Twilight watched her friend take a single step on the new rug. Dash paid it no mind until the second her hoof sunk into it's refined soft cotton loops nearly two inches. Her breath got stuck in her throat, her ears laid flat against her head and she stopped all movement.
This only lasted a quarter of a second, she immediately backed off as the thick loops tickled her under-hoof ever so slightly. Her face flushed with red for a few seconds and instead, she trotted around towards the fiction section on the shelf. Twilight noticed that Dash didn't say a word and continued on as if it never happened.
This had happened in the past, remembering what Rarity had said after thier trip to the spa. Nopony could touch her hooves. Time and again she would watch as Rainbow avoided the softer ares of any surface: grass, rugs and sometimes even stray pieces of hay as well. Undoubtedly, Rainbow Dash had VERY sensitive hooves.
She was a pegasus after all, spending a majority of her life either in the air or on clouds. It left them with powerful, refined chest and back muscles, but newborn foal soft frogs. If she would spend a few weeks trotting around this could be solved instead of constantly having to worry about what she walked upon. A wry grin crossed her muzzle, She knew how to solve that.
"You said you had new 'Daring Do' Twilight, I don't see it up here..." the pegasus said, having pushed aside all of the older copies she had already read. "Twilight?" she looked back, as the alicorn had fallen silent.
"Oh," Twilight mumbled, having been brought out of the thousand yard stare when she was thinking. "It's up by my bed, I'll go get it."
In an instant Twilight disappeared in a cloud of purple magic and returned just seconds later with the book. "There you go." she smiled. "You are going to love the part when Daring almost-"
"NO!" Dash yelled and her hooves shot up to her ears and she folded them over and began mumbling 'Wonderbolts' over and over again.
"Oh, right! I forget sometimes that you don't like to hear anything about the story. Even if it has nothing to do with the plot."
Dash uncovered her ears and made a wing assisted jump over the rug. "I'll bring it back tomorrow, I promise. I'll even leave your book mark alone." Dash grinned as she stroked the raised letter on the cover.
Twilight went to the newly acquired chair. Everything in her castle was new, the shelves, the books and tables. So much was lost when Tirek destroyed the Ponyville library. But she didn't dwell on that thought much, everything had been replaced to it's former glory. Perhaps even more now as PRINCESS Twilight Sparkle loved books so much, ponies all over Equestria sent her replacements.
But a question lingered in her mind. Why would Dash put so much effort into keep her hooves from being 'uncomfortable', as she saw it. The answer was simple to her, spend a few uncomfortable hours and build up a resistance to them being touched. Or maybe it was that intense.
Twilight plucked a soft down-feather from her wing and held up one of her own hooves. They looked a bit soft, a light purple hue across their leathery surface, lighter than her coat. She shrugged and ran the feather tip across the bulbous part of her frog. The sensation was a dull one, unicorns still had to walk most places so she had a natural resistance to the feather's caress.
Perhaps a different way? She took the feather and worked the tip between her frogs, the area that tended to butt up against the side wall between the two pads. Surely that was one of the less resistant areas.
"Ohhhh...." Twilight moaned. A chill racked her entire body as her hoof pulled away from the feather. An odd ice feeling traveled from her hoof into her spine, causing her entire body to shiver. It was like hitting that funny nerve in her elbow, making it feel like her hoof was shaking, though it was still.
She spent several minutes whipping the feather across that snesitive area. Moaning, gasping and gritting her teeth as she had to force herself to continue. Her hoof was visibly shaking, the area she had disturbed was slightly inflated as blood rushed into the area, her body confused as to what was happening. Soon after the area became a bit numb as it had gotten used to the teasing.
It wasn't that bad. Even though her muscles felt oddly... 'hollow' as well as a strong feeling that they were vibrating at a very fast rate. Twilight had done it to herself and survived, so if Dash was cured of this 'tender hoof' by any means, then it wouldn't be cruel at all.
And she knew just how to cure her
True to her word, Dash returned the next day. She looked a bit tired, but her eyes were alight with excitement. She spent most of the night reading the new volume but managed to get a few hours sleep.
"This was the BEST Daring Do yet!" rainbow gleamed, pushing the book nearly into Twilight's face. "Ahnken Trotten! The Mummy Curse! I thought she would NEVER escape the sarcophagus, mummified like she was!"
