Colliding Dream Worlds

Chapters

Sleep Preservations
Sweet Dreams Are Made Of These
Don't Snoozy On This Doozy Of An Announcement, Princess
ATTENTION! This Is Your Captain Speaking... Ready For Take OFF!
Casting Calls For The Dream Team
To Zecora's Hut We Go With Magic In The Air
ZZZzzzZZzz A Studying Twilight zzZZzzzZZZ
Atrocious Companion
Hide & Seek
Trains & Sewing Machines
Numbering Amounts
Fight Like Apes
The Plan From Stan In The Tan Van
Building Blocks? Nope, LEGOS!
A Nightmare!? WE Don't Live On Elm Street

Sleep Preservations

Rainbow Dash looks at her bed. It was the most comfortable bed in the world! It was an Ultimate Bed. This bed has an extremely comfy cloud mattress that has a remote control to adjust the firmness or softness on either side. The mattress, itself, goes on top of a custom box spring that lies inside a fancy bed frame.

She has perfect sleep. She has no aches or pains. When Rainbow Dash gets up in the morning, she feels so refreshed it was as if she were brand new. She even wrote a letter to the “Select Comfort, The Sleep Number Bed ” people praising how it was 20% cooler than her old bed.

So, why? Why is Fluttershy always tossing and turning? Why is Fluttershy always waking up in the middle of the night when she should be sleeping peacefully through? This is a new bed they both tested out together. They both invested in. This should have helped change Fluttershy’s sleeping patterns.

Her old bed and Fluttershy’s old bed are still in the house. They even tried sleeping in them to see if it’s because Fluttershy missed her old one. But, Fluttershy used to do the same exact things before they even got married. This goes as far back as when they were kids… in flight school. They had bunk beds in their dormitory, but Rainbow Dash would always hold Fluttershy at night to keep her calm.

Rainbow Dash needs to finally get to the bottom of this. This is more her problem now than it was in the past. It’s not because it’s starting to ruin her well needed sleep. But, she can’t let this continue for her best friend… her lover… her wife… her soul mate.

She’s going to have to ask Princess Luna for a favour. The Princess of the Night. But, first, Rainbow Dash has to find Spike. He has the Princess’s email. Time to set up a meeting.

*******

It’s a bright and sunny spring day in the town of Ponyville. A town where the folks are really into ponies and horses. There must be a statue on every block. A horse shoe is the town’s symbol. Ponyville is a part of a big, pretty well hidden, enchanted land on earth called Equestria, located between Asia and North America. Hidden because of the occupants living there… to protect themselves from the normal human race. The people living here are all inhumanly drop dead gorgeous and extra special. There are shapeshifters who are dragons and other mystical beings. Some of them are Unicorns and some of them are Pegasi… some of them are both known as Alicorns (normally the Royals). Some of them look like regular beings but they each have their own distinguished powers. They can even live outside the boundaries of Equestria; but, mostly preferred to stay where they are… with friends. Because “Friendship is Magic”, after all!

The birds have been annoyingly chirping for the last hour or so. The curtains of Spike’s bedroom did not shield his eyes from the protruding Sun’s rays. He groans because he knows he has to roll out of bed. He didn’t want to fight his tummy which was growling louder than he was grumbling. Spike got up and picks up his alarm clock he wacked onto the floor earlier to look at the time. Why did he need one of those if the birds won’t shut up? It’s also a wonder because Twilight didn't come in here to drag him out of bed yet. Oh yeah… she’s out right now having breakfast with Pinkie Pie, Apple Jack and Rarity. Spike said he didn’t want to be woken. It was his first day of SPRING BREAK! He partied really hard with his younger friends. Also, he didn’t want to sit there, bored, listening to wedding planning.

Think, Spike… you have the whole day to yourself to do WHATEVER you want to do! He talks to himself internally. Ah HAH! YES! I have a check list of new things I’ve been meaning to do… I should look at that and do some of them. Spike opens his drawer and pulls his list out to read on the way to the kitchen to make himself a huge brunch.

As soon as Spike reached the last step of the stairs, the door bell rang. He runs his fingers through his spiky green hair to look somewhat presentable and opens the door. A rainbow blur went passed him.

"Uh, hey Dash! Twilight and everyone are at Pinkie’s shop. Aren’t you supposed to be at work or something? You know… at the news station? Reporting the weather?” said a shocked Spike.

“Ummm, I am not here for Twilight. I need to ask you for Princess Luna’s email.” Dash shakes her head and stretches her cyan wings. “Besides, do you know what time it is? The morning news is over, Buddy. I’m on weather damage control duty. I had to get rid of some clouds considering it’s supposed to be clear skies today.”

Spike looked embarrassed for a hot second. “AH HAHA No wonder you look tired.” He teases Dash. “Oops, yeah. That’s right. Totally watched the news. Lost track of what time it was! What do you need Princess Luna’s email for?”

“I look craptastic because I haven’t slept in a few weeks. Fluttershy keeps having episodes and waking up screaming as if she’s in trouble. I just need to make an appointment with the Princess.” Complains Rainbow Dash.

“Can’t you just wait a couple days? Thursday Night Dinner is in like 3 days!” Spike says.

“Does it look like I can wait!? YOU just decided to diss my looks, Dude!” fights Rainbow Dash.

“I was going to give it to you regardless… I just wanted to know how urgent it was… SHEESH!” Spike defends himself. “Follow me, you can use the office computer to email her. Don’t you have her number? Can’t you text her?”

“Uhhh, remember?” Dash waves her phone in his face. “New phone? Numbers didn’t transfer correctly? It’s the next thing to do on my list…”

They walk into Twilight Sparkle’s study room. Spike sets up the computer with it ready to compose the letter. A ROAR shot out of Spike’s stomach.

“I’ll leave you to it… I need food in my system. I’m in the kitchen if you need me!” Spike runs out of the study.

Rainbow Dash sits down at the desk. Spike, you’re awesome. she thinks and starts to type her letter.

“Dear Princess Luna,

I am in massive need of your help and it cannot wait till Thursday when dinner is at. Is there a way to see you before hand? It’s really important and I KNOW you’re the only one capable of helping me out. I would have sent you a text but I don’t have anyone’s numbers right now… can you text me a response back? Please?

Truly,

Rainbow Dash (The AWSOME One!)”

She hits ‘SEND’ and feels a temporary stress lift slightly. Friction noise bursts through the walkie-talkie in Rainbow Dash’s pocket. “We NEED YOUR HELP DASH GET OVER HERE!” it says… “WHERE ARE YOU AT? I’M ON MY WAY” she yells back at it not knowing how great of a reception area she’s in. She runs out of the office, says bye to Spike, and to work she goes.

Sweet Dreams Are Made Of These

“Bye Celestia! Bye Luna!” Prince Blueblood says in a fake voice. “Always a pleasure!” He waits for the doors to be opened for him.

The two Princess Sisters bid their half blood nephew goodbye. They wave their hands daintily till the door of the Royal Dining Room closes. Celestia hears her sister mutter, “Thou knowest the way out!” as she pleasantly says, “Have a safe trip home!”

“LUNA! I cannot believe you said that! What if he heard you?” Princess Celestia exclaims!

“The food was filling… the company dining with us was not.” Princess Luna says as a matter of fact.

The sisters sat there in quietude for a bit letting their encounter with their nephew to subside from their systems. There was still some bread and butter left on the table and they decided to pick on it. The wine glasses were refilled and in need of finishing anyhow.

“On my Royal Agenda, there is to be a garden party here in a couple hours around 3 o’clock.” Celestia breaks the silence. “What’s on yours?”

Luna clears her throat “Sleep. My agenda lacks productivity today unlike thee. I shall check my emails and then nap.”

Upset, Celestia says, “How lucky you are, little sister… I need to excuse myself right now. I must get ready to tend to the arrival of the guests and make sure everything is running smoothly.”

“Thou shalt not leave by thyself. I will depart with thee.” Luna stands up.

Feeling a food coma, the two of them stand up rather slowly and waddle to the door vowing to each other they weren’t eating again till the next day. The sisters hugged each other at the door and went the opposite directions in the hallway.

Princess Luna was admiring the stain glass windows on the way back to her bed chamber. The castle lights were not on but the sun was shining through illuminating the walls perfectly with the colours. She was glad she had nothing productive to do today. Luna was feeling lazy and ultra bloated. Her tummy was content and her mind kept calling for her bed.

A few minutes later Luna opened her door and hopped, back first, into her bed. She rests her head on arms staring up at the ceiling. She hadn’t bothered turning on the lights so the glow in the dark stars were lit. Turning her head she sees her laptop and remembers she wanted to check her emails prior to her mid day slumbering.

The computer screen shouted bright white at her face. Luna’s eyes quickly adjusted. She opened her emails. Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam. Chain letter from Celestia. Spam. Spam. Antique Shopping Sale. Spam. Spam. Horoscope. Spam. Rainbow Dash. Spam. Another Chain letter from Celestia. Spam. Luna’s mind read. She chose Rainbow Dash. That was the most appealing.

Luna sat up to read the email. Her eyes widened while reading it in Rainbow Dash’s voice. It read with such urgency. The horn on her forehead lit up zapping her phone to her hand. She sent Dash a text saying to expect her presence in an hour’s time. She was happy and worried at the same time. Happy to be able to do something worthwhile by visiting a fellow family friend… and worried for what the matter could be!

*******

“ThankYou-ThankYou-ThankYou-ThankYou-ThankYou For coming over right away, Princess Luna! You don’t even know! Come on inside!” Rainbow Dash says excitedly.

“Thouest must calm thyself. I am here to help. What seems to be thy problem, Rainbow Dash?” she says with the biggest look of concern. Princess Luna let Dash lead them to the living room. She comforts Dash more by placing her arm around her.

“Well, I…” Rainbow Dash starts out, “…haven’t really been sleeping. I’m usually okay… but now I’m not.”

“What do you mean by not okay?”

“Fluttershy has always had nightmare problems. But, lately, they are out of whack! So, what I am trying to ask… is… well… I know you’re able to help since you are technically the Goddess of Night… Ummm… well….”

“Yes, Rainbow Dash?”

“Can I trouble you to cast some sort of sleeping spell to keep her calm at night? So she can wake up as refreshed as me and be happy? Please? Is there something you can do?” The sound of a boiling tea kettle pot starts to whistle in the kitchen. “Hold your thought, Princess… I made us some tea!”

She leaves Luna to her thoughts but returns quickly. All she was able to say was, “Rainbow Dash” getting cut off to an apology, “So sorry, Princess… Fluttershy usually is the hostess to the mostest in this household… all I am allowed to do is make tea, and I’m not really that great at that…”

“Thou hath tried. And I thank thee so kindly.” She takes the cup and takes a sip before answering Rainbow Dash’s request. “There is a solution. There is a Zebra woman thou may recall and she hath a potion Fluttershy and thou can take.”

“Me!?” Rainbow Dash’s eyes widened. “Why would I have to take the potion if Fluttershy is the one that needs a peaceful sleep?

“Thou protects her, am I right? Or am I wrong?” Princess Luna’s Royal Voice started to peak out.

“I do, always and forever.” Dash says shrinking into her Butch Chair.

“This potion I speak of let’s thou join in each other’s dreams. 5 minutes of sleep in regular time equals to one hour in the dream realm. Thou can seek out what is bothering thy wife. And thou can also play and create a world as well if thy wished.”

“And it’s perfectly safe, Princess?” Dash questions, for safety precautions.

“Thou trusts me, not!? Thee who hath looketh for help from me because of thy knowledge of me, questions? I grant thee the help!”

“I am so sorry, Princess Luna. You’re 100% right. I did ask for your help and I trust you completely.” Rainbow Dash sits back upright smiling with certainty, not shrinking into her seat anymore.

“Good. Escort me to Zecora’s hut in the forest. She will give thou instructions on what to do so thy wife and thee shall worry not.”

Promptly they got up. Rainbow Dash takes their tea back into the kitchen. She saw where Fluttershy kept the disposable ‘to go’ cups were (Dash sometime’s ran late in the morning), poured the tea in, wrote a quick note on the refrigerator’s dry erase board and started to head into the Forest with the Princess. I asked for this…! she thought.

*******

The sun has set and the moon arose to play. The weather may have become warmer during the day, but the night was still sometimes as chilly as winter. Tonight was one of those “sometimes”. Fluttershy entered a dark and quiet home which didn’t last that long as she quickly turned on all the lights. She entered the kitchen to start preparing dinner.

Before she swung the fridge open, she saw the note left for her.

“My FLUTTERS <3

I’m out with Princess Luna right now and will probably be home after you read this, give or take a minute or two! I love you!

Your Rainbow <3”

As if on cue, the door swings open. “HEY, BABE! I’M HOME!” Rainbow Dash shouts and has a grin from ear to ear. Entering the kitchen she swoops Fluttershy into the air and twirls her around kissing her. “I have the BEST news for you ever! What’s for dinner?”

“What’s up, Dashie?” says Fluttershy, blushing. “We have leftovers tonight… if that’s okay with you…”

“Yeah, that’s cool. I’ll set the table! We can talk about it while we eat!” She gently lands both of them back onto the floor and starts her little chore.

As they eat she fills Fluttershy in on what she did today with Princess Luna and the visit to Zecora’s hut in the forest. They transfer to the living room to have their dessert and cuddle watching television. It was Fluttershy’s turn to pick what movie they put in. As per usual, it was something really girly and sappy, so Dash didn’t mind talking over the film.

“…AND that brings us to now and you up to speed… what do you think, Flutters?” Dash ends her speech.

“Well, I-I am tired right now… we can move our cuddling to bed and finish this movie my next turn to pick?” Fluttershy says yawning. “I trust Princess Luna. I trust you even more so, let’s test this potion out Dashie… I love you!” She snuggles into Dash.

You really are adorable Fluttershy. I know this is going to work. I love you more than you know. Rainbow Dash thinks to herself. She places their ice cream bowls on the coffee table figuring she’ll clear them in the morning. She takes Fluttershy into her arms and flies them both upstairs to their room. “I love you, back!” she says out loud.

While Fluttershy finishes getting ready for bed, Dash pours out the contents of the bag Zecora gave her and rereads the instructions. It read, “Only one teaspoon each and that will automatically wake you up when your alarm goes off. A couple minor warnings: Whoever’s dream you’re in, don’t alter things too much because you won’t be able to control your subconscious from chasing after you. Also, try to keep in mind day to day night to night which world is the real world. Sweet Dreams!”

Dash looks up and sees Fluttershy come back and says, “Ready, Babe?” She receives a head nod. With that, she patted the other side of the bed letting Fluttershy know “Come here already, You!” Carefully pouring a teaspoon for Fluttershy and one for herself, a simple kiss on the lips and they take the potion together. They lay themselves down in a comfortable position in each other’s arms and drift to sleep within seconds.

*******

Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash find themselves downstairs in their living room on the couch looking at each other confused. Everything felt normal and neither of them felt tired. But, they just went to sleep right? Outside the window was night time. Rainbow Dash left the ice cream bowls on the coffee table though, and the table is cleared of anything that may have been on there that day.

“I think we’re in our dreams now, Fluttershy.” Dash whispers.

“Da-dashie… why are you whispering?” Fluttershy rapidly gets scared and clings onto her Rainbow.

“I don’t know… I thought I had to!”

“Wh-what do we do now?” Fluttershy holds Dash tighter.

“Anything we want! WATCH!” Dash tells her worrywart lover. She starts imagining a circle clearing and trees surrounding it as a protection and blinked her eyes. Automatically, their living room changed to the outdoors and daytime.

Fluttershy lessens her grip by a notch. Her jaw drops and she gasps in awe. “Oh, wow.”

Rainbow Dash wiggles free and shoots up into the air and calls out to Fluttershy. “COME UP HERE!!! IT’S LIKE OUR REALITY WHEN WE’RE AWAKE!” With that, she was joined.

“This really is beautiful, Dashie…” Fluttershy says smiling holding Dash’s hand in hers. She leans over to kiss her Savior.

“This we can build to be our safety zone. If either of us drift apart from each other and sense trouble, we can always picture this place and we’ll simply come back here in a blink. Let’s paint this picture Flutters! You try!”

“O-okay… how about…” Fluttershy thinks for a moment “…how about we have a body of water over there to the east.” She blinked her eyes towards what felt like east and an endless sea formed before their very eyes… waves hitting a gorgeous shore line.

“Let’s build something to relax in.” suggests Dash. She imagines four walls in the center of the clearing with no roof top. There are no doors but a mail slot on the south wall. Why? Who knows. On the west wall was a way in just by walking in as long as whoever it was, if not either of them, trying to come in was safe and not an intruder. Inside the four walls, she places a bed inside and a table with flowers in a vase. She finishes off by blinking and it suddenly appears. “Isn’t this awesome!?”

“That’s interesting, Dashie… I’m going to imagine a house on the northwest side of our clearing on top of a hill. It can be an olive green ranch style house with a white picket fence.” Fluttershy blinks as well having her creation appear. First, the hill forming upwards rising so they can see. Then a house popped up above that.

“Who’s that for?” Rainbow Dash questions.

“Silly, that’s for our friends, just in case any of them are able to dream like this as well… it’s always a good idea to have a guest room… or in this case, a guest house! I mean, if that’s okay…” Fluttershy says in a hushed voice.

“Of course it’s okay, silly!” Rainbow Dash tackles her and kisses her, hearing a little “Yay” as she does so. Dash then flies away not as fast as she could. They go on playing their version of ‘tag’ in the skies involving giggling, kissing, and hugging attacks till Fluttershy naughtily suggests they test out their made bed inside the four walls.

