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The Author Jumps Worlds (MLP)	By : Haunter_Rayne Category: +M through R > My Little Pony Views: 14327 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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**Author's Note** Okay so again I'm giving a warning before this chapter. This part of the tale gets a little dark. I am giving a violence trigger warning here. Nothing explicit happens but this chapter includes flashback pony death. No sex in this chapter but it is almost entirely main story plot from start to end. It's also the beginning of several different storylines that all take place simultaneously on this same day. Lastly, there is some original content that I came up with myself and does not previously exist in the MLP universe.
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Author Jumps Worlds (MLP)
By Haunter Rayne
Chapter 12 - A Pleasure Ponies Fate

Rarity rolled her eyes, “Very well, do as you wish.” Rarity didn't see the point in asking Discord to leave only to know he would just stick around while being invisible anyways. She instead turned her attention back towards the stallion she still clung to for support. “And as for your chaos mister, hehe. You certainly seem to have a knack for causing the most ups and downs of awkwardness and… delight hehe.” She giggled as she kissed him gently.

Suddenly though all eyes were drawn to the door of the lobby which had been left open. “As is to abound, with a pony like Rayne around.” They were all shocked to see Zecora walk in and it was even more surprising to see her with a sulking princess under her arm. Twilight gave a nervous wave with her wing as the zebra dragged her back inside. “Oh and this one I found fleeing out the door. However I have a feeling it might help for her to talk some more.”

Rayne and Discord just looked to one another confused but Rarity was far from pleased, “Why is everypony…. Can't anypony understand what it means when the boutique is closed?!”

Zecora chuckled but raised a hoof to calm Rarity. “My apologies for my intrusion but you jump to the wrong conclusion. I am not here for your stylish fashion, I am merely here to snatch away that one.” She said now pointing directly at Rayne.

Rarity was quick to hold him tighter and pout, “What do you mean? You can't have him right now, Rayne is here visiting me! And will every pony please leave?! We were still in the middle of something. This is my tall, dark, and handsome. Go find your own.” She whined and Rayne was starting to develop a habit of snickering now whenever she did.

Zecora looked stunned by this outburst. “A wonderful time I am sure that he gave, as long as other ponies can behave.” She said looking to Twilight curiously. But then her gaze returned to Rarity as she said, “However I find it hard to believe he would agree, to be with you only because I know Rayne is not that kind of pony.”

“OH Zecora! What a horrid thing to say!” Rarity shouted thinking the zebra was insulting Rayne's integrity.

“You know?” Twilight asked. “Do you already know Rayne personally Zecora?” Twilight firmly restricted herself to only gathering information and resisted jumping to any conclusions.

Zecora looked from one mare to the next but had a face of confusion. “These questions that you ask tell me that you do not know. Discord, why have you not told them that Rayne is so?”

Then all eyes turned to Discord as he gasped baffling, “M-me? Why should I know anything about his social habits? I met him the same day that you did.”

Everyone could see that Zecora was not convinced. “You have been to other lands and traveled even farther than me. It should be clear as day to you that Rayne is a pleasure pony.” The two other girls in the room looked to Rayne for answers but he smiled uneasily having no idea what Zecora was talking about.

Discord rose up high and just laughed heartily. “Oh please Zecora, Rayne is not a pleasure pony. There are no more pleasure ponies. They're all GONE remember?”

Zecora marched right over to Rayne making him shout as she pulled on his hip exposing his flank to the Draconequus. “THIS is a pleasure pony cutie mark!” She argued to Discord. “It is several ponies together in a heart. You Draconequus should be able to recognize it in the dark! Or is it true that you really aren't that smart?” The two then growled at one another agitatedly.

Rayne quickly stepped up between them and pushed the two away from one another. “Okay then, so no fighting now. Let's everypony play nice.”

“Um can anypony please explain what is going on here?” Rarity asked.

