When The Sun Sets

It was nothing out of the ordinary, certainly nothing special. Sunset didn't even really know the guy's name. Twilight had said it was Neighsay, which was amusing in itself. All Sunset was concerned with was the School Board President had tapped into the Equestrian Magic of the portal and had cornered Luna and most of the school body in CHS.

So, it was time to go to work.

Again.

Equestrian Magic going screwy.

Again.

Must be a Tuesday. She knew she would miss this when the girls finally graduated high school and they went their own separate ways. Like they had done before when they had faced down the Sirens, or Midnight Sparkle, or Gloriosa Daisy, or Wallflower Blush, the seven friends had transformed, each channelling their own magical power along with their element of harmony to defeat the demon that Neighsay had become.

It was all very same old, same old. Sunset Shimmer paid it no mind. She felt the magical change in her body like she always had before, though this time it felt stronger, more potent. It felt like the Equestrian magic was running through the core of her being. She only just heard Twilight deliver the speech about friendship and magic and yadda yadda.

Sunset Shimmer had heard it before. She felt the familiar magic surge in her body like it always had. Nothing felt different in the slightest. Pinkie Pie again interrupted Twilight at the crescendo of the ‘Friendship Speech’, screaming for them to light him up, ladies!

Just like always, after they had ponied-up, there came the outpouring of Friendship magic, or, according to Rainbow Dash, the rainbow lasers, which was the athlete’s favourite bit.

Just like always, the battle was short and swift. The rainbow magic had enveloped Neighsay and like every other time, the friends had won and saved the day.

Just like always.

This time though, something was different. When Sunset landed back on her feet, having levitated into the air along with the others, she had overbalanced and fell forwards. In the split second she had to react, in which she saw the firm hard schoolgrounds rushing up towards her face, Sunset Shimmer thrust out her hands to protect her face from the impact.

Only they weren't her hands.

Amber coloured hooves hit the ground, and all of a sudden, she was looking at everything from a different angle. A much lower angle than she was accustomed to. Another split second passed and Sunset instinctively knew what had happened. As she watched Twilight, Rainbow and Rarity run over to restrain the fallen Governor of the School Board, she waved a hand – hoof – in front of her face. 'Oh no! Oh no oh no!' she thought frantically, her fears confirmed when she looked over her shoulder and saw a red and yellow tail.

This was really happening! Her worst fear had come true!

"Girls...” Sunset was struck by how strange her voice sounded. It was her, but at the same time it wasn’t. Did her voice always sound like that when she was a pony? She hadn’t noticed it before. “Girls, I think we have another problem!"

While Twilight, Rainbow and Rarity were busy with restraining Neighsay and calling the authorities to collect him, it was Applejack who noticed the change in her girlfriend’s voice. “Sunny, what happened to your voice…” the farmer, still wearing her transformation clothing, couldn’t finish her sentence. Whatever she had expected to see, an Equestrian pony was not it.

Not that she hadn’t seen Sunset in her current form before, she had, a few times, but she’d always had warning beforehand.

“Oh my,” it was Fluttershy who took charge in Applejack’s stunned silence. “Girls, we need to wrap this up quickly. Pinkie, help out the others. AJ, get Sunny to your truck, now, before anyone notices her.”

The past few moments all seemed to catch up to Sunset Shimmer all at once. It was like a tidal wave assaulting her brain, threatening to wash her away. This was not helped in any way when she looked around at her discarded clothing – her every day and her transformation clothing - then at Applejack and at Fluttershy, then at the others restraining Neighsay. “Oh no! Oh no! No no no!” Sunset began to panic, doing a frenetic four hooved dance in place as she freaked out.

Spurred into action by Fluttershy taking swift charge, Applejack moved to take hold of Sunset Shimmer and she deftly lifted the struggling prancing pony in her strong arms with a grunt of effort. “You've put on some weight, girl,” the farmer huffed as she headed for her battered old red truck with Fluttershy close behind to open the door.

Since Twilight and Rainbow Dash were still busy with Neighsay, who was cursing them and CHS all the way to hell and back, Pinkie Pie performed a celebratory fist bump with Rarity, who looked over at Applejack and Fluttershy. Quickly seeing the situation with Sunset, the fashionista decided to go back to help her friends with the hopefully soon to be ex-governor.

Somehow, Applejack had managed to get Sunset into the passenger seat of her truck. “AJ!” the Equestrian exclaimed, “What's happened!? I'm a pony!” she waved her forehooves around in an utter panic, “I'm a pony! This is bad! Real bad! People in black SUV's are gonna come and get me! I'll be in a lab and be dissected as a freak!”

“Calm down Sunny,” Applejack said reassuringly as she shut the door then opened it when she realised she had trapped the red and yellow tail, “I won't let the men in black take you away,” she tried again to close the door.

“They'll come with stun guns and lasers! I've seen the movies when we have sleepovers!” Sunset was absolutely not calming down, not in the slightest, “I'll end up like that doctor in that Alita movie, just a brain and eyes in a jar!”

“AJ,” Fluttershy’s calm but firm voice again cut through the panic and the tension of the scene, “You need to take Sunny to your place. I'll get the girls over as soon as we can.”

