Obsession and Regression

3

Dash heard the door unlock and swing open again. An excited, heavier pony bounded down the stairs and right up to the table, turning the Pegasus around to see her face-to-face.

"Good morning Honey!" Exclaimed the golden mare. "How are you?"

"I'm... okay. I guess."

Buttercup beeped her nose in response, like always.

"I've got something for you..." She went through the small saddlebag she had on her side. She held the object up high, announcing what it was at the same time she showed it to the cyan Pegasus. "A bottle! I think you're ready for this now..." She approached Rainbow. "Open up! Here comes the airplane..."

"I'm not thirsty..." Rainbow lied. "Maybe later..."

"Come on, Honey... enough silly babytalk! Open your mouth..." Rainbow kept it tightly closed. "Not even for mommy?"

Rainbow stared at the white fluid in the bottle, her eyes flitting back and forth between the container and Buttercup's creepy gaze...

Ironhoof's voice carried all the way from upstairs:

"Is there a problem down there?"

"Honey's not drinking her bottle!"

Dash heard Ironhoof slowly hiss:

"I'll be right down there then...".

Rainbow knew that the Butler pony wouldn't give up... he might even hurt her. She had no choice. Swallowing her pride, she slowly opened ber mouth.

"Good girl! False alarm Ironhoof!"

She began to suckle... and tasted just a bit of the fluid within the bottle. She gagged, pulling her head away.

"What is this?"

"Shh... shh... Drink your formula."

Great. I now know that formula tastes like chalk and paper pulp.

Rainbow knew she didn't have a choice... one way or another they'd get her drinking that bottle.

She put her mouth back to the nipple and suckled... and suckled... and suckled. Only a bit of the fluid came out at one time. It was terrible, it was rank, and just tasting it upset her stomach in a bad way. As she was drinking she felt her bowels priming for release. Like Clockwork, she thought. She always had to go after she got up, and the sour feeling in her stomach didn't help matters.

Soon enough the bottle was empty and set to the side.

"That must've been yummy!" Buttercup beamed a happy smile, going through the wooden changing table. Turning back to her rainbow-maned prisioner, the golden Pegasus put the binky in her captive's mouth and exclaimed: "It's now story time!"

Out came The Adventures of Daring Do and the Quest for the DASH DIDN'T CARE ANYMORE once again, and Buttercup resumed reading it where they'd left off. Dash let the Binky fall from her mouth again and again as Buttercup read, only to have it picked up and put back into place. After the 5th time, Dash stopped... and kept it in there... zoning out... waiting for Buttercup to come to a stop. At least her reading was entertaining, but Dash didn't care. What was the point? If she didn't get out, she's never go on any adventures like Daring Do ever again. She wasn't a dreamer, unless what she dreamed about she knew she could get.

She had to stop thinking like that.

I will get out of here.

It was about this time that Rainbow Dash heard some barking outside. It was incessant, so she tuned it out as best she could.

* * *

Suddenly, Ironhoof's voice bellowed over the barking, startling Rainbow out of her haze:

"Mistress Buttercup! We have some unexpected visitors requesting an audience... should I sent them away?"

"Who are they?"

"There are 5 mares. One has a dog, another a baby alligator. Neither animals are threatening. One of them is a Unicorn you most recently did business with. The rest are unknown."

It couldn't be...! Dash thought. That barking must be...

"What do they want?"

"They seek an audience and refuse to tell me why they are here. They keep saying they wish to talk to the owner... shall I send them away?"

The older mare sighed, looking out the window, then setting the book down as the barking continued:

"I'll be right up to talk to them..." She beeped Dash on the nose, then spun the table she was on around... and around... and around. "Don't you go anywhere, Honey."

As Dash spun, she heard the door close and lock. After a few minutes the table stopped spinning and Dash found herself facing the window... outside stood Apple Jack and Pinkie Pie, with their respective pets on a leash. Applejack's Winona was stretching her lead to its max while sniffing the ground... in the window's direction.

* * *

Rainbow's heart sped up... she saw that they were talking, and... if she kept really quiet, she could just barely make out what some of them were saying. Pinkie Pie was the easiest.

Pinkie Pie! It's only been a day or two, but I really miss your voice... Thought Rainbow.

