The Stories about Ruby Heart, The Balloon Mare

"Staying late again, daddy?"

Smooth Latex lifted his head and saw Ruby Heart. After these many years, his cute little filly transformed into tall athletic mare. Two small ruby-encrusted barrettes barely contained her puffy glossy mane and her tail was flowing like molten bubble-gum river behind these ample thighs. She was a unicorn, yes, but she definitely took fine figure from her earth pony mother. Moreover, Ruby looked stunningly in her lab coat and protective glasses.

“Just got carried away, my dear,” Latex answered. “Working on this prototype for a while”.

“Ooh, look at the size of it! Where did you get a mold?”

“I have this mold for quite some time. Was afraid to use it though. I picked one farmer from Ponyville as a model. He was young, strong and big, but shy. He desperately wanted money to buy gifts for his little sisters and I was his final option”.

“You sure this is not his leg?”

“Absolutely. I almost dropped my jaw when I saw his goods in ready state. That is why I am hesitating. This thing can inflict severe trauma…”

“Oh, daddy, don't be so pessimistic. Let’s find out!”

She grabbed a toy and the fresh can of lubricant.

“Ruby, are you sure?”

“Why not? I'm doing it for science!”

She walked out to the testing chamber and closed the door.

At first, Latex heard quiet moans. Then the moans turned into loud neigh. Then there was a horrifying scream, which ended in silence.

Latex broke into a cold sweat. What was he thinking? Why did he left his only daughter alone with this… monstrosity? He rushed to the test chamber.

Door opened and he saw Ruby. She was standing unsteadily, levitating the toy before herself.

“Well, daddy,” she said, “I think you created your masterpiece. Whew, almost thought I'm a goner!”

She grabbed a towel and wiped the toy.

“Though, you really should add a few decorative “veins” here and here” she drawn few lines on the prototype with the highlighter. “It will also help to contain a lubricant. There is also a small chip on your mold, I think. Almost tore out my clitoris trying to pry the thing out of me. Though, we can advertise it as “Rough Love” edition”.

“Are you sure you are OK, daughter?”

“I'm fine, thanks. A little “overstretched” maybe, but it was a nice challenge. We can merchandise it under the name… let's think… Aha! “Royal Scepter”. Mares (and even some stallions) love “royal” things. It will also work as a warning, because “royal” equals “frigging big”. We can also launch a gossip that “scepter” is molded after prince Blueblood's goodies”

Latex lowered his head and smiled.

“Look at us, two mad perverts, playing with their dread creations…”

“We’ll become very hungry and tired perverts if you insist on staying here for a night. Come on, daddy, let’s go home”

Ruby turned off the lights in the lab.

“It’s cold out there, daddy,” she said winding a scarf on her father’s neck.

“Huh? Is something changed in your appearance?”

“Um, maybe,” Ruby smiled playfully.

“A new manecut? Makeup?”

“Daddy!”

“Ha-ha, just kidding. This beautiful white gold ring on your horn, is it what I think it is?”

“Yes! Junior made me a proposal today”.

“A wonderful news, darling! I am so proud of my little girl! Say, how about celebrating this at the café?”

“Lead the way, daddy!”

“So, what did he say?” asked Junior.

“You know my father,” Ruby smiled. “He was jumping all evening like a mountain goat screaming, “My daughter is getting married!”

“Whew, glad he gave his blessing”

“Were there any doubts?” Ruby nuzzled her lover. “He likes you. A lot. So, what about your dad?”

“Had not told him yet. He is on some business trip. Will return tomorrow. Don’t worry; he will be glad to hear the news”.

Ruby rubbed her rump against Junior.

“Say, dear, how about a little inspection of the test chamber?”

Junior collapsed on inflatable castle’s floor, breathing heavily.

“Whew, what did you put in this condom?” he asked. “Almost thought my erection will last forever!”

“It’s a secret experimental stuff, honey,” Ruby fell next to him and bounced few times. “And it’s working! Yay!”

“Darling, what did I said about using me as the test subject?”

“Oh, relax! We have a controlled environment here”

“Here? At the foal toys department?”

“Don’t you recognize this castle?” Ruby smiled. “It’s the same one we played hide and seek in when we first met”

“Whoa, really? I thought this product was discontinued”

“Yeah, yeah, it did not pass the cert, something about little foals getting lost in it. However, I found this only prototype at the warehouse; guessed we can use some nostalgia”

Their eyes met.