After what seemed like hours of fun filled bed activities, Fluttershy asks “How do you know our dream safety zone is our safety zone and not a different one that just seems like ours if we had to come back here from danger?”

“Well, Flutters… we should have something off only we will know that is off.”

“Like what, Dashie?” she looks at her inquisitively.

“Ummm, we have our clearing surrounded by trees… that’s earth. You created an endless sea… that’s water… we feel a breeze even if we’re not flying so that’s air… we should have a tree that forever burns! It won’t ever burn to the ground or anything. Just the top of the tree is burning. That will be our fire element! We’ll have it burning on the north side of these walls.”

Fluttershy kisses Dash. “You’re amazing and awesome. I am so glad I have you. I love you! How did you come up with that?”

“I love you more…” She gets up and she has them flying above where the roof should have been. Picturing a tree with the top burning she blinks and it grew upwards facing them. “I just asked myself, what would Daring Doo, do?” They both laugh at that.

An extremely loud piercing sound booms in as an alert. !!!BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP!!! Fluttershy got frightened and held on to Dash. “Is that a fire alarm!? Did we set off a fire alarm!?”

Dash kisses Fluttershy’s forehead. “No, Babe… that’s our alarm clock! It’s time for us to wake up!”

*******

!!!BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP!!! rang through Rainbow Dash’s ear. She hit the snooze button looking over at Fluttershy. A smile forms on her face because she knows Fluttershy is pretending to sleep so she can snuggle longer. She kisses Fluttershy’s cheek and whispers softly, “How do you feel, Sunshine?”

“Mmmm!” Fluttershy turns around slowly opening her eyes to look into Dash’s. She kisses her on the lips. “Amazing!”

“You slept all the way through!” Dash said beaming.

“I did! I am so greatful!” Fluttershy proclaims kissing Dash again.

Just for Fluttershy and only for Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash says the sappiest thing that came to mind. “Just know that I’m always here, right beside you, protecting you from your fears!”

“Oh, I love you so.”

“No, I love you.”

They laid there in bed and rolled out after a couple more “snooze button” hits.

Don't Snoozy On This Doozy Of An Announcement, Princess

“You were AMAZING, Dashie!” Fluttershy panted.

“I told you, I always keep my promises!” Rainbow Dash smirks. “Come on, you.” she says smacking Fluttershy’s bottom. “Time to get up and go to work! I’ll meet you in the shower?” Dash was already half way to the bathroom.

“MmmmHmmm!” was Fluttershy’s only reply as she still lies in bed smiling, catching her breath and trying to slow her heart beats down to a normal tempo. She looks at the clock on Dash’s side of the bed and scrambles out of bed. She’ll be the one late! It’s Thursday! Today was her Rainbow’s late start.

Fluttershy hopped into the shower with Rainbow Dash and couldn’t afford any funny business so she brushed her teeth, shampooed and conditioned her hair, and hopped out giving Dash a quick kiss. She rambles to Dash as she puts her clothes on, “We’re having dinner at Apple Jack’s tonight so we don’t have to worry about cleaning this Fortress… and I don’t have to cook, Rarity is cooking… I’ll be at the Forest Preserve’s Wildlife Care Center till 1… and then at the Animal Hospital till 5:30 today… I’ll meet you back here at 6… and we’ll go together… I got to go… I love you… have a great day!” Out the door Fluttershy goes.

Rainbow Dash just stood there. Water running down her athletic competently toned muscle body. “I love you!” she calls out knowing Fluttershy has left the building, so to speak. She finishes her shower ten minutes later and gets dressed in a jiffy. She didn’t really have to be anywhere till 3. ‘I can go for a little bit of exercise! And I’m sure Scoots would love some extra flying practice!’ she thinks for a second and out the door she went as well.

*******

Rainbow Dash finished her run in front of Pinkie Pie’s bakery/café. She put on an award winning smile on her face to greet Pinkie. Scootaloo is here with her friends as well. Perfect. Dash is sure Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom wouldn’t mind Scoots gone for a couple hours. Everyone is meeting up for dinner anyway!

“DASH! My ears are tingling, eyes a fluttering, and knees twitching hard! So that means… WATCH OUT!” Pinkie Pie forewarns her friend… too late. She runs over to Dash. “OMG! OMG! Are you okay, Dash!?”

A groaning sound sputters out of Dash as she gets up from the door being swung open making her crash a couple feet away between tables. “At least I landed in style!” she was able to respond. “What’s up with you?”

“Ohhh, Dash… I have been having a lot of Pinkie Sense Combos since yesterday! A real big…” Pinkie starts to shake forgetting where she left off. “…it's a doozy. Something you never expect to happen is gonna happen! Hu-bu-bu-bu-bu hu-bu-bu-bu! And it’s gonna happen... at din-n-n-n-n-n-n-in-in-inner t-t-t-t-tonight!”

“Oh my goodness! OH NO!” Dash starts to worry. “Are you sure it wasn’t just me crashing into your shop!?”

“NO! I told you what the combo was when you were standing by the door, silly willy nilly!”

“I was going to fit in an extra flying practice with Scootaloo after a cupcake or something but I’ll be out of commission for a bit, heh, so I won’t even mention it to the kid and wait till practice tomorrow while Fluttershy and Rarity are at the spa.” explains Dash without really needing to justify herself.

“Nope, nope, NOPE!” Pinkie bounced around which turned into that shaking spasm again. “I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I’ll gr-gr-gr-grab-ab-ab you a cup-up-upcake in a sec-ec-econd!”

“No rush, Pinks!” Rainbow Dash sits down and props her legs on the chair across her. An idea sprouted in her mind. “HEY!” she yelled through the bakery’s swinging door that leads to the back. “I can’t fly on these wings right now… BUT I SURE CAN PULL SOME PRANKS IF YOU WANT TO BEFORE DINNER BUT I HAVE TO…” Dash lowers her voice because Pinkie walked back out “…be home by 6-ish so I can go to A.J.’s with Fluttershy.”

“DEAL! I haven’t gone to the PRANKS store in ages!” exclaims Pinkie Pie.

“Dude, we were just there not even a week ago!” Dash starts to laugh and soon was joined with Pinkie’s laughter.

*******

Home. Just in time to meet up with Fluttershy with 10 seconds left to spare. Yep, there Fluttershy is pulling into the driveway.”Hey, Babe!” she says running to greet her wife with a ‘quickie cuddle’. She was happily showered with kisses.

“Do you want to drive or should I?” Fluttershy asks. “I want to leave right away just in case Rarity needs some help in the kitchen… if that’s okay with you…”

“I thought we could fly there…” Rainbow Dash starts to say and continues on before being interrupted. “I figured with today’s evening weather, the first warm-ish night of spring… it’d be romantic to lay on a cloud before and ummm…” she starts to fake cough “…you know… before coming back here to sleep…” Dash finishes her spiel in almost the volume Fluttershy usually speaks on.

“Mmmmm, Dashie… Ohhh, youuuuu!!!!” Fluttershy says in a sexy voice, her hot breath trailing into Dash’s ear as she licks it and nibbles. She pulls away and holds her Rainbow’s hand and they start to fly to Sweet Apple Acres.

Loud noises could be heard a mile away from Apple Jack’s most humbled abode. Granny Smith was sitting at the kitchen table babbling on about how back in the day this is how it’s done. Big Mac kept getting yelled at for trying to taste test all the food before it was ready to be platted and brought to the barn in the back where most of the parties are held. Pinkie and Twilight were fighting about the “Pinkie Senses” again. The television was on extra high because Spike, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo couldn’t hear what they were watching due to all the racket in the background. But it sure did smell good!

The pegasi couple landed on the front step of the house still hand holding. They didn’t have speak out loud when they both thought, “Thank goodness this isn’t at our place this week!” It usually was though since the Princesses renovated and linked both their cloud mansion and cottage together as a wedding present making it known as the “RainbowShy Fortress”. Speaking of Princesses, Princess Celestia, Luna, AND Cadence along with Twilight Sparkle’s older brother Shining Armor landed behind them on the Royal Carriage. They all greeted each other and entered together. Rarity freaks out because her meals are not quite ready.

Rarity shoos everyone out to the back barn to sit down already, except Fluttershy who asks if there was anything she needed and she gratefully accepted the help. All they needed to do was plate the food. Rarity was in wedding planning mode and took it up a notch. So instead of bringing the dishes whole on serving platters, it was being brought out restaurant style. Everyone’s plate was to be the same and if they wanted more, they’d have to go back into the main house to get it. Pinkie Pie would have helped and stayed too, but she was still being a human vibrator. Rarity couldn’t afford to serve jumbled food to her guests.

Everyone “Ooooed” and “Ahhhed” at the plates floating towards them. Rarity and Fluttershy took their places at the table. The “Thanks for the Food” prayer was led by Shining Armor. Everyone dug in. It was a silent table because everyone was too busy enjoying their meals to talk until Granny Smith says audibly, “It does taste delicious, but ya coulda donnit in less the time, younin!” Everyone laughed. Even Rarity, though hers were giggles through reddened cheeks.

Princess Celestia spoke up after seeing Pinkie Pie jitter violently in her seat. “Attention, EVERYONE.” Everyone stopped laughing and gave the Princess their undivided attention. “There are very important matters to be discussed. My pesky nephew Prince Blueblood…” Celestia stops for a second as everyone looks over to Rarity rolling her eyes, for she once pursued idiot boy before admitting her feelings for Apple Jack “…has informed me on what I am about to say. I apologize because I really was looking forward to having this dinner as a regular fun filled time as it usually is every week… But something has come up that needs to be addressed and contained.” Twilight raises an eyebrow and looks at Pinkie.

“King Sombra…” Princess Celestia started to say and hears Rainbow Dash gasp after the name “…is planning on sabotaging Queen Chrysalis’s Changeling Kingdom and kidnapping all her changeling subjects to use them for his own requests. Mostly likely, he will attack the Crystal Empire. He will take over that whole palace first and then force his way out of the Equestrian Boundaries and into the rest of the world who cannot protect themselves from Evil Madness Magic, let alone regular magic.” She stops her announcement when she realizes Rainbow Dash was still gasping trying to inhale air and Fluttershy was shaking worse than Pinkie Pie.

Princess Luna stands up and orders, “CATCH THEM! THEY ARE ABOUT TO FALL!”

ATTENTION! This Is Your Captain Speaking... Ready For Take OFF!

Dinner ended right then and there. On Princess Luna’s command, everyone started to scramble on their feet. Even Granny Smith was trying to move it! She was assisted up by Spike. Apple Jack gave Rarity a quick peck on the cheek which silently says to ‘grab the food Ah’ll open the house’ as she raced ahead to clear the living room in the main house. Both Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy have passed out and fainted.

Twilight Sparkle had to get everyone coordinated because Dash and Fluttershy were surrounded and they were the ones that needed to move. She looked at the exit and saw that Spike, Granny Smith and her walker were only half way to the door. She needed the older brothers as muscle to get the two unconscious pegasi out. “Hey kiddos, why don’t you help Rarity transfer everything over to the house? The girls need room to breathe and transported themselves!” Twilight says and was obeyed immediately.

Big Mac carried Rainbow Dash over his shoulder with Shining Armor trailing behind him, doing the same with Fluttershy heading to where Apple Jack wanted to rest their friends. Rainbow Dash started to wake up midway.

“Huh? HEY! Put me DOWN!” Dash shrieked receiving “EENope” as her answer from Big Mac as he readjusted her on his shoulder. “What’s going on!” she says as a demand not question. As her head bobbed up and down, she saw her life partner being carried as well, limp. “FLUTTERSHY!” Dash called to her love that wasn’t waking up.

“Ya’ll come on! This way!” Apple Jack directs them looking at her brother. “Uhhh, Big Mac, R.D. is awake… ya can put her down.”

“What’s up A.J.? Why was your brother carrying me?” Dash whispered as she was gently placed down to the ground.

“You and Shy went bizerk when Princess Celestia was tryin ta explain whateva’s goin on with King Sombra. THEN, ya’ll just passed out.” Apple Jack tells Dash as they walk into the house.

The living room was brightly lit. The furniture moved and jumbled over to the sides of the walls. Princess Cadence was sitting next to Fluttershy who was lying down with her head propped up. “She’ll awaken soon. She’ll be alright.” Princess Cadence says to Dash. “I’m trying to project love and sweetness into her mind, but, something is blocking it. Princess Celestia and Luna want to talk to you in the study in the next room before we address everyone else with the situation.”

“A-alrighty…” Dash says almost sounding like Fluttershy. She sees Scootaloo juggling several plates in her arms and gets her voice back “Hey, Squirt! Hurry up and put those in the kitchen! I need you to keep an eye on Flutters so Princess Cadence can come with me to talk to the other Princesses!” Dash waits a second for Scootaloo and heads to the study with Cadence.

As Rainbow Dash entered the study she sees Princess Celestia with a concerned looking face and Princess Luna with an eyebrow raised. “I can explain…” she starts off. Dash got a lot of “Oh my” and “That’s not good” and “We have to do something about this” shot at her throughout her story of why she fainted which included getting the sleep potion with Luna and Fluttershy’s dream that they visited involving King Sombra’s eyes that she KNEW she knew from somewhere before and the way the Crystal People looked dulled out and bleak and how dead looking the Changelings were as they were ordered to torture the Crystal People.

“The already disturbed are being tortured and have to torture a once glistening race.” Princess Cadence said shaking her head and scared.

One exact hour went by. A scream rang throughout the house. Dash was out of the study faster than lightning. She accidently shoved Scootaloo at the doorway who was trying to relay the message that Fluttershy was awake. It was so quick but “Sorry, kid” was made out by the Princesses and Scootaloo following Dash.

*******

Fluttershy has calmed down, though still shaken and in the arms of her Rainbow sitting on the couch. She had her reoccurring nightmare again. Most of the furniture was moved to where it belonged so that everyone could squeeze and have a place to sit as they held a meeting about King Sombra. Finger foods were passed around just in case people had an appetite again and wanted to nibble on something. Princess Celestia clears her throat and tries again to say her announcement.

“Everyone, let us try this again, shall we!?” Princess Celestia got the whole room’s attention like last time. And like last time, everyone stared at Rarity when Prince Blueblood’s name was mentioned. “Prince Blueblood had acquired the task of befriending King Sombra after you 6 and Spike helped Princess Cadence and Shining Armor rescue the Crystal Empire from him to make sure he doesn’t disturb the peace again. The peace has been fractured but not completely broken. After talking to Rainbow Dash about the reason why she and Fluttershy passed out, there is a way to stop Sombra from conquering and imprisoning Queen Chrysalis’s Kingdom and Changeling Subjects, then embarking on the Crystal Empire with the rest of the world being next. Before I tell you my idea, I had Twilight research and dig up why King Sombra is acting out this way. Twilight? Care to share what you have gathered?”

“Yes, Princess.” Twilight stands up. “I Googled a bit while everyone was situating themselves.” She begins her report receiving a few eye rolls but nothing more. “King Sombra, I believe, is just lashing out in the worst possible way. He feels a lot of spite and resent towards an old people’s home located in Draconia. His grandmother, who was his only remaining relative, just passed away due to natural causes, but was under the watch and care of a doctor from the Crystal Empire and a nurse that’s a Changeling.”

“Thank you, Twilight.” Princess Celestia says. “So, King Sombra is in mourning. He is throwing a massive tantrum that will cause damage to innocent lives and cities everywhere. My idea is INCEPTION. That is a dream inside a dream that’s in a dream. We need to plant an idea in his head that will make him change his mind completely and accept the death of his grandmother. You cannot just go into someone’s dream and say not to do it. It will result in just being a dream. However, if you get to the core of his brain, it will stick and most likely change his lifestyle for the ‘good’ in general.”

“How do ya get in that there dream of his, Princess?” Apple Jack asks a valid question.

After explaining Fluttershy’s dreams and the visit to Zecora’s hut to seek the potion, everyone understood. The dreams that are violent to her system throughout her life have actually been premonitions. It made sense. Every time they dealt with something or someone major, like, Nightmare Moon or Discord back in the day before being forced to use his magic for “good” not for “chaos” by Fluttershy herself, or etc. Fluttershy would have night terrors and they’d be called to the Palace and get served a mission impossible.

Everyone envisioned “Madame Pinkie Pie” and the crystal ball. Twilight Sparkle simply commented, “It’s her version of Pinkie Sense.”

“OOOO! OOOO! OOOO!” Pinkie Pie jumps up and down waving her arm “Do I get to wear my spy suit and use my night vision goggles!?!?” getting everyone laughing granted the situation. She got two negatives. One from the Princesses saying there was no need. And the other one from Rarity, saying that she’ll design a new spy suit because what Pinkie had was out dated. All she said back to them was, “Okie Dokie Lokie!”

“H-how do we ma-manage to get near him enough to get him to dri-drink the potion, Princess?” Fluttershy asks hiding underneath Dash making them look like one bigger bodied person.

Twilight Sparkle answers instead. “He is taking a really long train ride from Draconia to bring his grandmother’s ashes to the family monument. In which, he is probably going to be a private car. I’m presuming that you’ll take care of that, right Princess?” Getting a head nod she continues, “We can get the car attendant to serve drinks. Oh, and the train is scheduled to depart in a week and a day.”

“Now listen here, all ya’all. We may know how ta go bout this now, but Ah still wanna know how ta be in a dream or work a dream… irrrr. Ah am still confused.” Apple Jack says frowning. “And who all here is doin what.”

