You're eventually fished out of the bathtub by Rarity when you failed to get out yourself. Why aren't you just stay here the rest of the day? You're a merpony now, go away.

The bubbly water offers great visual cover but she finally managed to snag you around the stomach with her magic.

"I am the sea! Put me back!", You're good though; you even let her dry you with a towel since Lilly already left.

"One would think you haven't had a proper bath in ages little fish." She teases

"Anon's bath is way smaller than yours. I can't exactly swim in it like that."

"I did told you you'd love my bathroom!" Her sing song voice is totally bragging, but technically she's right .

"I never said I wouldn'tttttt" Tail clamp! She doesn't need to dry there!

"I swear you can be such a filly. Ah well, dry enough."

Her lack of concern for personal space is getting to be an issue. Then again she also lacks concern for your personal freedom and a bunch of other rights. Maybe you have to pick and choose your battles here. You take the towel in your magic and dry your own backside thank you very much while she starts to brush your mane.

"Now the reason I wanted to borrow you for 2 days was because that's how long these tests usually take. However, you finished everything rather ahead of schedule by destroying most of our prototypes. You might need to hold back a little next time, but either way everyone down in R&D was very impressed. Even if I can't acquire, hopefully we can still get you back over here on a regular basis to help us again."

It WAS fun flexing your magical muscles again.

"That said you are going to help me convince Anon yes?"

Crap. Your life with Anon might be boring but he's nowhere near as 'intense' as your time with RArity has already been. You aren't entirely sure she's in her right state of mind at this point, and that's assuming she doesn't crack down even harder on your 'training' when the leash is actually in her hooves.

Visiting when you can and hopefully being a positive influence in her life? Sure, absolutely.

Being owned by her?

You're fairly sure the only thing that saved you from a beating that first day in the medical wing was the fact you weren't technically aren't hers to punish. Yet.

"I'll have to have a long chat with him." Deflecting? Ha, no of course you aren't deflecting!

"But you do want to come and be mine do you not?" The question's a little aggressive. Did you already offended her by not jumping at the opportunity?

"I-I'd really have to talk about it with Anon first. He's not so bad..." Please don't pressure you.

She sighs and takes a seat at her vanity where she can look down on you. "I'm glad he's good to you Twilight, but you absolutely need to be careful. He's a man, what if he gets lonely one night, hmm?"

Holy shit why does everyone think Anon is 5 minutes from creampieing you?!?

"Oh it starts out innocent enough. Just some cuddling, he promises no funny business of course. Then a quick blowjob right? it's not big deal. Next thing you know he's not asking he's telling and believe me darling he's the only one having a good time."

"Rarity he's not like that!"

"I'd love to believe you darling, but I thought the same thing about Danny... It gets easier for them after the first time. Before you know it he's coming to your room every night for his little 'pony ride'."

"T-That's horrible Rarity. I'm so sorry, but I don't think Anon will-"

She suddenly slams a hoof down on the vanity and leans toward you aggressively! "You don't think? You hope? Twilight I love you, but you're being unbelievably naive right now! I know how humans are! You've been lucky so far, but sooner or later THIS WILL HAPPEN! If not by Anon then a neighbor, or his friend, or your next owner! I've been there, my girls have been there, all mares will be there if the humans have anything to say about it!"

Holy buck this came out of nowhere! Mood swings due to imbalanced hormones? Past trauma?

"I don't understand why you're fighting me on this!?!" She hops off the chair and starts to quickly circle you, you would back away but she's so fast you can only spin your head to keep an eye on her!

"Rarity please calm down!"

"Still Rarity is it?!" She sighs and rubs the bridge of her nose with a hoof.

"I mean mis-"

"Shush! I've been very patient with you Twilight. I've tried using the carrot these past few days, but maybe your the type that only respond to the stick! You won't be the first stubborn mare I've handled!" Stopping in front of you she float the brush between the two of your threateningly!

