Disclosing a Terrible Accident

2 May 2014

15:17 GyroTech takes his scheduled sleep on Inky.

15:18 Inky complains about it "get off me, you're fat" >:|

15:19 GyroTech bites his cheek and tilts his head up to look at Inky. "Am not! My fur is just a little more plush."

15:25 Inky hpmhs and gets back to reading her book, putting up with the heavy stallion laying on her back.

15:44 GyroTech flips over and scoots up her back to look over the ponies shoulder. He gets a leg caught in a wing as he moves.

15:49 Inky yelps as one of her wings is rudely pulled open and held in an awkward position. "Ahh! Ow, Gyro, be careful," she says, wincing.

15:54 GyroTech shifts about, trying to dislodge it but inst actually helping. "What cha reading tger? He asks as he reads a passage.

15:57 Inky squeezes her eyes shut as GyroTech wiggles her bent wing around. "Nnggh... stop.. it's not supposed to bend that way," she whines. The book seems to be about transformation magic.

16:02 GyroTech bites his lip an says "Sorry" in an appolagetic tone and stops moving. Her wingbis still left in a strange position as he leans in closer to the book. "Transformation magic huh? silly bat pony, (magic) tricks are for unicorns.

16:04 Inky forces herself to breath evenly, her eyes still closed tightly. "Please... get your leg out of my wing." She tries to pull it back herself and winces, making no progress. "It's stuck."

16:06 GyroTech says, "I tried to do so... I'm just having trouble moving without hurting you...." He continues to remain still to prevent further damage.

16:11 Inky groans, slapping her forehead with a hoof. "Fantastic." Her wing is pulled over her back, trapped under one of GyroTech's legs with its claw caught on him somehow. He can feel the thin bones that give the bat's wing structure, the whole thing bent too far inwards.

16:25 GyroTech looks over at the tangled mess an winces. "That does not feel like its good. Your bones are actually flexing a little...umm maybe I could like cut the bony part of your claw off? It does grow back right?"

16:26 Inky shakes her head rapidly. "Nononono! They're supposed to flex instead of break! Don't cut anything off!" She cranes her neck, trying to see what's going on on her back. "If you could just... carefully get off me, maybe move to the right a bit so that it's not getting bent as much..."

16:53 GyroTech follows her directions carefully, managing to loosen the tangle, wincing as her claw scratches hard into his leg. He manages to pull it out finally, but not without getting a small gash where he was caught. "Well...I hope your hungry inky..." He comments, a little pain in his voice.as he bleeds.

16:58 Inky sighs in relief as she can finally relax her wing, flexing it back and forth to work off the strain. She stands and turns to inspect the cut, letting her aching wing hang loose at her side. "Don't be silly," she says, sticking out her tongue. "I'll get that bandaged up for you."

17:01 GyroTech bites his lip, wincing from the pain. The cut was pretty deep but not very big. "Alright...just be quick then. I hope you don't have pony aids or anything," he jokes.

17:03 Inky rolls her eyes as she trots off to get her first aid kit. "My mouth is probably full of way more nasty stuff than the claw on my wing, honestly. You picked the wrong thing to worry about!" She returns carrying the case in her mouth, sitting down next to the stallion and rifling through the contents. "Hmm..."

17:07 GyroTech took the opportunity to begin to thumb through Inky's book as she leaves. "Now...why are you studying transformation magic? You can't really use it..."

17:08 Inky glances back at the book and shrugs. "Oh, it's for a... friend of mine, is all." She sizes up the cut and licks what blood had oozed out off of it, grinning.

17:12 GyroTech giggles as she licks at the cut. "I knew you couldn't resist." He looks a little bit more through it trying yo find creased pages that indicated what particularly she might be looking at. "Well I can tell you some about magic you know... I transform objects all the time"

17:14 Inky finishes cleaning the gash and wraps a bandage around it, giving it a couple of pats when she's done. "All finished. And hey, why let some perfectly good blood go to waste, y'know?" She gives him a toothy grin. "About the magic.. it's, uh, complicated?" The mare scratches her mane awkwardly. "Um...."

17:54 GyroTech winces at the cleaning, biting his tongue. "My blood is /only/ perfectly good?" He shakes his head at the excuse. "So you don't think I can do complicated magic?" He asks feeling hurt.

