Cadance struggled with everything she had, but the stretchy latex bonds of the suit that held her refused to break, only allowing her to extend her limbs so far before pulling them in tight against her body. As she fought the implacable grip of the fiendish thing that held her body captive, Chrysalis mockingly stroked her mane and petted her head as if she were some sort of pet, writhing on the floor for the demented monarch’s enjoyment.

“I’ve waited so long for this moment,” Chrysalis gloated, her touch gliding over Cadance’s ebon clad curves. “The moment when I could show you that there is never any escape from the hive. You are, and always have been mine.”

The alicorn’s scream of furious denial was as eloquent as it was inarticulate. Cadance fought to free herself, even though she knew it was impossible, because surrender would become acceptance, acceptance would become obedience, and obedience would become submission.

“I wonder if even once you had even the smallest suspicion that I had replaced Shining Armor from the very beginning, and that one of my drones had taken your place after your capture,” Chrysalis continued in her cackling monologue. “Twilight Sparkle might have seen through the drone, but she never twigged to the fact that I had taken the place of her brother.”

Stunned by the words she was hearing, Cadance stopped fighting the suit for a moment, which took advantage of the juncture to run an elastic cord from her tailcuff to her collar, forcing the mare to arch her back. Even as the tension in the line forced her head and tail up, confusion ran through her mind.

She knew Shining Armor. Knew him in all the little ways a wife knew her husband. She knew his caring, his love, his power and the strength he had used to become the first stallion to place a foal in the belly of an alicorn. That this thing claimed to have been all of that, all along made no sense…

“Avaunt, Fiend!” came a furious battlecry as Princess Luna passed through the crystal wall of Twilight’s castle like it wasn’t even there, blasting at Chrysalis with her cobalt blue magic.

Cadance was treated to yet another shock when instead of being blasted through a wall and exploding into bits, the fiend that had been taunting her began to simply evaporate.

“You will never be rid of me,” hissed Chrysalis, as the last bits of her body began to disappear. “I will be waiting for you, in your dreamsss.”

“And they call me ‘Nightmare’,” Luna derided with a snort, before bending down to lift a suddenly free Cadance back up to her hooves. “Are you alright?”

“I’m fine,” Cadance replied, quivers in her legs giving the lie to words. “Wait, I’m not muzzled. How? Hang on a second… am I dreaming?”

“Indeed you are, Cadance,” Luna replied, taking a moment to steady the mare before beginning a slow circuit to examine the other pony. “You were experiencing a most vicious nightmare. Tell me, what troubles thee so?”

“Nothing!” Cadance exclaimed, turning her head to follow Luna. “Shining and I just had some of the best sex ever. We even feel asleep together in the afterglow.”

“Something doth vex thee greatly,” Luna responded, stopping to run her hoof along the glossy black that covered Cadance’s spine, all the way from nape to dock. “Nopony experiences such terrors unless they are troubled by something. Talk to me.”

Cadance shivered slightly, both at the commanding tone and at how possessive Luna’s hoof had felt as it had run, and was still running, along her back and flanks. The lunar alicorn’s face was oddly intent, and Cadance remembered that she had never seen Luna with a date or a companion of any sort since her return.

“It’s this suit,” Cadance began, smiling internally as Luna pulled her hoof away from the material like a foal caught with its hoof in the cookie jar. “Along with its control collar, it makes me into the utterly helpless captive of whoever is in control. With it, Shining can make me do anything he wants, make me feel anything he wants, make me be anything he wants. It was wonderful.”

“I think I understand,” Luna replied, thinking hard. “As an alicorn you are more powerful than your husband, and his superior in many ways, but because you love him as deeply as he loves you, you have sought to remedy this imbalance and give him time as the ascendant one in your relationship.”

“Everything we’ve tried up until now falls apart the second I tap into my alicorn abilities,” Cadance confirmed, edging herself a little closer to Luna and offering her flank to the older pony to see what she would do. “This suit though, it uses my own magic to keep me bound, so it’s just as strong as I am. As long as Shining keeps it on me, he gets to be the one in charge, and I don’t have to worry about hurting him accidentally.”

Luna’s eyes grew a little wider at Cadance’s words and brought her head close to examine the suit. Cadance would feel Luna’s soft breath on the back of her neck, where suit, collar and flesh met. “T’is truly a marvel. But the rich blackness of this sheath you wear reflects a dark fear within, the true reason for your nightmare, and why this fantastical object has brought both pleasure and fear to thee, has it not?”

