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Rainbow Dash was flying through town and decided to check on her other crush, the mare she didn’t want for anything but to see a cute little nerdy type that didn’t know she was a cute nerdy type. Rarity was handled by Fluttershy, Snickers was going to be a distraction, but always worth a laugh; it was going to be a good time.

Finding an open window by Twilight’s bed, Rainbow flew in and listened for anything. She heard Snickers talking animatedly and Twilight replying as fast as he stopped talking and they went back and forth. Twilight’s voice was sweeter than anyone else’s except for Fluttershy’s, in Rainbow’s opinion.

She lay at the loft and listened to them talk about sciences and math that stimulated her mentally in ways she’d never planned to admit. After several minutes, Rainbow became antsy so she leapt from the loft and flew down. “Heya, Twilight!” Rainbow shouted, getting the unicorn to scream and bang her elbows on the table and toss her quill and notepad to the side.

“Ouch! Rainbow Dash?! What have I told you about scaring me like that?” Twilight said lighting her horn and healing her legs from the aches. “That wasn’t very funny,” Twilight scolded Rainbow who was laughing on the floor.

Rainbow stood up and wiped an imaginary tear from her eye. “That never gets old,” Rainbow finished laughing. “Oh, hey, Snickers! Snuggling with the egghead, huh?”

Snickers got up and left Twilight, running to Rainbow. “Rainbow! I gotta talk to you! I fucked up, I fucked…” Snickers looked at Twilight and then back up to Rainbow. He hesitated and took a step back. “I… last night I did something bad,” he said and looked at the floor.

Rainbow moved close and wrapped a wing around him. “Hey, big guy. You’ll be okay, whatever you did can’t be that bad. Just, talk to me and tell me what happened. Nopony’s gonna be upset with you.”

Snickers moved closer and started sniffling, nuzzling into Rainbow’s down. “I… Scootaloo and me… we messed around last night and I didn’t stop it. I’m a terrible pony,” he started to cry softly. “I’m horrible, letting it happen and not stopping it…” he sniffled between sobs, “I deserve to be sent to the dungeons, probably even Tartarus.”

Twilight and Rainbow shared a long worried expression and glanced between one another and Snickers in a silent conversation. Finally, Rainbow nuzzled him. “Snickers, Snickers… it’s alright. I guess it happens, but no matter what, you don’t need to be upset about this. Just…” Rainbow hesitated and looked at Twilight, who rubbed her forelegs awkwardly together, “tell us what happened and we’ll help you from there.”

“Just, take your time, Snickers,” Twilight said sitting on the floor and bringing several books to he side related to therapy and sexual therapy she’d ordered over the weekend and began to quietly skim the texts, taking her speed reading skills to their limits; reading a chapter by the time Snickers was composed enough to begin his story.

Snickers sniffled and turned his eyes up, meeting Rainbow’s snout and having to lean back to see into her trusting eyes.

-_-_-_-

Snickers woke up with a sigh, quietly and peacefully and looking at the sleeping face of Scootaloo. Something in his mind urged him, nudged him closer, almost against his will to lift his foreleg to Scootaloo’s muzzle and wake her with a light brush. As Scootaloo’s eyes fluttered open, Snickers leaned in closer and kissed her nose.

The urgency left him, but as he watched her eyes meet his, Snickers didn’t resist Scootaloo when she touched her hoof to his cheek as well and brought her lips the inch back to his. He turned his head slightly and let his tongue brush her lips, her body trembled and her lips parted letting him in.

Her soft flat teeth welcomed his tongue into her mouth and met her own, that was when Snickers’s body reacted and he extended, his body so close to Scootaloo’s he parted his lips from hers and watched in anxious fascination at her reaction to feeling him growing, pressing along her underbelly as it grew.

Scootaloo looked down and lifted the blanket with her foreleg, taking her hoof from Snickers’s face to see what lay between them. Scootaloo let the blanket drop and wrapped her foreleg around his length and pulled it to her. She pressed her lips to his again in a heated kiss and let her foreleg move up and down feeling the bump half-way, stopping each time to slow over it.

Snickers’s eyes flickered closed as he let her have his way with him. He was feeling a familiar tension growing, when she stopped and broke her lips from his breathing heavily. “Make me yours, I’m ready if you are.” She looked slightly hurt when she saw his worried expression, then smiled knowingly. “I understand, I’ll take care of it.”

