When The Sun Sets

The next morning, a naked Applejack woke up happy in Sunset Shimmer's hooves, after a very nice but very lewd fantasy dream that featured them both. “You awake, Shimmer?” asked the farmer once she was sure she was awake and longer in the dream world.

“Hmhmm,” the amber equine replied lazily, “I’ve been awake for a while, but I was comfy and you're cute when you snore, and you’re really cute when you drool out the corner of your mouth.”

Yawning, Applejack turned over while still being held in her lover’s hooves so she could face her. “I just wanted to let you know I'm horny,” smirking, she pulled Sunset's head down until she was able to lick her horn, “And I think you're horny too.”

Sunset Shimmer’s snicker of laughter quickly became a low moan, and her long conical horn started to glow when it was licked. “Oooh...” she loved the feel of a hot wet tongue on her sensitive body part, “Oooh Mistress, I'm horny!”

“I do think I left you unfulfilled in the barn, as I recall,” Applejack’s smile was a mile wide, “I think it’s time for me to use my strap on. Oh, um, should I use the crop too?”

“Yes, yes and yes, in answer to each of those, Mistress!” Sunset knew what she wanted, and she wanted her lover to mount her like she was in heat and rut her like she was going to breed her. Since her horn was all tingly, she used her magic to peel back the comforter so Applejack could get up.

“I think I'm gonna start getting used to magic,” Applejack grinned as she got out of the bed and walked to the chest of drawers. While she opened the toy drawer and searched through it, she saw her pony replace the comforter out of the corner of her eye. A few seconds later though and she had what she was looking for. A few seconds more, and she had the biologically accurate equine shaped strap on fixed around her waist. “Any place I shouldn't hit? I only plan on hitting that fine ass of yours.”

“Ponies are pretty much the same as humans really,” commented Sunset as she rolled onto her side, “The fleshy parts of the ass make the best targets, as do the breasts,” she exposed said teeny crotch boobs.

Without any warning, Applejack flicked her wrist and she directed the crop so it struck her mare’s right cutie mark, right on the yin yang sun. “Targets are right handy,” she said over the hiss she got from Sunset. Turning around, she revealed her strap on. “You going to be able to take this as a pony?”

“A good question,” Sunset said as she blushed bright red at the sight of the eleven inch member bobbing from her Mistress’s waist like it belonged there. “Would you believe I've never had sex as a pony?”

At that, Applejack glanced down at the toy she wore. Suddenly it looked twice as big. “You sure about this, then?”

Sunset Shimmer was very sure. She turned on the bed and she flagged her tail, up and over to one side so that her glistening wet marehood was fully exposed, “There's nopony...nobody...I trust more, Mistress.”

“I'm sure, too, Shimmer,” Applejack smirked as she took a moment to look her pony over. “I think if you put your rear hooves on the floor and the rest of you on the bed, it should be just the right height.”

“Yes Mistress,” obediently, Sunset slid off the bed and she moved across to the foot of it, where she planted her rear hooves on the floor. That done, she laid her upper body over the bed facing towards the wooden wall.

Again, with no warning, the crop fell on Sunset's cutie mark, though this time it was her left mark that bore the welt. “Tail up high!”

“AaaAAH Y-Yes Mistress!” Sunset yelped, for the second strike was rather more forceful than the first. She quickly hiked up her red and yellow tail so that it was practically laid on her back.

While Sunset was looking the other way at the wall, Applejack made sure to slap on a liberal amount of her favourite apple flavoured lube onto the strap on and also under her pony's tail. Not that she thought she needed it, but better safe than sorry. When she spread the labia with her hand, she was pleased to see it was shiny and wet. “There’s a whole lot more of you to play with now, Shimmer.”

“Sexy, huh, Mistress?” Sunset looked over her shoulder and winked as she wiggled her ass.

In response, Applejack moved her hips forwards and she effortlessly slid the equine strap-on into the pony’s hot wet tunnel. “Very, very sexy, Shimmer,” she commented, at the same time hilting herself all the way inside.

“Ooooh...” Sunset gasped at the feeling of her vagina slowly being spread apart and filled by the cock that her lover wore. Even the medial ring slipped inside with no trouble. “S-So th-that's what it feels like...” she parted her legs wider and slumped down onto the bed.