"We're looking for our friend, a Rainbow Maned Pegasus," said a muffled, out view Twilight Sparkle. "Her name's Rainbow Dash. She'd not been to work today, nor is she at home, or anywhere we've been... last time we talked to her, she said she had an appointment here the other night. We can corroborate this with our friend Rarity's testimony."

"Corroborate for something I've yet to even deny?" Asked an out of view Buttercup." Why, you're not accusing me of some misdeed, are you?"

"No, I am not," Replied Twilight, firmly and loudly. "I just want to get to the facts. Can you tell me if my friend arrived here okay?"

"Yes, she did. We had tea, then she spent the night, leaving very early in the morning. My Butler Ironhoof let her out. The whole evening went very well.. I'm surprised she hasn't told you about it already. She certainly seemed like that kind of pony."

Rainbow started to breath rather heavily... not quite hyper-ventilating, but near it.

"Just what in the hay is that supposed to mean?" Asked Apple Jack, her face contorting into a scowl.

"Rainbow just seemed... prone to bragging. Dating a rich pony, I'm surprised she didn't gush over it. "

Rainbow now saw red. This pony kidnapped her, humiliated her, stolen her dignity, and was now badmouthing her to her best friends? She started struggling in the restraints harder than ever, even though she knew it was not good... unfortunately all the all clacks, clicks, and crinkles she was making drowned out almost everything her friends were saying. She had to remain still.

"Consarn it!" Thundered Applejack, gritting her teeth. "I've heard enough! She's our friend and we're worried about her... didn't she tell you anything about her plans after she was fixing to leave here? If she's the type to brag as you say, then she's also the type to let somethin' like that slip out, too!"

"I'm afraid not. I really do wish I could help you."

Dash noticed that Pinkie Pie remained quiet almost the whole time. She then noticed small, almost micro twitches, coming from her pink friend. Pinkie shook her head at the line she was being fed, patting Gummy the gator while listening.

Then she noticed Pinkie's nose twitching... she thought it was, again, just her Pinkie sense detecting the bologna, but then Pinkie made a comment that surprised her...

"Hey, does anypony smell foal powder around here?"

"Where!?" Buttercup exclaimed, coming down off the stoop to block the window with her body. She got right in Winona's way. "I don't smell a thing."

"Yeah, well... now that ya mention it, Pinkie Pie, I smell it too!" Said Apple Jack.

Rainbow watched through Buttercup's large body as all ponies sniffed the air, taking in the scent.

"It's nothing," said Buttercup confidently. "Just a neighbor's foal... or maybe somepony doing laundry."

"I'm desperate here..." Said Rainbow to herself, before shouting at the top of her lungs, "I'm here! Right in front of you girls... I'm not even 15 feet away. Come help me... please!"

It did no good... all her shouting did was make it so she couldn't hear.

They can't hear me... She thought. But they can smell this room... maybe they can smell me, too.

Rainbow Dash had one more idea... no a pleasant one, but it might carry out there. She needed to void her bowels... maybe if she soiled herself, her friends might smell it.

She took in a deep breath:

Gritting her teeth, she pushed out the mass, grunting... years of being toilet-trained made it difficult, so it was slow, unpleasant, sticky, and icky, but it came out right after the initial push. Dash felt the warm, wet weight in the back of her diaper. The rank smell then began to permeate the air...

"Gah..." She sighed, disgusted by what she had just done. I really hope this works...

She stared off at her friends, who were still smelling the air...

Winona again started pulling in the direction of the window, much harder this time. It was working.

"Why's Winona keep trying to check out that wall?" Asked Twilight.

"There ain't nothing there, Winona!" Sighed Applejack. "Not even a window!"

They... don't even... see... the window?

Rainbow Dash screamed in a rage:

"GAAAAHHHH!!! WHY CAN'T YOU HEAR ME!?!"

Her answer was nothing but silence.

"Excuse me, girls!" Buttercup projected her voice at the 5. "I think perhaps you're smelling that container of foal powder one of my guests spilled over there," Rainbow felt her pointing in the opposite direction. "The wind does remarkable things to odors when it carries them..."

All 5 of Rainbow's friends turned around. In that brief instant Dash saw Buttercup give Winona a swift hoof to the chops, causing her to whine... back away... then growl.

