A week after the Yak's visited and after Twilight made up with some old friends of hers from Canterlot, I had gathered all my friends and family for an important meeting. And for what I was about to tell them, it was best to do it in a familiar and happy place. Since I didn't feel like taking everyone to Orlando, Sugarcube Corner would have to do.

I had the place closed for a private party and had everyone sit at a booth. Of course I had my wives and children with me at the center booth, our friends next to us on the left, and Kamehameha and the top brass of Herot to our right. After fifteen minutes of light mingling, I got up from the table and went to the counter. "Everyone, may I have your attention please?"

As I got everyone's attention, the weight of what I was about to do finally set in, and I was starting to think this was a bad idea. "Don't worry." I heard Venom in my head as all eyes were on me. "It'll take a lot more than me to scare them away. Though the yellow one might scream."

"Thanks for the encouragement," I told the entity before clearing my throat and looking over everyone. "I suppose you're all wondering why I called you all here."

"Yeah, you kinda just brought it out of the blue." Rainbow Dash said

"Is everything okay, Joe?" Applejack asked while drinking some cider.

"There's no major threat again, is there?" Twilight asked

"Oh, oh, oh! Is it for a surprise party!? Because if it is, then do we need to leave and come back, or is it for someone else?" Pinkie asked me.

"No, Pinkie, this isn't a party. Fact of the matter is, I'm not exactly sure what to call this," I told them as I took a breath to steady my nerves. "Not many of you know this, hell, Jackie and Twilight might be the only ones who have an inkling of what I'm about to show you." Really wish I had my flask right about now. "Okay, here it goes."

Like we practiced, Venom came out from my right shoulder, making it appear like I had a second head on my neck. Everyone in the room backed away and gasped from the sight, that includes the ones that have seen battle. After a few seconds of everyone getting a good look at him, he introduced himself. **"Hello, non-snacks."** He hissed at them all. "We... are Venom." He then looks over at me. "Did we do good?"

"Aside from you wanting to eat my family and friends, you're a damn marvel," I told him before looking at everyone. "Go ahead and start asking what you want to ask."

"What the hell is that!?" Swagger shouted while keeping his hand over his pistol.

"He's the consciousness of a very old being. Come to think of it, what was his name?" I asked Venom as he was eyeing the cupcakes. "Hey!"

"What!? We are hungry!" He argued back before answering. "He was called the Wise One. Though if you ask me, he wasn't very wise."

"Why are you attached to our husband?" Celestia asked next.

"We attached ourself to him when he grabbed the sword from the serpent's head." Venom munched on the plate of cupcakes after answering. "Ooooh, that is good."

"Y-y-y-you're not really gonna eat us, a-a-are you?" Fluttershy asked with her usual timid voice. Although seeing a sickly wolf head pop from my shoulders and call everyone a snack, I could hardly blame her.

"No. We were instructed to eat bad guys. Or anyone who annoys us." Venom's answer made everyone nervous.

"No! Only bad guys. And even then, only murderers and the worst. But he will not eat any of you." I explained to them.

"We also like chocolate! It tastes very good," Venom continued.

"Oh! Like chocolate cake, and cookies, and candy bars, and shakes, and sprinkles, and-mmph!" Pinkie's questioning was halted by Jackie placing her hat over her muzzle.

"I like her. Very energetic. And she smells like Cotton Candy! Wonder if she tastes like it to." Venom wondered.

Pinkie pushed the hat away and answered. "Only Cheese Sandwich knows for sure." That brought a few of us to blush or whistle.

After we all calmed down from Pinkie's sex life, Luna got up from her seat and stared right at Venom. "Are you the one who's been giving my husband nightmares?" Venom simply nodded. "And are you the one who blocked me from entering his dreams, or even see that he was distressed?" Again, Venom just nodded. Luna closed her eyes and I could see a tear come out one. "Some protector of dreams I am."

Feeling this was enough, I had Venom retreat back into me before hugging Luna. "Honey, you are the best dream guardian anyone could ever ask for. Don't ever forget that." I wiped away her tears before kissing her cheek.

She was still sad, but she still gave me a smile and returned the kiss. "Thank you, my love." She then nuzzled my cheek before we returned to our table.

As we sat, I noticed that Kamehameha and my generals have been silent this whole time. "Something you would like to add, old friend?"

"Just that no matter what, you are still our king, and we will still follow you," Kameha told me while he and the other generals saluted me.

"You've all been loyal and stood by me in the battle against Tirek. I'm grateful to have generals such as you. Now then, in light of everything, how about we have a party?"

That night, Luna's POV

After we went to bed, I went about my duties as protector of dreams, as my husband reminded me earlier. But if I can't stop or see his nightmares, then how can I really call myself a protector?

I passed by my son's dream door, and saw that there was a pink mist coming from it. "He must be dreaming of Sunset again." I giggled at that thought before moving on. I passed by my daughters door, and took a peak to see her flying with the Wonderbolts and having all of us cheer for her. "That's my girl."

As time went on, I searched many doors, fought back many nightmares, and set many young ponies on the right path. I also peeked in on a few lustful dreams that gave me a few ideas for our bedroom at home.

After about an hour and no other sign of anyone else having a nightmare, I decided it would be best to return to my own dream. Just as I was nearing my door, I found myself drawing close to Joe's door. I found nothing wrong with it, but nothing was wrong with it when my husband woke up screaming his head off.

Steeling myself for anything, I stepped through the door. At first, I found nothing awry, I even found it pleasant. Just then, the clouds started to grow dark and thunder was crashing all around me. Fearing the worst, I raced across the landscape looking for my husband.

I looked to the skies, the forests, and even the vast sea that my beloved was dreaming about, but I couldn't find him. Finally, I reach a lone mountain with a peak that reached up into the clouds, and where all the thunder and lightning seemed to be coming from.

Flying up to the peak, I braved through the fog and lighting to find what is bothering my husband. When I reached the top, I had to hold back a gasp of terror at what I was witnessed to.

Joe was taken over by the creature known as Venom, and all around him were the dead bodies of our friends and family. Worse yet, he was gnawing on our daughter, Scootaloo. Unable to witness this horror any longer, I readied my magic and blasted the creature I called my husband. "Away with you, you vile creature!"

The blast I delivered would usually destroy the mightiest of nightmares and would cause the dreamer to awake. Instead, I heard the laughter of that demented creature as it walked through the smoke. "I'll enjoy feasting on your bones!" That was the last thing I heard before he lunged at me, tackling me to the ground and pinning me there. The last thing I saw was the monster extend his jaws before closing in on me, and then darkness.

Waking World

"Aaaaaaahhhhh!!!" I awoke screaming in pure terror from the horrible ordeal. My screams woke my husband and herd mates as they tried to comfort me. But when I felt Joe's hand on me, I was reminded of those teeth and black void. I pushed away from him and scrambled to the floor. "Get away from me!"

My further outbursts caused our children to barge into our room. "What's going on!?" When I saw Scootaloo ask us that, I immediately held her in my hooves and cried. "Mom, what's wrong? Why are you crying?"

Fighting back my sobs and holding our daughter closer, I returned to bed. "I was on patrol in the dream world like I do every night." I then look over to Joe and a small twinge of fear returned. "When I went to check on your dream..." I just started crying again while holding our daughter close.

Joe's POV

Seeing Luna cry broke my heart. And the worst part of it is, it was all my fault. Venom had taken over my dream and was hungry. If Luna hadn't woken up screaming, I would have. When I saw Tia, Jackie, and Jack join in on comforting Luna, I went to do the same. However, when I got near, she hid away from me.

Feeling heartbroken that my own wife feared me, I grabbed my shirt before heading for the door. I wanted to say something to comfort her, but feared I would just make things worse. So without another word, I left for the woods.

I woke up to the sight of the morning light piercing through the leaves and the sound of the river nearby. After getting a good stretch in, I went over to the river and started washing my face. I heard the water stir and I looked up to see a familiar face. "Morning, Steven. How are you doing today?"