“I had a talk with Rainbow Dash. She and Twilight will lead a group that they have to form specifically for the mission. They have to confirm with the other 4 of you, of course, about the team. First, Rainbow Dash has to teach Twilight how to dream hop so Twilight can help teach the rest of you. After that, all of you will learn together how to get into the other levels of dreams.” Princess Celestia explains the best she could. “Princess Luna will assist with further guidance if needed and will watch out and help promptly if you all start to struggle.”

Zoning out of the room's conversation, Rainbow Dash whispers in Fluttershy’s ears, “Pssssst! Babe, I remember which cloud to stop at on the way home!” She winks and gets Fluttershy to giggle. “Aaaaaaand, we can pretend to be Commander Hurricane and Private Pansy… you know, like the characters we play during the holiday shows?” Dash got more giggles as responses and kisses in addition. “I love you, my Flutters!”

“Let’s go ‘home’, Dashie!” Fluttershy says in a playful, yet seductive voice. “I need a little relief from the events this dinner stressed on us…” she purrred with a smile on her face. “I love you, my Rainbow!”

Casting Calls For The Dream Team

“You understand right, Fluttershy?”

“Yes, Princess Celestia, I do.” Fluttershy says with a newfound determination.

“I know you’ll make us proud. All of you will. Say hello to the girls for us!”

“You can count on me and you can count on them.” Fluttershy turns away, exiting the castle through the window, ‘Dashie Style’, to head home. She had to stop at the grocery store, first, if she was to cook brunch! The meeting was to start in a couple hours.

*******

Fluttershy gets home a minute before everyone bombarded into the RainbowShy Fortress. On a regular day when everyone gets together, it’s usually a lot more casual and can be from on time to fashionably late. Not when it comes to saving the world. Everyone got there early to on time. She struggles with all the bags getting into the kitchen. Suddenly, there is a glow orbiting her groceries lifting them. Rarity follows behind Fluttershy.

“Th-thank you, Rarity!” Fluttershy exclaims. “I thought I could handle it.”

“Not a problem, dear.” Rarity says as she sits at the kitchen counter. “Anything else you need help with?”

“Mmmm…maybe there might be something.” Fluttershy says unpacking her groceries. She presses the intercom in the kitchen and speaks into it and sees Rarity’s eyebrow rise. “Dashie, everyone is here. Please come down, if that’s okay. I am cooking now so you have to be the hostess!”

Ten seconds later Rainbow Dash pinches Fluttershy’s bottom cheeks and embraces her from behind collecting an ‘EEP’ sound and a fresh blush with a kiss. “Hey, Babe! How was the trip to the castle? Whatcha cookin!?”

“Rainbow Dash!” Fluttershy scolds and then lightens her speech. “Go ask everyone what they want to drink.”

Dash exits and enters within the same minute already grabbing glasses and ice. Fluttershy continues on in answering her Rainbow’s questions. “The Princesses had me come in, first thing, to talk to me about what they talked with you. They want me to help you teach and guide Twilight and everyone in this Dream Mission. They would have said it out loud yesterday but took into consideration that I was really flustered and disturbed from fainting and waking up from the dream premonition to place me in the spotlight.”

“Wow! They really are AWESOME!” Dash exclaims. “AAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaand breakfast? Lunch? What time is it?”

Rarity and Fluttershy share a few giggles. Rarity answers it’s almost 11. And Fluttershy replies with what’s on the menu. Which includes: 1) Blueberry Pancakes with freshly sliced bananas drizzled lightly with chocolate and a squirt of whip cream. 2) A bowl of Yogurt Parfait made of sweet vanilla yogurt, granola, kiwis, raspberries and blackberries. 3) Three (technically four) Cheese Omelets consisting of cheddar, pepper jack, aged provolone, spinach, onions, green and red peppers, with shredded chicken topped with a pepper corn and mushroom gravy with freshly grated parmesan cheese sprinkled on top with a parsley garnish. 4) Side dishes of bacon and toast with butter.

With a quick kiss from Fluttershy and pressing the intercom to stay on, Dash leaves the two ladies in the kitchen to hustle with the delicious sounding entrées. She carries a tray full of beverages into the dining room and gives Twilight a head nod to start the meeting.

*******

“Okay, peoples!” Twilight says loudly clearing her throat to get the attention she desired. “This is our rough draft meeting. The next one will be held tomorrow at Apple Jack’s Farm for lunch. We know the situation. We know what we need to do. HOWEVER, we do NOT know how to go about it to accomplish our task at hand.”

In a corner of the dining room, Spike turns on an old school projector having it face one of the walls. “I’m going to take note of what everyone’s ideas are on here so everyone can see.”

“OOOO!!! OOOO!!!” Pinkie Pie waves her hand wildly in the air like a student. “We need to go to Zecora’s Hut for more of that dream potion stuff! SPIKEY!!! PUT THAT DOWN!!! PUT THAT DOWN!!!”

“Ah think we should ask Zecora ta be a part of our here dream team. Ya can put that down on there too, Spike!” Apple Jack adds and watches Spike mumble each word he writes on the projector’s screen.

The food was placed on the table’s turn table. Rarity and Fluttershy, along with Spike joined the table. Grumbling tummies were put to a halt and the sounds of silverware to plates and glasses to table carried on. Rainbow Dash breaks the silence.

“Fluttershy and I stayed up a little last night and thought about a couple things like, we can’t be the only ones in King Sombra’s dream. Even if we were in the core of his mind, we’re not exactly trustworthy in his life. So, we need someone believable. Like, Prince Blueblood.” Dash speaks between chewing and swallowing and placing more food in her mouth.

Fluttershy places her hand on Dash’s shoulder. “W-we were thinking, Blueblood is intolerable to work with… so, if you don’t mind, we were th-thinking about asking Trixie to help…” Her voice quiets more so after each word.

“Why on earth should we get her to help?” Rarity asks angrily remembering her last encounter with Trixie. ‘Ugh, wardrobe malfunction disaster… I’ll strangle her.’ she thinks to herself.

“BECAUSE!” Dash shouts. “Because she’s all great with doing fancy, mirage tricks! She can impersonate Blueblood and convince Sombra to believe us.”

“Twilight, if you don’t mind, maybe, ummm, since you have this on and off relationship with her…” Fluttershy whispers. “…if you can talk to her to come to the meeting tomorrow? Please?”

“Okay, I will talk to her tonight. I actually am seeing her… uhhh.” Twilight Sparkle answered Fluttershy with rosy cheeks. She tries to change the subject back onto course. “You two have done a lot of thinking! I was exhausted last night, I just went to bed! But, don’t worry… you know how I am during study mode. I stay up till I learn!”

“Well, report back here after your date, brainy! And this time… sleeping IS your studying!” Dash laughed at her friend.

“Ha ha. Yeah, that’s right. So, who’s doing what after this brunch?” Twilight says. “We need some reports sent to the Princesses tomorrow about what our strategy is and everything.”

“Listen here, Twi, the report will have ta wait till after the second meetin. Cause then we’d’ve formed our plan and that would include both Zecora and Trixie’s input. Ya hear? So ya can hold yer horses on rushin. MMMM-Mmmm-mmmm, compliments to the chefs.” Apple Jack takes a turn in talking and fishes for a kiss from Rarity at the same time.

After giving Apple Jack a quick peck on the cheek, Rarity tells the round table. “Fluttershy and I have our Spa appointment after this.”

“A.J. and I can head to Zecora’s Hut and ask her to join us!” Pinkie Pie volunteers herself and her farmer friend.

“Hey guys…” Dash talks to Pinkie and Apple Jack. “If you hold off for an hour and a half, I’ll join you! I just have to squeeze in a flying practice with Scootaloo.”

“Okie Dokie Lokie!” Pinkie Pie says right before stuffing a whole pancake in her mouth and receiving an uproar of laughter.

Brunch was pretty much over and everyone split after Twilight Sparkle’s last announcement. “I just received a text message from Shining Armor. He and Princess Cadence have just arrived at the Crystal Empire to start protecting the walls. Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy, I’ll see you tonight!”

To Zecora's Hut We Go With Magic In The Air

It was mid afternoon, closer to the evening. The sun laid low. The view passing through the woods was still clear. The birds were still chirping. Squirrels and chipmunks were arguing about who stole whose pile of nuts that each needed to feed their families with for dinner.

“I know where we’re going. We’re not lost!” Rainbow Dash starts to get frustrated. “I was just at Zecora’s Hut a few days ago!”

“Ah sure hope so, R.D.!” Apple Jack says to her friend. “Rarity will kill ya enough for the both of us if Ah don’t show up for dinner. Then again, Ah don’t actually mind. It’s with her parents and all.” Pinkie Pie and Dash start laughing at her.

“See!? We just have to follow this yellow brick road!” Dash points out!

Pinkie breaks into song. “We're off to see the wizard, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz We hear he is a whiz of a wiz, if ever a wiz there was If ever, oh ever a wiz there was, The Wizard of Oz is one because Because, because, because, because, because Because of the wonderful things he does We're off to see the wizard, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”

“We’re off ta see Zecora…” Apple Jack starts to state.

Pinkie corrects her song. “We’re off to see Zecora, the wonderful wizard in her hut…”

“Uhhh, Pinks?” Dash hovers and scratches the back of her neck. “Pleeeeeeeeeeease stop!” Everyone starts to laugh again.

*******

“Ah, reckon we’re here cause Ah recall this place.” says Apple Jack immediately shutting her mouth as the hut’s door slowly creeps open.

“Why, hello there, you three… why, may I ask, have you come to seek me?” Zecora steps outside of her home.

Rainbow Dash speaks up. “We need your help…” She started and ends with “And that is why we came here. To ask you to join our mission and provide more sleeping antidotes for X amount of people, once we get the team formatted.”

“I see the trouble you did just convey… I shall help you without a delay. You're asking me to do an Inception Conquest... I hope you do understand the gravity of this request. ” Zecora motions the trio to follow her through a tree. It didn’t faze Pinkie one bit, but got the other two slightly hesitant. “We need a higher dosage potion for this upcoming day… which means we cannot act like children at play.”

“What does this all here mean?” questions Apple Jack.

“I think she’s about to show us what she means, silly willy!” Pinkie whispered to Apple Jack as they all walked into an invisible room that showed people asleep on cots.

“We all will need totems in our pockets… so we will know our brains are in the right sockets.” Zecora clarifies what a totem is and lists other things they needed to know (like, the timing of dreams) and what to bring with them or what to expect. And after all the explaining, Apple Jack was still confused. “What is the question calculating in your mind? I am sure we can give you an answer more refined.”

“Ah still don’t understand why people come here just ta sleep…” Apple Jack confesses as to why she’s still disoriented about everything. She sees Zecora looking at Dash as if she knew Dash figured it out. “R.D.? Ya know why!?”

In a hushed voice Dash answers. “They don’t come here to sleep…”

A realization hit Pinkie Pie and finished Dash’s sentence in the same hushed voice. “They come to be woken up. The dream has become their reality.”

“Down here, you all have gotten everything you needed to learn… I am most certain we will accomplish what we have to and not crash and burn.” Zecora takes them back out through the tree after an hour’s worth of observation.

The three friends said their goodbyes to Zecora who promised to work on the newer potion and meet with everyone at Apple Jack’s Farm for lunch tomorrow to have the next meeting.

*******

Twilight Sparkle sits down, next to a basket of food, on a red and white squared picnic table cloth waiting for Trixie to come back. Trixie said she accidently left something in the car. She sips her White Zinfandel and patiently waits.

Instead of an upscale restaurant with lots of lights and a traffic of commotion from over populated crowds, Twilight decided to copy a date that Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy often went on to gaze up at the stars. After going through the last couple of days, she needed relaxation. Though, she had one more thing to do before she could completely relax with the company before her. She had to somehow bring up the Inception Concept.

Trixie skips her way back towards Twilight. She is nervous but holds a smile anyway. She senses something cranking a wheel in her friend’s head and hopes to all the gods and goddesses out there that it doesn’t ruin what she, herself, had planned for tonight. The horn on Trixie’s head starts to glow pushing the basket off the sheet they were to sit on and plants herself next to Twilight. She felt a warm tingly feeling as an arm wraps around her waist.

“We can play connect the dots with these stars!” Trixie says to Twilight.

“Oooo! What a great idea!” Twilight exclaims back. Her horn lit up and shot a light into the air. She connected a set of stars into a flower.

“Twilight, I need to talk to you…” Trixie says in a serious tone. “Are you still… ummm… seeing that guy from that one library… uhhh… in I don’t remember which town?”

“No, I am not. The only person I’ve been seeing is you actually.” Twilight informs her shaking friend. “Why do you ask?”

Trixie suddenly stops shaking and asks Twilight a question. “Do you know what it is to be a lover? Half of a whole?” A box appeared in front of Twilight. A ring polished and placed carefully in it waiting to be seen. It was unwrapping itself. Trixie whispers in Twilight’s ear. “Be mine. Trixie is already yours.”

Twilight didn’t know whether or not she appeared to be shaking or frozen still. Inside her body she was going crazy. She was speechless. She was mute. All she could do right then and there was lean over and kiss Trixie with all the passion she can stream through her body.

Eventually the kissing ceased to sporadic mini ones. They were intertwined and laying down, still gazing at the stars. Every few minutes or so, one of their horns would light up and draw a picture from the clumps of stars scattered above them.

“You seemed out of sorts earlier, Twilight Sparkle. What’s going on in that pretty little, okay, big, mind of yours?” Trixie breaks away from what they are doing for a brief instant.

“I don’t want to ruin this moment. But, it involves the Princesses and a few other Kingdoms… and I need your help and support… I unfortunately have to depart from you in an hour or so… may, I fill you in more in the morning?”

“Of course… Anywhere you go, I’ll follow you. I will try never to fail you.” Trixie says to her established official lover.

Twilight gives Trixie a kiss. “You are my Great & Powerful Trixie, after all… no one else’s. I believe in you.”

Trixie starts to pout because she thought she was going to be bringing Twilight back home with her. She starts to grin as another kiss hit her lips and she had an idea. Even Twilight saw the naughtiness in the gleam of Trixie’s eyes as her horn lit up. Soon there was a sphere bubble that formed and sound proofed around them. To the outside, looking in? Folks would just see a tree that had picnic settings that people probably forgot to take with them and regular night noise flowed in the air. Clothes were immediately ripped off. Love making squeals compete with each other seeing which can break its sound barricade first.

A few minutes before saying goodbye, yearning for a stable breathing pattern, Twilight says to her love. “I’ll tell you a riddle.”

“I love riddles.” Trixie responds with the same gasping noise between breaths as Twilight.

“You're waiting for a train. A train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you; but you don't know for sure. But it doesn't matter. How can it not matter to you where that train will take you?” Twilight riddles Trixie with a grin.

After a thinking pause, a reply sprouted out “Because we'll be together.” Trixie kisses Twilight a final goodnight.

ZZZzzzZZzz A Studying Twilight zzZZzzzZZZ

“DING DING DONNNNNNNNNNNNNG!!!!” the bells chimed at the Rainbow Shy Fortress. Twilight Sparkle checks her watch. ‘It wasn’t too late… right? It’s not like any of us has a specific bedtime…’ she thinks to herself getting cut off as the door swung open.

“Hey, heyyy! How did your date go!?” Rainbow Dash was the first to speak

“Please, come in! Ummm, if that’s okay…” Fluttershy says next.

Taking a step inside the house, Twilight raises her hand in the air. A happy gasping noise wheezed out of Fluttershy with her signature ‘Yay!’ and Dash’s jaw dropped with her eyes continuously blinking. “I know right?” Twilight barely gets out as she is tackled into a hug by a wing flapping Fluttershy.

“Congrats, Eggy!” Dash says to her friend using her special abbreviation for ‘egghead’. “Ready to sleep on a cloud?”

“It will feel like I’m sleeping on a cloud even if I am sleeping on a cold, hard cement floor because of tonight.” Twilight says dreamily.

Fluttershy giggles. “No, silly! Dashie was being literal when she asked if you were ready to sleep on a cloud! We set up a cot in our bedroom so that we’d all be in the same room while we dream hop together.”

Twilight’s eyes widened for a second. “OH! Eh-heh heh. Got it!” She turns and faces Rainbow Dash next. “Anything you want me to know from your trip to Zecora’s hut, Dash?”

“I’m too tired to fill you in right now, Twi. I’ll either tell you in the morning or at the lunch meeting.” Dash says. “Besides, we gotta set you up to dream right now!”

“Well, that’s true. We do have to start right away. Ummm, I guess I’ll wait till lunch time. I have to meet Trixie for breakfast to completely fill her in on what we’re doing. I brushed up on the subject but uhhh, heh, didn’t want to ruin our moment we were having…” Twilight starts to ramble.

“It’s all good in the hood!” Dash says laughing at her friend. “Tomorrow at lunch it is. I have to figure out how to relay Zecora’s message, anyway. I mean, she’ll be at A.J.’s and all… but to figure out how to translate Zebra Rhyming Talk first thing in the morning… ya know.”

It was Twilight’s turn to laugh. “Shouldn’t you be awake and have done a lot already before mid day?”

“Naw, Fluttershy lets me sleep in on Saturdays. Noon is my morning.” Dash says with a grin.

“Ohhh, brother.” Twilight says shaking her head.

“Ah haha, you mean ohhh sister!” Dash teased her friend as she hears a yawn escaping her wife’s mouth. “Let’s all get comfy.” And on that note, Dash leads the way to the second floor.

*******

“I’m not going to fall through?” Twilight asks her two friends who were busy in the bathroom getting ready for bed. She thinks she hears Fluttershy giggling at the question and sees Dash poking her head out the bathroom door.

