glitter's eyes widened in fear, "you bought it..." Glint pushed down with all his might, and activated his magic to drag the young filly's hips down powerfully onto his swollen organ.

"HOLY BUCKIN' CELESTIA!" Glitter screamed out loud as her labia finally slipped around the huge cockhead. If it weren't for the two's copious natural lubrication, she might have torn something as her body slid down the obscenely fat fleshy pole. Her body stretched to accommodate the stallion entering her, as she finally jammed on her downward path on the donut-like medial ring.

"BUCKIN' TARTARUS GLINT, YOUR COCK IS HUGE!" Glitter screeched, as her marehood winked and clasped on the invading stallion's cock.

Bon Bon cleared her ears out... probably the nearest three cabins had heard that last shout, there was no use pretending anymore, and these two had gone on for long enough - it was time to put a stop to these two. Bon Bon sat up, rubbing her eyes and letting out a fake yawn as if she'd just been roused from sleep.

"G-glitter! You idiot!" Silver Glint whispered.

"*eek* G-give me that!" Glitter whisked the nearby blanket over the two of them covering their lower halves and wrapping them up. "J-just act natural Glint!" Glitter whispered through clenched teeth.

'Seriously?' Bon Bon thought to herself as she looked over at the two Unicorns under the blanket. Maybe if she was completely dumb and deaf, a pony could be fooled into thinking Glitter had fallen asleep in Glint's lap... but throwing in the smell of sex and the two flushed faces, and it was pretty obvious what was going on under that blanket.

A red-faced Glitter tucked her face into the blanket as much as she could, before looking over at Bon Bon. "I-I'm so sorry, Ms. Bon Bon... I had a nightmare and woke up shouting - it happens to me sometimes, right Silver Glint?" She chuckled nervously.

"Buck me! Yes!" Glint moaned as he clenched his teeth, something obviously gripping something else sensitive under the blanket.

'Seriously?' Bon Bon thought, an annoyed frown on her face... she was going to play along for about one more minute before she ended this charade.

"*huf* *huf*, y-yep... just a nightmare! You can g-go b-back to sleep! I promise not to waaaaaaa...." Glitter trailed off into a moan as Glint's hips began thrusting under the covers. Bon Bon could hear the wet squelching of their fucking as the unicorn stallion steadily bucked into his young lover.

"St-stop you idiot!" Glitter whispered over her shoulder to Glint. But it was no use - his male biology had fully overridden his senses and he would continue to thrust with abandon until he was done.

Glitter moaned softly at one particularly powerful thrust, before she refocused on the mare sitting across from her with a grumpy expression and a raised eyebrow.

"Y-you *unf* see... Glint here *unf*, he likes to give me *unf!*, massages under the blanket *UNF!*, when I get *UNF!!* nightmares!!!" Glitter's pathetic excuse was interrupted by more and more powerful thrusts which drove the breath from her lungs, as wet organs slapped against one another under the blanket.

Glitter must have realized that the jig was up at this point, and began to apologize. "I-I c-can explainnnnnggggg!" before she could though her back arched forward. Bon Bon noticed that the young mare suddenly slid down a few more inches into Glint's lap... 'She must have just been hilted' Bon Bon thought.

"Oh Celestia!" Glitter's eyes rolled wildly and her tongue slipped out of her muzzle as she shuddered. A moment after Bon Bon heard a wet splattering sound and saw an impressive torrent of juices pour off the bench from under the blanket, sloshing down to the floor in little bursts as Glitter squeaked and convulsed.

"She bucking knows, Glitter... here!" Glint growled as he ripped the blanket aside, leaving the pretense aside and revealing everything to Bon Bon.

She couldn't help but whistle at the sight of the young co-ed riding Glint reverse cowpony style, impaled all the way to the base of his thick shaft, her marehood spread to the limit around his cock's incredibly wide base as it spasmed and spurted fluid. If Bonnie didn't know better, she swore she could see Glitter's flat belly bulge ever so slightly from the huge organ spearing her.

"B-b-buck me!" Glitter moaned as she instinctively bounced up and down on Glint's lap.

"Here you go babe, I'm... I'm cumming!" Glint thrust particularly hard as he clenched Glitter's hips, driving deep into her as he convulsed. Glitter's eyes rolled wildly and she opened her mouth wide as she looked up at the ceiling mindlessly, her estrus finally being sated by the thick splurts of semen shooting into her womb.

"Ugh, b-buck!" Glint groaned out as he began to lift Glitter off of his cock. For whatever reason, Glint had decided to try to get the filly off of his stallionhood before he climaxed completely in her - perhaps he thought that he shouldn't shoot everything in her for fear of getting her pregnant, perhaps he was worried about getting lodged in her... in any case Glitter mewled as his rigid staff slid out of her, still firing thick ropes of semen.

One string shot out of his cockhead and painted across Glitter's chest and up into her face, splashing with some force. She reacted to push the thick spurting shaft away from her.

Bon Bon watched as another thick rope of ejaculate shot from the tip of the unicorn's throbbing penis and flew across the cabin, landing in her hair and along her muzzle. Before she could even flinch a second rope hit her right in the noze and mouth, thankfully her lips were closed so she only had a small taste of the salty liquid. A final shot with less force only managed to hit her chest floof, before falling weakly to the floor - connecting Bon Bon with a sticky line to the stallion's dick.