“Put your darn nose and tail in, Sunny, I'm trying to close the door!” Applejack gently pressed against Sunset's face and her ass end to make sure she could finally close the passenger door. With that done, she whispered to Fluttershy, “What if she's right, Shy?”

“Um,” Fluttershy thought quickly, for she could hear sirens approaching in the distance and knew they had little time, then the answer came to her. “You live on a farm and you have a pony. While she is an unusual breed, from a distance nobody should tell anything’s off about her. I don't think anyone here heard her talk, so you should be okay.”

Applejack nodded her understanding and, as Fluttershy went to help the others, she went around to the driver’s side of her truck. Before she could get in, the farmer felt the magic leave her and for wont of a better term, she ‘ponied-down’. Her outfit transformed back into her denim skirt and flannel shirt, and her ears vanished, along with her longer hair. However, she was confronted with another issue. “Um, Sunny can you twist so your back hooves are on the floor? Your butt is a bit in the way for me to drive, sugar.”

“I’m sorry!” exclaimed Sunset, who had been sat sort of on her side. She needed to take a couple of attempts, but eventually she did manage to twist herself in place so that Applejack could sit in the driver’s seat and drive. The moment the truck started up, so to did her panic attack, “I don't wanna be a brain in a jar! I like my brain in my head!”

“I think your sexy brain is best in your sexy head,” Applejack practically purred once she had the truck in motion, headed along the street. She reached over to run her right hand through the fiery red and yellow tail, “Like this sexy tail and your sexy mane.”

The sudden unexpected contact stopped the Twilight Sparkle level freak out dead in its tracks before it could get too out of hand. “I...wh-what...” Sunset sat there, her eyes wide and with her girlfriend’s hand back in her tail very close to her dock, “What?”

“What?” smirked Applejack before she turned her attention back to the road ahead, “I told you that you were hot when we visited with Celestia and met her little filly in that pony world a few months back. I'm telling you, that you are hot now. I swear I'm soaking the seat driving home. Might make you clean it up…”

When she heard that, Sunset’s amber cheeks turned bright red. “But...hot? I-I mean...we were both ponies! A-And...I am, and you're not!” with the last vestiges of her freak out abated, the pony slumped in the seat. “I don't know what happened!” she exclaimed, then she sniffed like she was going to cry, but what caught her equine nostrils stopped that, too. “You really are soaking the seat; I can smell you!”

“Relax, Sunny,” Applejack snorted and parted her legs to make sure the aroma spread around the truck, “I'm sure our Twi or yours will be able to figure something out. I don't think it's bestiality when I'm looking at you. Must be that sexy brain you want to hold on to.” Playfully, she tugged hard on Sunset’s tail, “Now I have an extra hole to play with!” she giggled like a mad woman.

“At least I can talk,” huffed Sunset, who was trying very hard to keep a lid on her neuroses and her fears, “Not like those nightmares I had last year, when you had to let Thunder breed me.” she sighed deeply, “You really aren't freaked out by this at all, are you?”

“Freaked out?” replied Applejack seriously, her playful tone dropped for the moment, “No, I’m not freaked out. I've ponied up several times, I’ve been trapped in a mirror dimension, I’ve used real Equestrian magic and I’ve been to your world three times. I swear there ain’t nothing gonna freak me out ever again. I am concerned though. Why this happened and what it means for all of us.” She rested her free hand on her pony’s thigh, “Don’t you worry none, I won't let anyone take you away.”

Sunset Shimmer’s blush remained firmly in place on her amber cheeks as the scenery flashed past the truck, “I guess when you've seen she-demons, sirens, centaurs and extra dimensional magic, seeing your girlfriend turn into a pony isn't the strangest thing in the world, huh?”

“Nope.” responded Applejack in a very good imitation of her big brother, “Still, I never really had a reference for your size. Now I do, and there is a whole lot of you to love.”

Somewhat offended at that, Sunset lightly thumped her left forehoof into her girlfriend’s shoulder. “Are you saying I'm fat?”

“If I am, and I'm not, I like you as you are,” replied Applejack with a happy smirk that the panic attack seemed to have been halted, at least for the time being. “You could have been the size of Trigger, or one of those cats Shy has. You doing okay there?” she asked, taking note of the way the pony was ‘sat’. “You ain’t to cramped? I didn't think the back would have been too good an idea.”

“It's not the most comfortable ride I've ever had,” commented Sunset, who had positioned herself so that she was facing out the back window so her rear hooves were on the floor. That at least allowed her to turn her head to look at Applejack and easily move a forehoof to touch her. As soon as she had spoke, her eyes went wide and she giggled, “Don't you say it! Don't you dare! No innuendos, please!”

Laughing, Applejack admitted, “I won't say I wasn't thinking it, but I didn't have enough time to see if we are a good fit for it.”

Sunset took the time to roll her big eyes before she replied, “When we get home to the farm, I need to get in front of your full-length mirror, see for myself if everything's changed.”

A giggle left Applejack’s lips, “You be sure to double check under that tail of yours, Sunny.”

