Princess Twilight burst through the doors of the Crystal Castle.

"Shining! I came as soon as I could."

Shining laid on the ground of the entryway, panting heavily, sweat covering his whole body, and his lips heavily dehydrated.

"Twily. It's worse than we thought," Shining panted. "The tantabus, it-"

"Infected Cadance, and now she's wreaking havoc on the Crystal Empire! I read. What do I need to do? What do we-"

"Well, I wouldn't say havoc."

A moment of silence filled the room as Twilight's state of crisis had a massive red flag thrown directly into her face.

"What do you mean? The Tantabus is an evil, horrible,"

"Well, yeah. The tantabus is terrible. But it's also being taken hostage by Cadance. We need to save the Tantabus."

Twilight raised a hoof, and her ears folded down.

"Excuse me, I think maybe I misread the situation. You said that she's abusing her love magic... and that I needed to take care of some counterspells."

"That's right. Like, for instance. When the wonderbolts came to stop her, she casted a spell that made them obsessed with whatever they love most. Now they're upstairs in the guest bedroom having really loud sex. Except Soarin. He's in the kitchen. Anyway. I can't get Flurry down for her nap, which is it's own nightmare."

"Wait," Twilight interjected. "So the wonderbolts are all in a room upstairs in an orgy?"

"And Soarin's fucking our pies. Hearth's Warming Eve is Ruined. It's not the point," he growls, trying to rise to his feet. "I've ran out of strength to hold her off anymore. I mean, we've already had sex six times today, and I just need a break."

Twilight froze on the spot, and suddenly realized that the situation in front of her may just be too extreme for her to handle. On the other hand, she wasn't sure if anypony, er, anycreature had the ability to solve this problem.

"W-what should I do?" she asked fearfully.

"I don't know," Shining says. "Please get my wife to stop mares from loving pineapples too much."

Twilight winced at his words, nodded, and exited the crystal castle.

She took to the sky and surveyed the town beneath her. All in all, life seemed normal in the crystal empire, although she could hear rather loud grunting and groaning from an open castle window. Twilight sighed to herself.

"The sooner we get this done, the easier it will be not to tell a soul that this is happening."

Twilight flew over the various districts of the Crystal Empire when she saw something odd. A nearly completely black pony, trotting about the marketplace, leaving a wake of humping ponies behind her.

Cadance.

Twilight bolted down to the market and landed beside a stallion who was trying to fill a jar with his jizz, and a small little toy was in the jar.

"Oh my-" Twilight groaned, reflexively looking away from the stallion's private moment in public. "What in the world are you doing?"

"I AM SHOWING MY LOVE TO MY FAVORITE ANIME, BIG ROBOT DRILL WARRIORS. ASURI MEW-MEW-SAMA IS MY WAIFU AND I MUST PROVE MY LOVE."

"I'm sorry I asked," Twilight mumbled, galloping towards Cadance. "CADANCE!"

The alicorn turned on the spot and smiled widely.

"Well, if it isn't my favorite sister-in-law!"

"You aren't Cadance. You're infected by the Tantabus," Twilight proclaims as a mare tries to drag her two fillies away from the situation with their eyes closed.

"Oh? Are you so sure?" she asks, leaping forward towards Twilight.

Then, to Twilight's surprise, the two seem to involuntarily do the Sunshine, Sunshine dance, although the two are grown mares, in public, and there's at least four couples fucking over in the next aisle. On second thought, that probably wasn't the weirdest thing happening right now.

"But wait," Twilight said, after waving her rear in the air like she just didn't care. "If you're the real Cadance, then why are you doing all of these terrible things?"

Cadance tilted her head slightly, then smiled.

"Terrible things?" Cadance asked. "No, Twilight. I'm letting people give into their subconscious desires! Do you know how good it feels to let go? Like, truly let go? To just enjoy the hedonism of everyday life and embrace what truly makes you happy?"

Cadance waved a hoof to the over-sexed market around her.

"Ponies say that they love things every single day. They love music. They love a celebrity. They love their friends, no homo." Cadance chuckled to herself. "All I'm doing is finally letting everypony do what feels right. I'm removing their inhibitions."

"Like, oh my gawd," a mare said, somehow oblivious to the world around her. "I looove oranges."

Cadance smiled and narrowed her eyes as the mare walked up to the stall of oranges and began to thump the skin. Even though that's not how you tell the freshness of oranges. Stupid horse.

"Cadance! Stop!"

Cadance looked to Twilight in disbelief.

"No!" she continued. "Bad Cadance. No force love."

"You're kidding, right?" Cadance said, clearly miffed. Then, a large pink heart shot from her black horn and collided with the mare. The mare's mouth dropped slightly as she held the orange in her hoof. She gently kisses the orange. Then licks it aggressively.

