Gemini Ties

Within a week, they had well over forty applicants from just putting a Now Hiring sign on their front window. Half of them were throw-away applications done by people who knew they wouldn’t get the job. One batch of the applicants actually had associate degrees and some training in their history. They narrowed it down to five interviews and set them up in a hole in their schedules.

They cleared out a small section of their main store with a table and three chairs. Spark and Voltage rolled out their official looking folders, pens and Spark decided that bottled water seemed hospitable for interviewees.

“It’s hard to believe we’re here.” Spark said as he looked over the applicants in the manilla folder, seeing that Fuseplug and Circuitbox were still his top competitors. Voltage took a sip of water and looked over toward Spark with a puzzled look. “I mean, we talked about getting a new hire for a while, but I didn’t think we’d actually do it.”

“Yeah, well, I guess we’re just all kinds of stubborn, aren’t we?” Voltage said as she readied her notebook and pen. Spark opened his laptop as it came time. Spark gave her a puzzled look, but then the door knocked. “Come on in!” She shouted.

The first applicant was promising enough. He seemed like he had a lot of experience and proper schooling, which was always a plus. The next two applicants seemed more like they handled a socket wrench for ten minutes while telling them a year. They weren’t completely unpromising, but both Spark and Voltage agreed that Gemini Ties deserved a good turn over. They weren’t going to sully their name because they were careless, that was the last thing they wanted.

“So, you’ve done fuse boxes?” Spark asked as he typed some information down. He was partly seeing how many of the applicants had done a fuse box and how many had done air conditioners. So far, two had ever touched a fuse box and none of them had worked on an AC unit.

“I’ve done a couple. I still haven’t done one without using a diagram. I don’t know if I ever will.” He said as he turned from Spark to Voltage as she spoke.

“We sometimes offer lower prices for good and loyal customers, but we want to make sure you know when that’s acceptable and when it’s a detriment.” She wrote a few things down, noticing how he was smiling at her. This seemed like a leer and a moment where he was imagining her without clothes on and it caused her to scowl a bit.

“If they have a body like yours, I’ll give them a discount any day.” The guy put on a smug grin and both twins tilted their heads at the comment.

“Well, that’s all I have for you.” Spark began to say while Voltage spoke as well.

“I think we’re about finished here.” Voltage said as she crossed out his name immediately and did not get up to shake his hand, nor did Spark as he awkwardly tried. “Have a nice day.” She said as he looked to both of them for anything else they might say. Without a word, the stallion walked out the door and both of them sighed a bit of relief.

“Figures that we’d run into one, at least.” Spark said as he looked over the list, seeing they had two more to go.

Next, soon after he left, was a tall, slender pony. She was an earth pony and her hair was back in a ponytail. Her fur was a bright, glowing blue while her hair was golden highlighted against a long black mane. She was rather petite, but Spark had already gotten every measurement and they were all to his liking. He could already feel his sister’s eyes against the back of his grin.

“I’ll take this one, thank you.” Voltage scowled toward him. “So, Glow Torch, thank you for coming to our interview. We’re looking for electronic efficiency and the ability to service mechanical objects.” She said all of this as Glow sat down in the chair after waving toward Spark, who waved back. “We also would like a list of your experience outside of anything you may have missed in the resume and application.”

“Certainly.” She spoke in a soft, high pitched voice as she reached into the bag at her side and pulled out a large folder and a three-ring binder full of paper. “That’s everything I did during and after high school. It dates back about ten years. It also has where I was originally trained. My father was a certified electrical engineer.”

At this, both Spark and Voltage’s eyes almost bulged from their sockets. If this girl’s credentials read correctly, she was just about more certified than they were. Voltage looked over her education and her very impressive numbers.

“You’ve worked on a jet engine and over four hundred refrigerators.” Voltage said this, but it was almost curved into a straightforward question.

“Yes, I started with refrigerators, then went into ovens when I got a job at the mall. They went out of business because their car repair was… sketchy. I may or may not have reported more than one of them.” Glow Torch spoke so matter-of-factly that both twins were downright speechless.

