Equestria Handiman: The Saga Continues

“A girls night out?” Mark repeats with a raised eyebrow as he sees his herd getting dressed for a night out with the royal sisters.

“That is right honey, now that Lusuna has learned how to control her urges, and is as well balanced and calm as Molestia, Surprise suggested we treat the Princesses to something special and give them their very first girls night out.”

“Wait, over a whole millenia neither of them has ever had a night out with friends?” Mark looked at them perplexed.

“Well kind of.” Surprise responds. “They have but Lusuna and Molestia…”

“Oh…I get it, they just NOW have a chance to have that as an option and the night is mostly for them right?”

“Ding!” She replies, poking his nose with an eager smile. “And we want to help them experience it at the very least once, before handing off the crown, so tonight we are painting the city red!”

“Well, it looks like I have the castle to myself then.” Mark chuckled and headed to one of the couches where he picked up a book.

“Oh no you don’t.” Milky giggles and takes the book away. “You have quite the night ahead of you.”

“Excuse me?” Mark raises an eyebrow as she puts the book back on the bookshelf.

“Really Star, you actually think we would leave you high and dry with nothing to do tonight, while we go out and have fun?” Umbral crosses her arms in front of him.

“Wouldn’t it kind of defeat the purpose of a girls night if I come along too?”

“Who said anything about you coming with us?” Surprise teases with a giggle as she helps him stand up, and guide him to his wardrobe. “Now go pick yourself something nice…and warm it’s chilly outside.”

“Ok why? Where am I going?”

His herd only smirks, and looks at one another with a knowing smile before resuming getting dressed.

“Girls?”

“Oh don’t think too much about it sweetie.” Fluttershy finally replies after he was looking around for someone to explain. “We only thought of treating you with something special while we go out and have fun. Like Umbral said, we were feeling a bit bad about leaving you behind so the Princesses could have a night for themselves, so we thought you might like to explore the city a bit.”

She gives him a piece of paper with some directions on it. “Have some fun of your own stretching your legs, seeing the nightlife, maybe make some new friends.”

He eyes the piece of paper, not finding anything suspicious about it, before looking at Fluttershy “…and I need to wear something nice doing that because…?”

“Ah, ha.” Surprise interrupts him and starts to drag him into the bathroom “That would be spoiling the surprise, now go get ready honey. You don’t want to make them wait too long”

“Who is waiting?”

Surprise steals a quick kiss on his lips and winks at him. “You will see, just trust me I know you are gonna love it.” She replies cryptically. Before closing the door leaving the confused human alone as he hears the front door of her room close announcing that the girls just left.

Questions keep spiraling in his head, but ultimately, he decides to trust them and see what kind of surprise they just brewed for him to have.

Deciding to pick his usual blazer, and formal pants, shirt and shoes. Mark heads to the front door of the castle, where he sees a familiar face wave at him, with a group of Thestrals.

“There you are, Mark over here.” Silver Wing smiles at him, before looking at the group. “Here he is, guys the man of the hour.”

The rest of the bat ponies turn around, and he sees a mixed match of stallions and mares approaching with a friendly smile.

“You got us worried for a second there sir, we were about to take bets on if you were coming or not.” One of the stallions says with a chuckle.

“Yeah, sorry for the delay, couldn’t find my blazer and my herd kind of kept me in the dark on what was supposed to be happening tonight.” He apologizes as he greets the group. “What is happening exactly?”

“Ha! So they didn’t tell you a thing then?” Another stallion laughs it off. “Boy you must trust them, if you are willing to walk blindly like this.”

“Be nice Claw Night.” Silver chastises, getting next to Mark. “Don’t worry Mark, this isn’t something so big. Me and the guys were just heading to a fancy restaurant, and we were wondering if you wanted to join us.”

“Will it really be ok if I butt in? I mean this sounds more like friends getting together.” He asks in worry.

“Nah! You’re cool, the more to split the bill the better. Plus this restaurant is a must for us carnivores.” A cheerful mare replies, winking at Mark. “They really know how to prepare your dish if you know what I mean.”