“You are the most exciting mare in my life,” said Junior.

“I know”

They nuzzled each other.

“So, want to grab a bite of something at the café?” asked Ruby.

“I’m terribly sorry, love, but there is some matters I must attend to. Father asked me to “entertain” some investors from Saddle Arabia. Do not worry, I’ll be back tomorrow. And keep that castle ready… for more inspections”

“I will keep our little love nest warm, honey” Ruby smiled.

“Whoa, daddy, what are you doing here, at the foal’s toys department?” Ruby asked her father.

“Is it a strange place to find me, dear?”

“Indeed. You are the prominent adult toys designer after all!”

“Oh, Ruby, one doesn’t need to limit oneself to only one line of work! Also, if my project will hit a major success, it will be beneficial to all departments”.

“Oh, daddy, you intriguing me! What crazy contraption do you have? And why is your own daughter doesn’t know anything about it?”

“Well, do you remember your foalhood dream? About balloons that can last forever?”

“Forever inflated and impervious to damage? Oh, come on, dad, we both know that it is impossible…”

“I think I know the way” Latex smiled.

“What? Are you kidding me?”

Her father reached for his saddlebag and took a small yellow balloon from it.

“Try it, dear,” he said.

Ruby started the compressor and put the balloon to its hose. She inflated it slightly and gave an inquiring look to her father.

“No-no-no, try to inflate it some more,” Latex smiled.

Ruby complied.

All was indicating that this small balloon was approaching its bursting point. Ruby laid her ears back and prepared to hear a pop...

However, there was no pop. With the loud creak balloon continued its expansion. Soon it became larger than Ruby.

“I think it's enough,” said Latex, turning the compressor off. “We don’t need it to be blimp-sized”

He tethered the balloon and pushed it to his daughter.

“How?” Ruby was shocked. “It is too small to inflate like this! Is it some kind of heavy duty latex?”

“No, dear, it’s just magic”.

“What? Magical matter compression? Rapid reconstruction spell? Controlled containment field?”

“Ah, let me show you”.

Latex took a book from his bag and placed it on a table. Ruby approached it.

It was a big research journal filled with myriads of hornwrited notes with diagrams and sketches. It seems the book was owned by some pony of science. Judging by general tidiness and small rounded letters, it was a unicorn mare. Ruby checked the bookplate and gasped.

“This lavender star… Is it what I think it is?”

“Yes, dear. It is the old research journal of princess Twilight Sparkle”

“Where did you get it?”

“On that trade fair at the Rainbow Falls. Princess was trading some old books; her crazy pink friend was jumping around speaking nonsense…”

“Don’t say you stole it!” Ruby shouted.

“Of course not! I left a generous amount of our factory’s gift certificates in its place. Judging by the sole fact that I am standing before you and not in some prison, it was a fair offer”

“Or she just forgot she had it. I doubt princess brought her journal to the trade intentionally. She can be a little absent-minded sometimes. It is dangerous to have this book, father. You should return it to owner. She is probably looking for it”.

“I don’t think so. Shortly after the fair, Tirek razed Twilight’s old library, burning all the books she had. Princess is definitely thinking the journal was destroyed”

Ruby sighed. She quickly looked through journal’s pages. Some of the older ones have strange gloomy gothic vibe. She checked the date. It seems princess wrote it while being a teenager.

“That phase”, huh?” Ruby giggled. “I wonder how princess looked in dark clothes with heavy make-up all over her muzzle”

“I put a bookmark on a spell I used,” said Latex.

Ruby checked it.

“Controlled replication spell? Wow, she used raw magic to form molecules out of thin air, using existing ones as a template! This spell can basically multiply any factory’s production rates!”

“I’m afraid it’s not that simple,” Latex shook his head. “This spell is working fine with simple materials in a controlled environment, but…”
POP!

Balloon suddenly burst, spraying foul yellow goop around.

“…but molecules tend to destabilize if external magical energy surge is cut”

“Yuck!” shouted Ruby, trying to wipe the goop from her lab coat. “So, we back to square one. This is impossible”

“I don’t think so,” Latex smirked.

He turned lot of pages, back to Twilight’s “that phase” years.

“Here, look at this”.

“Everlasting spell? Are you serious? What’s next, a philosopher’s stone?”