As Glitter regained her senses, she looked across the cabin at the earth-pony mare - realizing with shock that part of her stallion's load was dripping off of her snout to the cabin floor below.

"OH MY GAWSH. I am SO sorry!" Glitter squeaked, covering her mouth in shock.

Glint grinned from his seat, basking in the glow of his orgasm. "Aw, don't be babe... she got a free sample she should be thanking us."

Glitter punched her stallion playfully and chuckled, "shut up you asshole, she didn't ask for this."

"She didn't have to - " Glint smiled as he gripped his still rock hard stallionhood with his magic and waggled it at Bon Bon, "she's had her eyes glued to my dick... she wants it." Glitter looked up at Bon Bon.

Bon Bon was not amused. Wiping herself with a tissue she pulled from her bag, she fixed Silver Glint with a cold stare. "Thanks, but no thanks... not ever. Even if I was interested in stallions, it would be a cold day in Tartarus before I'd squat on that spell-warped freakstick."

"Hey!" Glint looked a bit hurt, "just 'cuz you're a filly-foolin' dyke doesn't mean you need to be a bitch about it. I'm offerin' you a chance to 'ride' here!"

Bon Bon's eyebrow twitched in anger.

"Glint, quiet!" Glitter admonished, before looking back at Bon Bon. "It's OK you know."

"Huh?" Bon Bon asked, angrily her rage building even higher.

"You can buck him if you want..." Glitter explained, as if speaking to a small child. "In my university classes on pony race interactions, it's a commonly known phenomenon that earth pony mares take up filly fooling because they feel inferior."

"What." Bon Bon couldn't believe what she was hearing.

"Yes, you see... because earth-pony mares have trouble in the modern era keeping up with pegasi and especially unicorn mares in attracting mates, they take up homosexual relationships with other earth-mares..." Glitter explained with a smile, "you may not even have realized it, because you've internalized the discrimination. But I want you to know: you aren't inferior... you can buck Glint, you'll enjoy it!"

Glint rolled his eyes at Glitter going into a social justice spiel, but waggled his cock anyway. "Yeah, yeah, feel free to hop on."

"I can't believe this." Bon Bon rubbed her temples, the rage building in her mind like a thunderstorm.

"Oh hang on, maybe this will make the transition easier." Glitter adjusted herself, sliding back onto Glint who groaned out loud as she wedged herself partway onto his cock once again. "If you'd like Ms. Bon Bon, you can start by licking me while I'm on Glint: it should feel more natural to transition back to a male once you've done that."

Bon Bon stepped off of her bench, trotting the step or two over to the couple. "Let me make sure I have one thing clear though Glitter... you believe that the sexes should have equality in all things right?"

Glitter nodded with a smile, "yes! Of course!"

"Good." Bonnie turned around, pointing her flank at the joined couple.

"Aw yeah! Show me the goods, girl!" Glint hooted.

"This is for both of you then..." Bon Bon aimed carefully right where the two were joined, and pulled her right hoof back...

...

A huge cry of pain echoed through the train, and a moment later a bedraggled looking Bon Bon left her sleeping car, suitcase in hand. After a brief stop at the washroom to clean up, she made her way to the general seating, where she found a crowded seat and tried vainly to get some rest amidst a car filled with snoring ponies and crying foals.

Lyra trotted happily through the streets of Ponyville. She had barely hesitated to consider whether ignoring Bon Bon's stern admonition based on her own judgement was the wisest course of action: Lyra knew that she would be the best human incident investigator Equestria had ever known.

Of course, in order to do things right she would first need to be properly equipped for the job, which is why Lyra was jauntily bouncing up the steps of the carousel boutique, bursting through the door with enough enthusiasm to make the small door chime irrelevant.

"Hi Rarity!" Lyra effused, waving at her fashion designer friend, currently hunched over her sewing table, partway through some complicated design.

"Oh! Hello Lyra, if you wouldn't mind giving me a moment I have a cus-" Rarity began with a smile.

"No time!" Lyra cut her off immediately. "I'm here on critical business from the Crown."

Rarity looked up, bemused. "Really darling? Just which crown?"

"Can't say." Lyra growled, as she inspected a fedora from the bargain bin. "This is super-secret special agent work and I'm sworn to secrecy." Lyra selected a rather sharp looking hat.

Rarity stood up from her table. "I understand, Ms. Heartstrings. And how might I hel-"

"Oh very well, Rarity." Lyra sighed, sidling up to the white fashionista and leaning in close to her. "I'll read you in on the mission, but only because I know you're so good at keeping secrets and resisting the urge to gossip."

Rarity's snout scrunched up in mild offense, before she remembered that Lyra was simply too pure-hearted to deliver such a snarky, back-handed insult. "Really dear, you needn't-"

"I'm investigating the theft of a captured human!" Lyra shouted, shaking with excitement and bouncing up and down in place. Why she had needed to pull Rarity into whisper range only to nearly scream out her secret mission was beyond the fashionista's (or anypony's) understanding.

Rarity rolled her eyes. Lyra's escapades regarding her obsession with humans was well known throughout Ponyville. "Oh really now, that's lovely. And how can I help you in re-capturing this... hoo-man?"

"It's hu-man Rarity, sheesh. And you can help by providing the correct outfit for a super-secret agent of the Crown!" Lyra tipped her fedora as she darted through the store, before seizing on a beautiful grey trench-coat. "Ah! This is perfect!"

