Rarity swung her legs upwards, then swung them down, using the momentum to propel herself off the bed. She stood up proudly and adjusted her hair, the guest bathrobe still hugging her chest ever tightly. Rarity fanned her arms out, and like good little doggies, Applejack and Rainbow Dash were at her sides, smiling and reveling in the presence of their Mistress.

"Now the infection's started spreading, I see no harm in, ah, helping it along." Rarity said. "Soon, we'll have the entire town and every one infected!"

Then Rarity felt something go wrong in her head somehow. Like the absolute mental dominion she had been exercising over her circlet of deviants had snapped in half and went away. A sudden strong, hostile grip on her arm seemed to confirm that suspicion. Rarity looked away to see it was Applejack gripping her tightly.

"But not mah family, right?" Applejack snarled. "Not Apple Bloom, or Granny Smith, or Big Macintosh?"

Rarity gasped. "Applejack! I'm appalled you even think me capable of such a thing! Rest assured, Apple Bloom – and all of the children, will be spared. I have a sister, too, you know. I suppose making Granny Smith undergo a slime session wouldn't be fair on her old heart... but Big Macintosh, we're going to have discuss a little further." Rarity said mischievously.

Applejack seemed content with that answer for now, and the mental snap Rarity was feeling went away. Applejack hugged Rarity tightly and nuzzled into her breasts. Rarity observed that clearly, no matter how much addictive, wonderful lacte Applejack was forced to drink, it would never be enough overcome her love for her family.

"Rarity, she has a good point..." Twilight spoke meagerly. "How are we going to keep all the kids from being infected if we're going to infect the entire town!?"

Rarity thought about it for a minute. Then a small smile curled along her features. "I know! We'll take the Guards we've already infected, have them infect more Guards, then stage a fake evacuation sending all the children and elders somewhere else."

"You're going to have to come up with a pretty convoluted explanation for why only the young adults aren't being asked to evacuate!" Pinkie pointed out, laughing slightly. Rarity shut up with a twinge of mental pleasure. Pinkie put her hand over her head. "Ow! Hey!"

"I'll deal with that part later. Right now I need to focus..." Rarity held her hands up for silence, and began trying to broadcast her thoughts, trying to call the Guards she had entranced to her.

Come to me, darlings... focus on my lovely, sultry voice... yes, that's it, just listen... I need you for something, boys. Come find me in Ponyville, but make sure you come alone...

Rarity broke off her trance and smiled, confidently that her psychic, hypnotic message had traveled through the heads of her victims and summoned them on their way to her.

"Now, seeing as my aim is to infect everyone, I think another test of Applejack's loyalty is in order..."

Applejack looked up innocently, wondering what she did wrong to disservice Mistress Rarity this time. "Wut do Ah need to do?"

"It's simple, darling." Rarity assured her. "Go downstairs and infect that gentleman of a bellhop, would you? Sure, he's been nothing but nice to us, but I can't have him finding out what we're doing and getting the Guards."

Applejack nodded, then pushed herself off Rarity and ran down the stairs. Rarity chuckled at how eager her slave was to appease her. It was starting to seem like Applejack was even more enthralled than Rainbow Dash! Then again, Rainbow had been serving Rarity willingly even before the slime infection in her made go power-crazy, so perhaps that had something to do with it.

Rarity made her way downstairs, followed by Twilight, Dash, and Fluttershy, and they all hung back at the bottom stair to watch how Applejack would do the task assigned to her.

"Hey there, sugarcube!" Applejack said playfully, attracting the bellhop's attention.

"Hello, miss." The bellhop answered her, pretending she was just another guest and one from the party whom he'd accepted the bribe of. "How can I help you today?"

"Ah could do wit' some good ol'fashioned sugar..." Applejack said enticingly, fluttering her eyelids at him. He missed the gesture, as he was trying to dig into the cabinets of the reception desk to get actual sugar out for her.

"Hold on one moment... I think there's some right here..."

Applejack rolled her eyes and decided to cut to the chase. "Oh, come here, you!"