"Morning, Joe. And I'm doing super, thanks for asking. What brings you out here? Another hunting trip?" He asked me while leaning in close.

"No. No, I'm... I messed up. Big time," I told him before sitting on a stump.

I was surprised when I was given a large fish to eat. "Please, tell me everything. I'm here to listen."

I took a bite from the fish and let out a sigh. "Where to begin?"

An hour later

"And now my lovely wife, Luna, is afraid of me. And to be honest, I don't blame her," I told Steven before throwing the bones away.

"Oh I agree. That Venom guy sounds scary," Steven told me.

"What should I do? I want to go over there and tell her I'm sorry. But I'm afraid if I do, I'll see the same fear I saw last night. And I don't know if I could bare to see her look at me that way again," I pondered my options while playing with my knife.

"Well if it were me that made my spouse fear me because of some supernatural second personality, which I'm so glad it's not, I'd give her a little time to come to terms with what she saw, and of course show her that you still love her," He told me with a kind smile.

"Sage advice. Guess one more night away wouldn't be the end of the world or our relationship." I brought out my phone and called home.

After hearing the dial tone for a few seconds, someone picked up. "Hello?" To my dismay, Luna was the one to pick up. "Hello?"

"Honey," I could already feel her flinch at the sound of my voice. "Listen, I'm going to stay in the woods for another night. I-I know what you saw was frightening, but just know that I love you with all my heart, and I would never do anything to hurt you."

There was a pause between us before I heard her sigh. "I love you to. I'm sorry this is happening between us, but after last night.... I just need some time to adjust."

"Take all the time you need my love. I'll see you all tomorrow. Give my love to the others," I asked her while making a kiss noise.

"Will do, darling." I heard her kiss the phone before it hung up, telling me that she still loves me.

"Well, now that that's settled, what should we do?" Steven asked as I put my phone away.

"Wanna get hammered?" I asked him while bringing out my flask.

For the next few hours, we sat by the river bank, drinking from an ever flowing flask of mead. Despite the circumstances, it was nice to catch up with Steven. I don't do that enough with everyone.

"I didn't know you knew Cranky," I told him while getting my flask back.

"Oh yeah, we-hrrk-go way back. We met while he was looking for the love of his life," Steve told me while he felt a little swirly.

"Matilda. I met her back home and he had no idea she was in Ponyville. Though in Cranky's defense, leaving a note on the door facing the room isn't the best place to have a note."

"Well, the important thing is, they found each other. In all honesty, when I first met Cranky, he was grumbling to himself while making a little shelter made of sticks." I'm getting visions of Winnie the Pooh.

As we kept on, the day soon turned to night, and I headed back for my little camp and started a fire. "Venom, get your ass out here, now!"

Out from my neck, Venom came out and he had a neutral look about him. "What? We were enjoying our nap."

"Oh, well sorry for interrupting your beauty sleep. But as you can plainly see, you're fucking up my marriage!" I grabbed what may as well be his neck and started squeezing. "Why the fuck did you attack Luna in my dream!? What were you thinking!?"

"We were hungry! We didn't know it was her, we thought it was just in your head!" Venom countered before slipping out of my grasp.

"That's another thing, why were you eating my friends and loved ones in my dream!? You trying to make me turn on them or something!?" I argued back before trying to attack him again.

The slippery bastard kept dodging my attempts to grab him. "You weren't dreaming about food, we had to improvise!"

"Was waking me up out of the question!?" I roared before trying to slash at him.

"We tried! It was like trying to wake up a tree!" Venom said before biting my arm.

For the next few hours, we kept arguing with each other while fighting. I imagine it must've looked ridiculous since he was attached to me. It wasn't until the afternoon that we stopped and laid on the grass, exhausted.

Just as I was about to start fighting with myself again, I heard a rustling in the trees above. I was about to draw my ax, until I heard a very familiar voice. "Dad! Dad, where are you!?" It was Scootaloo, and she was looking for her father.

"I'm down here, Squirt!" Out from the tree tops, Scoots emerged before zipping right at my chest and I heard her crying. "Hey, hey. What's with the tears?"

Scootaloo kept sniffling in my arms, so I just kept hold of her, even started rocking on my heels to help calm her down.

After half an hour, Scoots calmed down enough to stop crying so heavily. "Okay, you calmed down?" Scoots nodded while still hiding her head in my chest. "You wanna tell me what's got you upset?"

"You," She said in a low sad tone.

"Me? Why are you upset at me?" I asked, hoping things weren't getting worse in my household.

"I don't want you to leave us!" She yelled in my face with her bloodshot eyes. "I lost one dad, I don't to lose you too!"

Hearing that, I held her tighter and kissed her forehead. "Scoots, no matter what happens between me and your mothers, I will never stop being your father, ever." I had her look up at me and smiled at her. "And you, will never stop being my daughter." She wiped her nose before smiling up at me. "Do your mothers know you're out here?" I asked while taking a seat on a fallen tree.

"Yeah." She sniffled again before curling up in my lap. "I told them I was gonna go look for you. I told them I didn't want you guys to get a divorce."

"Well, I can tell you right now, that ain't gonna happen." I hope. "Anyway, since I told your mothers I would be spending another night out in the woods, how about you and me have a camp out tonight?"

"Really, can we!?" That seemed to perk her up.

"Yep. We'll have a campfire, s'mores, stories, and sleep under the stars," I told her before heading out further into the woods.

Evening

I built our makeshift shelter for the night while Scoots gathered wood for the fire. When I contemplated going into town for dinner and S'more stuff, I was surprised to see a bag filled with veggies and S'more stuff. There was a note on top with Pinkie's cutiemark on it.

Laughing to myself, I read the card. 'Here's something to help your camp out. Have fun.'

Smiling at her gesture, I went to make dinner for us. With our soup eaten we made S'mores. After we made our dessert, it was time to tell ghost stories. "You sure you want to hear one? You remember the last time we told scary stories."

"I'm a big girl now, dad. I can handle a story... just.... nothing without a head," Scoots asked me with a sheepish grin.

I chuckled a little before rustling her hair. "Deal. Everyone will keep their head." We settled in on our seats and I began to conjure a screen for us to watch and listen.

As the story went on, I saw Scootaloo never kept her eyes off the image. Smirking, I went behind her and waited for the end of the story. "Where is my tooooooeeoooe!"

"You've got it!" I roared while grabbing Scoot's sides, making her jump a little.

"Gaaaaahhhh!" I laughed as she trembled in my arms, before she started hitting my chest with her hooves. "That wasn't funny, daddy! I almost had a heart attack!"

"Okay, okay, mercy," I begged with a smile and blocked her blows. After she calmed down, I saw the moon was reaching its zenith. "Alright, supper eaten, dessert taken care of, and scaring my daughter." That part earned me another bop from her. "Time for bed."

"Okay." Scoots hopped off my lap and went to her sleeping bag. When I was in mine, she yawned and laid her head down. "Good night, dad."

"Good night, Squirt. See you in the morning." I snapped my fingers and the fire went out, leaving only the moon and stars to light our surroundings before we both fell asleep.

(Dream Realm)

I found myself waking up in a giant marshmallow, because why not. After eating my way out of the dream sugary goodness, I decided it would be best if I check up on Scoots. I knew she was a tough girl, but even I knew that story would scare her.

Leaving my dream and heading toward Scoots dream, I saw a glimpse of Luna's tail as she entered someone else's dream. I thought about following her, try and make things right with her early, but then I thought that might make things worse between us.

So, going back to my original plan, I went through Scootaloo's door and already I could tell I screwed up. The atmosphere was like a black and white movie, and no sound could be heard. Over to the right, I saw a small two story house described in the story. Climbing up to the window, I saw Scoots was already hiding under the sheets. "Fraidy cat." I heard Venom say.

"Shut your damn mouth!" I thought before climbing in through the window. "Squirt? You alright?" Upon hearing my voice, Scoots got up from the bed and hugged me tight. "Okay, from now on, only Simpsons video's and nothing else. Agreed?"