Snickers glanced behind him and saw Sweetie Belle and Silver Spoon sleeping face to face but far enough away to not be cuddling. Scootaloo turned over and Snickers felt her tail brush along his penis and side. He scooted closer and used his forehoof to press his member down until it was below her tail, then she scooted back and he felt himself slide against her underbelly.

Scootaloo gently pulled his hardness closer to her and her hips rocked back and forth against him, dampening the base of his rod as she squeaked a quiet moan and started to rub her forelegs up and down again returning him to the place he was moments earlier. Snickers wrapped his foreleg around her and pulled her closer.

He quietly moaned and she sped up her actions on both of them until she felt him thrust his hips against her rump and the part of him she held in her forelegs pulse, Scootaloo gasped and her rocking stammered and slowed.

Both started to breathe heavily, Scootaloo let him go and shivered as he receded, brushing against her nethers as he went. He held Scootaloo tightly to herself and Scootaloo scooted as closely back to him as she could. “You, were amazing,” Scootaloo said and sniffled. “You… made a little mess on my foreleg,” she giggled and brought her nose to the droplets he’d made and touched it to her snout to keep his scent before she licked her leg clean thoroughly.

Snickers watched, listened, and smelled their unofficial union and nuzzled her ear. He didn’t say anything, he didn’t have to. At the moment, they both felt good and that’s all that mattered at the moment. It was a distant dream in Snickers’s mind that he was unsure of whether was his first wet dream as a colt, or a huge mistake.

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Rainbow hugged Snickers, a sense of relief washing over her. “That’s okay, Snickers. You didn’t actually have sex, it was mutual masturbation, as long as you didn’t penetrate her with your stallion parts she won’t feel or be bonded to you.” Rainbow said and looked at Twilight, who was on her third book and nodded while reading.

“The only problem we now have is that you’re ready and willing, at some level, to go that far, aren’t you?” Rainbow asked.

“Wait a second, Rainbow,” Twilight interjected. “Snickers,” she lowered her book and looked intently at him. “You said there was something that compelled you or influenced you to start your sexual event with Scootaloo?”

Snickers looked through Rainbow’s feathers and nodded. Twilight frowned.

“What’s up, Twi? Is this gonna get magical and stuff? Because that’s not exactly what I think you should do right now, especially since last time you blew up his brains.”

Twilight ignored the comment and focused on Snickers. “How are you feeling right now?”

Snickers leaned closer to Rainbow. “Sad, mad, hurt, confused… why?”

Twilight hemmed the thought over. “What if I asked you to do something you liked to do, like eat ice cream. How would that make you feel?”

Snickers’s ears perked higher and he peeked out again. “I… I’d feel happy, I guess,” he looked at Twilight with curiosity. “Maybe thankful, why?”

Twilight looked at the stack of books, then to her book shelves, then she inhaled and exhaled deeply. “And if I ask you to do something you don’t like? Such as to k-... kill a bird?”

Snickers shrugged enough for Rainbow’s feathers to move. “I don’t really mind. Birds aren’t exactly-”

“Sweetie Belle, then?” Twilight interrupted.

Snickers tensed and trembled, glaring at Twilight for several seconds before his ears twitched and he looked at the floor. “Whatever I’d have to do, I guess I’d do it.”

Rainbow slowly opened her wing and stepped back from the colt and looked at him guardedly. “Twilight, what’re you doing?” She asked as Snickers sat still and looked at the floor.

A spark of light appeared at the top of Snickers’s head where a horn would have been if he’d been born with one and it wasn’t missed by the mares. Rainbow’s wings opened and she took to the air flying back. Twilight watched with her horn alight casting a general spell tracking magic as it occured in the area.

“Twilight, what that hay was that?!”

“Rainbow,” Twilight said calmly, “it’s not his fault…”

“Well,” Rainbow asked after several seconds passed, “what is it then?”

Rainbow watched as Twilight’s eyes darted side to side in thought. Snickers finally looked up and over to Rainbow, waiting for her to give him attention again. “Rainbow, it’s Harmony.”

Snickers looked at Rainbow and pouted. “Please, may I have a little affection here? I’m simply going out of my mind with stress,” he said with a bit of flair, “Rainbow, may I have a hug. It just might be what I need…” Rainbow looked at Snickers and landed beside him, wrapping him in an awkward hug. “Oh, your coat is just… luxuriously soft and you’re so blue! Have you ever played hide and seek, but in the sky where nopony could find you?

“Personally, I think that you’re missing out if you haven’t.” Snickers stood up and walked from Rainbow’s hug. “Thank you, Dashie, but I have to wonder about this shirt. Is it really my color? Oh, Twilight, you’re so pretty. How don’t you have a boyfriend or girlfriend right now?” Snickers asked curtly.

