Author's Note

No smut in this chapter, but make sure to check out a sidestory to this one over here!

Setting Expectations

“Alright, did I forget anything?” Rainbow Dash murmured, glancing over her shoulder at her saddle bags. “Sour gummy worms for Pinkie Pie. Dehydrated mangos for Fluttershy. Tortilla chips and queso for Twilight.”

Rainbow Dash paused and blinked.

“I am only just now realizing that she loves queso but hates quesadillas,” the mare muttered to herself. “That mare is surprisingly illogical sometimes.”

“Right, where was I?” Rainbow Dash continued, flipping open the other flap. “Barbeque chips for me, and finally back up beers in case we run out and a flask of Apple family reserve for if things get really crazy.”

“Now I just gotta check the mane,” Rainbow Dash whispered to herself.

Trotting over to the dark window, Rainbow Dash angled the reflection of the moon just enough to see herself in it. A bit of spit was enough to slick things back into place, only for that same hoof to mess it all up a moment later. Her signature look now complete, Rainbow Dash grinned and shot herself a pair of hoof guns.

“Lookin good,” she remarked, only to frown. “I am talking to myself a lot lately. I really need to get laid. It's been like, eight hours since I’ve busted a nut.”

She walked over to the entrance to the library, only to pause, hesitation gripping her tightly.

“Come on Rainbow Dash, what's going on here?” the pegasus muttered. “We should be thrilled but instead we’re shaking like this is our first rodeo.”

The mare paused and took a deep breath, a hoof placed over her heart.

“Right, this is different,” she began. “If things go the way I think they will tonight then, you’ll have bedded every single close friend you have on top of your oldest friend. You are nervous and that's fine, but we are Rainbow freaking Dash. We got this.”

Her pep talk concluded, the pony stood as tall as she could and puffed out her chest. With a flourish, she tossed open the door and strode confidently inside.

“The party has arrived,” Rainbow Dash announced, kicking the door shut behind her. “Hope y'all haven't started without me.”

“Rainbow!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed, leaping up from the couch. “Just the mare I wanted to see.”

“Before you ask. No, you can't have teams,” Twilight remarked without looking up.

“Y-yeah! I’m finally going to win at one of these games, so no teams!” Fluttershy added.

Rainbow Dash dropped her bag next to the table and flopped down next to Pinkie Pie.

“What are y'all playing anyway? Songbirds? What's that about,” Rainbow Dash muttered, her brow furrowing as she gazed at the pile of cards covering the table.

“It's about being the best bird,” Fluttershy replied.

“Huh, neat,” Rainbow Dash remarked. “Here's the snacks by the way. Where are the brews?”

“We were waiting on you. But now that you are here…” Pinkie Pie began, dashing off into the kitchen and returning a moment later with a pair of champagne bottles stuck into a bucket of ice. “The party can truly begin!”

A whip of her tail started a record player nearby, filling the room with an upbeat, bouncy tune.

“Ahh yeah, that's what I’m talking about,” Rainbow Dash exclaimed.

“Can we finish our game, please? I’m one turn away from winning,” Fluttershy added.

“Of course Flutters! I wouldn't dream of taking that from you. Not after Twilight beat us in Scrabble-like seven times in a row,” Pinkie Pie declared, arraying four wine glasses before filling them all with bubbling champagne.

“H-hey! I just know a lot of words, that's all,” Twilight retorted, playing a card before gesturing towards Fluttershy.

“It's fine dear but sometimes you have to let other people…” Fluttershy slapped down a pair of cards before jumping out of the couch and raising her forehooves in the air. “Win!”

“Aww heck yeah. Nice one Flutters,” Rainbow Dash exclaimed.

“T-thank you,” Fluttershy murmured, hastily sitting back down.

“I propose a toast!” Pinkie Pie began, raising her glass.

“To what, exactly?” Twilight inquired.

“Why to friends of course!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed.

“An excellent toast,” Twilight added.

“Mmhmm,” Fluttershy eagerly proclaimed.

“I can get behind that,” Rainbow Dash agreed, clattering her cup against her friend’s glasses.

“Oh you are going to get behind it alright,” Pinkie Pie whispered, flashing a wink at the other mare.

Rainbow Dash raised an eyebrow at that but bit back her remark, noting that Fluttershy and Twilight hadn't heard Pinkie over the crash of glass.

“So…” Rainbow Dash murmured. “What other games you got?”

“I can't believe I’m in jail again,” Rainbow Dash whined, throwing up her hooves. “I’ve ended up there eight times already!”

“But Rainbow Dash. You’ve only landed on the go-to-jail space seven times,” Fluttershy pointed out.

“I know,” Rainbow Dash shot back.

“Oooh, cheeky! Nice one Rainbow!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed, giggling to herself. “I almost forgot that public urination charge you got in Las Pegasus.”

“Annd you ruined my cool moment. Thank you Pinkie Pie,” Rainbow Dash murmured.

“Well, I can't believe I only have three properties,” Twilight added. “I can't seem to land on anything that isn't already owned by someone.”

“At least you have three properties,” Fluttershy murmured.