“What exactly is a pleasure pony? I have never heard of such a thing before.” Twilight asked.

Zecora stepped up to Rayne and stroked his chin affectionately, completely ignoring Rarity's jealous scowl as she did so. “Long ago there were many ponies with a cutie similar to our friend’s here. They all had the power to charm and seduce any who were near. While some did accuse them to be scandalous or tricksters with insults they threw; they did genuinely encourage the good in others, it's true.” She stepped over to Twilight. “Just as you like to travel Equestria on a friendship mission, pleasure ponies found that making others feel good was their ambition.” Then the zebra walked over to Rarity. “And the best part was their skills did not have limit. Their cutie marks showed many ponies as they can change what they do for partners by the minute.” Walking back to Rayne she batted her eyes at him. “They could sing, they could dance, they could expertly romance.”

“Yes, yes, they get it!” Discord interrupted, getting sick of all the sappy happiness. “Listen ponies… to put it shortly they were like changelings who feed on love but without the desire to use it to conquer. They were like sirens who charm and seduce but never ask for anything in return. They just give, give, give and… no that's really all. Oh and just for clarification, they don't get stronger like sirens or changelings do. That's just their talent.”

“Oh my, why that sounds simply dreamy!” Rarity cheered. “Being able to give love and err, pleasure hehe, to anypony sounds like such a charmed life.”

Zecora stepped up to the unicorn and said, “Oh yes, it is quite charming for us. Pleasure ponies can give others quite a rush.”

“For us?” Twilight asked skeptically. “What about for them?”

“Oh Twi- darling. Of course it's good for them. Who wouldn't enjoy getting to walk around freely loving every pony in Equestria? Uhm, it ‘was’ good for you wasn't it?” Rarity asked to Rayne who just laughed and nodded to her reassuringly. But then Rarity noticed the sad expression on Zecora’s face. “Um Zecora, what's wrong? Wait, don't tell me that there's a catch!”

Now both the mares stared at Zecora nervously. The zebra sighed before saying, “There is a catch my dear mare. But the cost is not yours to bare.”

Now Discord grinned sinisterly saying, “They all love making other ponies feel so good… but the truth of the matter is that they HAVE to.”

Twilight could feel they were holding something back and quickly spoke up, “Have to? What do you mean? Zecora what happened to the pleasure ponies?! Why aren't they around anymore?!”

Zecora hung head as if in shame. “Avoiding this question I had hoped I might. Because the truth is that they all died Twilight.”

“Or were cold bloodedly murdered, you mean Zecora.” Discord hissed. Both girls recoiled in disbelief but when Zecora looked to the Draconequus and then looked away without arguing both of mares screamed.

“What!? NO!” Rarity screeched while holding onto Rayne.

Twilight followed suit sounding panicked. “But why?! You said they weren't villains! That they didn't want to manipulate or control other ponies! It doesn't make sense!”

Zecora finally picked up her head to admit the source of her guilt to her princess friend. “Because WE are the villains to THEM my friend.” Twilight's jaw dropped in disbelief. “All pleasure ponies want is to make us happy but we always turn on them in the end. Earth ponies, unicorns, pegasi and even zebra alike were no different. They began demanding happiness from pleasure ponies until they were no longer coherent.”

“Twilight…” Discord wrapped around to her. “Think of the funniest comedian you know. Now imagine they decided to do a stand up show to last as long as the fans wanted. But then imagine the fans never let that comedian off of the stage… ever! Nopony can keep a show going indefinitely and eventually disappointed ponies will start to boo.”

Zecora shook her head and continued saying, “The truth is worse than that. There is a story from my village told by my own grandmama about where the last pleasure ponies visited at.” She took a heavy sigh before beginning. “As soon as they arrived the village became an instant party. They had both young and old laughing hearty. Even when they disappeared with a stallion or mare while acting naughty, mad at the two male and one female the village could not be. They used their pleasure to open wounded hearts and then guided them to the village member they should have been with from the start.”

