FountAnon of Youth, pt. 1 and 2

>Morning, day 312 in equestria

>The sun stabs my eyes even though my curtains are drawn.

>My head feels like it is made out of pain and fuzz.

>How much did I have to drink last night?

>Prying open an eye, I survey my surroundings.

>At least I seem to have ended up in my own house.

>As I sit up, a tomboyish groan comes from the pile of covers beside me.

>"My HEAD..." grumps Rainbow Dash as she sits up.

>I pause, stunned to see her, and to see a trail of Rarity's exclusive 'bald monkey' line of fashion forming a line out the door of my bedroom.

"Rainbow?  What... happenned last night?"

>I try to remember what happenned.

>It was the first batch of alcohol that you had brewed up in Equestria.

>I had invited my bro, the sky blue pegasus currently untangling herself from my stained sheets, to try it out.

>It was only fair.  She had helped me get the water you needed with those rainclouds.

>Rainbow tenses up, her wings shooting up as she registers where she is, and that I had just spoken.

>She quickly regrets it, cradling her head in her hooves.

>"Wh-OW!  You don't know?" she asks, turning to squint at me.

>Shaking my head, I help her to her hooves on the floor.

"I can only guess that we had a bit too much to drink.  C'mon.  I'll make us something that should help."

 

>Rainbow wobbles a bit, and her gait is a little wider than usual.

>"Um... y-yeah.  I don't remember anything either," she replies, face flushed as she looks about the room nervously.  "Feeling really sore, though..."

>She flexes her wings with a bit of a wince, then shakes her hind legs.

>She seemed a little... lankier than usual.  Maybe it was just my hung over eyes playing tricks on me.

>...I really hope I didn't cross that line while drunk.

>After a breakfast, a little hair of the dog, and plenty of water, Rainbow headed out to take care of a few weather duties.

>I headed down to the cellar.

>We had somehow gone through an entire barrel of the beer over the course of the night.  A bottle of wine had gone missing as well.

>Shaking my head, I cleaned up the mess we had made of my house, my bedroom, and my yard.

>There was some fuzzy memory of dares to do tricks with a full mug of beer on Rainbow's head and not spill.

>Too bad I don't remember clearly.  It was probably hilarious.

>My clearing up of broken branches in the afternoon is interrupted by a rainbow-colored streak.

>A miniature, Rainbow Dash colored filly stood on my chest, looking slightly panicked.

>"Anon!  Ya gotta help me!" she shouted in a slightly squeaky voice.

 

"...Rainbow?" I hesitantly ask.  "What happened to you?"

>She hops down, doing an absolutely adorable nervous stamping of her hooves as fast as her legs will allow.

>"I-I don't know!  I was just doing my weather duties, and after I took a nap I went home to get something to eat and I saw that I was like THIS!"

>I give a clueless shrug, then give her a calming hug.

"I don't know either.  Let's go see Twilight.  She might know something."

>The little pony nods up at me.

>Without thinking, I scoop her up and head to Twilight's Library.

>I burst in to find Twilight and Rarity sitting and chatting.

>Well, that explains where the missing wine went.

>"Oh, hhhhelloooo darling!" greets Rarity, breaking out into giggles.  "This drink you gave me lassht night is dimply sivine!"

>No mystery where most of the bottle has gone.

"Twilight.  Something happenned to Rainbow Dash!"

>You deposit the filly onto the floor, and Twilight's rosy-cheeked smile promptly disappears.

>"What happened?" she asks, promptly trotting over and circling Rainbow Dash.

>A brief overview of the day later, and Twilight rubs her chin with a hoof.  She drags out a blackboard.

>Rarity, meanwhile, is resting her head on the table, dopey smile on her face as she fails to notice Spike's flirting.

 

>"Okay... nothing about today seems unusual... did anything happen last night?"

>Two tiny wings pop open to attention.

>"W-well... Anon invited me over last night to try out the first batch of that drink he's been working on for months."