“I didn't mean it like that Fluttershy,” Twilight immediately added, tears budding at the edge of her eyes. “You can have Baltic Avenue. I don't need it!”

“N-no that's quite alright Twilight,” Fluttershy tried to reply.

“Is Twilight always like this?” Rainbow Dash whispered, leaning towards Pinkie Pie. “I didn't think she had that much to drink.”

“She's an even worse lightweight than Fluttershy,” Pinkie Pie countered. “Seriously, that mare has only had four glasses all night and I think she's about to end up three sheets to the wind.”

“Ha, neat saying. Very old-timey,” Rainbow Dash muttered.

“Bet you haven't heard that one in a coon’s age,” Pinkie Pie shot back.

Rainbow Dash chuckled. “That one sounds racist for some reason.”

“Um if it's okay with you girls do you think we could stop here?” Fluttershy asked gently, one hoof keeping a blubbering Twilight at bay.

“That's fine with me. I think it's fair to say that Pinkie Pie and her nine hotels are gonna win this one anyway,” Rainbow Dash remarked, gesturing to the sea of pink-colored plastic that covered nearly half the board.

“Daww but I wanted to live out the capitalist dream of driving you all into bankruptcy and making you beg for mercy and lower rent prices,” Pinkie Pie exclaimed, grinning wolfishly.

“Are you sure that when you said capitalist you didn't mean demon king?” Rainbow Dash countered.

“What's the difference?” Pinkie Pie replied, head cocked in confusion.

“Fair,” Rainbow Dash replied.

“Is the game over?” Twilight exclaimed. “Oh good, then I can get another drinky poo.”

“Of water, or perhaps apple juice if you got it,” Rainbow Dash interrupted, snagging the bottle before Twilight could grab it.

“That sounds like a good idea,” Fluttershy agreed.

“Daww but the champagne was finally starting to taste good,” Twilight whined.

“Here, eat more chips, sweety,” Fluttershy offered, all but jamming a cheese-loaded chip into Twilight's mouth.

The purple mare accepted the offering dutifully, chewing noisily while making small happy noises.

“We gotta do board game nights more often,” Rainbow Dash offered, kicking up her hooves and flicking the top off a beer bottle. “I never thought that a little booze would be all it took for it to go from a total snooze fest to kinda awesome.”

“A bit of the bubbly helps bring out the best,” Pinkie Pie declared, only to pause and glance at Twilight. “Well at least for most of us anyway.”

“She’ll be okay she just needs some water,” Fluttershy remarked while gently rubbing Twilight's back.

“Cool, cool. So, how long have you two been going out? Or should I say you three?” Rainbow Dash inquired, glancing about the room.

“You haven't noticed? I thought we were um, pretty blatant about it,” Fluttershy murmured nervously.

“I try not to assume,” Rainbow Dash dismissed.

“Two months, three days, and six hours,” Twilight proclaimed, only to pause. “Give or take a few hours. My internal clock ain't doing so well right now.”

“It's been wonderful,” Fluttershy added.

“Hey I’m proud of ya Flutters,” Rainbow Dash declared with a grin, hoof resting on her friend’s shoulder. “I thought for sure this was another Featherhoof situation again.”

“Featherhoof?” Twilight inquired.

“Augh not this again,” Fluttershy whined, covering her blushing face with a wing.

“Fluttershy here had a huge crush on a classmate and rather than tell her she just pined in secret for years only to find out she was straight. It was devastating,” Rainbow Dash added. “I don't know how many times I told you to just talk to the girl.”

“Like a thousand,” Fluttershy whispered.

“Daww that's so adorable,” Twilight exclaimed. “I had like a million crushes since coming to Ponyville but the only one that felt real was the one I had on you my shmoopy doo.”

“Hehe,” Fluttershy giggled while Twilight kissed and nuzzled at her neck. “Twilight, there are other ponies here.”

“Mmm I know,” Twilight muttered.

“So,” Rainbow Dash began again, turning towards Pinkie Pie. “How'd you end up tangled up with these two bottoms.”

“Just had a feeling that they needed somepony to take charge and since you were busy with the cutie mark crusaders I decided to fill that need as it were,” Pinkie Pie answered, shooting Rainbow Dash a pointed wink.

“Nice, but hold on a second Twilight. Does that mean the huge crush you had on me didn't feel real?” Rainbow Dash teased.

“I uh,” Twilight began, leaning back in her chair. “I guess it felt right but you were and are a bit on the… flighty side.”

“Twilight,” Fluttershy snapped.

“What? It's true,” Twilight defended. “She may be emotionally unavailable but I’m still attracted to Rainbow Dash because come on, who doesn't love a toned mare? That being said I am also attracted to Pinkie Pie because come on she's got flanks like…”

“I am what the kids call, caked the heck up,” Pinkie Pie proclaimed, standing up on her chair and giving her butt a shake.

“Hot damn you are,” Rainbow Dash agreed, slapping her friend’s backside and causing both of them to erupt in laughter.

Twilight coughed. “Yes, well there are a lot of amazingly attractive ponies but to want to give your heart to someone. That’s a different thing,” Twilight concluded, laying her head on Fluttershy’s shoulder.