"Agreed! Now let's go before-"

"WHERE'S MY TOOOOOE!!" We looked over to the bedroom door where sound was coming from. Suddenly, the knob started to turn.

"Time to go," I told her before we left out of the house and toward the door. Just before the door closed behind the dream, the house exploded and a loud roar was heard. "Well, that was a close call."

"Indeed it was." Scoots and I turned around to see Luna sitting behind us with a neutral look.

"Hi, mom," Scoots said before going over and giving Luna a hug, making her smile.

"Hello, sweetheart." Luna wrapped her wing around our daughter. "Another one of your father's stories?"

Scoots nodded with a sheepish grin. "I thought I could listen and not have a nightmare. Guess I was wrong."

Luna leaned down and kissed the top of Scoots head. "You have nothing to be ashamed of. Facing something you fear is one of the bravest things anyone could do. I'm very proud of you." As the two of them hugged, Luna glances my way. "Honey, could you give mommy and daddy a minute to talk?" She asked before opening Scoots dream door where it had been turned into a skate park.

"Okay, mom." Scoots left for her dream, leaving Luna and me alone.

Before I could say anything, Luna conjured a table, two chairs, and two cups of beer. She took her seat and waited for me to do the same. After taking my seat, I tried to speak with her. "Luna, I-" She held up a hoof to silence me.

"Honey, before you say anything, I want you to know that I still love you. What happened the other night scared me more than anything else, and considering what I deal with on a nightly basis, that's really saying something." She took a drink from her cup before continuing. "However, since that night, I've learned to come to terms with what's happening with you and your... parasite."

Venom didn't seem to like that and sprang out of my neck. "Who are you calling parasite!?" The sudden appearance caused Luna to shoot a beam at Venom, forcing him to retreat back into me.

I saw Luna with the same look of horror as that night. "Luna, I'm sorry. I didn't mean for him to come out! I-"

"I know!" She calmed down before laying a hoof on my hand. "It will take some getting used to, but we also miss you, and want you home." She took a breath before hugging me. I felt her shudder in my embrace, but it melted away as soon as I started rubbing her back. "My love."

I kissed her neck, right below her ear, which I found out long ago was her most erogenous area before hugging her tighter. "I'll do all I can to control him. I love you." We separated and I saw Luna with a smile and tears in her eyes. "See you tomorrow?"

"I look forward to it." We shared a loving kiss before she went about her work.

After watching her leave for another dream, I knew that I would have to double if not triple my efforts to keep Venom on a very short leash. With Luna's kiss still fresh on my lips, I went back to my dream.

The next morning

After packing up our camp, Scoots and I headed home, and we saw Jack was making breakfast. "Morning, son."

"Hey, dad, sis. Have fun camping?" Jack asked while flipping pancakes.

"It was great, up until the ghost story, but the rest was awesome!" Scoots cheered before taking her seat at the table.

I went to help Jack with the eggs before asking, "How are your mothers?"

"They're doing alright. Ma's out in the orchard with Uncle Mac and Aunt Bloom. Mama Tia's resting on the couch." He paused as he thought about what to say about Luna. "And Mama Luna's getting ready to head to Canterlot."

Hearing that pained me. I knew it was Luna's turn to meet up with the nobles up in Canterlot, but she never leaves this early. And worse still, it's all because of me. "I'll go talk with her real quick." I patted Jack on the back before heading upstairs. When I made it to our room, I saw Luna was gathering her papers. "Honey."

Luna stiffened at the sound of my voice. Not a good sign. She turned around and put on a fake smile for me. "Hello dear." She saw my expression and could tell I wasn't buying it. I motioned for her to sit down on the bed next to me. When we sat next to each other, she started. "Joe, honey. I desperately want to forget what happened and move on. But then I think of that creature and what he did and..." She couldn't finish. She just went into a fit of shivers, so I wrapped my arm around her.

I rubbed her back and kissed her forehead. "I know. It'll take time. And we have a long time to work it out." I hugged her tighter and kissed her neck again. "I love you."

"I love you too." At least I knew that was genuine. "Let's have breakfast before I leave."

"Sounds like a plan," I told her before picking her up like my bride. "To breakfast my love." We shared a kiss before heading down to breakfast.

A week later

"So how are things with you and Twilight?" Swagger and I were at Berry's bar, talking the shit and getting hammered like we do every week.

"Everything's going great. We went to Canterlot and rekindled her with her old friends. Most of them were easy enough, but there was this one mare. Her name is Moondancer and she was a real piece of work." Swagger took a quick shot before continuing. "All she did was study. Not even for a specific goal, she just studied for the sake of studying."

"Eish! Reminds me of a certain bookworm I know that's dating a former Marine." Swagger nudged me while we laughed at the situation. "So, what did you wind up doing?"

"We threw her a party, got her and Twilight to make up, and I'm a little embarrassed to say, but I think she might be attracted to me," Swagger and I laughed again before Berry came over with another round. "So... how are things going with Luna?"

I let out a deep sigh before downing my beer in one go. "On the surface, it's alright. Though I can tell she's still wary of me, or should I say, Venom!"

Venom came out of my neck, and I guess the beer was going straight to him, because he was slurring every word. "Don't tchou blame us for tat! Weeeee were wanting num nums! You did not wake!" He then dove his head into the bowl of pretzels.

I shook my head as he pigged out. "Anyway, it's getting better. We even have a date night tomorrow." I took a swig before looking at my reflection in the bar mirror. "Things will get better."

That night

As I settled into bed, Jackie and Tia were the first to crawl in next to me. Luna came up next and spooned against Jackie. Even though Tia is her sister, Luna found comfort in Jackie's presence when I'm not around. Or in this case, when she's still trying to hide her fear of her own husband.

"Goodnight, Tia," I kissed her goodnight.

Tia returned the kiss. "Goodnight my love." She soon snuggled to my side.

"Night, darlin'," Jackie said while kissing me goodnight.

"Night, sweetheart," I told her before kissing her cheek. Two down, one to go. "Goodnight, my love."

Luna smiled at me before leaning over Jackie and we came into a kiss. "Sweet dreams, dear husband."

Her kiss was still warm on my lips as we all slipped into the comforts of sleep. Hopefully by tomorrow, the ordeal of the past week will be a distant memory.

A few hours later

"Aaaahhh!" We all woke to the sound of Luna's scream. I saw her cling to the blanket and she had a cold sweat. I thought I was the source of her discomfort, so I went to leave, only for her to cling to my arm for dear life. "Don't leave! Please, stay," She pleaded while holding me closer.

I don't know for sure if I was the cause of her awakening or her saving grace. But as of now, my wife asked me to stay and comfort her. And so I did.

I brought her on my lap and wrapped her in my wings. Jackie embraced us from her side while Tia draped the blanket over us. It took nearly an hour, but sleep finally found us again.

(The next morning)

I woke with the morning sun, and found Luna was still clinging to my arm with a content smile. Seeing her smile melted all my worries out the door. As I kissed her fore head, her eyes opened and she kissed me back. "Good morning dear," I told her as I cuddled her closer.

"Morning, sweet heart." She nuzzled me close as we just held each other.

"So... are we okay?" I asked, hoping things really were back to normal.

Her answer came in the form of another gentle kiss. "More than okay~." Off to the side, Tia woke up with a groggy look and smacked her lips. "Morning sister."

"Mmmm morning." Tia called back before she put a hoof over her mouth and bolted for the bathroom.

"Oof. Morning sickness," Jackie said as she woke up next. She looked over at Luna and me holding each other and smiled. "Well, glad to see things are back to what they were."

"It is." I gave both of them a kiss before bringing Jackie into the cuddle. "Did you sleep alright?"

"Kinda. Was having a wonderful dream when suddenly this starry wisp comes flying around and the entire orchard goes south," She told us.

"A-a black wisp?" Luna asked, sounding concerned. When Tia came out of the bathroom. "Sister, did you see a black wisp as well?"

