Author's Note

Wow remember when I was afraid to post this sort of stuff?

Tickled Red

Big Macintosh was acting happy to a near suspicious degree. Caramel had picked up on this early in the day soon after he had woken up. It was during breakfast where after Mac had set his plate down that he buried his face into Caramel’s neck and began to kiss and nibble. When Caramel had tried to squirm he wrapped both hooves around Caramel from behind and said he loved him. That was the sort of behavior Mac only displayed when he was extremely happy.

There were the obvious reasons, of course. For one they had nearly all of Sweet Apple Acres to themselves. Applejack was out of town, Apple Bloom was in school, and Granny Smith was out in town where she would sometimes spend hours on her own simply enjoying the life of the town. A house to themselves gave way to restrictions placed by the watchful eyes of others. Though Mac had never believed in hiding his love for Caramel, he did behave much more affectionate when the two of them were alone.

It had quickly gone from abnormal to downright condemning when Big Macintosh had not only taken him for a walk out to the middle of the apple field, but had insisted on carrying Caramel on his back the entire way. Even as Caramel clung to his lover’s back and buried his muzzle into Big Macintosh’s mane he still felt something was off.

“Are you gonna tell me why we’re out here yet?” Caramel asked.

“I just wanted to do something with you,” Big Macintosh said with a chuckle. His voice was deep but there was a hint of a smirk on his face.

“And why wouldn’t you let me walk?” Caramel pressed. “Not that I uh I’m complaining or anything. I lov— No, like, letting you carry me like this.”

“You’ll see,” Big Macintosh said with a quick wink. It was so cheesy but at the same time it made Caramel’s heart skip a beat. “I figure you might wanna save your energy for what I have planned.”

Big Macintosh smirked again as Caramel’s face grew hot. So many thoughts entered his mind, each one of them more exciting and dangerous than the last. He was suddenly very aware that his legs were spread, open, over Big Macintosh’s flank with one hoof hanging down each side. Big Macintosh chuckled and Caramel’s excitement grew even more frantic.

After another minute Big Macintosh stopped. They were in the shade of multiple trees deep within the apple forest. Caramel could no longer see the road nor the barn. The grass was soft and cool. Big Macintosh let Caramel down and near instantly the smaller stallion rolled off into the grass. He started giggling as he rolled onto his side and squeezed his legs shut to hide his growing excitement.

“Juuuussssst the thing,” Big Macintosh said. He took a few more paces toward the tree and then reached down to pick up a small bag. “Stuck this here last night. Figured I didn’t wanna ruin the surprise.”

“What’s inside?” Caramel asked.

Big Macintosh smirked and got down next to Caramel. He tipped the bag and let its contents all fall out. The first thing Caramel spotted was the rope. It was followed by a black blindfold and several brushes. A toothbrush, a hairbrush, a paintbrush, and so forth. Caramel’s heart picked up speed when he saw a few feathers gracefully falling down.

“Hehehe,” Caramel said with glee and couldn’t help but cover his face so Big Macintosh wouldn’t tease just how happy he looked.

“Yeah,” Big Macintosh said as he got down next to Caramel. “You just can’t wait, can you?”

“Maaac,” Caramel whined as lips pressed to his cheek and the weight of Big Mac’s body came down on him to snuggle.

“I can’t believe you got all that stuff,” Caramel whined playfully.

“You don’t gotta be embarrassed, Sugarcube,” Big Macintosh whispered. “Well, at least not till I get ya tied up and spread out for some tickling.”

Caramel started giggling relentlessly as his belly began to be rubbed. He lowered his forelegs from his face at last. He rolled over so Big Macintosh could kiss his lips. When they parted Big Mac had already grabbed the rope and had a strand of it in his mouth. Caramel took it in his hooves and sat up with a grin.

“So,” Caramel asked. “How do you wanna be tied up?”

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“Oh gosh oh gosh!” Spike yelled. “Nonononono!”

A sudden gust of wind had hit Spike’s left wing and for just a moment he lost balance in the air. His heart began to race as he corrected himself. For a moment he made the worst decision possible and looked directly downward. He still wasn’t used to the heights on his own.

“You’re doing great, Spike!” A voice from below yelled.

Spike looked down to see Shining Armor just twenty feet below him jogging down the road to keep pace. He had come to town specifically to see Spike’s newly formed wings, and now he was getting one of his first demonstrations.

