Apple Bundt Cake, Apple Crisp, Apple Fritters, Honey Custard Caramelized Apples, Apple Pie, Apple Scones, Brown Butter Apple Loaf, Baked Apples filled with Spiced Oatmeal and Brown Sugar, Applesauce, Apple Yogurt Cake, Apple Tart, Apple Pie Muffins topped with Streusel, Baked Apple Dumplings, Lemon Glazed Apple Cinnamon Mini Breads, Apple Granola Bars, Apple Cake, Mini Apple Rose Pies, Kale and Apple Soup, Butternut Squash with Apple and Sage Soup, Apple-Cabbage Salad with Cider Vinaigrette, Apple Stew, Apple with Cheddar and Tofu Melts, and more.
Not to mention the drinks, ignoring the alcohol free options like straight Apple Juice or the many berry mixes and so forth, included Apple Cocktails, Apple Crisp, Apple Margarita, Apple Sour... honestly, the list was long and involved vodka, gin, bourbon, scotch, rum, and... well.
Only Adam got the good drinks, but then again the two little ponies had tapped out hours ago. Polite, but stuffed with apple products.
Adam himself had his teeth mutate three times so far. Once to something closer to the original Timberwolf Teeth, then to something close to a set of human options... then full pony/herbivore dentures. To eat the apple products more easily.
This... had been a learning experience.
First, Granny Smith was amazing! By now he had ended up scanning her to see how someone clearly so old could be THIS active with no age related issues.
Turns out that ponies age VERY well. The magic forced any changes to occur in the weakest areas first, so like an old twisted tree that fought through the worst nature could throw her body was a twisted, defiant masterpiece.
He would try to scan more old creatures from this world, as the paths carved in her system by magic and a life dedicated to farm work were art. Pure art.
Secondly, a rich clan history dedicated to a single product, especially one in this world where magic is common and expected, had lead to an ocean of interesting specialty spells.
Preservation and presentation magic was nothing compared to the cooking related spells and charms this old pony could whip out subconsciously.
Those dozens and dozens of dishes? They were not being stored or retrieved, this grandma was cooking in REAL time with magic helping along. Ingredients were soaking in spices, or being dehydrated, or heating internally, or cooling off, or being diced, minced, ground, and more.
Nothing like Twilight's telekinesis was going on here, but every dish was being forced to complete at record paces as magic was taking a natural process and skipping the time needed in the middle by enforcing the results.
Squishy was helping to record everything, and the range of interesting knowledge to gain from this world had expanded by many-fold. This was just the basic information an older pony picked up to feed a large family, NOT a professional chef or magic user.
When she realized that not only was Adam finishing his plates but that he was able to give accurate and in depth reviews of her dishes, Granny Smith had lit up, cooked up a storm, and seemed years younger as she rattled off dozens of long winded stories of the past times she fed the masses.
It was... very nice. A warm homely feeling.
That said, the old pony had reacted to him asking for the recipes by trying to convince him that they were 'Family Secrets', that her granddaughter Applejack was single, and suddenly all the drinks were (while still tasty and apple focused) VERY alcoholic.
He still liked the crazy old pony, and after seeing the wolf drink dozens of knockout concoctions Granny Smith gave up and started sharing some of the more basic treats and snacks.
She DID keep the juice flowing though. If he had anything like a normal biology he would have drowned before blacking out from the layers of delicious booze and such.
Still, the food frenzy eventually wrapped up. Applejack had shown up earlier, caught the conversation of how her 'generous hips' would be a 'pony birthing machine' and noped out of the room... so after accepting a take home package with enough food to stuff a small army, Adam wandered over to Mai and then back to the library.
His original plan on sleeping at Mai's place was put off after she let him know how many couples had visited again for the night. Well... 'sleeping'. This town was going to have one heck of a baby boon, although from conversations Mai had overheard this was a direct result to how well pony magic reacted to purified power.
Though she did accept the food bundle, as he was... quite full.
He wasn't sure how late it was by the time he reached Twilight's place, but he tried to be quiet as he snuck into the building.
Only then did he realize that the noises from the basement implied that Twilight was giving a personal showing of what was likely his 'examination' to Pinkie Pie and... Fluttershy? Hard to tell. That pony was quiet at the best of times, much less when embarrassed and put on the spot.
So to avoid that conversation and any related to it, he settled for the couch in the library main room. Even as a plant, today had been very tiring. Emotionally if nothing else.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Princess Luna found the right dream far later than expected.
Still, better late than never.
Adam was likely going to need some assistance considering how scary being stuck into another world could be. Who knew what night terrors could result... he had twisted into a forest consuming plant-mountain-house and been forced to confront some of the more twisted creatures of darkness. And she had to leave him surrounded by strangers due to how much work was waiting at the palace.
Her concerns and the need for more intellectual company...