"Maybe, I'm not sure," Tia said with tears in her eyes from puking last night's dinner.

While Jackie and I went to comfort Tia, Luna looked worried about something.

Rarity's place

Luna, Jackie, and I were at Rarity's place to give our pets a much needed cleaning. Especially Hercules after he chased down Angel through the mud. "Now Herc, you know better than to chase after rabbits, especially Angel." Herc looked at me with a sad expression while he had soap on his fur. I chuckled before patting him. "Crazy nut."

Herc licked my cheek as I kept cleaning him. Meanwhile, Jackie and Luna gave Winnona and Tibbles a good brushing. We would've brought Philomina, but she prefers to plume her own feathers.

Yowl!!

Opal let out a displeased yowl when Rarity pricked her tail with her comb. "Oh my! Sorry Opal, dear. Mommy didn't get enough sleep last night."

Hearing that, Luna looked right at Rarity with a horrified look. "Was it a bad dream?" She handed me Tibbles before going up to her. "Was there a starry black wisp?" At the mention of that, the rest of the girls gasped. Guess they had the same dream.

"Why yes." Rarity confirmed.

"Hey I dreamed about a strange star thingy too!" Pinkie exclaimed.

"Same here y'all." Applejack admitted.

"Me too." Rainbow stated.

'Um me too." Fluttershy said quietly.

"Looks like we all did." Twilight stated.

"Oh no...no, no, no, no, no, no, no." Luna muttered as she began to pace back and forth, worry clear across her face.

I put Tibbles on Hercules' head, where he started to scrub the top of his head, and headed for Luna and hugged her. "Sweetie, what is it?"

Luna took a few calming breaths before looking around at all of us. "It's called a Tantabus. A living manifestation of the worst possible nightmares." Hearing this, the girls stopped what they were doing and listened intently. "Only three times has a Tantabus taken form. Usually during hard times and when ponies have the same horrible dream. They can spread to other ponies dreams if they're being dreamed by someone plagued by the Tantabus."

Twilight, even in her dreary state took notes on everything Luna had said. While she was doing that, Jackie came up and looked into Luna's eyes. "Honey, why is there one now?"

Luna let out a sad sigh before answering. "As you know, I've been having nightmares of the incident involving our husbands' ride along."

"Oh! I like that one. Much better than Parasite!" I heard Venom say in my head.

"In an effort to rid myself of these thoughts and nightmares about it. I purged it from my mind so I could no longer fear my own husband." Sorrow was soon clear on her face. "In my efforts, I'm afraid I created the Tantabus and it escaped into the dream realm."

Hearing this, I brought Luna into a hug. "It's not your fault. If anything, it's my fault."

"No, it's that varmint's fault!" Jackie told me, only for Venom to use a tendril and push her hat down over her eyes. "Hey! You no good rotten!" She muttered while fixing her hat.

I slapped the tendril away and rubbed Luna's side. "So what do we do now?"

"Destroy it before it gets bigger. The first one reached an incredible size before it did something I thought impossible. It left the dream realm." She paused to let that info sink in. "When it escaped, it fled to the forest and sank itself into the trees. That's how the first Timberwolves came about."

"Must write it all!" Twilight was doing her thing by writing everything Luna said. In her defense, this was worth taking notes on.

"So destroy this creature before it can get any bigger. How do we do that?" Dash asked after applying turtle wax to Tank.

"Joe and I will enter your dreams tonight, and hunt down the Tantabus before it can grow anymore." Luna's expression then becomes deadly focused. "I must warn you all now. Do not for even a moment, dream of anyone else you know. The Tantabus will target and go into their dreams to gain more power."

"Wait! does this mean what I think it means!?" Pinkie asked while zipping around before stopping in the center of the room with her arty cannon. "Slumber party!" She shot off her confetti that startled the pets and caused Hercules to jump out of the tub and shake himself dry all over us.

"Pinkie!" We all yelled after getting wet confetti all over us.

The following evening

"Thank you Twilight, for allowing us your home for this endeavor," Luna thanked Twilight as Swagger and I started moving some beds into the living room.

"No trouble at all. We would've had this in my room, but..." Twilight trailed off while looking over at Swagger.

"I see. I take it things are going well with Bob," Luna asked while watching me and Swagger work.

"Very," Twilight said while getting some extra sheets.

Luna came over to me and nuzzled my side. "I'm sorry this came up during our date night."

"Don't worry about it, honey. Saving everyone is slightly more important than us going out to dinner." I kissed her cheek before everyone started getting into their beds. "When this is over, we'll go on a romantic outing, just the two of us."

"I'd love that very much." We kissed on it before Luna addressed our friends. "Now, everyone will need to fall asleep in order for Joe and I to enter your dreams and hopefully destroy the Tantabus before it can get any larger."

"ARE YOU KIDDING?!?" Pinkie shouted. "This is so exciting! I don't know how I'm ever going to-Snnkkkkk hooooonk...." Just like a rock, her usually bubbly energy instantly dissipated from the lack of sleep she suffered earlier and it didn't take much for the others to follow her lead as they all drifted off to sleep, allowing Luna to cast her spell.

The spell enveloped the two of us as we lifted up into the air. Soon, tendrils of light sprang from her horn and onto the girls foreheads, and our consciousness soon went into the first pony to start dreaming. Which just happened to be Rarity.

Once we had reached Rarity's dream, we saw that the Tantabus had already been by, if the killer dresses trying to eat Rarity was any indication. "Oh my. It seems the creature works fast," Luna commented before she and I went into action.

Luna blasted the disastrous dresses while I shredded them into dish clothes. "Come on, you grotesque garments! I've taken on trolls nastier than you!"

The floating dresses seemed to take this as a personal challenge and swarmed me. While I kept turning them into rags, Luna was on the lookout for the Tantabus. "Come out, vile creature! Face your demise!"

As if to answer, the Tantabus came out from one of the dresses and branched out, bringing every shredded piece of fabric and dress toward it, creating what looked like to me anyway, a grotesque centipede of cloth and fabric, with a large circular mouth with zippers for teeth.

"Oh dear. I've never had dreams like this before," Rarity said as she made a makeshift bunker out of dressers.

"Must be mixed in with a few of my dreams or memories," I confessed while my hand was engulfed in flame and I started setting fire to the fashion disaster.

The creature shrieked in agony as the flames consumed it. Nearing its demise, the creature spat out the Tantabus out a nearby window and into the next dream.

"Come my love!" Luna barked while using her magic to snuff out the monster completely. "The Tantabus is heading for another dream!"

After clearing the ash from my eyes, I nodded. "Coming! Rarity, you gonna be okay?"

"I'll be fine, darling. Maybe a nice beach dream would be best," Rarity contemplated as I followed Luna to the next dream.

When we entered the next dream, it looked like we entered stock footage of all the different landscapes in Equestria. When we saw Pinkie walking by, singing her usual tune, we understood everything. "La la la la, oh, hey guys! What's up?" Pinkie asked before the world around us changed after she jumped from the ground.

"We're here to stop the Tantabus, what else?" I told her before almost slipping on the ice, only to get bashed with a cactus. "Ouch."

Luna giggled at my expense before turning to Pinkie. "Pinkie, we need you to focus, please. We tracked the Tantabus here and-." She was interrupted when the world changed to the dragon lands.

"Sorry, can't help it. Once I-" When the world changed to her room filled with cake, we stopped." Oooh! Cake!" She went to take a bite, but then the multi-layered cake tried to take a bite out of her. I pulled her back in time just as the other cakes started to mutate and close in on us. "Eeew! Cake!"

"I could make a devil's food cake pun, but I feel that would be cheesy," I said, just before I was fired upon by a cheesecake. "Really?"

"You asked for that one."I heard Luna say before she had a magic shield burst across the room, splattering all the cakes on the room. A pastry massacre. As we cleared the frosting from ourselves, we spotted the Tantabus enter an empty box. "There it is!" Luna dove after it, only for her to crash into the statue of me and Spike from the Crystal Empire.

"Sorry," Pinkie apologized.

