The Game of Estrus

Sprawled across the hilltop, Applejack lay panting, trying to keep a handle on her emotions. Her mind was reeling, trying to comprehend her situation while being assaulted by her own body's senses.

There was pain, a sharp, stinging pain, from where Discord had ripped away her virginity. She tried to cling onto it, like a life ring tethering her to reality, but the waves of pleasure that were washing over her made it increasingly difficult for her to keep a grip.

She felt ashamed of how good she was feeling. Her mind wanted to retch with revulsion, but her body was betraying her. Every inch he pushed inside her was another inch of her pussy spread erotically apart, making her acutely aware of yet another inch she never even realised she had before.

She could feel her liquids running past her nether lips and pooling inside her chastity belt, and felt overall like a complete mess. At this rate, he may not even need to cum in her. All he had to do was stick half of his meat rod inside her, and she was reduced into this-

Wait.

All he had to do? Had she forgotten who she was dealing with?

This was Discord, master of chaos. The entirety of what he was doing at any one time was never clear. Regaining her mental strength, she staggered back up to her hooves, and glared up at the air in general.

"Ah don't rightly remember yah mentionin' using them afro-dese-yaks in those rules o' yours."

There was a moment's pause, before uproarious laughter echoed through the grove. "Oh my, Applejack, could it be that you're enjoying this? I never knew you were that kind of pony!" As always, his sincerity was impossible to determine. "Well, if believing I'm using aphrodisiacs makes you feel better, then by all means go ahead. It doesn't really change the circumstances though, does it?"

Switching gears, Discord suddenly pulled his shaft back a few inches, before ramming it back inside of Applejack. She bit back a moan that tried to escape her lips, and attempted to ignore the sensations from between her legs as Discord started to pick up a rhythm of thrusting in and out of her.

Focusing on the task at hoof, she took a closer look at the trees around her. The apples on the branches seemed to have grown in normally, so she guessed all Discord had done was sped up the process. Closing her eyes, Applejack tried to picture the apple that Discord had transformed the squirrel into... it had been large, unusually so, and bright red, with a shine to it that almost glowed. Basically, the very image of a perfect apple.

Applejack grinned. An apple like that would stick out like a sore wing around most of the farm. Perhaps the situation wasn't so hopeless after all.

"And so you think somepony's trying to make a baby with Applejack?"

"Precisely, Pinkie." Twilight poked her head into the open for a moment, feeling the wind hit against her face. "HOW MUCH FURTHER, RAINBOW?"

"ANOTHER THIRTY SECONDS!" Rainbow Dash yelled back, struggling to be heard over the noise of the gale rushing around them.

Nodding, Twilight retracted her head back into the shelter of the cloud. Not having the time to locate enough rope to secure each pony, she had suggested that Rainbow instead find a large enough cloud to hollow out, allowing the passengers to sit inside, secure even without being bound to it.

"But why would Applejack do that?" Pinkie asked. "If she becomes a mommy, she'll have less time to play with her friends. Does she not want to play with us anymore?!" She seemed genuinely worried about this prospect.

"Calm down, Pinkie." Twilight put a hoof on her shoulder. "I'm sure Applejack cares about us just as much as she always did. It seems more likely that, well..." She hesitated, unsure of how to say this to the innocent-minded, fun-loving pony.

"She's probably being forced into it," Film Reel finished for her.

Pinkie's expression became concerned, and she looked to Twilight for assurance. Twilight sighed, and gave a low nod. "Most likely, it's as she says."

A look of confused contemplation crossed Pinkie's face. "So, you're saying that, it's not like this..." Pulling out some sock puppets from somewhere, she wore Applejack on one hoof, and a nondescript stallion on the other. She mimed them kissing, making lovey-dovey cooing sounds, before a baby sock puppet appeared between them, held up by Pinkie's tail. The three puppets then had a group hug, laughing happily, while confetti rained down on them.