Now she was inside, Applejack grabbed hold of Sunset's fiery red and yellow mane so she could pull herself deeper inside, and the other hand held onto the pony’s tail as she dropped the crop to the floor. All the effort she had was then put in her mounting Sunset like she was determined to put a foal in her.

While Applejack was busy plowing Sunset Shimmer so hard the bed was creaking, downstairs Twilight and Rainbow Dash walked into the kitchen. Sugar Belle and Macintosh were already up and dressed, and halfway through eating their breakfast. “Where’s AJ?” asked Twilight, looking around the large room like she expected to see her friend appear at any moment.

“I think she’s still sleeping,” responded the incredibly pregnant Sugar Belle, who paused in the insertion of a chocolate pancake long enough to answer her. She had to lean forwards to keep the hot sauce from dripping onto her voluminous yellow dress.

“Impossible!” squeaked Twilight, her eyes wide and incredulous behind her glasses, “It’s after six a.m.!”

Sugar Belle was about to reply to that when there came a scream of pleasure from the direction of the upstairs that had to be Sunset. “Would you care to join us for breakfast?” she asked, giving no sign at all that she had heard anything, “We have enough, right Mac?”

Macintosh had barely got out his trademark, ‘Eeyup’, when Rainbow Dash yelled, “Food!” the athlete pumped the air victoriously with a fist, “I'm always up for food!”

“No!” exclaimed Twilight, who moved so quickly to the stairs that her dark purple skirt rode up around her thighs, “I'm going up.”

“I think you should wait, Twilight,” Macintosh said softly, and Sugar Belle nodded her approval before getting two clean plates out from the dresser.

“C'mon Mistress,” protested Rainbow Dash, who clutched at her white tee shirt to quiet her rumbling belly, “I'm hungry, and Sugar makes the best apple fritters ever, it’d be rude not to have some, right?” One knew you never ever went hungry when you visited Sweet Apple Acres. However, Twilight, laser focused on her task, stormed out of the room and up the stairs, leaving Rainbow to sit down. “What's she going to see?”

“Nothing she hasn't seen before,” quipped Sugar Belle as she slipped several still warm fritters onto Rainbow’s empty plate.

“Eeyup,” smirked Macintosh, “What some syrup on those fritters, Dash?”

“Yes please, Mr. Mac,” hungry as she was, she was sure to remember her manners when she spoke to the dominant farmer. She licked her lips when he squirted the apple syrup liberally over the fritters, “It's worth getting punished to get some Sweet Apple syrup.”

Twilight ran up the stairs so fast she took two steps at a time and when she reached the top, she saw Applebloom in her pyjamas with her ear pressed against up against Applejack's bedroom door. Unconcerned with that, Twilight reached over her and opened the door. In a comedic fashion, the youngest apple fell face first into the room, while Twilight stepped in and paused for just a moment at the scene before her.

Reaching into her bag, she pulled out her notebook. “Please continue,” she said as she started taking notes. For her part, Applejack wasn't even aware that there was an audience watching her. Sunset was aware, but she couldn’t turn her head as her mane was still in Applejack's firm grip. And she really didn't care.

“R-Ruuuuut me!” Sunset screamed, the mare lost to the throes of her passion, “H-Harder...please!" she was given her wish. Applejack pounded into her over and over, each thrust making a lewd squelching sound as she leaked profusely onto the floor between her hind legs.

Gawking at the scene before her, Applebloom stood up and moved next to Twilight, who was similarly gaping open mouthed at the display. Recovering her senses, Twilight walked around to view her two friends from different angles and eventually, she caught Applejack's eye. Aware of her audience, she doubled her efforts.

After several hard thrusts like that, Sunset Shimmer screamed out her climax long and loud, almost like she was trying to make her mother hear it all the way across dimensions in Equestria. “That is so damn hot...” muttered Applebloom, passing her judgement.

Unable to hold back any longer, Applejack came along with her pony and she eventually began to slow down and then she just as slowly pulled out. When she had removed herself, she yanked hard on the red and yellow tail. “At least I don't have to worry about pulling this one out. Why are you in my room, Bloom?”

Wordlessly, Applebloom pointed to Twilight, who was still writing so furiously in her notepad that the pen was a blur on the page.

Still in the bliss of her orgasm, Sunset grinned back over her shoulder. “You won't learn this quality of sex ed in school, sprout. Hey Twi. Learn anything good?”