Applejack reached over the desk and grabbed him by the shoulders, surprising him, and before he could react, Applejack had pulled him over the desk and planted a big wet one on his lips. He raised his hands to try to push her off, before his arm could reach her, a yellow version of Rarity's slime began leaking from Applejack's mouth and worming its way inside his. The magic went to work, and he moaned in pleasure before his eyes dilated and he just stopped responding to all stimuli.

Seeing he was mindwiped, Applejack let go of him, letting him plop back down the reception desk, where he promptly fell to the floor.

"Wut'd you think?" Applejack inquired, turning around and running up to Rarity with her hands held together, alternately jumping her legs up and down like an excited toddler. "Did Ah do good, Mistress? Did Ah?"

Even Rarity was off-put by Applejack's enthusiasm. "Ermm... yes, yes you did." Rarity stepped down the stairs to the floor, observing Applejack's handiwork, then turned to her, seeing a smile was still present on Applejack's face. Rarity smirked mischievously.

"Ooh no..." Twilight moaned under her breath. That smirked said several things about what was going through Rarity's mind, and none of them were pleasant thoughts.

"Rainbow Dash, feed Applejack." Rarity commanded.

"What?"

"You heard me."

"Okay..." Rainbow sighed reluctantly, then took Applejack's wrists and guided her up the stairs. "Come on, A.J..."

"Yay!" Applejack exclaimed, brimming with excitement at the idea of being fed more lacte.

Twilight watched her go with regret forcing her eye to squint. "Rarity..." Twilight spoke softly. "How can you stand it?"

"Stand what, darling?" Rarity replied while at the same time looking at the bellhop now totally under their collective power.

"To... make Applejack into a slave like that!" To emphasize her point, Twilight flailed her arms. "Do you even think about the moral consequence of all this!?"

Rarity scoffed. "Moral consequence? What's that? Also, I'm fairly certain Applejack's putting on a charade. She's not happy to drink more from Rainbow Dash, she's pretending to be happy so I don't force-feed her even more."

Twilight rested her arm on the stairway rail. "Heh. 'What's a moral consequence'... good one, Rarity."

"No, no." Rarity said confusedly, sounding like a child being introduced to a concept too complex for its growing mind to grasp. Rarity turned to Twilight an expression of uncertainty.

"I'm serious, darling..." Rarity tiredly rubbed her temples. "I recall the words, but I can't put a meaning to them...daaah!" Rarity instinctively clutched at her head as a throbbing pain shot through. Twilight, the pain spread to her by symbiosis, did the same. To Twilight, it felt rather like parts of her brain were being poked with razor-sharp needles.

After a minute, the pain went away, and Rarity merrily resumed what she was doing before. Twilight couldn't believe what she just saw; what she just felt. The slime goo actually had taken away Rarity's sense of moral thought. It didn't want her thinking about what kind of a person she was that she would engage in this kind of behavior, so it kept her from reaching the parts of her brain in charge of guilty conscious.

Fluttershy meekly stepped down the stairs, the quiet in the room reaching a low point where even her dainty footsteps echoed. "Mistress? What do we do next?"

"Well, we're still waiting for my Guards to arrive..." Rarity mused, rubbing her chin. Her eyes opened wide at the bellhop, while she gave Fluttershy a lecherous little leer. "Fluttershy, give our good bellhop some extra slime so he may...acquaint his coworkers to … their new schedule."

Fluttershy nodded, and aimed her wrists at the bellhop. The forest green slime began forming around her wrists, leaking out like busted sewage piping, then formed into slugs of goo that jumped off her arms and slithered along the ground. They went to the desk and crawled up it, then jumped into the bellhop's hands.

"Go. Spread the love." Rarity ordered him.

The bellhop droned and nodded his head, before departing around the corner of the wall and disappearing into an exit that, from the other side of the desk, was invisible, but Rarity knew it was there.

"Hey." The voice of what must have been a coworker said from the wall, presumably at the sight of the bellhop-slave. "What are you doing – dear Celestia, what is that on your arms? W-what are you doing? Keep that away from me-MMPH! MMM...mmmmm..."

Rarity and Fluttershy made girly giggles at the sounds of yet another claimed victim.

