"Hi Pinkie, hi Maud!" Twilight trotted, the tickling of her hooves now a background to the insidious set of circumstances her Mistress had put her in.

"Hi Twilight!" Pinkie Pie looked to her sister, then back to Twilight. "What? I can totally keep a secret!"

"I know you can, the important ones." Maud looked with steady eyes at her beloved sister. "But I bet you can't guess what I did to her."

Twilight froze in place, looking from Maud to Pinkie. "Uh… if we are going to guess those kinds of things can we… do it in private?" She planted all four hooves, the tickling ceasing immediately. I still have ten minutes left.

Maud smiled. She had no idea how long Twilight would be able to go, but letting her get to some privacy before the inevitable happened was not what she wanted. "I would like to buy some muffins please." She drew out a copper bit. "How much?"

"Oh!" Pinkie bounced at the window of the shop. "We have a special on twelve for five gold bits." She took the copper bit, then another, then another as her sister, apparently, kept a good supply of loose change.

"Maud… please…" Twilight walked up to Maud's side and looked at the earth pony. She got a smile from her Mistress.

"Hold on, Pinkie." Maud stopped passing over her smallest coins. "Twilight Sparkle, was there something you needed?" Maud could see the alicorn's plot twitch.

"I only have another nine minutes." Twilight's voice was on edge. "Then the necklace will-"

Maud leaned forward, her snout pressing in against Twilight's cheek. "Then you will climax and grunt, with all these ponies watching. Twilight Sparkle, you can tell me the special words and I will take it off."

The words were right on the tip of Twilight's tongue, right there. Why won't I say them? "Maud, I really like what we have, I don't want to…" I don't want to because she might push me away if I am not good.

"You think using those words will make me not want you?" Maud was looking up slightly, which was even more wonderful for her. "Twilight, using those words is a sign to me that we went further than you are comfortable with, that we need to talk. Do you want to use them?"

I… I might… but this is… it is... Twilight opened her mouth, and groaned. She had slipped in her control. Her plot twitched and suddenly exploded in magic-wrought pleasure. A strong hoof braced under Twilight's barrel. Maud held her upright, kept her from instinctively dropping her head down and pushing up with her rear. Maud held her so that she kept her dignity.

"Pinkie?" Maud spoke the word as evenly as ever, but Pinkie Pie reacted as if she had shouted it. "Can you bring around some muffins a little later, to the castle?"

"But what about these ones?" Pinkie stuck her head out the window, one hoof holding a big bag of muffins. She spotted Twilight, her friend pulling one of the funniest faces Pinkie had ever seen. "Ohh! Ohh! Do that again!"

Twilight, slumped nearly completely onto the hoof supporting her, went a little cross-eyed. "Can we go home now, please?" She looked desperately to Maud, who nodded to her. Twilight wasn't ready for the mare's actions, however. Maud pushed under her, hefting her into the air and started walking; without the pressure, Twilight's hooves tickled abominably, but she didn't care.

Maud didn't say a word until she was able to kick the big door to the castle closed behind her. "I told Spike that you said he could go to the comic convention this week." Maud kept carrying the alicorn up, easily climbing the stairs and, just as they reached the bedroom, Twilight finally realized something. We are alone.

"Thank you, Mistress." Twilight sank into her Pet-self. She inhaled deeply and let all the things that Princess Twilight Sparkle had to worry about just slide away. All I have to do is what Mistress tells me. She smiled happily.

"Take off your stockings, take off your necklace." Maud already had the key to the chastity belt out, reached under Twilight's back legs and unlocked the device. "Let me know when you have them all off, Pet."

Twilight felt more relaxed by the moment, and with the necklace off she didn't even have that constant drain on her magic—or the sudden orgasms—to worry about. A touch of her Mistress' hoof to her folds, however, pushed her to a soft whinny. Twilight groaned as Maud started to pull the big shape out of her, the huge movement-triggered vibrator.

"I am still locking you back up, I think you like the belt, don't you, Pet?" Maud did just that, setting the wet toy down and folding the belt back under Twilight, locking the chastity device back up.