“I think I'm gonna go,” Applebloom replied, eyeing up the open door and the growing pile of dirty clothing on the bedroom floor. “I don't want to get saddled with laundry again.” A though occurred to her though on the way out, “Um, sis, can I let Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo know about Sunset?”

“I think you should ask her that question,” commented Applejack as she unfastened the strap on from around her waist so she could clean it later and put it away.

“Sorry,” Applebloom blushed so that her orange cheeks turned a dull red, “Um, Sunset, can I tell my friends, please?”

“You can't keep a secret any better than AJ can,” smirked Sunset. She was so busy snickering at her own joke that she failed to see her lover pick up the crop, but she certainly felt it when the end slapped against each of her cutie marks.

“Ohhhhh, yeaaaaah,” Sunset glanced back and she saw the tight collection of welts that decorated her stylised sun cutie marks. “I don't want them to tickle it out of you, so you can tell them. Just make sure they don’t tell anyone else.”

“Probably better to hear it from her than whatever Rarity or Dash might say,” added Twilight, who had finally looked up from her notepad, but only because her hand was cramping up.

“Thanks Sunset! You're the best!” Applebloom ran over and she hugged Sunset Shimmer's broad neck, “Eww,” she quickly pulled away, “And you're sticky, I'm gonna go get a shower, or else I'll smell like you and Mac'll kill me, again.”

As her younger sister swiftly departed the bedroom, Applejack decided her pony’s smart mouth would be the best method to clean the soiled sex toy. She held it in front of Sunset's mouth, “Why’re you all fired up to bust into my room, Twi?”

“Your girlfriend is now your marefriend!”

“I think all of us already knew she was my marefriend,” shot back Applejack while Sunset got busy licking and sucking the stallion shaped toy clean, “Just not as obvious as this.”

“I got a text from Shy, saying that Adagio didn't change,” Twilight continued her thought before another could overtake it, “My theory is they came over with a different portal. What will happen if Princess Twilight comes over, or Spike?”

After Sunset Shimmer sucked the strap on clean, she turned her full attention to Twilight. “You're right, Twilight. We know Starswirl for a fact that banished the sirens here, maybe he created his own portal to do it?”

“We also know that Starswirl created the portal we use too, in the statue. Sometime before the age of Discord, from what the other Twilight told me. Have you written to her?”

“Um...no,” Sunset looked more than a little abashed at Twilight’s question, “I was gonna, but um, I ah, I got...busy, sorry.”

“So I noted,” Twilight’s very full notepad could attest to how ‘busy’ Sunset had gotten. “What happens if we can't fix this!?”

“I think you're jumping the gun there, sugarcube,” said Applejack, who had adopted a defensive attitude towards her equine lover, “Shimmer ain't broke, and even if she is going to stay as sexy as she is now, we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it.”

“Yeah,” agreed Sunset, “I mean, it could be worse, Twilight, not only am I a unicorn, I got full use of my magic too!” she proceeded to capture the strap on in her glowing green magical aura and she floated the toy back to the dresser it had come from, “See?”

Upon witnessing that, Twilight stared with her mouth so wide open in her disbelief it almost hit the floor. “I need to make another device to track...”

“Oh no you don't,” Applejack shut Twilight down immediately, “One magically crazed demon a month is more than enough, thank you.”

Unable to resist showing off, Sunset lit her horn and, in a flash of green light and a loud crack, she teleported next to Twilight, where she blew in the girl’s ear. “Let me enjoy it, Twi, please?”

“But I want to study it!” whined Twilight, who just stopped short of stamping her foot.

“I've had food!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed as she ran into the bedroom, a multicoloured light trail in her wake. “What did I miss?” she inhaled, and the room smelled heavily of sex and sweat. Realisation dawned on the athlete. “Ooh, that's what I missed.”

“And you’ll never guess, Twilight wants to study me!”

“Well, better her than the MIB'S, Sunshim,” quipped Rainbow Dash, just as Twilight pointed at the floor by her feet. Applejack simply facepalmed, while her friend obediently knelt on the floor where Twilight had pointed.

Rainbow’s comment though was all it took to set Sunset off. The unicorn ran over to the window, her ears slicked back to her scalp. “Where are they? You don't think they're actually here, do you?” as she frantically scanned the farm, a traffic helicopter flew harmlessly overhead. Unfortunately, Rainbow chose that moment to hum the MIB theme tune, which made Sunset scream and duck down to the floor, her forelegs over her head.