"At this rate, you'll have no problem consuming the entire town, Mistress..." Fluttershy awestricken murmured.

"No, not long at all." Rarity agreed. She suddenly sensed through her symbiosis that Twilight was having doubts, and considered trying to back out of the ordeal. Of course, that couldn't be allowed, could it? No, so Rarity tilted her head and injected a quick shot or mental pleasure into Twilight's head again.

"I...what!?" Twilight protested while trying in vain to fight off Rarity's psychic ministrations. "Rarity! I didn't say anything!"

"No, but you were thinking it. I can tell." Rarity explained. "I could sense exactly what was going through your head." Rarity shot a glance at Fluttershy. "Through all your heads."

Twilight stood there, wobbling, unable to handle the reality that Rarity was able to pry into head and pull out every secret in there. Absolutely nothing was sacred, nothing was safe. Twilight dropped to her knees, recognizing Rarity's superiority and begging for forgiveness. "I'm sorry, Mistress... I won't do it again..."

When will this nightmare end? Rarity heard Twilight think.

Darling, what makes you so sure the nightmare is GOING to end? Rarity responded into Twilight's head.

Twilight looked up at Rarity, and her eyes were watering. Twilight couldn't wrap her head around the idea that the nightmare wasn't going to end. All the other hard times they even through ended. All their hardships, finished and done away with, so they could move on with their lives. Any emotional damage to their friendship was recovered. So the idea, the very idea they couldn't find a way to work themselves out of this, crushed her spirit.

Twilight fell to the ground, hard, and began wailing.

Fluttershy looked down at her crying friend, then to Mistress Rarity, expecting her to make everything better and sooth Twilight's ills.

"I..." Rarity stammered at Fluttershy's worrying, expectant glare. "I..."

"Aww, Twilight!" Applejack exclaimed, coming down the stairs with Rainbow Dash. Applejack rushed down the stairs and knelt to Twilight, placing a hand on her shoulder. "What's wrong? Did ya trip?" Applejack looked around, then cleared her throat before leaning her head down. "Do you want sum of mah lacte?"

Twilight rolled over to briefly gaze up at what was leftover of Applejack, then promptly returned to the floor crying.

Rarity bit her lip, unsure what to do. "Twilight..." Rarity was interrupted by the ding of the door bell, and when Rarity turned, she was elated to see the two Guards under her control had arrived, standing side by side. "Ah! My Guards, my Guards..." Rarity walked over to them, covering her fingers in her slime, then rubbed their chins, causing them to burst into childish giggles.

"Now, darlings, I have something I want to do that's going to take some precision." Rarity informed them, talking sweetly. "You can do that, can't you?"

The enthralled Guards nodded.

"Good." Rarity purred. She clenched her fingers and formed chocolate-kiss shaped drops of goo like the one she put into Twilight's pocket before, then gently patted them into the pockets of the Guards. "I need you go back out there, spread this goo to as many of your Guard fellows as you can, and evacuate the town of everyony under eighteen and over sixty."

The Guards saluted.

"Wait!" Fluttershy objected.

"What?"

"Well, um..." Fluttershy shifted nervously. "Are we sure we want the young limit to be nineteen? I'm... I'm not comfortable with that idea."

Rarity sighed and rolled her eyes. "All right, fine. Evacuate all the young folk under twenty-one. Happy now, darling?"

"Um, no..." Fluttershy mumbled. "That's still too young for me..."

"Fine! Twenty-three. Is that old enough?"

Fluttershy kept quiet, though as Rarity's goo infection had reached the point where she could read their minds, Rarity knew exactly what Fluttershy was thinking.

"Everyone under twenty-five." Rarity told the Guards. She pointed a finger at the door. "Tell them that... Ponyville's under attack, and they're drafting all able-bodied members of town to fight the threat, which is why the children and elders are being sent to safety. Now go!"

The Guards saluted Mistress, then left the building. Meanwhile, the sounds of the infection spreading through the hotel staff went on in the background, with pleasured moans alternating between gasps of shock and exclamations of surprise.