"I know, I read it as well." Twilight took the book from the energized pegasus and floated it to the shelf.
"Nightmare Night is almost here! I want to be Daring Do! Can you change my coat and mane to look like her, you know, with magic?"
"That requires a fair bit of magic, Dash. I'd rather not expend that amount, in case anything should happen. Besides, Nightmare Night is a month away, if I did that, there is a chance it could be permanent. Why not just use some of Rarity's dyes?" Twilight recommended.
"That would be awesome!" Dash said, stifling a yawn. "I need to get a few more hours sleep, then I'll pick up the stuff from Rarity."
Twilight was about to nod, but it crossed her mind that this could be the situation needed to rid Dash of her sensitive hooves. "No no, I'll get the dyes from Rarity, you go take a nap!" she chimed in.
"Cool, thanks Twilight." Dash yawned again, avoiding the rug a second time that day.
Twilight would go get the dyes, but she would also see if Rarity could make a few more things for her. Something to hold down what was sure to be an 'unwilling' pegasus.
It was later in the evening when Dash returned, looking well rested this time. That was going to make this a bit harder.
Twilight had the room ready, her bedroom with hard wooden floors. A plastic sheet was laid out on the ground along with a bucket of water. She didn't have the seat that the barber had, but it would have to suffice.
"Let's get awesome!" Dash quickly trotted over to the center of the plastic and sat down.
"Ok, first the apron. So the mane dye doesn't run too far." Twilight grinned with as much innocence as she could. Dash didn't know what was about to happen, but Twilight still felt that she was creating an air of mistrust about the room. She brought forward the apron, a thick rubber sheet to be more exact. It had a thick rubber lip at the edge and a soft cushion like collar that opened easily around the pegasus' head to settle perfectly midway on her throat.
Dash had a grin on her face that seemed to stretch a mile wide. She didn't see the thick rubber stocks slink under the rubber sheet at all. Dash was expecting to see the bucket and boxes of dye move forward, but Twilight's magic wasn't on those objects, it was somewhere else. There was an unsure look across her face, as if she was hesitant about dying her friend's mane.
"What's wrong?" Dash asked, shifting a hoof under the weight of the apron.
"Nothing." Twilight shook her head. "Sorry."
"For what?" Dash raised her eyebrows.
"For this,"
The stocks moved fast, wrappping around Dash's hooves in the rear and lifting her slightly. Her front hooves were guided into them as well by magic and a they were swung shut, a lock clicking in place to keep them there.
"What are you doing?" Dash asked, her eyes wide and hooves pulling against the bonds. "Twilight, let me out!"
Twilight didn't bother to listen, instead she ran the tick lip against the groove in the stocks, sealing the rubber sheet to them. A small switch was then flipped on the side and a magically assisted pump started to remove all the air from the rubber sheet.
"Twilight.... whoa..." Dash paused as the sheet began to suck itself to her fur, punning her wings against her back. "That feels weird..." From the neck down, all of the air was leaving the void her body was in. The rubber pulled tight across her coat, it's cold caress caused her to gasp, though it only lasted a second before her body heat was transferred to it.
Soon all of the air was gone, the atmosphere was pushing inwards on her, casuing a tight grip that made her nearly immobile. Dash shifted her shoulders and tried to splay her wings, but the latex held her fast. It was amazing how well a sheet had her pinned down. As much as she struggled, the rubber merely creaked back at her, retuning the moving limbs to their position.
"Twilight, what are you doing?" Dash gasped. She had never been this vulnerable before. Twilight seemed to have gone off the rails, again. "Let me out!"
"Sorry Dash, but I watch you spend so much time and effort to avoid your hooves being touched. So, as a friend, I am going to help you with this hurdle you have."
"NO!" Dash yelled.
"I'm going to give your hooves a nice 'breaking in', so they won't bother you anymore."
"TWILIGHT, PLEASE! DON'T DO THIS!"
Twilight moved a chair across the room. A freshly cut hole in the wooden floor looked ominous to the panic stricken Rainbow Dash.