Rarity stood up in shock as the mint-green unicorn tossed the coat on in a flourish. "W-wait my dear, that's my Sapphire Spade costume jacket, it's not for sale - it's mine!"

Lyra had already done up the jacket and tied the fetching belt that went with it. "Sorry Rarity, I need to commandeer this jacket in the name of royal business... it was yours though, huh? Guess that explains why it's a bit tight in the flanks and roomy in the waist." Lyra said innocently, sliding the jacket about her while wriggling her beautifully plump rump.

Rarity's eye twitched. She managed to swallow her building anger, once again reminding herself that Lyra never truly meant to offend. "Yes, well then... how will you be paying for the outfit? It's quite expensive you know." Rarity began making her way to the cashier.

Lyra stopped, already halfway to the door. "Uh, pay? I didn't think... uh, put it on the Crown's account with your shop I guess." Lyra shrugged.

Rarity looked up from her cash register with a raised eyebrow. "Crown's account? You mean... like... Twilight's account?" Rarity asked with a confused expression.

"Yup, perfect! I'm authorized as a deputy working on behalf of the Crown. See ya!" Lyra slammed the door as equally exuberantly as she'd opened it.

"Very well then, Ms. Heartstrings." Rarity murmured as her register made an overly loud *CHA-CHING* sound. Rarity turned toward the rear of her shop, where the dressing rooms were located and began trotting back that way, picking up the fabric she'd been working on previously and preparing to resume her work. "Terribly sorry about the interruption. Lyra can be such a dear, though she is so infused with energy when it comes to these ridiculous 'hoo-man' notions of hers."

"Nah problem, s'no biggie." A voice responded from behind one of the changing room curtains. "Was a very interestin conversation to overhear, anyway."

Rarity smiled, resuming her work. "Yes, quite exciting indeed. In any event I will have this custom order of rather strangely fitted minotaur-like slacks and shirt done in a jiffy for you Miss...?"

A familiar young teenage-mare thestral stepped out from behind the changing curtain, admiring the leather duster she was trying out with a grin. "Dusk Wing. Name's Dusk Wing."

Bon Bon had managed to leave behind the bad taste of the train ride some hours ago, but the loss of sleep from being crammed into a general seating bench for the past few hours was grating on her. Luckily, her first meeting was with Luna (herself no fan of early mornings) and so plenty of rich dark coffee was on hand.

Luna had proceeded to launch into an extensively detailed account of the heist, as recounted by those guards with the best available perspectives and Captain Stalwart himself. Bon Bon had stared in open-mouthed shock as Luna recounted the horrifying nature of the attack and how the criminal gang had utilized love-poison to break through the powerful royal seals. Her open-mouthed shock was partly at the audactiy of the gang, and partly at the vividness of the Princess's recounting.

"...and then the vile-wretch did dis-entrench the Captain's stallionhead from her toxic, slatternly gulch, which did pour his seed upon the prostrate-" Luna recited angrily before being interrupted by Bon Bon.

"OKAY! Ok... thank you Princess, I think I understand fully. I didn't need to hear all of that." Bon Bon held up a hoof to her blushing, red face. She was no prude but even she had limits.

Luna scoffed, "Pony-society has become so prim and proper since my banishment. A thousand years ago my covert-agents would seduce and bed stallions utilizing far more seductive tactics than such feeble rutting - I was the one who instructed them after all. It was a welcome benefit of the job for them." Luna lectured about her earlier sex-capades while Bon Bon could only groan and continue covering her face. "Though, even I must say that those heinous villains have broken the most sacred of rules by dabbling in black magics - particularly those which corrupt a citizen's free will."

Bon Bon shivered. "Yes, I'm glad to hear that at least that was considered wrong a thousand years ago... and if they find a way to activate the spell those cultists had... they could make anything as addictive as Pinkie Pie's cupcakes."

"Far worse than that, Agent Drops." Luna shook her head while gesturing toward the hospital section of the castle, "come! We shall speak to the Captain himself."

As they trotted briskly through the main hallway of the ycastle Bon Bon couldn't help but ask more. "Princess Luna, the spell is of course of the utmost concern... but my specialty is monsters." Bon Bon paused before pressing on, "what can you tell me about this monster... the human?"

Luna sighed, "yes yes... the 'monster'. Princess Twilight was quite insistent that we not call the creature a monster - she insisted that she'd had personal experience with the beasts during her time exploring the dimension on the other side of my sister's mirror portal." Luna grumbled as they turned a corner, entering the medical ward area of the castle barracks. "Personally I find the creature to be quite boring - Twilight's sketches appeared to show some sort of hairless ape, bipedal - though much smaller than a minotaur, I can't recall if it was sapient or not."

Bon Bon raised an eyebrow. "Uh... that's... not very helpful. Do you know if it's violent?"

Luna shrugged, "unknown, however Princess Twilight confirmed that humans have no magic, and the ones she had contact with were not particularly strong." Luna paused as they passed through multiple security checkpoints into a high-security portion of the ward. "Make no mistake Agent Drops, though Princess Twilight and my sister have an extreme concern that we recover the beast, I believe we must focus on regaining control of the addiction spell and any other black magic for reasons you shall shortly see." Luna gestured to a heavily secured door leading to a padded cell, the name above the door read PATIENT STALWART.

Bon Bon gulped.