“Look closer at it, Twi! There’s a thin layer of regular mattress that molds to suit your body so you’ll have a comfortable night’s sleep. The fluff and moisture of the cloud will keep you at the correct temperature meaning you won’t get too hot or too cold while you sleep. You’ll wake up feeling like a rock star!” Dash explains as if they were in a bedding store.

Fluttershy pops her head out the door under her Rainbow’s head. “Hop on the bed and test it out, Twilight… you’ll enjoy it! Oh, and we’ll be out soon so you can change for bed. We’re almost done… if that’s alright?” With a little ‘Eep!’ followed by more giggles, both heads went back into the bathroom.

Still looking at her temporary bed in a skeptical way, Twilight hops on top of the cot and answers to only the door realizing it was now shut when she turned her head to face her friends. Her horn was lit levitating her up barely touching the cot. She was still uncertain. ‘Trust them, they are two of your closest friends, they wouldn’t prank you for a good laugh. Not Fluttershy, anyway… Mayyybee Rainbow Dash. Ugh, okay… here goes…” she talks silently to herself in her mind. Twilight closes her eyes tightly and lets her horn stop glowing. Well, she didn’t hear a thudding noise… nor did she feel pain from the floor below her. Instead, she felt everything Rainbow Dash described to her. She starts to relax and her eyes lessened the intensity of it being shut. ‘This is really therapeutic and meditative. Inhale. Mmmm Trixie. Exhale. Inhale. Exhale. Inhale…’ her chest rises and falls to each word she repeated.

The bathroom door reopens after awhile. “Your turn, buddy! Wake up! We didn’t give you the potion yet!” Dash talks into Twilight’s face making her jump slightly. “Ahhh, hahaha… you should’ve seen your face!” She waited for the ‘haha’ to be shot at her and then purposefully crashes into Fluttershy on the bed and under the covers. “We’ll be waiting here… take your time if you must! Irrr, uhhh, but not too much time… ya know what I mean… ummm.”

“I know what you mean! Don’t worry! I’ll time myself accordingly.” Twilight rolled off her new favourite bed, granted it was only but a cot, and into the bathroom she went.

*******

“Here’s a teaspoon for you…” Dash hands Twilight her dose. “One for you…” she hands one to her Flutters. “AAAAAAaaaaaaaaand one for me! CHEERS!!!”

The three of them make the toast and crawled into their beds. Within seconds, they are brought into Twilight Sparkles household. They found themselves in her library that competes to the one in the Disney’s version of Beauty and the Beast!

“Oh this is… this is… WOW!” Twilight walks around all her shelves full of books. “This is how I want my library to look ALL THE TIME! I do need to rearrange the books. It’s due a shuffle!”

“Yeah! It’s GREAT! Let’s walk outside.” Dash directs both Fluttershy and Twilight. “Ready for your lesson? It’s something I won’t have to explain to you before lunch.”

“This is a change… you being the teacher?” Twilight teases her friend. “Yeah, I am ready.”

Rainbow Dash clears her throat and flies hand in hand with Fluttershy in a slow pace. “Soooo… You got the basic layout. Pinkie’s Bakery, Rarity’s Boutique, the school, almost everything else is here too.”

Looking at everything in awe Twilight asks “This really is cool. Who are the people?”

Fluttershy breaks away from her Rainbow to be on Twilight’s other side. “Th-they’re projections of mine and Dashie’s subconscious.”

“Yours? Both of yours?” Twilight’s eyebrows shot up.

Dash shoots into serious mode. “Yes. Remember, you are the dreamer, this world, is your world. We are the subjects, our minds populate it. You can literally talk to our subconscious. That's one of the ways we extract information from the subject.

Twilight thinks for a moment “Hmmm, I see. How else do you do it?”

Fluttershy’s tone is as serious as her Rainbow’s, but softer. “By creating something secure, like a bank vault or a cage holding poor cutesy wootsie animals like they’re in a jail at shelters. The mind automatically fills it with information it's trying to protect. Do you understand Twilight? I mean, we’re going to show you our safety zone… if you don’t mind, that is…”

Twilight replies as she twirls around feeling how real everything feels. “Then you break in and steal it? The information, I meant the information. And of course, I want to see what you two created!”

“Well...” Fluttershy starts.

She couldn’t help it. Twilight continues on. “I guess I thought that the dream space would be all about the visual. But it's more about a feel of it. My question is what happens when you start messing with the physics of it all...?” Her mind thinks about the town folding in half so it starts to. Soon they were all facing a street going from flat on which she was standing to vertical. “It's something, isn't it?”

“Yes, it is.” Dash says as she places her feet on the ground to test walking on the now vertical street.

“They’re ummm, they’re… staring at us, Dashie!” Fluttershy whispers, immediately back beside her Rainbow clinging on.

“Yeah, why are they staring at us?” Twilight wonders out loud.

“Because my subconscious feels that someone else is creating this world. The more you change things, the quicker the projections start to converge on you.” Dash continues the lesson.

Twilight asks. “Converge?”

“Well, ummm, I know you know what ‘converge’ means… so anyway to answer that question. They sense the foreign nature of the dreamer. They attack like white blood cells fighting an infection.” Dash explains further.

Twilight starts to worry and freak out making Fluttershy cling on to Dash tighter. “What!? They're going to attack us?!”

“No, no.” Dash says almost, to only herself. “Just you.”

Twilight creates a new bridge over the street not hearing Dash speak. She builds twin water fountains shooting water at each other. “I think I feel like what Discord feels when he alters things.”

Dash speaks a little louder this time. “This is great, but I'm telling you, if you keep changing things...” She stops what she’s saying because Fluttershy started to scream. “Uh oh. Not good.”

“BAD! BAD! DASHIE GRAB A HOLD OF TWILIGHT AND LET’S BLINK INTO OUR SAFTEY ZONE! NOW!” Fluttershy shrieks as loud as her diaphragm would let her.

Twilight Sparkle starts to scream as she sees an angry mob racing towards them. ‘The faster people must be from Dash’s subconscious.’ she had time to think. Both her arms were taken a hold of, thankfully by her friends. She sees them both blink and POOF they were out of there.

*******

‘Composed. Love. Tasteful. Serenity. Private. Colourful. Fuzzy…’ Twilight could go on and on in her mind as to what she felt when they landed in the safety zone. Her jaw hung slightly open as she stood in a picture perfect land.

“W-what do you think, Twilight?” Fluttershy asks their first visitor.

“I LOVE IT!” Twilight exclaims.

“Yeah, cool huh?” Dash adds.

“Ohhh YEAH it is!” Twilight says to her friends but then worriedly asks “But what about the subconscious people?”

“Oh, them?” Rainbow Dash answers. “They aren’t allowed in here. No one is unless invited or harmless. Which you are both.”

“Ahhh, I see. AWESOME!” Twilight says.

All of a sudden, the three of them jump, hugging each other tightly as a cannon sound rang with an echo effect. Confetti shoots at them in all directions. Balloons start flying everywhere. Streamers were tangling on tree branches as if someone were T.P.-ing a house. The three of them look at each other and let go of the hold.

“You didn’t do that Rainbow Dash!?” Twilight shouts her question as Fluttershy whimpered the same line.

“Ummm, no. This clearly shouts Pinkie Pie.” Dash says, realization soon followed. “PINKIE PIE!”

“SURPRISE!!!” a loud echo sounded throughout the dream land. Pinkie appears out of nowhere.

“HOW did you get here!?!?” Dash questions her pranking buddy.

“Easy Peasy!” Pinkie Pie says. “I’m sleeping in between you and Fluttershy right now!”

“WHAT!? How did you manage to get in the house?” Dash plays the 20 questions game.

“Oh. When you said bye to Apple Jack… I was still watching television in the basement and you all forgot about me. Well, minus Twily because she didn’t even know that I was over to begin with…” Pinkie starts to construe. “Oh, and I remembered everything Zecora said when we visited. I wanted to surprise you. I even wrote inside your room over there on a post it note saying ‘Pinkie Pie was here!’ just in case I woke up before you got here.

Fluttershy speaks up. “And you’re safe and harmless and our friend so you were able to enter the boundary’s protective shields.” She gives Pinkie a warm welcoming hug.

“This calls for a party! I cannot WAIT till the rest of everyone comes here! Then, it will be an even BIGGER PARTAY!!!” Pinkie hops up and down and dances all crazy.

!!!BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP!!!

“Ummm, I think it’ll have to wait, Pinkster… We’re about to wake up.” Rainbow Dash says. “Oh, and Twilight? The cot stays in the house ah hahahaha!!!”

Atrocious Companion

Pinkie Pie giggles silently to herself. She became a Pinkie Sandwich. ‘A Pinkie Sandwich Wrap?’ Pinkie asks herself in her mind. Both Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy had their arms wrapped around her thinking she was the others’ other. A pair of lips on each of her cheeks gave a little kiss at the same time. She couldn’t suppress silent giggles anymore. Giggles turned into loud obnoxious laughter rolling out of her maniac grinning face. Both Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy fall off the bed creating a thudding crash causing a domino effect making Twilight Sparkle jump off her temporary cot with her eyes wide open!

Everyone shouted. “PINKIE PIE!!!”

Pinkie looks at all of them innocently. “What!? I TOLD you where I was sleeping!”

An awkward lull filled the air briefly. Then pillows flew across the room smacking Pinkie from all directions. It became every girl for her own self. Laughter filled the room. “GOOD MORNING!” they all chorused at each other.

“I’ll make breakfast, if that’s okay with everyone.” Fluttershy digs herself out from under a pile of pillows flying to the stairs that leads downstairs.

“BREAKFAST!!!” Twilight shouts. “What TIME is it!?!? TRIXIE!!!”

Dash bats her eyes for a second and clasps her hands together. She starts to float. “Ohhh, Trixie…!” She dramatically falls into her bed next to Pinkie who hasn’t even rolled out yet.

Pinkie plops a pillow directly on top of Dash’s face receiving a mouthed out ‘Thank You!’ from Twilight.

“See you all at lunch!” Twilight says running down the stairs.

Dash throws the pillow off her face. Both she and Pinkie hear the ‘Goodbyes!’ from down below and start to laugh. The smell of food carried them to the kitchen to join Fluttershy.

*******

The main entrance of their house shuts with a large clicking sound.

“Hey heyyy, my Flutters!” Dash turns to Fluttershy.

“Yes, my Rainbow?”

“Now that everyone’s out of our house…”

“Yesssssss?!” Fluttershy says with an eyebrow raised, a small smile forming as well.

“What, oh what will you do with me!?” Dash swoops up her lover into the air and kisses her.

Returning kisses, Fluttershy asks “Ohhh, I don’t know… what, do you have in mind?”

“Well, we have a couple hours before we got to go to A.J.’s and be all serious business and all…”

“Yesssssss?!” Fluttershy whispers into Dash’s ears sending shivers down her Rainbow’s entire system.

Rainbow Dash starts to stutter words that didn’t make sense or string together. Her wings started to stiffen.

Fluttershy automatically started to flap her wings to keep them afloat. She kisses Dash’s lips and continues to whisper in her love’s ears. “Shhh, don’t worry, Dashie, I have a few ideas in mind and it includes a bath afterwards.”

Dash found extra wing power and charges them from the front door back to their bedroom within 10 seconds flat.

*******

“DING DING DONNNNNNNNNNNNNG!!!!” vibrated throughout the house.

“DON’T. YOU. DARE. STOP. RAIN. BOW. DASH!” a chopped up sentence managed to come out of Fluttershy. “WHO. EVER. IT. IS. CAN. LEAVE.” a gasping sound happens. “A. MESSAGE!”

Going even faster, not stopping and continuously placing kisses everywhere on Fluttershy’s body, Dash responds “IT’S. A. DOOR. BELL!”

“THEY’LL. COME. BACK. LATER!” Fluttershy gets out as the door bell rang a second time. “PLEASE. DON’T. STOP. I’M. READY. TO. I’M. READYTO…”

“I’MREADYTOCUM!” Rainbow Dash beats Fluttershy in saying.

They hold each other really tightly still rocking back and forth. Rainbow Dash holds in her last breath and Fluttershy screams out her pleasure as they both climax together. Love making juice trickles out of them onto their tangled thighs. Gently letting go of their embrace, they lay down on their backs snuggling into each other.

Five to seven-ish minutes later, the intercom crackles. “Is anybody home? Is this a bad time?” a male’s voice questions and starts to laugh in an evil way.

Rainbow Dash mumbles. “It is a bad time.” She gets up to grab a robe for herself and one for Fluttershy.

With an extra quick kiss, they head down the stairs to answer the door.

“The back door.” the intercom speaks to them. Knowing that Fluttershy was directly behind her and, most likely, will walk into her, Dash turns around to change directions and steals another kiss from her surprised Flutters. “Yoohoo, you two love birds… I’m still waiting out here.”

Breaking apart from each other, Dash starts to grumble. “I know. The question is why though.”

They make their way to the kitchen and open the back door. Fluttershy was the first to speak. “Discord! What a surprise! What are you doing here? If that’s okay to ask you…”

“My dear friend, Fluttershy. How have you been? My, you look so flushed. Here’s a fan to cool you off.” Discord says snapping his fingers. A portable floating fan materialized in front of Fluttershy.

“What are you doing here, Discord?” Dash says considerably brash.

“Why, to visit my ‘friend’ Fluttershy, of course, before I go to some lunch meeting at the apple orchard.” Discord answers too politely.

“What business do you have there? How did you know about a meeting?” Rainbow Dash was huffing.

“Calm down, Dashie… I’m sure there’s a reasonable reason.” Fluttershy tells her wife, turning the fan towards Dash’s face.

“Yes, indeed a reason, Fluttershy!” Discord starts to say. “I received an email from the Princesses telling me they are in need of my services. Services of good magic. My poor magic being used for ‘good’.”

“There, there, Discord…” Fluttershy pats his shoulder bringing him inside to sit at the counter. “It’ll be alright. It’s to save the world so that you still have a place to live and so will we.”

“Oh, alright, Fluttershy.” Discord says with a big pout on his face. “Well put, Fluttershy… well put.”

“Sorry to put a damper in this friendship moment and all…” Dash states. “…but, we need to shower before lunch. So, make yourself at home. And, I don’t mean twirling this place upside down in circles!” She begins to growl because she starts to think of how she’s missing out on the sexy bath scene that was promised. She heads upstairs to start the water.

“We’ll be really speedy, Discord, I promise… and then we can all drive to Apple Jack’s together.” Fluttershy says in an apologizing tone, starting to follow her Rainbow. “Rarity will be cooking and Pinkie Pie will be bringing desserts!”

“Pinkie Pie will be there?” Discord asks nonchalantly.

Fluttershy turns her head for a second. “Yes. She will be!”

‘Ahhh, I shall make it rain chocolate milk for her!’ Discord thinks to himself. ‘Maybe, perhaps, change some of Apple Jack’s tree leaves into cotton candy!’

Hide & Seek

“Is that Zecora?” questions Fluttershy. “She has a long ways to go. Let’s stop and ask her if we can give her a ride. We took my car, after all, not your 2 door racer!”

“Yeah, sure thing. At the pace she’s walking, she’ll make it after dessert!” Rainbow Dash speeds and pulls up next to the Zebra Woman. “Hey heyyy there, Zecora! Want a lift? Hop in!”

Zecora takes the offer and thanks them. “How kind of you to make stops…” she looks at Discord. “I could only find my flip flops!”

“Oh, him?” Rainbow Dash points her thumb towards the back seat. “No. he just appeared at our door at home.”

Zecora climbs in next to Discord. Rainbow Dash starts to drive not paying attention to everybody’s chit chatting. Dash switches gears. Fluttershy feels the change in her car and faces forward again to see what’s going on. Yep. Up ahead was Trixie’s 2 door, periwinkle coloured, 2014 Corvette. The car wasn’t even supposed to be out on the market yet! It has only been seen in the AUTO SHOW 2013. Trixie had just pulled out of Twilight Sparkle’s cul-de-sac and onto the main road. Both Trixie and Dash were side by side at the red light. Trixie revs her engine making Dash’s competitive genes kick in.

“Rainbow Dash! This is m-my car!” a worried Fluttershy says. “It’s a granny-mobile! You even said so!”

“Don’t worry, Babe… I got this!” the light turned green and the 4 door, faint yellow coloured, 1986 Buick Skylark slowly left the starting line. Trixie’s laughter was trailing behind carried by the puff of smoke from the exhaust. Dash felt Fluttershy’s hand rub her lap as if to say ‘It’s okay…’. Dash’s mind was thinking, ‘If you only knew, Fluttershy, I replaced all your car parts… the engine, the alternator, the battery, the everything! Trixie may be laughing right now… but wait till we hit the country roads! Then I finally get to press this turbo button!’ she eyes the tiny red button next to the ‘reset trip miles’ button that she knows her Flutters would never press. ‘FANTABULOUS! Did I fall that far behind Trixie!? What the Hell!?!?’

At the four way stop sign, the farming fields started and there were no cars to be seen. Trixie, figuring Fluttershy’s clunker looking car would take at least 20 minutes to catch up, parked on the side of the dirt road and made the car invisible. It was her second strongest spell besides her mirage imitation spell. She was able to get a steamy make out session, at least, before she saw Dash at the four way stop sign. Dash was just crossing the intersection when she made her car visible again and started to ZOOM!

“Oh. Game. On.” Dash said under her breath. She, then, got a brilliant idea. “Hey, Discord? Can you make us fly?”

“What type of question is that, Rainbow Dash, I can do anything.” Discord brags.

“Make us fly on the count of 3 and everyone? Hold on to your seat belts!” Dash commanded. “One! Two! THREE!!!” she pressed her special red turbo button.

