Since she already found out about her mother in this universe, and said mother was apparently in on the situation, Twilight figured it was time to just have a family meeting and come out with everything. It was a few days after she found herself in her mother’s whorehouse, a thought that still made Twilight uncomfortable, and the whole family was meeting at her parents’ place. Back home Night Light and Twilight Velvet had a modest looking manor with a few rooms for overnight guests, but here they had a mansion that took up two, maybe even three or four lots, that had an extravagant gateway that was adorned with statues of a naked Velvet in various poses and materials alongside a wide selection of yard art that was very astrologically themed. From what Twilight could make of the backyard, what little of it she could see, her parents had a full on observatory outback surrounded by what she was guessing was a hedge maze.

A pegasus maid, in an exceptionally revealing maid outfit, met Twilight at the door and led her to the mansion’s version of the family room. In the corners Twilight could make out marble statues of her parents without any clothing, they were off-putting and enticing at the same time, a sensation that made Twilight incredibly uncomfortable. Her parents, Shining Armor, and Cadance were all there, minus all their clothes.

“Oh, right,” said Shining as the maid made a bow of respect and left to attend to other duties. “You don’t know the rules for this house like our Twilight, when not working or spending more than a few minutes you are supposed to go about the house naked.”

“Was that one of the rules dad came up with before either of us was born?” Twilight inquired as she shrugged off her dark green robe and tossed it onto the nearby coat rack that had a variety of attires hanging from it.

“Actually, I’m the one who instituted the rule,” said Velvet with pride in her voice, “I don’t like seeing other ponies try to hide their physical traits.”

“Seeing as you run a whorehouse I’m not surprised,” Twilight snarked back, not one pony seemed surprised or indignant, then without thinking she snarked, “what’s next? A strip club?”

They all turned to look at her with confusion, Velvet responded with, “I’ve never heard of such an establishment.”

Of course, Thought Twilight, With legal, and very open, dens of sex the concept of a pseudosexual environment never developed here. Well, time to ruin things further. “A strip club is an establishment where mares and stallions, all legal age, perform a bit of dance number, usually around a big metal pole, on a stage. The dance number also includes the removal of their outfits, which are often more revealing than quite a bit of the typical pony attire I’ve seen around here, and going straight down to dancing naked. Anyone can enter, they even serve food and drinks to tables and a bar, but if you want extra or private services, you need to pay extra. Also, patrons often throw or hand money to the dancers. Their proper title is ‘Stripper’ but many prefer to use the term ‘Exotic Dancer’ and it’s not uncommon for a few to come off the stage, especially if they’ve been offered or given a large amount of money personally, and give an open dance to the payer.”

“Why hasn’t anyone done this before, it sounds wonderful,” said Cadance with excitement, this caused Twilight to wince.

“There are a few rules regarding the dancers,” Twilight continued, “the two biggest ones being that you’re only allowed to touch the dancers if they allow it and the other being the dancers are there to entertain as many as possible and thus patrons are not permitted to have sexual relations with them. If you’re partnered to one, you do that sort of thing away from the establishment. In other words, the closest anyone gets to sex is a sexual tease.”

“I’ve been looking for some sort of business to do,” said Cadance, “and this sounds great, it’ll allow girls of all kinds to have some fun, especially those that don’t feel ready to commit to something like what Madame Velvet runs.”

“The two would work well together,” said Velvet in contemplation, “and it would allow the girls that want a break from the usual to still entertain others. Is there anything else we should know?”

“Most strippers go by a stage name,” said Twilight, “but it’s more of a personal preference, seeing as some genuine pony names have sounded pretty close to the stage names of some strippers, from what I heard. Some strippers even like to do a little imitation; I cannot tell you how many cases of strippers imitating Celestia, Luna, Cadance and myself I heard of on more than one occasion. I would tell you more, but I’ve actively worked to block such those sorts of things from my mind.”