"Mm..." Rarity took a look around the room, and for some reason, felt oddly guilty when she saw Twilight nuzzling into the leather surrounding Applejack's chest. It was less like Twilight was expressing affection to Applejack and more like an attempt to cover her eyes and hide away from the cruel, twisted pit of drugged slime the world around her had become.

"Eeh..." Rarity grunted and tried to push the guilt away. After a moment, the slime bouncing around in her smothered the guilt into its absorbent self.

Rarity suddenly quaked in her proverbial boots. Those Guards had went to work very quick.

"Well, we might as well be on our way." Rarity decided. "The Guards are working fast to spread the goo to the other Guards, so I don't think we're in any danger of being caught."

It took a moment to coax Twilight out of Applejack, but they got through to her, and then the whole group left the building, though not without a little bit of caution.

Rarity, feeling confident, if not outright arrogant, took the lead this time, and as they stepped out of the shadows, who else would be so unfortunate to run into them again then Blueberry Bite, her son, and her son's friend?

"You again." Blueberry snarled at Rarity, who shrugged it off. "I should have knew you had something to do with it when the Guards suddenly gave the order to evacuate the town without warning."

"Perhaps you should have." Rarity mused. "What are you going to do about it, hmm?"

Blueberry Bite snarled.

"Miss Bite, I assure you, you don't want to toy with me lightly..." Rarity warned, hiding her arm behind her back and preparing to activate her tentacle- not just yet, though. She was going to see what Blueberry Bite did.

Blueberry Bite squinted her eyes at Rarity, teeth bared and shoulders tensed- a fighting position.

"Mom, she's right." Lime Lick tried to warn his mother, tugging at her pants. "You really don't want to mess with her. Didn't you see that freaky thing she did with her arm?'

Blueberry Bite looked at her son, then back to Rarity.

"Go." Blueberry Bite instructed the two boys. "Do what the Guards say. Go to Canterlot, where you'll be safe. I'll handle her."

"But mom-!"

"That's an order." Blueberry Bite snapped, pushing her son and Raspberry Swirl away. "Get going."

Lime Lick stumbled forward, then turned around to give his mother one last look. He then looked at Rarity, not as an object of desire, but an apparition of terror, before he and Raspberry ran off.

Blueberry then refocused her attention on Rarity, rolling up her sleeves for a fist fight. She lumbered towards Rarity with murderous intent transparent in her eyes. Rarity quickly slimed up the arm behind her back, then lashed her tentacle at Blueberry, who froze in surprise, allowing Rarity to quite easily insert the tentacle into her mouth and subject Blueberry to its addictive, subduing taste.

"Mmm?" Blueberry groaned, making a moan that was not pleased, but confused, as she didn't understand what was happening to her body.

"There." Rarity concluded, confidently walking towards Blueberry. "Doesn't that feel so much better than trying to hurt me? So much less stressful to just relax, isn't it?" Rarity drew her tentacle out and grabbed Blueberry's head before pulling her into a kiss and leaking more slime into Blueberry's throat.

"There we go." Rarity said when she pulled away, cupping Blueberry's cheeks. "Don't you feel better?"

"A little..." Blueberry admitted, and from the blush that burned into her cheeks, she didn't want Rarity to know that.

"Oh?" Rarity cooed. Curious, she coaxed Blueberry to talk some more. "How's that, darling?"

"Husband..." Blueberry groaned out, struggling to focus. "Divorced..."

"Oooh..." Rarity cooed in sympathy. "Now that's no fun, darling."

"Been...a while..." Blueberry continued, raising her hand to grab Rarity's arm. "Since I had...someone touch me like that..."

Rarity made an amused snort. "Well, when I'm done with my extreme makeover of the town, that won't be a problem at all." Rarity nuzzled Blueberry's nose. "I know... why don't you go to the hotel we just left? Ask around until you find someone who isn't in a relationship, hmm?"

Blueberry nodded, then ran off towards the hotel.

Rarity did a dramatic twirl, then skipped further into town, and she was absolutely delighted to see a Royal Guard- one she hadn't entranced yet – manhandle some unfortunate woman and shove a glob of slime into her throat. So her gambit to induct more members of the Guards by using the Guards she was already controlling worked perfectly.