Lyra stalked up to the door of the Ponyville 'Potions and Armchairs' shop, huddling under the upturned collar of her overcoat and with the brim of her fedora pulled down. Her back up against the wall she crept stealthily along the exterior wall of the building, her eyes shifting left and right as they looked for potential threats.

"Hey Lyra!" Roseluck smiled and waved as she trotted past Lyra, recognizing her instantly by the completely apparent mint-green mane.

"SHHHH. Roseluck!" Lyra whined, "I'm on a secret mission, don't just call my name out like that - jeez!"

Roseluck just chuckled as Lyra sidled into the 'Potions and Armchairs' shop in frustration.

Inside, Lyra didn't have much opportunity to remain annoyed that her disguise was perhaps not as effective as she thought it was before she arrived at the counter and rang the service bell.

"Hello there Ms. Heartstrings" a middle-aged unicorn yawned as he looked up from his work filling a prescription bottle, "strange to see you here this time of year... are you having another out-of-season heat? I'll go get the industrial-strength suppressant then..." the unicorn, Pill Popper, turned and used his magic to float down a box from the top of his medicine shelving.

"NO!" Lyra blushed, waving her hoof. She was conscious that another pony had lined up behind her and hated that Dr. Popper was being his usual big-mouthed self. "I'm not here for that, I need a special order..."

Pill Popper raised an eyebrow behind his spectacles. "You sure about that Lyra? I've got plenty here - only you and some of Fluttershy's animals need this level of suppressant..."

Lyra blushed, waving a hoof to try and hush him.

"Nothing to be ashamed about dear," Dr. Popper went on as he pulled out a bottle of the heavy-strength hormonal suppressant, "very healthy to have a powerful estrus-drive! You must drive your colt-friend craz-"

"Enough!" Lyra stomped her hoof, mortified that another pony knew she needed maximum strength suppressant to get through heat-season, "I'm not in heat. I need a suicide pill and a protein pill."

There was a beat of time where you could hear a pin drop.

Finally, the Doctor broke the silence. "What."

Lyra slammed her forehooves on the counter in frustration, "all good secret agents need a suicide pill in case they get captured." Lyra scrunched her face up in anger as she affixed the pharmacist with her gaze. "I'm on a super-secret mission from the Crown, Pill Popper! If I'm captured I may need to make the ultimate sacrifice!"

Dr. Pill Popper couldn't sustain himself and began laughing aloud.

"HEY! This's no joke!"

The Doctor finally managed to catch his breath, "*hee-hee* ah.... sorry, sorry. Very noble of you. But I can't fill a suicide pill prescription - against the hayppocratic oath." Lyra was about to object before she was cut off by the Doctor continuing on, "and a 'protein pill'? What the heck do you even mean by that? You know there are like a ba-jillion different types of proteins that do all sorts of different things right?"

The pony behind Lyra stepped forward with a very annoyed look on her face. Lyra noticed that she was an earth-pony mare with light-blue fur and a turquoise mane... and she was rubbing her temples in frustration. "Listen, can you guys hurry this up? I need to get some supplies. Just give the crazy lady some digitalis concentrate and send her on her merry way."

The Doctor frowned at the new mare, who clearly knew enough about medicine to choose a potent poison. "I'm not irresponsible enough to deal out poison to such a clearly delusional mare, miss."

Lyra's cheeks huffed out in embarrassment at being patronized. "OK wise guy, I'll have you know that I've been officially deputized as a super-official secret agent deputy for the super-official Crown." Lyra grabbed the Doctor by the scruff of his neck, pulling him in close to half-shout, half-growl into his face. "I've been assigned to track down a recently stolen human... hence why I needed a protein pill, which.... in case you didn't know... means a meat pill! As an expert in human-inity, I know that humans require up to 300lbs of meat per day. So hurry up and ISSUE ME THE DAMN MEDS!" Lyra screamed.

Dr. Popper looked right at her, completely unfazed. "Uh, no."

"Augh!" Lyra groaned in frustration as she stormed out of the 'Potions and Armchairs Store' shouting over her shoulder, "you haven't heard the end of this Doc... and if you tell anypony about my mission you're going to jail." Lyra slammed the door on her way out.

Dr. Popper looked to other customer with a sympathetic grin, though she was staring in the direction of the recently departed Lyra with a shocked, open muzzle.

"So, Miss... you said you had some supplies you needed to pick up?" Pill Popper asked as he slid the written note out of the mare's hoof. He glanced down the list.

"Hm-? Oh. Oh yes, I do." The mare said absentmindedly, finally able to turn her attention back to the pharmacist. "Who was that 'agent'?"

"Oh that was Lyra Heartstrings, I wouldn'-... hm... some of these chemicals are controlled substances, I'm afraid I can't issue them unless I have a pharmacist's registration number and nam-"

"453666 Blackheart. Researcher Blackheart."

Bon Bon nervously swallowed, holding for a moment outside the door to the Captain's cell. She'd just gotten his entire prognosis, and according to the resident psychiatrist it wasn't good.

"Princess Luna, I don't understand, isn't there some way that we could reverse this spell?" Bon Bon had asked, after the psychiatrist had sadly trotted away.

"No, Agent Drops, the insidious nature of these spells is such that there is nothing to undo... The black magic overwrote whatever the captain once was - that pony is gone forever." Luna had murmured, staring sadly into the cell.

Bonnie scratched her chin in thought before replying. "But... we have versions of the same spell, don't we? Couldn't you use the same spell to 'reset' Captain Stalwart back to being in love with his wife and daughter?"