Again, Sunset spared her girlfriend a roll of her eyes, “Eyes on the road, AJ, not under my tail, if you don't mind.”

“My eyes are on the road and my hand is in your tail,” Applejack assured her with that same confident dominant tone in her voice she used when they were playing a scene. “I can move it up and under, if you want.”

Sunset Shimmer may have been many things. Dumb wasn’t one of them. She recognised what her girlfriend was doing. She was giving her the choice, allowing her to give her consent to go further. That was all it took and a moment later, her fiery tail flagged upwards and moved to the side. “Please, Mistress please...”

Since Applejack was using her right hand, she pulled it from the flagging tail and she reached between the seat and Sunset’s body. She liked what she felt. “Pert breasts, I can get used to that.” After passing her judgement on her pony’s crotch boobs, she delved a bit further. “Seems I'm not the only one leaking here.”

“Oh, by Luna's stars!” Sunset snorted through her nose and she sounded more than a teeny bit frustrated with herself, “How can I be horny at a time like this? I mean, I know we normally fuck after a victory, but, well, you know...I’m a pony!”

Smirking, Applejack felt further up until her hand rested on her crotch under the tail. “You know, I have an idea; you can be the first pony with two tails!”

Looking out the rear window of the truck as Applejack drove along, Sunset burst out laughing, “Why is this making me horny? This shouldn't be making me horny!”

“My fingers beg to differ,” grinned Applejack and, as she drove expertly along with one hand on the wheel, she moved her other hand back a bit and no matter how hard she tried, she was only able to get the tips of her fingers inside her submissive’s vagina from that position, but she found her clitoris was very accessible.

“Ooooooh daaaaaamn!” moaned the aroused pony, who, obeying her body, moved her hard exposed clit back against her Mistress’s wonderfully dextrous fingertips. “I should be analysing, making theories, testing...all I can think about is you putting my collar on me, getting that strap on and rutting me!”

Applejack didn’t stop or slow what her fingers were doing. If anything, she caressed and stroked her hard nub in ever concentrated circles, amused at the little neighing noises she was making. “Great minds think alike, Sunny.”

“Neeeigh!” Sunset whinnied, “To Tartarus with theories and tests!” giving in to her lust, she moved her head over and kissed Applejack's ear.

Her eyes on the road, Applejack was not prepared for the feel of Sunset’s equine tongue lapping up her ear and delving inside. Although she was startled, she barely managed to maintain control of the truck and keep it in a straight line. “Woah girl, you can sure give some tongue now!”

“Yes Mistress, I can.” to demonstrate just how much tongue she could give, Sunset delivered a long, wet, sloppy kiss all around Applejack’s ear and she slipped her tongue out, licking her way all around the lobe.

As a result of that, Applejack had a knuckle clenching grip on the steering wheel. In fact she was gripping it so hard her knuckles were white and she was in danger of crushing the wheel in her hand. “Simmer down there, Shimmer. I don't want to pull over here and ravish you. Kind of cramp in here as it is.”

“Fine,” Sunset pouted and removed her muzzle from her Mistress’s ear, “Although now the promise of ravishing has been made, you need to see it through.”

“I like your voice,” commented Applejack.

“You do?” that made Sunset pause in her flirty behaviour, “Isn't it the same?” as she asked the question, she did notice the difference. “Huh.”

“The way you speak is the same, but the accent is slightly different. Might be due to a bit of change in the mouth department,” Applejack giggled.

“I guess I do have a muzzle now,” Sunset used her forehooves to examine said muzzle. It was funny, all the times she had gone through the portal, she had never given her form a second thought. Then, her eyes went wide as a thought occurred to her. “Mac's at the farm! Oh stars! What's he gonna say?”

“Eeyup?” offered Applejack, aware that was rather unhelpful.

“And Sugar Belle will be there too!”

“Eeyup,” commented Applejack as simply as before, then she continued, “Don't give her any pony rides, she's way too pregnant for that. That said, it will be hard to keep Applebloom off of you.”

Sunset drooped her head onto the top of the passenger seat. “She was always watching us when you dressed me up in the pony tack in the barn, wasn't she?” with that in mind, she glanced over her shoulder at the clock in the truck, “Jeez...it's after school kicking out time! AB's gonna be home! Oh well. It'll be like ripping off a band aid.”

Applejack’s hand returned to pulling firmly on her girlfriend turned pony’s tail. “You do need to calm down Sunny. I'll pull into the barn and we’ll take it from there. Mostly, we'll just chill till the rest of the girls get here.”

“I’m sorry, AJ!” exclaimed Sunset despondently, “It’s just…I'm just...I’m trying to relax, and all I'm seeing are problems that aren't even there, like I did before the memory stone incident

Applejack shot her beloved pony a sly look as she turned off of the main road and down a side lane that would eventually lead to the farm, “This is from a girl that would ride in the back of my truck wearing nothing but a wasp, hooves and a tail.”

“And a huge butt plug tail and a bridle!” added Sunset, “Don't forget those.” A soft giggle then left her mouth, “That was different, AJ, and you know it. I was a shameless human then…”

Of course the farmer knew the circumstances were different. But, that being said, “I think you'd make a rather good shameless pony now, Sunny.”