“Sn-snickers, that’s not something we should be focusing on at the moment. What concerns me most is how you’re talking all of a sudden,” Twilight said, then turned her attention to Rainbow Dash. “Like how he suddenly cares about how you feel or his clothes. It seems very similar to a mare we both know, right?”

Rainbow rolled her eyes. “You don’t have to talk down to me, Twi. I know you’re talking about Rarity, and I agree. Something’s up with the big guy here,” Rainbow watched Snickers as he started to pull the cushion he was sitting on with Twilight from the spot in the nook.

Twilight watched as Snickers worked with more effort than he should have. “Rainbow, should we just humor him?”

“Twilight,” Snickers said panting softly from the exertion he’d put himself through, “you really have to keep your body safe and sitting on a soft surface will do more for you, ergonomically, than sitting on what your body perceives as a rock. I.e. the floor should be walked on, not sat upon, so sit here, young mare,” he said running around Twilight. He started nudging her with the top of his head toward the pillow and Twilight gave in, moving to sit where he’d offered.

“Happy now?” Twilight asked cooly.

Snickers nodded and looked Twilight from her forehooves to her ears. “Much; now about your mane…”

***

Rarity stood in her inspiration room panting with fury on her face while sweat beaded across her body. “Finally, I know your patterns, you’re not welcome here, rodents!” Rarity’s horn lit and surrounded each of the mice, lifting them for a second before the mice slipped and landed on the floor running around.

Rarity fell to her haunches and inhaled, puffed her cheeks with air, then wailed; tears running down her cheeks taking mascara with them. “Why-y-y won’t you go a-a-aw-awa-a-y?”

Fluttershy whistled a short note and the mice stood up, looked at her, and scurried away to the places the enchanted gems were hidden leaving Rarty alone in the room surrounded by fabric strewn around haphazardly by her magic. Fluttershy sent her little friend away and entered the room and hugged Rarity. “Rarity, how do you feel?”

Rarity hugged Fluttershy tightly. “They’re everywhere. I can’t stop them from ruining my business, my life is over before it began again... I can’t even-” Rarity fell silent and her horn flashed in a single pulse, then she resumed crying as though she hadn’t stopped, “-do anything right, it seems.”

Fluttershy, blinking a single star from her eyes, looked at her friend. “Rarity, why’d your horn just flash? Is everything okay?”

Rarity sniffled. “I didn’t flash my horn, d-darling. I-i’m in n-no m-mood,” she inhaled to whine loudly but was stopped by Fluttershy’s wing covering her mouth.

“Rarity, your horn did flash. Why do you suppose that was? Why would your magic do that, if you don’t mind me asking.”

Rarity leaned back and looked at her yellow friend. “Whatever are you talking about, Fluttershy?” she asked and wiped her eyes on her foreleg, grimacing at the mascara she knew she smeared across her face by what was on her leg. “Oh, what a day and it’s only just begun. Fluttershy, what’s happened to me? What has led to my life being in such a way?”

Fluttershy shuffled her wings and her legs on the carpet, refusing to meet Rarity’s eyes. “W-well, Rarity, I guess that… … …”

“What was that darling? I couldn’t hear you,” Rarity asked and focused her ears toward Fluttershy.

“I said … …”

“Fluttershy, whatever you have to say, I won’t be upset with you or be mad at all. I beg you for your honest opinion of me, please.”

Fluttershy glanced up and met Rarity’s eyes for a second and relented. “I said… that you seem to have grown in a fractured household with poor parental interaction and limited intra-familial social interactions that have stacked to create a mare that uses nontraditional methods to cope with common problems.”

Rarity blinked and hummed. “Well… struck the nail upon the head in a single swing, haven’t you? Well,” Rarity stood and snapped her waved tail, “I won’t pass my problems on to the others in my life. Snickers is back at Twilight’s and I shan’t let Twilight read with him alone. I have plenty of books that he will enjoy reading with me and, as Celestia as my witness, I’ll truly begin to be a better mother to him… one that I should have had and longed for all my fucking youth.

“Thank you, Fluttershy, you’re truly a miracle worker.” Rarity kissed Fluttershy’s cheeks in the Prench way before she turned and trotted from the room. “Damn, today’s gonna be great!” Rarity shouted.

Fluttershy’s ears were pressed to her head and she looked at the mouse as he ran back into the room. “What has happened to Rarity’s language? It’s suddenly so foul, is that because of what we did?”