"Get that mutt away from me," Buttercup commanded, pointing down at the dog. "She's is growling... she is dangerous, and you are lucky I have tolerated you uninvited friends of Rainbow Dash's for so long, much less with your pets. Do not come back with either of those animals or you will be arrested and I will have a nice coat made from your mutt and some gator soup the same night. You come here and you investigate my property with neither a warrant nor even probable cause which is unacceptable in the eyes of the Law. In case I have not made myself perfectly clear, I wish that you DO NOT come back here again at all."

"But... Miss Buttercup!" Shirked a horrified Rarity. "We are just concerned about our friend's well-being."

"Your concern is admirable, but barging in unannounced, disturbing my privacy, and bringing live animals onto my property is unspeakably inconsiderate. I take it you brought them all here yourself, Miss Rarity?"

"Well, someone had to show them, or at least tell them, where you live..."

"You should have come alone then, Miss Rarity! This fax-paus of yours won't cost you your Career if you leave now, but it will cost you my business and the business of many Contacts in my Rolodex. Consider our Contract Null and Void, Miss Rarity. You are welcome to contest this in Court, but I will always have the better Lawyers. I say GOOD DAY to you, Madam!"

"But... I..." Rarity started to cry.

"Come on, Rarity," said Apple Jack. "Let's get out of here before SOMEPONY does something she might regret."

Rainbow Dash watched as all of her friends, and one dejected dog, sauntered away slowly... Pinkie Pie looked back with a scowl, right in the direction of the window... right through Buttercup's legs. That was the only hope Rainbow Dash had, as she watched her friends leave...

Something was a miss... just remember that Pinkie... something was amiss.

* * *

Rainbow Dash felt herself being spun around quickly. It startled her as she didn't hear the pony behind her doing it come down the stairs... or even come up behind her for that matter.

"What a lovely bunch," said Ironhoof, one hoof in his saddlebag, the other on the inversion table. "They were very kind friends, weren't they? I can see why you would wish to go back to them as badly as you do now. It's a shame the Mistress won't allow me to let you go, because I sincerely wish to." He sniffed the air. "And I'm sure you are quite aware that you now smell strongly of dung, Miss Dash... the Mistress wishes to take care of that personally."

Rainbow was silent, looking up at the gray pony. He pulled himself just a few inches from her face and smiled:

"Now... I want you to listen to me very carefully." He pulled from his saddlebag a hypodermic needle. "In a little while we're going to give you a small bit freedom down here, so you can get some exercise... don't get too excited, you'll be confined to just the Nursery and you're going to need to be sedated." He stuck the needle right into Rainbow's left arm. "In 5 minutes time you will be very relaxed... you won't have the coordination to do much more than crawl on your belly, so we won't have to worry about you escaping once the shackles come off."

"Why bother doing this?" She asked, wincing as Ironhoof removed the needle.

"Because the Mistress likes to watch her foal play... I was a pharmacist before I met the Mistress and have been doing this type of thing for years. Using a mixture of alchemy, black magic, and science I have developed a few tranquilizers for various occasions. What I just gave you is a diluted version of what you had the other night, laced with a hallucinogen... a bit faster-acting, too. If you had drank your tea casually, that mixture would have taken a couple hour to work. You and the Mistress would have had quite the night first, and she might've even dressed you up like this and led you to the table while you were still awake."

"And I would have been totally game?"

"Exactly, Miss Dash. It makes you quite suggestible... But because you chucked it, we had to go about things differently."

"That explains why I woke up with a stomach ache..."

"Woke up with a stomach ache? You were asleep 15 hours at least and you threw up on my shoulder the way down here." Ironhoof chuckled. "If I had my way, a pony with your personality you would be sedated all the time for this treatment... it would make you easier to manage."

Rainbow scowled at him:

"Then why not do it? Just not care about the consequences to me... I know you don't."

"That's not entirely true, Miss Dash. It's true would cause nervous system damage and eventually kill you, but I would not intentionally harm you without the Mistress's direct orders... or if harming you means keeping the Mistress safe."

"That's good to know..." Rainbow yawned unexpectedly.

