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The Best Night Ever – Final
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Twilight and her friends, along with Princess Celestia, Luna, Ramsley, Comet, and the Cutie Mark Crusaders, stood together in the remains of the ballroom, all laughing about how the night had gone since just about everypony had some kind of wacky situation during the gala.
"You two danced the whole night?" Ramsley asked, trying not to laugh, "Was there nothing else to do?"
"There was plenty to do," Alex shrugged, gesturing to Dash, "It was the boss's choice."
"Ahh," He nodded, "I know that feeling."
"What does that mean?" Comet asked, looking a tad offended.
"And what were you four doing with Prince Blueblood?" Celestia asked.
"We were seeing who the most attractive of us is!" Twilight said, sighing, "But I got that cupcake dropped on me."
"And Twilight ruined my chances!" Pinkie said, frowning, "I can almost always control my burps!"
"He ran away from me," Applejack said, "Ah' don't even know what ah' did!"
Fluttershy said nothing.
"You girls are all wonderful, and would be a catch for any colt," Celestia smiled, "Don't forget that."
"Thanks Princess," They all said.
"Yeah!" Apple Bloom chimed in, "Yer' all great!"
"But, who won?" Fluttershy asked, surprising them, "Which one of us would he have chosen?"
"I can get that information for you all!" Luna said, smiling as she cast a spell, making Blueblood suddenly appear in front of them all.
"Eep!" He squeaked, not wanting to see any of these ponies, "W-what have you done to bring me here?!"
"YOU MUST CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOUR MARES!" Luna bellowed as he desperately looked at them.
"None?" He squeaked.
"NOT ACCEPTABLE!" Luna said royally.
He bit his lip and looked at the lineup of Twilight, Applejack, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie.
"Not her!" He said, pointing at Pinkie, "Nothing deflates me more than a lady burping!"
"Awww," She said, "I'll keep them under wraps! …Wait, what do you mean by deflate?"
"And most certainly not her!" Blueblood said, pointing to Applejack, "I have no desire to get my 'fruit' bucked off."
"Beg yer' pardon?" She asked, cocking her head to the side.
With two choices left, he looked from Twilight to Fluttershy.
"Well, I guess I'd have to choose Twili—"
He suddenly made eye contact with Celestia, as she stared daggers at him. So, his choice was the wrath of the Princess, or the wrath of that small, yellow Pegasus.
"So?" Luna asked, having quieted down.
"The yellow mare?" He asked, hoping this wasn't the wrong answer.
"Yes!" Fluttershy said, jumping in the air triumphantly, "I did it!"
Looking at her nervously, he spoke up, "So, are we going to my room?"
"What do you mean?" She asked.
"Well, wasn't that the point of all this?" He asked, "Picking one of you to bed?"
"Oh my goodness, no!" She said, covering her mouth, "I'm not that kind of pony!"
"Is that why you asked me up there?!" Applejack shouted, "You were tryin' to stick me?!"
Everypony laughed at her foul language, well, everypony but the three young girls.
"Stick?" Scootaloo said, having no idea what they were talking about.
"You think we would have done anything like that with you?" Twilight laughed, as Blueblood blushed furiously, "Yeah right!"
Pinkie would have had something to say, but was still giggling over what Applejack had said to him.
"You may leave now," Luna said, casting a spell and sending him away.
"Did you all hear that?" Fluttershy asked giddily, "I was his first choice!"
"Great job!" Alex said, wondering if she had heard the same conversation he just had.
"Any guys would be lucky to have you, Fluttershy," Dash said as she beamed to them all.
"Wait a minute!" Rarity said suddenly, "Which of you three girls threw that cupcake at poor Twilight?"
They all gave each other looks.
"I'm afraid that I have to take credit for that one," Celestia spoke up, surprising them.
"Princess?" Twilight asked.
"I knew about Bluebloods agenda since the night started," She explained, "And I knew that a few pushes here and there would have kept him away from you all."
"What do you mean?" Spike asked.
"The cupcake, the burps, the apple tree, and… well, Fluttershy," The Princess continued, "All it took was a little magic in a few different places."
"So, we never had anythin' to worry about?" Applejack asked.
"Of course not," Celestia laughed, "I wouldn't have had him ruining any of your nights."
"So, we're not getting in trouble?" Sweetie Belle asked.
"Well, if it was only done by royal instruction, then I suppose not," Rarity shrugged, "But please don't do it to anypony else."
"Of course not!" Scootaloo cut in, "We'd never do that, it goes against our moral code."
"You have a moral code?" Dash asked, "Is it written down somewhere?"
"It is," Alex nodded, "One day we decided to see if our talents were being scribes."
"Did it work out?" She giggled.
"I wrote a page full of scribbles," Alex admitted.
"Better mouth writin' than Scoots!" Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle laughed together.
"Hey!" Scootaloo shouted, "I don't need to write! I'm practically a princess!"
"Princesses can write, you know," Luna said to her.
"Well… yeah! But, I can just have the royal tutor teach me in a few years!" She suggested.
"We have no tutor," Celestia said, "Perhaps you should just pay attention in class."
