Bridles and Corsets

Dear Princess Celesta,

Today I've learned the darker side of becoming an escort-mare. You see, I had hidden this fact that I, myself, had been reporting these

Twilight then heard a knock on the door. Curious, she set down the quill she was writing with and made her way to her suite's front door. Using her horn's magic, she opened the door slowly to a stallion she least expected at this hour. "Big brother!" The mare excitedly gasped, followed by a leaping hug towards Shining Armor. Her brother chuckled and wrapped his arms around her.

"Almost everypony at the castle mentioned that you were staying here in Canterlot, so I had to visit," Shining said in their warm embrace, rubbing at his younger sister's back. "Its always so nice seeing you again, Twily."

"Its always nice seeing you too, big brother," Twilight said, nuzzling into her brother's fur. Just hearing his voice and having his presence around her was enough to make the mare jump for joy. He was her B.B.B.F.F. after all.

"Heh, don't get too intimate. You might make Cadence jealous," her brother joked, watching as his younger sister quickly let go of the stallion, blushing quite a bit. "I'm just kidding, sis!" He laughed, walking into her condo, the mare chuckling to herself, though still blushing pink.

"Right...so how was the honeymoon?" Twilight asked, walking up beside her brother as his eyes wandered the flat.

"Fantastic, just how I expected it to be! You wouldn't believe the variety of cocktails they had, and wouldn't you happen to know that my golf swing is pretty good, too," He replied. "This place looks awesome, by the way."

"Thanks," The bookworm said with a smile, her blush having gone away. "I'm glad you decided to stop by, by the way. With how busy you are over there at the castle, I'm surprised you had enough time off to come by." Her brother then turned around to face her again, grinning to himself, looking like he was about to laugh. "...Uh, Shining?" The confused lavender unicorn asked. "What's so funny?"

"Did you dress like that just for me?" Shining Armor asked, an epiphany crossing the mare's mind as her face turned completely beat red: She was still wearing her escort-mare "uniform" in front of her own brother, something she had entirely forgotten about. She tried to laugh it off, but it sounded more like a nervous chuckle as a forehoof snug in one of her signature purple-and-fuchsia stripped thigh-high socks rubbed at the back of her head. "Relax, Twily," the stallion tried to reassure the mare, patting her gently on the head. "Celestia herself made sure to mention your 'new assignment' to me so that there wouldn't be any confusion or misunderstandings."

With a sigh of relief, though still blushing hard, Twilight replied to her brother, "Well, that's good to know. I'm just glad you're okay with it."

"Why wouldn't I be okay with it?" Her brother asked. "You're just following the Princess's orders. Plus, you're exploring your sexual side, and there's nothing wrong with that, right?"

"I guess...but I'm the Princess's protegee. Sleeping around with ponies for profit typically isn't what a high-class, Canterlot-born student does," Twilight explained to her brother.

"Hey, if anypony has a problem with my little sister having sex, then they can answer to me!" He said confidently, flexing one of this arms in front of her, with got a small chuckle from the bookworm pony. "And you are doing this for knowledge technically."

"True, but still-"

"Hey," The white stallion interrupted her with a more serious tone of voice, gently putting a hoof to her mouth. "Don't let other ponies push you around, okay? You know better than that, Twily." His sister slowly nodded, Shining giving her another reassuring smile. If there's one thing Twilight could count on with Shining, its his 'big brother' advice and wisdom. "You know how the Turnip Daily got shut down, right?"

"Other than the fact that it was a corrupt news organization that tried to screw-over its workers?" The nerdy pony retorted.

"Naw, that's why they got a bad reputation in general. The reason they got shut down is that they did a story on how you and I were 'secret lovers' ever since you were a school-filly," Her older brother explained, rolling his eyes as he was still in disbelief of that statement. "I have a clip of that article framed on my wall. Its actually a pretty entertaining read. I can show it to you if you want."

"I'm good," Twilight giggled. "I actually have a letter to write to Princess Celestia."

"Oh, sorry if I was interrupting you, then."

"Don't worry about it," Shining's little sister replied, walking up to her writing desk, only to find her unfinished letter missing. "Huh? Where'd it do?" She asked herself.

"Where'd what go?" Her brother asked.

"My letter to the Princess! It was right here before you got here..."

"Oh, want me to help you look for it?"

"Thanks, big brother. I'd love your help."

"It no problem! I'll just start over-"

A loud clearing of the throat was heard from outside the door as a royal guard poked his head into the condo. "...Right now? Seriously?" Shining Armor asked in an annoyed manner, the guard replying with a stern nod. "Sorry, but I have to head back to the castle now, Twily..." He said to his sister with a sigh.

"Its alright...they probably need you more than I do right now," She said, trying to cheer him up.

"You're right...I'll see you later, okay?" He replied, waving goodbye as he was practically hurried out of the condo. The bookworm mare watched her older brother get dragged out, the door slamming shut as he and the guard made their way back to the castle, the disappointed filly trudging back to her writing desk. She then noticed some other things missing from the desk, like her quill, ink, and the rest of her parchment.

A bright, luminescent light beamed inside of Head Strong's bedroom and onto his sleeping face, causing him to groan and question why his blinders were open. They were supposed to be closed, and he knew this because he made sure the blinders were practically glued in place last night. The junior soccer coach didn't have any morning shifts on the weekend, so what gives? Head was quickly given his answer once his eyes slowly adjusted to the light, recognizing the object spraying all this light into his bedroom: a spotlight being manned by an insect-like equine creature. "Oh shit...!" came out of the stallion's mouth as his body jumped back ten feet and met with the wall.