Spike looked to both his sides to see apple tree after apple tree. He was somewhere deep into the apple fields by now. He knew Applejack wouldn’t mind it if he were to spot her, along with the rest of her family.

Just as Spike was beginning to consider landing, as his wings were slowly but surely becoming sore, he felt another gust of wind hit him from the right side of his body. He gasped. It was much stronger than the last. As he tried to correct himself he narrowly missed hitting the top of one of the trees.

“Spike!” Shining yelled, his tone wrought with fright.

Spike’s body flung toward the apple trees. He was about to cry out but was stopped as he managed to get control back of his wings and give himself a gust upward just before he crashed. He wobbly but carefully came down to the ground in a small clearing of the thick forest and fell to his knees soon after. He was gasping hard and shaking for a few moments after. Finally he crashed onto his side to let his head touch the cool grass and sighed wearily.

“Close,” Spike said with a sigh of relief.

He was glad Twilight hadn’t been here to see that, or she might be twice as strict as she already was with his new wings with rules about how high he should fly or what weather to avoid.

Spike heard the sound of a pony. He felt faint, but still consistent. He sat up slowly and looked around but couldn’t see anypony. It didn’t sound like Shining Armor, so he assumed it must have been one of the Apple family.

Spike got to his feet and rubbed his spinning head as he began to walk in the direction of the voice. If he explained to one of the family that he had flown off course they might be able to help him get back to Shining Armor.

“Hello?” Spike asked. “Applebloom? Granny Smith?”

Spike took a few more steps. The sound suddenly grew clearer. The sound of it made him hesitate, as it sounded strange.

“Pffffft! Ahahaaaa! N-Noho! Please Sugar, Th-That spot’s not ok- EEEEHEEEE DOHOHOHN’T STOP!”

“Big… Macintosh?” Spike asked.

Spike walked forward with careful and slower movements than before. He got down on his knees once he spotted a collection of bushes blocking his path and crawled directly through them. The laughter was louder now. He finally caught a glimpse of Big Macintosh’s striking red coat and instantly felt his entire body freeze.

“Eh-ehhheeheeee! Ah- Mmmmm, C-Caramel, th-that spot is AHAHAHA!”

Big Macintosh was blindfolded. And laying on his back. Between him two trees just a few feet apart were wrapped in rope. Big Macintosh’s lower legs were spread wide and held apart by said rope. His eyes were covered in a black blindfold. His forelegs were pinned to his side with even more rope so he didn’t even have the benefit of even one of his limbs.

“Oh my gosh,” Spike whispered.

Next to him was a stallion that Spike recognized. Caramel. Big Macintosh’s boyfriend. He was smaller than Mac and a bit pudgy but in a way that flattered him. He had a gleeful look on his face and was giggling, though it was impossible to hear over Big Macintosh’s roaring laughter. In his mouth he was holding a long, thin paintbrush with the soft bristly end running gently over Big Mac’s exposed balls. With one hoof he was slowly pumping the large grey skinned cock. The other hoof was holding a hairbrush with white bristles and dragging it over Big Macintosh’s belly.

The poor workhorse bit his lip and writhed trying to withstand the laughter the tickling brought him. He broke, eventually, and began to squeak in laughter in a tone Spike didn’t think he had ever heard from the large stallion. He writhed and laughed and didn’t even try to hide just how much it made him explode.

“EHEHEEEE! I-I can’t tahahake it!”

“Poor Mac,” Caramel said with a giggle. He had to speak up to be heard over Big Macintosh’s frantic laughing. “Guess I’m not scrubbing fast enough if you can still talk like that, huh?”

“AHHHHHHHAHAHAAAA!” Big Macintosh yelled with laughter at the top of his lungs. It was loud enough to echo throughout the forest and scare off a few nearby birds.

Spike was uncomfortably aware how long he had been staring. He had been twice as uncomfortable without the knowledge that between his legs his cock had become fully erect. His cheeks were warm with blush and his toes curled at the thought of being under the watch of that tan stallion alone. This was the last thing he had expected to see today. Well… the last thing, he supposed, unless Shining Armor and him could get some time alone.