Again, Ironhoof chuckled:

"It's starting to work... you're getting relaxed. Caring less about all this... Don't worry, Miss Dash... a small amount of my mixture once or twice a week should not hurt you. Daily or in large amounts, that's another story..."

As Ironhoof went back upstairs, Rainbow started to feel the effects of her recent injection... Her breathing slowed and she felt distant, somewhat disconnected... foggy-headed, as though she had been up for many nights without sleep. She wasn't quite at the point of wanting to go to sleep, but she found herself starting to feel a bit indifferent towards the fresh load in her pants... something she had been disgusted with mere minutes before. With every minute that went by, this feeling only grew stronger... and stronger. She still cared, but she didn't care that she cared.

* * *

"Hi Honey..." Said Buttercup, coming up to Rainbow Dash. "How are you doing?

Rainbow gave no answer. She just looked up at Buttercup.... and drooled.

"Aww, you're such a cutie." She quickly kissed Rainbow's cheek. "You smell stinky! Did you make a poo-poo in your diaper?"

Rainbow just stared at her for a brief moment, then cracked smiled.

"I thought so!" Buttercup poked Rainbow's relaxed tummy. "Don't worry! Mommy will make you all better!"

Rainbow was lowered into the familiar supine position, looking up at the ceiling. The way the light broke into beams when she squinted her eyes made the Rainbow-maned Pegasus giggle and squeal in delight.

Her legs were released by a key, then her arms. She was now free from the bondage.

Now's your chance!

"There, there," said Buttercup, unsnapping Rainbow's onsie. "Feels good to be out of your big, scary playpen, doesn't it?"

Again, Rainbow said nothing... she went from looking at Buttercup to looking at the ceiling.

"Mommy... I..." The room rocked back and forth as Rainbow slurred her words. "I wannttt... down."

"In a moment, Honey. I gotta change your diaper first!" She poked the sedated mare's butt. "Looks like someone's going to need a new onesie, too! Woah!"

Rainbow was still and unphased by that statement as all the supplies came out.

Tapes were then popped open as the golden mare proceeded to wipe a cyan butt clean. Rainbow laid perfectly still, enjoying the cool, cleaning sensation against her soiled fanny. She was unable to process much more beyond that.

"Okay, here we go!" Said Buttercup, holding an open disposable diaper up high. "Legs up, Honey!"

Rainbow complied, putting her legs up in the air as Buttercup slid the diaper beneath her. A few tapes were applied, then Rainbow was sat up.

"Okay, now put your arms up!" Buttercup said in a soothing voice, beeping the rainbow-maned idiot's nose.

Dash giggled in reply, doing exactly as she was told.

Get out! Run!

"Good girl!"

Buttercup pulled the onsie off Rainbow very carefully... it hurt her ears:

"Ow! Ow!" She cried.

"It's okay, sweetie," Buttercup said, quickly and carefully pulling the onesie off Rainbow. "I'm sorry, I had to.. I know it hurt, but it had poo-poo on it."

Rainbow was in tears because of how much it hurt, but her caregiver had just the thing in mind... before it came out, though, Rainbow felt around her chest area, looking down at the tight bandages which bound her wings tight to her body... she found a loose end and pulled on it...

Now's your chance... just pull on that a bit more.

"No, no, no.. That's for big ponies!" Buttercup scolded, sticking the adhesive back where it belonged. "Look up here, at Mommy!"

Again, Rainbow did exactly as she was told, smiling at the older mare. She beamed a warm smile and a wink back.

"I know you like rainbows," she said, going through the wooden changing table. "If you give me just a second... I'll get out a surprise for you. I bet you like tie-dye, too, don't you?"

She held up a tie-dye onesie before her Rainbow-maned captive's eyes, and in response she smiled.

"I thought so... arms up again. This time it won't hurt. Mommy promises!"

This was the last instruction Rainbow would be given for a while... and she did exactly as she was told, just like before. She kept still as she had the new onesie put on and snapped into place. After she was dressed, a familiar long elastic band came out... one end was attached to her loose collar, the other stuck in her mouth.

"There's your Binky!" Exclaimed Buttercup, ruffling the rainbow mane. "You like your Binky, don't you?"

Rainbow didn't answer.... all she did was suck on it. It felt soothing to do that, so she didn't stop.

