- =BiE 44=
- >You stomped through the castle.
- >The guard was leading you.
- >You weren't pleased.
- >You come to Celestia's door.
- >The guard knocks. "Who is it?~" comes from behind.
- >"You know damn well who it is, let me in."
- >The door magically swings open and you walk in, ignoring the stink eye the guard was giving you.
- Fuck you too, guy.
- >You cough.
- >"You could at least air out your sex dungeon before inviting people in."
- >Seriously, it smelled like estrus in here.
- >"Come now Mous, the dungeons are on the lower floors."
- >Good to see she's in top form.
- >Celestia sat at her mirror, running a comb through her hair.
- >"If you're still on that rats nest, I can come back in an hour or three."
- >"No need, almost...done!" she says as she rises from her seat.
- >You give her hair a once over.
- >"You look exactly the same."
- >"You charmer you." she says.
- >Celestia steps out onto her balcony overlooking the city.
- >You follow her out, eager to avoid the musky overtones.
- >"Now, Mous. This is supposed to be a punishment, I hope you don't think this is a visit planned for fun."
- >She says that, but you can see her smirking.
- >"I guess we'll just have to make our own fun along the way, Princess."
- >Celestia lets out a throaty chuckle as she leads you out of the room.
- >You and the Princess walk along Canterlot's busy streets.
- >Ponies passing by were shocked to say the least at the sight they were seeing.
- >"Someone doesn't get out often..."
- >"Oh no, I normally just have an escort with me if I walk the city. However, I usually travel either by carriage or by flying myself." she says.
- >"And, why are we walking as opposed to either of those?"
- >"Why, to see the sights of course! And I love spending my time with my best human friend."
- What?
- >Celestia stops walking. "Unless..."
- >She turns her head and looks you in the eyes with a grin. "Mous, are you asking to ride me?"
- >Seriously?
- >"Gotta try harder than that, O' Queen of the Sluts."
- >You start walking again and catch Celestia grinning.
- >"What?"
- >"I've never been called a Queen before." she says.
- >"Keep the name, it suits you."
- >The two of you continue down a street much less crowded then the last.
- >Good. All those ponies bowing was getting weird.
- >"So, Mous. How has this year been to you?" Celestia said.
- >"I can't complain."
- >"We both know you could, but indulge me. Twilight says you've made some new friends."
- Twilight is spying on us?
- >Not weird at all.
- >"A few."
- >"She also said you made one -good- friend."
- >Dammit...
- >"Yes, Lotus. We work together. We had actually been seeing each other for some time before the cult."
- >"Oh? And how do you feel about her?" she asks.
- >Smells like a trap...
- >"I love her."
- Why did we say that?
- >"Oh my~! I would never had expected to hear you say that, Mous!" Celestia teased.
- >"I try to defy expectations."
- >The two of you continue walking.
- >"So, you've been seeing each other this whole year?" Celestia asked.
- >You nod.
- >"Well now, it seems things are getting serious."
- >"I'm committed."
- >Celestia gets a grin. "So, no looking at other mares when she isn't around?"
- What is this?
- >"Nope."
- >"What about her?" Celestia points to a mare across the street.
- >"Nope."
- >"Her?" a pegasus flying over you.
- >"Nope."
- >"What about -her-?" That one was hanging off some guy in a suit, and looked like a hooker.
- >"Nope."
- >"What about this?" Celestia spins around and shoves her ass in your face.
- Oh, come on.
- >You put on your best offended voice.
- >"Don't insult me, I know what's been there."
- >The two of you approach a large building built into the city walls.
- >Celestia stops outside the steps.
- >This place looked deserted
- >"This the place O' Princess of Pony Pricks?"
- >Celestia lets out a chuckle. "That was rather good."
- Oh?
- >You get a grin.
- >"O' Sultana of Stallion Shlongs! O' Countess of Cocks! O' Duchess of Dicks!"
- >You throw out your arms as you put on your little show.
- >Celestia laughs and starts up the stairs. "Come along, Mous."
- >You follow Celestia inside and enter a large lobby with a single desk in it. A single guard sat behind the desk.
- >He saw the two of you approach. "This way Your Highness."
- >The guard leads the two of you to a small room with a desk in it.
- >You take a seat in the chair at the end.
- >The desk was bisected by the wall, the other side of it was seen through thick glass.
- >Were you at a jail?
- >Celestia catches your attention. "I'll be outside while you do this." she says.
- >The door closes.
- Do what?
- >After a few minutes, the door on the opposite side of the glass opens and a familiar looking pegasus takes a seat.