"Oh, I could sing I'm so excited!" Rarity exclaimed,

"NO!" Rainbow, Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie, and Twilight all exclaimed behind her.

"Hmm. Fine." Rarity conceded to their desperation and sauntered over to the Carousel Boutique, occasionally stopping to observe as the young adult population of Ponyville were subdued by Guards. Her Guard servants. Every so often, Rarity would gaze knowingly in the direction of a Guard and their most recent inductee, and blow a kiss at them both that planted goofy smiles on both their faces.

With friends in tow, Rarity retreated to the Carousel Boutique, making questionable moans as victim after victim was inducted into the ranks of the goo-addled ones.

"Ahhh..." Rarity haughtily sauntered her way to drama couch, collapsing against it as she felt her goo taking hold over what was left of the town after the impromptu evacuation. There was an interesting contrast coming from the walls of the Boutique; if they stood near the left side, they could hear curious questions, clanking armor, and panicked murmuring as the Guards shooed the children and the elderly away to someplace safe where the slime couldn't corrupt young minds or wear out aged hearts. On the right, was the sounds of harsh words being exchanged, strong-willed but fruitless protests, and the splash of goo and slime being thrown around. It was utter chaos.

"I must admit, this is really going along swimmingly." Twilight muttered, gazing out the window on the right.

"Indeed. OOH!" Rarity twitched upwards and clawed at the air every time another person was slimed on the right side, as that meant there was another worker bee in her custom hive mind.

"I can't believe this is really happening..." Rainbow Dash muttered airily, looking out the left window. "The Guards are really under our control..."

Rainbow Dash turned around to look at Rarity. "We can walk freely again...we're not wanted anymore..."

"Well, we still are, darling." Rarity corrected her. "It's just that all the officers around who could arrest are working for us now!" Rarity laughed merrily, and everyone around did the same, except for Twilight.

"Wut's wrong, Twi?" Applejack muttered, bringing herself close to Twilight and wrapping around her. "Is everythang okay, sugarcube?" Applejack began rubbing Twilight's shoulders comfortingly.

"No..." Twilight shook her head. "No..." Giving Rarity a suspicious glance, Twilight was met only with a bemused glare right back. Taking Applejack's hand into hers, Twilight guided Applejack back to the room where Rarity had tied Applejack up in the day before. The room where Applejack first drank Twilight's lacte...

Applejack's oblivious smile, which she had been maintaining for as long as they had left the hotel room, began to fade. "Do-do we really have tah be in 'ere, Twi?"

"I'm sorry." Twilight apologized as she closed the door behind them. "I just...want to be alone right now."

Applejack brushed her fingers along Twilight's bangs. "Tell me wut's on yer mind."

Twilight looked up at Applejack's face. With her cowboy boots on, Applejack had a significance height advantage, which Applejack supposed should have made Applejack attractive.

"It's just...I know this is wrong. All of it." Twilight sighed. "The drinking, the slime, the spreading it all to the town...and I can't do anything about it." Twilight looked especially remorseful while looking at Applejack's face. "Right now, even... I want to do things with you, and you..." Twilight's voice started to break apart, and she started crying. "Have no idea how horrible this really because you've had so much mil-... lacte!"

Applejack looked down, Twilight nuzzling into her chest. "Twi...Ah know. Ah'm not totally gone yet."

Twilight perked up, her tears abruptly halting. "You're not?"

"Nope. Ah know exactly what yer goin' through, 'cause Ah'm goin' through it too." Applejack explained. Twilight got the feeling Rarity had been right Applejack was only pretending to like the idea of drinking from Rainbow Dash earlier so Rarity didn't put Applejack through another rigorous session like in the hotel shower. Applejack wasn't a high-class pony, but she wasn't stupid. She knew the more resistance she showed, the more Rarity would assault through a combination of tentacle rubbing and lacte drinking, so she quit showing resistance.

"You want to tell Rarity off..." Twilight murmured, rising her hand over Applejack's shoulder.

"But ya can't." Applejack added.

"And you don't know why..." Their lips started curling upwards.

"Is because she's gorgeous?"

"Maybe it's all that delicious..." Applejack's and Twilight's noses started inching closer towards each other. "Delicious lacte..."