Discord snapped his fingers and the car no longer had a roof. He waved his arms crazily in the air. “WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!” he shouted and started to laugh his evil laugh. Dash started to laugh just as evilly alongside him as they flew above Trixie and Twilight.

“Babe! Open your eyes! Pinkie is waving at us like a cheerleader! Get ready to land!” Dash shouts against the wind.

“Oh, Rainbow Dash, don’t bother.” Discord says receiving a ‘Huh?!’ from the two Pegasi up in front. “I got the landing.” He snapped his fingers and all four of them had a parachute umbrella in their hands, each. A roar of thunder sounded followed by a blinding lightning bolt. Those buzzed through the sky for a few minutes mustering up storm clouds. They sailed to the ground parking perfectly in the driveway. Chocolate milk droplets started to fall in a light down pour. When they exited the car, he snapped back the roof of the car for his friend, Fluttershy, without her having to ask.

Pinkie Pie ran up to them doing cartwheels and round offs. She stopped directly in front of Discord and started yelling a cheer with the jumping and arm motions. “GIVE ME A ‘Y’! GIVE ME AN ‘A’! GIVE ME ANOTHER ‘Y’! WHAT DOES THAT SPELL!? YAY!!!” Confetti blew out from the bust line of her v-neck shirt that was exposing her bosom. “Thank you, Discord! I’ve been hoping chocolate milk rain would be in the forecast but Dashie-washie never puts it in!” she gives him a hug making Discord’s cheeks flush a tint.

“Pinkster! You have mini confetti cannons in your bra!?” Dash laughs and claps. “Classic.”

“DUH! For cheering occasions such as these!” Pinkie jumps and does a high kick.

Three teenage girls run outside with empty pitchers to fill up with chocolate milk. Each of them all having something to say.

“Hiya, Discord!” says Sweetie Belle.

“Thank ya kindly, Discord!” says Apple Bloom.

“Time for lunch, everybody! Yo, Dash!” says Scootaloo high-fiving Dash.

Apple Jack stands out on the front porch clinking and clanking a triangle instrument. “Stop that there rain already and come in for some grub!” she demands.

Everyone ran inside the house.

Rainbow Dash stops her Flutters before they, too, followed into the house. “Why does it seem like everyone knew Discord is now part of this whole operation but us!?”

Fluttershy giggles. “Well, my Rainbow… I think it’s because we both were busy doing a little something, something if you know what I mean!” she murmured into her love’s ear in an alluring manner.

“I’d rather still be doing that right now than here! No offense to our family friends… eh heh, heh.” Rainbow Dash kisses Fluttershy.

*******

“Pssst, Fluttershy! I saved you a seat next to me! Oh, and one for your Rainbow Dash, of course.” Discord beckoned Fluttershy over as he is already sitting next to Pinkie Pie. He was explaining to Pinkie how Fluttershy was his one and only true friend and listening to how Pinkie was going to throw him a party to show him that he has many new friends including herself.

Standing at the head of the table, Twilight Sparkle clears her throat. “Hello everybody! What a great morning we had, right? It was so beautiful and lunch time is just as grand!” She winks at Trixie and then looks at Apple Jack before sitting down.

Apple Jack stands up. “We all are happy ta host this here lunch for all ya’ll. And will do anythin ta accommodate ya’ll in yer needs. Rare? Wanna say something ta the crowd?” She looks at Rarity and sits back down.

“I cooked lunch and dinner for the day. To me, it seems we are doing it backwards. Though, with our schedules, as they are on the checklist we had to print out midmorning… my dinner is our lunch and our lunch as our dinner.” apologizes Rarity standing up as she proceeds to tell what’s on the menu for eating of the day. “Since a lot of us did not get the chance to eat during ‘Thursday Night Dinner’, I cooked what I did that night. In front of you plated is a filet mignon wrapped in bacon on top of extra creamy, extra garlic mashed red potatoes sitting next to a cup of white rice with broccoli, cauliflower and green beans cooked in butter as the veggies.” She looks at Granny Smith. “Granny Smith will finish what I prepped for dinner by putting it in the oven. We are having chicken breast that I pounded and filled with a cream cheese, garlic and chive mixture. This too, is wrapped in bacon. It will bake in the oven in a lemon and mushroom cream sauce. You have a choice of cheese tortellini or white rice again. The veggies will be carrots, zucchinis and yellow squash.” Rarity sits down again.

Rainbow Dash slowly raises her hand. “Uhhh, heh, what if you didn’t check your email? What’s on this checklist?”

“Here’s a copy for you.” Spike says and hands one to Dash.

“Th-thank you, Spike!” says Fluttershy blushing because she was the guilty accomplice.

“Don’t worry, Dash, most of the check list is what you and Pinkie and Apple Jack have been telling me the last couple days.” Twilight assures Dash.

“Spikey-wikey! The projector is in the other room… do be a doll and get it, please?” Rarity says to Spike.

“No problem! I knew that already. I put it there earlier so it wouldn’t be in your way, Rarity.” Spike beams. He left the room and came back rolling the old school projector he used during brunch the day before.

“Aren’t ya gonna eat Spike?” Apple Bloom questions.

“Naw, I’m good. I ate everything Rarity was cooking while she was cooking it!” Spike answered. Everyone started to laugh with him.

“So, let’s start checking things off, shall we, gang?” Twilight says in an enthusiastic tone that she always has when it comes to checking things off a list.

“Totems.” Spike reads out loud. “Everyone going into this dream world hold yours up!” He fished for his in his pocket.

“What’s a totem? Dash!?” Scootaloo asks.

Dash rubs the back of her neck. “So, a totem. It's a small object, potentially heavy, something you can have on you all the time...”

“What, like a coin?” Scootaloo asks still curious.

Rainbow Dash starts to laugh. “No, it has to be more unique than that, like - this is a loaded die.” Scootaloo reaches out across the table to take the die as Dash closes her hand which immediately went behind her back. “Nah, I can't let you touch it, that would defeat the purpose. See only I know the balance and weight of this particular loaded die. That way when you look at your totem, you know beyond a doubt you're not in someone else's dream. Or in a dream. Irrr... something like that.

Scootaloo looks around the table at those who are raising their totems up in the air. “Dash yours is the most AWESOME!”

“What do you expect, Squirt!? Ah HA HA!” Dash winks at Scootaloo.

“I’m going to make one for myself.” Scootaloo says and her two best friends agreed that they wanted to make one too.

“Check!” Spike says out loud. “Sleeping bags and space?”

“OOOO, Spikey! I brought the sleeping bags! AND they are super duper special! Cause there are so many couples here? I brought doubles! Plus, I got a great deal on them versus the singles.” Pinkie Pie jumped out of her seat in excitement.

“And since we’re all here eating inside the house, I had Apple Jack clear out the barn in the back to fit all of our bodies.” Rarity informed the table.

“Eeyup.” Apple Jack chimed in sounding like her big brother. Everyone laughed at that, including Big Mac.

“Check and check!” Spike says checking more stuff off the list he didn’t have to go over because he was sure of them. He felt like being Twilight that morning because he had nothing better to do and got things done while waiting. “How about the simple message that we have to plant in King Sombra’s mind? And who is designing the dream levels? And and…”

“And, let’s back up.” Sweetie Belle says. “I understand why all of you have to go do this. I just don’t want you to. But if you’re going to put a message in someone’s head, why does it have to be so short and simple?”

“I have an explanation for this one too, haha, Twilight.” Rainbow Dash loudly says down the table. “But you explain this time!”

“With pleasure, Dash!” Twilight says turning into teacher lecturer mode. “What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm?” she takes a breath. “An idea. Resilient... highly contagious. Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it's almost impossible to eradicate. An idea that is fully formed - fully understood - that sticks; right in there somewhere. Sooo, we have to do something short, to the point, simple, and complex to make it seem logical to Sombra. Fewer words are easier to cement. Key words are more important than filler words.”

“MmmmKay…” Sweetie Belle smiles and nods her head.

“I’m still working on what the message is though.” Twilight frowns. “Fluttershy, maybe you can help me! Positive emotion trumps negative emotion every time. We yearn for people to be reconciled, for catharsis. We need positive emotional logic. You are the kindest and softest of all of us. I am sure you know a way to calm and soothe King Sombra to his senses…!”

“Of course, Twilight! I’ll help.” Fluttershy says almost inaudibly.

“I’ll put half a check on this…” Spike says to himself out loud.

“Put there half a check on that other one ya listed, Spike!” Apple Jack tells him. “Ah kinda already designed somethin but after lunch will be the first time Ah travel in that Dream World there.”

“You got it!” Spike saluted to Apple Jack.

“Is it time for dessert yet!?” Pinkie Pie asks the table. She hops away from the table to get the goods.

Table talk continued. Conversations strayed away from heavy important things to light and carefree. Everyone helped clear the table and washed their own dishes so Granny Smith didn’t have a hard time maneuvering in the kitchen to place dinner in the oven several hours from then. Spike set Granny up in the living room to watch soap opera reruns. Big Mac went back to fixing things around the farm. The whole rest of the clan moved to the back barn outside.

*******

“I thought we were going to sleep in sleeping bags on top of hay.” Trixie says out loud to no one in particular as she entered the barn.

“If you really want to, Darling…” Rarity started to say. “However, I found it more lady like to sleep on air mattresses rather than being poked by the hay.”

“No, no… this is very much highly appreciated.” Trixie says sweetly to Rarity not wanting to have the mattress exchanged for prickly hay.

Pinkie was showing everyone to their sleeping bags. “Twily, you and Trixie here… A.J. and Rarity? Over there! Fluttershy and Dash, you two in the one next over… Discord, usually Spikey-wikey would be my partner, but he has to take notes on whatever Zecora has to say and translate it… so they are sharing a sleeping bag air mattress thing… so you’re stuck with me!”

“I, ummm, well, I…” Discord blubbered out. His arm was taken a hold of by a dark pink fluffy haired girl and dragged to where he needed to lay down. He thought he heard Pinkie saying she had plans as well… ‘Ugh, I need to clean my ears… I am hearing what I want to hear I bet…’

“The dosage is stronger and will last a little longer. The world will feel almost as real as this one and you can get injured more likely than none. It may carry itself back to this reality… but don’t fret, just treat it with care because it’s just in your mentality.” Zecora warns the room. “Everyone, this is what it seems… have pleasant dreams!”

“Tell your lady no invisibility on your end of the room, Eggy!” Dash teases. “The kiddos need to watch us just in case we have to wake up in an instant!”

“Oh, and Sweetie Bell… Please remind Granny Smith to put the dinner in the oven. PLEASE. You MUST!” Rarity gave more orders to her sister up until Scootaloo came over with her table spoon of potion. Her gaze followed the deliverer making her way to Dash and Fluttershy. Then, Rarity rests her head on Apple Jack’s arm falling asleep in seconds nestling into a spooning position.

“Mmmm, my Rainbow! Teeheehee!” Fluttershy says snuggling and getting comfortable in their sleeping bag after taking her table spoon from Scootaloo.

“I know a way to make ourselves invisible!” Rainbow Dash whispers to her Flutters who was curious as to know how. “You go on and hide underneath this sheet… and I’ll come and seek you!”

Trains & Sewing Machines

Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash were at the Ponyville Train Station. They were waiting for everyone else to catch up. It seemed like they were the last to take the potion but the first ones to get to an actual destination.

“D-dashie? What if we were supposed to meet everyone at a different location?” Fluttershy starts to worry.

“Nah, we’re where we’re supposed to be! It’s on the check list!” Dash pulls the list out from her pocket. “I asked one of Twilight’s subconscious people for information about her relationship with Trixie and I’m going to tease her on how sappy she is!”

“Da-shie! Don’t be mean!” scolded Fluttershy.

“I’m not! Just poking fun and getting even! Remember? Only you are to know how sappy I am and sappy only to you!? Well, yesterday she asked around my subconscious and I got texts on my phone all day about it!” Dash defends her purpose.

“It’s still mean and immature… but only this one time!”

“YaY!!!” Dash imitates her love and kisses her hard with extra passion. She lays down on the train tracks and waits.

“That’s dangerous! What if a train comes!? Zecora said the pain will carry on to reality!” Fluttershy shrieks.

“There won’t be a train unless someone dreams it. Babe, oh I hope you didn’t…”

“Don’t worry… I didn’t.” She flew towards her Rainbow, hovering over for a quick kiss. Then she shot back to the platform just in case to be safe!

“That’s all the kissy kissy action I get?” Dash starts to pout. “I don’t believe anyone will be around for awhile… I mean, we’re the only ones that can navigate the best…”

“W-well… you’re on train tracks, Dashie! That’s not safe! Even, if this is a dream!”

“Come on, my Flutters… live with me!” Dash pats her lap for Fluttershy to get on top of her. She receives a ‘no’ from her wife shaking her head. “How about…” her eyes blinked and she was wearing fish net stockings and a purple corset top only. Dash definitely got a reaction out of that!

Fluttershy’s mouth dropped and eyes widened “It doesn’t look that comfy on the tracks, my Rainbow.”

“Problem easily solved. I’ll shrink our wings and they’ll grow back full size alerting us when someone or pair of our group shows up!” Dash says cleverly.

“Oh, sounds like a marvelous plan!” Fluttershy considers the idea.

“See? Easy peasy. Come here, you! I decided!” Rainbow Dash calls out to the platform blinking her eyes to do their wings.

*******

Outside was another bright and sunny day. Apple Jack ruffles the white fluffy comforter on top of her. ‘That’s funny, Ah’m wide awake and Ah don’t remember comin here… we were at mah house eatin… and then… OH, WOW! This does feel real. Ah don’t think Rare knows yet!’ She giggles under the covers.

Rarity produced a dainty little yawn, rolled out of her bed and did a little stretch. She starts looking at her wardrobe. “I’m going to go downstairs and make us breakfast. I wonder if Sweetie Belle is awake yet. I feel so energized this morning!” she walked around the bed and pulled the covers off the giggling Apple Jack to give her a kiss. “I love you! Rise and Shine, my love!” Rarity yelps and squeals as Apple Jack pulls her back into bed. “Ohhh, my!!!”

“MMMM Mmmm mmmm! YEEHAW!” Apple Jack rolls them both over to be the one on top. “MWAH!!! Ah sure love ya too, mah sugar love!” her lips pounces her fiancée’s neck area making Rarity melt and putty to the touch.

“But, Sweetie Belle is…” Rarity tried to shout but got out in a husky voice instead. “Sweetie Belle is… she might… might walk in on us!”

“Now don’t ya be worryin bout yer lil sister and kiss mah lips!”

Rarity does as she was told and flips them over. Apple Jack spanks her rear end once with both hands and squeezes each cheek still kissing her and flips them back to stay in control.

*******

Zecora and Spike were walking through the Everfree Forest away from the Hut. They didn’t leave from her hut, but Zecora knew where she was. Off to the Ponyville Train Station to meet up with everyone, they were. Just in case something wrong was to happen to anyone of them, there was an hour and a half window to get there before the search and rescue team activated.

“I knew we’d come into the dream land doing something, but I didn’t know I’d already be walking and feeling so tired.” Spike whined and complained.

“Silly, Spike…” the Zebra Woman started to speak. “Don’t act, like a little tyke!” She hears Spike grumble. “We only have a ways away to go… just lift your chin up and go with the flow!”

“You did say that the higher dosage plus being a stronger antidote equals to everything feeling real… but, boy, I wasn’t expecting it to be this real!” Spike was pulling a splinter from his arm because he accidently tripped and a tree broke his fall. “OUCH!”

“I did indeed… here’s a band aid so that it will no longer bleed.”

“Gee, thanks Zecora!” Spike says graciously. “Man, I can go for an ice cream cone with THREE scoops and gemstone sprinkles.” He had to rub his eyes to wipe away some sleep from them and started to blink in effect. Then he noticed the ice cream he was just speaking of was in his other hand. “Whoah!”

“You look surprised, my friend. In dreams, dreams tend to cater and comprehend.”

“Really? Like I can just drive either of Rainbow Dash’s cars?” Spike asks. “OR WAIT! How about Trixie’s new car!?”

Zecora laughs and nods her head at Spike. “It’s as easy as you think! Just imagine it and blink!”

They stopped walking. Spike concentrated really hard and blinked his eyes shut with enormous determination praying that it would appear before him. Sure enough, there it was. Trixie’s 2014, periwinkle Corvette landed in front of them both.

“Ohhh, yeahhh!” Spike goes for a high five with Zecora. She caught on a second later. “Uhhh, how to get it out of the forest is the next challenge. I want us to cruise for awhile! We have loads of time now!”

“No need to fear… this path is now clear!” Zecora blinks her eyes and waves her arm to show case a paved road in the middle of the forest.

“AWESOMENESS!”

*******

Twilight Sparkle and Trixie were getting kind of busy in the car of Trixie just outside of Apple Jack’s orchard.

“Even in dreams, you’re my one and only! Mmmm!” Twilight whispers.

“Twilight Sparkle? Would it seem odd if I started to call you, Twily?”

Twilight paused at kissing Trixie everywhere. “No, not really. The closest to me do and no one is as close to me or can ever get as close to me as you, my ‘Great and Powerful’!” she goes back to kissing her lady.

Trixie pulls her lips from a kiss. “Yes. Because, it has been running across your Trixie’s mind for quite some time.”

“Wha-AHHH!!!” Twilight tried to say something as she felt nothing supporting her anymore.

“OOOMPH!!!” Trixie says rubbing her bum.

They both fell onto the gravel that starts the country road paths.

“What happened to your car?!” and “What HAPPENED to my CAR!?!?” came out of both girls at the same time.