“No worries,” said Night Light, Twilight was really uncomfortable seeing her dad’s junk. Chances were, since her mother ‘assets’ were bigger than back home then her dad in this universe was packing a bit more as well, a thought she really hated thinking. “What you gave us is plenty, I’m sure Cadance and Velvet will be hard at work discussing how to maximize everything before the day is out.”

“Well, the girls have been feeling like they need to do more, especially Cadance,” said Shining, “and this way I will know for a fact that I will always know who is sleeping with my wife.”

“Shiny’s a bit possessive of his mares,” said Cadance with a giggle.

“I just don’t like other ponies touching any of my herd,” said Shining, “the rest of the girls wanted to come but Cadance convinced them to wait a bit on all that.”

“I see,” said Twilight with a faux interest, she did her best to avoid looking at her brother’s junk but failed more than she would like to admit. Why were all the stallions she knew packing it in this universe? “The devices to help fix the problem should be mostly done by now; Sunset Shimmer was set on the project personally by Spike.”

“Good to hear,” said Velvet, “she’s the best tech expert we have.”

“Yeah, but I could do without the overly overt interest in other females,” said Twilight rubbing her left arm with her right hand, and absentmindedly playing with her bosom with her left hand.

“Oh look, honey,” said Night Light excitedly, “she shows uncomfortable nervousness the same way you do.”

“Well, no matter where she is from,” said Velvet, “Twilight is still Twilight.”

At that statement, Twilight became aware of the actions of both her arms and ceased her activities with both. “So, I’m guessing you’re all interested in what you’re like in my home universe.”

“Start with Shining,” said Cadance with excitement.

“Shining Armor, in my universe, was captain of the Royal Guard in Canterlot, our version of the city currently known as Dragon Crown, and married Cadance a while back, after they moved to the Crystal Empire, what we call the place the dragoness Ember rules over, they had a filly named Flurry Heart, she’s absolutely adorable, and a magical powerhouse in her own right. Of course, being an alicorn will do that for you. You see, in my universe, Celestia, Luna, and Cadance are all alicorns, I recently ascended to being an alicorn from being a unicorn myself, then a few months after that Flurry Heart was born, and is the first known born alicorn I am aware of. Cadance has a magic that can amplify the genuine love ponies have; it’s very strong. Mom is still very much a thrillseeker back home, but she’s an author where I come from. I’m not sure what dad does in this universe, but from what I’ve seen he’s probably the closest to his counterpart. And on another note, Shining and Cadance do not have any additional partners, that I am aware of.”

“Oh, good,” said Shining, “I would hate to come off as an imitator, especially of myself.”

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After a few more minutes of chatting, the family was around the table for a meal, still devoid of clothing, enjoying an extravagant meal. Twilight knew things were just getting more odd, and she felt a need to broach a particular subject, she just didn’t like that it had to be said. “Once the devices are finished and we manage to create gateway back to my home universe Pinkie and I will hopefully be getting back to how we’re supposed to be in both universes,” said Twilight in cautious manner, “that said, if any of you would like to join us on the trip to observe it all we probably wouldn’t mind too much. That said, do your best to cover up when joining for the visit, my Equestria has very different socially acceptable standards.”

“I think it would be fun to see,” said Night Light, “might give some ideas of how to do a few things.”

“About that,” said Twilight, “Spike stated that after we hopefully fix everything and everyone has returned to where they need to be, the device will be shut down and dismantled then have all its parts scattered across the land and everyone who worked on the device have their knowledge of the device’s development and creation be purged and replaced with random memories that have little to no relation to the project itself.”

“An Omega protocol,” said Cadance in surprise, “those are extremely rare these days, might make for something interesting later on.

After that, the conversation devolved into more mundane, and slightly more embarrassing, subjects. The worst part, for Twilight, was just how open about their sex lives her family in this universe were. To make matters worse, she nearly fainted when her family discussed how they would be going at each other at the table but felt like Twilight would be missing out and decided to keep from doing so until she came to family gatherings with a significant other.

Author's Note

I just noticed as I was finishing up on this chapter that most of them seem to put a lot of focus on Twilight, so Pinkie will be the focus of the next chapter.