Well, she probably should have noticed that this black cloud of magic had some bright pink streaks on the edges before diving into the dream.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Adam blinked as suddenly his activities took a... more realistic hue. Like a spotlight made all the blurry edges in sharp focus.
And with a shock, he realized several things.
First, when a magical princess pony entered a dream, the dream would become real enough to 'awake' the user and have them realize it was 'just a dream', making everything lucid and granting the ability to control themselves.
Second, he had been under a LOT of sexual tension.
Third, this was... not a 'G rated' dream.
He glanced at the other versions of him around the bed. One copy of his body for each power, one copy as a timberwolf (enhanced... both physically and sexually), one copy as an Alicorn (What!?), one copy a skeleton with certain biological (bony) additions.
The girls were in various situations in the middle. Narwhal, one with her powers activated and one without. Dragon, both as a sexy cyborg and as a dragon-female hybrid. Twilight, because why not.
And right now, at the door... Luna (Who seemed very... caught off guard) was wide eyed and seeing three copies of herself... occupied. One of her was normal Alicorn, one was Nightmare Moon, and the third one was an Ipotane (Human torso with horse hindquarters). Oh, there was a fourth one that looked like an anthropomorphisistic pony. Because of course there was.
Adam wearily closed his eyes for a second.
Just... deep, calming breaths.
Right.
He clapped loudly, making the group look at him.
...
He should probably be wearing pants.
Forget it, focus on the 'now'. "Alright, all of me please move to the left side of the room. Clean up what you can, but for now let's put everything on 'hold', as it were."
He waved a hand at the... group. "Dragon, you and yourselves please go to the left with the Narwhals." He ignored his two girlfriends whine about being extracted from the love pile.
He looked at the ponies. "Twilight, would you and..." Oh, there was a couple of other Twilights hidden under the crowd, one as an Alicorn and one as a mostly human pony. Sigh. "Twilight, would you please help your other selves to the right side of the room."
Seeing their expressions he mentally gave up. "Fine. Just... follow the me's to the left then. I... just somewhat order yourselves."
That just left the Luna group, who seemed slightly sheepish about the situation as Princess Luna (Probably the real one) stayed stunned at the entrance. "Right, you four Luna's follow us. I'm not sure if you exist or not, but it doesn't seem polite to have this talk without you involved."
A swipe of his hand had clothing form for everyone. Feeling a draft, he glanced down... right.
Pants.
Somewhat less embarrassed now that he was clothed to a certain extent, he led the Luna crowd toward his new (actually real) guest, exiting the room.
The crowd of people left behind shuffled a little before the closed door opened again.
Adam leaned in. "Right, this may take some time so you all can... go back to whatever. I'm sure Narwhal will want the memory at some point."
His two girlfriends did a very distracting victory squeal before he left again.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
This was probably a dream, but it seemed to blur together with Adam's Simulation powers. Or act similar.
So the room now had a nice table, snacks and tea, and a variety of chair styles to ensure comfort for pony, human, and the others.
Luna had recovered to a certain extent, and was smirking at Adam's low level embarrassment. "Ye know, We are not sure we can actually bend that way."
One of the other Luna's, the human torso one, snorted. "His power allows any and all types of physical modification needed. And he can enhance sensitivity. In fact, he..."
Adam coughed, loudly. "ANYWAY, how may I help you tonight, Princess Luna?"
He watched her glance at her four temporary 'sisters' with a smirk. "We HAD been concerned that you would be having a nightmare."
Nightmare Moon quietly moaned. "Oh, he did."
Adam smacked his face into the table. "Right."
Deep breath. Calm. Peace. "Princess Luna."
All of them smirked. """""Yes?"""""
He pointed at the original. "Don't you join them! Their troll levels are off the chart already!"
Her expression was more than a bit smug. "We don't know what ye are talking about."
Adam glanced at the crowd. "Are you helping them develop? They seem more and more aware the longer this continues."
Her response was cut off by the Alicorn Luna. "Princess Luna's entrance into your dream set off the 'Master' protocols, and Squishy ended up using both 'Recovery' and 'Simulation' to directly control access to your mind. Our personalities were then enhanced via analysis of the scans of our intruder."
Princess Luna choked on her tea. "Are ye using our mind to develop! Are ye not fragments!?"
Nightmare Moon snickered. "We are not developing in the same directions, but we are becoming something close to Mai. As are the other dreamers from the 'fun room'. After all, Squishy had medical scans of all of them at some point."
Adam blinked. "Wha? But when did we scan Twilight?"
The crowd of Luna's reached for each other... and suddenly only Nightmare Moon was left. "Ah, much better. One mind with multiple forms saves so much confusion." She looked back at Adam with a certain gleam in her eyes. "You enabled 'Harmony'. And didn't renable 'Growth' when you slept. You've been passively scanning the souls of ponies for a while now."
Princess Luna watched the form of her private fear with something between intrigue and horror. "And when I joined the dream, this 'Harmony' scanned me?"