“Wait till you get me in the barn, Mistress. How much further, anyway?”

“Ten minutes. You going to stay calm when Bloom peaks in to see what we're up to?”

“Yes, I'm over it, Mistress,” just using the honorific was enough to calm the fretting submissive pony. She knew they were getting close to the farm because the smooth tarmac had given way to a nearly smooth dirt track that the truck handled with ease. “The absence of evil black SUV's in a convoy behind us driven by evil government agents is very reassuring.”

“Why I have you sitting look out. Of course, I can't try any of my fancy driving moves if there’s no one to escape from. And we are here,” Applejack announced after they had bounced effortlessly along the dirt track for half a mile. “Wait there and I'll get the door open.”

“Never let me watch any of Rainbow Dash's action movies ever again?” groaned Sunset, who was certain they were responsible for her paranoia regarding evil government agents in black SUV’s. To be fair to Sunset, the antagonists were all the same, kicking down doors and saying things like ‘my gun is my warrant’.

Parking in front of the appropriately nicknamed ‘Fetish Barn’, Applejack quickly got out and slid the double doors open wide enough for the truck to pass. Instead of getting in, she simply pushed the two tonne vehicle inside as easily as if she was operating a wheelbarrow. “If you want some popcorn, you'll watch whatever she brings every seventh time,” giggled the farmer as she opened the passenger door so Sunset could get herself out. “Let me close the door…”

Very carefully, Sunset Shimmer backed herself out of the passenger seat, and tentatively she placed her hind hooves on the floor, stepped out and then her forehooves down. Before Applejack could drag the barn doors closed, without thinking, the unicorn used her telekinesis to close them and the truck door. “Oh...oh wow! I did that! Look at that!”

Applejack wore an expression on her face similar to the time Rarity had first used her diamond shield to send her into a pond at Camp Everfree. “That was unicorn magic, I didn't expect that. Guess you didn't either, huh?”

“Well...no!” Sunset looked like she had parted the waters of the Celestial Sea. Stunned, the amber mare ran a hoof up to her forehead to her horn, which glowed at the touch. “I can feel it! AJ I can feel it!” she had been so caught out by her transformation that she hadn’t thought about the presence of her horn or her magic.

“Um, can I feel it too?”

“Please!” Sunset submissively bowed her head to her girlfriend. It wasn’t strictly necessary, seeing as how she now stood eye level with the farmer’s breasts, but the gesture felt right. “Don't grip too hard, horns can be um…sensitive.”

The first thing Applejack did was to closely visually inspect the horn that extended a foot from her marefriend’s head. She was fascinated by it and the groove that ran down around the exterior. Satisfied, then then touched it lightly with the very tips of her fingers. Moving her hand up and down, she felt the ridges and the multitude of tiny imperfections in the surface. “That feels nice. Is it, ah, too sensitive to, um, well...how do I say this without sounding like a pervert?” she asked, aware that just asking that made her sound like a pervert.

“We call it a horngasm,” explained Sunset, who was ready for such a question. “Yes, I can have a orgasm from my horn if you stroke it harder or if you suck on it…” her eyes then rolled in her head as Applejack continued to stroke her horn and she started to drool slightly, “Mmmmm like that...”

“I was just thinking of someplace else you could rub that horn of yours, Sunny,” just so there was no doubt at all what she meant, Applejack dropped her denim skirt and panties and wore a wide grin as she hopped up onto a nearby hay bale so that her snatch was about three feet above the floor. “Have at it, I can take the length, but let me know if I pull your ears to hard.”

“You can pull my ears as much as you like, Mistress,” walking up to her girlfriend and, taking careful aim, she slid the rounded tip her horn into the hot wet vagina displayed before her. As an added effect, she cast a low level spell, making it vibrate on the way in.

“Oh my apples!” exclaimed Applejack, who grabbed a hold of Sunset's ears like they were handles so she could pull her back in when she pulled out.

Outside the barn, Fluttershy’s yellow animal shelter rescue van pulled up to the barn, where Fluttershy – who was driving – and Rarity – in the front passenger seat – were greeted to the sight of Applebloom furiously masturbating with her face pressed against the convenient hole in the barn wall, far too busy to hear them arrive. “Someone is having a par-taaay!” sang Pinkie Pie as she leapt out through the side door.

Rainbow Dash, who was wearing her regular clothing of stretchy sweat pants, tee shirt, sports jacket and sneakers, looked around as she followed Pinkie out of the van, “Where's AJ and Sunset?”

“Really darling,” commented Rarity once she had disembarked from the passenger seat and closed the door, “Even you're not that thick.”

“What?” asked Rainbow, turning sharply on Rarity.

“Maybe we should come back later?” suggested Fluttershy, who had a very good idea of what Applejack and Sunset were up to, if what Applebloom was doing was any give away, which she suspected it was.

“No,” interjected Twilight, who was the last one off the van. Like the others, she was ‘ponied-down’ and wearing her regular clothing, “I need to know what happened to Sunset.” She was even fishing in the pockets of her white lab coat for a piece of paper and a pen.