Now's the time for panic! Back away! Back away! "Stop please! We can talk about this!"

"About what?! What else can I offer you Twilight?? I've been very kind, the only thing Anon gives you that I haven't is this! Maybe this is exactly what I need to get through to you! "

"No, hold on! Wait!" Your loud protest do nothing to stop the aggressive marehandling you receive from her magic! Picking you up in her magic, she turns you around and throws you over the edge of the bathtub you back into!

No no no! You desperately try to wiggle out of her grasp! A position like this has never ended well for you in the past!

"There no shame in needing a firm hoof Twilight! I don't want to do this, but if you won't listen to reason then this is for your own good!"

"Stop it! Let me go!"

You try to swing a forehoof at her only to be rewarded with her magic grabbing that limb too and pinning it behind your back. She even pushes your front half further over the edge of the tub raising your flanks high into the air!

Shit shit shit no! She's raising the brush!

"You do not! Tell me! What! To! Do!" to your horror punctuates every word with a heavy SMACK across your exposed flanks!

It burns sweet celestia it burns! The heavy hairbrush in her magic is even worse than you'd imagined! "Ow ow ow! Stop it! You can't! You can't do this!

"I can" SMACK! "and I will" WHACK! "because you'll be mine soon enough!" CRACK CRACK CRACK! "I'll make your anon an offer he can't refuse!"

Ow ow ow! Make it stop! She can't do this, you aren't hers!

"You'll be mine, and we will do whatever it takes for you to LEARN! YOUR! PLACE!" Ow ow ow! That's going to leave a mark!

"Stoppp! Pleaseee!" You kick your hooves and struggle desperately as she pours on the pain!

The seconds turn into minutes as she turns your purple plot redder and redder with no sign of stopping! You can't take this! It hurts To much! not just your flanks but your heart as one of your best friend abuses you!

"Please mistress! Please please please!"

Huffing from exertion Rarity finally slows down your rapid fire tail tanning. "Oh now it's mistress? I suppose that means you can learn! I hate that I had to do this Twilight, but I will do whatever it takes to protect you. Even if that means protecting you from yourself."

Your brain and your backside both tell you to submit. To just say yes ma'am, tell her you were sorry, and that you'll do whatever she says. But you know that's not what she needs. The last thing she needs is another submissive yes mare. What she needs a friend to stand up to her.

Easier said than done with the pain your currently in, but here goes nothing. "Anyone will do what you say if you abuse them enough, but that doesn't make you right!"

A growling Rarity raises the brush back to your hot seat and pats a cheek! "I admire your will Twilight, I really do, but this simply isn't a fight you can win!"

"Just listen OWWW to yourself! I'm worried about youuuuu! Ohhhh!"

"You'd be wise to worry less about me and more about yourself!" She doesn't lose a beat as she flattens your cheeks again and again, the burning sensation now upgraded into a raging fire in your cheeks!

"Look at yourselffFFFF! OWWWW! Look what you're doing!"

"I'm helping you!"

"You're beating me!!" To your immense relief the new wave of pain stops immediately. That seemed to have really got her attention! No backing off your offensive now now! gotta strike while the iron's hot! "The Rarity I know wouldn't beat her friends into submission!"

For the first time you see uncertainty in her eyes. "Y-you made me do this. If you were just a good girl..."

Oh Celestia it feels so good to catch your breath! Your backside is throbbing like there's no tomorrow, and the bottom of the tub has a few tears in it, but your voice only shakes a little as you confront her. "Why do you want to buy me?"

"T-to protect you... from those monstrous humans." You can feel her conflicted eyes still glued to your rump.

"To protect me?! And this is any better?! Look at what you did!"

Your tail fell when as relaxed from her magical grip, but you rise it yourself to force her to confront her actions.

"It might not be rape, but if this is what I'm afraid of every time I open my mouth what kind of life is that?"

"You're a smart mare... you'll learn..."

"I don't want to learn to be your slave Rarity I want to be me!"