"...But instead, it's like this?" Pinkie continued, resetting the scene to just Applejack and the stallion. This time, the stallion let out a roar, and kicked Applejack in the face. Applejack made sobbing noises, before the baby popped up again next to her. The stallion then moved close to them, before bending down, and wiggling it's head against the foal, while Pinkie made "nom nom nom" noises. When he raised his head again, the smaller puppet had somehow disappeared.

Twilight cringed a little. She had clearly underestimated Pinkie's imagination when put to nefarious purposes. "Uhm, yes... sort of... hopefully with less baby-eating, though..."

"But that would make Applejack really sad! We have to save her!"

"Yes, Pinkie, that's why we're- Hey, wait!" Twilight scrambled forwards after Pinkie, who had just leapt completely out of the cloud. She stuck her head out, expecting to see her friend plummeting to her doom, but instead found her with her hooves safely on the ground, only a few feet away from her.

Rainbow fluttered down next to them, wiping her brow. "Phew... We're here!"

Twilight stepped tentatively out of the cloud, with Film Reel jumping out after her. "So what's the plan?" asked the photographer.

"Pinkie, can you tell exactly where on the farm Applejack is?" Twilight asked.

Pinkie shuddered again, before shaking her head. "No... all I know is she's in big trouble."

"No problem," Rainbow said confidently, taking off into the sky once more. "I'll just do a quick flyby over the farm. It can't be that hard to find her." She turned around to dash away, but stopped when she found herself face-to-bark with the trunk of a tree.

Huh, strange. She'd been sure she was above the treetops. Shrugging, she looked up, and saw the leaves not far above her. She flapped her wings, and... the leaves remained above her. In fact, she seemed to be no closer to them than she was before. She took off once more, but no matter how hard her wings flapped, the branches remained relatively stationary.

Rainbow paused, thoroughly confused. Were her wings not working? She looked down, and saw that she was now quite a distance from the ground. Her friends were looking up at her, and they seemed to be just as confused as she was.

"Twilight, what the hay is going on?" Rainbow asked, swooping back down to ground level.

"The trees..." Twilight replied, staring bewildered at the orchard. "They... got taller! As you flew, it was like they were blocking you off! Look, now they've shrunk again!"

Rainbow turned back to look at the tree that had been her obstacle, and jumped back in shock when she did so. The tree was now Discord!

"Hello, everypony!" Discord cheered, raising his arms up high. "So glad you could make it!"

"What have you done with Applejack?!" Twilight yelled, stamping her hoof.

"Now now, all in good time, my impatient little equines," Discord chuckled. "I wouldn't want to spoil the show for you." He mimed drawing a rectangle in the air with his hands, lines of colour following the tips of his digits. Once the lines joined up, the whole shape suddenly lit up, shining so brightly that the ponies had to shield their eyes from it.

"Ahhh! Git off'a me, yah cotton-pickin' varmint!"

Rainbow and Twilight glanced towards each other. "Hey, doesn't that sound like...?"

"Applejack!" Pinkie exclaimed. Her eyes seemed to have recovered the fastest, and she was staring up at the rectangle, mouth agape. "It's Applejack!"

The other ponies squinted up at the projection. Sure enough, a distinct picture started to come into focus. There was a collective gasp from the group as they witnessed the scene that was unfolding.

In the centre of the screen was Applejack, looking quite out-of-breath and dishevelled. She lay face-down on the ground, her front hooves having been tied tightly together and secured to the trunk of a tree. Her back legs fared no better, each of them being bound to separate trees some distance apart, forcing them to remain spread open. She was completely naked, save for her hat, which was still balanced atop her head.

Straddled atop her was another figure, though it was difficult to identify them, since they appeared to be mostly transparent. The only reason they could tell he was there at all was by a faint outline of his body, combined with his "equipment" being the only part of him that was still plainly visible. As the camera panned around, they got a clear shot of his shaft sliding in and out of Applejack's stretched pussy, his balls slapping lewdly against her marehood with each thrust.