Once she had her hat in place to protect her carefully styled hair from the ravages of the sun, Rarity sauntered up to Applebloom, “Spying on your sister, I presume?” she asked in her very best shade throwing tone of voice.

“Oh yeah, I am!” Applebloom didn't even try to deny it, not that she could, with her faded stonewashed jeans down around her knees, her left hand buried in her panties and the other openly groping a small breast under her shirt, “Y'all should see this!”

Rarity pouted at the waste of perfectly good shade. Honestly, what was the point in throwing it if nobody was there to catch? Still, she had more important things at hand. “Is there another peep hole, dear, or are you going to share?”

Reluctantly, the youngest Apple sibling moved aside. “Have a look,” she huffed, because she had been so damn close, “But don't y’all hog it.”

Delicately, Rarity placed her eye to the hole and she looked at the incredibly lewd scene for just a few seconds before she moved back. “All yours, AB, dear,” she wore a deep red blush on her face as she went back to the van were the rest were waiting. “I should have thought of doing that when I was in the pony place.”

Given her peep hole back, Applebloom happily went back and resumed her scheduled masturbating. She was thoroughly enjoying watching her big sister and Sunset. It was even better than spying on her brother when he fucked his wife so hard he made Sugar Belle’s heavily swollen belly jiggle.

“Oooooh!” squealed Pinkie Pie in delight as she danced on the tips of her toes, “You mean using your horn like a big old magic dildo?” she asked, delighted when Rarity blushed ever harder. She knew she’d pay for that later, but it was totally worth it.

“No way!” exclaimed Rainbow Dash, “You can do that?” she looked at Twilight and glared like the girl had personally wronged her, “You could have done that and you didn’t? Hey AB, move over, I wanna see!”

While Rainbow thundered over and not so delicately moved Applebloom out of the way, Twilight grunted in frustration, “Girls, we're missing the point. Sunset has changed, and my calculations say she should have changed back!”

“She should?”

“Yes, Fluttershy, we're far enough away from the portal, it shouldn't be effecting her. After all,” Twilight pointed out, though she was still feeling through her pockets for her notepad and pen, “We’ve all reverted to our standard forms and clothes.”

“You mean how we've changed back to normal, you mean?” asked Rainbow, who was making angry eyes at Applebloom for shoving her out of the way so she could look through the hole, “But that don't make no sense. If the transforming were tied to the portal, how could we change up at Camp Everfree?”

“Centaur magic, I suppose?” offered Rarity, who had no better idea.

“That was old equestrian magic,” pointed out Twilight, who had given up on her search for her notepad and pen. “But then the portal is old too, maybe older even than the centaurs, but this was something Neighsay did. I thought it was just a power surge, but now I'm not sure.”

“But if it affected Sunset like that,” put in Fluttershy, “How come we just ponied up like we always do?”

“As dear AJ would say, ‘she ain't from these parts’,” answered Rarity. The look on Fluttershy’s face said she understood what her friend was getting at.

Smiling a very large smile, Pinkie Pie bounced next to Rainbow Dash and Applebloom. “Is the show still going on, ladies?”

“Uh huh! Here Pinks, take a look!”

With a deep roll of her eyes at Rainbow and at Applejack’s sister’s antics, Twilight grunted, “Well, we aren't going to solve anything stood out here by the van, are we? Are we going to go inside, or what?”

Pinkie Pie didn't bother to look through the peep hole in the side of the barn, but she did move to the sliding doors. “Pinkie?” asked Rarity, who had noted her pet’s behaviour. In response, Pinkie simply beamed out her usual huge smile. “Really, now darling?” the excited baker nodded really fast, and Rarity rolled her eyes, “Come along girls, I suppose it's show time.”

Rarity headed for the doors and Rainbow Dash was close on her heels, “Come on you two!” she cried gleefully to Twilight and Fluttershy, “This is awesome!”

Resigned to whatever was going to happen, Twilight sighed, “Very well, why not? It’s not like we haven’t all celebrated our victories together before, is it?” she looked to Fluttershy who was not so secretly extremely excited about what she was about to see.

Somehow Fluttershy possessed the strength to drag Twilight with her one handed to the doors, while Pinkie defied all physical laws by sliding both doors open at once even though they moved in opposing directions. “Surprise Unicorn Horn Dildo Party!” she screamed at the top of her voice as she produced her party cannon from nowhere and sprayed confetti everywhere.

Rarity followed her in with Fluttershy by her side and Twilight and Rainbow behind her. In the barn, Applejack absolutely did not care. She refused to let go of her pony's ears as she was so close to her orgasm and she really wanted to get off for a third time.

Likewise, Sunset didn’t care either about the audience that had burst into the barn in a shower of confetti and noise. She was focused on her task at hoof, and she channelled her magic to her horn, making it vibrate even harder than she had before, it even made a loud buzzing noise.

“Oh damn, that's so hot!” exclaimed Rainbow, who was unable to look at anything other than Sunset’s pony head placed between Applejack’s open thighs and the puddle of love juices that had formed on the floor between them.