“So, that means you--” Voltage kept glancing over the numbers and even had pictures of Glow’s personal tool collection.

“You’ve got the job.” Spark said, causing Voltage’s jaw to drop to the desk. Her incredulous stare at him caused him to stifle a serious laugh. Then he looked back at Glow, who was smiling toward him. “Report for training tomorrow.” He closed his laptop.

“Now, wait a minute, Spark. You can’t just do this, I thought we were going to discuss this.” Voltage said all of this as he gave her a bit of a puzzled stare back.

“What’s there to discuss? I haven’t worked on that many refrigerators. I mean, I may be closer to maybe two hundred, maybe a bit more. Either way, I wanted to ask her a few things about gas ovens while we work on one tomorrow.”

“There are still things we need to ask, there is a process we need to go through if we’re going to keep a good business.” Voltage’s grip on her pen was more akin to how someone holds a knife when they stab someone.

“Oh, right, the questions.” Spark said as he opened his computer back up and pulled stuff up on his documents. “Can you work weekends?”

“Yes, I just need Thursdays off.” Glow said, “That’s when I see my mother play bridge.”

“Well, I can’t keep you from that.” Spark said as he typed. “Do you drink coffee?”

“I’m a tea kind of pony.” The blue furred beauty said as she smiled at Spark. “But I like dark roast coffee when I do drink it.”

Spark nodded and then looked at her with a serious glare. “Now, concentrate, Miss Glow.”

“Glow is fine.” She nodded.

“We need your full attention on this question. Do you listen to Country music?” Spark asked with a knowing smile.

“I listen to whatever is music.” Glow Torch said with a shrug.

“Are you going somewhere with this?” Voltage asked as she glared toward her brother.

“No, I was waiting for you to stop me. Let’s see how she works.” Spark said as he, once again, closed his laptop.

They brought the girl who wore a very stylish purple t-shirt with a blue heart in the middle to the other side of their storefront. There, on the workbench was a flatscreen tv, a freezer unit and a common household clothes dryer that was pressed against the side of the bench. Off to the side of the work area was a tool box with several drawers.

Glow opened each drawer of the box carefully, marveling at the shiny tools that had recently been polished.

“So, just give these things a good look over and tell us what you think and how you’d fix them.” Spark said as she picked up the claw hammer, feeling its weight with a limp wrist. As she placed it back into the box, she got to the last drawer to see the extensive collection of wiring and different connectors.

“It’s very organized.” Glow Torch said as she picked up the book in the last drawer, opening it to the toolbox inventory. “Alright, then.” She closed the book and placed it back into the drawer, looking up at the television first. It sat neatly on top of the bench, almost touching the wall. Glow looked at it around to the back to see that it was plugged in. This made her blink. She reached onto the side of the screen and turned it on. The screen immediately turned onto the Spider-Mare movie that came out recently on most streaming services in a new special edition with all of the uncut footage that made it more edgy and sexy.

Glow Torch did some jazz hands at the TV screen. “Ta dah.” She said with mock enthusiasm.

“Yeah, it may seem obvious.” Voltage shrugged with a tiny smile. “One of our applicants tapped its side with the hammer to see if there were any… cracks.”

“I half expected him to straight up bash it open. Then he’d owe you a new TV.” Spark rolled his eyes and Voltage would imagine she’d take a few teeth as bounty as well.

When she got to the other appliances, she missed a few details, but got the jist of what was wrong with them rather quickly and got out a few rags, but reached into the dryer and started to remove certain parts. The motor needed a few new parts, as well as a few contacts rewired.

Over the next thirty minutes, she looked over the machines and managed to get them in better shape than they were with what parts she was given. As she did this, Voltage sighed and looked over at Spark, who had a 95% on his clipboard paper. Then she rolled her eyes and put on her best smile. “Alright, Glow, you’ve got the job.”

