Chapter 3: The First Night

We all made our way back to Sugarcube Corner, it was dusk by the time we got there. The store itself was closed for business, but Pinkie had a key tucked away somewhere, so she opened the door and we all walked in. My mind kicked into overdrive, considering every potentiality and weighing every variable.

Alright, how am I gonna pull this off? I need to find a way to get Dash alone with me, preferably after the others have fallen asleep…

"Okie dokey lokey! I'll grab some tasty treats for us. You gals and guy can go on upstairs." Pinkie said. "D'you need a ha-er, hoof Pinkie?" I asked her. "No, I got it. Go ahead, Brony. I'll be right up and then we can get to the FUN!" She said while scooping things up from the bakery racks and the fridge. Deciding that it's best to leave her to her business, I walked upstairs after the others and we all filed into Pinkie's room. It was huge, bigger than the living room at my house in the human world, and was lavishly decorated-with pink. Pink EVERYTHING. Imagine your little sister- or cousin- or whatever's room, but pinker. That's what Pinkie's room looked like.

Jesus, this place looks like the fluffle puff pony exploded in here.

"So…pink." I said. "Yep." Dash said back. "I think we can all deal with Pinkie's...eccentric interior decorating for the night." Twilight said. "I guess." Dash and I said. "Well, I believe a bit of purple or green would do this place a world of good." Rarity said. "Ah don' think ah can do this, girls. There's jus too much pink…" AJ said, clearly not taking the girlishness well. "But pink is GREAT!" Pinkie said as she burst into the room. "AND I brought snacks!" She said. "Ooh, did you get some raspberry tarts?" Fluttershy asked. Pinkie nodded and tossed a tart over to her. Flutters caught it and took a bite. She smiled appreciatively. "Snackage is always appreciated, Pinks." Rainbow Dash said as she grabbed a soda from the pile. "Anyone have an idea for a game we could play?" Twilight asked.

Hmm...I should suggest spin the bottle.

I was just about to speak up when Rarity said, "Ooh, we could play twenty questions! I loved playing with you and Applejack during that storm a while back." "Sounds like fun." I said. "Yippie! Fun!" Pinkie said. "That sounds good." Fluttershy said. "Ah think it's a great idea." Applejack said. "Then it's settled. You all know the rules: I'll think of something and then we can go around the room clockwise and you can try to guess what I'm thinking of. Remember, you only have twenty questions." Twilight explained. We were already sat in a circle, starting from me and going clockwise, it was Me, AJ, RD, Pinkie, Fluttershy, Rarity, and then Twilight on my right. "So Brony, you can go first." Twilight said.

Excellent, I should start broad and try to get more specific as we go on.

"It is alive?" I asked. "Nope. Applejack, it's your turn." Twilight said. "Alrigh' let's see…" Applejack thought for a minute then asked, "Can ya eat it?" "As a matter of fact, you can't." Twilight said, suppressing a smile. "Shoot. Alrigh' Dash, you're up." Rainbow Dash looked out the window for a second and said "Hmmmm…" until she asked, "Is it really big?" "Yes it is." Twilight responded. "Ooh, ooh, my turn!" Pinkie Pie said. "Is it bigger than Sugarcube Corner?" She asked. "Oh yes, much bigger." Twilight answered. "Your turn, Fluttershy." Twilight said. "Oh, um… is it bigger than Ponyville?" "What? What could she be thinking of that's bigger than Ponyville?" Dash said. "I don't know, maybe a-." Fluttershy started, but was interrupted by Twilight saying, "Yes, much bigger than Ponyville." She said. "Oh." Dash said, surprised. "Over to you, Rarity." Twilight said, looking to her. "My, my; is it bigger than Equis?" She asked hesitantly. "What!?" Applejack shouted, "What in Equestria could it be that's bigger than Equis?" "Maybe it isn't in Equestria, Applejack." Rarity retorted. "Alright, let's find out. Is it bigger than Equis?" I asked. "Indeed it is." Twilight said.

It must be pretty huge, obviously a celestial body.

"Alright, so it's in space. Is it the sun?" Applejack asked. "…kind of?" Twilight said hesitantly. "Whaddya mean, 'kind of'?" Dash asked. "Well, figure it out. By the way, that counted as your turn, Rainbow Dash." "Ugh." Dash said, "All yours, Pinkie." "Is it… a star?" She asked. "Why yes it is, Pinkie. Nicely done." Twilight said, surprised. "Yay! I won!" Pinkie cried as a shower of confetti rained down from nowhere. "Hey, let's play again." Rainbow Dash suggested. "Sounds good!" Pinkie said, and thus the second game of 20 questions began. I grabbed a brownie and a soda from the pile of snacks Pinkie brought.