Twilight thinks for a moment. “Well, it is the dream world. I guess anything can happen…”

“Yes, I suppose you’re right.” Trixie turns her frown back into a smile. She looks passed her love.

Twilight copies Trixie’s smile and gaze. She lights up her horn and creates a hay stack fort from the spread out piles on the field next to them.

“My, my, my, Miss Sparkle. You read my mind.”

“Yes. Let’s finish what we started in this hay stack fort and proceed towards the train station!”

Trixie starts to smirk. “We can even levitate ourselves and fly over there like super heroes. You know, make a grand entrance! We can shoot fireworks off as well!”

“Going in style... I love that idea! I LOVE YOU!” Twilight exclaims and hugs Trixie firmly and they dove into the hay stack creation.

*******

“Where ARE we!? It’s like we’re going up the same flight of stairs over and over again to the same floor!” Pinkie Pie wails. “We need to stop, sit down, and take a SUGAR break!”

“This is your town, Pinkie. Where does it look like we’re at?” Discord says sitting next to her on one of the steps. “Pass the chocolate milk, please!”

“Only, if YOU pass the cotton candy!” Pinkie tells him.

“I don’t have any cotton candy!” Discord swore.

“Yeah you do!” Pinkie blinks her eyes and points to his pockets. “Check it out!”

Discord felt his pockets, and sure enough he pulls out baby blue cotton candy. “How did you know that was in my pockets and I didn’t?”

“I didn’t silly willy! I just blinked my eyes after thinking it… hmmm, for someone who can cause chaos and mischief to everything, like making bunny rabbits taller, you don’t have much imagination in a dream state and how to work it!?” Pinkie says to him in disbelief.

“Well, I… ummm.” Discord starts saying placing his chin on his hands and his elbows to his knees.

“Don’t think too much of it. It’s making you frown… and you look cuter when you smile!”

“Really?” his face starts to light up.

“Truly, madly, deeply!” Pinkie says with a grin. She stands up and extends her hand to Discord. “COME ON! LET’S GO! I know where we are! We’re at the high school. I can smell Scootaloo’s gym shoes! Let’s just exit this door here and play pranks on people before we go to the train station!”

“Oooo, Pinkie. That sounds rather enticing!” Discord takes her hand and stands up.

“Where should we go first!?” Pinkie bounced around happy!

“Let’s rob the Prank Store!” Discord suggests. “It’s not really considered stealing… we’re in a dream after all!”

“GREAT! I have just the outfit for us!” Pinkie blinks again and both of them wore all black and ski masks. “THEN, we can go to Rarity’s Boutique because it’s right next door!”

They left the high school and headed to the Prank Store. Discord's face flushed as they still were hand in hand. He knew Pinkie was just being super friendly. They entered an empty store a few minutes later. They heard a shuffling noise and a pin dropping.

“What’s going on in here? Did they know our plans to take stuff from here before we even knew?” Pinkie asks in a whisper.

“No, remember the check list?” Discord whispers back grabbing items off the shelves. “This is part of our dream training! King Sombra, being royalty, had a special dream training force army or whatever, just as great as Princess Luna’s, when he was a Prince training to be King… so Twilight Sparkler made simulated clones and then duplicated them a billion times!!!”

Pinkie laughed at the ‘Twilight Sparkler’ part and then cut it short as someone seemed to have spotted them. They both squatted to the ground and she immediately grabbed what was on the lower shelf unit to throw at the artificially made Unicorn guy.

Discord saw the Unicorn guy’s horn light up shoving the shelves the both of them were hiding behind against the wall. An angry face shot at them and the horn relit. Discord jumped in front of Pinkie. And got struck in his face! Pinkie took the confetti grenades in her hand and threw it at the Unicorn guy who caught it not knowing there was a decent amount of TNT in it. It exploded within seconds and their contender was down for the count!

Pinkie Pie turns to face Discord to make sure he was okay. He had no mouth! But he seemed fine otherwise. “YOU SAVED ME!!!” she says hugging him. “It’s usually me, that something bad happens to my face, irrr, well mostly my mouth, like this one time my tongue had polka dots and was enlarged… and another time… I, too, didn’t have a mouth. It sucked. Oh, I see a frown on your face again granted you don’t have your mouth…” she stopped rambling and kissed him where his mouth would be.

Discord nearly fainted by that. He wished he had his mouth just then. He snapped out of it when Pinkie started to shake him. He started gesturing things with his hands and body.

“CHARADES!” Pinkie shouts. “OOOOO!!! I’m great at that game! You wanna time yourself going to the bathroom? But, I didn’t think anybody needed to do bathroom stuff while in the dream world…” Discord shook his head. “We have to catch the train? We still have a lot of time though…” she looks at her watch and Discord was shaking his head again. “You wanna go pranking like we planned?”

It wasn’t exactly what he had in mind, but it was the next best thing. He was really thinking he wanted to cuddle with her on a hot air balloon. Discord nods his head yes though.

“Then, why didn’t you just say so!” Pinkie says grinning widely, grabbing onto his hand again. “Oh, yeah! You don’t have a mouth!”

They exit the Prank Store and started to head over to the Boutique. On their way over, a familiar periwinkle Corvette zoomed passed them and kept zooming passed them. They reached the side of Rarity’s place and hid between the bushes. Sexual noises came from where a bedroom would be. Pinkie giggled in a hush hushed volume and Discord was thinking ‘Perrrfect timing!’. They played another set of charades till they agreed on something.

*******

“KISS MY NECK AGAIN! Ohhh, BITE ME! YESSSSSSSSSSS PULL MY HAIR! MMMM Ohhh, APPLE JACK, TRACE MY SPINE AND HOLD ME DOWN!!! DO THAT! USE YOUR TONGUE! MAKE ME MOAN! rAwr! DON’T STOP TILL I AM SHAKING! AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Rarity shouted aimlessly into the air and to her lover. Little did they both know they had company downstairs outside their windowsill.

Discord snapped his fingers as quiet as he could only to make all the sewing machines in the whole boutique turn on offensively loud. The machines all started to float and formed into a line chugging like a train towards the bedroom.

Rarity screamed in a high pitch tone and started to whimper holding on to Apple Jack for dear life. Apple Jack remained calm and was remembering what she learned from Zecora during the visit at the Hut. She blinks her eyes and both of them had clothing on. That was when Rarity realized they were in the dream world this whole time.

Rarity looks at what she was now wearing and says, “Really!?”

“No time ta question right now, Sugar love! We’ve ta jet as fast as R.D.! Blink yer way inta a new outfit when we get somewhere!”

In mid run, Rarity already blinked her way into 11 outfits.

The train of sewing machines chased them out the door. Pinkie Pie and Discord chased the sewing machines.

The four of them passed the hay field and saw an igloo made of hay. The occupants in the hay stack fort heard screaming.

Twilight Sparkle and Trixie heard something about trains and sewing machines. Twilight looked at her watch and immediately bolted upwards. “We need to go, we need to go now Trixie!” they both run out of the pile of now plain old hay. Trixie levitated them and they flew.

Twilight and Trixie trailed Pinkie and Discord. Pinkie and Discord pursued the train of sewing machines. The sewing machines dangled at Apple Jack and Rarity’s tail. All of a sudden the periwinkle Corvette raced in front of Apple Jack and Rarity. Everyone and everything was charging towards the Ponyville Train Station. “MY CAR!” shouts Trixie.

*******

Meanwhile, at the train station on the tracks, both Rainbow Dash’s and Fluttershy’s wings start to grow back to normal size. “Ohhh, my Rainbow… you best put on something decent to wear!” Fluttershy says still relaxing on the tracks cuddling up against Dash.

“Mayyybe I don’t have to tease Twilight. I only found out one thing from her subconscious.” Dash says without any more energy. “Want to know what the cheesy line is? I would have come up with it myself, I swear.”

“What is it Dashie?” Fluttershy opens her eyes to look at her wife innocently.

After saying the riddle and answering it. The Pegasi saw a whole line of sewing machines explode into confetti just before the rest of everyone made it to the train station. Their jaws dropped.

Pinkie Pie laughed hysterically as Discord had to laugh on the inside still holding on to his tummy from the action of laughing. Apple Jack and Rarity turned around and only spurted out a couple giggles each only forgiving it was just a prank. Spike and Zecora jumped out of the car and ran to them to make sure everyone was okay. But, then, Spike ran the other direction because he saw Trixie chasing him and yelling about her car!

Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash stood on the platform still watching the spectacle and holding each other.

Numbering Amounts

Everyone was arguing at the Ponyville Train Station in some way or another. Using her horn, Trixie had Spike levitating in the air dangling. Rarity was flimsily swatting her hands at Pinkie Pie for her prank.

“Hey! Get over it! I personally thought it was slightly funny!” Rainbow Dash says to the crowd from the platform. She hears an ‘Of course you thought it was funny’ from somebody but they all quieted down and focused on why they were there in the first place.

Spike fell down to the ground face first. Trixie says, “At least this is just Trixie’s Car in Dream land and not Trixie’s Car in Reality.”

Rarity says to Pinkie, “I suppose it was clever how you animated my sewing machines to chase me. But, don’t you DARE do that in real life, otherwise, it is ON!” she had already stopped smacking Pinkie as soon as she heard Spike crash back on to the earth and ran to him.

“We have ‘work’ to do, peoples! Can someone tell me what our time frame is? I know that 5 minutes in our ‘awake’ world is an hour in the ‘dream’ state. We need to figure out how much time we have and we have to be able to time ourselves to be able to do what we need to for during actual Inception!” says Twilight Sparkle in one breath like how Pinkie would and in such a worry the way Fluttershy usually is.

“From what I gathered in my notes from Zecora, the compound we'll be using to share the dream creates a very clear connection between dreamers whilst actually accelerating brain function.” Spike starts to explain to Twilight and the rest of the gang.

Twilight interrupts him. “In other words, it gives us more time on each level.”

“Brain function in the dream will be about twenty times of normal. When you enter a dream within that dream, the effect is compounded. Three dreams is ten hours, is, ummm, that’s times twenty, times twenty…”

Dash interfered Spike’s train of thought impatiently pushing invisible buttons. “I'm sorry, math was never my strong subject. So how much time is that?”

Spike was still talking out loud and figuring things out in his mind. “A week is the first level down, six months is the second level down, third level is…”

Twilight calculated everything in her head already answers for Spike. “Ten years. Who'd want to be stuck in a dream for ten years?” she sees Trixie making a face that matched her own.

Spike answers automatically. “Depends on the dream. I guess.” he shrugs his shoulders.

“Sh-surely going into so m-many dreams isn’t that stable.” Fluttershy chirps in quietly.

Apple Jack speaks up alongside Fluttershy’s statement. “Ah agree with Fluttershy here. Mah question is, how in tarnation are we gonna go down right there three layers, with enough stability. Three layers down a little turbulence is gonna translate inta an earthquake. The dreams are gonna collapse with the slightest disturbance.

Spike looks at his notes and reads “Sedation. For sleep stable enough to create three layers of dreaming... We will have to combine it with an extremely powerful sedative....”

Rarity asks her question next. “How do we get out once we've made the plant? I hope you've got something a little more elegant in mind than a measly alarm clock sound I’ve been hearing about.”

“A kick.” Dash says.

Rarity raises one of her eyebrows. “What exactly do you mean by a kick?”

Discord waves his arms for attention. He snaps his fingers just then. A chair produced out of nowhere and he sat down in it. He snaps his fingers once more and another Discord appeared pushing and tilting the chair backwards with him on it. And the ‘him’ that was on the chair had a shocked face look to him from feeling the jolt. Snapping his fingers one last time, the two Discords combined back into one Discord.

“That, Sugar love, would be a kick.” Apple Jack claps at Discord’s performance.

Clapping as well, Dash adds “That’s a feeling of falling which snaps you awake. We use that technique to jolt the newbies awake at the Wonderbolt Academy if they try snoozing in the non-action training courses! Oh, and Rarity? You’ll feel what a kick is slightly… your little sister is supposed to shake you awake soon.”

Twilight purses her lips for a second. “But how are we going to feel that through the sedation? Even that won't cut through three layers of deep sleep.”

“Come on, Eggy, The trick is to devise a kick for each level, then synchronize them to get a snap that penetrates all three layers.” Dash says to Twilight as if she were to have known the answer already. But Twilight’s face was still uncertain.

Zecora sees wind blowing Spike’s notes out of his hands and clears her throat to speak as he goes to fetch his paperwork. “Worry not, Twilight Sparkle. That's the clever part that I have prepared. I have customized the sedative, even to leave inner ear function unimpaired...”

“Well that’s a relief.” Twilight says hoping she understood completely and thinks ‘If not, I’ll figure it out till I understand… … … … Hmmm, YES! Splendid idea you had there, Twily, putting Spike in charge of translating.’ she imagined herself patting her own back. Her thoughts were discontinued by someone speaking up loudly about something on the checklist.

“Hey. You know? I just thought of something.” Dash talks loudly to get people’s attention again because different conversations started to side track them. “I read on the check list that there’s supposed to be some bogus imitation King Sombra dream force army guys or whatnot that we have to dodge and protect ourselves from? Or eliminate them from the dream state and kick them back to reality?”

“Dash, DASH! PICK ME! PICK ME to answer that question!” Pinkie jumps up and down and points to Discord’s mouth. “We ran into one at the Prank Store and look what he did to Discord! That could have been me! He saved me, everyone. HE SAVED ME!!! And then, we got away. And that’s how Equestria was made. Irrr. I mean, and that’s how and why Discord doesn’t have a mouth at the moment. TRUE STORY!”

“Darn, you encountered one already!? I’m kinda jealous.” Dash says frowning lightly.

“Ah’m with ya there, R.D.! Me too!” Apple Jack says to both Dash and Pinkie.

Soon a smell of deliciousness filled the air. It smelled like the food Rarity described during lunch. It was a strong scent. Spike started to panic and pulled out his chess pawn piece totem out of his pocket. He started to blush to himself and puts the totem back in his pocket. ‘Silly Spikey Wikey!’ he says to himself. ‘Even Fluttershy isn’t freaking out!’

“I cannot believe we’ve been sleeping for that long! Or short? I am still rather confused at this whole thing. We’ve been here for a little bit over a day without the sun going down but we have only slept 4.8-ish hours.” Rarity says surprised.

Fluttershy giggles because she knew what her Rainbow had to say about that… and she was right.

“Yeah! You all took more than an hour and a half to get here! But, at least you all showed up at the same time! My Flutters and I had to keep ourselves occupied if you know what I mean!” Dash said with a smirk on her face.

“Ha ha ha… like that was a terrible thing!” Twilight says to Dash smiling broadly.

Dash laughs. “You’re right! I got some Alooooooooooooooooooooooooooone time with my wifey!” She grabs a hold of Fluttershy’s waist making her love blush. Dash’s eyes widened and jaw dropped as her brain finished its scheme for an awesome time and competition. “A.J.!!!!!!!!!! YOU. ME. VS KING SOMBRA’S DREAM TROOPS! 2 HOURS. TALLY ON HOW MANY WE INVALIDATE OF THESE SUCKERS!!!”

“Ah concur, R.D.! Let’s do that idear of yers!” Apple Jack started to get excited and gave a pleading look to Rarity for permission. With a nod of approval she kissed that fine woman of hers. “Green means go! YEEEEEEEHAW!!!!!!!!! Spike!? Wanna join us, Buddy?!” Spike high fived Apple Jack.

“Babe? Can you add potion into our systems, like, 10 minutes extra for us? PLEASE!?” Dash whispered into and kissed Fluttershy’s ear nibbling it.

Fluttershy couldn’t refuse her Rainbow some fun, and it was only 10 extra minutes. The table needs to be set and stretches from lying down from sleeping were in order.

“COUNT ME IN DASH AND A.J.!!!” Pinkie went up to Fluttershy’s other ear and whispered, “Pleeeeeeeeeease add 5 minutes for me!?” she was playfully pushed away by Dash before Pinkie kissed Fluttershy’s face even if it was to look pretend. The three of them started to giggle.

*******

Rarity, Twilight Sparkle, and Fluttershy were the first ones to be shaken to wake up. And then Discord.

Discord woke up with his face red. He and Pinkie were holding hands in bed while sleeping! Fluttershy notices his embarrassment and started speaking to the girls to steer attention away from his direction.

“Now, girls. Thank you for doing a good job getting us up. We will take care of waking up everyone else! Now go on and set the table for dinner and wash up.” Fluttershy says to the trio kindly.

“Yes, Fluttershy!” Apple Bloom salutes Fluttershy

“Anything you say, Fluttershy!” Scootaloo salutes and adds in a bow to Fluttershy.

“Of course, Fluttershy, right away!” Sweetie Belle salutes Fluttershy, curtseying instead of bowing.

“Uhhh, huh, ah, how did you... I still don’t know how you do that, my dear.” Rarity shakes her head at Fluttershy.

“I guess I just have my ways!” Fluttershy says smiling lightly shrugging.

Fight Like Apes

Rainbow Dash, Apple Jack, Pinkie Pie and Spike all looked at each other.

“Well that was pretty cool.” Spike said amused.

Pinkie jumps up and down. “Yeah! They all just POOFED right before our eyes!!!”

“I’ve never been left behind in a dream before… so yeah that was awesome to watch!” Dash said just as excitedly as Spike and Pinkie. “What’s up with you A.J.?”

“Well, Ah think… that we have ta… uhh… RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Apple Jack starts running away towards Rarity’s Boutique.

The three friends turned to see what they were to run from and didn’t even ask questions as they, too, started running. Stampedes of King Sombra’s Dream Troops were charging towards them and they were pretty quick.