His eyes wide in realization “Wait you mean to tell me, this restaurant…?” He looks at Silver for answers as she nods. “Canterlot is a center of international trading, tourist and culinary culture. Plus it holds a substantial number of Thestrals as part of their citizens, of course there would be restaurants that serve meat.”

“It’s a bit hidden in respect of the general population, that is a bit more squishy about the idea” One of the soldiers says. “But if you know where to look, believe me there are options.”

“So…do you still want to bail out?” A mare questions with a raised eyebrow.

“Not really, if anything I would love to have a meal that I don’t need to hunt down first, and is prepared by a professional.”

“We thought so, ok everypony lets go! To the meat market!” Silver exclaims, and everyone woohoo’s as they exit the castle, and heads deeper into the city.

Meanwhile in Ponyville

“…And then despite everything in the world seemingly wanting me to miss or make my coronation a disaster everything went surprisingly smoothly as the transition of power went, and from then on I began ruling the kingdom with harmony and friendship as my moral code.” A larger version of Twilight finishes her story before taking another sip of tea, while Flash Sentry couldn’t keep his eyes away from her.

At first glance she looked just like his beloved Twilight, except she clearly had grown more in the past 20 years, despite being most likely in her forties she remains drop dead gorgeous choosing to replace her usual purple skirt and yellow shirt, with a garment similar to Princess Celestia with golden jewelry a purple toga, a silver corset and a staff, and seemly adopting her mentor way on how her mane float on an none existent breeze.

“Incredible, and you think that is what I will…or rather I could aspire to become?” The normal Twilight questions. Intrigued looking down with her fingers on her chin.

“What happened to us?” Moondancer asks, also intrigued by the story she just heard.
Ruler Twilight can only sigh in sadness as she looks down. “Unfortunately the life of a ruler must be a solitary one , while it’s true I had developed a curiosity of exploring the idea of a relationship…” She takes a quick glance at Flash Sentry and sends him a wink making him blush hard. “…alas my duties and responsibilities prevent me from seeking that subject and now, my fears of invoking those that only seek personal gain or are just intimidated by my job has prevented me from exploring it.” She puts the cup down. “How exactly did you form your herd? I've been curious since I saw you two.” She looks at Moondancer and Flash.

“Oh it’s a lovely story, you see. One day I invited Moondancer to do a speech on the importance of balancing your studies with your social life, and because it fell on their anniversary, and Flash didn’t want to make her skip something so important the two decided to come and…”

“Wait, wait, wait” Ruler Twilight lifted a hand in surprise. “You are not the alpha?” She looks at her counterpart in shock.

“Ah no? Why?”

“Is there a problem with that?” Moondancer questions her with a raised eyebrow, as Ruler Twilight remains quiet for a moment before smiling.

“Not at all just a bit surprising, apologies I suppose I have been a bit too focused on taking charge that I had forgotten other relationship dynamics. Speaking of which, this could still be your future Twilight, just look at me. Everything turns out fine, better even now that you have found your significant others.”

“Well I’m still not sure about it” Twilight confesses looking down. “I definitely have been thinking about taking the offer, but well, no offense or anything that sounds incredible, but taking a step back from my duties and finding companionship has made me realize that there is more to life than just following a schedule, being a ruler, or having friends.”

“Of course.” Ruling Twilight agrees. “Sorry for interrupting, what were you saying?”

‘This is all wrong, what exactly happened in this iteration?’

“Before we continue.” Moondancer asks, still looking at her suspiciously. “Seems like you have your world cut off from you, what exactly are you doing in our world?” She asks directly, much to her herd’s shock.

“Moondancer!” Flash chastises, yet she just presses on.

“Come on, don’t act like you are not asking yourself the same, if she is just like our Twily she would never skip her work.”