Just then, Leslie Nelson popped out from the castle and looked over at Luna and I. "I just wanna tell you both, good luck. We're all counting on you." And then he was gone.

Once we were in the next dream, we were outside Fluttershy's cottage. Everything seemed fine, though we were a bit weirded out by the fact Fluttershy was being groomed by a twenty foot tall Angel and was being fed grapes by Discord in a toga. "Mmm, it's nice to be the pet for once." Shy commented while Angel brushed her mane.

"Well... this is a little... is disturbing the word I'm looking for?" I asked Luna.

"Hmm, I would say it's more peculiar than anything," Luna said just as Discord waved over at us. "Wait a second. Discord, is that really you?"

Discord came over and snapped away his attire. "Yeah. I figured Flutters and I could spend a little more time this way. So, what brings you two here?"

"You'd know if you attended the meeting, instead of binge watching King of the Hill," I told him, a little annoyed.

"Yeah, man, but I tell you what, that Boomhaur speaks to me, with his dang old way of speaking," Discord answered before the Tantabus zoomed over our heads. "What in the world!?"

"That would be what we're hunting," Luna said as the starry blotch grazed Angel's fluffy tail, turning him into a monster. Well, more of a monster.

"Aaaah!" Shy screamed just as Angel tried to swipe her with his claws, only for Discord to swoop in and save her. "Oh, thank you, Discord."

"Anytime," Discord told her as they landed on top of a nearby tree.

Soon, Angelzilla started gnawing at the trunk to get at them. "Time to make you into rabbit stew!" As soon as I said that, Angel was placed into a giant pot and the water was already starting to boil. "Hmm, must be affecting the dream." I pondered before Luna and I saw our target head inside a birdhouse.

"Quickly, it's getting away!" Luna opened another door and were in another dream. As it turns out, we were in Jackie's dream. "Darling, have you-" We were halted in our pursuit when we saw Jackie in the barn, on her back, spread-eagled, and surrounded by three look-a-likes of me, giving it to her in every hole. "Oh my."

"And here I thought Tia was the kinky one," I said while trying my best not to pop a boner or join in.

Shaking her head, Luna went over to Jackie, doing her best not to check out the other clones of me. Licking her lips, Luna tapped on Jackie's shoulder. "Dear. I hate to interrupt a perfect dream such as this. But have you seen the Tantabus?"

"Glrrk! Glrrk! Glrrk! Pwah! Can't say that I have." Jackie smirked at us before my clones vanished. "Think you two have time for a quickie~?"

Just before we could answer, a bright flash caught our attention outside the barn. When we went to investigate, we all saw a mushroom cloud off where our house is, or in this case, was. The initial wave started destroying the trees and sending the dust high into the air.

Without a second thought, I created a shield around the three of us as the destructive wave came close. "Hold onto me!" I brought Jackie and Luna in my arms as the blast got to us.

After a few minutes, the force against the shield subsided and everything was quite. When we opened our eyes, everything around us, everything we called home, was turned to dust. All of us were devastated, but Jackie took it the hardest. "Our home." She walked out to the dust and fell to her knees when she saw the skeletons of her parents, her siblings, and our kids.

As she started to cry over our home and family, we saw the Tantabus make for another dream. As Luna opened another portal, I came up behind Jackie and hugged her close to my chest. "Don't look. It's all a dream. The farm's still intact, and our family's sleeping soundly." I kissed her cheek before getting up. "I'll see you in the waking world."

"Don't leave!" Jackie begged as she gripped my hand. I had never seen her so scared in my whole life, it filled me with so much worry and at the same time so much anger.

"You know I'd never do that." I told her with a reassuring kiss to the forehead. To ease her fears, I had her parents' marriage tree sprout from the ashes. Behind the trunk, her parents came around and brought Jackie over to her siblings and Granny by the stone. "Be safe my love." Knowing she'd be safe, I followed Luna to the next dream. After landing next to her, I noticed I was ankle deep in cream cheese frosting. When I looked up, I saw a layered cake the size of a mountain. "Is it safe to assume this is Celestia's dream?"

"What was your first clue?" Luna asked with sarcasm before we noticed Celestia on a diving platform in a rather smoking hot golden bikini as she prepared to dive into her mountain of a dessert. "Last time she requested chocolate pudding cake."

"WEEEEE!!!" Celestia screamed out like a filly as she did a belly flop into the icing and splattered us both from head to toe.

"I'd be concerned about the baby if this weren't a dream," I said before tasting the icing. "Not bad." Soon, Tia popped her head out from the cake a few feet away from us. "Enjoying yourself, dear?"

"Oh yes. This is my second favorite dream." Her look soon became sultry as she climbed out of the frosting. "Want to know my favorite dream?"

"Sister, we don't have time for an exhibition gangbang, we have a nightmare fueled monster to stop," Luna proclaimed as the once sunny sky became dark. "Oh no. It's already here."

Readying my ax, I waited for whatever it was that was coming. Soon, thunder cracked in the sky and it started to rain. Only it wasn't water that was coming down, it was asparagus and broccoli. "You've gotta be kidding me."

"AHHH!!" Celestia gave a rather dramatic scream as she looked at the mountains of vegetables surrounding us.

"Really sister you can be a filly sometimes." Luna sighed.

"I don't get it, it's just broccoli." I said when Luna told me to lean in closer.

"One time when we were young, some broccoli got stuck in her teeth during a meeting."

"Ohhh...that's embarrassing."

"And the less said about asparagus, the better," Luna said as we watched Tia take shelter under a frosting dollop. Honestly, it was hard to decide if we should help or laugh.

Our answer came when we saw the Tantabus leave the dream through a cherry. "Honey, we gotta go."

"Don't you DARE breathe a word about this to anyone!!" Tia said while still hiding under the dollop.

"I promise, not one word of this will escape my lips." I reassured her.

"It better not or it's the couch for a month!!" She threatened me.

As we left for the next dream, I couldn't help but chuckle at Tia's threat. "I'd be more afraid of that threat if it weren't for the fact I wake up with you all beside me."

Luna blushed before giving my cheek a quick peck. "It can't be helped. We miss your warmth too much." I returned the kiss just as we made it to the next dream. When we landed, we were at a wedding party on a cliff overlooking the sea with men dressed in Marine uniforms and women dressed for their best. "Oh. This looks very nice. Dear, is this a wedding you and Bob attended?"

"Sort of. This was Donnie and Sarah's wedding. I was in Africa when it happened, so I didn't get to go. Swagger on the other hand," I pointed over to where Swagger was sitting, and to our surprise, Twilight was with him and was leaning her head against him. "Looks like a very pleasant dream."

"Indeed it does," Luna confirmed as we saw the priest marry Donnie and Sarah. But just as the cheers for the happy couple began, the sound of rotating helicopter blades came. Over the edge of the cliff came a gunship with the miniguns on the side preparing to fire. "Oh shit!"

"Everybody down!" Swagger yelled as he grabbed Twilight and ducked under their table as the gunship started raining down bullets. The lead hailstorm got Donnie and Sarah first as it made it's way to the other party guests.

Not liking where this was going, I blasted the helicopter blades with a frozen ball from my ax. With nothing to keep it up in the air anymore, the copter fell to the ground, blowing up upon impact. I ran over to Swagger and checked on him. "Swagger, you alright?"

Things.... were not alright. behind the table, Swagger was holding a bullet riddled Twilight tight to his person. Blood trickled from her wounds and tears fell freely from Swagger's eyes. "Why? For god's sake why!?"

You did this... Voices began to whisper all around us as Swagger held Twilight.

You killed her...

You failed her...

You can't protect anyone!

Soon, the bodies that the chopper killed started to rise, leaking blood from the bullet holes and many of them were mangled beyond recognition. However, the bodies of Donnie and Sarah were the worst, and they looked pissed at Swagger. "How many times are you going to let me die?" Donnie asked before his jaw fell off.

"Everyone you love will die. And it's all your fault!" Sarah spat as blood spewed from her mouth and onto Swagger.