“Chrysalis captured me before my wedding with incredible ease. The only reason she kept me alive was in case she needed me later on. It was terrifying,” Cadance stated, as she felt Luna’s breath trace the path her hoof had left earlier, and the Alicorn of Love felt her tail begin to lift in response. “Ah... I still worry that I will never really be free of her or what she did to me. That she’s just waiting to finish me off, or catch me again to use as some kind of living battery for her swarm.”

“Thou art truly free of her, and so long as Shining Armor claims you as his own true love that fiend shall never have thee,” Luna said, running a hoof along the tight binding of Cadance’s underside, making the young alicorn’s core ache for something solid to clamp down on. “There is nothing we would not do to reclaim you from her, should she ever try again.”

“Luna,” Cadance began, her voice husky as Luna’s touches rekindled the fires inside of her, “is there something you want? I know there’s something I want.”

“I… I’m sorry,” Luna replied, jerking her hoof and face back, her face blushing. “I should not have been so forward. I… I should go.”

“How long has it been, Luna?” Cadance taking her own opportunity to circle the princess. “How long since you been with anypony?”

“Not since before my Fall,” Luna replied, hanging her head. “The ponies of this time still fear me. What I became.”

“Not every pony,” Cadance stated, taking a moment to smell the floral scents in Luna’s mane. “I know of several ponies that would be more than happy to spend time with you.”

“As said, we are alicorns. Our strength and power can only be borne by a pony of rare stature and fortitude,” Luna responded, with a sigh. “Few and far between are such stallions, or mares.”

“What about Applejack’s brother? I’ve seen you looking at him. Don’t try to deny it now,” Cadance said, keeping her voice light even as her leapt at the realization that like herself, Luna enjoyed the company of mares as well as stallions.

“Indeed, he is a most virile stallion, and I had considered taking him as a Royal Consort. But alas, another has spoken for his heart and I will not gainsay a choice made from true love,” Luna replied with an even deeper sigh. “I will leave you to your rest.”

“Wait,” Cadance commanded. “Luna, what about me?”

“Cadance, thou are most comely, and thy raiment is most fetching, but as I said, I do not gainsay a choice made from true love,” Luna answered, a sad smile on her face, but as the Princess of the Night again slipped into her archaic speech, Cadance knew that Luna desired her. “Shining Armor loves thee, and thee, him.”

“I am the Princess of Love,” Cadance responded, stepping back up beside Luna until the two were almost touching. “Shining Armor would not only understand, but approve. He would love to service you… as would I.”

Luna gasped as Cadance struck as swiftly as a snake to nuzzle the sensitive spot just under the corner of Luna’s jawbone. As Cadance continued to work the underside of Luna’s jaw, she drew a series of small and happy moans from the dark princess until she pulled away.

“Cadance, are thee sure of this? Yea verily, I thirst to taste thy nectar with mine own lips, for thou art truly desirable, clad as thou art in gleaming night,” Luna lifted Cadance’s chin, cyan eyes locking with purple. “Still, I would fain cut off mine own hoof than harm thee or thy husband, either by word or deed. I must be certain that thou would suffer no harm from my attentions, for my lusts are most puissant, and I would be wanton in the slaking of them.”

“Luna, I’m an alicorn, just as strong and tough as you are. Besides, this suit not only makes a prisoner, it’s also armor, so there is nothing you can do that would give me any kind of lasting harm,” Cadance assured Luna. “As for Shining Armor, he’s just as likely to join in as much as anything else. Come to me Luna. Show me the true power of the Night.”

Luna’s wings burst out from her sides in a glorious display of pegasus arousal, and it was with some difficulty that she was able to pull them back in.

“Rouse thyself then,” Luna growled, the hunger in her voice sending an answering spike of desire through Cadance. “I shall come to thee. I shall come for thee.”

With a rippling snap Luna was gone from Cadance’s dream and now that the younger alicorn was fully aware of her dreaming state it was a simple matter of will for her to wake herself up. As she woke, her body immediately reacquainted her mind with several interesting sensations.

First, was the welcome warmth of Shining Armor against her back as he held her in a loose embrace. Second, was the awareness that she was still encapsulated in the suit that had bonded itself to her. Third, that her body let her know that she was still collared through the feel of the unyielding metal circle fused in an unbreakable arc around her throat. Fourth and final was the equally firm and unyielding plug in her nethers that Shining had left there in order to lock his seed inside of her.