The creature hissed and glared at the pony, watching as Head's heart raced fearfully at the sight of a changeling right in his own bedroom. Licking its lips, the changeling splayed its wings and lunged for the stallion, fangs flashed and aiming right at his jugular. "Don't touch me, you filthy insect!" The stallion screamed, diving away from the critter and rolling onto his four hooves. He made a mad dash for the door, his horn grabbing the doorknob and quickly turning it, then yanking the open. Closing in on his exit, he turned his head to see the foe flying towards him yet again. Rearing his hind legs, the stallion gave a hard kick to the changeling, sending it flying back as it slammed against the wall.

With a smirk, he galloped out of his bedroom, only to be pounced and pinned to the ground in the darkness of his apartment. "No! Get off!" The soccer pony would grunt, trying to shake off whatever hissing, snarling fiend had his body bond to the carpet, but each time he would squirm and kick, the pressure and restriction on his body would increase.

"Enough!" came a gravely voice from the other side of his living room. On flicked a light, revealing a crook of a earth pony standing at his doorway; a skull and cross bones as his cutie mark. On his back were a couple more of those insect-like creatures, keeping him pinned and flashing their fangs in dominance. "Flip him onto his back. Spread eagle," The grey earth pony commanded his changelings, the grunts doing as their told, watching the unicorn stallion grunt and curse at them. "Good. So, you know Twilight Sparkle, correct?"

"What do you care?!" He yelled at the gravely-voiced stallion. With the roll of the earth pony's greenish eyes, one of the changelings pinning Head down then slammed a hoof to his crotch, grunts and groans of pain escaping the unicorn's lips.

"Lemme fucking ask you again. Do you fucking know Twilight-fucking-Sparkle?!"

Head Strong grew quiet now, recovering from the trauma to his bits, panting and squirming in pain now. "Y-Yes..." He weakly spat out. "I...I know Twilight Sparkle..."

"That's better. Tell me how you know her," The earth pony demanded, slowly making his way up to the restricted stallion, combing back his medium-length black mane with a fore-hoof, smirking at Head as he struggled. "I'm gonna bust yer balls if you don't. Literally bust yer balls."

Head Strong sighed in defeat, giving the earth pony what he wanted. "Fine, we've known each other since Magic Kindergarten. She was my best friend and even stood up for me when I needed it. I...I moved to Spurfield when we were still school-foals. She moved to Ponyville around a or two year ago and we just recently got back in touch with each other."

"Good...do you know a mare by the name of Rarity?" The gruff pony asked.

"Not personally...last I heard she and Twilight were friends..."

"And that's what I was gonna get to," The earth pony chuckled. "See, there's somepony out there that wants that white bitch outta the picture, and I'm here to make sure that happens. Seeing as you're linked to this mare, I'm gonna make sure no 'funny business' goes down with you. Now-"

"Why are you telling me this? I'm not afraid to die!" The stallion pegasus threatened.

"Don't interrupt me, you fuckin' faggot!" He cursed at the unicorn, smacking Head Strong across the face with a forehoof. "And yeah, I realize you're a bit of a nobody right now, so no one'd care if you're dead or not. Well, maybe those foals on the Junior Soccer Team would probably notice. Speakin' of foals..."

Just then, the changeling that had slammed into the wall morphs into a young filly, a blank-flank with a bubblegum-pink coat, short blonde mane, and an equally short blonde tail, trotting up to the bonded stallion with a dark bruise over her eye. "M-Mr. Strong...? Why did you hit me...?" the weak filly pathetically asked, face puffing up as if she were about to cry. "D-Did I do something wrong? I'm sorry...I'm so sorry..." She sniffled and wiped at her eyes, tears trailing down her cheeks.

"W-What are you doing?" The unicorn asked, staring down at the filly-disguised changeling. "You can't just win me over with some filly I've never seen before."

"No, but I gotta find some dirt on ya," The earth pony explained, nodding to another changeling as it took Head Strong's appearance, a devilish grin on its face. "And if I can't find any, which luckily you didn't have any, until now that is...then I'll just make some. You two," He pointed out to the guised critters. "Go inside that bedroom and make it look ugly. I'll make sure to shoot plenty of pictures for the Solar News."

With that the changelings trotted into the bedroom, the unicorn stallion turning as white as a ghost, staring in awe as he was thrown into the bedroom as well, the rest of the changeling grunts closing and guarding the door behind them after their boss, the gruff earth pony, made his way into the room, equipping his camera. "I stole this from some Paparazzi punk that tried to rat me out. Pretty fancy, eh?" He chuckled to the fallen stallion. "Also, you get to watch."

"Fuck that," Head Strong scoffed, charging at the earth pony. Head watched as the gruff stallion rolled his eyes.

"I guess I'll have to tie you down then," The cold-hearted pony replied, sending a hoof straight for Head's jawline, stopping the charging pony in his tracks. The guised fiends then hurled themselves at the unicorn, restricting his limbs as the gruff stallion slung the camera along his back, pulling up a chair for him as the insect underlings sat him upright. Head couldn't fight their grasp no matter how hard he squirm, feeling a tight rope bound his hindlegs to the chair's legs, arms tied behind his back.

"Celestia-damned maniac!" He spat out, still struggling in his rope-bound prison, the disguised changelings making their way to his own bed again, the gruff pony watching Head squirm and grunt.

"That's cute and all, but I got more entertaining shit to look at," he said, readying his camera. "Who knows? You just might enjoy it."

AN: Well that was dark, but it does keep the story going. I'd say this is worth the month or so wait, anyway. How long until the next chapter? Depends, I'm taking college classes again, and this'll be my last semester to, so I have to make it count. Wish me luck, and see you next chapter!

Also, if you want a full-on, unedited version of what those changelings did, just tell me in PMs.