"Enough!" Luna shouted, making all but Swagger disappear. When it was just the three of us, Luna walked up to him and placed her wing on his back. "Bob. It's all an illusion. You must not blame yourself for Donald. And Sarah is still alive back on earth."

Looking out for my friend, I decided to help and conjured another Twilight to go and comfort him. The moment Swagger saw her, he wrapped his arms around her and started to sob happily into her neck.

Luna came over to my side and kissed my cheek. "Thank you dear." Her eyes widened at something behind me. "The Tantabus!"

"On it!" I opened a portal into the next dream. When we entered the dream, we were in town hall and it looked like it was decorated for a wedding. "Hmm, I wonder who's getting hitched?"

"Your student," Luna answered as she pointed over to the altar where Spike was wearing the top part of a tux and top hat.

"Why does he think that top hat looks good on him?" I asked before the music started and a mare I could only assume as Rarity started walking down the aisle. "Damn, and here we are without a gift."

"Honey, please, focus." Luna reminded me of the threat to the world and we focused on our mission.

We took two empty seats and watched how things play out. Rarity had stepped up to the altar, and Dream me was the one to marry them. As the other me was going over the ceremony, I leaned over to Luna. "You think Spike will ever pop Rarity the question?"

"I believe he will, or maybe she will." I then saw Luna smile and lean her head on my shoulder. "Remember our wedding, dear?"

"How could I forget the best day of my life?" I kissed her cheek just as the Tantabus made its move and touch Rarity. "Oh crap, here we go."

As we made to get to the altar, Spike turned to Rarity. "Before we go any further. I have a surprise for you." Spike took out a large fire ruby and presented it to Rarity.

Everyone smiled, before Rarity took off the veil, revealing an old stallion with a white mane. "So do I!" The guy took the ruby from a shocked Spike. "Later, handsome! It never would've worked, I never loved you!" The dude then makes his escape, leaving us all in a state of shock.

I kept opening and closing my mouth, unsure what to do or say at this situation. "Do we... should I... where did... Dear, a little help."

"I'm just as speechless as you." Luna answered as we just kept staring at the altar. "I think we should go. This is more awkward then dangerous anyway."

"Agreed." And with that, we left out of that dream and into the next. "Is it wrong that I wanted to laugh at that?"

"Really? I thought I was the only one?" We both laughed as we entered the dream. "Oh. It seems we're in Jack's dream." We were in a concert hall, and Jack was sitting front row center as he watched Octavia play a solo.

Jack was mesmerized by her skills as he leaned onto the stage. "You play very nice, darling."

"I like it when you play me~," Octavia responded while giving him a seductive look.

"That's my boy," I said, making Luna brush me with her wing. Before something romantic or lewd could happen, our familiar friend made an appearance. "Showtime."

The Tantabus went right for Octavia's cello and once it made contact, her instrument grew twenty feet tall and the strings broke and entangled both Jack and Octavia in it's grasp before squeezing them like a squid.

"Oi!" I yelled while taking out my ax. "Get your musical strings off my boy!" The F-holes made a gurgling noise before spitting out literal music notes at us.

Luna put up a shield to block the notes while I hacked away at them. "Go for the neck! It should stop the notes!" Taking her advice, I got behind the shield and launched Frostbite at the base of the cello's neck, severing it from the body and ending the barrage of notes and letting Jack and Tavi go. "Son, are you alright?"

"Yeah, I'm alright, mom." Jack dusted himself off as dream Tavi hugged him.

"Alright, we'll leave you two to it." I winked at my boy before we went to the next dream. "How much you wanna bet that dream turns into a wet one?"

"Not the time!" Luna told me as we landed into the next dream. "And can we please refrain from talking about our children and their sex life?"

"Duly..." I started, only to see we were in Dash's dream, and she was being attacked by a swarm of Changelings. "Noted. Aw, crap. We're late!"

Dash came crashing down next to us with a Changeling drone in her hooves. "What are you talking about?" She asked us before snapping the bug's neck. "This is my favorite dream!"

"That... that is disturbing, Dash. I recommend therapy," Luna suggested as Dash went to fight more bugs.

As Dash beat the crap out of more Changelings, the Tantabus touched down on the ground, the dark and dreary landscape turned into what was basically the background for the Teletubbies. "Huh?" Below her, the flowers came alive and started to sing, though one tried to sound evil at times when really it was just being annoying. "Waaaahhhh!" Dash screamed before curling up into the fetal position.

"I think you're right, Dash may need therapy," I told Luna just as a few more of those flowers sprang up in a circle around us and started singing, one even played a flute. "Alright, that's it. We need an expert for this." I snapped my fingers and Pyro from Team Fortress 2 appeared on the hill next to us and let out a war cry.

As he sprayed death on the posies, Luna and I chased after the starry wisp.

"All that's left is Twilight," Luna said as we made for the next dream. "By the way, did it seem odd that-"

"Dash was dreaming of kicking ass and her worst fear is a valley full of singing flowers. Makes sense to me," I told her as we made our way to Twilight's dream.

"Those flowers were creepy. We should've pissed on them," Venom said in my head before we made it to Twilight's dream, which was just a huge library with the bookshelves reaching above the clouds. "Figures with her."

"I thought you couldn't read while in a dream? One half of your brain and all that noise," I said aloud as we kept walking through the stakes.

"I've been in this dream before." Luna explained as we ducked from a flock of flying books overhead. "She likes to be around the books, and even smell the paper. And ever since Bob came into her life. Well, see for yourself." We turned to see Twilight and Swagger on a candlelit dinner date.

"Oh! Can't wait to see what fucks this one up." Venom cackled in my head.

"Shut it, or I'll stab you with a Q-tip!" I retorted as we watched the scene unfold. "I'm not very certain about what Twilight fears. What're we up against?" I asked Luna as we watched Swagger and Twilight feed each other soup.

As Twilight went to take a bite, the soup Swagger was spoon feeding her turned into a Quesadilla slice. The second her tongue touched the cheesy goodness, she freaked out. "AAAAAAHHHH!!!" As her scream echoed across the stacks, the white light that illuminated the area went out and a red glow replaced it.

Soon, books started falling off the shelves as the room started to shake from something large moving around here. "Oh shit. Wonder what we got going here?" As if to answer my question, the tantabus had created a monstrous sized snake to bust out from the stacks and attack us. "Fuck."

The monster snake let out a loud roar hiss before it struck and swallowed Swagger whole.

Seeing this Twilight screamed in horror as she watched the bulge that was Swagger disappear down the serpent's throat.

"Oh hell no!" I blasted my magic at the snake in an attempt to free Swagger.

At first, nothing seemed to happen, and the snake was ready to strike Luna. Suddenly, the snake let out a gurgle before looking down at the bulge in his throat. Just then, the bulge widened and a sword cut through the skin and effectively cut the snake's head from its body.

As the body fell to the side and Swagger struggled to his feet, covered in saliva and blood, I cheered for my friend. "Alright, alright! You're bad, man."

After he collapsed, Twilight went up to him and did a vision test on him. "Honey, how many wings do you see?" She asked while pointing at her wings.

"Six," Was his groggy response.

"Close enough," I joked before spotting the Tantabus leaving the snake's body. "There it is! Grab it!"

Luna and I went to grab it, but the damn thing escaped in a Hayfield Copper book. "Dammit!" Luna cursed before the whole world around us began to swirl in a vortex before we were ejected back into the waking world.

Luna and I plopped on top of each other as everyone around us woke up with a start. "Well if it ain't back to square one."

Swagger and Twilight both ran toward each other and made out with tears in their eyes. Spike woke up and looked at Rarity curiously, making sure she was really her, and not some old stallion. Jackie and Tia ran to each other and comforted themselves with kisses.

"Um, honey." I looked down to see Luna had a massive blush as I lay on top of her. "You're poking me, dear~." Sure enough, my morning wood was pitching a tent in my shorts and poking at her entrance. "Later, dear~."