Luna flared her wings and glared angrily at the cream colored earth mare. "I would caution you to cease this line of thinking, Agent Drops. Two wrongs cannot make a right."

Bonnie frowned, she hated trite responses to complex questions. "Uh, but in this case... It could, couldn't it? I mean, you overwrite his love for a criminal, bu-"

Luna slapped Bon Bon shockingly with her wing, not painfully but enough to startle her. "Enough! You would have me destroy another destiny in the hopes the new one created is better. Who are you to decide that this Stalwart is worthy only of destruction?"

Bon Bon, still stunned by the princess's physical touch, could only stammer as she tried to process Luna's words. "I-I d-"

"There have been many times where I could have changed a pony's fate with force. Criminals, addicts, murderers. When I was young and foalish, there were many times I did. That road leads to darkness, Sweetie Drops." Luna turned away, tears in her eyes. "Forcing the changes against the creator's will, you are destroying fates... lives... all because you think you know the Truth of this world, that you know how everything should be."

Luna sighed, obviously bearing the weight of millennia of experience. "How could you know if a pony's fate was not to find redemption on their own? Or to allow another pony to triumph over their evil in pursuit of a greater good? Why stop with criminals? Why not change the fate of liars and the immoral? Change the fate of the disrespectful and disobedient? Why not write happiness into the very fabric of the world? ... THAT is how tyrants begin Agent Drops. The world needs individual free will, not black-magic wielding spellcasters, well intentioned though they may be..." Luna looked down and murmured to herself, almost imperceptibly, "the moon needs the sun."

Bon Bon blinked, wondering if what she'd just heard might hold some clue as to Luna's past. Still though, Bon Bon was nothing if not stubborn, and was unwilling to give up the point just yet. "There are some horrible ponies, some 'fates' that I do think deserve to be destroyed."

"Do you, now?" Luna seemed to grow larger and more terrifying in Bon Bon's vision. "Verily, many there are - who deserve death yet still live. But... also there are - those who are dead yet deserve life." Luna looked darkly into the eyes of Bonnie. "Can you give that life back to them?"

Bonnie shook her head sadly, thinking of fellow agents who had fallen.

"Then do not be so quick to deal out death, young Agent. No, we will be here for the Captain and support him without destroying him a second time." Luna sighed, caressing Bon Bon's cheek with tenderness. "Forgive me, young one. I know you mean well... Which is why I must prevent you from making a terrible mistake."

Bon Bon smiled, honored by the princess's care, even if she didn't fully understand.

"Now, enough delays my little pony, on to the interrogation."

Bon Bon pushed open the door, trotting into the dim cell. A pleasant perfume of vanilla wafted from the vents, and some small speakers on the cell's ceiling pumped in soothing sounds of a surf breaking on a farawaybeach. A bed (no sheets or pillows) sat alongside one wall, covered in books which seemed to have been started only for the reader to discard them almost immediately, only a few pages in.

In the far padded corner, with his face pressed into the joint between two walls, sitting bedraggedly on his haunches, was the former guard-pony Captain. He appeared to be wearing a strait jacket, the sleeves fastened behind his back, totally restraining his fore-hooves. A magical constriction ring was also clearly affixed to his horn, preventing the stallion from doing any more than staying put. Bon Bon walked in tentatively, approaching the stallion carefully. Luna stayed just inside the door, content to watch the interview from afar.

"H-hello? Captain Stalwart?" Bon Bon asked reaching out with a free hoof to touch the former guard-pony's shoulder.

He turned slowly toward Bon Bon, revealing a tired face which had clearly seen better days. The fur under his eyes was dark and tear stained, showing that he had been crying his eyes out for a while. A little snot trailed out of his nose, and he struggled to wipe it with the sleeve of his shoulder.

"Hello?" he croaked. "I-I'm so sorry..." the captain sobbed, "s-sorry I'm in such a state, I-I can't control myself." He took a choking, shuddering breath.

Bon Bon smiled at him reassuringly, stroking his shoulder. "It's OK, Stalwart. I'm Special Agent Sweetie Drops here on behalf of Princess Luna." Bon Bon paused to motion over her shoulder with her eyes, "I don't want to take up more of your time, I just wanted to ask you a couple of questions about the heist." Bon Bon looked back at Luna, "can I take these restraints off of him? He should be comfortable while we tal-"

"Not a good idea." Bon Bon was interrupted by Stalwart himself. He gave a strained smile before going on, "I-I... I asked for these restraints... I get some pretty dark thoughts... I worry I may *hic*, may follow through on them." Stalwart looked ashamedly at the ground, hating that he was so weak as to consider suicide. "I-I know its no excuse to think that way b-but... when I think about wh-what I did to that poor mare... the one who used to be my wife." He sobbed, tears streaming down his face. "I-I've tried... I've tried so hard to feel the love for her and my daughter again, but its just... empty." He was close to crying inconsolably now, "I'm just so-some useless idiot who's in love with a te-teenage cr-criminal's tail. All I can do is hu-hurt others."

Bon Bon grimaced, but put her hoof under his chin and held his head up. "Captain, I know you're hurting right now, but please, I hope you know I think you're a brave stallion who will prove instrumental to bringing these criminals to justice."

The Captain brightened slightly, excited that he might be able to help. Sniffling to clear his nose. "An-anything! Anything I can do, I'll do."