“Those guys look like spitting images of the one Unicorn guy that took out Discord’s mouthy wowthy!” Pinkie was panting because she hasn’t had any cardio exercise in ages. “Well, the front of the line does! Everyone else looks uglier and nastier and bigger and stronger!”

“I can start flying right now but, as you know, I never leave my friends behind!” Dash says as she almost caught up to Apple Jack.

“Too bad this is only a dream because we’d be burning calories right now!” Spike says to Pinkie right behind her. “Should’ve hopped into Trixie’s car!”

With no hesitation after Spike mentioning Trixie’s car and it only being a dream, Dash blinks her eyes and imagines Fluttershy’s car and her already driving it. Pinkie blinked herself into Dash’s car. The two of them laughed together. They soon were joined by Apple Jack after being driven by. And lastly, Spike who finally grasped what was going on.

“Where are we driving to?” Spike asks while buckling his seat belt.

Apple Jack started to cough a bit. “Yeah! Ah’d like ta know that too!”

“OOOO, DASH! YOUR SAFETY ZONE!” Pinkie squeals with delight from coming up with what to do next.

“OKAY! Afterrrrrrr… we run some of them over! We’ll retreat there!” Dash drifted the non-driftable car and did a U-turn.

“Uhhh, sorry ta bust yer bubble and all… but, uhhh, they, son, are Unicorns in the front line!” Apple Jack says in a low key voice.

“Pinkster! Think of a bubble shield to protect us!” Dash says to her copilot.

“Aye aye, Captain! You got it!” Pinkie says and blinks her eyes. Soon a bubble inflated and started to roll with the car. It was as pink as Fluttershy’s hair.

“Is it me? Or do I smell cotton candy flavoured bubble gum!?” Spike starts to worry again.

“Nah, it’s not just you, Spike!” Dash starts to worry as well. “PINKIE! I MEANT FORCE FIELD BUBBLE SHIELD!”

“You Silly Dashie-head! You should have been more specific!” Pinkie says frowning.

“EVERYONE, hold hands and blink on the count of three and blink together!!!” Dash commands. “ONE! TWO! THREE!!!” they all blinked as the car crashed into the Sombra Dream Troop and the bubble gum popped into a big gooey mess.

*******

“You. What the hell was all that? Ah was a scared outta mah knickers, R.D.!” Apple Jack punches Dash in the arm after standing up from the soft green grass of safety landing space.

“I had it under control, Dude!” Dash says placing both her hands on Apple Jack’s shoulders and looks into her eyes.

Apple Jack calmed down. “Ah'd hate ta see it out of control.”

“Why and how did they know where we were right away, Guys!? I thought we were to hunt them down! Not the other way around!” Spike asks. “Disgusting Beastly Creatures! They looked like Orcs from ‘Lord of the Rings’!”

“Cause, they, being the subconscious, noticed a big shift of change within the dream world when half of our group woke up and they followed the source.” Dash explains getting an ‘I get it now’ look from the asker.

“Spikey! You can be the Gandalf Wizard Man! Instead of a staff, shoot flames from your mouth at them!” Pinkie says all smiley face again. “I’ll play the Dwarf Gimli! One, cause the name is fun to pronounce. And two, my hair looks trollerific at the moment!”

“Trolls are different from dwarves, Pinkie!” Dash says placing her palm to her forehead. She starts to play along. “Who gets to be Legolas? And who gets to be Aragorn?”

“Ah can be Legolas. Ah’m a pretty good shot there with a bow an’ arrow.” Apple Jack joins in on the game.

“You’re blonde enough, A.J.!” Dash starts to laugh with Spike. They both received the middle finger being stuck upwards towards them from Apple Jack. Dash continues to talk shrugging her shoulders “I thought we would go all military with our hunt, but playing Aragorn seems cool to me.”

“LET’S GO GUYS!” Pinkie shouts “Let’s KICK SOME ASS! I’m going to wake up really soon!” she got a confused face from Apple Jack.

“Pinks only asked for an extended 5 minutes.” Dash explains. “So she can be with her new boyfriend, AHHH HAHAHAHA!”

“He’s not my boyfriend.” Pinkie defends herself.

“Come on now, Pinkie. Cotton Candy Bubble Yum?” Spike asks while chuckling a laugh of his own.

“Don’t ya look at me, now, ya hear! Ah’m not judgin…!” Apple Jack proclaims after being looked at as if she was next to say something negative to Pinkie.

“I guess I like him just a teensy weensy tad bit! But, nothing too serious… what do you call the guy version of a cougar!?” Pinkie asks only slightly serious because in the end, she doesn’t really care, care.

“Or he can be your Sugar Daddy!” Dash says this time everyone joined in on the laugh moment. She blinks her eyes. “I just gave us all ear pieces!”

Apple Jack does a stretch real fast. “We ready yet, ya’ll!?” They all hold hands together and blink. “YEEEEHAW!”

*******

“Keep count of your own score, peoples!” Dash says to them after they landed on a hill top back in dream Ponyville.

“Psssssssssssssssssssssst! Maybe we should do half military style!” Pinkie says lying on her stomach blinking herself a set of binoculars.

“Well, why not. We already have ear pieces.” Spike agreed blinking a pair of binoculars over to him too also lying on his tummy.

“Watch me here, ya’ll! This here arrow will travel all the way strikin through 4 orcs one after the other in a row!” Apple Jack says kneeling down.

“A.J., not yet! We gotta plan this through!” Dash hissed.

“Ya chicken, R.D.?” Apple Jack challenges. “Bawk! Buh-bawk! Bawk! Bawk! Someone ruffle yer feathers tagether?”

“Nope. Game on. Pinkster needs a chance to try to out beat us, anyway!” Dash takes the challenge. “Spike will need a lotta help too! HAHAHAHA”

Apple Jack shoots her first arrow. Spike and Pinkie get up from the ground. The four of them stand next to each other in fighting stances.

“All of Ponyville is emptied.” Dash states “Open war is upon you whether you would risk it with me or not.”

Pinkie calmly says. “Let them come.”

“So it begins.” Spike whispers.

Apple Jack blinks and four strong stallion horses appear before all of them. She says “Ride out with me. Ride out and meet them.”

“For death and glory.” Dash declares.

“For your LADIES, this does include me!” Pinkie chimes in. “For your people.”

The three girls turn to look at Spike. So he says “Crops can be re-sown, homes re-built. Within these walls of Bubble Yum... we will outlast them.” He gets rolling eyes down the line.

They hop on the horses and start to spring towards their enemy who were making their way over to them. They meet and clash with the orcs counting heads of those they take down. The four of them talk into the ear piece to brag on how they are doing.

*******

The last remaining minutes were ticking for Pinkie before she had to wake up. Her head count was up to 241.She threw 5 confetti grenades over her shoulder behind her. Okay, so now her head count was at 303. She was satisfied.

“Hey you guys! Dinner totally smells awfully tasty!” Pinkie Pie brags. “Get ready for my grand finale!” she twirls around with a sword swiping 9 more orcs. “312!”

“You call that a finale?!” Dash yells out to her!

Spike grunts as he pokes his sword into one orc. “177. That wasn’t it, I’m curious to watch as to what she has in mind.”

“Ah don’t think so neither!” Apple Jack says. “497”

“498” Dash says right after. “A.J., Spike come over to me and grab on… I’ll lift us into the air so we can watch the Pinkster in action!”

Spike and Apple Jack make their way to Rainbow Dash and they hold on to an arm each. Dash takes off into the sky. She gives Pinkie a head nod and says into the ear piece “Go for it, Pink Stuff!”

Pinkie turns a full 360. She is surrounded. She shouts to the orcs “Lend me your face! Lend me your face! Lend me your face! I'll bust it up and I'll replace it! I wanna cut you with glass! You haven't got such a pretty ass now!”

She turns into her Pinkie Ninja mode and Kung Foo’s several more asses. More orcs start to attack her as she looks like she’s giving up. “See you at the dinner table guys! HAVE FUN! 389!” she says as she ***POOFS*** out of the dream just as an orc was about to stab her in her gut but the blade found nothing but air.

*******

Pinkie shot straight up from how she was sleeping on her back. She opened her eyes and looked right at Scootaloo who was waiting anxiously to hear all about the King Sombra Dream Troops.

“I let you sleep for an extra 2 minutes, Pinkie Pie!” Scootaloo said to her beaming.

“AWESOME BLOSSOM THING THAT YOU DID KID!” Pinkie jumped up and hugged Scootaloo. “They looked like Orcs so we pretended to be characters of ‘Lord of the Rings’ but us of course! And Dash and A.J. are at a tie. I only got 389. No way Spike will beat me even with his extended stay!”

“That’s cool. I’m going to grab Sweetie Bell and Apple Bloom so we can wake the three of them up at the same time.”

“See you in a few minutes, Scoots!” Pinkie says still smiling and adjusts herself in bed again.

A knocking on the back barn’s door was heard moments after Scootaloo left. “May I come in?” Discord said still knocking. “Please?”

Pinkie got out of the air mattress sleeping bag thing completely and raced to the barn entrance swinging the door wide open. She gives Discord a humongous hug. “You have your mouth back!”

Discord places one of his fingers on his lips just to feel them there. “Yes, yes I do. You’re most welcome, Pinkie Pie!”

Pinkie Pie saw his putting a finger on his lips as a kiss me now hint. So, she took it as that and kissed him sticking her tongue inside his mouth. Knowing she took his breath away, she pulls away and says “Thank you!” With that said and done, she skips her way passed him towards the main house.

Discord just stands there. He is stunned.

The Plan From Stan In The Tan Van

Discord still stands at the entrance of the back barn of the Apple’s. Rainbow Dash, Apple Jack and Spike had already woken up and walked passed him without being noticed. It was like he was still turned to stone and didn’t break out yet. The sun is setting, beaming warm blood orange and golden yellow colours. He was able to at least turn around to face the main house. In his mind he had two pink haired ladies. One of course, was his ultimate crush… and the other, with lighter pink hair, his best friend. He needed to find the latter of the two. Stat. Discord never felt this way before and had someone to talk about it too. ‘Friendship, I suppose, really does have some perks!’ he thinks to himself and floats his way to the main house.

Fluttershy and Rainbow dash are sitting in a tire swing hanging from a large majestic tree just watching Discord float by. Rainbow starts to whistle and Fluttershy cheered a ‘Woohoo! You Rock!’ at him. He snaps out of his daze for a moment and turns his head. Discord takes a bow and heads over their way.

“You saw that?” Discord asks the two Pegasi.

“YEAH! OF COURSE we saw that!” Dash shouts at him holding up her hand for a high five. After looking at him blushing for a hot sec, she receives one. “Thought you were gonna leave me hangin there!”

“I guess I don’t have to find you and tell you about this incident, considering.” Discord tries to sound like himself.

“Yep! And we’re headed inside too! Dinner is ready! Pinkie is already inside.” Fluttershy says with a gleam in her eye and snuggles into her Rainbow’s arms a little bit deeper.

Dash wiggles both her and Fluttershy free of the tire swing. She carries her wifey in her arms next to Discord. “Shall we?” Discord nods his head to confirm. “By the way, Pinkie IS inside, but she’s hiding next to a side table in the living room with a lamp shade on her head.”

“Oooo La La!” Discord says smiling as they walk to the threshold of the main house.

*******

“Psssssssssssssst!!! Discooooooooooooord!!! Overrrrrrrrrrrrr HEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeerrrre!!!” Pinkie hissed at his direction and waved him over to separate from the Pegasi.

Discord whispers at her crouching down to the coffee table level. “What are you up to, my dearest Pinkie?”

Pinkie leans over so close to Discord’s face without touching. “Oh nothing, just waiting for dinner and IT’S READY!!!” she bounced her way to the dining table but turns around just to say “Aren’t you coming?”

Discord snapped his fingers and was sitting at the table before Pinkie turned around to continue inside the dining room. He patted the seat next to him so she could sit down.

“Attention everyone!” starts Twilight Sparkle while everyone starts plating their food. “That was just a taste of what the dream world was like. I think we did an amazing job. I emailed the Princesses about it already. It was nice and very, very sweet just to get the feel of the world. We did not encounter the King Sombra Dream Force… with the exception of Dash, A.J., Spike and Pinkie… AND Discord. So, we will be continuing our shared dreams tonight to have a run at this army. Not that we weren’t going to be sharing dreams again tonight, I was just explaining what we were doing… I mean, there’s another option…”

“We got your point, Eggy!” Dash says awake but tired at the same time sounding kind of grumpy and impatient, most likely hungry. “What’s next?”

Winona starts barking outside. It was more of an excited bark rather than a protective bark.

“Ah wonder who that can be!” Apple Jack stands up to get the door. “Oh, Mah Goodness Gracious! Princess Luna! And… Spitfire?”

Rainbow Dash was immediately by Apple Jack’s side after hearing the name Spitfire. “Hey, dude! Whatcha doin here!?” she held out her fist to Spitfire’s fist and pounded it.

“We cometh baring news, which is both good and bad for thee…” Princess Luna says.

Spitfire finishes the Princess’s sentence. “…and more help offerings.”

“Well, don’tcha just stand there! Come on in! Yer just in time fer dinner!” Apple Jack clears herself and Dash from blocking the door letting the new guest arrivals inside.

“We just started. Twilight was just going over what we need to do next.” Dash explains as they walk back to dinner.

“Hi, Princess Luna!” Twilight says with a smile. “What brings you here? Hello, Spitfire!” she looks passed the two new comers of dinner.

“Hello to thee as well, Twilight Sparkle, everyone else… Princess Celestia had other things to tend to and is grumpy about it. She’d rather join thy feast!” Princess Luna takes a seat. “Continue on with what thou hath to say.”

“If you insist, Princess.” Twilight says.

“I do. I want to enjoy this meal first!” says Princess Luna as Rarity sets a plate down in front of her. “Thou did not need to do that, Rarity, I could have done it!”

“It certainly was my honour to do so, Princess.” Rarity smiles sitting back at her seat.

“I’ll cut my speech short. Our two options are either to fight King Sombra’s Dream Force Army for more practice or start building the dream levels which need to be complicated enough for King Sombra to be disoriented and simple enough for us to weave through it.” Twilight finishes what she needed to say. “Princess? Your news?”

“Spitfire, speaketh for me, please.” Princess Luna says eating.

“Of course.” Spitfire stands up to talk to the table occupants. “In my training for the Wonderbolts in the Academy, there was still dream army training. They ended that the year after I was done. Oh, and King Sombra switched from taking a train to taking a plane.”

“You were trained like King Sombra’s Dream Force? You always seem to be an extra 20% cooler each time you’re around talking about your life. And I’ve known you for years!” Rainbow Dash says in awe. “We should get you to help with this Inception! Hmmm, we have too many people already though.”

“It’s all cool, Dude! Guess who the PILOT is going to be!!!” Spitfire goes for a fist bump.

Dash pounds her fist against Spitfire’s. “WOW! AWESOME!!!”

“So which plane are you flying?” Twilight asks the question in everyone’s mind.

“A 747, duh!” Dash says excitedly.

“Dash is right. The plane is a 747.” Spitfire confirms.

“And why does it matter, dear, what type of plane is it?” Rarity asks trying to understand the whole conversation in front of her.

Twilight answers “I just read a few books on airplanes! Because in a 747, the pilot's up top, and the first class cabin's in the nose, so no one would walk through. But you'd have to buy out the entire cabin. And the first class flight attendant...”

“I own the airline.” Princess Luna says. Everybody turns and stares at her with an expression on their faces saying they should have known that already. Princess Luna just shrugs.

Spitfire adds “And, I took the liberty in assigning the flight attendants and the weather control team so that it’s a smooth flight with no turbulence. You guys have the 10 hours you need.”

“So who’s our team!? WHO’S OUR TEAM!?” Pinkie Pie asks excited for new team players. “We can throw a PARTY welcoming them into this job!”

“The weather control team is Dash’s trusted mates. They are going to fly alongside the plane outside. And I have my dear Soarin as the flight attendant.”

“Rarity, you better start designing his flight attendant's dress!” Pinkie says getting everyone to laugh. “He’ll be really HOT!”

“We should get Fleetfoot as our flight attendant! She’s sexy!” pipes up Spike and everyone laughed at him too.

“Whoah, whoah! Hey, Guys! I just remembered something else.” Spitfire says in a crucial tone and looks at Princess Luna receiving a head nod. “Because of your earlier practice imitating King Sombra’s Dream Force, it alerted the real Dream Force. There’s trouble up ahead. And it will get worse each level deep you get in the dream world. So you know.”

“Wowwie, that there is important!” Apple Jack says as Fluttershy grips onto her Rainbow tighter and asks “R-real?” at the same time.

“And, since it’s a flight instead of the train, the date has been pushed up… don’t worry. You still have a few days. Not a week anymore though.” Spitfire goes on.

“An-anything eh-else?” Fluttershy whispers her question.

“Nah, that’s it.” Spitfire runs a few fingers through her hair.

An imaginary light bulb clicks on. “Would you two like to join our slumber party!?” Pinkie asks the two guests. “We’ll have so much fun sleeping!” she giggles.

“I believe…” Zecora talks “…I have extra concoctions up my sleeve.”

“That sister of mine will shoot me if I do not return carrying food for her from this dinner. I thank thee for thy offer. Perhaps I can join thou at a later hour while thou all are already asleep.” Princess Luna suggests.

“How are ya gonna do that, Princess?” Apple Bloom asks from the still known as 'kiddo corner' "...ya know... without potions and all?"