This is the life.

A few hours later, we were all laid about the room munching on snacks and sipping our sodas. "I'm boooored." Rainbow Dash said. "Well let's do something, then." Twilight said.

Oh shit, here's my chance.

"Uh, I have an idea for a game we could play." I said. "And what game would that be?" Dash asked me, still not looking up. "Well, it's called seven minutes in heaven." I said slowly. "Seven minutes in heaven, what is tarnation is that?" Applejack asked.

They haven't heard of seven minutes in heaven? Huh. Might as well explain it to them.

"Seven minutes in heaven is a pretty common party game where I come from. It pretty much goes like this: All the players sit in a circle and there's an empty bottle in the center. Somepony spins the bottle and they have to go in the closet for seven minutes with whomever the bottle opening points to. You can do anything you want in the closet, but you only have seven minutes." I said. "That sounds a bit, odd." Fluttershy said. "Well, I mean, it's completely platonic, there's no real harm in it. You girls are all pretty close friends, right?" I said, attempting to cover my tracks. "Of course." Twilight said. "Well, I have a bottle right here. You guys in?" I asked. "Sure, sounds kinda cool." Dash said. "Alright, I may as well learn about this game through experience." Twilight replied. Rarity thought for a while, then said, "Oh, why not. There can't be any real harm in it." "Ah guess ah'll play." Applejack said. "Sounds like fun to me!" Pinkie said. Fluttershy was a bit hesitant, "Oh…um…well…I guess. We have been friends for quite a while." She said.

"Okay, who wants to go first?" I asked. Twilight raised her hoof into the air. "Go for it, Twi." I said. She took the bottle and spun it, it came to a halt on Applejack. "Okay, so we're supposed tuh go in the closet now?" Applejack asked. "That's the way the game works." I said, nodding. The two awkwardly got up and shuffled into the closet. "I'll shall act as the timekeeper." Rarity said, pointing a hoof at the clock on the wall. "Okay. So we just wait out here?" Fluttershy asked. "Looks like it!" Pinkie replied.

And so we waited until Rarity pointed out that seven minutes had passed. Pinkie was the one to notify the participants, "TIME'S UP!" Applejack and Twilight stepped out of the closet somewhat disheveled; most likely owing to the cramped space more than any lewd acts. "This is an odd game, Brony." Twilight said. "I guess you could say that." I said in answer. "I wanna go next!" Pinkie said. "Alright, go for it, Pinks." Dash said. AJ and Twi rejoined the circle and Pinkie spun the bottle. The bottle spun so fast it became a blur and started flying into the air. The mane six treated this as normal.

Pinkie Pie...

After what seemed like ages, the bottle finally stopped on Fluttershy, "Oh my...um...so do I-?" "Let's GO!" Pinkie said, as she grabbed Fluttershy's hoof and dragged her cartoonishly fast into the closet, leaving a smoky shadow of themselves behind. Again, no one seemed to think this was odd. "Seven minutes begins now." Rarity announced to the room.

This is not going exactly to plan...

Another seven minutes in boredom later, Rarity notified Pinkie and Flutters that their time was up, and they tumbled out of the closet along with a multitude of balloons. They were both covered in confetti. Fluttershy looked like a veteran of Vietnam while Pinkie was still boisterous as ever. "So who's turn is it now?" Pinkie asked. "I think it's my turn." I answered, taking the bottle in my hoof. Pinkie and Fluttershy sat back down in their places and I spun the bottle, saying a silent prayer to Celestia that it landed on Rainbow Dash. Apparently, the sun goddess was listening, because the opening of the bottle stopped pointing towards Dashie herself.

Haha! Thank you, Princess! Now I just need to not fuck this up.

"Okay, let's go, I guess." Dash said, getting up and walking toward the open closet. My heart rate skyrocketed. "Yeah." Was all I managed to say. I followed her into the closet and closed the door behind me. It was completely dark, I couldn't see my hoof in front of my face. "I think I figured out what this game is for." Dash said. "Did you?" I asked. "Mhm..." She said, and then I felt something soft against me. Rainbow was pressing up against me, her warmth seeping into my coat. She touched her muzzle to mine and my brain lit up like a Hearth's Warming tree. I could feel her breath on my face, it was warm and sent shivers down my spine. She twisted her mouth around and kissed me; no more than a peck, but it got me going. Something twitched between my legs.

Shit, I hadn't even noticed that.