"Okay, enough!" Twilight shouted, looking away in disgust. Or, at least, she tried to: when she turned her head away, she found the screen stayed fixed in her vision. Closing her eyes didn't help either: to her horror, even with her eyelids screwed up tight, the image was still there, floating in the corner of her eye. The only thing that didn't seem to affect it was moving her eyeball, allowing her to switch her focus between the screen and the world in front of her. The sound wouldn't stop either, Applejack's moans seemingly being broadcast directly into Twilight's ears.

"Come now," chastised Discord, "this is the important part! I loathe people who look away from movies, so I added the video to your heads-up display. Oh, right, I should mention I gave you all a heads-up display, too. Honestly don't know how you've managed to live without one up until now!"

Rainbow was frantically shaking her head back and forth. "Twilight, what the hay is he talking about? And why won't this damn thing stop following me? I can't stand looking at Applejack this way!"

"Oh no! She sounds like she's in pain!" Pinkie was hopping from hoof to hoof worriedly. "That guy's thing looks too big, it could be hurting her!"

Film Reel, meanwhile, was staring fixated into the corner of her own eye. "To think, you could take so many pictures in a single second, and still have such high quality to your shots... magic really is leagues ahead of technology."

Twilight glared back up at Discord. "Why are you showing this to us?!"

Discord chuckled, spreading his arms dramatically. "Because, my little ponies, I'm hereby setting you a little challenge, and this ought to help you keep your eye on the prize. Now, if you look to your right, you should see a bar of sorts."

Twilight blinked, and glanced sideways. There was indeed a thin rectangle running up the side of her vision. It was an odd fleshy-pink colour, with a small portion of white at the bottom. As she watched, the white began slowly expanding, climbing gradually higher up the bar.

"I'll let you form your own conjectures as to what it represents," Discord continued. "You should just know that once the bar fills completely, your precious little redneck will be lost to you... forever! Muhahahahaha!" Cackling maniacally, he then exploded into light and smoke, vanishing from sight once more.

Twilight snarled, grinding the dirt beneath her hoof. "Discord... You're not going to have your way this time..."

Rainbow was hopping back and forth frantically. "Whadda we do, whadda we do? AJ's gonna die! Or, y'know, not, but still!"

Pinkie Pie was similarly frantic, clutching her head in her hooves. "Twilight, what do we do?!"

If someone didn't step in quickly, the whole group was going to waste too much time panicking to be able to save Applejack, Twilight realised. And it looked like that responsibility was going to fall to her, as per the norm. Celestia, she needed more sleep... She pressed on the bridge of her nose, and tried to think.

"Girls, calm down... it isn't hopeless yet. If we spread out to cover the whole farm, we should be able to find Applejack in time."

"But it's huge!" Rainbow exclaimed. "I mean, sure, I could cover the area from the air pretty quickly, but that's obviously not an option here!"

"Don't worry, Rainbow, we won't have to search every inch of the farm. As we can see here," Twilight tapped just beside her eye, "she's out in the open. We'll be able to spot her from far off once we get anywhere near. It's not a maze, after all."

"Funny you should mention that..."

The ponies stumbled as the ground suddenly started shaking, accompanied by a loud sound of dirt being pushed aside. They watched on, astounded, as the trees before them physically slid across the area, clumping together so thickly in places that it looked impossible to pass through them. Twilight could swear that more trees were showing up out of nowhere to add to the thickness, but it was impossible to keep track. By the time it calmed down, a dense wall of trees had formed before them, with only a few openings that looked possible for any of them to fit through. Five openings in fact, Twilight noted.

"So sorry, I almost completely forgot," Discord's voice chuckled out of thin air. "I prepared a path for you that will lead you straight to your friend. Oh, and four paths that don't. A bit inconvenient I suppose, but then I had been expecting a slightly larger turnout. Oh well. Best of luck!"

Rainbow stamped her hoof in frustration. "He's treating us like we're his toys!"