“Awww.” Rarity cooed. “That is just like what Rayne has already done for me. Oh em, by the way Twilight, I need to have a talk with you after this.” Zecora frowned and the unicorn stopped her interruption.

“As I say, all seemed merry and gay. However there were some not convinced to let the pleasure ponies have their way. Guardians of the village could not accept their love was free. They scorned the ponies with accusation, suspicion and would only disagree. Rounding around the female of the three they cornered her while the others spread their glee. They cursed and insulted and taunted the mare until they told her that her love was bare. So heartbroken was she that she could not bring them joy… that her heart in her chest they did utterly destroy.”

It was Twilight who spoke next after seeing a tear in Zecora’s eye. “They made her so sad that it broke her heart. That's what you mean right?” She said attempting to clarify Zecora's rhymes.

But it was again Discord who responded. “No, Twilight.” He magically teleported an apple into his claw and then crushed it until the juice ran down his scales. In front of him the alicorns face was stricken with terror.

“The pony fell dead with blood on her lips while her friends were unaware dancing their hips. Once the news had broken all were quite sad. But then the zebras demanded the two stop them from feeling bad. They tried as they could but were given no time to grieve and the zebra demanded that they perform or else leave. The pain and heartache gave them too much strife… and a week after that one took his own life.” By now Zecora was in tears as she ended the story. “Pure of heart but a desperate fool was the last, as he tried to recover from what had just passed. But those same untrusting few, blamed the ponies for their blues. Suspicion and doubt had filled their hearts… and so they raised a mob to tear the pony-"

“ZECORA STOP!” Rarity screamed with tears now streaming her face.

“They killed the last pony?” Twilight asked in shock. “I-I can't believe that. That's horrible, that's disgusting! How could anypony DO such a thing?!” She yelled in rage.

Discord wasn't trying to be unkind when he said, “You mean what you almost did to Rayne about 10 minutes ago?” Twilight's ears slumped again as her eyes went wide with tears. “Oh now don't fret. It isn't really your fault Twilight. Let me guess, you've had a constant suspicion that something was out of place about Rayne since you met him? You can't put your hoof on it but you just can't bring yourself to trust him? That is a perfectly normal response to a pleasure pony being in town and I'll prove it to you.”

Discord grabbed a white sheet of fabric draping it over a dresser like a movie screen. Then he shined a light from his tail and made a shadow puppet show which of course moved into impossible shapes of detail for ponies and buildings. He made squeaky voices imitating his scenes. “Hi, I'm a pleasure pony.” “Yay you make us so happy!” “Oh no, you don't make us happy anymore.” “Oh no, dont say that.” “You don't have what it takes to make us happy anymore!” “Uh! That hurts! Death…” Discord lowered his arms for a moment saying, “Or my favorite…” Raising them back up again with a different scene, “Hi there, I want to be friends and tell you how great I think you are!” “No you don't, you just want attention and to use us for your own bohemian practices. Come on everypony! Let's get’em!!!” And he ended the scene with the ponies attacking the visitor.

“No!” Twilight shouted in disbelief more to herself than anyone else. “Ponies are good, ponies wouldn't do that!”

“Not at first…” Discord said and even he sounded sad now. “But any pony has the potential for greed or fear in their heart. Ponies get jealous. Ponies get bitter. Ponies… make mistakes. And when a mistake turns into a mob… things get out of control.” Discord stepped over and actually put a comforting hoof on Twilight's shoulder. “Let me show you something Twilight. And Rayne this is just an example, don't take offense.” He started the shadow puppet show again and this time showed just Twilight with Rayne in excellent shadowy detail. “You're beautiful.” He had Rayne say while holding out flowers. Then he had Twilight say, “Oh Rayne, I'm not really comfortable with being flirted with and I don't want to sleep with you… BUT I would love a new reading partner.” Then it showed the two sitting in a library reading silently with little happy face bubbles popping around.”