“Spike!” Shining Armor yelled. He had gotten to just right up before the bush Spike was hiding in. It startled the dragon so much that he didn’t only jump; he flat out rolled out of the bush and down the small hill from where he had been watching the two. He felt his world spin faster than ever before as his body tumbled and he was soon forced to lay on his back.

“AHHH!” Spike yelled in pure terror as he came tumbling closer toward the two.

“Ahhh!” Spike heard a scream in return that was far too high pitched to be Big Macintosh. He saw a flash of tan just barely jump out of the way before Spike felt his back crash into one of the trees Big Macintosh had been tied to. He dizzily tried to steady himself and sit up and the moment his vision focused he saw nothing other than Big Macintosh’s large erect cock.

“Sugarcube?” Big Macintosh asked and began to squirm. “What’s goin’ on? I can’t see!”

“Oh,” Shining Armor said. Spike just barely managed to look up at the hill where he fell to spot Shining Armor at the top. Even from a distance his snow white cheeks were hot pink with a blush.

“Oh my gosh oh my gosh,” Caramel was saying again and again from just a few feet away. He was on his hind legs and paralyzed with fear with two hooves gripping either side of his head.

“I uh…” Shining Armor said, still clearly dumbfounded by just what he had stumbled into. “I found you, Spike!”

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Big Macintosh finished filling the last glass of ice water when he noticed Caramel was staring down at his hooves again. He frowned and set the glass and pitcher down and walked over to his boyfriend at the other side of the kitchen. He wrapped his forelegs around Caramel’s neck and kissed his cheek.

“It’ll be fine,” Big Macintosh said. “I can do the talking if you wanna stay out of this, Sugarcube.”

“I wanna be there,” Caramel said. “I just… I feel so embarrassed. I-I don’t know how I let the freaking PRINCE of Equestria see me doing that stuff.”

Big Macintosh fought a frown and kissed Caramel again. The tan stallion gave him a kiss back on his own cheek and then pulled away with a long winded sigh.

“Let’s just do it, okay?”

“Eeyup,” Big Macintosh said.

Big Macintosh went first carrying the tray of water on his back with Caramel following close behind. He managed to set it down on the coffee table between where Spike and Shining Armor had taken seat in two chairs. Both of them looked just about as uneasy as Big Macintosh felt.

“Howdy,” Big Macintosh said. “Got ya’ll some water. It’s a hot day out.”

“It uh… it was… IS!” Spike said, looking up suddenly. “Is a ho— warm day.”

Shining Armor gave Spike a quick confused look. Shortly after the dragon was blushing and looking away. He reached for his water and downed half of it without breathing, ice and all.

Caramel slumped down on the couch and Big Macintosh sat down beside him.

“Well,” Shining Armor said as he reached out to grab his own glass. “I guess we shouldn’t really beat it in the bush,”

“I wasn—” Spike tried to snap.

“Beating around the bush!” Shining Armor said to cut off Spike.

A few moments of silence passed before Shining Armor shattered it with a simple sigh. He took in a deep breath and with it the room seemed to grow just a hint less tense.

“We saw what happened. I don’t know how much Spike saw but I saw… enough,” Shining Armor said. “At least, to know what you were doing.”

“I-I’m really sorry!” Caramel said quickly. Instantly he bit his lip and turned his head down. “I-I didn’t mean for anybody to see something like that.”

“I kinda figured by your screaming,” Spike said.

Shining Armor reached out and pinched lightly on Spike’s cheek.

“Ow!” The dragon snapped.

“Caramel an’ I like to mess around sometimes,” Big Macintosh said. “Sometimes outside. I like it a little more like that.”

“Do you have to share that much?” Caramel mumbled before proading his hoof into Mac’s side.

“I’m not saying I’m judging either of you,” Shining Armor said. “I just wanted to apologize for uh… coming in when we shouldn’t have. My wife’s the princess of love. I know a little bit about it’s important for couples to do different sort of stuff.”

“Mmm,” Caramel made a noise. He looked as though he were in thought.

“Thank ya’ll for that,” Big Macintosh said and quickly bowed his head. “I don’t mean to be rude, but I think me an’ Caramel were startled enough for one day. If you don’t mind I think we might ask ya’ll to go as soon as you finish your wat—”

“I-I liked watching it!” Spike blurted out so fast he interrupted Big Mac. Instantly the workhorse felt his eyes widen and pressed to his side he felt Caramel tense up.