"I love it." I really do, it is… it is like her own hoof, stopping me from doing something wrong. "It is just like you are there, with me, making me be good." Twilight let her inner voice out, really out. Normally she kept a filter up but with Mistress she wanted everything to be open between them.

"Twilight Sparkle," Maud spoke the name deliberately, "I need to talk to you." The request couldn't be ignored and although Twilight's full mind came back to her, she felt free even like this. "We need to talk, Twilight Sparkle, about Pet, about us."

The worries and thoughts of a princess returned and Twilight breathed out. "Thank you, Maud."

"We need to chat, I think. First thing we need to establish is what we both want. I think you have made up your mind about being my pet, you even let yourself be embarrassed publicly for me." Maud actually shivered a little at that, it was a huge thing for the mare to have done.

I wanted to be good for Mistress. Twilight's inner voice spilled again. "I wanted to be good… for you, Maud. Pinkie said you liked it when your pets… got a little public." Once Twilight had begun letting that voice talk, it had kept going and going. There was nothing else for it than to blush.

Maud's ears pricked and focused on the princess. "Just then you spoke much like Pet would. Is she your inner self?" Twilight blushed at the question and thought about it.

Nodding slowly at first, Twilight took a deep breath. "She wasn't, or at least I don't think she was. I never really thought about all this until you… took me." Don't be ashamed of Mistress. Twilight giggled. "Sorry, I think I like her… that side of me."

"I like her too, but I also like this side. I like all of you, Twilight." Maud gave the alicorn a smile, a real one; she wasn't too free with her smiles, so when she gave one out she liked to know the ponies knew she meant it. "I like how powerful you are, how important to Equestria, how much you give to protect everypony. I like how you are willing to set that aside for me, and let me in."

Reminded again of how perfect Maud's voice was as it resounded in her head, Twilight took in every word and smiled to the mare. She realized Maud had stopped talking and was just looking at her, the tiniest of smiles still on her lips. "Uh, I like… I like the way you sound, your voice is… it echoes." It fills us, it pushes the things we don't want, out. "If fills me up, it pushes the things that I don't need away, even just thinking about your voice helps me concentrate." Twilight blinked at her own description. "I like how you took control, how you made my life seem so important. The things I need to do must matter more, after all, if you took interest in me. It helps me focus, to know that somepony wants me like this." Twilight reached a hoof back, rubbing the invisible metal around her waist.

"Did you like being embarrassed before?" Maud reached out, without really thinking, and started brushing Twilight's mane with a hoof.

"Before you were… no, not then." Twilight leaned into the attention, relaxing more into Maud's care. "Wait, you mean at Sugarcube Corner?" Maud nodded to her. "I…" It was pretty fun, but only because Mistress was there. She took care of us, she made sure we were safe and okay. "It was you being there that made it fun." Twilight simplified the words down. "You made it okay."

Maud tilted her head a little at that. "Then I will need to plan things. I want you to blush and get so embarrassed, but maybe Ponyville isn't the right place for it." She stroked more and more. "But for now, what would make you feel happiest? Would you like to have dinner as Pet? I could spend the night so you are locked away within her all night?"

Twilight went weak at the knees. I want to play, you want to play. Let's let Mistress play. "I would love that… we both would." Twilight blushed, it was the first time she acknowledged her other self like that.

"Good filly." Those two words had Twilight's arched tail flick from side to side. We are good fillies! "I think a new suggestion is called for." Maud tapped her chin while she kept stroking the alicorn princess' mane. "Twilight Sparkle, this is a suggestion just for you, are you ready to listen to my every word?" Twilight nodded to Maud.

I am! "I… we both are." Twilight smiled and blushed again, it felt… more than a little odd to acknowledge that other self.

"Good, very good both of you. I am proud of my good fillies." Maud loved the wait Twilight's tail swished whenever she was told she was a good filly. "Twilight, when I tell you, 'Pet gets to play', you will let Pet take control and she will not give up control until I tell you, or you see somepony who isn't me." She stroked and stroked the soft mane.

The suggestions, all of them, were completely open to Twilight. She could feel each one, examine it, she could see how it stacked on others and, the exact opposite of a house of cards, the bottom was one single card. But we both want to be her pet. I get to be her extra special pet, and you get to be her secret pet. She likes both of us. Twilight nodded, both to her other self and to Maud. "I understand… we understand."