Small and careful movement told Cadance that Shining had not left her hooves bound, nor had he leashed her to the bed, so it was only with some difficulty that the alicorn was able to slide out from the embrace of her husband to stand up by the bed. During which movement the plug buried deep into her sex moved and rolled causing all manner of sensations.

I hope Luna can figure out some way to get this thing out of me, Cadance thought to herself as she slipped silently into a side room. Or at least a way to work around it.

Moments later a shadow appeared outside the room’s window and Princess Luna ghosted in once Cadance had opened the window for her.

“Thou art even more desirable in pony,” Luna stated simply, before folding her wings about Cadance and drawing her into a deep kiss, feathered touches sliding up and down Cadance’s body.

“We may… may have a small problem,” Cadance gasped a minute later, when Luna had allowed her to come up for air. “I’m completely sealed in.”

“What do you mean?” Luna replied, then frowned slightly as Cadance turned to present her backside and showing off the unbroken darkness covering her intimate spaces. “How does this device work? How did Shining Armor cause it to seal you in like this?”

“My collar recognizes his voice,” Cadance explained, trying not to groan as Luna examined the covering over her pussy with her hooves. “It controls the suit into doing what he says with a series of set commands.”

“T’is a simple matter then,” Luna stated, and Cadance saw Luna’s magic move over the elder alicorn’s throat. “Suit, release thy captive.”

Cadance felt her eyebrows shoot up. It was a decidedly good imitation of Shining’s voice that Luna was giving, but her hopes were dashed as the suit remained inert.

“Odd, that should have been sufficient,” Luna remarked. “Cadance, is there any special way that Shining gives his commands? Particular words or phrases he uses?”

“Yes!” Cadance exclaimed, before covering her muzzle in fear of waking Shining, still asleep in the next room. “He calls to himself as ‘Control’ and he refers to the suit as either ‘615’ or ‘Suit 615’. Plus he is very specific about what he tells the suit to do.” She went on to give Luna all the examples of orders that Shining had given the suit that she could remember.

“I see,” Luna said, when the explanation was over, still using Shining Armor’s voice. “Let us try this again. 615 Suit, this is Control, acknowledge.”

“Control acknowledged,” came the pre-recorded voice from the suit.

“Excellent,” Luna commented, before adding, “615 suit, this is Control. Allow rear access and release 615’s wings.”

“Acknowledged,” said the suit, and Cadance had to bite her lip to keep from saying anything as the plug in her withdrew and cool air washed against her lower lips.

“Excellent, now to see about removing this collar,” Luna began, only to be interrupted by Cadance.

“Don’t. The suit will go into a sort of default ‘capture mode’ and bind me up completely,” Cadance quickly interrupted, before continuing. “Besides, I actually like the collar. It shows that I’m the owned mare of the ‘Dark Lord of the South’.”

“‘Dark Lord’?” Luna began, confused for a moment before shaking her head and smiling. “Ah yes, role-play. Well, in my role as Empress Polpatine, I am the greatest of the South Lords, and as such, you will obey me as you would my apprentice, Dark Armor.”

“Wait,” Cadance said, smiling as Luna looped a thin rope through her collar. “You know about the South Lords?”

“Indeed,” Luna replied absently, as she used the collar as an anchor point to weave a harness around her prey. “For the first year of my return I spent many spare hours reading fiction and writing adventures for ‘Ogres & Oubliettes’. The ‘Tomb of Doom’ was perhaps my best work.”

“Shining loves that one,” Cadance said, feeling the thin rope press in all around her, even through the insulation of the suit. “He says it’s one of the best modules ever.”

“I thank thee,” Luna replied, and with a final tug Cadance felt the last of the complex web of rope cinch into place around her. “You may struggle if you wish, you will find it will avail you not.”

Cadance did as she was bid, not because she expected to be able to get away, but because it was expected of her. One thing that became immediately clear was that Luna had made sure that the securing knots of her harness were well out of reach of hooves, wings or a questing mouth. Also, tethers connected her to the walls and ceiling of the room, allowing her a few bare inches of slack in any direction.

“Why am I bound like this, Luna?,” Cadance asked, trotting in place a bit. “I can still move my legs and wings. You haven’t even bridled me.”

“Impudent wench,” Luna chastised, with a stinging smack to Cadance’s left hindquarter as she got back into character. “Thou shalt address me as ‘Empress’. Failure to do so will result in… chastisement.”