She kissed me again, more passionately this time. Her mouth opened and I felt a tongue running along my muzzle. I opened my mouth in response and her tongue crept into my mouth. The sensation between my legs intensified and Rainbow seemed to sense it. She withdrew and said "Took you long enough." I could hear the smile in her voice. Then, without warning, she pushed me over and I fell to the floor on my back. "Ah! What the hell?" I cried. "Shh, shut up! Just roll with it, Brony." She said. I was about to say something when I felt something hot against my now very erect stallionhood. Through the pleasure that was crackling through my brain, I managed to figure out that the heat against my cock was a mouth. Rainbow Dash's mouth. She was kissing the tip of my member. She then began delicately licking around my head, sending shivers of lust through my body. Just as I was beginning to get into the rhythm of pleasure signals being sent from my head to my head and back, she took my entire cock into her mouth, the warm cave enveloped my stallionhood and made me moan in ecstasy.

She was either a natural or had done this before. She removed my member from her mouth and placed her tongue on the base, slowly moving upwards until she reached the tip. She then resumed sucking, slowly, but speeding up incrementally. I was beyond thought at that point, I was too far gone in a world of pure ecstasy. After a few more seconds, Rainbow began sucking my stallionhood faster than I thought possible, her tongue coiling and uncoiling around my member as she went. I felt pressure building and the realization that I was reaching climax pulled me out of my state of subconscious bliss into full awareness. I could feel every amazing sensation radiating from my cock as the mare with the rainbow mane grazed it with her tongue while sucking in such a way that I thought I would cum at any second. I moaned in pleasure. The pressure in my stallionhood could build no more. As if sensing this, Dash took my cock into her mouth, past the medial ring and right down to the base right as I blew my load. I felt rope after rope of warm cum shoot down her throat while she hungrily swallowed every drop.

The orgasm tapered off and left me a shivering, panting mess. "Holy fuck, Rainbow…" I said, "You are amazing…" She stared into my eyes with a look of pure passion. "Oh, don't think you're getting off that easy." She said, but before I could find out what she meant by that, I heard Twilight yelling, "Time's up!" The door opened and Rainbow and I were thrust into illumination. Unfortunately, we were both in a somewhat compromising position: me on my back, my deflating member exposed; her situated over me with a hoof to her marehood.

Well, this is awkward.

Twilight and the others stared at us as we walked out of the closet and back into the real world. The throes of sexual passion were gone, replaced by awkwardness and shame.

Shit, I need to cover our asses. I'll just suggest we all go to bed.

"Hey you guys, it's getting kinda late. We should probably go to sleep." I said, wearing my best poker face. "Uh, yeah. We probably should." Dash agreed. "Yeah, we should go to bed." Twilight said as she conjured 6 sleeping bags. Rarity got the lights and the mares climbed into their bags, Pinkie hopping onto her bed. "I'm actually gonna go sleep in my room..." I said to nopony in particular. I did my best to navigate the maze of mares on the floor, trotted to the door, opened it as quietly as I could, walked out into the hall, and magiked the door closed as I went into my room. I climbed into my bed and my mind raced. I got nice and comfy on my side with my hooves tucked close to my body. I closed my eyes and waited for sleep. After a second, or hours, (you can never know when you're in that place between waking and sleep,) I was whisked away into a dream.

I was in what looked like the realm, or dimension, or whatever-type-place that Twilight was taken to by Princess Celestia at the end of Magical Mystery Cure, when Twilight was made an alicorn. Except there was one difference, the floating screen-things weren't displaying scenes from Twilight's memory, they were displaying scenes from my memory. "What the hell's going on here!?" I shouted into the nothingness. "We needed to talk to you." I heard a voice say.

The fuck? I swear I know that voice…

"Show yourself!" I yelled in the direction of the voice. Two alicorns materialized about ten yards in front of me. "Uh…" was all I managed to say as I faced the twin princesses. I regained my sense after a few moments, bowed and said, "Princesses." "You are no subject of ours, thusly you are not required to bow." Luna said. I rose and said, "But princess I-." "There is no reason to lie to us," Celestia said, "we know you are not of this world."

Well shit... Oh fuck, what if they make me go back? I don't wanna go!

"You do not have to leave if you do not wish to. In fact, we need you, Zachary." Luna said.

Did she just read my mind?