"Right." I got up off her, both of us with red cheeks as we went to address the others. Though I blew her a kiss before going forward. "Well, good news, the Tantabus hasn't reached out into the world."

"The bad news is that we were unable to capture and destroy it," Luna huffed while shaking her head. "At least we kept it contained and no one dreamed of anyone else."

"Uuuuuh... about that." We all looked over at Pinkie who was fidgeting under her blanket. "After you two left my dream, I kinda dreamed about the whole town coming together to share a giant ice cream cone while taking a test we didn't study for." All at once, we face palmed over what was said.

"Pinkie.... nevermind." I pinched my nose before sitting down on the bed. "Okay. We're gonna need to throw a wider net to catch this damn thing."

"We'll need more than that." Luna went back to the center of the room and focused her magic. "We'll need to create a shared dream. One that encompasses the whole town." As her magic kept charging, she looked to me. "Honey, in order for me to maintain such a dream, I can't lose focus. You'll have to lead the charge."

I went to her and gave her a reassuring kiss. "You can count on me."

She smiled back at me with a tint of red in her cheek before she went back to the center of the room. We all got into bed, with Jackie and Tia joining me in the same bed. Before we knew it, Luna knocked us out with a sleeping spell.

Dream world

I woke up to see that we were all in the middle of Town square, or at least that's what it looked like. But the air around us was like that of an invisible fog, or gas, take your pick.

As we started to gather our bearings, the residents of Ponyville also started to show up, though many were different from what they normally look like. For instance, I don't remember Derpy being a giant and sounding like a cat, or Big Mac having a horn, and I would've definitely remembered Lyra and Bon Bon looking like Cat Dog. "I wonder which of them is dreaming that?"

"They both are." I looked to my right and saw that Luna was in a magic bubble while strings of magic connected from her horn. "They have that dream quite often."

"Mom!" Scoots ran over and hugged Luna. "What's going on?"

Luna hugged our daughter before looking off in the distance. "We're about to face a monster."

As soon as she said that, the starry cloud we've been chasing all night had grown to massive proportions. As we kept looking, the Tantabus went from looking like the night sky, to being as black as oil and every now and then, it would drip onto the ground, where a nightmarish horror would grow, scaring the populace and causing them to panic.

Worse still, with the screams of fear, the Tantabus kept growing and before we knew it, it started to cut open rifts in the sky. "It's trying to escape into reality!" Luna yelled as it opened more rifts. "We must stop it now!"

Over by one of the doors, Leslie Nelson popped out again. "I just want to tell you all, good luck. We're all counting on you." And then he left again.

"We got this!" Jack and I unsheathed our weapons and led the charge against the monster with the girls following us. The Tantabus saw us coming and conjured a giant claw that smashed against the earth, pushing us all back with the force of the tremor. "Well, that failed."

"It could be worse," Jack said as he stood up from a ruined fruit stand. As if to answer my son's challenge, the Tantabus started to take the form of a giant creature with multiple heads from different animals and monsters all over its body, like something from Lovecraft's work. "Shit."

As the monster started a whole new rampage and the monsters that were already created went after the citizens, it seemed we were up shit creek without a paddle. Or even a boat for that matter. "How do we fight this fucking thing!?"

"The same way you always fight a dream." I turned to see what Luna was talking about. "In the real world, you're limited by reality. In here you're only limited by your imagination." She smirked at me as more creatures kept coming.

Realizing what she meant, a smirk made its way to my face before I turned to every single person here. "Everyone! Listen to what I have to say!" The populace stopped in their tracks to hear what I had to say, which sucked for a few of them, since they were caught by one of the monsters. "We all need you to fight these things, or else that thing will make its way into the real world!"

"But how? We're not as strong or as fast as you all," Mr. Cake said while protecting his family.

"In the real world, yes. But here, here you can be anything you want. Hell, you all seen Big Mac before. When was he ever a unicorn?" My speech seemed to give them revived courage.

Spike smirked at this revelation before bringing Rarity in for a kiss. "Watch this, babe." He turned and started to grow into a massive fire drake, one even larger than when he went on a hoarding spree.

Spike let out a roar before charging the beast.

The beast swatted at him, only for Spike to shrug it off. "My armor is iron!" Spike bit down on one of the heads, killing it. "My teeth are swords!" He clawed three heads at once. "My claws are spears!" He flew back, making the Tantabus back away from the wind. "My wings are a hurricane!" He then takes a deep breath. "My breath is an inferno!" He then envelops the giant beast with flames.

As Spike kept fighting the beast, Rarity just fanned herself. "What I'm gonna do to that dragon when we wake up~."

"I think that's the dirtiest thing I've heard you say," I joked before the Tantabus backhanded Spike right into town hall. "Come on! We need more fire power!"

"Fire power huh? I think I have an idea for that." Swagger stepped back and let his imagination run wild. Soon, standing in front of us, was an Apache Helicopter, geared up and ready to raise hell on whoever is unlucky enough to be in its path. And in the pilot seat, was Swagger.

As the blades started to whir to life, Swagger signaled Twilight to get in the seat behind him. After a small squeal, she got in the chopper and they took off.

"Oh, oh! My turn!" Pinkie hopped in place before scrunching her eyes closed and stuck her tongue out. In an instant, we were all met with Pinkiepool. She took out one of her swords and an oversized gun. "Let's get this party started!"

As Pinkie started slashing and blasting the monster, Dash decided to call on the thunder by turning into her comic counterpart as Valkyrie and started throwing bolts of lightning and her hammer at the multiple heads like a game of whack-a-mole. "This is so! Awesome!"

Following the theme for what we were doing, a few of the citizens joined in on the battle. Many of them conjured simple weapons and used them against the Tantabus. Those with more active imaginations decided to turn themselves into giants, heroes, hell I saw one mare turn into a school of flying piranha.

Fluttershy led the charge of some of the dream animals while riding on the head of the demon Angel Bunny. "Go little friends! Go!"

As the entire town attacked, victory seemed assured and the nightmare would be over soon. However, the universe is a bitch, and she just loves proving me wrong. The Tantabus pushed the whole town back into nearby buildings, the fountain, and the river.

One such incident was when Big Mac was sent through Sugar Cube Corner, causing the cupcake room to plummet down, and squash Sweetie Belle. Bloom and Scoots were devastated. "Oh my god! They killed Sweetie!" Bloom screamed into the night.

"You bastards!" Scoots roared at the Tantabus before her swords appeared on her wings and she became a fiery ball of death and went straight for the creature, who already showed signs of regenerating.

"Where have I heard that before?" I asked myself before I felt Venom tug to the front of my mind. "What do you want?"

"To help. Let us show them we can help. Besides. We hunger!" I thought about his offer and whether or not he'd actually help or just run rampant and scare the shit out of these folk.

After watching the Tantabus swallow four ponies with a Grizzly Bear head, I decided why not. "Alright. You can come out. Just do what you have to, no more than that."

"Splendid!" I felt my skin open at the pores as the ooze that I took as Venom started to cover my body. All my senses began to fade and before I knew it, I was a passenger in my own body. "Now, let us show them what we can do!"

I watched As Venom had us rushing right at the monster. He lets out a roar that surpassed the Tantabus, which cleared a path for us to jump and latch onto the largest head, which ironically was a wolf head, and we latched onto it.

I expected him to start slashing and biting, but what surprised me was that several tendrils started sprouting from our back and latched onto the beast. I had no idea what was going on, until I felt energy seeping into us.

The creature felt it as well, if the terror in it's eyes was any indication, or the fact it was shrinking in our grasp. As it kept shrinking, the heads would fall limp and tear off the body, disintegrating once they hit the ground.

All around us, we heard the ponies gasp in either awe or terror. It soon became silent as the Tantabus was no bigger than an apple in our grasp. Venom turned to the dreaming populace and lifted the creature for all to see. "The nightmare is over!" We then dropped it into our mouth and chomped away. "Mmm, blueberries!"