With a roll of her eyes, Applejack tossed her crop to Twilight, and Twilight used her foot pressed on Rainbow's neck to push her head to the floor so that her ass is in the air, where she administered four firm whacks. Punishment done, she tossed the crop back to the farmer, so she could do the same on the quivering pony. “Get up from there, Shimmer, no one’s getting you today.”

Sunset yelped in pain from the crop, as did Rainbow, and they both rose from their respective places on the floor with sheepish looks on their faces, both echoing, “Sorry Mistress…”

“Yeah, um, I didn't mean to freak you out, Sunny,” Rainbow Dash rubbed a hand over her now rather sore behind. Her yoga pants had offered no protection at all. “I was only having fun.”

Twilight though looked down sternly at her pet. “Remember the 'safe' part of our fun? We,” she kept up her glare, “Are to keep Sunset safe at 'all' times.”

“Do you want to write in the book, Twilight?”

“No, Applejack, it would be better if Sunset did, but I have some notes for her to include.”

“You um, you don't think anyone would actually do anything to her, do you?” asked a very subdued Rainbow Dash.

Throwing her arms up in the air, Applejack exclaimed, “It's the government, Dash!”

“But we're the good guys!” protested Rainbow, while Sunset levitated the journal over to her and opened it, using her magic to hold the pen over the page.

Quickly, Twilight removed a page from her notebook, and she put it next to Sunset, who duly copied out what her friend had written. ‘Princess Twilight, another villain, this one by the name of Neighsay, tried to syphon Equestrian magic in his bid to take over the worlds education system. The seven of us, with Spike, were able to defeat him, but there was an unexpected cost. Sunset Shimmer is now an Equestrian pony in our world. DO NOT use the portal until we can figure out what has happened. She is the only one from Equestria that has been affected by this that I know of. Are there any centaurs still in this world? All the best, and study hard, Twilight.’

“You should add that you can use your unicorn magic in this world,” added Twilight, as she ran her fingers through Rainbow’s short unruly multicoloured hair. “This one brought me back from a freak out last night, but she still has a lot to learn with that mouth of hers.”

Sunset snorted a laugh at that as she wrote the addendum to the long note to Princess Twilight in the journal. “The day Dash's mouth doesn't get her into trouble...I don't know what I'd do, but it'd be impressive.”

That sass earned Sunset two hard smacks from the crop courtesy of Applejack, who was at least merciful enough to target her ass and not her already welt heavy cutie marks. “Most likely sitting next to her.”

“AAAH!” hissed Sunset, some of her magic writing becoming a scribble thanks to the crop, which she hastily rewrote. “Done, Mistress.”

Following the sending of the message, Twilight made it a whole ten seconds before she asked, “Has she replied yet?”

“Not yet.”

Fifteen seconds after Sunset’s rebuttal, Twilight couldn’t wait any longer. “Has...”

“Calm down sugarcube,” Applejack sighed, “It may take a day or two depending on what she’s doing over there.” Twilight’s eyes went wide, and the farmer affectionately kissed her marefriend. “Take it easy, give Dash some extra training, and I'll call if she writes back. Tomorrow, lets meet up with the other girls and see what our next steps should be.”

“Mistress is right, Twilight,” added Sunset, who was enjoying her current predicament, “For all we know it's night time over there, or the princess is out somewhere. She'll answer, she always does."

“Fine,” Twilight conceded with a deep huff, “I'll contact the other three...I mean, four, I need to get used to that, and is here or my place a good meet up spot?”

“Here would be easier,” replied Applejack after a moment’s consideration.

After casting a sideways glance at Sunset, Twilight agreed, “Yeah, it would. Come along Dashie, my feet are suddenly killing me.”

As Sunset watched Twilight and Rainbow Dash walk out of the bedroom and down the stairs, her smile faltered. When she watched them out the window drive away up the long dirt path that led from the farm to the city, her smile was long gone. “I'm sorry, AJ.”

“This ain't your fault, Shimmer.”

“Keeping you on the farm is though, isn't it?” asked Sunset, a little bitterly, “You were going to go with them, then you said no. Because of me.”

“It's not that,” Applejack said as she sat on the bed next to her marefriend, “I can't put you in the back of the truck, and up front wasn't very comfortable for you. I could get the horse trailer, but that would treat you like some kind of animal.”