- Oh hell...
- >You sigh as the pony stares at you.
- >"Stormwing..."
- >"Mercenary." he spits out.
- >"Any reason we're doing this?"
- >Stormwing slumps in his seat. "I'm told that that luminescent bitch in the palace wanted us to have words."
- >Of course she did...
- >"Fine. Let's have words. How's life?"
- >Stormwing grunts. "They treat us like cattle in here. Twenty three hours inside, one out. Not allowed to fly..."
- >"Not allowed to worship a dead chaos spirit?"
- >Stormwing harrumphs. "I have stopped worshiping Discord, Mercenary."
- Well, that's progress.
- >"So, serving time for almost bringing about eternal chaos?"
- >"No." he says.
- >"Oh?"
- >He's starring daggers at you. "I am still serving time because I said I would kill you if I ever got out."
- Oh.
- Well, damn.
- >Can't let him know we thought that.
- >"You would try...but I can see why they keep you here now, at least."
- >We're done here.
- >You bang on the door and have Stormwing taken out.
- >Celestia sent you back into the room when you walked out, said you had two more visitors.
- >The second of which was brought in wearing a straight jacket and a glowing collar.
- >"Trixie, nice to see you. I like the necklace."
- >"Human. Nice to see you're treachery was rewarded." she says with fire in her eyes.
- >You weren't feeling sorry for these fucks. Stormwing was a psychopath.
- >"So, how's it hanging? They ever get you to stop seeing Twilight Sparkles big throbbing horn when you went to bed at night?"
- >Trixie's face flushes. "Trixie will not sit here and be insulted!" she shouted.
- Cute, she doesn't know.
- >See they still haven't fixed the third person thing...
- >"I see your prison garb is a bit different then my last guests, how is psychiatri-"
- >"You thing yourself better then Trixie? You think yourself different?" she asks.
- >"HA! We are the same, human. We both saw what we wanted and took it." she's grinning now.
- >"The only difference between us is that one of us roams free and healthy, while the other is imprisoned and without a kidney!" her she shouted. She had jumped out of her seat and onto her end of the table now.
- Okay...that sucks.
- >Didn't really want that to happen...
- >The aids must have noticed the commotion, because they came in and tried to wrestle Trixie back down.
- >You must have made a face because Trixie got a huge smile. "Remember that feeling, human! Remember the feeling of knowing that you are no different from those you fought!"
- >The guards haul Trixie out, but you can still hear her shout obscenities at you from the hall.
- Right, well, that was annoying.
- >I feel a bit bad about the kidney...
- >The door opens
- She got what she paid for, bitch was lucky...she didn't...lose...
- >Your mind quiets as your last guest is wheeled in.
- >Oh no...
- >No no no...
- >He was in a straight jacket, his mouth locked in a bite-mask.
- >The whole thing was very Lecter-ish.
- >Unlike before, the guards stay in the room.
- >His stare has enough hate in it to destroy a city.
- >"Speedy..."
- >"Don't talk to me, traitor! You don't get to talk to me!" he barks at you. "Traitors don't get to talk to me..."
- >"Speedy...what happened?"
- >Speedy was a good kid, he had punched you after the trial, but you just thought that was emotions playing up.
- >He's all lit up now. "What happened!? WHAT HAPPENED!? WHAT HAPPENED IS YOU KILLED MY GOD!" he bellowed.
- >The guards moved towards him.
- >"Stop."
- >The guards stall as Speedy continues his rant. "You join or society, help us gather up everything we needed to summon Him! AND THEN STAB US IN THE BACK!"
- Technically, it was the kidney.
- >Shut it brain.
- >Speedy isn't stopping. "No, worse than that! You made the entire society meaningless when you KILLED LORD DISCORD!"
- >The room is silent for a while until a sound come from Speedy's side.
- >He's crying... "He...He was the only one that made any sense anymore...and you killed Him. I called you my friend and you killed Him..."
- >"Speeds..."
- >"Shut up! Don't talk to me..." he's breaking down. "You belong in here with us..."
- >That sentence galvanizes him. "You belong in here with us!"
- >Speedy starts thrashing in his bindings, the guards start wheeling him out.
- >"YOU BELONG IN HERE WITH US! YOU BELONG IN HERE WITH US!" he shouts as they take him away.
- >You stepped out of the room.
- >You were shaking.
- >You remembered the Speedy that you talked to on Gallopfrey. The one that was decent to you when everyone else there was distant.
- >The one who took a magical blast to save somep0nies life.