After we ate the surprisingly tasty creature, Venom retreated back inside. I marched over to Luna as the dreamers either parted from my path or just woke up. She dropped the shield and looked up at me with a warm smile. "It's done. The nightmare is over."

The ponies cheered around us as Leslie Nelson popped up from the well. "I just want to tell you both, good luck. We're all counting on you." And he ducked back in the well.

Luna halted her magic, causing all the dreamers to head back to their own dream. When it was just the two of us, she brought me in for a hug. "I knew you could do it, my love."

As we kept the embrace, I felt her hooves and wings explore my body a bit, not to mention she breathed in my scent. "I think we should celebrate."

"I know just what to do~." Her horn flared again and we disappeared from the dream realm as well.

Waking world

Luna and I were back in Twilight's living room. I expected to hear a chorus of cheers and conversation, but instead I was met with snores. "I don't believe it. We're the only ones not sleeping on the job." My joke was cut short when Luna forced me over with her magic for a heavy make-out session.

When she pushed me back, I could see the love of the past week in her eyes. "Meet me in our bed in five minutes. I have a surprise for you~" She then sways her hips as she leaves the room.

I gulped the breath I was holding before sprucing myself in one of Twilight's many bathrooms. When it had past five minutes, I teleported outside our room at home. When I opened the door, I was stunned by what I saw. "Odin's beard!"

Luna giggled at my reaction and beckoned me over. After taking off all but my underwear off, I crawled into bed and loomed over her. "Tia told us how much you enjoyed her anthro for, and it had me wonder how you would react to my form~."

"I can tell you right now. Anthro or not, you will always be beautiful to me~." She blushed up at me before we kissed. She started to giggle as I fondled her new jugs. "Though I will admit I like these a lot~."

"Mmm, play with them to your heart's content~. We have a weeks worth of catching up to do~." She unhooks her bra and licks her lips. "Ravage me, my king~!"

Hearing those words in over a week, I grabbed her left breast and started suckling at it like a newborn. "Mmm, new look, same great taste~."

"You are such an idiot." She then started to giggle as I removed her panties. "But I suppose you are my idiot~."

"I think I can live with that~." I lower myself and leave kisses along her stomach and reach her flower. From there, I teased her clit with the tip of my tongue before going deeper into her folds.

"Mmm~." Luna let out a sensual moan, that meant I was doing something right and she was loving it as her thighs gently squeezed my head and her hands held me in place as I lapped at her folds like a dog with a water bowl.

"Damn you taste good, babe~." I kissed her lower lips before removing my underwear.

Luna saw her prize dangling between my legs and dove right for it. "Ooooh~. Let me get a taste of this banana~!" She licks under my shaft and inhales my scent. "I've missed your taste and scent~."

"And I've missed you worshiping my manhood~," I told her while holding her head as she started sucking my cock.

The feeling of her throat wrapping around my cock as it hardened was amazing and each time she hummed, it sent chills up my spine but what really got me were her smoldering eyes gazing at me as she took her time savoring my meat rod until it was nice and stiff.

"Now for the finishing touch~." She purred before opening wide and taking the whole length down her throat in one gulp.

"H-holy!!" I yelped in surprise as her tongue began to taste every inch of me while she fondled my balls.

"Odin's beard~. Your oral skills have always been the best~." I told her while rubbing at her ears, the way she always likes it.

"Mmmnaah~. I think your friend here is good and ready~." She said before getting on her knees and began to slowly raise her royal rump in the air for me to admire. "I understand most men find this position arousing~."

"Most men being me?" I told her while grabbing her hips. Letting out a growl, I poked my tip against her pussy. "Been thinking about this ass for a whole week~!" And that's when I went balls deep inside her.

"Oh, you are getting a spanking." Smack "First, you give me blue balls for a week!" Smack "Had me lust for this ass and not do a thing about it!" I grab her shoulders and bring her up to me. I licked her ear before whispering. "Despite all that. I still love you with all my heart. And I'm gonna show you all night long~."

"Ooh you say the sweetest things~." Luna grinned as we kissed and she began to push against me, urging me to start bucking her brains out as my hands began punishing her ass again. "Mm yes darling, punish your naughty princess." She huffed and relaxed herself on the mattress but there was no way I was gonna let her take the easy way out as I grabbed her by the wrists and began doing her harder with renewed vigor.

"You're going to feel every inch of how much I love you, babe~." I started banging her harder, making the headboard nearly destroy the wall.

I could feel Luna's tail swish against my stomach as I continued to plow her marehood. Luna even glanced over shoulder at me, her expression clear as sunlight. She was enjoying herself and wanting more.

"Say who owns this ass, baby~." I go and smack her ass, leaving a red hand print on her ass. "Say it, baby!"

"You do~! You own my midnight blue ass~!" Luna screamed in euphoria as she moved herself forward and back with each of my thrusts

"Good. Just so we know who owns it~." Wanting to see more of my wife, I had her turn on my cock, earning a very pleasing sensation for the both of us before plopping her on the bed, allowing me the full spectrum of her beauty. "My god, I almost forgot."

"Forgot what?" She asked before I gave her another kiss.

"I almost forgot how beautiful you look when we make love~." She smiled at me before wrapping her legs around my waist and actually controlled my hips.

"I'll make sure you never forget~." She then turns me around so she was on top and started to ride me. "I want your knot deep inside me~!"

"Gladly~." I grab her hips and thrust harder than I have while making my Lycan cock emerge, knotting her to the fullest.

"Aaahhhhh such a wonderful feeling~." Luna moaned as she bounced on my cock causing her succulent breasts to bounce around.

"Babe, I'm really glad you chose this form~." I grab her breasts and thumb her nipples. "I love your regular form, but there's just something about these~." I emphasized while giving her breasts a squeeze.

"Ah...you like playing with my girls hmm~?" Luna hummed in delight.

"Love playing with them. And I know you like me playing with them~." I tweaked her nipples and stroked them a bit.

As soon as I started playing with Luna's chest pillows the mare in question let out erotic moans and her bounces became faster even her pussy walls tightened around my cock and pulsed in an attempt to milk my cock of my baby batter.

"I'm close. Want a cream filling or you want to be glazed?" I asked while rubbing her ass.

"B-both...mark me...inside a-and out~!" Luna shouted.

"I love how you want it both ways. Here comes the first shot~!" I released my jizz inside her before pushing her off on the bed before covering her with the rest of it. "Damn, you look good with my cream on you~."

In the afterglow, my instincts took over and I made Luna get on all fours before humping her again but this time I was intent on not letting up even as she screamed to the heavens and my knot swelled up once more, eager to fill her up with another load.

"I told you before, my dear. We have a weeks worth of love making to catch up on. So get ready for the second of many rounds to come~!" I told her before continuing our love making.

Sunrise

Luna and I laid in our bed, covered in sweat and cum, panting heavily, and in each others arms. "I love you, my queen~.

"And I you, my king" We shared a kiss before finally falling asleep.

For the final touch, Venom sprouted a tendril from my back and covered Luna and I with our blanket.

Celestia's POV

"I can't believe they just left us like that." I complained as Jackie walked home with me.

"I reckon they had some catching up to do. It was a stressful week for them after all." Jackie explained as we made it home, only for the stench of intense love making to hit us. "Yep, they definitely made up for lost time."

"I'll go check on them," I told her while ascending the stairs. After entering our room, I saw our husband asleep with Luna in his arms, both of them dirty and messy as all hell, but happy nonetheless.

Closing the door to let them sleep, I went back down to see Jackie cooking lunch. "They alright?" She asked me.

"They're in each others arms, basking in the afterglow, and we'll need to change the sheets when they wake up," I joked while smelling the air. "What are you cooking, dear?"

"Just some squash, poached apples, and steamed asparagus and broccoli."

"Aaaaaahhhh!!!!!"

(End)

Author's Note

First things first. I am so sorry about the long wait. New job, different hours, had to do a complete rewrite cause I hated the original chapter idea, so I went with this one.

Now, here are the clips for you all so I can get started on the next chapter.