The mouse shook his head and squeaked.

“Well, if you say so. However, you’re right; she didn’t even seem to think about pleasuring her troubles away-” the door slammed loudly when Rarity left the boutique, “I think you should wait here and I’ll come back after I make sure everything is going to be okay with Rarity. She seems a little bit different since her horn flashed, she may be in trouble. I’ll be back soon, okay?”

...

“Oh, Spikey Wikey, thank you so much for waiting.”

“Anything for you, Rarity. I was worried when I heard your screaming, but Rainbow told me Fluttershy was with you and showing you her mice so you’d probably freak out and not to worry,” Spike said nonchalantly. “And I know how to guard a door so nopony walks in to hear you screaming like you usually do.”

Rarity blinked in realization that her urge was gone without having been sated and smiled, mentally thanking Fluttershy and her clever mind. “Yes, well, now that all that’s done, I have to return to the library. There’s some shit I’ve gotta do and I simply can’t put it off.” Spike covered his mouth with his hands and stepped back from Rarity. “Oh my, dragon breath again? You simply must work on that shit before it kills somepony.”

Rarity trotted past Spike and closed the door behind her while the shocked dragon watched her leave with wide eyes, only this time unrelated to her hips swaying with each step she took. When she’d gotten nearly a block away he lowered his hands from his mouth and gulped loudly. “What just happened to my darling angel?”

Rarity hummed a happy tune as she casually trotted through Ponyville keeping her spirits high while anxiety at being rejected bubbled inside her. “Hello, Daisy. Fucking wonderful day, is it not?” Rarity asked a flower mare she passed. The mare excused herself from Rarity's potty mouth. “Ah, well, I hope you have a good shit, then. Polygon? Holy shit, I haven’t seen you for over two weeks!

“How the hell are you?” Rarity asked the next mare she came across and watched as the mare covered her mouth like Spike had. “Hm, I can’t stop now, but if you have bad breath perhaps a good brushing would help more than covering your damned mouth… Noteworthy?” Rarity pranced in place to keep herself ready to move again. “What the fuck are you doing here, darling? I thought you’d be sucking off your boss for a raise right now.

“Oh, my. You look cute when you blush, use that while you do it, darling. I won’t tell your girlfriend, by the by…” Rarity stopped and leaned closer, “do you swallow? I know this stallion you’d love to meet if you’re interested, regardless. Fret not, your secret love for other stallions is still between us,” she winked. “Ponytones practice Wednesday? Fabulous, see you there and be certain to gargle, not just mouthwash,” she advised and then cantered to make up for lost space.

Noteworthy watched Rarity leave him alone in the area and thanking Celestia no one heard, but upset about everything else that had just happened. “What just happened, was that Rarity just now?” Noteworthy asked aloud.

The rest of Rarity’s walk to Twilight’s was mostly quiet since her path was a bit of a shortcut down side streets as opposed to well used streets that could stop her from bonding with her adoptive son. Rarity saw the Golden Oaks Library’s top and cut through an alley, glad to have not experienced anything like she had the last time she’d gone through one.

Her mind reflected on transversing the one with Snickers and how that had gone. It would have been an opportune time to share a laugh with him or create an inside joke… instead I fucked off and was so jealous of Cherrilee I could have begged her to let me join in for the fun of it. C’mon, Rares, what’s more important?!

Rarity knocked on the door and opened it, walking in to see Snickers with a brush in his mouth and combing Twilight’s mane while Twilight and Rainbow looked back at her uncertainly. “Rarity, he’s brushing my mane,” Twilight said.

“No shit?” Rarity retorted. “I thought he was checking you for lice. Nice to know you were so on point with your assessment, how many books did you have to read to come up with that comment, egg head?”

Twilight and Rainbow’s jaws were slack while Snickers spat the brush out and frowned at Rarity. “That is no language to have around a colt my age, mother. Why, I have it in my mind to tell grandmother and grandfather about your uncouth choice in wording when I finally meet them if you continue.”

Rainbow and Twilight stepped aside and watched the two in shocked awe, their eyes darting between Rarity and Snickers.

“Yeah, certainly you may, if they ever get back from wherever the fuck they went to this time. Mother’s an accountant and father is a sports news reporter. They both tend to live mobile lifestyles and at the rate you’re going, I don’t see them meeting you before Twilight here sends you to Canterlot or Manehattan to help them research something no one cares about.

“Now, I’m here to spend time with you, you little shit, so get a book and let’s read.”