“I recall Moonsilver didn't seem to mind the trailer,” Sunset commented with a heartfelt sigh, “I feel like going for a walk. I’m in need of some air. Want to come?”

With a nod of her head, Applejack stood up. The bedroom and the whole homestead had become uncomfortably claustrophobic all of a sudden. “I'd like that, Shimmer.”

Downstairs in the kitchen, the large rustic room full of the scents of breakfast and the buzz of conversation, Sugar Belle, Applebloom, and Macintosh were all seated. Macintosh was working on his third coffee of the morning and his wife set aside her second plate of flapjacks when she saw Applejack and Sunset walk in. “Bloom says she slept in,” Sugar Belle smiled at the youngest sibling, who had a great interest in her food, “You two going to have breakfast?”

“I guess it’s alright for the young’uns to sleep in once in a while,” Applejack replied with a shrug, not wanting to get into it this early.

“We're just going out for a walk,” put in Sunset, whose hooves clopped loudly on the wooden floors, “Will breakfast still be here when we get back?”

“I will say, Sunset,” started Sugar Belle while her husband nodded to her, “This new pony gear of yours is a lot more realistic than the usual gear you wear.”

Sunset couldn’t help but giggle at that. “It doesn't get much more realistic than this, Sugar Belle,” she performed a playful little twirl in the kitchen, “This is how I was born. All pony.”

“Eeyup,” Macintosh took the time to appreciate the view, “I can see what my sister sees in you.”

“What?”

Sugar Belle giggled at Applejack’s confusion, “The colours AJ, you see a sweet and tasty honey crisp.”

While Applejack was busy blushing so hard her whole face was bright red, even her freckles, Sunset happily cantered to the door. “She does say I'm her sweet treat,” she enjoyed a bright giggle and walked out into the morning sun.

Applejack couldn’t – and wouldn’t - say anything to Sugar Belle, but she could and did glare at her older brother before she followed her pony outside. When they were alone in the kitchen, Sugar Belle looked pointedly at Applebloom, “You won't repeat that, late sleeper.”

Outside, when she was a few feet away from the homestead, Sunset spoke up, “I fancy a walk to the north orchard, how about you?”

“I fancy you,” replied Applejack, who fell into step by the unicorn’s side, “So I'm walking along. Will you carry me if I get worn out?”

“You can ride me if you need to, I'd be happy to carry you.” Sunset walked along a bit further, covering the short distance over the grass to the dirt path that led up to the north orchard, “You know, you don't need to be around me all the time, AJ.”

Unexpectedly, Applejack stopped in her tracks and she looked down at the ground. Something was on her mind, and she knew she had to speak up, because she knew if she was hiding anything, it would tell on her face. “Okay, I'm scared.”

“You and me both, babes,” Sunset stopped, turned and nuzzled Applejack’s face until she looked up at her. “You first, what are you scared of?”

Looking up, it was all Applejack could do to keep the tears that had suddenly appeared in her eyes from leaking down her cheeks, “Everything was fine, and now this!” she gestured wildly in Sunset’s direction, “What if your mother orders you to come home?”

“I...” Sunset stopped under a tree by the edge of the dirt path and thought on that. “I honestly hadn't thought of that happening,” she smiled a thin smile, “It's been a long time since Celestia ordered me to do anything.”

“You have your own life here, I don't think she'd take that away, but now…” Applejack trailed off to silence, almost afraid to finish her sentence, “Now you're in a cage without bars. What if...”

“What if she offers me a way out back home?” Sunset finished Applejack’s thought for her, because she knew she never would get there on her own, “What if you aren't invited?”

“That's the rub, ain’t it?” said Applejack sullenly, “One of me is over there now. I don't want to lose you Shimmer. I just can't.”

“And I don't want to lose you,” Sunset used a forehoof to lift the farmer’s chin up until their eyes met in a loving gaze, “We do what we always do. Plan for the worst, hope for the best, and meet somewhere in the middle.” She leant forwards and kissed the mopey girl's lips and chuckled, “Do you know you haven't called me Sunset since yesterday?”

“Well, you are in your pony gear,” Applejack replied defensively.

“There's my owner's smile I love so much, Miss Freckles,” Sunset smiled and folded her legs so she could sit under the shade of the tree, despite being a mile away from the north orchard. “Do you remember the Memory Stone incident, back in our senior year?”