"Or that brainwashing slime?" Twilight suggested jokingly, eliciting a laugh as they faces got ever closer.

They both stopped, realizing what they were doing. They grabbed each other's shoulders and pushed the other away.

"Sorry." Twilight apologized.

"Ah know...it's not yer fault. Yer not the only who's had to deal with that..." Applejack smacked her lips together. "Delicious, mind-alterin'...lacte."

"Mmh-hhm." Twilight crossed her arms over herself, turning away insecurely.

"Ah still don't understand how she got the slime to travel so fast, though." Applejack muttered. "Ah mean, shore there was that whole evacuation plot, but tha' entire town? That fast?"

"Well, it does make sense, if you think about it." Twilight said. She began counting on her fingers. "Let's assume that the two Guards Rarity already controlled managed to take their unit by surprise and infect everyone in it. Then there's the store merchant Rarity controlled already, plus that couple I watched her...infect. So that's already five, not counting the other Guards in the unit, which probably push it up to fourteen. And that's before the bellhop in the hotel, and Blueberry Bite. If we assume they're all out infecting someone, that's another fourteen all together, for a total of twenty-eight, so then they all go out, which would make fifty-six, and then... yeah. And that's not even factoring that the slime can move on its own..."

"Gosh..." Applejack muttered, crossing her cowboy boots against each other. "No wonder it's going so fast, then..."

Twilight looked at Applejack pitifully, painfully, longingly, before spreading her arms wide and falling backwards onto the floor.

"Twilight?" Applejack questioned. Against her better nature, Applejack got on the floor and crawled towards her – and on top of her. "You all right?"

"Uuuh..." Twilight groaned. "I know it's wrong, and you probably don't want to do it, but could I have some more of your lacte?"

Applejack smiled, though she wasn't sure if she was trying to comfort Twilight, of if her infection was coercing into seducing the woman underneath her. "Of course, sugarcube..." Applejack brought her head to her chest, beginning to undo the laces of her vest again.

Twilight started breathing heavily, the anticipation alone making her anxious.

Applejack noticed Twilight's chest, heaving in and out as it took in labored breaths, and stopped short. "Actually, Twi, ya know what? No. Ah...Ah'm not gonna torment ya by lettin' drink off me again."

Twilight groaned, raising her hand at the air to try and grab Applejack. "But...but I want it..." Twilight's eyes widened as more hopeful concerns sprung into her mind. "Wait, does that mean...you're resisting!?"

"Yeah..." Applejack muttered, rubbing her chin with one hand thoughtfully while she redid her vest's laces with her other. "Yeah, Ah think it does!"

An inexplicable gurgle sounded. Applejack clutched at her chest and lurched with it. "AHH!"

"Applejack?" Twilight squeaked. If she didn't know better, she'd say that gurgle came from Applejack's chest, the liquid inside demanding to be let out. "Are you okay!?"

Applejack skewered her eyes shut, trying to push away the pain. "Ah'm...Ah'm fine, jus' a bit of..."

"No." Twilight insisted. "No, you're not. This is exactly what happened with Fluttershy, and Rarity. You need to feed someone...it doesn't even have to be me..." Twilight turned her head away, like she didn't want Applejack to let one of their friends have Applejack's lacte instead of her. After all, they all had alternatives.

"Hang on..." Applejack pressed a hand into Twilight's stomach, then pushed herself up and left the room.

"Oooh!" Twilight groaned, sulking on the floor from Applejack's departure. She should have Applejack's lacte to herself. She should have! Applejack had drank from her first, so that would make Applejack subservient to her, wouldn't it? Shouldn't it!?

Twilight rolled onto her side, chiding herself for thinking like that. Stupid slime. Stupid, aphrodisiac, accursed slime, making her addicted to her friends' product...

Twilight's eyebrow raised tentatively when she heard the door creaking open, and she half-lifted herself up to see who was coming inside. It was Applejack, returning to her... with a tall glass of milk in her hand.

"Is...is that...?" Twilight pointed to the glass.