19:26 Inky raises an eyebrow. "Yeah, your blood's fine. What more do you want?" She looks away and scuffs a hoof. "I meant why I was looking at it..."

19:33 GyroTech crosses his hooves and pouts. "I want it to be better than fine...I'm such a sweet pony after all, so my blood should reflect that and be excellent... Not merely fine." He then raises an eyebrow. "And wahat would that reason be? You don't need anything cosmetic...you look just perfect. You're not having a racial identity crisis are you?"

19:50 Inky giggles at the unicorn. "I don't know if I'd call you sweet... Need I remind you that you nearly just broke my wing?" She gives him a mild glare, then sighs. "It's not for me. If you promise you won't tell anypony, I'll tell you."

19:56 GyroTech gives the made an innocent grin. Sweet doesn't imply incapable of accidents my dear." He gives a peck on the lips before nodding. "I can keep a secret. Remember?"

19:58 Inky smiles at the kiss, then laughs. "I remember you telling me some secret to prove you were good at keeping secrets, which... doesn't exactly work."

20:03 GyroTech gives her a pair of puppy dog eyes. "But...you didn't know until I told you now did you?"

20:05 Inky boops GyroTech's nose. "Yeah, I didn't know the secret until you spilled it to me!" She giggles. "I guess that can't really be helped, though. Still haven't heard you promise..."

20:09 GyroTech scrunches his nose under the pressure of her hoof and blows at it. "I promise I promise..."

20:10 Inky pulls her hoof away and nods. "Okay, well... You know Dusk, right? The arcanist?"

20:15 GyroTech gives inky an incredulous look. "You mean to tell me that Dusk has a racial identity crisis? But...but she's such a cute pegasus and those feathers...

20:17 Inky fiddles with her hair bun. "Well she's still a pegasus! ...of sorts." She takes a deep breath. "She's kind of made of goo now."

20:22 GyroTech opens and closes his mouth a couple times. "Y-you should get rid of Izzel then if she has that sort of side effect sometimes..." He immediately assumes. "Oh know...I...I don't wanna become a slime and I've had so much contact..." Gyro collapses into a heap quivering.

20:27 Inky smacks the quivering unicorn with her hoof. "Get a hold of yourself, you big foal! That's NOT how it happened, and please note that I've had far more contact than either of you and remain steadfastly solid, as you just found out!" After the wing fiasco, Inky seems fed up with GyroTech's typical antics for the day, and she's not taking any crap.

20:32 GyroTech drops his jaw in shock, remaining on the ground stunned. He takes a couple of seconds to regain his composure before asking, "Oh? What else would cause such a terrible fate.

20:37 Inky twists her mouth and shrugs. "I don't really know, exactly. She just told me she was 'baked' into that form." She lets that hang there for a bit before fixing GyroTech with an disapproving stare. "And it's not terrible! You'd better not say that kinda thing around her or... or I dunno but just don't!"

21:06 GyroTech doesn't seem entirely convinced by inky's explanation, cocking an eyebrow at her. "Oh? Its not terrible? Can she fly? Can she do any of her weather magic? What about her warm fluffy feather coated body? Is that still there?

21:10 Inky sighs, and her ears droop. "No, she can't fly anymore, though I didn't think to check for weather magic. And she's not fluffy anymore, but that's kind of superficial don't you think?" The bat pony waves a hoof at the book and perks up a bit. "But that's why I'm trying to find out if we can change her back!"

21:14 GyroTech flashes Inky a sly smile and gives a nod. "See! Even you think its a terrible fate or else you wouldn't be working so hard for a cure." Gyro slowly gets to his feet and looks at the book.

21:17 Inky glares at GyroTech. "I don't think it's terrible, I just don't want her to be stuck like that if she doesn't want to be! It's not without its drawbacks; like you said, she can't fly anymore and she really misses that..."

21:25 GyroTech shakes his head. "So if you were never able to fly again it wouldn't be terrible?" He asks trying to find holes in her logic. "We better find the cure though before either of us catch the goo!"

21:34 Inky 's tufted ears droop again, and she lets out a long sigh. "I mean... I dunno. Not being able to fly would be awful..." She walks next to GyroTech and gives him a cuff with her good wing. "I told you already, it's not contagious!"

21:40 GyroTech flinches and shakes his head at the twack. "Oh? How do you know. All you told me was that it wasn't your parasite that caused it."