Bon Bon smiled before beginning to walk through the details of the heist with the Captain. She had to admit she was thoroughly impressed with the stallion's ability to recall details...

"TWILIGHT!?" Lyra shouted from the top of the castle library. She never like coming to the new crystal palace, she always got lose in the maze-like corridors, and the library section was buried deep within the castle, making it much less inviting for the citizens of the town to frequent than the previous library.

"Twilight? Spike said you were in here helping someponies find some books?" Lyra trotted down the steps into the depths of the archival stacks.

"Lyra? Yes, I'm just over here!" Twilight's answering voice came from Lyra's left. "How can I help you?"

Lyra trotted over to her happily, a bounce in her step. "Twilight, I can't allow you to be so obstructive to me today!" Lyra said haughtily, putting a hoof to her chest as she put her nose in the air and closed her eyes. "I'm the executive chief special agent deputy acting on behalf of the Crown on a critical secret mission!"

Twilight raised an eyebrow in confusion, splayed her fore-hooves apart and opened her mouth, as if to say... 'what.'

Ruffling her wings and gesturing to her head (where there wasn't currently a crown, but there easily could be one). "Uh... I am the Crown, Lyra?"

Lyra's smile faltered for a second, and she panicked slightly before regaining her composure. "Err... ah... no... the senior Crown. I've been put on this mission by Luna herself."

"Luna asked you to do something?" Twilight mused, with a sigh. "OK, anything I can do t-"

"NO Twilight." Lyra put a hoof over Twilight's mouth, her eyes darting left and right under her fedora. "I can't tell you about the mission, it's too classified. Only me and the princesses have authority to know about it."

Twilight again pointed at her wings.

"Uh... senior princesses..." Lyra babbled. "Now I need every book in this library about humans, immediately!"

Twilight rolled her eyes at Lyra's antics. "Well sure, you wrote half of them let me jus-... wait. Did you say you're on a mission from Luna and you need a book on humans?"

Lyra nodded.

Instantly, Twilight engulfed Lyra in a powerful purple magical field and whisked her to a far, secluded corner of the library. "Lyra, are you investigating the missing human that was hijacked en-route from the South to Canterlot?"

Lyra nodded.

"Wauugh!" Twilight groaned, pitching her head up in frustration. "What the hay is Luna thinking? I told her that this was extremely serious - but all she cared about was that damn spell. So she assigned this goofball to the case?"

"Hey!" Lyra groused, still trapped in the forcefield.

Twilight went on. "She probably thinks you're some kind of human expert... but you barely know anything relevant! All you focus on is human-pony smut fantasies! Your last paper spent 40 pages detailing how you thought a human hand would be the perfect masturbatory tool for a pony mare, for Celestia's sake!"

"Hey! How would you know that it wasn't?"

Twilight blushed. "I-I guess t-technically I don't know about how hands would interact with pony genitalia." She cleared her throat, putting Lyra down. "St-still... this is a serious crime you've been assigned to Lyra! Are you sure you're up to this?"

Lyra brushed her trenchcoat off. "Of course, Twilight. When it comes to humans, I could sniff them for days."

Twilight looked at Lyra with another raised eyebrow.

"Uh... I mean I could sniff their location out in a few days." Lyra grinned sheepishly. "Now, can I get those books or what? I have a human to find."

Twilight looked over at the reading area of the library. "Actually, funny you asked. I've been watching this one unicorn all morning. He came in and asked for everything on rare creatures and monster-myths. He has been trying to make it seem like he's doing a project on urban legends and covering up the books he's checking out, but I've noticed that slowly but surely he's checked out every human-related piece of literature in the library. That's all he seems to be reading too."

Lyra's eyebrows shot up in alarm. "Really!?"

Twilight nodded, pointing over at the midnight-blue unicorn with a buzzcut of black hair, pouring through a stack of books on humans. She could just make out the unicorn's cutie-mark: a small atomic particle diagram of Hydrogen over a background of a snowflake.

Lyra spoke up, "Twilight, do you know what this means!?" She bounced excitedly.

Twilight nodded, her face grim. "He could be here for the exact same reason as you... to do research regarding his newly captured hum-"

"A FAN!" Lyra squeaked excitedly, bounding out toward the unicorn.

"LYRA!" Twilight reached out but missed with her magic.

Lyra walked right up to the concentrating pony. "Hi there! I'm Lyra Heartstrings..." Lyra snubbed her nose up and closed her eyes, waiting for the adulation and praise to flow her way from such an obvious fan of her scientific works.

The unicorn just looked up at her, with a glare, holding a hoof to his mouth and whispering: "shhhh...." while motioning at a sign that asked for Silence, please!.

Lyra huffed, but whispered back. "Uh... I wrote half the books you're reading right now? Maybe a little thanks might be in order, Mr...?"

"Quantum Freeze." The unicorn said, without looking up. "And to be honest, if you're talking about those books." He motioned with a hoof to a stack of Lyra's textbooks. "They're pretty much useful only for information about human manicures and mating habits... neither of which are at the top of my list of concerns at the moment."

Lyra boiled in rage, about to speak up before Quantum went on.

"In fact, I'd have to say that Princess Twilight's books on proposed human 'high-school' age behavior is far more in-depth and fundamentally solid work." He said, turning a page of Twilight's paper and scribbling notes in his notepad.