“Yes Luna,” Cadance replied with a small smirk, and earning herself another smack on the right side. The heat of the stinging blows beginning to burn straight through to her core.

“Thou dost have an insolent tongue in thy mouth,” Luna concluded, levitating a crop with her magic to provide another pair of stinging slaps to different spots on Cadance’s ass cheeks. “Thou has earned time muzzled most strictly, but I have a better use for thy tongue and mouth.”

Luna positioned herself in front of Cadance, tail high, revealing a dark blue length of flesh that was absolutely weeping with moisture and it was clear to Cadance what was desired of her. With yet another slap of the crop to the curve of her ass to encourage her, Cadance moved forward, mouth extended, only to be brought short barely an inch shy of her goal.

“I can’t reach,” Cadance gasped out, lines of rope pressuring her body around her joints, across her chest, pressing around the bases of her teats, and even forcing her tail to lift high as she strained to move that last precious inch.

“Try harder, wench,” the Empress commanded with a series of stinging slaps, urging her latest captive toward the source of royal nectar. Cadance struggled forward, silver collar digging into her throat and cutting off her air. As the burning in her lungs began to match the burning in her rear, Cadance finally closed the distance and buried her muzzle into the dark blueberry folds of the royal plot.

“Oh… oh yes,” Luna gasped, shedding her role as quickly as she had donned it, under the ministrations of the skilled tongue and lips of the Alicorn of Love. “Yes. Oh gods yes. Right there.”

As Cadance worked her tongue and lips up and down the most sensitive flesh of her captor, the small trickle of moisture from within began to increase until it was a swift flowing stream, wetting her nose and muzzle. A small nubbin of flesh rose and the slowly suffocating pony latched onto it and began suckling on it as if it were life itself.

Luna gave a small whinny of pleasure as Cadance captured Luna’s clit with her lips and began to lash it with her tongue as vigorously as Luna had cropped Cadance’s ass. The midnight mare had only meant to test Cadance’s resolve, to see for herself how the other mare truly reacted to being compelled to service another, but instead Luna had found herself as the prisoner with a shackle of lips locked tight around one of her most pleasurable parts.

With an abrupt gasp for breath Cadance withdrew, and Luna turned to check on her partner. There Cadance stood, face dripping with Luna’s juices, heaving sides straining for breath against the tight web of rope around her body, and a look of sensual satisfaction large on her face.

“How... Was... That?” Cadance gasped out, in a series of panting breaths. “Have I pleased you, Empress?”

“Thou art truly dangerous with thy mouth and tongue,” Luna answered, noting that Cadance’s own legs were as slick as hers. “Methinks you do indeed need a muzzle.”

“And just how do you plan on that, Oh Em—mrrph!” Candace began, silenced as Luna covered Cadance’s mouth with her own, driving her tongue in to rob the Alicorn of Love of her ability to speak.

For long moments the pair stood there, mouths interlocked with tongues writhing in an erotic oral dance, until Luna dragged Cadance down to the floor, her magic parting Cadance’s tethers with her last bits of exterior awareness. For both mares nothing existed other than the body of their partner, a wonderland of pleasures spread out before each of them.

So it was no surprise that neither alicorn noticed an awakened Shining Armor poking his nose into the room to see where all the noise was coming from.

For some unknown length of time the stallion just stood there, dumbstruck by the erotic display of sex and sexuality that was his wife and Princess Luna writhing and intertwining on the floor in front of him. Slowly his hoof descended toward his hardening member as it dropped from its sheath, a gleam of pre-cum glinting from its tip.

A few strokes was all it needed to bring Shining Armor to full hardness, and he moved to approach the couple on the floor, who were each now muzzle deep into the spread flower of the other. Luna had her eyes completely closed with her nose buried as far as possible into Cadance’s soft tunnel, the lunar alicorn lapping at Cadance’s deepest depths with the tip of her tongue.

Cadance, on the other hoof, was ministering to Luna’s nub and inner folds, attempting to wipe them clean with her tongue before going deeper, having to pause often as Luna’s forceful technique threatened to bring her to an early orgasm. Lifting her head for a moment to fight down another wave of pleasure she became aware of the presence of her husband.

Both ponies caught each other’s eye and there was a moment of instant, unspoken communication, and Shining’s face split into a smile as his wife plunged her muzzle back into the soft depths of Luna’s folds, forcing the older alicorn to cry out in joy as a pink tongue began to curl into her holy of holies.