The Draconequus looked to the alicorn. “Now let me show you how else that could have played out.” The shadow figures turned again to Rayne offering Twilight flowers. But this time her response was very different. “Oh no you don't! You flirted with my friend and then you slept with her! You flirted with another friend and then you slept with her too! Is that what you think I want?!” “No, no. You're a princess and I think you're beautiful. I just wanted to give you these flowers. That is what those ponies wanted but-" “What are you trying to say about my friends?! I think you're a pervert! You’re a creep! I think you are brainwashing ponies with sex and flattery because you are a villain! You could only make me happy by leaving!” The shadow Rayne looked stunned and sad but then turned to leave so he could give her just what she asked for. “Where are you going?! Are you fleeing because I'm onto you? You must be stopped before you take advantage of somepony else!” After that shadow Twilight opened to portal to limbo and started to lift Rayne into it.

The real Twilight dropped her bottom to the floor is dismay. “N-no! I… that was exactly what I thought Rayne was doing. I thought he was too charming to be real. I couldn't trust him, I was sure that he was a villain.” Twilight started to cry before she remembered that the real Rayne was still standing in the room. “Rayne!” She shouted darting over. “I am so so sorry! No pony deserves that. I didn't even give you one day before I decided not to trust you. And I DON'T want to kill you! I have never been more disappointed with myself… as a princess, as a friend, as a pony.” Twilight suddenly looked to Zecora and Discord determined. “Why did the female pony in your story die Zecora?”

Discord now slithered over to Rayne and grabbed his cheeks making him smile. “It's quite simple really. Pleasure ponies can take rejection fine, they'll just find a different way to please you.” Discord then made Rayne frown as the unicorn struggled to get his cheeks free. “But if you make a pleasure pony feel worthless… if you lock them in a dungeon with no one to entertain… if you tell them that their special talent in life is meaningless… then the magic that let's them make anypony happy suddenly turns back on them. It makes them feel like they are incapable of giving pleasure to any pony and their hearts literally implode in their chests killing them.”

Rarity was working very hard at controlling her emotions but she was terrified that her new friend was going to die now. “But, this is just terrible! This can't ALWAYS happen to them, right?!”

“You heard it Rarity…” Twilight answered. “The pleasure ponies have been gone for a long time. Discord tell me, does it ever turn out well for them?”

Discord balked at the question. “Are you asking because I'm old? Well I suppose I have seen more than a few in my time, before I was turned to stone that is…… but no, Twilight. I have never seen a pleasure pony grow old. I'm sorry.”

“This is ridiculous!” Rarity screamed, so outraged that her crying eyes almost steamed dry.

“There is a way…” Zecora called out to break the tension in the room, “for Rayne to stay. Friendship is powerful but true love is the strongest magic of all. A pleasure pony who’s own heart fills with love will not fall. He will always have his ability to charm and entertain but if he has the love of another to support him then even through persecution will his heart remain.”

Twilight now perked up excited to finally hear some good news. “So all we have to do is have Rayne fall in love instead of everypony falling in love with him and then he will be safe from being killed by his own magic?” Zecora began to nod but before she could even speak there was a large crash. Everyone looked to see that Rarity had tackled Rayne to the floor and was while kissing him profusely. “Ugh Rarity, this isn't a side of you that I enjoy seeing.” Twilight said, shielding her eyes from the position her friend had landed in.

“Oh get off!” Discord shouted annoyed as he levitated Rarity away from Rayne. “No one here wants to see that. And besides, you're already in love and it's not with Rayne remember?”

Rarity blushed and shouted out defensively, “I never said that I was in love yet!” But nopony missed that she didn't say she wasn't in love either.

But then a cheerful voice beaming with joy came from the princess as she looked at her friend. “Is it really true Rarity? Are you actually in love with somepony?! Ooh I'm so happy for you!”