"Oh YEAH!?" Lyra whisper-shouted, stamping her hoof. "Well Mr. Quantum Freeze, I'll have you know that my work on humans is so well regarded by the experts that I was appointed president executive chief deputy special agent in charge of conducting a crown investigation into a kidnapped human!" She slammed a hoof down on the page of the report he was reading. "So maybe you'd better take notice of what this mare says, hm?"

Quantum Freezer looked up, his face seeming like he'd seen a ghost as he stared into Lyra's golden eyes.

Lyra chuckled, happy that her credentials'd had the desired shocking effect on the haughty stallion.

"E-e-excuse me, I think I've got everything I need." Quantum Freeze hastily gathered his notes into his saddlebag and scurried out of the library, shooting glances over his shoulder at Lyra as he went. In less than a blink of an eye, he'd left the castle entirely.

Twilight rushed over to Lyra, groaning. "What did you do, Lyra?"

Lyra smirked, polishing her hoof on her chest. "Aw shucks, sometimes my readers get a little starstruck when they meet me in person, its a little embarrassing actually."

Twilight planted a hoof on her face, rubbing it in frustration. "Lyra... I think that pony was doing that research because he has a human."

"HE HAS A HUMAN?" Lyra asked in shock, shaking Twilight. "HOW!?"

Twilight groaned, "Lyra... he stole the human from the convoy."

Realization dawned on Lyra's face. "Oh." She perked up. "OH! So I just need to follow him and I'll find the human!"

Twilight shook her head immediately, "Oh no! Lyra, we've found the culprit, this is a matter for the guard now. You're going to go straight home and await for your final debriefing. I'm going to call Luna and the guard and they will track this stallion down and get things done professionally."

Lyra groaned. "But Twilight... the human..." Lyra whined.

"Lyra, NO." Twilight scolded, as if speaking to a small dog. "This is way too dangerous. You have to promise me you'll go straight home and wait for the guard to take care of this. Promise me."

Lyra mumbled. "I-I.... promise."

Twilight breathed a sigh of relief. "Now, I have to send a letter. Immediately." Twilight flew off toward her study.

Lyra's downtrodden frown slowly crept up into an evil grin. "Heh heh heh." Lyra rubbed her hooves together. "Little does the princess know that the head president executive chief deputy special agent is authorized to deceive junior princesses to accomplish her mission." Lyra poked her head out of the castle, spotting Quantum Freeze making his way down the main stretch of Ponyville toward the outskirts.

"Besides, if I don't follow him... he could easily get away. I'll tail him, find his location, rescue the human and then maybe capture the whole bad guy squad. No big deal!" Lyra began to sneak after Quantum Freeze, ducking from one piece of cover to the next.

"..."

"... then next thing I know, I'm being woken up by the guard-pony search and rescue team." Stalwart finished.

Bon Bon was a bit flushed, fanning her face with her hoof. As traumatizing as it had been for the poor Captain, he was detailed to a fault. Bon Bon hadn't expected to hear the intimate details of how Dusk Wing's 19 year-old vagina had gripped the Captain's flare when he exploded in her, but the Captain had not spared any minutiae.

Bon Bon cleared her dry throat. "Th-thank you for that Captain. You never know what may prove useful." Bon Bon looked back at Luna, who was still standing by the door impassively. "Is... is there anything else that you'd like to tell us?"

The Captain sighed. "One last thing, and I know how it will sound with everything that's happened to me. But... Dusk Wing... she's just a stupid kid. I can tell from how much I love her - she's had some bad things happen to her, but at her heart she's not completely gone - otherwise she would have slit my throat and the throats of the squad when they broke in."

Bon Bon awkwardly looked to the side, not wanting to look at the Captain and betray her doubts.

"I knew it. You don't believe me, you think that it's just the love poison talking." He sighed, then went on. "I don't expect to change your mind, but that love poison made me love that little mare. I could tell a lot about her - and she isn't fully evil. I don't know if that will help you somehow, but... I had to say it."

Bon Bon smiled nervously, she did think that all this talk was just the love poison's continued effect.

The Captain looked up brightly for a moment. "Do... do you think, if you capture her... do you think I could meet with her again?" At this Bon Bon frowned, and Luna stirred. "Hmm... probably... probably not a good idea - I understand," the Captain said sadly, "st-still... I think I could help that girl." He blushed as a certain part of him began to stir.

Bon Bon couldn't help but look. "Uh- Captain?"

"I-I... I'm so sorry." The Captain's stallionhood slid out of its sheath entirely, falling to the floor like a limp sausage. "Just... when I remember her little plot-hole... the way she gripped me..." the Captain's erection now inflated to full mast, throbbing between him and Bon Bon.

"Sh-she is probably the sexiest little mare in Equestria." The Captain said with shame, as a small trickle of juice escaped from the head of his penis, sliding down his shaft.

Luna stepped forward and placed her horn on the Captain's head. "Thank you Captain for your help. Rest now and focus on being well. The doctor will check in with you in the morning." Luna's horn glowed and the Captain fell into a dreamless sleep, the best gift that Luna could give him at the moment. She levitated him to the blanketless bed and laid him down reverently, then motioned to Bon Bon that they should leave the room.

Once outside, Bon Bon let out a breath of air as if she'd been holding it all along, letting the tension drain from the situation. "The poor colt - I hope he can find his way."

Luna nodded. "As do I, Agent Drops. We must ensure that no others receive his misfortune." She straightened herself, "was there anything in his statement that will help you locate the gang?"