22:04 Inky looks supremely unamused. "Because the way she described it, it sounded like some event that happened to her once. She never mentioned anything about it repeating." The bat pony's belly lurches suddenly, and she holds a hoof to it to steady it. "Shhh, it's fine," she coos, then looks up at GyroTech, eyes narrowed. "Izzel isn't a parasite, she's a pony!"

22:19 GyroTech says, "Oh? And your your an expert in arcane diseases? The only thing I could think of that she works with that is all that magical are her..." THe unicorn suddenly looks extremely paniced, looking up at the rign around his horn. He reaches up and tosses it on the ground, looking at it like it was a demon. He ignores Inky's insistance about izzel.

22:25 Inky watches the ring bounce, roll and come to a stop on her floor. She looks back at the unicorn, mouth twisting. "Look, I-- she would have told me if it were something like that, if you were really in any sort of danger. You'll be fine!" She waves a hoof at the open book. "If you're so worried about it, why don't you help me find out if we can reverse it?"

22:32 GyroTech levitates the ring onto Inky's table and flips through the book some more. "Well...if she never told you, how do you even know if it didn't just slip her mind since you weren't the pony in danger.? I...I don't wanna lose my magic. I'll be lost forever..." the unicorn wails, still kind of panicked about the situation.

22:35 Inky throws a comforting foreleg over GyroTech's withers, rubbing her side against the stallion. "Dusk's a thoughtful pony. She wouldn't have forgotten," she says firmly.

22:44 GyroTech shoots the mare an unconvinced look. "Thoughtful doesnt exclude forgetful...lets focus on finding a cure for this illness before something happens..." He leans into Inky's warm embrace, rubbing back against her.

22:58 Inky leans against GyroTech and sighs. "I wish you'd stop calling it that."

23:04 GyroTech says, "But it is...she has to be sick in some way. That is the only way that it could of happened. Wether she's sick from some magical accident or some diesase, I dont' know. All I know is we have to cure her, so that we can innoculate ourselves."

23:07 Inky leans her weight against the unicorn, ears flat. "Well... I dunno if she /wants/ to be 'cured', is the thing. She said I could look into it, but even if we found something I'm not sure she'd want to try it..."

23:13 GyroTech shakes his head. "Of course she wants to be cured. Who wouldnt? I think she just didn't want to worry you about anything. Maybe she just figured she had it covered." Gyro reaches a hoof up to inky's head and scritches at her flattened ears.

23:17 Inky looks down and whines sadly. "I... I dunno." She pulls away from the unicorn and walks slowly over to her bed, flopping on to her stomach with a loud sigh. Her tail droops behind her, the usually perky bat pony quite morose.

23:20 GyroTech walks over to Inky and hugs her tight, grabbing the book and plopping it down infront of the pair of them. "Dont worry. I'm sure we'll find a cure before it becomes to hard on her, and before one of us sucumbs to the same thing." He flips to the page Inky was on and rests against her.

23:24 Inky stretches out on the bed, looking quite dejected. "The thing is, she didn't seem sad when I met her... She was just as happy as ever!" The bat pony sighs again and rolls her back towards GyroTech, curling up slightly.

23:30 GyroTech rolls to press his belly against her back, curling against it. "I think thats just a matter of her not wanting to frighten you. Otherwise the disease must of affected her brain as well, and its even more imparitive that we cure her of it."

23:40 Inky frowns more, curling up on herself. "But she seemed just like the Dusk I know! Just... gooier." She squeezes her eyes closed. "If you want to help me research ways to change her back, fine... but if she doesn't want to, we're not going to force her."

16:13 GyroTech curls up even tighter on Inky, draping his tail around her body and slipping his other two hooves under her. "But what if the goo is affecting her mind? Would you want to stay in a strange form it was a side effect of the form that made you thought you liked it even if normally you wouldn't?"

17:57 Inky presses back against the stallion, snuggling into his warm embrace. "I... I don't know," she says, sniffling. "I guess we can't know what she would have wanted before... but like I said, she seemed the same to me..."

00:11 GyroTech nuzzles through her mane against her neck. "It'll be fine...and if for some strange reason she really didn't want to be changed back, well she can always do whatever caused it in the first place."

00:41 Inky nods slightly, leaning back into the nuzzles. "I suppose so," the mare says doubtfully. She sighs again, still seeming really down and not like her usual self.