Eventually, after a long, loud, shuddering climax which squirted out a waterfall of her ejaculate all over Sunset’s face and muzzle, Applejack at last let her go as a bliss overload transported her to lala land. Rarity politely applauded the show, and Pinkie Pie cheered. With a very wet face, Sunset turned to face her friends and bowed. “Hey girls!” she greeted them like nothing was out of the ordinary, “Did you get away alright? What happened with Neighsay?”

“He should be in a police holding cell right now,” replied Rarity, “Not too sure if Twilight’s friendship speech will take hold with this one or not.”

“Standard operating procedure,” commented Twilight, before she pointed an index finger at the pony stood in the barn. “You, on the other hand, are not standard at all. My calculations show you should have changed back two point four three miles from the portal.”

“Yeah, look, I don't get it either, Twi.” Sunset scratched the back of her head with her right forehoof, “I was going to theorise, but then AJ's fingers did all sorts of magic between my hind legs.” That said, a thought occurred to her, and she looked over to Fluttershy. “Hey Shy, how's Adagio? It's her we’ve got to thank for sending us that text warning about him going all ‘Equestrian Evil’.”

When Fluttershy nodded, she did so with a proud smile on her face. “Dagi is fine, Sunny, thank you for asking. My kitty is a very good kitty.”

Sensing that Twilight was going to again search for her notebook, Pinkie Pie reached into her hair and produced one, along with a pen. Twilight took them without asking why what just happened was able to happen. One did not question Pinkie Pie. “Did this happen before, during, or after we ponied up?” she asked, pen at the ready.

“Twi,” Applejack spoke up from her prone position on the hay bale, “Can this wait?”

“Oh,” Rainbow didn’t bother to hide her disappointment, “She isn't passed out.”

“Well, I’d say it happened while we were all transforming, getting ready to fight Neighsay,” began Sunset as she absently scratched at her head with a hoof, “I mean, I lifted off the ground with you all, like normal, magic happened, but it felt...I dunno, different, more potent, I guess.”

Twilight scribbled notes in her pad and carried on as if Applejack hadn't spoken. After all, there was never a bad time for research! “Potent, check. Did it feel like going through the mirror?”

Thinking again, Sunset replied, “I dunno, I'm not sure. It was like something 'extra'. Like...ooh, like drinking dilute juice without the water. But, why would you think I would've changed back?”

Absorbed with her notes, Twilight flipped a page in her pad. “Neighsay was drawing magic from the portal, to make localized changes. He couldn't pull much, and we stopped him before he could spread it far. I was sure it was an effect from him and where you were born. Now it seems it is an effect from Equestria.”

At last, Applejack was recovered enough from her climaxes so she was able to sit up, though she didn’t bother to get her skirt. “So, this is how Sunny’s going to be then?”

“It's...are you saying it's permanent!?” squeaked Sunset in sudden alarm, the possibility that she could be stuck like this forever a distinct and real one.

“Could be worse, SunShim,” said Rainbow dismissively, “I mean, you could be like one of AJ's mares in the stables, right? Least you're still 'you', inside.”

Sunset took the time to roll her eyes at her athletic friend. “Eloquently put, Dash. Yes, I’m still ‘me’.”

Grunting, Applejack became a little belligerent, “She is still her, no matter what she may look like. This is my Shimmer! I don’t care what anyone says, she’s my Shimmer, and that’s that.”

Twilight flinched a little from the farmer’s sudden angry outburst. She wasn’t good with confrontation like this. A hold over from her time at Crystal Prep. “I don't know if this is permeant or not, Sunset. It’s all guesswork right now.”

“Hey,” sensing her girlfriend and Mistress’s discomfort, Rainbow was immediately on her feet defensively in front of her, “Back it up AJ, I didn't mean it like that, I was just saying, y'know?”

“Well,” sighed Sunset, drawing attention back to her, “I don't feel like I'm changing back any time soon.”

Out of nowhere, Rarity clapped her hands and let out an excited squeal, “Oh, imagine the designs I can do with a live model!”

“You want to make me clothes?” asked Sunset, who was surprised it had taken Rarity this long to get there. Truly her restraint was legendary.

“Duh! It’s Rarity? Of course she’s gonna make you clothes!” Rainbow said all of that while avoiding the foul look that Applejack was shooting her way.

“I remember some of the ponies wore clothes in the other world,” stated Rarity in her defence, “It will be a whole new and exhilarating line!”

“You should let her have this, Shimmy,” commented Pinkie, who loved seeing her Rare-Bear happy and excited just as much as she enjoyed inventing the supernova chilli cupcake frosting, or her edible sunscreen.

“We are missing the point!” exclaimed Twilight, who was deeply frustrated at their natural ability to get side tracked by such pointless nonsense carrying on around her, “Our friend is a pony in this world!”

“I'm not saying I don't mind wearing clothes, Rares, but Twi's right, I can hardly go prancing up and down the high street, can I?”

“Oh, bother…” her voice subdued, Rarity pouted and scuffed at the floor with her shoe. All her excellent ideas were useless!

“I feel a parade coming on!” squealed Pinkie Pie.