Twilight bit her lip, thinking hard. "There's two possibilities here... one is that Discord will make the right path simply whichever one we don't pick, in which case it doesn't matter how we proceed. Slightly more optimistic is the idea that there is a fixed right path, but if so, he'd probably design it to be the least likely one for us to pick... Question is, which path would that be?"

"The middle one," Film Reel stated flatly. Upon receiving the questioning stares of the other three, she elaborated: "Well, he's a being of chaos, so we must seem rigorous in our order to him. And what does order love?" She paused, more for effect than actually expecting any responses. "Symmetry. Thus, it stands to reason that Discord would bank on us leaving the central path, to preserve the symmetry of paths travelled vs. untravelled."

"That... is an excellent hypothesis," Twilight admitted. "The middle path also seems far less arbitrary than any of the other paths... All right. Rainbow, you take the central path! If you manage to find Applejack-"

"Then I kick that guy's butt and save her, gotcha!" Rainbow cut in, before spreading her wings and shooting forward, disappearing down the central path. "Hang on AJ, we're coming!"

Applejack was severely lost, something that had never happened to her on her own farm before. "Dammit Discord, are yah messin' with my farm's layout as well?" His only response was to push an extra inch of his cock inside her on the next thrust. She clenched her teeth, an involuntary moan escaping her throat.

That said, his pace had been slowing down within the past minute or so. If he was trying to tease her, then she was determined not to let it get to her.

She tried to regain her focus. She had been banking on getting to the part of the orchard where the best apples grew, since that seemed like the only place an apple like Discord's could be reasonably hidden. But with no clue as to where she was, she was simply wasting energy running on to nowhere. Trotting to a halt, she tried to think of how to change tack.

"Giving up, are we, Applejack?" Discord's voice whispered in her ear, making her shiver. "That's probably wise... I'm sure you'll make a lovely little slave."

Applejack shuddered at the thought. It wasn't hopeless, was it? The last time she'd tried to buck the entire orchard, it had taken her over a week to get through just half of them. She needed a more systematic approach, but how?

As she struggled in thought, Discord's shaft buried itself deeper and deeper inside her, getting ever closer to its sweet release.

The bar was almost half full already. Rainbow had been flying for several minutes, but her speed had been limited by the sharp turns in the walls of the maze. A thick roof of branches above her prevented her from even attempting to get an aerial view of the orchard.

"Ahhhhhnnnn... P-please, stop... don't cum inside... Oh Celestia, harder!"

The live feed of Applejack's torture still hadn't left her eye, though she was trying her hardest to ignore it. AJ was the strongest pony she knew, and yet here she was, moaning like a horse in heat while some asshole had his way with her. If even she could be reduced to that, then what chance did the rest of them stand?

Rainbow screeched to a halt as the maze split off into two tracks before her. She should've known it wouldn't be as simple as just which path to choose back at the start. Well, there wasn't any way of telling which path was the correct one as far as she could see. So if she chose the wrong one, she'd just have to make up for it with speed. With this in mind, she took off down the left path, pushing herself as fast as she could go.

Applejack was still deep in desperate thought. There had to be a way to find that apple in time, there just had to be! If only she could just-

"Time's up, Applejack."

...What? What had he just said!?

"B-but," Applejack protested, "I ain't felt you finish yet!"

"Tut, tut, Applejack..." Discord tutted, materialising in front of her. "You really need to learn to pay attention. I didn't say the time limit was until I inseminated you, I said it was until I decided to inseminate you." He leaned forward 'til they were nose-to-nose, grinning menacingly. "And I've decided that now is the time."

At that moment, ropes shot out of the ground, tying themselves around her front and back hooves. "H-hey!" Applejack yelled, as the ropes dragged her into place before fixing their ends to the nearby tree trunks. Her front legs were fixed together, while her hind legs were spread uncomfortably apart.

Applejack was trembling, her mind frantic. She pulled and tugged on the ropes, but they were tied too tightly for her to overpower. Was this it? Was she really going to lie here and just let him take her whole life away from her?