00:46 GyroTech keeps the nuzzles up. "See, this is why she didn't tell you anything. She doesn't want you so worried about it." Gyro brings the hug tight, cuddling his entire body against her to comfort.

00:55 Inky simply lays there, breathing quietly as GyroTech continues to nuzzle her. She's warm and cuddly in his forelegs, though his rear legs can't help but press up against her squishy womb, slightly distended with Izzel's body.

00:59 GyroTech has learned to ignore Izzels prescense fairly well when she wasn't imediatly interacting with Gyro. He continues to press gently against the bat ponies neck with his snout. "What can I do to cheer you up?"

01:07 Inky takes a while to respond, just laying there with her eyes closed. Finally, she sighs and opens her eyes. "I dunno. I just need... some time." The bat pony pulls at the foreleg sticking under her, hugging it with her own forelegs. "I wasn't worried until you brought up all this stuff... but please don't leave, you're nice and warm..."

01:27 GyroTech rests his head on hers and whispers into her ear. "I could make you even warmer if you'd like...I do know some magic." Gyro squeezes her distended belly between his back legs and massages it. "I'm glad that what ever happens to me, you'll be there to help, just like you are for Dusk, and just like I'm here for you."

01:31 Inky grimaces and shudders as his suggestion. "No," she says, "don't even /think/ about using your heat magic on me." She starts to murr gently as he massages her swollen belly. "Gyro... what you said earlier, is that really all you think of her? Just a parasite?"

01:37 GyroTech stops nuzzling Inky for a second, freezing up as he decides how to best answer that question. He pulls away and takes a deep sigh. "Well...she does weird things and terrible traumitizing stuff to me. She makes it difficult for you to live your life by making you get all hot and runny at innopropirate times, and drinks your fluids so you have to hydrate a little more. So ya...pretty much reads just like a parasite."

01:43 Inky shakes her head. "Yeah, it's a little difficult sometimes, but I do it because we're friends! She's let me do stuff I never would have been able to do," the mare says, her face getting hot. "Really, really.... fun... stuff. But anyway it's a two-way street!"

01:53 GyroTech looks at Inky curiously and quits rubbing her gut. "Oh? What type of fun stuff? And I'd think not being able to control your wetting is quite a down side. You'd attract every interested stallion from a mile away, even working in a stuffy old library.,

02:29 Inky blushes more. "You know... like when I pulled you inside! I can fit stuff in there now, she made me really stretchy, and it feels really good." Her mouth twists as GyroTech mentions inconvenient arousal. "Well... she's stopped doing that so much, and I've gotten pretty good at handling it. All in all it's not so bad, really. And hey -- my library is not old and stuff!"

02:51 GyroTech shakes his head in disbelief. "What, and you've been stuffing other ponies and stuff up there then have you? Well...I suppose thats better than swallowing them like seems to keep happening around me...Still then your subjecting all your occupants to /her/"

02:54 Inky shakes her head. "Not quite... the other times I've let ponies in me, Izzel wasn't there. We practiced with some fruit though, before we came over to your house," she says, blushing furiously. "Oh! And she also gave me some kind of healing abilities, that I used to help heal some badly burned earth pony!"

03:02 GyroTech 's jaw drops open wide. "You could of left Izzel out of that entire encounter? And...knowing what she did to me before you still brought her in?" Gyro asks distraught. After taking a second to mull the second part over he does finally admit, "Well...I supose that second part is kinda cool, but she doesn't do anything like that anymore, since it already happened right?"

03:06 Inky shrugs. "I mean... I don't know exactly what she did to you, really. But you were the first actual pony I did that with, and I needed her help, so I couldn't have left her out." She hmphs. "What, I can't repay her for her help? I'm not sure how long the abilities stick around if I don't let her stay there every so often..."

03:11 GyroTech lets his hug go, content just to let his legs hang loosely around her now. "She...She...well she traumitized me...thats all I'm going to say. I dont' really want to go into what happened, but I know she'd do it again to me given the chance, and you've already payed your debt to her...Its been what? A couple months now that you've kept her safe?"

03:22 Inky hmphs again. "She has trouble surviving on her own, what with drying out and all... and I don't mind keeping her around." She gives her belly a gentle rub, and gets some quiet sloshing in return.