“Spike!” Shining hissed. “I was supposed to ease them into it!”

“You were taking too long,” Spike spat back. “They were about to kick us out!”

“Um,” Caramel said. He gripped Mac’s hoof with his right one and raised his left one out toward the other two. “What do you mean… by that?”

“Sugar…” Big Macintosh muttered under his breath. Caramel gave him a quick look that told the workhorse even Caramel wasn’t sure why he had said that.

“Me and Shining uh…” Spike started. He looked over to Shining Armor who gave a quick nod. “We do stuff similar to it, too. I saw that it wasn’t just regular couple… t-time together.”

“You do it too?” Caramel asked. “Like, t… tickling, stuff?”

Spike nodded his head and Shining Armor gave a chuckle to accompany his new blush.

“For a few months now,” Spike said with a nod. “We just fool around when Shining’s in town or I’m at Canterlot. Uh, sorry, that was kinda too much info.”

“Ain’t you married?” Big Macintosh asked with his eyes direct on Shining.

“Yeah I am,” Shining Armor said without a hint of nervousness in his tone. “Obviously Cadance knows I’m here and knows what I’m doing.”

“And she just is fine with that?” Big Macintosh pressed.

“Of course,” Shining Armor said without missing a beat. “It’s not like I’m not fine with her doing the exact same stuff. She’s the princess of love. She told me just when we started dating seriously that she never wanted my love for her to be the reason I had anything in me I couldn’t express with her! Long as it was legal, haha.”

Shining was blushing harder now. Big Macintosh could sense an affection in his tone that instantly soothed his worries. He leaned back into the couch and let himself smile.

“Well alright,” Big Macintosh said with a nod.

“Are you two not really open to that kind of stuff?” Spike asked.

“We are,” Big Macintosh replied.

“So-Sort of,” Caramel said with a quick stutter. When eyes turned to him he simply looked down and leaned against Mac.

“Caramel means we haven’t had much of an opportunity to test it. We’ve talked about it before, though,” Big Macintosh explained. “We don’t go out much, so it ain’t like another pair of stallions fell in our lap till today.”

“I always said we could find a mare and stallion couple if you wanted,” Caramel mumbled.

“Only I like mares outta the two of us, Sugarcube,” Big Macintosh said. “That wouldn’t be very fair to you.”

“I said if it made you happy I was happy,” Caramel said with a squirm.

The two bickering boyfriends were interrupted by Spike snorting and then exploding into a fit of giggles. Caramel seemed to melt into the couch with his blush causing him to melt. Shining Armor was smiling too, though he was trying to hide it more clearly.

“You two sound like an old married couple,” Spike said after his small giggle fest died down. “Jeez, I never knew you were such a softie, Big Mac.”

“I thought you wanted to get on their good side, Spike,” Shining Armor said with a teasing tone.

Big Macintosh near instantly started chuckling. Just when it felt like it was about to die down he heard Caramel start too. His went on for longer and was a bit louder more like Spike’s.

“So, what do you think about us?” Shining Armor asked. “Me and Spike talked about it a little. We thought maybe it’d help you feel a little less awkward if you… well, I guess if you just let yourself feel good for a little bit with the two of us?”

“Er…” Big Macintosh said with a blink. He felt Caramel grab him by the hoof and squeeze it tightly. When he looked down at the stallion his eyes were wide and he was squirming. He was in love with the idea, Big Macintosh could already tell.

“Um… You mean getting together to do… Tickling stuff?” Caramel asked.

“Of course,” Shining Armor said. “If that wasn’t too weird for you two, that is.”

“It’s not for me,” Caramel said. He surprised even Big Macintosh by being able to speak up so quickly. “I mean… I’m okay with trying it. I’ve never really done stuff with anypony but Mac, though.”

Caramel then looked up quickly and turned to Mac.

“O-Oh, sorry, I forgot to ask what you wanted.”

“Sugar, if you’re happy I’m happy,” Big Macintosh said with a smirk.

“Soooo,” Spike said. He was starting to grin and giggle now. “You’re up for it, right? I know we’re friends, Mac, so I was kinda weird about asking you, but after seeing that I uh… Y-Yeah, I just thought I’d ask.”

The two stallions gave a quick nod to each other and then Big Macintosh looked back right into Shining Armor and Spike’s eyes.

“I think we’re interested,” Big Macintosh said.