Author's Note

The sexy stuff starts in chapter two

Just a heads-up

The road is long...

"Are we there yet," the voice of a sweating blue mare with a pointy horn on her head asked sarcastically. Not in a good mood with the older white mare rolling her eyes in annoyance as the sweat was dripping down her forehead equally if not worse.

"Still no... stop asking" retorted the white mare with frustration.
The road with no end in sight was leading straight through one of the driest parts of Equestria. To the left sand and rocks, while to the right, more sand and large mountains formed out of red stone. Not any water was present except the one in the backpacks of the two sisters. Given how far they already have traveled it had been a while since they could resupply. One warm bottle of water and a few beans were the only thing left for them each.
Feeling quite feisty from the already long trip through this hellhole, the moon princess started throwing some shade at her sister, but not in a good way. "If it wasn't for your sun this would not be half as hard! Why don't you turn it down a little, mmh?"

This got a slight reaction from Celestia which made her pulse jump up a notch, but just like always she would be the voice of reason and calmness. "You know damn well why neither of us can use magic right now."
"Yes I do know, and let me remind you that you thought it was a good idea to power that stupid remote for Twilight so she could switch from day to night but Miss Perfect didn't consider that this would drain our magic for a week at least, eh? Remember that I pointed this out and you played it off!"
Indeed it seemed really short-sighted by the usually overthinking and planning sun princess. Which now actually stopped at this verbal insult and turned her around to face her little sister. "Miss Perfect? Me? Oh, I forgot you had to lift both Sun and Moon yourself and rule a kingdom, oh wait that was me! So I take that as a compliment" Celestia stuck her tongue out as she tried to play it off on Luna, but the night princess wouldn't have it and her eyes threw daggers at her.
"In case you forgot, I could admit when I was wrong in the past but let's turn the clock back a week. So please sister explain to us how nicely thyself decided to drain both our magic and then had us both go on this godforsaken trip! You booked a bus to nowhere and no way back." Luna's counterargument was definitely hitting hard in the truth. The last time Celestia had visited this old Hotel was almost a millennia back after Luna's banishment and unlike back then, it now was nothing more than a ruin inhabited by crows.

With the royal sisters now at each other's throat the two of them almost missed the sound of a car approaching from the distance. A small dot in the distance became bigger the closer it was getting and the sounds of the transportation device coming closer. The driver had to check twice as he slurped his ice-cold slushy that he had grabbed a few minutes earlier out of his fridge. A pair of sunglasses hid his eyes, while his loose shirt which was marked with a few splatters of color here and there kept his small belly hidden underneath it for the most part. The Zebras black mane, which he was rocking, had a more liberal hairstyle with it being bound into a short bun and some hanging down each of his sides.
On the horizon, the lone Zebra could make out the two royals arguing in the desert and readjusted his sunglasses just to make sure he wasn't seeing things that weren't there. Could this be real? Two Mares in a desert is something he would not have expected, especially without a car. Well maybe they had a breakdown and like any good driver, shouldn't he offer his help?

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With the engine noises coming closer both of the angry princesses stopped arguing and turned towards the street once more. The small van had pulled up next to them, with the driver lowering his window. The two overheating chicks felt the cold come from the inside of the truck and the smell of some fast food he had picked up on his travels from a store just outside of the desert. Usually, that would bother Celestia, as she really was not one for this sort of food, but the sun goddess wouldn't be upset at any kind of much-needed food and drinks at this point.
"Well, hello there. What are two such beauties as yourself doing out in this desert? Surely there are better places to be at for the two of you." Being from a foreign origin it was obvious that this fine gentleman probably had no idea who the two were as he eyed them over with a hungry look behind his sunglasses.

The taller white furred one with her overall larger body was rocking a booty like no other he had seen, it was firmly packed into short hotpants that were barely reaching down to cover half of her upper legs. The main piece was of course the cake she was packing with her trunk. Any stallion's hot dream but that wasn't all. The white alicorn's upper body was just as impressive as her naturally voluptuous form making sure that her melons were not coming short especially since he could see parts of her nipples thanks to the sweat giving it a bit of a see-through but just slightly. The tall alicorn had ditched her bra 2 days ago because it was making her feel warmer than it already was. Unlike her younger sister who was simply sticking with her guts and her clothes for the whole duration of their walk.

The blue mare on the other hand wasn't lesser than that of the elder alicorn. It was a different sort of perfect with her rather large breasts looking more full and firm. The reason for that was not only her lifestyle but the workouts probably helped and that was showing on her tight looking ass. Said ass was currently wrapped into a slightly longer pair of shorts that almost reached her knees. A shirt with plenty of fruits on it was what her upper body was rocking and to her defense, her own pair of melons did help make it look more appealing than it actually was for the Zebra. The blue starry mane of hers was bound together into a ponytail with a rubber band to keep it from getting everywhere.