"Yeah." Applejack answered. "Ah figured there weren't no resisting the need tah feed, so Ah figured Ah lessen tha' impact a little by putting it in a cup. Here..."

Applejack crouched down and offered Twilight the cup. Twilight took it and started sipping daintily, at first, meaning to try to practice resisting and coming out of Rarity's spell, but she gave into her tongue's desire, lifted the glass up, graduating from dainty sip to messy slurp. "MMMM..." When it was gone, Twilight tore the glass from her lips like it had been restricting her ability to breath, gasping loudly. "Ahh... I hate this." Twilight moved to toss the glass to the ground, but Applejack grabbed her wrist, and much more calmly took the glass away. "I hate that Rarity's gone insane, I hate that she's controlling us, I hate that Fluttershy and Pinkie seemed to have succumbed, I hate that we can't keep ourselves from drinking the lacte, and I hate that she can probably hear every word we're saying through that weird symbiosis she has."

"Mm..."

As if summoned by the cursing of her ability to hear their thoughts, the door swung open, revealing Rarity, wearing a smug, smug grin.

"What is it now?" Twilight groaned.

"Come with me." Rarity said. "There's something I think you should see."

Twilight sighed, but she placed a hand on her knee, and began working herself upright, whereupon she followed Rarity out the door. Applejack lagged behind, uncertain if she was supposed to follow or not, then decided to walk after them.

Rarity led them through the living room, where on the couch, Rainbow Dash was keeping an arm around Pinkie and Fluttershy each, each one of them with eyes closed, and neck to the side like they were sleeping.

"Yeah?" Twilight questioned at the sight of their napping friends, feeling a surge of confidence in her defiance after her conversation with Applejack in the room.

"No, no, no, this way." Rarity pointed to the door, grabbing Twilight's hand. Rarity eyed Applejack warily. "Oh, and Twilight? I just remembered you still haven't a chance to drink from me, so we'll be doing that sometime today."

Twilight groaned, of two minds about that. Even since she'd been denied the chance yesterday, She had been longing to know how Rarity's buxomness correlated to the taste of her lacte, and what it was like to drink from such a... large source, but knowing Applejack wasn't totally brainwashed made her warily hopeful of still fighting the mind control yet.

Rarity opened the door, where the couple Twilight had watched Rarity corrupt before was there, standing, holding hands, looking quite happy, as well as dressed properly with matching socks, and the like.

"Hello?" Twilight greeted clumsily, not sure what to make of it.

"Hello, dear." The woman responded, patting her husband's chest.

"Tell my friend here what you just told me." Rarity instructed, gesturing her palm to Twilight.

"Oh, we just wanted to thank Rarity here." The man answered, to Twilight's confusion. Didn't the slime make mindless slaves of the males it affected? Perhaps the female – in this case, his wife- could alleviate the effects of the slime somewhat to let them have a more developed sense of free will. "We've had so much stress in our lives over the last few weeks, and Rarity's taking over the town with the magical, mind control sex slime..."

A moment of awkward silence ensued.

"We've finally a had a moment to get some..." He gripped his wife's shoulder nervously. "Relief."

"Thank you so much." The wife said, shaking a hand with Rarity. "We'll appreciate this after it all blows over."

"Blows over?" Rarity parroted, raising an eyebrow. "What do you mean?"

"Well, you don't really think this whole slime thing is going to last forever, do you? Sooner or later, Celestia's going to find out, and when she does..."

Rarity glanced sideways, muttering something under her breath. "Well, it's good to hear some good came out of this." Rarity emphasized the words, leering at Twilight.

Rarity bid the couple adieu, and they left, arms on their shoulders. Rarity glanced at Twilight as if to say, "Well? What do you think about it now?"

"You're still a perverted freak." Twilight adamantly insisted. Rarity shrugged, sauntering, as she was wont to do, towards the door.

"Perhaps, but look at this, too."

Twilight peeked her head out the door, and what she saw shocked her.

Along the ground, oozing and trailing along like aimless rats, were slug-shaped plies of the goo, trailing, and crawling along, looking for as-yet uninfected Ponyvillians to infect. They were in a variety of colors, magenta, green, red, yellow, lavender...

"Rarity, what's-!?"