“It’s ok everypony, it is a very valid question, and you are right to ask why I suddenly decided to visit other Equestria’s. And well the answer to that is merely sheer curiosity. I don’t know if Celestia ever told you, or even if your Celestia ever did, but back in the days of Starswhirl the Bearded she and him spent countless nights exploring the wonders of the multiverse cataloging, and following a record of all sorts of iterations…right until an incident happened that made him and my mentor drift apart, and stop their escapades. I found her old journal, and intrigued by the prospect of finishing her work, I decided to resume it.”

She summons a thick book filled with data. “I have been finding brand new worlds to explore and unravel, see how many different stories have been played and resolved. I even found one where Blueblood had a change of heart and improved Equestria in his own way. Grew tired of that one eventually.”

“This is incredible!” Twilight looks at the book like a filly on Hearth's Warming Eve “But the Multiverse is infinite, there is no way you could record everything that is.”

“No, but I can map a safe travel journal of where to visit and how the locals work, and leave it for the next generation later.”

“Ok, question this is all good, but if you are here, who is ruling in your world?” Flash questions

“Oh don’t worry about it, I left Spike to take care of everything while I’m gone. This isn’t my first time experimenting with magic after all. Plus Celestia left a very detailed schedule on how to hop back and forth without getting lost.”

“Seems like you have planned this very carefully, your highness.” Moondancer mentions.

“Please, in my world we are also friends, no need for titles.”

“And yet you rather explore the multiverse, than try finding a date?”

“Moondancer don’t be rude.” Twilight chastises her again.

“It’s ok, yeah, I've been kind of dodging the subject a tinsy bit, but I assure you I…” Suddenly a clock rings and she looks at the time. “Oh looks like time's up, I better return to my world now.”

Ruling Twilight stands up.

“Will we see you again?” Twilight question pleadily

“Of course I will be back in a week, I still need to catalogue that story of yours, who knows maybe it will help me find the courage to try that dating subject.” She winks at them before departing.

“This is incredible to me, as the ruler of Equestria! Can you believe it!” Twilight looks at her herd with a big grin.

“You still can Twily, and just so you know.” Flash grabs her hand. “No matter what you choose we will be there with you all the way no matter what.”

“Thank you…Prince Flash.” She lightly teases earning a light chuckle from the two.

“I don’t know.” Moondancer meanwhile looks at the mirror with suspicion

“What is the matter, Moondancer?” Flash questions.

“Not sure yet, but that Twilight, something about her seems a bit…off.”

Flash and Twilight looks at her confused, blinking a couple of times before looking at one another.

Back at Canterlot

True to what they told him, reaching the restaurant wasn’t exactly as easy as Mark would have liked. Once the group reached the center of town they had to do a sharp turn to the left and enter an obscure small hidden space between two large buildings, where they started their descent down some long, and wide stairs into the cave section of the city.

The idea of finding out that Canterlot continues underground was fascinating enough for the human, especially with how the crystals act as post lights that give a magical feeling to it. But then his senses were greeted by a familiar scent, as they arrived at the meat market where Mark could smell all different types of dishes being displayed for the public passing by, from Cabbage with onions, jalapeños, and steak, to nachos with meatballs, to even meat soups.

All of them give him a sense of familiarity and happiness like never before.

‘Applejack was right, I should have just told them that I loved meat years ago! I am so gonna kiss those girls until they scream!’

Shedding a tear, the group advances through the end of the road where a two story building with the sign ‘Silver Fork’ and a neon image of a fork piercing a steak could be seen.

“We are here, and you don’t have to hold back Mark, it's all you can eat.” Silver reassures him as they walk in.

“Ok, now I feel like I'm underdressed, this place seems very fancy, are you sure I dressed appropriately?” Mark questions now realizing how his choice was a bit informal for this type of restaurant, yet Silver shakes her head. “You are fine really, this isn’t that fancy either.”
“But it’s hella expensive.” Claw adds. “Even all 5 of us could find a hard time with a bill so we invited some other carnivores to join in.”

“Cool, ha I suppose that is why Surprise mentioned that about making new friends. So how many more are coming?”