Moving somewhat awkwardly with his member at full attention, Shining Armor slipped out of the room and down the hall to Starlight Glimmer’s lab. The lab where she had been working on the original suit and collar that Twilight had brought back from her adventures in other dimensions. The lab where the few copies of the suit and its collar existed.

Shining Armor ghosted into the lab, and spotted three more suits, each in its own containment jar with a matching control collar around it. The stallion grinned and was about to check the labels of the jars when a clink of metal on metal caused him to look into the corner.

Lying in a cage set with a time lock was Starlight Glimmer, her body wrapped in another skintight black suit symbiote, silver collar with a chain leash gleaming brightly in the low light against the black. The mare’s head lifted from the sleeping pad she was on, and Shining saw that Starlight was not only leashed and collared, but fully hooded and muzzled as well.

Must have heard the door open Shining thought to himself, grabbing a containment jar at random, and not realizing in his haste that he had grabbed the original suit and not one of Starlight’s reprogrammed copies. Good thing she likes self-bondage and can’t see a thing right now.

Moving as quietly as he could, Shining Armor returned to the room where his wife and Luna were engaged in their furious struggle of seeing who could make the other cum first. Sealing the door behind him, Shining opened up the jar, and poured out the symbiote, which immediately tried to move toward Shining Armor.

With a slight snicker, the stallion scooped up the small black mass with his magic and promptly placed it onto Luna’s back, just forward of her tail. The symbiote paused for a moment, as if deciding what to do, before beginning to spread itself across Luna’s back and wrapping itself around her barrel.

So lost was the Princess of the Night in the circle of both giving and receiving joy, that she did not take notice as her dark blue fur was swiftly overwhelmed by gleaming blackness. The suit flowed over Luna’s body from neck to tip of tail, only leaving her pussy exposed, so that it did not seal Cadance’s head and mouth inside itself.

Not even when Shining Armor fused the control collar around her throat did Luna notice that anything was amiss. Not until the suit began to give Luna tiny shocks all along her body as part of the bonding process did she realize anything unusual was happening. Teats tingling as the suit tickled them, Luna gave out a lustful groan as her ass was invaded by the suit's tail plug.

“Oh, that is wondrous,” Luna moaned out. “Yes, fill mine depths. Take me wholly, as thy wanton whore.” It was the last thing Luna managed to say before the suit finished its capture of her by hooding and gagging the princess until only her nostrils were visible.

“Suit,” Shining Armor stated aloud, touching Luna’s collar with his magic. “This is Control, acknowledge.”

“Control acknowledged,” the collar replied, as Cadance’s tongue, combined with the tail plug and teat shocks, drove thoughts of resistance from Luna’s mind.

“Designate Suit 616,” Shining Armor continued. “Begin stimulation routines.”

“Negative,” responded the collar, surprising Shining Armor. “Captive recognized as ‘Target Prime’, Suit designation is Suit 001.”

“Luna, do you want us to stop and get you out?” Shining called, placing his ear beside Luna’s covered one to be sure she could hear him.

Her mind mazed with pleasure all Luna comprehended was, “Do you want us to stop?” To which Luna furious shook her head.

“Okay then,” Shining said, with a smile. “Back off, 615. I want to see what my newest pony tastes like.”

Obediently Cadance stepped away, and as Shining Armor moved into her place with his own practiced tongue, she slid below her stallion and began to worship his cock. With long, slow, loving care, her broad velvet tongue slid along his turgid length, causing it to swell even further. Her tongue caressed his balls with a delicate cupping motion, his powerful musk a spicy delight to her senses.

For his part, Shining had to control himself from almost the moment Cadance’s lips touched his flesh with their skilled and knowing touch. Desperate to divert himself from the lightning gathering in his groin, he busied himself with nibbling and sucking at the succulent folds of the royal plot spread before him, Luna’s moans and shudders guiding him along.

As for Luna, with all of her senses cut off save smell and touch, she was lost in an ocean of dark pleasure. The feelings and sensations she was experiencing were all that she had dreamed of, all that she had wanted, and more. She was riding along the forming curl of an orgasm that was threatening to be like a tsunami when a voice began to whisper to her.

“Submit. Obey,” began the voice. “Let go of your cares. Submit to Control. Feel the joy in obedience. Submit to Control.”

“Smit,” murmured Luna, groaning as Shining’s nose and tongue quested deeper along the path his wife had blazed.

“Feel the pleasure in submission. Submit to Control,” chanted the soft voice in her ears. “Let go of your rage. Obey Control. Feel the joy in obedience. Obey Control.”