"Last night's still kinda fuzzy... we may have gone overboard a little bit."

>Twilight nods.

>"You can say that again.  You two tried to get me to come over for a glass last night around 1 in the morning," she replied.

"We did?"

>"Yeah.  After I convinced you I wasn't going to, you two headed off to Sugarcube Corner to get Pinkie."

"...that explains the frosting on my living room ceiling..."

>You pause, then look from Rainbow to Twilight.

"Wait... could Pinkie be having-"

>"No," interrupts the purple unicorn.  "I saw Pinkie bouncing around outside with Lyra and Carrot Top about half an hour before you two came in."

>You relax a bit.

>"Yeah.  And Pinkie went through more than either of us," adds Rainbow.

>Twilight pauses, then looks back to the pegasus.

>"Are you sure there's nothing else that happened last night, Rainbow?"

>The filly shuffles her hooves about, then looks around the library.

>"Y-yeah.  Nothing else comes to mind, Twilight."

 

>Twilight's eyes narrow a bit.

>"Rainbow Daaaash... any detail could be important!  We need to find out what did this to you!"

>Rainbow's magenta eyes continue to shift about.

>"I told you, Twi.  I don't remember last night."

>Twilight's gaze remains on the pegasus, nonplussed frown keeping steady.

>Rainbow Dash keeps getting more and more nervous.

>She's practically sweating bullets now, nibbling on her lower lip.

>Her eyes dart between Twilight and I a few times.

>And then... the little filly cracks.

>"OKAY, I ADMIT IT!  I remember everything!" She drags her hooves down her face.

>"Last night, after Pinkie left, I dragged Anon up to his room, and then he rutted me all night like a mare on the last day of estrus that hadn't gotten any!"

>All shocked eyes turned to the little Rainbow Dash, who was looking more and more dazed.

>"Any position you can think of, and even a few I didn't think about, over and over, for ages at a time...  I still can't walk or fly straight and I'm sore all over, but..."

>Rainbow props herself up against the scarlet-faced Twilight to look into her friend's eyes.

>"I bucked Anon and I would do it again in an INSTANT at the first chance I got!"

>There was something a bit disturbing about hearing those words coming out of a foal's mouth and seeing certain bits... winking, for lack of other terms.

 

>There was a still moment of shock before Twilight broke the silence.

>"Spike!  Go do the shopping."

>"Aww, but-"

>He was silenced by getting a scroll magically shoved in his claws, and then him getting literally tossed out the door.

>The door slams closed, then the bottle slips out of Rarity's hooves for Twilight to take a swig.

>Erasing the blackboard, Twi picks up the chalk to write across the top 'Study of Interspecies Relations Between Humans and Ponies'.

>After a moment's thought, she subtitles 'An in-depth look at Human reproductive nature'.

>The smile she gives is slightly annerving.

>The room is soon filled with large scientific equipment floated up from the basement.

>Rainbow and I are strapped into a couple of pieces of equipment.

>It's going to be a bad week, I think.

 

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>Day 313, still Equestria

>Twilight's... ahem... 'studies' of Rainbow Dash, who had been regressed to a filly, and yourself, apparently the cause of said regression, were intense, to put it mildly.

>Where she got the speculum, you weren't certain you wanted to know.

>You were sore, and were certain that the blue pegasus was as well

>...and not for the reasons she was sore yesterday.

>Twilight, when she was done, told you that she was gathering the rest of the six for a little meeting to explain Dash's situation.

>You were hesitant.  Twilight might try running another batch of tests after the meeting.

>She could be scary when she turned her intelligence to nefarious ends.

>...especially when your 'end' was involved.

>As insurance, you didn't eat before the meeting, so that you could get away.

>The five of you sit inside Twilight's library, waiting for her to start the meeting.

>Dash sits near you, fidgeting in her seat and sneaking occasional peeks at you, wings at full mast.

>After yesterday's revelation... you couldn't look at your bro the same way ever again.

>Was she still your bro?  Tough to say.