- >To see him turned into that?
- It sucks.
- >You find Celestia standing in the middle of the room.
- >"Okay, I get it. Seeing how I've ruined their lives was my punishment, are we done here?"
- >You wanted to go home.
- >Wanted to see Lotus again and forget all this.
- >"Not yet." Celestia says as the doors to the prison open.
- Great, what now...
- >Two ponies walk in, a mare and a stallion.
- >The stallion was just some unicorn you'd never seen before, but the mare...
- >The mare, you didn't help when you should have.
- >"Screwball..."
- >She trots up to you "Hello, Mous. Princess Celestia" she bows.
- >Her hair is different, she looked bigger, her eyes are natural.
- >"W-what is this?"
- No, seriously, what happened?
- >"Well, when you helped me expel the Voice and closed the portal, it never came back. I spent a few months in a hospital before I got released." she turns to the stallion at her side. "I went and found my old husband, and well...here I am!" she beamed.
- This...this is good.
- >"T-that's great, Screwball."
- >She looked so much better.
- >She glanced up at Celestia. "The Princess told me you would be here today, so I just stopped by to say thank you. Thank you for ending all of that. None of us would be here if you didn't."
- None of us?
- >That denotes more than two.
- She said she was trying for a kid...
- >Guess we know why she's bigger...
- >You and Celestia wave Screwball and her husband off.
- >"Well, come along. I have a chariot ready to take you home." Celestia said.
- >The two of you walk down Canterlot's streets.
- >"Princess, I have to ask..."
- >"Hmmmm~?" she coos.
- >"What was the point of all that? I thought seeing how much I fucked everyp0ny in there up was my punishment, but then you brought out Screwball."
- >Celestia lets out a surpassed laugh. "Mous, I have been around for a very long time...and I've become familiar with taking extreme measures to stop disasters."
- >You glance up at a banner with a full moon on it.
- I'll bet she has.
- >"The 'point' of this exercise was to make you aware of the most important thing in those situations; taking into account the lives that will be affected."
- >Your mind goes back to Stormwing, Trixie, Speedy, and Screwball.
- >Celestia must be a fucking psychic. "There were more that were affected then just the four you saw today, most of them are doing well, luckily."
- That's good.
- >Celestia leads you into the chariot stables.
- >"But, if the trip to the jail was for all that, what was the punishment you told the judge about?"
- >Celestia laughs. "Come now, Mous. A year free? Free to think every day on what horrible plans the Princess had in store? I'd say the judge would be satisfied."
- >Celestia, you magnificent bitch.
- >"Maybe he thought you were the one aiming to be satisfied?"
- >The both of you laugh.
- >You board the chariot.
- >"But seriously, Celestia."
- >She cocks an eyebrow at her name.
- >"Thanks. For all this. I think I needed it."
- >Celestia gets that grin of hers. "That's two you owe me now."
- >You two are left smirking at each other as the chariot flies away.
- >The chariot dropped you off in the center of town.
- >You were able to catch Lotus on the path back you your house.
- >You'll remember the squeal she made when you snuck up on her for the rest of your life.
- >You both decided to forgo T.V. tonight and hid in your bedroom.
- >It was your first night where you weren't afraid of some mystery punishment, you were planning on enjoying it.
- >You like to think you forced Anon and Rainbow to take a night on the town.
- >It was late now.
- >Lotus was asleep on your chest.
- >It had taken eight months, but you two had finally figured out a way to sleep on the bed comfortably.
- >Your mind was going back to the events of today.
- >It still threw you for a bit of a loop, to see what happened to Speedy.
- >Lotus stirred on your chest after a bit. "Are you okay? Your heart is beating out of your chest."
- >Damn traitorous organ.
- >You had been better.
- >"That damn thing, always keeping me up. Take it off my hands for me?"
- >Lotus cocks an eyebrow.
- >"What? It's been a year and I don't see myself giving it to anyp0ny else. Take if off my damn hands for me."
- >Lotus crawls up to your shoulder. "What kind of special somep0ny are you? Dumping that on me?"
- >You roll over.
- >"Come on, it's all noisy and half busted. Do me a solid here."
- >Lotus sighs. "Fine."
- >She gives you a kiss. "I'll hold onto your heart for you."
- Wait, what just happened?
- >Jeeze, pay attention brain.
- >You pull her close.
- >"I love you."
- >She wraps her hooves around your torso. "I love you too."
- >The two of you stay like that as you drift off to sleep.
- >...
- Still in the dark here.