“‘Bey,” Luna moaned through her muzzle, as the tail plug joined in the erotic assault.

“Submit, and all will love you. Submit to Control,” gently urged the voice of the suit, continuing in its Prime Directive to bind, contain, to turn the Nightmare Moon of its world into a biddable, docile mare. “Obey, and protect everypony. Submit to Control. Obedience is safety. Submission is pleasure. Obey Control, and be safe.”

“Plth,” Luna begged through her muzzle, the tidal wave of her orgasm threatening to crash down at any moment. Shining Armor was deep inside of her now, frantic in his own efforts to stave off his own climax. “Yth. Sbmit, ‘bey. Wll.”

“Will you obey? Obedience is pleasure.” asked the voice, recognizing that Luna was seconds away from orgasmic surrender. “Will you submit? Submission is safety.”

“Yth!” Luna cried out, as her body began to quake and spasm. Her paroxysms shattering Shining Armor’s control and forcing him to surrender to his wife’s ministrations, his own orgasm sending his seed arcing out in pulses that splattered on the bodies of both mares with equal abandon. “Yth! Yth! Sbmit! ‘Bey! Yth!”

Some distant time later, when Shining Armor’s mind returned to his body, he looked up from the pleasured pony pile he was part of and smiled as yet another wicked thought crossed his mind…

“I’m really glad to have you here for an early breakfast, Princess Celestia,” Twilight Sparkle said, smiling over at her mentor across a light breakfast of berries and creme fraiche. “It’s been a long time since we’ve been able to just sit down like this.”

Celestia had raised the sun only a little while ago, and had decided to accept the standing invitation of her student and friend to come visit.

“You have come a long way, my former student,” Celestia replied, with a pleased voice. “I’m so very proud at how well you’ve dealt with all the changes in your life.”

“I couldn’t have done it without all the things you taught me,” Twilight complimented, tilting her ears as the sound of measured hoofbeats began to be heard through the window. “That’s coming from the practice grounds. I didn’t know anypony from my guard had anything scheduled for today.”

“I’m sorry I had to saddle you with the Twilight Guard, but as a Princess of Equestria you not only needed, but deserved protection for yourself, and your loved ones,” Celestia commented before taking a large mouthful of berries and creme. Raising the sun was hard work, after all.

“Well, I was a little mad at first, but then I got used t—ARUGHBLG!” garbled Twilight as Celestia ejected her mouthful of cream and berries directly into Twilight’s face.

“What the hay was that all about?” Twilight demanded as she grabbed for a towel, blobs of white cream and chunks of berries slowly dripping and sliding down her face. “Princess?”

Celestia hadn’t moved, and continued to stare wide-eyed out the window.

“Princess?” Twilight asked again, wiping the white liquid from her face. “Celestia? What’s wrong?”

Celestia said nothing, simply pointing a hoof out the window, and when Twilight came around the table to have a look she realized what had thrown the unflappable Celestia for a loop.

There, prancing across the practice field side-by-side with a measured stride, were Cadance and Luna. Both mares were encased in their gleaming black body suits that covered them from neck to dock. Over their suits each wore a bridle and harness of gleaming black straps and silver buckles that bound them firmly to a chariot that they were pulling together in tandem.

At the controls of the chariot stood a proud and resplendent Shining Armor, his skillful hoof on the reins controlling the two mares in front of him with ease, while they pranced along with the pride and poise of models showing off a new fashion line.

“Oh my,” was all Twilight could say, until a soft voice whispered in her ear.

“You know, my former student, I do believe you have two more of those suits. Don’t you?” Celestia asked, in a soft voice that sent a thrill down Twilight’s spine. “Maybe we should let your brother have the full set of princesses to pull his chariot. What do you think?”

Author's Note

So, a few notes here:

When I first wrote Descent I ended it with a bit of a horror twist, and it turned out to be a dreadful mistake that has preyed on my mind from pretty much the day it went live. Since then I've tried to come up with a way to fix things.

Various ideas were thought of and rejected. Such as simply editing out the ending, deleting and republishing it, as well as a couple of other plans.

During my past month off I was watching an old retrospective of some classic TV from when I was young. Among the shows was "Dallas," a big budget, prime-time drama. One of the biggest twists in the show was when at the end of one season they ret-conned the entire season by making the death of a major character at the start of the season be nothing but a dream.

Which lead me to the idea I used for this second, and likely last chapter of this story. I hope it satisfies.

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