Maud stroked her mane, making Twilight relax again and again with each touch. "Pet gets to play." The words triggered, Twilight's brain catching them, taking them apart and matching them to the suggestion and sparking it off. Pet kissed Twilight on the nose and they swapped places with barely a swish of thought. "Pet, are you there?"

"I am, Mistress! Twilight really likes you, you know?" Twilight blushed hard, she loved her Mistress intently, and only felt the slightest hint of the last sensations that her more "complete" self had known.

"Every time she lets me give her more suggestions, she proves that." Maud gave the mare's mane a little ruffle. "So you are now Pet for the night. I am sure somepony will come and bother you tomorrow, they usually do."

Twilight nodded eagerly. "Is Mistress going to do anything to Pet?" Maud saw the hopeful look in the mare's open and relaxed face. It would be a tragedy to not give her what she wants.

"Let's look in the chest again, Pet." Maud got up and walked over to her chest of toys. Opening the lid, she turned and looked at Twilight. "Twilight, this is important for both of you. This chest is too heavy to lift, you can't open it with magic or muscle." Maud looked inside and realized just what would suit.

Twilight felt another card settle into place; she looked at her Mistress with pride. Maud lifted out the confusing thing and held it before Twilight. It was made of rubber, lots of rubber. Straps, pads… Twilight could well-recognize locks. "What is that?"

"This is your new nightclothes. Tonight I will lock it on, but from now on, Twilight," as Maud said Twilight's name the alicorn realized another card was coming, "you will wear this to bed every night." Twilight beamed widely, nodding. She stepped up before Maud.

The halter, apparently, was first. The rubber bit pushed into Twilight's obliging mouth, forcing her teeth to part and putting pressure on her tongue. "Arf iff farr?" She giggled into the bit. I can't talk at all! Twilight's groin grew warm all on its own.

Maud pulled the halter up and over the mare's head, working the strap behind her ears and head. The last strap of rubber ran along Twilight's throat and split to lock to the rest of it. "There, how is that?"

"R fff iff!" Twilight squirmed a little, her arched tail wagging a bit. It was tight, all around her head. It gripped and pulled, it squeezed her face in all sorts of ways and, better, the bits of padding beside her eyes made it so she could only see forward. I really love the bit, though. Twilight felt herself growing warmer and warmer.

"Now we need the saddle. This is a little more elaborate than all that fashion stuff your friend might use." Maud held up a saddle with a lot more straps than Twilight had ever seen Rarity's have. It came down on her back easily, she turned her head to watch what was happening but the blinders kept her from seeing it at all.

Twilight felt the weight of the rubber gear on her back, but then Maud pulled some stuff back toward her plot. The muscles holding Twi's tail up were given a break as a cuff was secured around her dock and to the saddle, yanking her tail higher than ever. The alicorn gave a soft moan and turned, staring straight ahead.

"These straps stop your rider from falling forward if you buck." Maud's monotone voice was a constant and loving friend in Twilight's head, she turned her ears back, following the earth pony as she fastened more straps up. Some heavy straps passed around and behind Twilight, pulling in against her rear, just where her legs started. She shifted her weight as another clicking sounded, more locks fastening.

Stretching her muscles, Twilight felt the straps behind her pull tight, the saddle assembly now feeling much sturdier. Maud pulled a strap along under her, between her back legs and forward. A tight grip around Twi's belly was the girth strap, fastened to the rear straps and gripping her tight now from the belly backwards. "Now for the last bits." Maud fastened more straps forward and around Twilight's chest, pulling them tight. The whole outfit was on now and Twilight felt… amazing. "How do you feel?" Maud walked around the princess, admiring her in the black tack.

"Mfmfmf!" Twilight exclaimed and turned. She was gripped tighter as she moved, the rubber binding all over, holding to her with latches and buckles.

"Time for bed, Pet." Maud trotted to the big four-poster bed, lifted the covers and patted at them. Twilight didn't hesitate, she was horny and excited, but for her Mistress she would try to sleep.

Author's Note

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