That snaps her out of her daze! She looks past your backside and into your eyes with a fiery look of her own! "Well you don't get what you want Twilight! What if something happens to me and you're sold off again? A real master would eat you alive! This backtalk would end is much much worse than a little spanked flank!"

"P-please Rarity I'm sorry your experience was horrible but mine doesn't have to be! This isn't the generous mare I knew!"

"You're right, it isn't! You know what happened to that mare? While you were out playing in the woods she was being used and bred like an animal! The only generosity in this world is to do everything in my power to make sure that doesn't happen to others too!"

Without warning she yanks your tail up and smashes the brush into your relaxed rear end! Your lack of preparation shows as you squeal like a filly! "NO NO NO STOPPPP!"

"NOT! UNTIL! YOU! LEARN!"

You can feel the bruises forming as she punishes you even harder than ever! It seems like there's no getting through to her and your plushy pony posterior CAN NOT take more of this!

Pouring everything you have into your horn you desperately scrap together the mana to to reach into your pocket dimension. The element's your last hope! A task hard enough with just your ring feels impossible while also suffering Rarity's thrashing at the same time! You have to do this though! For her, for you!

Where finesse and concentration fail you raw power will have to do!

Your horn bursts into brilliant light as the molten slag formally known as your horn ring drips to the bottom of the tub. It's a sloppy magic but the element of generosity explodes into being and lands right on your croup.

"Wha-What is this?"

Oh sweet glorious Celestia she stopped! You collapse over the side of the tub in magical, physical, and emotional exhaustion.

"It's your..." Oh gods, got to catch your breath, "it's your element."

"I-I don't understand. Why is it broken?"

"Because, this isn't generosity!" You wince and pray that's not too far, but what else can you say?

Just please let it be over! You promised yourself you'd be strong, but in reality you're at your limit! Any more 'quality time' with the back of her brush and you'd break down into a pathetic pleading broken mess!

She's quiet but you dare not look back. If more is coming you don't want to know ahead of time.

"Please, I'm just worried about you. Please no more..." You close your eyes and try to suppress your fear. The silence though... It keeps making you expect the worse.

What if it didn't work? what if she's just going to beat you more? You can't take anymore you just can't! You'll break completely and be just another trophy mare for her collection! But more blows don't come, instead you feel her lift away in her magic.

"I did this?" Her voice is soft, the fiery anger that tore you up now gone. Is there hope?

"I don't really know when it happened. I only checked it after you came over to Anon's house the other day..."

"Lost faith in me so soon?"

Your ears droop, she sounds so sad. "I'm sorry, you were just so... Not what I expected."

She pats you haunches twice as if to signal something. "You can get down darling, no more."

It's as if Celestia herself had parted the heavens to assure you everything would be fine!

With immense relief you climb down off the side of the tub. Your everything is sore, not only from the discipline but the painful position it was done in. Even just trying to sit down on the hard tile floor proves to be a mistake. You whimper as your flanks protest and instead opt to lay down on your stomach.

You're busy inspecting the damage in the mirror behind when you hear something placed on the floor in front of you.

Her brush.

Just the sight of it makes you whimper and splay back your ears in submission.

"The way I see it we're at an impasse Twilight. I see now why you had your concerns, and I'm willing to listen. Let's just talk, yes?"

"I-I'd like that." You can't take your eyes off the brush though, did she put it there as a threat? A reminder? It's not floating menacingly anymore, but it still clearly has a meaning sitting between the two of you.

"Now the element, what does this mean? Is it ruined?"

"It isn't destroyed. The magic's still there and it's still connected to you it's just... wrong... damaged..."

"And you think that's because I'm wrong?"

Fuck fuck fuck! Back it up slowly. She's going to explode, she's going to start all over again!

A hoof interrupts your constant vigil of the brush and picks your chin up to look her in the eye.

"It's ok. You aren't going to be get in trouble, you've had enough. You can tell me the truth I promise."