>Soon, Twilight walks into the room and clears her throat, Spike following afterward wearing huge fuzzy earmuffs and an annoyed look.

 

>"Now then.  I'm sure you all know why this meeting was called," began Twilight.

>Various nods from the ponies and a 'what?' from Spike as he set up an easel for the oversized pad he had carried in.

>"There's... no easy way to go about it, so I'll just say it.  Rainbow Dash is a filly because..."

>She sighed, a blush forming on her cheeks.

>"...because she and Anonymous had a rather private moment.  ...moments.  Night.  Whatever."

>She guestures for Spike to flip the first page.

>A low murmur as Pinkie, AJ, Fluttershy, and Rarity look back and forth between you and Rainbow.

>Twilight holds up a hoof for quiet, then continues.

>"Apparently, due to not doing studies on... THAT aspect of Anonymous when he got here, we completely missed this."

>She guestures for another page flip, revealing another helpful, if obvious, infograph.

>"There was no way we could have known.  ...and even if we HAD done such a test, it probably would have happenned to the... err... test subject."

>A brief glance around showed a blush on everyp0ny except Pinkie.  A few were sneaking furtive glances your way now and then.

>"Right now, I'm doing some tests on the... um... s-samples... that I collected from Anon yesterday.  Hopefully, I'll be able to find a way to reverse the effect.  I have yet to determine the vectors for the effect to take hold, but f-further testing should reveal this."

 

>She turned to Rainbow Dash and frowned seriously.

>"N... Now, Rainbow Dash.  I probably shouldn't have to tell you this, but I will because of your... um... initial evaluation of... er... Anon's 'performance'.  Until we get you back to normal, you shouldn't... do anything.  Like THAT.  With Anonymous."

>Rainbow Dash's face turns a brilliant scarlet.

>"For one, you're a little filly again.  For two, you could be de-aged to the point that you aren't even conceived or something, for all we know.  There may be a limit to the point it can affect you, but it's better not to risk it."

>The filly mumbles something and nods, looking at her hooves.

>"As for the rest of you, NO TOUCHING Anon's... Anon's... member. That's... That's all."

>She removes the earmuffs from Spike.

>"Spike, I'll need you to go outside today."

"C'mon, Spike.  We can go get lunch.  I'm famished," you invite.

>Twilight looks a bit surprised, but the expression soon disappears.

>"Er... y-yeah!  I'm feeling hungry too!" adds Rainbow Dash, a slight squeak sneaking into her voice.

>Before Twilight can object, you all file out of the library.

>She looks after us as we head toward a cafe, then purses her lips in thought.

>Another blush spreads on Twilight's cheeks, and she slams the door closed, a faint click of a lock following after it.

 

>...

>How did this happen?

>You're sitting in the cafe with five mares sitting around your table.

>Well... four mares and a filly.

>Spike had decided he was going to leave after they wouldn't stop making goo goo eyes at you.

>Not long after he left, the four began to grill Dash for juicy details.

>They all jabber at once making an unintelligible babble.

"Girls!"

>"-bet it looks like a mushroom or something, you kn-?"  Pinkie pauses, noticing that the others had stopped talking, then gives a sheepish grin.

"Can we just... leave it be?  It's a bit uncouth to 'kiss and tell', you know?"

>They all fidget, looking at the table.

>"Y-yes, you're right, darling.  One shouldn't forget that this is still something that's between Rainbow Dash and Anon.  Let's just put our questions about that behind us and simply have a wonderful lunch together," replied Rarity.

>The waiter brings out your food, and you all begin.

>...

>Rarity is daintily nibbling away at her salad, making bedroom eyes at you.

>AJ has tied an apple stem into a knot with her mouth.

>Rainbow is... not eating that carrot as fast as she should be.

>At least Fluttershy is too embarrassed to do anything like that, and Pinkie is too out there to consider it.

>You THINK Pinkie wouldn't.

>It's hard to tell with that one.

>It is going to be such a long week.