Voltage immediately turned around and pointed her finger at Spark. “Don’t think I haven’t thought about it.”

“Okay, here we go. Look, I’m not planning on getting with her nor am I going to hit on her while we’re working together.” Spark said and Voltage had her hands on her hips.

Glow was sent home and they quickly interviewed the last applicant who barely knew how to screw in a lightbulb.

“There are a ton of loopholes in your little statement there, Mr. Innocent. I don’t want you to break another girl’s heart and jeopardize Gemini Ties. There were times we were a little stupid and it almost cost us everything.” Voltage looked off to the side. All of those times they decided exhibition would be fun and all of those times they made a game out of who could fix something while getting felated, they started to rush images back at her head. She couldn’t help but sigh at the thought and shake her head.

“Voltage, we’re going to be alright. We just need to keep a clear head about these things now. We’re not the same ponies we were when we left Ponyville. We’ve built a successful business and it sure as hell was not easy.” Spark said as he stepped up a little closer to her. “Voltage, you and I both know this is not just about Glow Torch.”

Her eyes still did not turn to him. She was gazing off into space somewhere right beside herself as Spark tried his best to catch her attention. There was a very long pause while she went over the enormous amount of words in her head. The words were like a puzzle that was always moving and by the time she felt they could put it together, the problem changed. She even opened her mouth to say something, but she shut her muzzle when there was nothing but dead air.

“Voltage?” Spark asked, and she scoffed. Without a word, Voltage went upstairs to her room, shutting the door and leaving him to wonder why.

Spark started his day a bit earlier, knowing that he was going to need to do a lot of talking. He’d trained people on a few things involving his craft, but when it came to the full spectrum, he couldn’t help but figure that he’d leave out certain small, but important details. This, of course, was the first test of the new girl’s integrity. The first day was always the most important, as it bared about fifty first impressions over some very important material. First and foremost, punctuality.

Checking his watch, he saw that she still had fifteen minutes, but that also meant he could be sitting there for a good thirty minutes waiting for her. The sun was barely even peeking over the distant horizon and if she was anything like she said in the interview, she was no stranger to this time of day. While he waited, Spark brought tools and materials to the van to restock. This was a bit of a somber chore that morning, though. His favorite pair of diagonal cutters finally gave out and chipped one blade in half. He had a new, identical pair, but that meant he had to break them in all over again.

Not even five minutes had passed before he saw a pair of headlights in the distance. A sedan parked beside Spark’s electric blue and there she was. The blue earth pony was dressed very casually, aside from her brown work boots. Torch wore a short sleeved shirt with Spider-mare across the front with skinny black jean pants. She stepped out of her car and waved to Spark. Ten minutes early, she already looked like she was ready. Carrying a satchel that could only be her toolkit, she stepped onto the sidewalk.

“Good morning. Nice to see you’re bright-eyed and bushy tailed.” Spark said as he put away the last of the very large cords. This caused her to turn herself around to look at her black and golden highlighted tail. She shook it a couple of times and shrugged.

“I’m not a stranger to mornings.” She stretched a bit as she placed her tools on the ground. There was a bit of a clank as he could tell her socket wrenches were clicking against her screwdrivers.

“I haven’t even looked at the agenda yet.” He said, holding up a tablet with a stylus connected to it by a coiled cord. “That will be your main job for today. Voltage makes the schedule and we will be running the errands all day until around six.” She took the tablet and pressed the stylus against the screen. Torch looked rather impressed at how well it worked. “So, what’s our first stop?” He asked, and she pressed on the calendar for today.

“Um, I’m not really an expert in French, but it’s ‘La Fleur de Cheval’” She accentuated as French as she could in the annunciation and he furrowed his brow.

“La Fleur de Cheval…” He said to himself and looked off to the side, deep in thought. He repeated the name and shook his head, trying to remember. “I know I’ve been there before. Did I repair-” Suddenly, the images of him and Voltage dressed up in interpretive dancer outfits and creating a stir in the crowd came to his brain in a flash. “Oooohhh… Oh…” His eyes widened and he looked over at her.