"Okay now," Buttercup said, putting her hooves under the Cyan Pegasus's arms "I'm gunna lift you up now! ... 3 ... 2... 1... lift!"

Rainbow Dash's heavy body was lifted into the air by the older mare who nearly fell over with the dead weight on top of her...

Tip her over! Tip her over! Tip her over! Now's your chance! Tip her over NOW!

Despite the difficulties, Buttercup managed to set Rainbow gently on the floor. On average, a pony could lift another pony easily... Buttercup, however, was more than a little out of shape.

To express her gratitude over being lowered to the floor, Rainbow Dash smiled and drooled a syrupy mess on the floor, which spilled out with her Binky. This felt much better than being up there.

"Mommy will be right back with some toys, Honey... have fun and explore until then!"

Buttercup left, back upstairs... Rainbow stayed still.

Come on... run Rainbow! Run!

Rainbow looked around... everything was blurry and wavy. She laughed at the way things seemed to swirl.

She attempted to move, falling flat on her gut.

That's it... just make it to the stairs.

The Rainbow-maned Pegasus giggled as she put one hoof in front of the other... just barely crawling... around the room. This in itself was a chore, but she was at least getting somewhere at what she thought was a good speed. In reality, her pet turtle Tank would have beaten her on the ground with no handicaps.

This is fun... NO! FOCUS! What do you want?

"Up... staiirrs," Rainbow slurred.

Good! Then go! What are you waiting for?! Move your diapered butt! Move!

Rainbow continued to look around the room, looking for the exit. She finally found the stairway and slowly crawled up to it.

Here we are! Climb!

Rainbow attempted to put her hoof on the first step... it was difficult, but she did it.

Alright RD! Let's go for hoof #2...

She managed to get two hooves on the step.. slowly she put her hooves on to the next step up, and managed... very gradually... to pull herself up.

Yes! You're doing it! You're doing it!

In what seemed like 20 seconds she went up 3 steps. She kept her eye on the goal. The stairs went up 10 wiggly steps, then there was a small landing where it made a turn right... how many there were there after that landing, she wasn't sure. 10 wiggly steps was the goal for now.

What felt like a few minutes went by with no sign of Buttercup. Rainbow had successfully pulled herself up 8 steps -- a feat nopony kidnapped by the two had ever managed to accomplish in her state -- she was nearly there. She didn't know what she would do when she got there, but it was better than rotting down in the basement... she couldn't process that thought, but she could feel it. She pushed herself, and she pushed herself, and she pushed herself, climbing each step. Her muscles felt like gelatin, her bones like spaghetti, but she still tried.

She could now see over the landing! One more step and she'd be able to rest!

Cocking her head to the right, she looked upwards. She saw 5 wiggling steps and one opened door. She was going to make it.

"Yeessss...." She hissed.

In her excitement, Rainbow Dash misjudged where the step was behind her and her hoof slipped. She was never too sure of where her hooves were to begin with, since she felt half out of body and in a rather uncoordinated state. She slid back down the stairs, almost regaining her traction... if it weren't for the Binky on the elastic getting in the way. thumb-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump! She slid quickly, hurting her bound chest and back along the way. Adding insult to injury, once she reached the very bottom she felt a familiar warm tingly release between her legs. She cried out in pain, and a bit in humiliation... which subsided pretty quickly in her sedated state.

Winners never say die...

Wiggling back up to her crawling position, she tried again. Up one step.... up two... up three!

Come on, Dashie... you got there before.

She made it up 6 steps when she finally heard somepony approaching.

"Okay Honey! Me and Mr. Ironhoof have some blocks and toy cars for you..."

Rainbow Dash allowed herself to slide back down the steps once again... a slower, not quite as painful trip. She was fortunately not seen or heard by either pony.

"Oh," Buttercup was now standing on the landing, looking down at the sedated Rainbow Dash balancing on the bottom two steps. "Were you trying to find mommy? I'm right here, silly filly!"

Rainbow Dash just giggled in response, picking up the binky and putting it back in her mouth. It was better that neither pony know Rainbow Dash still had one or two of her marbles tucked away... she had to fight hard for them, but they were there. Now... she'd have to play and try to enjoy herself. Her escape attempts would have to wait for another day...