"CELESTIA! SOMEPONY HELP! TWILIGHT HAS GONE INSA-"
Her shouting was cut off as a ball gag was stuffed into her open muzzle and the belt tightened. As Dash kept trying to get somepony to help her, her vocalization was turned into a string of muted consonants and saliva that started to fall from the breathing hole.
Dash's struggle became furious as she was turned upside down and headed towards the dark hole. The rubber did it's job, as the only thing she was achieving was wearing herself out. The hole loomed just under her head and she slowly went into the hole.
It wasn't as dark as she thought, though there was no way to see where the walls were. The latex tugged at her body, her weight now being held up solely by it alone. The only thing Dash heard was her heavy, panicked breathing occasionally broken up by the sound of latex stretching over her form.
Why was Twilight doing this? Everypony knew that she had very sensitive hooves and they weren't allowed to touch them. They had always been that way, and no matter how much she had tried to make them less sensitive, they still remained soft and vulnerable.
Twilight was odd, tending to over complicate things and then break down when they went wrong, act irrationally. This felt like one of those occasions, especially with this whole set up, Rainbow was expecting a very long and drawn out 'session' with her friend.
Knowing one was in danger, but not being able to see it coming was a torture itself. Dash wriggled her hooves, the stocks and the soft rubber rings keeping them from slipping down. It felt like a day before anything happened, her muscles were tight, expecting what was going to happen.
"HNNNNNNNNNFFFF!" Dash yelled into the gag, swinging her head back and pulling hard with everything she had. A soft tipped brush had stroked across the surface of her unprotected hoof bottom. She could feel each strand of the bristle rubbing across its face, the hyper sensitive skin lit her nerves on fire, vibrating them to send a signal shrilling through her spine.
The sensation left as quick as it came. Dash let her muscles loosen a part of the way, ready for the next part. The beginning of tears began to form in her eyes, glossing over and getting wetter.
"HRAHRAHT!" She yelled out her friend's name. "HRUGH!" She wasn't even sure she could be heard by anypony. The hole seemed to eat up any noise she made, forcing her to hear her word with her ears without the normal reverb as the sound bounced off objects.
The brush came again, this time with a friend. It crept deep between her soft hooves and touched the area where not even Celestia's sunlight reached, her core, the worst part. She curled her body inward, a muffled shout followed by a quickened breathing. No matter how she moved her hooves, they were captive to the feathered tool that was sending ripples of singals to her head.
Soon her sides felt like the muscles were dancing, her stomach churned as the 'torture' continued to push deeper and deeper into her body. Twilight was violating her most sensitive area and through her hooves, every molecule inside her was dancing with the giddy glee her hooves were feeling.
Her head lashed out, shaking side to side and screaming through the rubber ball for mercy. But none came.
Every tendon felt like it was going to snap, every muscle ached with the acid of a long struggle as she fought and suppressed what was happening to her. Tense and strained, Dash was near a breaking point. Having fought her body for long enough, her mind rolling through what she could have done do deserve this. Slowly a white haze moved in over her eyes on the perhifreals of her vision until it consumed them and she faded to black.
Dash awoke at a later time. Her hooves were throbbing and raw, her jaw stiff from biting down on the gag and the deep pain in every part of her mixed together in a mist across her mind. Still she felt the tight prison of the latex, the upside down position and her heart was a jack hammer in her skull.
She wanted to cry, nopony should have to endure something they spent so much time to avoid. Something that she herself wanted to rid her body of. The pegasus sniffed, hearing the air rush through her nose.
Dash bobbed her head, trying to see around her and felt the ball slip ever so slightly out from her muzzle. A quick pulse of adrenaline brought her into focus, she could get that thing out.
Using her tongue, she pushed the gag out to just at her teeth. Holding it there, she moved her neck, finding the area where it allowed the most slack and then rolled it from her lower jaw and around her neck. Free!
"HELP!" Dash shouted, finally able to speak. Her voice wasn't carried far from her throat, the walls seemed to suck up any noise she made, isolating her in the chamber.
"Help..." she trailed off meekly, tears starting to roll from her eyes.
A jolt brought her back to a struggle. This time all four of her under hooves were being caressed by a large brush.
"Twilight! TWILIGHT PLEASE STOP!" her curled form shook with a severe intensity. They didn't stop, Twilight continued to tickle her without even hearing the pegasus.