“What? You heard of that place?” She asked with a cocked eyebrow.

“Um, maybe?” Spark gave a bit of a nervous smile.

“Well, it says here that they open at one in the afternoon, but they are more than happy to have someone there to let you in at seven in the morning.” She said this, and he nodded but she could clearly see his brain was elsewhere.

The main reason he got to work so early to prepare for the day was so he could gather the needed tools for the jobs he had. They went over the inventory and he was convinced this would just be a normal tool day, which was good for her first outing. The secondary reason for this was so that he could get breakfast without having to rush to the first job, shoving wheat biscuits into his face to meet the deadline.

He tried not to think about what would happen if any of the managers recognized him, but then he realized they shut that place down and forced it into new management. It was a swift and decisive hit to Obscenely Rich’s top restaurant in Ranchtown. In the end, it didn’t matter a whole lot because he was arrested literally the next morning, but Spark considered it a win.

“Ah,” Spark snapped his fingers. “I almost forgot.” He dug into the bottom drawer of his main toolbox nearest the backdoors. He pulled a blue jumpsuit out of its folded position and tossed it over to her. She looked at it, her hands holding both shoulders of the coveralls to see that it had the Gemini Ties tag on the right chest.

The smile she had on her face was something special. The jumpsuit was brand new and was yet to have a nametag, but that could come later. She put it close to her face and smelled the fresh fabric and her smile came right back out as she held it away once again.

“Do you have a bathroom I could change in?” She asked as she pointed toward Gemini Ties. Spark nodded as he closed the van’s backdoor.

“As soon as you enter, go to the left, it’s in the far corner.” Spark said as he pointed to the van. “I’ll start her up and we can get breakfast. Have you eaten yet?”

“No, that sounds great.” She waved to him as she went into the shop.

As she found the bathroom, she turned on the dim orangish light and wasted no time in pulling her shirt off. It was a bit chilly that morning, but she loved the cold, so she rarely wore winter clothing unless it was absolutely necessary. Her bra was black lace with a bit of a frilly flower pattern sewn into the cups that held her modest D cups. Her panties were not panties, but a very tiny black thong that showed off her wondrous, glowing blue butt cheeks with a tiny triangle fabric that barely hid her nether lips.

She held up the jumpsuit in front of her once again. As she did, the door opened, startling her enough to drop the coveralls and turned to see a figure in the threshold. At first, she thought it was Electric Spark, but one good blink revealed it to be the other twin, gazing at the blue earth pony in her near naked state.

There was a long silence that followed. Torch thought that she should say something but she could only look on in confusion. Voltage’s face was puzzling and her posture just gave her the visage of unamusement. Her eyebrows were low, her lips were pursed and her arms crossed over her chest. Just as the scantily clad pony was about to speak, the unicorn cut her off.

“Careful with my brother.” She finally said before closing the door.

Glow Torch blinked.

They both ate their wheat biscuits while Spark drove the van. Morning traffic was starting to build up as the sun became more visible over the horizon. He crushed the yellow wrapper as he took the last bite in his mouth and turned his gaze over to her. Somehow, he noticed that Torch was able to keep her face from distorting when she took very large bites of her biscuit. Why was he paying attention to this fact? He wasn’t entirely sure. Did she notice he was looking at her eat? Hopefully not.

“So, before we get started.” Spark said, drawing her attention as she slowly ate her biscuit. “I need to ask, what fears do you have? Is there something that you’re afraid might happen while we’re on the job? Because, I’ve installed solar panels on rooftops and--”

“Bees.” Spark’s eyes darted toward her as he cocked an eyebrow. “I hate bees, or any bug with a stinger, really.”

“Right, so scratch the visit to the hornets nest, got it.” He flashed a grin toward her before he went back to driving. She snorted a bit and decided to drop the subject. Talking about stinger bugs made her anxiety go through the roof and Torch figured she’d skip that portion of the day.