Bon Bon sighed and shook her head. "No leads. We have names and descriptions which is a start, but they could be literally anywhere in Equestria. We'll need to activate the spy networks across the country. It's not like we'll be able to just fall into their hideout."

Quantum Freeze waited for the industrial cargo elevator to finish descending. It was the only way into the abandoned underground silver mine that they'd found, and was a perfect hiding place for the gang's hideout. The old commercial warehouse above was used to store sofa and armchair inventory for local businesses, and the old cargo elevator was hidden behind a maze of old crates. It made it very easy to post a guard, and Quantum nodded to Tough Stuff as he stepped off the lift, before sending it back up to the surface.

"Follow me, Tough. I've got news for all of us." He motioned to the bruiser to follow him into the depths of the main mining area.

"Shure thing boss. The girls n' Flick was sayin' they had news too, they'se waiting for you at the table." He motioned to the planning table the crew kept for their various heists, just in sight of the main entrance. Blackheart, Dusk Wing and the pegasus Flick Feather were sitting around the table arguing about something.

"...and I say that we should cut our ties and run. We don't need the human for anything, we leave him in the warehouse and we take the spell and head back East to the coast and the safety of the family." Blackheart slammed her hoof down.

"Such a coward... what we oughta' do is jus' wait for the Guard to come and then we hit 'em with the boss's magic and..." Dusk Wing was going on before Quantum interjected.

"We've got problems team." Quantum stared at the members of his crew. Both Blackheart and Dusk Wing looked ready to shout at him that they agreed, before he continued. "Looks like the heat is on to us. I was at the library when this crazy mint-"

"-green unicorn mare." Dusk Wing and Blackheart both finished for him, with knowing glances.

"Huh," Quantum frowned, "so it seems she purposely found us and turned the heat up to see how we'd react. She probably is hoping to scare us out into the open so we can be picked off easily as we try to escape back to Manehattan." Quantum slammed his hoof down and swore.

"I didn't want to involve the family just yet - I was hoping I could have commercialized the addiction spell by now. Blackheart - how are we on brewing the reagents for it?" Quantum asked with frustration.

"Still a few more days away. A lot of the chemistry is pretty arcane and ancient, even for a black magic researcher like me. I had to use basic chemicals to do a lot of the work." Blackheart frowned, motioning with her hooves.

Dusk Wing clicked her tongue and smirked haughtily.

"Shut it - Dusk." Quantum rebuked before the young mare could start an argument, "you're trapped here as well until that thing is finished. How's the monster?"

Dusk Wing shrugged. "Eh, he's fine. It's still a pain in the flank to feed him and keep him sanitary. Would be way easier if Blackie would just let me dose the big oaf."

Blackheart frowned and glared at Dusk Wing, muttering under her breath: "motherless cun-"

"Enough." Quantum growled. "Be professionals... we aren't going anywhere right now - the last thing we have is our hideout and its defenses. The next thing we need to do is find out about this Lyra Heartstrings and what her next move is. Flick Feather... you know these agents better than anyone else: can we put a tail on her to find out when she's gonna spring the raid on us?"

Flick Feather put a hoof to his chin in thought. "I don't know Quantum, these agents are like ghosts. Forget about capturing one, or tailing one... you usually can't even find them if they were right in front of your face. I haven't heard of this Lyra being an agent - so she's probably a cut above - you can't expect that she'll just fall right into our laps."

The cargo elevator began descending suddenly, the gear and chain assembly clattering noisily as the platform returned from the warehouse. All of the members of the criminal crew froze in surprise as they slowly turned from the table to look at the elevator opening.

There, standing alone on the lift with a nervous smile on her face, was Lyra Heartstrings.

Rubbing one of her forelegs with the other hoof, Lyra looked out at the criminal gang she'd just tailed right into their hideout.

"Uh... hi?"

Author's Note

Hi readers!

Almost forgot to add an A/N for this one - but there are a couple of key things I wanted to address!

First, I loved writing this chapter... I've always liked Lyra's character, and I like to write her as super of a happy go lucky goofball... Kind of like a more mischievous Derpy-Pinkie-CMC kind of vibe, but she's always going to be her own unique mare - let me know if you agree with my treatment! She's not an airhead, but she is impetuous. She's not prideful, but she can be Petty... In her own goofy way.

Second, the clop scene may feel a bit shoe-horned in... Two characters out of nowhere? Well, my editor felt that I shouldn't include it, but I pushed back that I am a clopfic author... So feel like my works should have some clop in them. I feel like it was enough of a side story and was important to set the stage that Bon-Bon is a fillyfooler, which becomes important later. If you think my work could stand without the scene let me know! It would be a nice compliment, but I feel like each of my chapters should have some raunch.

Finally, I wanted to confirm that the quotes from Luna are heavily based on Tolkien as most of you know. Full credit to that prolific writer for perfectly capturing the concept I was trying to hit with regard to dates and deus ex machina's. From the perspective of a very powerful being like Luna or Celestia the call to intervene on behalf of their subjects must be overwhelming. I think that over time they would have learned that there is value even in the evil they destroy, and ultimately they must act 'within' the plans of Creation, even when that could mean allowing suffering and pain to exist. Otherwise we'd see an Equestria with mindlessly smiling ponies and no ability to choose to be good, only a robotic requirement to 'be' good. Free will is a precious thing for a Good to give, and critically important.

Anyway, please leave comments! The next chapter will be a blast, with much more Anon screen-time!