Dash stopped, there was no reason to keep struggling anymore, it hurt to much. She stopped telling, nopony was going to hear her or come to the rescue. Her muscles relaxed, began to unspool from their wound tightness, she let the tears flow, and started to calm her breathing and lay back in the rubber embrace and let the icy vibrations run unheeded though her nerves.
Rainbow began to fall apart, becoming detached from this situation. Even as the hole she was in was dark, her vision became darker, she could feel the curtain close in on her world. She wondered if she would dream in this new, numb world she was passing through.
Something happened. The shivering ice turned into a warm heat, starting at her hooves and spreading it's glow up to her torso and into her head. A heated fuzz crawled across her brain as the heat blasted across it, shearing away the grip of frost that the sensations had caused. This echoed across her entire form.
Rainbow opened her teary eyes and did something that she had never expected was possible in this situation. She laughed. It started as a slow giggle, matching the squirming waves her muscles felt. Soon her entire body was filled with the tingling, pleasurable sensation of her hooves being tickled. Soon she was laughing with a full hearted lung thrusts.
The tears streaming down her face were now tears of joy, the tickling shudder from the brushes became like a masssage. Everything that felt so wrong had suddenly became so right. Everything melted away, the tension and hatred for Twilight, the helpless feeling that floated like a fog in her mind. No longer apprehensive, she began to have fun.
The situation she was in had a new light shed upon it. Twilight had helped her overcome what she felt before. The rubber hugging her tight, felt like a warm blanket, cradling her in it's safety. The stocks weren't there to hold her down, rather keep her hooves in one area and ready to receive this... blessing of touch bestowed upon them. The gag was the only wrong thing, it would have made her unable to hear the pure joy now erupting from her mouth.
Soon the brushes stopped.
"PLEASE! DON'T STOP!" Her raspy voice croaked as loud as possible. There was a pause, but only for a moment, then the brushes seated themselves back on her hooves with a renewed vigor. They pushed in harder, driving the silky bristles down between her frogs, eliciting a symphony of laughter from her.
She couldn't believe that hooves were able to make her feel this good. It would seem that all the damage she had done fighting this had been repaired. Her entire body felt like the rubber she was encased in, smooth and flexible, that she would drip into a formless pile of rainbow goo if she wasn't inside it.
Laughter stopped and it was replaced with soft groans. She had reached a nexus, crossing the barrier into a mental pleasure. Each stroke, each fiber of the brush pulsed a haze into her mind, building into a velvet curtain that slipped over her brain, teasing it with the plush surface it bore.
Dash lost track of time, having never felt this good at anytime in her life. training with the Wonderbolts, finding true friends, none of it compared to finally ridding herself of this deep rooted... Fear was the wrong word, in fact, the longer she thought about it, there wasn't a word for it. It was foalish now, in hindsight, that she dreaded anything doing this to her hooves.
It was some time later that light filtered in and the latex tugged at her form as she was lifted from the hole. Dash was rejuvenated, aside from the throbbing tender hooves, she felt absolutely amazing.
Twilight let the air back into the rubber sack, making her instantly cold as the built up sweat sapped her of the heat in her body. She was then wrapped in a blanket after the sheet was pulled from her head, much better. The stocks were removed and Dash laid back on the floor.
Twilight sat down beside her, beaming with pride. "I told you I could help."
"And you did." Rainbow nodded, matching the grin her friend had. "Though it was still a rude thing to do..." she paused, "But now that it's done, I feel much better. I feel... free."
"You can sleep here tonight, if you want." Twilight motioned to her bed, "I can sleep on the couch."
"That's fine, I'll sleep at home." the pegasus nodded, shifting to her hooves and whimpering softly as they touched the ground. Twilight took the blanket and watched as the pegasus slowly and very noisily left the room, cooing in delight as her swollen hooves sent shivers of pleasure up her spine as they touched the ground.
Twilight grinned, but it was cut short as Dash poked her head back in the doorway.
"And if you EVER do that again..."
The alicorn's expression soured, ears folding back and mouth showing a set of guilty gritted teeth, ready for whatever Dash was going to say.
"If you ever do that again, it had better be sometime soon!" she chirped, then continued her course back home.
The cozy smile returned to her face.