“Oh-oh my,” Fluttershy murmured happily.

“Your assessment is fair by the way. The flighty thing and the toned-as-heck thing,” Rainbow Dash added.

“Speaking of long-standing curiosity finally getting the light of day,” Pinkie Pie began, turning to Rainbow Dash with wide, sparkling eyes. “What happened between you and Twilight during your little animal experiment?”

“Nothin,” Rainbow Dash replied with a shrug. “Or at least I don't remember anything out of the ordinary happening. Apparently, my brain shrinking and expanding a bunch of times wasn't great for my memory.”

“There was no permanent damage,” Twilight was quick to add. “And you remember… most of it.”

“What- really? I thought you told me everything that happened,” Rainbow Dash exclaimed.

“Keeping secrets from your friends isn't very nice Twilight,” Fluttershy admonished.

“It wasn't anything big or whatever. We just kinda sorta kissed a little,” Twilight whispered, shrinking into her seat with every word.

“Well, that's news to me,” Rainbow Dash exclaimed. “Was I at least good?”

“It was erm, mostly by accident,” Twilight explained, tapping her forehooves together. “We fell, and then stuff happened and we erm, didn't get up right away.”

“Daww, I wanna kiss Rainbow Dash too,” Fluttershy whined.

“Girl, all you had to do was ask,” Rainbow Dash replied with a grin. “C'mere and gimme some sugar.”

Pinkie Pie intruded between the two, holding them apart. “Wait, before we get to the sexy part I gotta ask one last thing.”

“Augh what?” Rainbow Dash whined. “You're giving me blue balls over here.”

“Wouldn't they already be blue?” Twilight prodded, much to the amusement of everyone who wasn't Rainbow Dash.

“Just get on with your question, Pinks,” Rainbow Dash groused.

“Well I was just wondering what else you turned into,” Pinkie Pie exclaimed innocently. “Was it just animals or did you guys do stuff like say a dragon or a centaur?”

“Don't look at me,” Rainbow Dash replied, raising her forehooves. “I was apparently more out of it than I thought.”

“We did try some more advanced modifications at the end,” Twilight muttered. “Though they were a bit more draining than I would have liked and I wasn't able to hold them for more than a minute or two.”

“Don't beat yourself up. I bet you’ve got those spells mastered by now. Don't you dear?” Fluttershy hummed, leaning against Twilight.

“Oh uh yeah,” Twilight exclaimed while blushing. “I can hold them basically indefinitely and even localize them to a single body part or area.”

“That's cool and all,” Pinkie Pie interrupted. “But what I really wanted to know was if, when you were a dragon… did you have two dicks?”

Rainbow Dash blinked. “I uh… don't recall. To be honest.”

All eyes turned to an increasingly nervous Twilight.

“Why are you looking at me like that?” Twilight shot back.

“You weren't curious about it at all?” Fluttershy pressed.

“Okay so maybe I was a little curious,” Twilight murmured. “But I didn't even get the chance to look into that particular detail. The spell didn't last long enough.”

“That explains why I don't remember that. Seem like that woulda been pretty darn memorable,” Rainbow Dash added.

“Well, what are you waiting for? Do the spell again so we can all see!” Pinkie Pie proclaimed.

“What?!” Twilight shouted. “Right now? B-b-but…. Fluttershy, tell them we can't do that.”

“I consent. Sounds like fun,” Rainbow Dash added.

“She did consent, Twilight,” Fluttershy pointed out. “And that does sound kinda hot.”

“But we were playing games,” Twilight remarked, gesturing to the snacks and drinks laid out on the table.

“And now we all wanna look at Rainbow Dash’s dick or dicks. Try to keep up here, Twilight,” Pinkie Pie shot back.

“Please tell me you don't also want this,” Twilight asked, turning to Fluttershy.

“I mean… I am kinda curious,” Fluttershy admitted while blushing profusely.

“I am surrounded by degenerates,” Twilight muttered, throwing up her forehooves.

“Oh come on quit talking like you ain't also curious,” Rainbow Dash retorted. “Are you really going to miss this golden opportunity to satisfy your scientific curiosity?”

“Plus that won't be the only part of you that's going to end up satisfied,” Pinkie Pie added.

Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie exchanged a hoof bump.

“Well, I…” Twilight began, only to make the mistake of glancing into Fluttershy’s hungry eyes. Immediately all resistance melted from the mare, and Twilight released a low sigh. “Okay fine.”

“Yippee! Bone zone here we cum!” Pinkie Pie proclaimed.

“I am so excited,” Fluttershy murmured.

“Hold on girls. Let's check if Twilight is really okay with this and isn't just getting pressured into it,” Rainbow Dash interrupted. “We don't want her to feel like she has to do this if she doesn't want to.”

“I…” Twilight gulped and looked down, the mare nervously tapping her forehooves together. “I do want to know and I did learn how to localize the spell but haven't had the chance to test it on anyone yet, so…”

“So let's get this science experiment going already!” Pinkie Pie shouted.

“Are we going to the lab or our bedroom?” Fluttershy asked, the mare giving her partner a knowing look.

“The uh…” Twilight cleared her throat. “The bedroom.”