"Apologies for any discomfort, Applejack, but your friends are almost here, and they'll be expecting to find a certain scene once they arrive." Discord walked around her, stroking his paw along her back and over her rear. "Now then, if you tell me the magic word to unlock your treasure, then I'll hold off my eruption until your friends get here. Otherwise, I think I'll claim you right now." His dick pulsed and expanded inside of her, making her wince.

Applejack questioned why he would want her to take off her chastity belt, but gave the command to do so anyway. If he was just after the codeword, then she wouldn't be able to keep it from him for long anyway, if he did indeed cum inside her. Plus, she was overjoyed to hear that her friends were on their way to help her. If she could just prolong this for as long as possible, then she was sure that they'd find a way to save her... right?

...Well, even if they couldn't save her, she'd at least get to see them one more time before she lost control of her mind.

She felt his shaft withdraw from her pussy, leaving her feeling strangely empty. Looking back, she saw him pulling out of his ball of light, before fizzling it away completely. Stepping up toward her, he lined his tip up with her lips once more. This was it, Applejack thought. Once his dick entered her this time, it wasn't pulling out again until she was his.

"Please girls... get here soon..." she whispered, closing her eyes and bracing herself, before he slid his whole member inside her in a single thrust. His tip slammed into her cervix, and her mind was flooded with pain.

"AHHHHHHHHHH!"
"AHHHHHHHHHH!"

Twilight skidded to a halt, her ears swivelling around. That scream just now... had she heard it twice? She watched on screen as the stallion slid back, before roughly slamming into Applejack again. Once more, the scream had an odd stereo quality to it... The first one was probably linked to the screen, so the second one... Applejack must be close by!

Twilight ground her teeth in frustration. Even with that as the case, she had no choice but to keep following the path she was on to nowhere. She glanced to her right, and saw that she was running out of time. The bar was nearly full.

Her body shook with anger. Her friend was nearby, in pain, and in danger of losing everything she held dear, and all she could do was run on by?! There had to be something she could do... If only there was some way of knowing Applejack's exact position...

"...relative to myself." Realisation hit Twilight like a hammer. There was a way she could work out exactly where Applejack was! It was a small chance, but she had to at least try.

Craning her neck upwards, she examined the canopy above her, until she found a moderately large gap in the branches. Positioning herself directly beneath the hole, she focused her energy into her horn, took aim, and fired. A small ball of bright purple light shot out of her horn, bursting out through the leaves and into the open sky.

For a brief moment, nothing happened, causing Twilight to panic. If this didn't work, she wasn't sure there was anything else she could do in time. She mentally pleaded with whatever divine forces might be listening, as her eye focused intently on the screen projected onto it.

And after another moment of worry, her hopes shone through: Though Applejack took up most of the screen, the view was angled so as to allow a small glimpse of the sky above her. And in that sky, hovered a small purple light.

Twilight breathed a sigh of relief. Applejack was close, close enough for Twilight to teleport to. Pushing her sleepy mind to its limits, she quickly calculated the distance and direction, and began charging up her magic once more.

Applejack felt a weight press upon her back, as Discord leaned atop her, wrapping his hooves around her torso and using the leverage to pull his own body forward, increasing the strength of his thrusts.

Wait, hooves? Applejack glanced back at him, and saw that his form had changed into that of a pony, wearing a long cloak & hood that concealed his features.

"I figured you'd be a little more comfortable if I at least looked the same species as you." Discord dismissed her questioning gaze with a chuckle. "Besides, it's not like you really have time to worry about it... in another few seconds, you won't be questioning anything I do ever again."

Applejack could feel his dick throbbing inside her, her walls spreading further apart as he expanded. This was it, her mind screamed, the point of no return! She wriggled and writhed her hips as much as the taut ropes allowed, desperately trying to dislodge his shaft from within her. "Please, no, stop! Ah won't break your rules again, Ah swear!" However, her gyrations were to no avail. All they managed to accomplish was rubbing his cock across her g-spot, making her shudder and moan.

"Hahahah, that's a nice look for you," Discord teased. "Now, be a good girl, and smile for your friends."