"See?" Cadance asked. "Isn't it wonderful?" The infected pony looked away from her masterwork before the mare shoved the orange up her asshole and grabbed more.

"Cadance. You can't do this," Twilight asserts. "This isn't how love works. This is rape!"

"But they are consenting," Cadance said, raising her eyebrows.

"Not of their own free will! You can't have ponies shoving oranges into their bum willy-nilly."

"You said willy," Cadance snickered.

Twilight growled and shook her head.

"Listen. You need to let the Tantabus go."

"What?" Cadance exclaimed in disbelief. "No! He loves it in- HELP ME, OH GOD HELP- Quiet, you. Excuse me. Just a mild case of the tourettes."

"You've never had tourettes," Twilight said flatly. "Listen. Let him go. I'll send him back to tartarus, and then we don't have to fight or do something extreme."

"But Twilight," Cadance said with a wide smile. "I'm not a fighter, I'm a-"

"Stop"

"Lover."

"Oh my Celestia, Cadance."

"Don't forget Luna!"

"Third Base!" the mare from the orange stall said, just before shooting an orange into the air from her asshole.

Twilight sighed and placed her hoof over her eyes.

"Listen. How about we make a deal. You get one more love spell, and then you let the Tantabus go, and we begin to undo the damage you've done. Deal?"

"Sure! But I get to choose who I pick."

"Okay, fine," Twilight concedes. "Let's just make it quick."

Cadance looked around at the market until she saw a small coffee shop sitting at the corner.

Twilight followed as Cadance took to the air and flew just above the coffee shop, where a stallion sat at a table, glaring at a shaking mare.

~ ~ ~

"L-listen," the mare said, her voice shaking and trembling. "I love you, but I just can't do this anymore."

~ ~ ~

"Perfect!" Cadance whispered.

"No!" Twilight shouted, immediately enveloping her and Cadance into a soundproof, enveloping bubble.

~ ~ ~

"The things you say to me... It's not normal," she says, staring down at the empty cup. "I've been talking to my friends, and they think you're... being abusive."

"But babe, don't you see?" The stallion says in such a sweet, gentle voice. "Don't you see they're just jealous? They wish they could have something as special as what we have. I love you so much. Please don't do this."

"Mohogany, please let me finish speaking."

"You're making a mistake," he whispered, his eyes growing red.

~ ~ ~

"You're making a mistake," Twilight said to Cadance. "You can't force someone to love anyone. That's the biggest abuse of power you could possibly have."

"But you said I could choose," Cadance growled. "You heard her yourself. She still has feelings for him. Why shouldn't she follow her heart?"

~ ~ ~

"I'm not going to let you hit me anymore, Mohogany," she said. "I'm leaving."

"Oh, is this for that Pasta Chef friend of yours," the stallion growls, rising to his hooves."

"This isn't about, Italio," she said. "I've told you a million times, and I'm done. I have to take care of me, even if it hurts. Goodbye, Mohogany."

The mare rises from her seat.

"Fine. Well don't come crying to me when you're all alone from your fake friends," the stallion spits.

~ ~ ~

"But love is pure," Cadance replied.

"Cast your spell on me, if you want. But whatever you do, you will -not- cast it on them."

Cadance's eyes narrow devilishly.

"Deal"

When Cadance opened her eyes again, she was laying in bed beside her husband. He looked down at her carefully, his eyes overflowing with concern.

"Shining?" she asked. "What happened?"

"You were filled with the tantabus. You made a lot of people have a lot of strange fetishes and have extremely high sex drives. After a long talk with the press, we've agreed it's for the best to not report on all of the weird things going on in town, or why so many ponies were humping statues."

Cadance rose in bed, looking around the room.

"Really? Oh my gosh. Well, we should call Twilight at once. If anypony can undo the damage I've done, it's her."

"Twilight actually got the tantabus to leave, and he's back in tartarus! Right now she's locked herself in the library and is aggressively studying for a counterspell."

Cadance blinked and stepped out of bed.

"Has anypony checked on her?" she asked.

"No, she said she'd prefer to be left alone, and to not come in for at least a few hours. Why?"

Cadance sighed to herself and nodded.

"Well, then, it sounds like everything turned out okay."

"Yeah! Honestly, all things considered, if it weren't for the public sex thing, it probably wouldn't have been that awful to let you help ponies fall in love and stay in love. I mean, it's not like love is a bad thing, right?"

Cadance blinked, glimpses of what had happened under her possession coming back in brief flashes. She swallows hard and nods.

"Yeah," she halfheartedly mumbled. "Nothing's ever wrong with loving somepony."

Author's Note