Scootaloo nudged Apple Bloom from under the table with her leg getting an ‘Ow!’ from Sweetie Belle. “OOPS! Sorry Sweetie Belle, my bad!” she turns and faces Apple Bloom. “She’s the PRINCESS of the Night TIME! Remember when we all went camping? She was in my dreams guiding me.”

“That is true what Scootaloo speaks.” Princess Luna tells the table.

“How about you, Spitty?” Dash asks.

“Mmmm, I suppose this is going to be real fun and it’s the best that I can enjoy since I’m flying the plane in a few days.” Spitfire grins and pulls out her phone. “I’ll just text Soarin right now saying I am not coming home and I’m sleeping with a room full of ladies!” Spike coughs really loud. “And, Spike, who is harmless.”

“AWESOME! You can bunk and squeeze in with my Flutters and me!” Dash offers.

“We wouldn’t mind…” Fluttershy says “…if that’s okay with you…”

“That sounds cool. Thanks!” Spitfire says still grinning.

Princess Luna clears her throat after taking her sip of water. “Then it is settled. I shall meet all of thee later in thy dreams.”

“I’ll take pictures!” Pinkie says all happy.

Rarity couldn’t help herself and says “Oooo La La!”

Everyone started to laugh. Even with the situation on hand, the vibes were still positive and booming.

Pinkie zoomed out of the dining room and into the kitchen and bounced back to where she was sitting originally. “A party without CAKE is just a meeting!” she says and serves everyone a slice. Silence always appears when dessert comes about. It’s a blueberry cake with a banana filling, raspberry frosting with lemon pie filling coating it. “It’s FRUITY! Like, almost this whole room!”

A beeping sound comes from Spitfire’s pocket. She reaches at her phone again. “AH HAHAHA! Soarin says he wants pictures...PINKIE!!!”

Building Blocks? Nope, LEGOS!

“Thanks for the PJ’s, A.J.!” Spitfire says gratefully.

“Hey! Aren’t those the jammies Rarity gave you three Christmas’s ago or something?” Rainbow Dash questions.

“Ah, uhhh… well…” Apple Jack stutters turning red as Rarity starts to glare.

Rarity’s glare extends to Dash, as well, out of bewilderment that Dash thought that style print was seasons ago. “Those were actually her birthday pajamas of a year and a half ago. And she has not yet even worn them.”

“PICTURE TIME!!!” Pinkie Pie yells pulling everyone together in a tight group hug squeeze. “Get all sexy on the bed like thingy!!!”

“I’m sure Soarin was just kidding…” Spitfire says as she’s shoved onto the air mattress sleeping bag get up.

“No.” Pinkie says as a matter of fact. “You can flip through my phone. He asked saying if I did, he’d stop eating pies for a week!”

“Ugh. Typical hornball.” Spitfire shakes her head apologetically to her own self.

“One picture.” squeaked Fluttershy shocking everyone present. “But, make it count.”

“Okie dokie lokie! YOUUUU got it!” Pinkie started to dance in a circle talking to no one in particular. “Should we have Spitfire in thie middle? Or Fluttershy with the two athletes on each side…? Or how about…”

*******

“Hey, Sis!” Princess Luna bursts through her older sister’s bedroom quarters.

“What’s up Luna?”

“Thou careth to come dream hopping with me?”

Princess Celestia shrugs her shoulders. “I’ve nothing better to do. I have nothing planned. Maybe we can have a little fun and play a couple pranks on the girls!”

“Business first! They are constructing the dream levels tonight.”

“Oh, yes. I read my email update from Twilight Sparkle.” Celestia says with a slight frown.

“But, they won’t be working all night!” Luna says passing on her grin to light her sister’s face.

Celestia notices the bag floating next to Luna.

“Oh, eat first, dear sister. It’s very scrumptious!” she teleports the food over. “And then, we shall meet the girls.”

“And spike!” Celestia adds while digging into the food.

*******

“We’re in Ponyville.” is Spitfire’s first comment.

“Yeah… this is our second time as a whole group.” Dash explains hugging her Fluttershy.

“Combat can wait for after we build our dream levels.” Twilight claps her hands together. “Let’s get to work, girls!”

“And Spike.” Spike murmured under his breath producing a clipboard. “Oh yeah, and Discord. “

“Yes, Spike?” Discord pops up next to Spike scaring him from behind on accident. “You called for me?”

“No! Sorry Discord. I was just stating that we’re not girls.”

“I have brought what we need to proceed.” Zecora says. “We must split up again, indeed.”

“How would you have us divide up?” Twilight asks.

Spitfire answers. “A couple of us should stay here while the other’s take another dose of potion. And then, to make your third level you have to leave someone there to watch the other’s sleep. The deeper we go the Sombra Dream Force Army will be stronger and more real.”

“Ah reckon the strongest goes to do the 3rd level.” Apple Jack says.

Rarity dramatically almost faints while she says “Apple Jack, my darling love… you aren’t to be one of those.”

“Well, mah sugar love… Ah must.”

“Don’t worry, Rare… Spitty and I have A.J. covered.” Dash smiles her award winning trust me smile.

“Spike?” Twilight says.

Spike clears his throat. “Okay. Zecora and I will stay here as Fluttershy arranges this first level like we talked about and I will help her while Zecora keeps watch of all of you sleeping. At the second level, Twilight watches everyone sleeping while Rarity helps design the second level with Pinkie and Discord. And the last level? Well, you know. Do that.”

“This should also be what our plan is when we do the real thing.” Twilight says. “Minus the building the levels part because we should have perfected it before we wake up in the morning.”

“You got it BOSS!” Pinkie bounces around. “Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaait a second. We’re not going to have Spitty here with us when we do our job! She’ll be flying the plane! We’re a person short!”

Out of nowhere Trixie materializes. She notices the surprised looks on everyone’s faces.

“Spike! Rearrange that list order!” Twilight tells him as she hugs Trixie and kisses her.

“Sorry, I am late. Trixie had to help Granny Smith with something prior to drinking her potion.”

*******

The second level of the dream world was piecing out nicely. The décor was colourful for being a hotel, compliments of Miss Rarity Designs. Rarity was working on the details of the hotel bar next.

Twilight settled Apple Jack, Rainbow Dash, Trixie, and Spitfire on beds and had them go forward to the next level. Trixie kisses her before she went to lay down.

Discord and Pinkie Pie are on elevator and other maintenance duties. On their way to the stairway in the back east side of the building they spotted part of the Sombra Dream Force Army sensing their presence.

“QUICK! GIVE ME A KISS!” Discord says to Pinkie as he pulls them on one of the benches.

Pinkie kisses him long and hard. After a few minutes of the make out session Pinkie pulls away and looks around. “Did we fool them? They’re still looking at us.”

“Yeahhh. No. It was worth a shot. I was just trying to see if that method would work. We probably should get out of here.” Discord says blushing.

Pinkie grabs hold of Discord’s hand and races to the Bar Rarity was renovating.

*******

“Mah-o-mah… Whoeva here has them subconscious peoples has very attractive subconscious ladies!’ Apple Jack starts to drool feeling guilty for looking.

“They’re nurses! What do you expect!” says Trixie blushing because it’s her sub consciousness clocked in working.

“They are rather sexy!”

The four of them turn around and exclaim “PRINCESS LUNA!”

“Hello girls.”

The four of them turn around again and get sprayed by water pistols. The Princesses start to laugh and giggle. Then the rest of the girls started to laugh as well.

“This hospital is slightly almost correct.” Princess Celestia says.

Princess Luna nods in agreement. “There should be a hallway over there.”

“Not a problem.” Dash says and creates one.

“We have the image of King Sombra’s grandmother’s room from the old people’s home in Draconia. We need to have a safe beside the bed for him to open. Trixie, as Prince BlueBlood, you will get a few numbers from him so he can open the safe and see what he needs to know to plant our message and SAVE the Crystal Empire and so forth and stop that trickling effect from happening and destroying the rest of the world.” Princess Celestia says.

“No pressure or anything.” Spitfire nudges Trixie to make light of what she was told her mission was.

The hospital was finished rather quickly with the help of the Princesses. It is definitely identical to the one in Draconia now minus the staff. King Sombra’s grandmother’s room was the spitting image plus the safe. Suddenly they heard marching coming from the Emergency Entrance of the hospital.

“Take these!” Princess Luna hands the water pistols Princess Celestia used to soak them. She got confused looks. “They aren’t water pistols anymore.”

Everyone crouched down hiding behind the rolling hospital transporting beds.

!!!BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP!!!

“Saved by the bell!” Spitfire yelled to everyone!

“We shall meet thee in level two!” says Princess Luna.

A Nightmare!? WE Don't Live On Elm Street

The next night was the same thing. Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy took a teaspoon each of the special potion to merge their dreams together. Again they visited the land they created from the first time around. It was the same exact amazing way they had left it when the alarm woke them up.

Sure enough, the sun was up brightly shining. The wind brushed against their skin lightly. The hill was still hilly with the olive green ranch house and white picket fence still picture perfect. The forever burning tree was still sparking in its fiery passion. The shore line next to the sea looked so enticing that they just had to go over there and lay around and do things like beach volleyball.

The multi-coloured beach ball sailed up in the air. Fluttershy flew up to return it trying to score. The breeze blew through her hair just right. Rainbow Dash couldn’t help but think ‘WOW, Flutters looks like an Angel!’. She snapped out of her thoughts when Fluttershy descended in front of her and kissed her.

“What’s on your mind, Dashie?” Fluttershy asks wondering.

“Oh nothing, Babe. I was just noticing how…” Dash paused for dramatic effect, continuing in an imitation of Rarity’s voice, “…how ravishing you looked hovering before the sun light and wind blowing your soft baby pink hair!”

Fluttershy giggled and blushed playfully pushing her Rainbow away. “Soooo romantic and sappy you are! I will never stop being in love with you!”

Feeling her own face flush and a tingly sensation, she bursts into the sky flying leaving a rainbow trail that didn’t fade. She back tracks to the center of it and constructs a heart with wings made of clouds. Dash zoomed back down gleaming. She holds Fluttershy in an embrace. She whispers, “I’m only a softy for you, Flutters! Shhhh… not a word…” closing her eyes, Rainbow Dash kisses Fluttershy long and hard making them both fall onto the silk textured sand beneath them.

They spent the rest of the dream skinny dipping and building sand castles till the alarm shouted at them to wake up.

*******

Before going to sleep and traveling to their dream world a third night, Rainbow Dash questions Fluttershy. She is happy that for two nights in a row, her wife slept soundly through. But, even though she didn’t want to… Dash had to. It still boggled her mind as to what bothered Fluttershy in her dreams prior to the union of their dreams. Why Fluttershy still seems hesitant and uneasy right before they sleep. She senses the worry in her Flutters. Why does Fluttershy think that whatever she’s scared of will follow into their safety zone? What is her nightmare about? ‘Here goes… Rainbow Dash thinks as she sighs and takes a breath.

“Fluttershy?” Dash calls to Fluttershy. She shuffles on the bed to get more comfy and waits for a response.

Fluttershy swings open the bathroom door which was already cracked a little. “Yes, Dashie?”

“We need to talk.” She was shocked at how serious her tone could be sometimes.

“Wha-what about, Da-dashie?” stammers Fluttershy, popping her head out the door.

‘Shoot. I got her scared. Ugh! I am so stupid sometimes!’ thinking to herself. Dash calms her voice a bit. “I just wanted to ask you a few questions… a heart to heart… kay, Shy?”

“Mmmmkay, Rainbow… I’m almost done changing for bed…” calls out Fluttershy, slightly echoing from the bathroom tiles “I’ll hurry… give me a minute!” She returned to her toothbrush.

Fluttershy makes her way to their bed smiling and swaying her hips. She crawls in on top of Dash and kisses her till she got a moan out of her lover. Dash slightly breaks them apart to say, “We gotta talk, Flutters! Playtime after we deal with our situation! PROMISE!” Fluttershy rolls off and to her side of the bed.

“What’s going on, Rainbow? Something bad happen?” Fluttershy looks at Dash innocently.

“Well, babe, the reason why I asked Princess Luna for help and went to Zecora’s hut was to find out what your nightmares are about… cause I read about it in one of Twilight’s many books and they turned into night terrors.” Rainbow Dash starts. “And, as you know I am forever going to protect you. I just want to kick whatever it is’s ass. I want you to never worry about it again.”

“I don’t want to speak about this right now…” Fluttershy’s eyes start to water.

“Then show me.” The serious tone came back to Dash’s voice. “Please.”

“N-no!” Fluttershy basically screams.

“Please.” Dash says again seriously. “We’ll just view it from the outside and then blink our way back to our safety zone. I PROMISE!”

“N-no! Please don’t let me see my repeated dream! And it’s too scary! I don’t want you to see either!” Fluttershy pleads.

“Please. Fluttershy. Trust me?” Dash says again.

“O-okay… but don’t mind if I cut your circulation off…” a defeated Fluttershy says.

“You can’t hurt me here… and you definitely can’t hurt me in our dreams! Silly… it’s a dream!” Rainbow Dash starts to smile to make Fluttershy relax and smile. It only partially worked. “Hey…hey… and we can have a little play time when we wake up! I always keep my promise. Especially when it comes to playing.”

“Alright.” Fluttershy says wiping away her tears.

Rainbow Dash reaches for the potion bottle and the teaspoons. Whispered “I love yous” filled the room. They hug each other and kiss just before they take the dream enhancer.

*******

Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy fall from the sky on to black rocks that look like crystals. There was neither sun nor moon. The sky was different shades of purple. Dash does a 360 twirl looking at her surroundings. Over yonder she sees the Crystal Empire. As soon as she thinks that this isn’t so bad, a pair of green eyes with red pupils in a smoky purple haze flashes before them.

The Crystal Castle’s shiny look turned into a huge crumbling tomb stone and the surroundings it’s graveyard. The occupants who usually have blinding glittery skin moved around like zombies. Then a different race with bleak diseased coloured skin chased those people around beating on them. Shouts for help sounded from the palace. The same pair of eyes flashed before them again and suddenly they were inside the Empire’s walls.

Fluttershy hops onto Rainbow Dash shutting her eyes as tight as she can. “We can’t save them… oh we cannot save them…” she repeats over and over like a chant.

Dash’s eyes shift to the dulled out crystal people who weren’t walking about. They were floating in the air above, caged. Some of them pretended to be passed out to not get poked at with hot steel rods. Some of them really were passed out. Some of them were awake enough to try calling for help with their arms flailing outside of the cages.

Fluttershy’s subconscious started to kick in. Everyone in the dream noticed the intruder inside… they started to chase after Rainbow Dash. “HOLD ON TIGHT, FLUTTERSHY!!! WE’RE ABOUT TO FLY!” She didn’t even gear up, just leaped into the sky. The purple haze with the red pupils on top of the green background flashed again knocking them into the ground. Fluttershy was tossed off of Dash but they still held on by hand.

The green blah looking people were almost to them. Rainbow Dash yells, “FLUTTERSHY OPEN YOUR EYES FOR A SECOND!!! WE HAVE TO BLINK TO GET TO OUR SAFETY ZONE!”

Fluttershy did as she was told, not a moment too soon. A hand had almost grabbed at Dash. They landed on soft vibrant green grass. Back they were, in the peace and solitude of their dream establishment. Fluttershy seemed to still be hyperventilating.

She pulled herself together to yell at Rainbow Dash. “SEE!?!? AND YOU MADE ME GO BACK THERE!?!?!?!? I LOVE YOU BUT I DON’T HAVE TO LIKE YOU RIGHT NOW!!!”

“Babe. Please? Flutters? I’m sorry. I just had to know!” Dash starts to apologize. “I’m sorry!” She looks down, turns around and starts flying away towards the inside of the four walls. She’d kick her own ass if she could. “I’m sorry…” Dash says again before free falling onto the bed inside the walls.

Fluttershy seeing this freaked out a little forgetting it was a dream. ‘ Dash just fell just like that! What if she’s hurt!’ Fluttershy immediately runs through the wall entrance only they knew existed. “DASHIE!” she screams.

Rainbow Dash’s ears perked up when she heard her name. ‘Oh goodness something happened to Fluttershy! One of those deathly looking people followed us in here!’ She instantly got up to go to her Flutters to rescue her accidently striking each other on impact. Being as it is a dream, they both recovered quickly talking above each other.

“I thought you were in trouble! I love…” and “I thought you were hurt! I love…” came out at the same time. Dash was the one who then said, “You first, Shy…” so Fluttershy continues kissing Dash pretty much after every other word, “I love you. I can’t be mad at you for a long time. You know that. Please don’t ever walk away like that. Don’t leave me. I’m the one sorry. I love you. I love you! Oh, how I love you!”

Dash started kissing and talking back in the same fashion. “I love you. I just wanted to see what I was up against to protect you. And I think I have seen those horrific eyes before… I am sorry I hurt you. I would never leave you. You know where my loyalties are at.” With one last smaller kiss she places a longer one on Fluttershy laying them down onto the bed.

“What do we do now?” Fluttershy wonders out loud.

A mischievous grin forms on Rainbow Dash’s face as she blinks her eyes. “I just brought back winter!” She flies out of the four walls and starts making a snow ball pile and waits for Fluttershy to come out. Fluttershy exits through the hologrammed wall, making a snow ball, herself. She takes the two mediocre sized snow balls in her hands and looks around the side wall. With Dash not looking, she aims and the frozen ball smacks Dash’s shoulder! Fluttershy giggles and hides back behind the wall. Rainbow Dash gets back at her by flying above waiting for Fluttershy to peer beyond the side wall again and drops five bigger fluffy snow balls on top of her!

Snow Angels, sledding, temporary holiday lights… perfect way to make her Flutters smile.

!!!BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP!!!