“Please read its description. Sure, there is many teenage angst passages. However, the core of the spell – it is perfect self-sustaining matrix! We could weave two spells together and create a powerful combination”.

“But daddy, we are not good wizards, neither you nor me. Yes, you taught me some illusion magic, but we need much, much more! How can you possibly tamper with a spell invented by unicorn, whose special talent is magic itself?”

“Easy” said Latex calmly.

He took two sheets of tracing paper from his bag.

“Here and here”

Latex aligned both sheets on the table. Diagrams drawn on them connected, creating an intricate pattern.

“Both magical circles have similar components. They fit nicely inside each other. Do not forget, Twilight was very young when she created this. I am sure a mature unicorn can replicate her work”

“Oh, sure, “what can possibly go wrong?” Have you forgotten how the things done, daddy? We need to setup a safe test area and a controlled environment, notify the safety inspector…”

“We don’t need them. I am so close to a major breakthrough! Like our ancestor Caoutchouc, I will eternalize my name!”

Ruby took a step back.

“Who are you and what have you done to my father? Seriously, you never was so reckless, daddy! And what’s with that vanity speech?”

Latex lowered his head and sighed.

“You are right, my dear. Maybe I work too much. Wanted immediate results, got carried away”

He lowered his head and sighed deeply.

“That's all right, daddy,” Ruby touched her father's foreleg. “How about we call it a day and go home? We can continue tomorrow”.

“Yes, we could,” nodded Latex. “Please, can you bring me my coat from the lab? I'll clean up the mess here meanwhile”

“Of course, daddy”

He hugged his daughter.

“I love you, Ruby. Forgive me”

She felt a sting on her backside and her legs suddenly became weak. Latex caught her and put paralyzed mare carefully on the floor.

“Why?” she whispered.

“Sorry, my dear. It's blood moon tonight, the time of dark magic. I need as much as I can harvest to create what I was planning. I cannot risk you meddling with my experiment. I have only one shot to make everything right!”

He grabbed the journal and his notes and ran to the molding shop.

Ruby was laying paralyzed on the lab floor with the panic on her mind. What is wrong with her father? What is he trying to do? Why did he attack her, his precious beloved daughter?

She felt a magic surge, which gave her shivers. Her dad must have started the ritual.

Ruby dropped a tear.

“What have you gotten yourself into, daddy?”

She remembered dark letters from Twilight journal and it brought her some memories. “That phase, huh?” said once her schoolteacher. “Be careful, Ruby, it is the hard time for any teenager, especially for unicorns. So many possibilities, so many temptations. Stay out of necromancy, dear; it will do you no good”.

She must stop her father. At all costs.

Ruby checked her surroundings. Her bag was on the table. Latex injected her with the strong anesthetic, but it's a rule of a trade to have an antidote around. Luckily, she used it today and the antidote should be in her bag. She just need to concentrate…

Ruby lit her horn, extending her magenta magic aura to the bag. Carefully she pulled it closer and opened. Then she took a small vial and a syringe out of it.

Pouring the antidote into syringe was easy, but injecting it into her numb flank without having a clear line of sight was a lot harder.

Ruby sighed with relief when her muscles twitched. She carefully turned on her belly and tried to stand up. This attempt was unsuccessful, so Ruby started crawling to the lab exit.

“I must stop the ritual,” she thought and her determination gave her strength. First, the hind legs, then the forelegs…

Ruby limped to the molding shop to see her father doing a strange ritual near the molding machine, surrounded by the chalk-drawn diagrams. Strange symbols was glowing in the dark, giving shivers to Ruby's half-numb body.

“Daddy!” she shouted. “Please stop!”

“I won't!” Latex growled. “Please, daughter, you must understand! I'm doing it for you!”

“Whatever your true intentions, resorting to dark magic is not worth it! Please, daddy, undo the ritual!”

He turned his head to Ruby. She gasped. Father's eyes were glowing green and purple.

“I… can't! The ritual will proceed”

“No!” she shouted, limping to the machine.

Ruby reached the magic diagram's border. A powerful stroke of magic shocked her, throwing the mare on floor. Ruby screamed, trying to calm the convulsions that made her body trembling. It's good that anesthetic did not wore off completely; it abated the agonizing pain.

“Do not interfere, darling,” Latex spoke worryingly. “It will hurt you!”

“But… I… must!”