They made it to the restaurant with time to spare. After gathering their tools, they went to the door and knocked. A lot had changed since Spark had been there last. The windows were more open and the window at the door showed that the layout of the entire restaurant had been remodeled. It looked a bit more atmospheric with new paintings of gardens and mansions on the walls. With new chandeliers and black tables with red table covers, the feel of the place was definitely enhanced.

Just as Spark was about to comment on the severe lack of warm bodies, there was a bit of activity inside. A pony in casual dress, a t-shirt and a pair of jeans, walked to the door and unlocked it.

“Hi! I’m Top Shelf! Thanks for coming early!” The unicorn mare said, brushing her black hair out of her face. With bright red fur and something of a shapely form, Spark couldn’t help but think of someone else he knew.

“Oh, hey, no problem. I’m Spark, this is Torch. You’re our first stop.” The two of them were led to the back as they got a nice vague scent of cinnamon throughout the main dining area. Spark’s eyes were directed toward the small stage area over by the center, and very little of that part had changed, besides the carpet.

“So, how much is an entree in this place?” Torch asked as they reached the back kitchen through the push doors.

“More than I make in a day.” The lady chuckled as she brought them over to a freezer that they had taped shut so that no one would use it. A clear piece of box tape was stuck to the edge of the door so that it wouldn’t open and both of them noticed that they unplugged it, thankfully.

“How long has it been broken?” Spark asked as Torch used her pointer fingernail to strip away the tape and open it. He put his hand on the side of the freezer’s inner shelf. It was lukewarm.

“About a week.” Top Shelf said as she leaned over toward where Torch was going behind it against the wall.

“Alright, hold the front.” She told Spark as he grabbed the top of the freezer and the side as she started to pull it away from the wall’s surface and get a good look at its panels. “Flathead, about a seven.” She said as she looked in her tool pouch at her hip, pulling out her screwdriver.

Top Shelf watched as they both got to work immediately, removing the grate that allowed for the freezer to work without overheating the engine. They passed jargon back and forth to each other that sounded almost like another language as they started unscrewing tiny machines and coverings.

“Do you two work on home heating systems?” Top Shelf asked, drawing their attention.

“Yes.” They said in sync, darting eyes at each other and having a snicker at it.

“I’ll need to schedule an appointment with you. My apartment has this heater on wheels to cover two rooms and it’s been acting up. It sparked one night and started blowing plain air. Now I’m freezing at night with three blankets.” Top Shelf explained as Torch nodded and looked at Spark.

“Well, you’re in luck, Top Shelf,” Spark said as he pulled out the air filter, along with tons of dust bunnies. “We just so happen to have a new air filter in the van, and that’s why this freezer stopped working. This thing hasn’t been replaced in years.”

“Why would that make me lucky?” She asked, seeing Torch toss the filthy filter into the trash. He tilted his head to the side and pointed toward the van out front and Torch saluted and got up to get it.

“Because that means this job will be especially short and we can help you get your heater running.” Spark said as he started rubbing his rag over some of the more greasy parts they pulled out. “We don’t have another appointment for about two hours after this.”

“For real?” She cocked an eyebrow at him and he shrugged as he nodded.

“Well, yeah. I’m a firm believer that a pony needs something to keep them warm at night.” Spark said as Glow Torch walked back in with a new filter, hearing what he said. That was when he realized what was said and immediately saw that they both noticed it as well.

“Oh, my…” Torch said as she came to him and handed it over to him as he blushed. Top Shelf had a good chuckle at this. After that awkward and embarrassing moment, both of them worked to fit the filter back in.

Top Shelf only needed to stay there for the two of them to finish the job. Her real shift started early in the afternoon, so they followed her home. Her apartment was on the first floor, thankfully. Top Shelf stood by her door as they pulled the van into the parking space close to her apartment. They approached her after getting a couple of their tools, knowing it was just a small heating unit.