You gulp, here goes nothing. "I-I think all you've gone through has changed you, hurt you. A-and it hurt the element too."

Floating the element between the two of you she stares at it sadly. "I guess that's hard to argue with. Even I know I'm not the same mare I was 6 years ago. Am I right to assume you have a suggestion?"

"You just need a friend Rarity! You've been alone for so long here at the top that you forgot what it means to be a pony!"

The alabaster mare sighs and runs a hoof through her mane, "You just don't get it Twilight, I don't get to be a pony. Ponies go back to their cages and I have a responsibility to my mares to protect them."

"But Rarity you're spaying them! You're beating them!"

"FOR! THEIR! PROTECTION!"
You said you've be strong but the sudden outburst terrifies you! You throw your hooves over your head and wait for the beating to begin again!

But it doesn't. The moments pass as you tremble and cower, but the only thing that comes is her now small voice. "I'm sorry."

You dare to peek up at her. She's wiping her own eyes and looking away from you. "I heard you out now will you hear me?"

"Yes."

"I don't like being the bad guy. I don't like being the bully. But as I said, I also can't guarantee I'll always be in charge around here. I escaped that life due to some silly lawyer's tricks. I fear all it would take is another trick to put me right back. So I try to prepare every mare I own for the future. They learn respect and obedience to make their lives easier. Yes, they lose their right to foals to keep them from the breeders. Do you know where my little filly is Twilight? They took her from me when she was less than a year old, I don't even know if she's alive. No mare should have to live through that and none of mine will."

You can at least appreciate where she's coming from even if you don't accept the result. Celestia always told you that understanding was the first step to peace.

"I'm sorry about your filly and I understand your motivations, but I can't agree with your conclusions."

"A compromise then?" She turns back towards you and lays down on the floor just like you, eye to eye.

"You don't agree with my methods, I get that. I don't agree with your willfulness, but I also don't want to lose you from my life. Anon seems to really like you, I'm sure you could convince him to keep you from me permanently, but neither of us really want that. So how about this, temporary immunity. Once or twice a week we can have a 100% totally honest heart to heart. You can share your concerns complaints and arguments about anything and everything I've done without fear of discipline. I'llargue my side, but you'll be completely safe."

Sounds conditional, but what you wanted nevertheless, kinda how compromises work really.

"And in return?"

"The rest of the time you listen to me. You listen to me, you be a good girl and you submit to discipline if you act out."

You whimper and break eye contact, she talks about it so casually!

"No no, look at me." You let her place a hoof under your chin again and guide your eyes back to her own.

"I know you don't like the idea. I don't like the idea of letting you argue with me freely either. I think it undermines my efforts, but this is how a good compromises work, neither side is perfectly happy. I promise I'll take your concerns seriously when it's your turn, but I also promise to do what I've done tonight when it's mine. Do you understand?"

You nod.

"Hugs?"

It's a little strange hugging someone who was very recently so mad at you, but it feels good anyway.

"Now, I've already had my turn tonight so tell me honestly. Do you want to come be mine, or do you wish to stay with Anon?"

Any other time, or with any other master, you'd be scanning her eyes for signs of deceit. A tip that this was just fishing for another excuse to get on to you. But not right now. Right now she's genuine.

"I want to spend more time with you, I really do. I want to try to change your mind on a few things but being owned by you? Honestly, no. Not yet, I just don't feel ready. Maybe I can talk Anon into letting me visit often. You said they appreciated my work downstairs I'd love to come help anytime you need."

She looks a little sad but nods her head in agreement.

"Yes yes I'm sure Anon and I could come up with a more permanent agreement, perhaps a few days a week or so."

Reaching up she suddenly boops your nose! "You know you really are going to break the bank like this darling. I always hated renting, it just feels like throwing money away when you could be buying."

"But I'm worth it right?"

"You certainly are."

Author's Note

Sorry for the long delay. I tend to get distracted with new games and writing the latest new chapters of the story.