"Na," She said, "I'll just have Twilight teach me when I need it."
Strangely… Nopony argued with her.
"So, what was your big news?" Alex asked Ramsley.
"Well, a big change is coming for the Wonderbolts management, and I've been asked to stay in Canterlot while everything is smoothed out," Comet spoke up, knowing that they probably weren't going to be too excited about her, "However, I asked them if I could stay in Ponyville."
"Wait…" Spike said, "Does that mean-?"
"Yes," Ramsley nodded, "The two of us are going to be staying in Ponyville for the remainder of the summer."
"Yeah!" Alex shouted, jumping up, "Another guy to hang out with!"
"It's normally just us!" Spike added, "It gets so boring with just this guy!"
"Don't listen to him," Alex argued, "I'm best pony!"
"You're not even a pony!" Spike barked back.
"No more pony than you!" Alex shot back.
"Would you two quiet down?" Ramsley asked politely, and yet with a huge amount of power, "You're making the women uncomfortable."
"What is that supposed to mean?" Comet asked, raising an eyebrow.
"I'd also like to know," Dash added.
"Me as well." Luna said.
"Whoops," He smiled nervously, "I mean, I'm sure you can take care of yourselves!"
"Mhmm." They all said together.
"I can't believe you'd say that…!" Spike said, running over to Rarity.
"Not cool, man." Alex agreed, stepping next to Dash.
"I'll be quiet now…" Ramsley sighed.
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Later that night
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Alex and Dash had been given a royal suite at the castle, and had really wasted no time getting down to business. All the energy they DIDN'T spend dancing got used up pretty quick behind closed doors.
Alex rolled over, panting as he smiled confidently at Dash, "Was I good?"
"Oh yes," Dash said, out of breath herself, "I'm pretty sure I enjoy the sex more than you do."
"I really, REALLY doubt that." Alex said.
"Yeah, you're probably right," She nodded, "All those faces you made said enough."
"Do I look weird when we're doing it?" He asked.
"Well, one eye twitches, while you bite the right side of your bottom lip, and inflate your left cheek with air," She explained, "It looks a bit off."
His heart sunk. Because to be honest, he really wasn't worrying about his face while he was… busy.
"I'm joking, don't cry or anything," She laughed, pulling the covers over herself, "We can start up again in the morning though, for now, let's get some sleep."
"Woo! Good!" Alex laughed, happy that he didn't have to watch himself in the mirror next time.
Luckily, post-coital bliss has a way of knocking you out cold in only a few seconds.
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Alex hadn't been to his dreamscape in a while and had enjoyed that fact. But, today, someone had decided to pay him a visit.
Alex opened his eyes and rubbed his eyes with his hands.
Hands.
He was in his human form.
His heart dropped as he looked up, and felt nothing but anger, for what he saw in front of him.
"Long time no see, Alex!" The massive beast said to him, "Did I interrupt something?"
"Discord," Alex said, frowning, "What do you want?"
"Oh nothing," He said, looking like he was about to burst out laughing, "Okay, who am I kidding? I'm coming back to Equestria!"
That escalated quickly.
"What?!" Alex shouted, "How? Why?"
"To take back control, silly!" Discord laughed, "And as for 'the how,' tonight was chalked full of chaos, wasn't it?"
It truly had been, Alex couldn't disagree.
"All I needed was for some good ol' discord to give me the power I need to break free!" He chuckled.
"Then why are you telling me?" Alex asked, "I'm going to go get the Princesses, and they're going to lock you back up."
"Now, that's where you're wrong," Discord explained, "Because I'm breaking out right now."
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Alex shot up in his bed and looked at Dash's sleeping form.
"Wake up!" Alex said loudly, and flicking on the light.
"W-what?" Dash grumbled, sitting up groggily, "I just got to sleep…"
"Discord is out!" Alex said, running out the door, leaving her to process his statement, which it did pretty fast, considering she had just woken up.
Shaking her head, she got out of bed and ran after him. She would have woken her friends, but had no idea where their rooms were. Luckily, Princess Celestia's room was right on the way. Alex had run past it, but Dash figured this was an appropriate time to say something.
Throwing the door open, Dash charged in to the room and shouted loudly, "Princess! Discord is escaping!"
"Rainbow Dash?" She asked, squinting at the light that had suddenly flooded her room, "What is it?"
"Discord told Alex he was escaping!" She explained manically, "Alex is going to check it out now!"
Instantly getting out of bed, Celestia nodded, and surrounded both herself, and Dash in a spell that teleported them outside, to the sculpture garden.
Appearing a few feet away from the statue, they both saw Alex standing in front of the draconequus statue, trembling.
"Alex!" Dash shouted, flying over to him, "Is he still here?"
The statue still stood, so this put both the mares' hearts at ease.
"It looks like this may have been a joke," Celestia said to Alex, "Discord has a twisted sense of humor."
Alex stood up, not looking at either of them as he approached the statue, "It's made of chocolate,"
Lifting a hoof to the statue, he gave it a solid hit as the entire thing crumbled, and collapsed on the ground in several pieces.
"And it's hollow."