"In a way, yes." Luna answered. "Seeing as you are in a dream, I can see your thoughts, memories," she gestured toward the screens, "and emotions. I endeavor not to pry too deep, though." "That's… kinda weird…" I said. "It is, but I suggest you just 'roll with it'." Celestia said. "Uh, ok." I replied. This encounter was getting weirder by the second. "So, why am I here? What's up with coming into my dream?" I asked. "It's somewhat of a long story." Celestia said. "Like how long?" I asked. "Long enough that you should sit down." Celestia answered. "Ok, just lay it on me, then." I said. "I will: You are- no doubt- aware of the nature of the portal that brought you here?" Celestia asked. "Mostly, yeah." I replied. "Well, you may have noticed that the school where you found the portal is nothing like the Canterlot High that Twilight told me about. This is curious, seeing as we originally thought that there was but one portal between worlds. In fact, there are fourteen." Celestia explained. "What?" I said blankly. "Fourteen portals, scattered across the human world." She said.

Ok, mindfuck in progress. So, fourteen portals all around my world…weird.

"The reason we need you is because helpless humans are wandering into Equestria." Celestia said. "Is that bad? Because I love it here." I said. "Yes, it is bad. You are the exception to the rule, as it happens; we'll get to that later. It is bad because when a human meets his or her pony counterpart, the shock of the experience fries their brains. They both either die or become vegetables." She said. "Holy shit... But you still haven't told me why I'm important." I said impatiently. "I'm getting to that." She said, "Now, I'm about to drop a lot on you, brace yourself." "What do you mean?" I asked. "I mean, you are unique." She said. "And by that you mean…?" I asked. "You are the only pony without a human counterpart." She replied ominously.

Okay, so? Wait... what?

"Don't you mean the only human without a pony counterpart?" I asked slowly. The princesses looked at me softly. I think Luna had a tear in her eye. "What the hell are you looking at me like that for?" I asked. "No, Zachary, I meant what I said. You are a pony from birth." She said. I started to shake, for what reason, I had no idea, but I couldn't handle whatever I was feeling. "Wait, you mean that…I'm not human…?" I said as I teared up. Luna nodded. The shock of what was being told to me was too much for me to handle, I broke down. "Oh God, or… oh Celestia…I..." I managed to sputter before collapsing on the ground. After a few seconds, the rational side of my brain took over and I had a thought. "Wait…prove it." I said, wiping my face.

There's no way I'm actually a pony, I would remember something.

Celestia gestured towards one of the screen-things. On it was an image of a tiny, light green colt with a tuft of brown hair on his head. He was being held by a middle-aged-looking mare with a forest green coat and a blonde mane. I instantly felt attracted to her; not sexually, but emotionally. I felt like she was the center of my world. Like she was my...mom.

Oh God, no…no no no no no. No no no! NO! This isn't happening…this can't be real!

The mare on the screen began to speak, "You'll be called Sacrifice. Because that's what you are, and what you'll always be." Suddenly, two burly stallions burst into frame and took the colt from the mare holding it, leaving the mare on the ground, sobbing. "What was that?" I asked. My emotions began to take hold again, and I was struggling to stay composed. Luna looked at me and said, "It was your birth, Sacrifice." "What the hell? Why was I a sacrifice? Why did I have to go to the human world? Who were those stallions working for? Where's my- er, that colt's dad?" I asked.

"Here let's rewind a bit," Celestia said, "your mother was a prostitute when she met your dad. He hired her, she did her thing. The odd thing was, your dad came back, night after night. It wasn't only sex that he wanted, he wanted companionship. He would hire her just to talk. Eventually, your mom, her name was Sparkle Dance, gave up her job and married your dad, Green Grass. Unfortunately, Green Grass became unemployed a few days after your conception. He worked at a lab in Manehattan where they tested strange new spells. They're the ones that created the mirror. They needed a test subject, your parents needed the money. They could barely support themselves, let alone you. You were tossed through after they charmed you to read life signs and such. They saw that it worked, and abandoned you.

You were found by your human mother, Andrea Fykes, and she raised you. The whole reason you don't have a doppelganger- and this is all speculation- is because you went through the portal so early, whatever force that governs the two dimensions didn't have time to see if there was two of you, it just saw you in two worlds and that was good enough." She finished with a sigh. "Ok, I just have one more question. What do I have to do? You say I'm all special and shit, and that there's some tragedy going on across the dimensions, so I obviously need to do something." I said. I was seriously at the end of my rope. "Close the portals. You are the only one who can do the spell to close them." Tia said. "Okay, sounds easy enough, fourteen portals across the human world, close 'em up and everything's hunky-dory." I said cooly, while I was crying and huddled in the fetal position inside. "I'm glad you understand." Celestia said. "By the way, Sacrifice: good morning." Luna added.