In response, Rarity simply kissed her girlfriend hard on the lips. “Not now, my love, but thank you all the same.”

“Yeah,” added Rainbow Dash in an effort to be helpful, “I mean you don't want the guys in black suits after you…” the athlete then wilted under a stern glare from Applejack, the kind of glare that would burn through bank vaults. “okay, I'll be quiet now.” Twilight simply looked at Rainbow like she hadn't got the first clue about what she had just said. Rarity kissed Pinkie before she could explain it to her.

“I hate to say it, guys, but RD's right,” added Sunset somewhat reluctantly, “I'll have to stay on the farm till we work this out.

The belligerence left Applejack and it was replaced with a broad smile that Pinkie would have been proud of, “I'm okay with that, sugarcube.”

Then, there came a knock on the barn door, a knock followed by Big Macintosh’s deep rumbling voice, “You doing okay in there, sis?”

“You can come in, Mac!” hollered Sunset loudly, mindful of what Applejack had said on the way there.

A moment later and Macintosh walked into the barn along with a struggling Applebloom who he held firmly by the ear. “I’m just checking on things before I put this one to work doing the laundry.” He then paused in midstride, his eyes open wide at what greeted him. “When did we get a new horse, and why does it have Sunset's hair colour for a mane?”

“It's me, Mac,” Sunset Shimmer spoke up, ‘introducing’ herself as she was then, and she performed a full twirl on the spot, showing off her yin yang red and yellow sun cutie mark as well as her horn for him to see.

“Eeyup,” commented Macintosh after he blinked once then twice. He’d seen enough to satisfy him. “Okay, come on AB you got laundry to do, stating with what you're wearing.” He walked out with his little sister in tow and he closed the barn door on the way out.

When the girls were left alone, Sunset looked at Applejack, who wore the biggest, smuggest grin in history on her face. “Don't say it. Don’t you dare.” The farmer simply smiled wider as she made sure Sunset knew she was biting down on the words 'I told you so'.

“We need a plan!” exclaimed Twilight, who was beginning to wear her ‘mad scientist’ face thanks to all the distractions and diversions that were keeping them from getting on.

“No offense, Twilight,” said Sunset, who was very aware of the stink of sex in the barn, as well as the stink of it on her, and of the drying fluids that were matting the fur on her face and neck, “But what I need is a hot bath, some hot food and to crash on my bed.”

When her girlfriend said that, Applejack also became aware of the stink in the barn and acutely aware of her state of undress. Twilight even wrinkled her nose as she looked at her notepad. “So, tomorrow then?”

“Yeah,” agreed Sunset, who was having fond thoughts about her bed, “Tomorrow. I mean, there's no rush, right? I know it's weird, but I'm not in any danger here, it's all good, right?”

Twilight really wanted to come back with a 'for now', but she chose not to. There didn’t seem to be any point in further downing the moment. “Okay,” she conceded eventually, “We'll see you tomorrow then.”

“I can tell Adagio, right?” asked Fluttershy, who actually did raise her hand like she was calling on a teacher in class.

“I don't see why not, Shy.” A thought then occurred to Sunset as the rest of the girls all filed out of the barn back to Fluttershy’s van, “Actually, that’s a good idea. I mean, she is Equestrian, and she is over a thousand years old. Who knows? Maybe she might have an idea as to what’s happened.”

“C’mon,” Applejack said once they had waved their friends off and they couldn’t see Fluttershy’s van any longer, “Let's get you in the house and washed up. I’m sure my bed will fit the both of us.” However, when they were upstairs and looking in the bathroom a problem presented itself. “I didn't think this through. Shower is to narrow, and the tub to shallow.”

“Doesn’t matter,” Sunset grunted in a way that suggested that it did in fact matter, “I'm upstairs now, shower can wait, I want my bed.”

Applejack though was not one to be so easily defeated. “You can stand in the tub and I can wash you down.”

It was strange how infectious Sunset found Applejack’s smile. “Or we can do that too!” the pony stepped carefully into the bath tub like one treading their way through an unmarked minefield. She was sure the bath wouldn’t support her increased weight. To her surprise, it did.

After she had got the running water running and up to a nice temperature she knew Sunset liked, Applejack said softly, “Do you remember I told you how beautiful you were in Equestria? Well, missy, I gotta say, you still are. Every bit the most beautiful pony ever.

“I remember, AJ,” Sunset smiled and she flicked her tail up high once the water hit her body, making sure her back was covered, though that wasn’t necessary, her lover had her more than covered. “This takes me way back. Mom used to enjoy bathing me when I was a filly, and I loved splashing her in the royal baths before she had to sit in the Day Court.”

“I'm gonna enjoy it now,” grinned Applejack, who had taken to using an old wooden bucket to gather up the soapy water and a stiff brush to work the kinks out of Sunset's body and her legs. “It's something how much you are at the same time alike and different from our earth horses.”

In a very dead pan voice, Sunset said, “Whinny.” Then, she giggled, “I mean, this is no Canterlot palace and you aren't an earth pony servant, but I am enjoying this all the same,” the Equestrian promptly let out a low pleasured moan, “Ooooooh I forgot how good it feels to get my flanks washed like that!”