She stood on her trembling legs and lit her horn. Then she prolonged her magical aura to the invisible wall, projected by the diagram.

“What are you doing?” shouted Latex.

“A two can play this game, father. Let me in!”

“No, it's too dangerous! I don't know how the spell will react if two unicorns will sustain it!”

“So, let's find out!” Ruby gritted her teeth and jumped into the diagram.

Immediately her body was overflown with strange arousal. It gave her shivers down to her marehood. It was intense, even though anesthetic's dampening effect. A strange whisper invaded her mind, telling her unspeakable things and seducing promises.

Ruby raised her eyes to see her magic aura changing color from magenta to bluish-purple. Then this color sparkled before her eyes, covering them with flame-like magic emissions.

She turned her head to her father. He was screaming, but Ruby did not hear a sound.

“He is handsome, don't you think,” a whisper appeared in her mind. “And he loves you, just like he loved you mother… He did not want to lose you like her… So, how about you and him join together?”

She felt her juices wetting her hind legs…

“No!” shouted Ruby, fighting this awful temptation. “I'm sorry, daddy”

She blasted Latex with the magic ray, throwing him out of the diagram. The stallion hit the wall and fell on the floor unconscious.

She saved her father. She hoped so.

Ruby closed her eyes. She stuck here. Come what may…

The machine exploded into bubbling hot rubber. It burned Ruby's skin, but she did not felt almost anything. Rubber drops suspended in the air and started to grow, transforming into foam-like substance. Soon it form the column with the hapless mare inside. Then this column started to melt, transforming into semi-liquid goop, which washed away the diagram. Magic wall failed and the goop spilled all around.

Ruby opened her eyes. She was laying in the giant puddle of goop. Mare tried to stand up, but felt her legs fell out through the floor. She looked down and gasped. Her legs started to melt, adding their pink color to the surrounding colorless goop. She struggled to crawl out of the puddle, but only made it worse.

“No!” she screamed.

Her legs dissolved. She felt an awful sensation, as if something was opening her up like a wrapped present. It was her belly dissolving. She froze in utter horror, as her body started to spill into a pink puddle.

Only her head remained. She desperately tried to light her horn, just to do something, but magic failed. She was melting like a wax candle.

“Is this the end?” she thought just when her eyes started to dissolve, distorting her view.

Then was darkness.

“Father!” shouted Junior, trying to catch his breath. “I came as fast as I can! What happened? Where is Ruby?

With the somber look, Mr. Venture shove a tray to his son.

There was two ruby-encrusted barrettes and white gold horn ring, stained with some vile pink goop.

“Oh, no,” gasped Junior. “No, no, no! Ruby!”

His head fell on the table and he burst into tears.

“This ring,” his father asked him, “did you…”

“Yes,” sobbed Junior. “We were about to tell you today…”

Mr. Venture hugged him.

“I'm sorry, son. She… was a fine mare, beautiful and smart, just the one I want to be my daughter-in-law…”

“How did it happen?”

“We do not know much. Some strange sounds from the molding shop alerted our night guard. He summoned the city guards, but when they came, a massive magic explosion broke a hole in factory's roof, spraying molten rubber around. When all came down, they checked the factory and found unconscious Latex. He was severely injured and overexerted. He is in coma now. Unicorn guards checked the scene and found that he was performing a dark ritual of some sort. It seems, Ruby tried to stop him, but… she died during the attempt. This vile spell reduced her to a puddle of pink goop”

A worker came in.

“Sir, we found something strange there,” he said.

“What is it?”

“I think it's a doll”

“Molding shop produced a lot of dolls lately”.

“I know… But this one is so… lifelike, it gave me shivers. And I don't recognize which mold is used”

“OK, let's look at it”

They took a walk to the molding shop.

“We found… it under the wreckage of the machine. Almost thought it was a dead filly, but then noticed that she is made from latex”

The doll indeed was very lifelike. She looked like a young unicorn filly, entirely made from shiny pink semi-transparent latex.

“Huh?” said Junior, taking a closer look. “She's looking like one of the deluxe double-layer seamless blowup sex dolls we manufactured here. Extra sturdy, extra realistic. Molded genitalia, anus, and throat pocket for oral love… However, she do not have any valves, it's like she was blown-up and tight-sealed. She is indeed manufactured here, but since when we produce foalcon dolls?”

“We don't”, said Mr. Latex with disgust. “I hate such deviations and will never approve something like this”.