“Just two more and I think you remember them.” Silver smirks at him as she points forward. “Speaking of which there they come”

Looking at where she was pointing Mark was shocked when he discovered two familiar mares in fancy dresses walking toward the group. Two Strippers, familiar mares to be more precise. Skye Venus and Daisy Valentina.

Like her name Skye decided to wear a sky blue dress that showed a bit of her cleavage and had a wrapped skirt letting her legs show, without sleeves probably so her wings could have air to breath and move freely.

Unfortunately for Mark, Daisy definitely went for the more provocative ensembly, wearing a black maxi dress that even though revealed less skin in how it reaches her neck in a choker, the way it hugs her body nicely accentuated her features and exposed her ties almost completely.

The result was immediate, as Mark could only gulp with a red face at her figure.

“A s-sir are you?” Silver asks, taking out a handkerchief and pressing it to his nose. “You are bleeding!”

“Wha-what?” Mark reacts, and holds the fabric to clean his nose before pulling back and finding that indeed he just bleed briefly from his nose. “Y-Yeah I’m fine just…that.” He says finding it hard to speak when looks back at the two ladies approaching the group.

“I hear you bro.” Claw agrees. “Damn! Are they hot, think they are available?”

The question crashes him back to reality, as he remembers Atlas and sighs in disappointment. “Not sure about Skye, but Daisy is…unfortunately taken.”

“Oh…yeah shame, but hey you can’t blame a guy for having to look right?”

“Maybe.” He agrees without energy, as he musters his willpower to smile at the two.

“Well, well, well.” Skye looks at Mark with a smirk. “We meet again human. Didn’t take you for a carnivore”

“Hi Skye, hi Daisy, I’m actually an omnivore, but yeah I like to eat meat from time to time.” He then looks at Daisy. “If anything I’m surprised to see Daisy, you eat meat?”
“Not really, but the silver fork has a vegetarian option and well, Skye wanted to invite me over, so I couldn’t say no”

“This little cow, believe it or not, is a bit shy for a cattle, so I’m helping her get more assertive.” Skye mentions with a smirk.

“You are really a good friend aren’t you Skye?”

“If you had visited Amazing Tails more often you might find out how much.” She smirks at him. “So how is the herd going with Silver? No issues in paradise?”

“What?” Mark looks at her in confusion until Silver lightly shoves his side, reminding him of the little ruse.

“O-oh! Yeah that oh…”

Skye and Daisy look at him confused at his expression. “Ah, it’s kind of a long story. Would you like to talk about it once we order?”

“You are lucky I’m already hungry Mark.” Skye agrees and headed to the front door

“Thanks for understanding, and hey how is Atlas doing?” He asks Daisy as they advance.

“I imagine, fine, why do you ask?” Daisy questions adding more to her confusion.

“Huh?” Now it was his turn to be confused as they enter and the waitress soon seats the group at a big table and passed them the menu to scan.

“Ok we are seated and looking at the menu, now out with it, what is the deal with you?” Skye doesn’t waste time and demands an answer slightly irked.

Mark and Silver exchange glances as she nods. “Ok Skye, we will tell you, but only if you promise not to get angry.”

“Why would I…?”

“Ah!” Silver silences her with a glance.

“Fine I promise.”

“Thanks, then the truth is, we lied, we never were in a relationship.”

“What!?” She was livid until Silver stops her again. “You promised.”

Taking a moment to relax, she continues. “Ok, why did you lie to me? You have something against griffins?”

“What?! No! No! It wasn’t like that.”

“Then what? I’m not good enough?”

“No!”

“Then what is it!?”

“I was scared ok?” Mark finally blurts out, and looks down in shame.

“Ah…scared?”

“I…I never viewed Equestria as anything other than adorable and cute, being a fish out of water seeing mares…any female creature for that matter in a sexual light was kind of hard, I just never thought I could see them like that, and didn’t realized it, until Cadence tricked me into going to that place.”

“O…k?” Skye tries to understand what he was trying to say.