At that moment, the clearing was filled by a bright flash, as Twilight successfully materialised within it. At the same time, Rainbow Dash rounded a corner in the maze, and burst out into the wide open space.

"Twilight! Rainbow!" Applejack shouted, her voice filled with a hopeful joy.

"Applejack!" The two cried out in unison, seeing their friend in the flesh being mounted by a mysterious dark-cloaked stallion. They started to charge towards him, but all of a sudden, everything started to move in slow-motion.

"Congratulations on making it, girls!" Discord cheered, an image of him appearing the lower corner of their eyes. "However, it would appear that you're a little too late to save your friend." As he said this, the bar on the right of their eyes hit its peak. Two more pictures blipped into existence beside it: One was of a pale round shape surrounded on all sides by a world of pink, and the other was of a thick purple stallionhood slowly pushing itself into a tight pink sheath.

In the same instant, the stallion atop Applejack let out a deep groan, his front hooves locking tightly around her body. As the girls watched in horror, a bead of white formed at the tip of his dick, quickly expanding and shooting forward, deep into Applejack's waiting pussy.

"No! NOOO!" Rainbow cried out, desperately trying to will her body to move faster. It felt like she was flying through treacle, unable to get more than a few inches closer to the bastard defiling her friend.

The image on the second screen was made clear, as millions of tiny black shapes swam into view, all headed toward the large pale circle in the centre. Their tails wagged furiously, and they swarmed it in seconds, each one drilling into it with all the force they could muster.

There was nothing she could do. There was nothing she could do, there was nothing she could do! Twilight was being forced to watch her friend being impregnated against her will, and there was nothing she could do to help her!

Applejack seemed to sense that it was all over as well. In what she knew was likely to be her last moment of free speech, she took a deep breath, and shouted.

"When y'all beat Discord, give his flank a good kickin' for me too!"

And then the sperm breached the egg.

In the moments following, a lot of things all seemed to happen at the same time.

Applejack's ropes untied themselves, and the stallion bent down to whisper into her ear. Time sped back up again, and Rainbow Dash charged towards the stallion, eyes ablaze with fury. Applejack slipped quickly out from underneath the stallion, and jumped up in front of him. Unable to stop in time, Rainbow's outstretched hooves collided with Applejack's face, knocking her to the ground.

"Oh nuts, sorry Applejack!" Rainbow hurriedly apologised, landing beside the farm pony and offering her a hoof. "Are you okay?"

"Don't you worry, Rainbow," Applejack laughed it off, taking Rainbow's hoof and getting to her feet. "It ain't your fault. Ah just had to get in your way, on account of my master telling me to protect him."

Rainbow's body froze stiff, her eyes locked on Applejack's. "Y-your master? So, you really are..."

"His slave?" Applejack finished. "Yeah, Ah reckon it looks that way." She looked towards the stallion, who was gesturing towards her. "Oh, looks like he's sayin' we gotta go now." Without hesitation, she trotted over to her master's side.

"Applejack, wait!" Twilight called after her, cantering towards her. "Where are you going?"

The stallion leaned over to whisper into her ear again. Applejack sighed, and shook her head. "Ah can't tell you that, Ah'm afraid. Also, he says not to follow us, or Ah'll have to fight y'all. Please, Ah don't wanna have tah do that."

"But... but AJ..." Dash was still frozen in the same spot, here eyes gazing pleadingly at her friend, her lips trying to find the right words, but coming up blank.

Applejack gave them one last smile. "Ya'll have been good friends to me, and Ah won't forget yah. Dash, Twilight... Ah guess this is goodbye. Tell the others I said bye too... Pinkie, Shy, Rarity... I'm gonna miss you all." With a single tear rolling down her cheek, she turned away, and walked towards the edge of the clearing alongside her partner. As they approached the trees, they parted, the entire orchard resetting itself to the way it was before Discord made a maze out of it. They stepped into a thick grove of trees, and disappeared from sight, the screens in the ponies' eyes disappearing along with them.