“Darn it,” said Junior checking doll's muzzle. “She is looking awfully like Ruby, when she was a filly. What the heck?”

“That's actually explain a lot,” said his father chilly. “Oh, Latex, you inglorious old pervert!”

“What?”

“Remember his “Chocolate Muffin” model?”

“Yes, she was quite popular. We discontinued it a while ago, right?”

“That pervert molded it after his wife. And Penetrator Mark 7 dildo is molded after his own dong”

“Yuck!”

“I don't want to judge him, he is a brilliant scientist, but sometimes he just goes too far. A foalcon doll, molded after his own daughter? That's just too much. I'll have a serious talk with him, when that sick bastard wake up from coma!”

“What we should do with it, boss?” asked worker.

“Melt her. I don't need this filth here”

“Father, stop!” said Junior. “This doll is really unusual. Her material is different from normal latex… And there's something more…”

He lit his horn and enveloped the doll in his magic aura. With the quiet whoosh doll began to grow up, until she reached the size and proportions of the grown mare, now fully copying Ruby's body.

Mr. Venture and workers gasped

“How?”

“I sensed a magic activator in her. She can change shape as much as her owner desire”

He concentrated and the doll changed shape again, turning into elegant Saddle Arabian mare, and then exploding into morbidly obese body. Then he turned her back into normal pony shape.

“Filly form is her default state, but I think she could be deflated even more for easier transportation. Sadly, only a unicorn can transform her. Still, don't understand, why she is shaped after Ruby… Father, I wish to study it some more. Maybe it will give some clues… ”

Mr. Venture sighed.

“Look, son, I know that this… thing is looking awfully similar to Ruby, but I don't want to have anything with it. Latex used dark magic to create it and this is the bad news. Maybe that's some seductive dark force shaped it like this. Moreover, what can you possibly learn from it? You are neither a scientist, nor professional wizard! Yes, you can use help from some of our resident eggheads, but what if it all come up? The last thing we need is some Night Watch agents running full examination over our R&D departments.

Junior lowered his head.

“I guess you are right, father. We need to dispose of her”

“Right choice, son,” Mr. Venture smiled. “Let’s melt this accursed thing!”

“No, father, we can't do it. We can't risk mixing its material with our normal rubber. We cannot throw it to trash either”

“So, what do you propose?”

“Our factory suffered a material damage. We need money to restore production. We could organize a warehouse sale with great discounts. Then we can sell this doll to someone without noting it in journal. We'll get a profit and a retain clean reputation”

Mr. Venture smiled.

“That's my son!”

Warehouse sale was a huge success. Hundreds of ponies crowded the place, buying discounted goods like there was no tomorrow.

“So,” Mr. Venture asked Junior, “got rid of that doll?”

“No, father. I don't want to sell her to a random pervert. You may say anything about Latex, but he gave a part of his soul to create her. I think it would be fair if I find a good owner for his creation, who can pay a nifty bag of bits for her”

“Son, a trade is a trade, and money is money. It's you the one who proposed to sell it. Or you changed your mind?”

“We can't sell her too cheap, or it will be suspicious”.

“Good point…”

“Wait for a minute,” said Junior, looking to the crowd. “Get her ready, I see a buyer”.

He approached some plain gray bespectacled unicorn with dusty gray saddlebag. That stallion surely didn't look rich. They shared a conversation then Junior invited him to the showroom.

“How did you know he is an archaeologist from the Royal Canterlot University?” Mr. Venture was surprised. “He paid a good money for this doll!”

“I know ponies,” Junior sighed. “Ruby taught me”

Dug Hole, the Royal Canterlot University archaeologist, checked his purchase. He was thinking of buying something simple to ease his “stallion tension” during the long expedition, but ended up with doll. That business pony surely knew how to handle his customers. Dug was reluctant at first, but salespony gave him a good point. He said this is one-of-a-kind prototype, which can morph into different shapes. It is sturdy enough to be used as inflatable mattress and even a flotation device. Moreover, it can be easily cleaned because its love holes are interconnected; he need only to pour a water to its throat.

He looked at the deflated doll's muzzle.

“Let's call you Rubber. Rubber Heart”

He put her to his worn and dusty gray travel bag, next to his blue travel journal.

“Well, off to the Pom-Bay, Hindia! Ancient mysteries won't uncover themselves!”