“Eheh, well yes, sort of.” The gray mare responded. “Remember how earlier I said there was something that I needed to talk to you about?” She chuckled nervously having no idea how she was going to explain this.

But suddenly Twilight gave a nervous step backwards. “Oh, OH! Um, Rarity wooow. Look, I don't want to let you down and I like you as a friend but I'm not into other mares.” Everypony then looked to Twilight super awkwardly. “I mean I'm flattered and you are beautiful and all but…”

Eventually Rarity caught on to what Twilight was saying and immediately recoiled bashfully. “Twilight stop! Oh darling I'm not in love with YOU. I said I need to TALK to you about it.” Suddenly Twilight's face changed from purple to red as she tried to melt away into the floor from embarrassment. “Twi no, the one that I am in love with is S-"

“Yes as amusing as this may be,” Zecora interrupted, “neither of you are who I came to see.” The zebra walked right up to Rayne and suddenly grabbed him by the hoof. “While I do appreciate the company of you folks, I did not come here to tell stories, or for friends or… for jokes.” She said looking to Discord who glared back at her in response. Then she started pulled Rayne towards the door.

“Now wait JUST a MINUTE!” Screamed Rarity as the warehouse door to the lobby magically slammed shut keeping Zecora and Rayne inside the room. “Just where do you think you are going with him?!” She demanded. “He came here to be with me and so that is where he should be!” Suddenly Rarity waved at herself in annoyance from accidentally rhyming like Zecora.

“Oh why that is simple, I am going to enjoy my good luck. Twilight doesn't want him and you apparently have somepony else so I am taking this pleasure pony back to my home to fu-"

“I DON'T NEED TO HEAR THIS!” Twilight screamed. She looked around to everyone in the room feeling a need settle things. “Look, we've all just had a very emotionally trying last few minutes. Why don't we all just take a moment and breathe to collect ourselves, alright?” She said looking around and no one seemed to object. “Thank you. Now listen, I'm leaving and you all can work out the rest yourselves. Rayne, I'm sorry for accidentally trying to kill you and for all of my bad misjudgements. Please, visit me at the castle sometime and we'll talk more. Discord, thank you for standing up for me against myself. Rarity we’ll have that talk you want soon. But for now I think I need to lay down for a bit. And lastly Zecora. Thank you for pulling me back inside to hear about Rayne. Things would have turned out worse if you hadn't stopped me or if I hadn't been told to come here in the first place.” She said with a breath of relief.

Just then though Rarity felt compelled to ask one more question. “Wait a minute Twilight. Who told you that I was seen in my boutique? No one has visited since Rayne came in this morning.” She thought for a moment. “Oh wait, silly me. It must have been Fluttershy, she was here when Rayne came in.”

Twilight was wiping her eyes to make sure she had a clear face before going outside. “No Rarity, it wasn't Fluttershy. It was Spike.” She said before lifting the knocked over mannequin back into place.

“Spike?!” Both Rarity and Rayne screamed in unison as Discord began giggling. When Twilight saw him move back into the corner and materialize popcorn for him to eat she rolled her eyes knowing that something else was going on.

“Yes that's right. When he heard that the boutique was closed up in the middle of the day he wanted to go see for himself to make sure you were ok Rarity. I didn't see anything wrong with it so I let him go. But when he came back he looked devastated! I tried and tried to get him to tell me what was wrong but he wouldn't say. All he would tell me was that he saw you. I had thought you two might have had a fight or something so I originally came as a concerned friend to help. Annnnd then I heard you screaming and you know the rest.”

“Oh no!” Rarity screamed. “H-he SAW me?!” She looked frightfully to Rayne and then back to her friend. “How much, I mean, what did he see exactly?!” She asked panicking.

“I don’t know.” Twilight replied. “But I'm pretty sure it wasn't as much as I saw.” She frowned. “If he had then I'm sure his reaction would have been much worse.”