“Don’t get me wrong, you all helped me realize the world I was missing, and how sexy any woman in Equestria is.” He pauses looking at Daisy, before blushing and looking away. “You are really sexy Skye, that is the truth, and that is why I…I was afraid of trying something. I was still figuring out what the hell was going through my mind. I swear you made sure I couldn’t sleep that night.”

“So you choose your left hand pretending to be with the real thing instead of choosing the real deal?”

“… … …yes, yes that is exactly what happened.” Mark finally answered after some silence. “I was in a very vulnerable state needing to calm my mind and well the last thing I wanted to do is make you angry or worse make you feel unsatisfied.”

“Dude I can handle virgins, I would have been delicate.”

“Didn’t you injure that client because of that?” Daisy comments.

“In there, you are a notorious man eater Skye.” Silver adds.

“Not helping girls!” She glares at both, before sighing and calming down.

“The point is, I would have understood, you didn’t need to put on an act. I mean poor Silver had to pretend to like a sloppy kiss of desperation didn’t you Silver?”

“Ah…no comments.” She decided to reply, looking away, confusing the two.

“Well I’m sorry I lied Skye, I just didn’t feel I was completely ready to take that plunge, if things would have been different, I would have accepted the invitation.”

She kept glaring at him for a while, before sighing. “Ah whatever, you can always make it up now.”

She resumed looking at the menu. “You are clear on what you want now right?”

“Oh yeah…unfortunately also happily in a herd.”

She looks at him with suspicion, seeing if he is lying again. “Sorry.”

“Of for the love of…ugh it’s like you want me to hate you now.”

“We can still be friends.”

“Not enough.”

“Ok Skye, you are being bratty now, he went out of his way to find you that Abyssinian, or are you gonna pretend that didn’t happen?”

“Oh yeah, the bachelor, he was right, he knew what he was doing.” She nods with a goofy smile.

“So, isn’t that worth at least a chance?”

She mulls it over for a second. “What do you think Daisy, should we forgive him?”

“W-Why are you asking me that?” She ask confused

“You are a better judge of character than I am and I trust you, so what do you say? Do we give him a second try?”

“I…” She looks at Mark who was equally confused, and scared of her rejecting him now “I…suppose we can try, if he promises not to lie about being, or not in a herd anymore!” She conditions with a stern warning.

“Fair enough, you just dodged a bullet Star.” Skye warns him as their drinks arrive and he takes a sip of his beer to calm his nerves.

“You better not shy away from a threesom next.” The comments make him choke immediately, as Daisy blushes hard, and Skye smirks.

“W-What?!”

“Just a reason for wanting to visit us soon.” She winks at him. “Don’t pretend I didn’t see you undress me the second we were in your field of vision. And Daisy sure stirred your loins didn’t she?”

“I-I-I I’m not made of stone ok?” He finally decides to own up. “But what about your code? Or my code, for that matter, I know you don’t like the idea of herds.”

“Wrong, I don’t like the idea of BEING in a session with a herd, if a mare or stallion wants some alone time, or he and she, then 3 is my max.” Skye corrects.

“…ok? And my code is more than clear I do NOT homewreck, so yeah I love how you look but I will not interfere in your romantic life.”

The strippers look at him in silence, before looking at one another. “Any idea what he is talking about?”

“None.”

“I mean Atlas is your coltfriend?” Mark reminds Daisy.

“Atlas? What? What made you think he and I have something going on?” She asked, perplexed.
The food soon arrived in time, as Mark sighs and starts to play with his steak. “Daisy I don’t know why you are pretending, but I saw you. Right after that modeling gig, I took some time ago. I saw how Atlas asked you out. Aspen was with you and everything.”

“Oh? OH! You mean…you thought?” She starts to laugh at the idea. “No Mark, you got it all wrong.”

“What?”

“He was asking ASPEN out, telling us he had a thing for Zebras. We were only talking about how things were on Bullhorn, before we left.”

He is rendered speechless at the revelation.

“Well dinner and a show, this night turned out better than I could have thought.” Claw comments eating his pasta with gusto.