“I can’t thank you guys enough for this.” She said as put her hands together and slightly bowed to them both. Causing them to blink and eye one another.

“It’s really no big deal. We’re happy to do some side jobs.” Spark pulled his tool belt up a bit as he got to the door. “Just lead the way.”

“Alrighty.” Top opened her door and stepped through. “Don’t worry about taking off your clothes. For you, I’ll make an exception.”

This caused them both to arch their eyebrows as she said this. Both of them had heard about taking off their shoes before entering a home, and that’s what they thought she meant. Then they stepped into her house and noticed that she not only had very large pictures of porn stars (some of which Spark recognized, like Pink Lips) but there were also enough sex toys to fill the medium sized shelf. Both of their jaws dropped, then they saw her walk out of her moderate sized kitchen to the right of the entrance.

Top Shelf was now completely nude. Her full red body was bared toward them. Her dark red nipples were quite hard from having her bra taken off and her groin’s pubic hair was shaved down to a tiny little line. On her hip was the cutie mark of a female silhouette in the buff. Right behind her, on the far end of the kitchen was a sign in big red letters: “Nudist Life.”

“Can I get you something to drink? I have lemonade, milk and orange soda.” She smiled wide at them, most likely because she was returned to her natural element.

Both of them shook their heads, stifling their answers and excuses as to why they didn’t need anything to drink. All the while, their eyes scanned the red unicorn up and down. She shrugged and poured herself some lemonade. Top motioned for both of them to follow and they did, trying not to stare at her or her entire shelf of vibrators. Some of them looked like they were worth well over six hundred bits.

“Now, here’s the heater, right here. I was sitting on my couch and playing my music and then it popped with a big spark right here.” She pointed to the middle of the heat grate on the front of it. Spark was able to tear his eyes away from her flank to take a look at the heating unit that came up to his hip.

“So, have you tried to get into a nudist colony? Isn’t there one here in Ranchtown?” Torch asked her, drawing a look from Spark as she asked.

“Yeah, if I had three thousand bits lying around every month, I’d be more than happy to sign up. I can’t help it, I love my toys and games.” Top smiled at her and then looked down at her jumpsuit. All the sudden, the unicorn’s expression became a bit distracted, if not a tad concerned.

“Is something wrong?” Torch asked, looking at her brand new jumpsuit. It had a couple of black spots on it, but that was to be expected in their line of work. She looked back over to Top Shelf who seemed like her cheeks were more red than usual.

“Oh, sorry, I kind of have a thing for ladies being in my apartment.” She looked off to the side, her lips pursed and her legs tightening together. “Don’t mind me.” The red unicorn couldn’t help but continue to leer at the blue pony from the side.

Torch’s eyebrows were up in a flash as she considered the implications of this train of thought. She darted her eyes toward Spark, who was now pulling the metal cover to the heater to get at the inner workings to see where the short happened.

He figured correctly. It was a simple break in the wiring. He chuckled at this, as he normally was able to take care of this within a minute or two. He opened his mouth and looked up to ask Torch to get some wire from her spool. His eyes went boggled as she uncovered her breasts as she laid her small black bra on top of her coveralls, which were now folded neatly onto the ground.

“Hey, Spark, I decided I didn’t want to be rude.” As she slid off her thong, she pointed her ass directly toward him and gazed at him over her shoulder. Her black and blonde tail partly covered her ass, but she made sure he got a good view. “Sorry, did you need help with the heater?”

In less than a minute, he pulled a bit of wire out of his own spool on his toolbelt and got them into their correct spot. “No, no, it’s done.” He stood back up, his very large erection very clearly outlined in the front of his jumpsuit. He tried his very best to keep a straight face, but that was very difficult when there were two very attractive, very naked mares eyeing him like timber wolves eyed a immobile rabbit. “I think we can… ummm…”

“I think we can too.” Torch said as she grabbed Top’s tits from behind, causing her to gasp in surprise and squeal with glee.

Spark twitched.