Snickers scoffed. “As though I’d waste my precious time with you when you’re more interested in self gratifying your libido instead of doing anything productive to any society that has no internet or fast photo sharing technology. Why, if I were to wager bits against doubloons, part of your income is based on sending photos of yourself clad scantly to top shelf magazines that have their covers blacked out… harlot. However, since you’re so insistent, I’ll indulge you and get you a book that you can drool over while I read something more technical and, dare I say, intelligent?” Snickers gasped in faux shock at his obvious insult.

Rarity scuffed her forehoof on the floor. “Fine by me, why don’t you get something from besides the toilet in the basement. That’s where Spike keeps his favorite ‘comic books’,” Rarity made air quotes with her forehooves while looking at Twilight, “and some may even not be all stuck closed…” Rarity smiled mockingly at Snickers. “Good luck, don’t be too long.”

“Okay, that’s enough! This’s gone too far,” Rainbow said and flew to Snickers while Twilight teleported in front of Rarity, both mares stopping the arguing. “Snickers, what has gotten into you? Rarity, what the hay?! After everything we talked about last night, you’re just going right back to this, only worse?”

Twilight turned aside. “Rainbow, I don’t think this is either of their fault. It’s the magic of Harmony, it’s doing something to the both of them and I don’t know what it’s doing. This is very concerning… I’ve never heard of it happening to a pony before.”

Rarity tried to move past Twilight. “Woah, don’t stop me from going where I want, Twi. You’re not the boss of me, so move it. I’ve gotta read something with Snickers so he’ll finally like me.”

Snickers faked a laugh. “As if, you need to be a good pony first. Everypony I’ve met has at least tried, you’re consistently absent or pleasing yourself in one way or another. I know how to be a better parent than you, perhaps I should be your guardian!”

Rainbow flared her wings and blocked Snickers from seeing Rarity. “Twilight, what do we do, this is not something I’ve ever trained for or even heard about!”

Twilight kept side stepping to keep Rarity behind an imaginary line she walked along. “Okay, I have my failsafe spell I’ve refined and have been working on. If I can disrupt the magic of Harmony for even a second it may stop the affect it’s having on them.”

“Twilight,” Rarity said in a shockingly normal, local accent, “I can’t imagine you’d even think of screwing with our heads after what you did yesterday and all the shit that happened from that. What the hell is wrong with you, no one should have to go through that, and now you’re saying we all should?”

Twilight’s horn glowed with its aura and Twilight began to cast. “Rarity, you’re both changing because Harmony is forcing parts of your personality onto Snickers to get him to align with our ways. If I don’t stop this, I don’t know how much of either of you will be left as individuals before the magic completes its role.”

Rainbow looked intently at Twilight. “Wait, are you saying that the magic of Harmony, the same magic that keeps us together and gives us the rainbow lasers of awesomeness are trying to force Snickers to be more harmonic?”

Twilight nodded. “Yes, it’s the base of Reformation Magic, the same magic that turns bad ponies and creatures into good ones. There’s obviously conflict in Snickers and Harmony must be under the impression that it’s chaos because of wherever Snickers is from is so different from our world that he can’t completely adapt, or is resisting, and Harmony is trying to… fix that.”

Rainbow and Rarity stopped what they were doing and focused their attention on Twilight, Snickers did as well once he could see the mare. Everypony was looking at Twilight and they weren’t happy.

“So, let me get this straight,” Snickers said in a more casual voice for himself, “you’re saying that because I’m not totally into the pony mindset and lifestyle, Harmony is trying to make me into it?”

The light around Twilight’s horn went out and she looked between the ponies watching her. Then she nodded and prepared to be shouted at or even shunned by one of them.

“Well, that’s fucked up,” Rarity said with a bit of her accent back. “What do we do, then? I’m not okay with having my son forced into something he’s not okay with. Can you fix Harmony to not bother us?”

Twilight looked between the ponies in the room and nodded. “Y-yes… I know of a few spells I can try, but I think the best one I can use is going to be to use a partial reformation spell on you, Rarity. You’re already a member of pony society, so when I cast on you, then Harmony should consider the task done.”

“Well, I’m certainly all for the try, at least,” Snickers said finally.

Rainbow moved around Snickers and held him to her while Twilight moved Rarity back to near the entrance door. “Ready, Rarity?” Rarity nodded and Twilight lit her horn, recalling the spell. “Okay, this won’t hurt at all.”

Author's Note

Thus starts a trial between Harmony and Snickers. Yes, in a dream; but not a secret this time. Harmony's gonna go hard core soon.