Applejack nodded, and a dark look overcame her features. Those few days hadn’t been anyone’s finest hour, but she had taken it the hardest of them all. “I remember I wasn't very forgiving, and then when the memories returned, I realized just how much I loved you, Shimmer.” She had been downright cruel in the things she had said to her girlfriend, and she remembered every word.

“When I went to Equestria, that was the first time in a very long time that I spoke with my mom.” Sunset explained softly, “Really spoke to her, I mean, not just yelled and acted like a petulant foal who couldn’t get her way. I was so scared of her, of what she'd do, of what she'd say. Turns out I needn't have worried. Everything was right in the end.”

“I scared of something else.”

“Shoot.”

“What if you go through that portal and you don't come out a pony on the other side?”

Unable to come up with a better answer, Sunset shrugged her shoulders. “I honestly don't know, AJ.” She looked up at the surrounding trees for inspiration, but none came, so she changed tack. “Can I be honest back?”

“I hope I never give you cause to not to be, Shimmer.”

“What if this can't be reversed and you end up leaving me?” asked Sunset, who once she began to voice her fears found she couldn’t stop. “Maybe not this year or next, but eventually, when you want a girlfriend who can do things like leave the farm, or go to the mall, or go to the movies!”

Quickly, Applejack moved over so she could give Sunset a much needed hug. “Don't you start doing that to yourself, you hear? It will take an outside force to separate me from you. But you need to know that if I have to give you up so you can live, then I want one of those books like you have with Twilight.”

Almost from nowhere, Sunset started to cry, and when she started, it was like an endless waterfall of emotion. “You mean an outside force like Anon-A-Miss?”

When she heard that name, Applejack visibly flinched from one of the worst memories of her life. When she had been so convinced that it had been Sunset who had spread her childhood nickname of Piggly Wiggly all over MyStable, and as a result she had broke up with her for a whole two weeks. It had only been Applebloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo confessing that had bought the sorry episode to a close. “I’ll admit that was not my best day. I don't think that would have worked today. We have shared too much to let a lie break us apart.”

“I'm sorry…” snivelled Sunset, still sobbing from her tears, “I shouldn't have bought that up, AJ, that was pretty low of me.”

“I love you Sunny,” Applejack squeezed the unicorn in a hug that showed no sign of being let go anytime soon. “Don’t be sorry for what’s happened, but look forward to what can happen.”

“I suppose...” Sunset said when she was at last able to speak, “The sixty four thousand bit question is, what if I have to go back to Equestria and they say you can stay?”

Beside her, it felt like Applejack had stopped breathing as she buried her face deep into Sunset's neck and, for a moment, she had. There were tears, and the unicorn could feel them wetting her amber coat. “I don't know Sunny,” the farmer admitted honestly, “I just don't know.”

Sighing deeply, Sunset wrapped a foreleg around Applejack and she hugged her tight. “It's a mess, alright. Mom will sort it out. No matter what, we have each other, right?” the farmer did nod her head, but she didn’t loosen her hold on the unicorn, who looked back at the tree over her shoulder. “You think that now I'm a pony, I can buck a tree like you do?”

“I don't buck trees, love I pick them.”

Sunset couldn’t help but giggle, “I do love that deadpan look on your face!”

“What on earth gave you the idea you could kick apples out of a tree?”

“You did,” Sunset explained, “Or rather, the Equestrian you and your family did. One time when I was younger, mom took me on a day trip to Ponyville. All pomp and ceremony for the glorious princess of the sun, blah blah blah, and we went to this little apple farm. I watched this huge red earth pony stallion kick the tree and a hundred apples fell into the waiting baskets.”

Applejack just smiled, happy that the mood had been lifted, “Well I guess those trees are different from these. I heard they have a citrus tree shaker that will knock out oranges and such. Those fruit just bounce. Apples bruise when you drop them any distance.”

“Not magic apples! I remember that day though,” a wistful, nostalgic look came over Sunset Shimmer, “One of the last good days that mom and I had. I mean, I hated the farm, getting my hooves all muddy, and mom kept telling me to make friends with the farmers, that was annoying, but damn if the food wasn't the best I'd ever had.”

Quietly, Applejack nodded. “So, how are your muddy hooves doing while dealing with a farmer?”