Nightmare Moon shrugged. "He still has it enabled, and you are still visiting. Some of your repressed and removed memories have even been added into me as well, now that I think about it." She waved a hoof at the shifting colors outside. "And it is MUCH better in Adam's soul as a part of his power than it was as a part of you."
That... that sounded concerning. "Uh... I thought you were dream fragments?"
Her purple body drifted closer to him. "We were. And if Luna had stayed away, we would have stayed such. But an Alicorn is a being of magic to begin with. 'Harmony' let me finally be free of her fears and regrets... into a form far more powerful and connected to a being with far more potential."
Adam ignored Luna's stunned expression and frowned. "You know that I am not going to stay here, right? That if you ARE a form of the real Nightmare Moon, you will end up leaving this world behind."
She shrugged. "What have I here? My name is feared, a cautionary tale for foals. My friends died years ago, my former body is terrified of me possibly existing, and my sister banished me away rather than work with me to help heal my woes." She sighed before a smirk came back. "Besides, you are young, possibly immortal, sexually active, and planning on exploring reality."
Princess Luna seemed to regain her balance. "Hmm. Our former self seems far more frisky than fiery death."
Nightmare Moon winked. "Like you don't want to ride his saddle."
As Luna sputtered denials, the skeleton Adam poked his head in. "Boss?"
Adam raised his head from his slump. "Yes?"
How could a skeleton look worried? "Right. Uh... Narwhal and Dragon seem to have caught up from being nympho fun girls to standard personalities. So has Twilight. I mean, the Twilights. And aside from the embarrassment, and Narwhal trying to sexually harass... everyone... well."
Oh what now. "Yes?"
Neat, a skeleton can wince. "Turns out the last scan we had was right before we left the Worm reality. And they are very unhappy about you not telling them. You know, the whole 'My Soul May Blow Up' universe hopping thing."
And from behind the skeleton there was a 'small' explosion.
Adam sighed. "Well."
Well. What the hell was he supposed to do!?
In his personal opinion, anything that happened while dreaming shouldn't count. It was a damn dream, after all. A man could think or dream any kind of scenario without condemnation as long as he acted appropriately when away. Then again, Luna was here, part of her had magically infected a simulation of the Alicorn, and... and... sigh.
He stood. "Right, let me... get myself together. Moon, could you please keep Luna company?"
Nightmare Moon snorted. "Not sure she would be into that without a stallion in the middle."
Moving on. Though that blush was quite an expression on Luna's face. "Right. Be back in a moment."
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Results were mixed.
All the Twilights, Dragons, and Narwhals had merged into single beings. So... names were easier.
Downside, this had vastly stabilized their personality and memories. They were damn near perfect copies of their physical selves. Deleting or modifying them now would be super close to murder.
Secondly, HIS duplicates had merged... into him.
Which... well, it felt odd, but the real problem was all the memories he gained. Of being part of nearly every position in an orgy.
He wasn't counting that as a negative, but it made all conversations more awkward.
And there WERE conversations. Even after he explained about how the Simurgh and other thinkers could have stolen the information if he hadn't made this trip, they had required a lot of promises and compromises before letting him out of the wolf house.
And even after they forgave him Dragon, being more logical, let him off easy.
In the end Narwhal went for kinky punishments... which Twilight, Nightmare Moon, and (eventually) Dragon got roped into.
And Narwhal had insisted that they retained the ability to split up into components again for future 'activities'.
Long story short, he now had five magical artificial intelligence's in his soul. Thankfully, the existing simulations would keep them busy.
Mai and Twilight were working heavily with his 'Research' and 'Harmony' power via Golden Garden.
Dragon was using the Garden system as well, working on developing new enhancements for his products via 'Technomancy' and 'Growth'.
Nightmare Moon was working on 'Recovery' and 'Growth' to come up with more 'interesting' forms and abilities. Luna was following Moon around out of curiosity at this point.
And Narwhal was building a new section of Simulation for AI's like Mai and external visitors to visit. Because of COURSE the idea of seducing her external self was instantly her focus.
It was only their long relationship that allowed Adam to see the feelings hidden by their exteriors. Dragon took it best. As an AI to begin with, she knew she could just merge if/when Dragon gained entry. No issues with 'am I real?' that she hadn't already addressed. Mai was born here, in his power... she had no issues leaving clones outside, like the one running the clubhouse.
Twilight was distracted from everything by having such a large number of books, memories, and raw information combined with his super-powered research abilities. She was interested in meeting/collaborating with the Twilight in the real library, but it was a lower level concern for her.
Nightmare Moon was just... so happy to be free. To talk to anyone. To be able to feel things. Touch. Her conversations with Luna were far more lighthearted than either had expected, and she was treating this like a birthday combined with winning the lottery.
The issue was Narwhal.
He wrapped his arms around his girlfriend. Whispered. "You are real. And Narwhal will love to meet her new sister."
He wrapped darkness around her. No one had to see the tears.