Celestia started to blush a bit at the compliment. Before Luna could respond herself, her attention seeking sister took the lead as usual. Luna rolled her eyes but didn't comment. "Thanks for stopping kind Stranger we are in quite the problematic situation as of the last few days and have been stuck in the desert with almost no supplies left. Could you take us to the next bus hub with that car of yours? We would be forever grateful to you." The princess of the sun looked at the zebra with hoping eyes, while leaning on his pulled-down window with her arms crossed.

The Zebra did not seem to be impressed much with the offer and rubbed his chin beard with his right hand, while the left kept a firm grip on the steering wheel. "Mhhh, I can't really buy any fuel with gratitude, but if you pay for the fuel I can take you to the next bus stop." With him now extending a branch he waited for their response.

This time Luna took the charge, pushing Celestia away from the window to get a bit of a cold breeze from the inside as well. "Well, we do not currently have any bits with us, but we promise we can pay you back if you get us there. We are, after all, Equestria’s former princesses. Surely you have heard of my sister Celestia and I, Princess Luna." Luna did not believe she needed to pull this ace card out that early, but it felt like he would want some sort of guarantee that he would not just be left standing in the rain after doing his part.

Once again the zebra toyed around with his hair, scratching it slightly before presenting his answer to them. "To be honest it's not quite logical to me why I would meet two of Equestria's princesses out in a desert, you could be imposters. No, I need some other sort of payment if you can't pay in bits. You scratch my back and I scratch yours, do you understand?''
The lunar princess looked at him with a big quizzical look on her face. “What does he expect them to pay with if not with money,” she thought to herself.

With Celestia now taking over the conversation again and Luna taking a break from the cooling fresh air of the car after being pushed to the side and giving her sister another angry stare after almost tripping over a rock and falling to the ground. "What did you have in mind instead of bits?"

The Zebra leaned out of the window and spoke something to her that made the solar overlord blush, but Luna did not catch it as she was busy drinking some of the last water from her water bottle. "Either this or I sadly can't help you..." the zebra shrugged his shoulders and made sure that Celestia had a good view of him taking another ice-cold bottle out of a small mini-fridge next to his seat.

"I-I mean it's not....me you should-" her speech being interrupted by an annoying grunt of the exotic zebra who was getting impatient with her and his fingers which tapped at the steering wheel.
"You seem like the decision maker of the two of you, so I ask one last time. Do we have a deal?" His tone shifted a bit to a more down to business attitude as he was holding all the cards in his hand. To make matters even more tempting she caught a glimpse of him emptying half of an ice cold water bottle which he placed next to the window and looking back at the sun goddess as sweat poured down her body like crazy from the heat.

"Alright we accept... just give me five minutes, please." The white alicorn shot out her answer like a bullet exiting the barrel of a gun. That earned her an awkward look from the blue alicorn who packed the now empty water bottle in her backpack. This was going to be a hard conversation with her sister.

Celestia joined Luna at the backside of the van which the younger princess had used to shelter herself from the sun temporarily. Feeling the solar sister's hand being placed on her shoulder felt awkward and from what she learned that was for a reason. After a short explanation of what she just agreed on with the zebra, Luna's eyes went big.
"W-what! No, no, no, no, no, how did you even think I was going to react any differently than this! Why would you think that I would agree to this?" With justified anger, the princess of the moon exploded on her sister for such behavior. How dare she not even ask her first about such a topic?

"Luna, listen! We don't have a choice right now. If you and I had our magic back right now we could just port home, but we are not in a good situation. We need to work with what we got right now or we won't get home at all!"
The blue furred busty princess opened her mouth in anger to complain but knew that her sister was right. This made the situation worse. Luna was gritting her perfect teeth against each other and looking for any way out of this before a honk came from the car which made both of them jump up in shock before the voice of the zebra was heard again.
"So the five minutes are over. Are we good?" Now the engine was turned off to save some fuel and he had gotten out from the driver's side and walked to the back of his van. The sunglasses slightly pulled down to look at both of them with his unfiltered green eyes. Luna was silent until Celestia gave her a little bump and pushed her forward to the equally if not slightly bigger zebra. "Great, let's get started then," he announced and grabbed Luna by her hand and pulled her with him inside the van, when Celestia wanted to get inside as well he held his head out. "You wait outside, ‘til we are done." and immediately after this, he slammed the backdoor shut.

A few moments of silence followed, but then the van started to jerk and squeak as the white Alicorn Sun Goddess could only imagine what was going on inside from the sounds of the van.