“I just…what?” Mark finally found his voice once more.
“So casanova, how is that code looking now?” Skye smirks and wiggles her eyebrows. “Still want to pass up a night with a bird of prey?” She blows him a kiss, making him gulp.

“You really think we look ‘sexy’?” Daisy looks at him in curiosity. “You are not afraid of me, and how tall I’m or that I might crush you?”

“What no, nothing would make me happier…I mean! I was looking forward to asking you out and… why now?” He keeps stumbling on his words trying to find the right thing to do as everyone shares a laugh.

“I believe what he is trying to say is ‘Skye and Daisy would you like to go out with me’?” she translates, making both of their eyes widen as Skye smirks.

“For me sure, I’m up for it, just don’t go getting funny ideas Mark, it's a night, fun and rut, this bird likes her freedom, and not be tied up in a herd.”

He was about to correct her, but decided to hold his tongue, and look at Daisy with hope filled eyes.

“Oh my, that is really what you wanted to say? You want to ask me out on a date, date?”

He nods once. “Since we met on that photoshoot. I didn’t because I thought Atlas beat me to it.”

“Well isn’t that sweet, the human got a puppy crush on you Daisy.” Skye pats her back. “What did I tell you? Ponies just love you! None of them are afraid, surprise? Perhaps a bit intimidated? Sure, but down right fear? That is all in your head, everyone would love a piece of prime beef!” Daisy releases an adorable eep when Skye slaps her ass, making her blush as her friend chuckles.

“Hey if you need help we can team up on a date too.”

‘Ok it's official, I think it’s ingrained in my head now, I’m not sleeping tonight.’

Mark sighs, and cleans some more blood from his nose, as he tries his hardest to get rid of the mental image of the griffin and Holstaur butt naked hugging his frame.

“T-thank you Skye, but I’m not sure that would be necessary.” Daisy finally replies. “Not yet at least.”

‘Oh goody, NOW I’m sure it is ingrained.’

“I mean I have never been asked out on a date before, so I’m kind of new to it.” She confesses smiling at Mark. “It might be awkward, and other ponies might stare at us, because of how tall I am.” Mark keeps listening to everything she was saying.
“But if you still want to, and you really have no issues dating a stripper. If you really don’t mind that a lot of ponies have seen me naked daily. I would love that.”

“Yes!” Mark yells before clearing his voice. “I mean it doesn’t matter, my herd and I have a way of doing things. We are free spirits and keep things casual but respectful. We have a couple of rules for sure, but our motto is doing our best not to prevent each other from doing what they like. They even can date other mares and have as many friends with benefits as they want. So if what you love is to strip, we would love to have you.”

“Ah, are you asking her out, or inviting her to join your herd?” Silver questions his choice of words.

“Oh my God! Date, date! That is what I meant.” He chuckles nervously, thinking he got too far ahead. “Sorry, I got carried away, no pressure or anything.”

To his relief, Daisy giggles at his antics. “Don’t worry I understand, and I would love that, thank you for saying such nice things Mark, it really is flattering.”

He smile warmly as his heart is filled with joy, as the group enjoys the rest of the meal, and then afterwards explores the rest of the underground city, seeing what it has to offer, visiting some night clubs and even watch a wrestling match between a Thestral and a Griffin, who Skye took special joy in watching.

Over all the night out was a complete success and by the time everyone went home, Mark was spent and ready to go to sleep, but not before giving his herd his special thanks for that lovely evening.

Once he heard them giggling on the other side of the room, Mark smirks and slowly opens the door and closes it behind him, locking it.

“Oh, hey Mark, how was your night, did you have fun and who, WHOA! What are you doing?!” Milky voice was heard from the other side.

“Just wanted to say thank you for the surprise. I loved it, in fact I loved it so much I want to give you something in return, what about one long kiss on the lips?”

“Silly Mark, that is not where her lips…ohhhhh I get it now.” Surprise giggles as moans could be heard. “Oh! Oh! Me next!”