“Oh no! Oh no, oh no, oh no! This is terrible!” Rarity yelled to herself as she started pacing frantically around the room.

Rayne finally spoke up to comfort the anxious mare. “Rarity, don't worry. We'll make it right.” He said soothingly. She wanted to be her dramatic self but Rayne held her shoulders so that she would look into his eyes.

As she saw his confident gaze supporting her she couldn't help but reduce her panic to just a pouting lip. “Oh I know that in the end we will figure it out. But I'm just so worried about him and what he must be thinking right now!”

“Uhh does somepony want to fill me in here?” Twilight said walking back to Rarity and Rayne. “I care about Spike's feelings too but what is it that needs to be made right?”

Rayne and Twilight looked to each other but it was Rarity who spoke up first. “Twilight, darling… remember that little talk I keep mentioning that we need to have? Well we're about to have it right now.”

Twilight's wings fell and she hung her head as she defeatedly lamented, “Fine!” Picking herself back up she spoke in an exasperated tone. “Alright, whatever it is just lay it on me. It can't be any more shocking than the story that we just-"

“TWILIGHT, THE PERSON THAT I MIGHT BE FALLING IN LOVE WITH IS SPIKE!” Rarity suddenly blurted out which immediately made Twilight freeze in place with one eye twitching. “Twilight, please, don't be angry. You know that he has had a crush on me since forever. Well Rayne helped me to reevaluate some things and… I've decided to offer to reciprocate his feelings for me and just… see how it goes.” She smiled nervously realizing that she didn't quite have the strongest argument at the end there.

Twilight looked like her mind was exploding from too many thoughts at once. “Rarity I… ERRRR! There are so many things wrong with that idea, least of which is that Spike is a BABY dragon!” She shouted. Twilight felt like she was too emotionally exhausted to think straight anymore.

However it was just then that Discord decided to zoom right back over to Twilight's side. “Oh don't worry friend!” He cheered louder than she cared for. “They already went over an entire conversation about that! HERE, allow me to help you catch up!” Then without warning Discord placed the tip from his claw right on her forehead and an entire playback of what he witnessed from the morning played in about seven seconds right before her eyes. Once it stopped Twilight looked like she was dizzy from information overload and collapsed to the floor.

Instantly Rarity and Zecora rushed over to make sure that she was ok. Rayne however was looking around the room curiously. “Hey everypony…” He called out as they all looked in his direction. Rayne was standing next to the windows which all had the curtains down except for the corner of one window which had gotten caught on it's own drawstring. “Isn't this the direction that Twilight's castle would be in? I'm pretty sure I found where Spike got a glance of us from.”

Suddenly a shaky purple hoof stretched up from the ground. “Just, go… Go find him.” Twilight muttered while holding her forehead with her other hoof. Rarity looked down to Twilight giving a heartfelt smile. Twilight sighed but then smiled back. “Don't worry. We will still need to have a big talk about this but right now it can wait. Go find Spike.”

Rarity nodded and then looked to Rayne. He walked up to her and placed a hoof on her shoulder. “Um Zecora,” he said turning back over his shoulder, “I know you came here to see me but it's important that I help Rarity with this.”

“Ehhh do not worry charmed one, I understand. Just do not forget to visit me after you finish with what you have planned.”

Rayne nodded and looked back to Rarity as they both ran out the door together. Discord and Zecora both sighed as they looked to the dazed Twilight Sparkle still laying collapsed on the floor.

**Author's Ending Note** Okay wow, so there really was a lot that happened in this chapter. First of all, what did everyone think of pleasure ponies? I came up with it myself as an old form of cutie mark that no longer appears anymore in Equestria. Also I really could see Twilight behaving exactly this way. What did everyone think of the shadow puppet show? Was that an effective form of imagery to you? Lastly, why was Zecora looking around for Rayne? There is a specific reason that I hinted at in the last chapter that she was in. Can anyone figure it out?
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