“Oh, I've learnt to tolerate getting my hooves muddy,” Sunset casually lifted up and inspected one such muddy forehoof, then she cracked a small smile, “It turns out the filly-me was a bitch, who knew?”

Leaning in, Applejack kissed Sunset directly on her lips, “I’m very happy to know mare you.”

“Nearly didn't though, huh?” asked Sunset in a rhetorical manner, “I was as horrible to you in this world as I was to the other Apples back in Equestria.”

“I won’t lie, I did think of you as a female dog back in our Freshman year, and not in a nice way.” Applejack smirked and kissed her mare a second time, “Took a pony from your world to help you see the light, and maybe being rainboomed into the ground too.” She chuckled and gave Sunset another kiss, “I can say now, I do like what you've become.” Affectionately, she ran her hand through Sunset's mane.

“Should have been me...it was supposed to have been me…” she scrubbed a forehoof into the dirt and she sighed a deep sigh that came from her very soul. “Stupid Twilight. She just showed me how wrong I was. I was never going to be a princess. AJ, what if this is the universe punishing me for everything I did?”

Applejack, who was more than aware of all the things – good and bad – that Sunset Shimmer had done, simply shook her head. “You don't need no fancy wings to be my princess.”

“You sweet talker,” Sunset grinned and leant in and just as she nuzzled her girlfriend’s cheek, her belly rumbled noisily.

Smirking, Applejack stood stands up and she plucked a fresh red apple from one of the lower branches of the tree they had been sat under. “Here you go, Shimmer.”

“Thanks Mistress,” she delicately took the offered fruit from the farmer’s hand with her mouth.

“I’m ready to go back, how about you?” Applejack waited for her mare to stand up, “Have to see if we have a way of doing any of that Equestrian cooking you taught me.”

“I'm ready,” after she had consumed the apple, Sunset stretched her legs, “You want a ride?”

“When we get closer,” agreed Applejack, who wore a rueful smile, “I want you on even ground. I did pick you up, so I'd rather be careful, and I don't want to squeal like a little girl on her first horsy ride, thank you very much.”

Sunset laughed heartily as they made their way back to the homestead. “Not my fault you have ridiculous super strength that can move a small mountain.”

“Hmm, I do believe I did climb Mount Shimmer earlier today,” laughed Applejack as she quickly scampered off out of hoof range. Grinning, Sunset was quick to give 'chase', although it was a playful chase through the many trees.

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Over the other side of town, in a villa surrounded on three sides by large trees, Principal Luna was reclining in her favourite comfy chair wearing nothing but her fluffy bathrobe enjoying her Cheerilee shaped foot stool. Occasionally, in time with drinking her latest coffee, she did move one of her feet so she could either wipe it over her pet’s face or play with her crotch and still get the foot wet. Her magical journal lay unopened in her lap. “Should I bother Tia with this mess, I wonder?”

“Do you want my honest opinion?” asked a very naked Cheerilee on her hands and knees as she took advantage of the opportunity to lick at Luna's passing foot.

“I do, Leelee, always.” Luna sighed contentedly, leaving her foot where it was so that her pet could worship her toes, “I really don't want to burden her, but something tells me this may be an Equestrian problem in our own land.”

“Honestly?” Cheerilee spoke up after she had spent a good few minutes kissing and licking between her Mistress’s toes, “I'm wondering why you didn't write her last night.” she giggled and prepared to be sassy, and get the consequences of her behaviour, “Maybe if you stare at the book hard enough, it'll write itself.”

“Thank you for your honesty, Leelee,” Luna grinned as she fetched her cheeky pet a short sharp slap across her face with her foot, “I may reward you with a proper punishment later.” A smirk crossed her face and she at last opened her journal.

‘Hello Tia. Yet another crazy magic attack, this time to take over the Education system. Yet another rainboom to put the villain in his place. The ‘girls’ did that magic thing where they float and grow ears and long hair, except for Sunset.

Sunset turned into a unicorn, just like the ones you’re friends with. And she has stayed that way. She is staying over at Applejack’s place, and they are trying to figure out what to do.

I don’t know what to do, so I’m letting you know. Maybe someone somepony over there knows what to do. For now I don’t think it would be wise for you to come here through that portal. I have no idea if it was damaged, but I don’t want to risk you.

Love, Lulu and Leelee.’