After lavishing some attention with the soap and the brush on Sunset’s cutie marks which, Applejack noted, were the same was the red and yellow sun motif she always wore, the farmer spent some extra attention on her pony’s small round breasts hanging just there between her hind legs.

“Ooooh oooOOOOH A-AJ!” moaned Sunset, who had parted her hind legs and flagged up her tail so that her lover would get better access to her slick wet vagina, which was leaking her arousal down her inner thighs quicker than it could be cleaned up.

“You really haven't changed at all, Sunny,” commented Applejack as she turned her attention to under her pony’s fiery tail. Granted the physicality of her lover’s undercarriage had changed, it was obviously equine rather than human now, but that wasn’t what she had meant.

Sunset knew she had changed outwardly, but she was also smart enough to know what Applejack had meant by what she had just said. The amber unicorn let out a sniff that might have been a tear, if anyone had been looking. “Thanks AJ, that...that really means a lot.”

Although Applejack was cleaning, and doing a good job of it, she wore a genuinely happy smile on her face as she moved on up past the neck to Sunset's face. “Now, I’ve cleaned the rest of you, but this pointy thing is something new. I've seen it before and it suits you well, Sunny.”

When Applejack used a soft cloth to delicately clean her horn, Sunset decided this was in the top five of the happiest most content she had ever been. “Oooooh yeeeeah...” she sighed happily, “You're a natural. I'm glad I don't have to teach you horn care

“Hun, I'm learning as I go,” Applejack wrapped her strong slender arms around Sunset’s neck and she placed a firm but tender loving kiss directly on the unicorn’s lips – the very first time they had kissed as human and pony, “And you are worth it.” Without thinking about it, Sunset leaned into the kiss, using her tongue and a wet foreleg for a tight hug. “You feeling better?”

“Yes Mistress,” Sunset beamed like the rising sun itself, “I'm feeling a lot better.”

Applejack giggled, not caring in the slightest that her skirt and flannel shirt was getting wetter by the second. “I’m glad to hear that, Sunny. You’re my good girl. My good pony. And I love you so damn much, you hear?” she took a step back and swiftly abandoned her damp clothing and consigned them to the laundry hamper. She then made sure the soap was all rinsed out of Sunset’s amber fur and she drained the tub. “Now to get you all dry.”

Sunset joined her dominant girlfriend in a fit of giggles, before blowing the farmer a kiss. “You know, a mare can get used to this treatment.”

Applejack shot Sunset a look as dry as the towel she was using to vigorously rub up and down her amber fur. “I treated you well in your pony gear, and well, this is the most realistic pony gear I've ever seen.”

Smirking, Sunset playfully shook her ass and she lifted her red and yellow tail. “I wear it well, don't I?”

“That you do, my love, that you do,” Applejack certainly wasn’t about to complain about the view she was getting from her pony’s rear. “I'm up for some snuggles and cuddles for tonight. See how we feel in the morning if we want to do something a bit more adventurous.”

“Cuddles are alright by me, AJ,” after she stepped out of the shallow bath tub, Sunset lifted her head and lovingly she nuzzled the farmer’s freckled cheek.

“Don't you take this wrong, Sunny, but I'm happy that I have more of you to cuddle.”

Sunset just giggled on the way from the bathroom to their bedroom, which just happened to be next to Macintosh’s and Sugar Belle’s own quarters. She moved quietly, but for the creaking of the old floorboards in the homestead so she didn’t disturb the married couple. She was well aware the heavily pregnant woman needed her rest. “AJ, I don't know if something went wrong, or if something went right. I do know I'm not alone, I know I’ll never be alone, and I’ll always have you by my side.”

“You got that right, sugarcube,” confirmed Applejack as she deftly danced around the creaky floorboards that Sunset’s hooves couldn’t quite avoid. She had learned long ago on midnight foraging trips to the fridge or those times she had crept downstairs as a girl to watch the adult movies on the cable TV which boards to skip. “You want to be the big spoon or the little spoon?”

“Let me hold you, please?”

“Okay, hun.” Applejack grinned as she held the bedroom door open, “You get in and get yourself comfortable, and then I'll ease my way into your hooves.” She let out a laugh, “We've done this before, but I'm not going to compare then and now.”

“Good save, my love,” Sunset winked at her girlfriend. Those times before, she had been human wearing her latex pony hooves on her hands and feet. This time, being much larger and a whole different shape, she slid herself under the bedsheets on her side.

When her pony was in the bed, Applejack stripped off her remaining clothing. By ‘clothing’, she was wearing just her boots and her hat, both of which were the last things she ever took off. Despite her few garments, she still made a show of stripping off. Only when she was completely naked did she ease into the bed and pressed her back up against Sunset's belly and chest. “Hold me safe.”

“Always, my sweet apple,” Sunset smiled, because this was one of the very few times that Applejack ever allowed herself to be vulnerable. And it was in her arms…or legs, in this case. The unicorn wrapped her forelegs and hind legs over and around Applejack's body. When she was holding her tight, she placed a soft kiss on her freckled shoulders and laid her head down on the pillows.