"Don't worry about it, darling." Rarity waved it off. "Once they realize there's no one around to infect, they'll go to whoever and let them have more potent doses. No biggie. But please, look over there." Rarity pointed around the corner of the building, where a young woman was sharing a milkshake with a young man.

"Yeah?" Twilight questioned.

"That poor girl over there has had a crush on that strapping young chap for the longest time." Rarity explained. "Now with the slime, she can practice confessing while he's enthralled, and later, when she's ready, I can adjust his enthrallment so she could confess for real. Isn't that sweet?"

Twilight needed a moment to process all that. When her brain finally caught up, the first words out of her mouth were "Not really. She should be able to just confess without needing the slime as a...safeguard."

Rarity narrowed her eyes at Twilight. "You don't understand how nerve-wracking it is to confess a crush, do you?"

Twilight shrugged.

"Back inside." Rarity suddenly demanded harshly, pushing Twilight from behind the shoulder. "We're going to start experimenting."

"E-e-experimenting?" Twilight stuttered as Rarity pushed her like a wheelbarrow.

"Yes." Rarity whispered lecherously into Twilight's ear. "I know you've been curious about it's like to drink from me." Twilight blushed, even though really, she should have realized that Rarity would know about that, since Rarity could peer into her very mind. "As you can see, Rainbow Dash is taking a nap right now, and so are Fluttershy and Pinkie... and I've already done Applejack in the shower, so that means it's your turn."

Twilight's body started chattering away, unsure what to do. She adopted a confused expression when Rarity suddenly asked her a very unusual question.

"Do you want to do it directly, or from the tentacle?"

"What?" Twilight hissed, before remembering in the hotel when Rarity was somehow able to use the tentacle to siphon away from her chest. "Oooh...yeah...that..."

"You know what?" Rarity asked suddenly, shaking Twilight by the shoulder. "I'm going to experiment...wait right here..."

Rarity left the room, leaving Twilight alone to converse with Applejack.

"Nnnnh! Applejack! What do I do!?" Twilight started alternating her legs, jumping up and down in place. "Rarity knew what we talking about in the room! I'm pretty sure this session is a punishment!

"Ah don't know, sugarcube..." Applejack tilted her head curiously. "Say, maybe try tiltin' yer head to one side so ya don't taste as much of it?"

"That's...brilliant! Applejack, you're a genius!"

"Ah am? Would y'all mind telling Rarity that?"

"I'm back!" Rarity announced. Twilight looked to see a curious piece in her hand.

A straw. A thin piece of flexible, disposable plastic.

"A...straw." Twilight repeated as if dazed.

"Yes, a straw!" Rarity answered, as her slime tentacle began forming on her arm. This time, another tentacle formed, from her shoulder. It was smaller than the one on her arm, but no less squishy. It wiggled through the air for a bit before swinging itself down, and sinking into Rarity's chest, which it cupped around like a mess a toddler made with ice cream. It connected from there into the tentacle on Rarity's arm, like the cord on a leaf blower. Rarity stabbed the straw into her tentacle, then waved it at Twilight's face.

"Go on." Rarity encouraged.

Twilight looked to Applejack for assurance. Applejack gave a thumbs-up, smiling awkwardly, before bowing her hat, and speeding out of the room like there was no tomorrow.

Twilight took in a deep breath, and affixed her mouth to the straw. Remembering Applejack's words, she tilted her head to the right as she began to suck on the straw.

The slime began pulling Rarity's lacte out from her breast into the tentacle, and from there, it went from the tentacle to the straw to Twilight's mouth.

Finally. Twilight thought to herself, she got a turn. She was sure the reason Pinkie, Fluttershy, and Dash were all resting on the couch was because they had an extensive drinking session between each other. Twilight felt the lacte drip onto her tongue, and she whimpered, remembering Applejack's advice.

Rarity seemed to misunderstand the reason for Twilight's whimpering, as she brought herself closer. "My apologies, darling. I just wanted to know what it was like with a straw."

Rarity pulled her tendril away, and came closer to Twilight, undoing her dress, exposing her gelatinous, vanilla-filled chest. Twilight whimpered again, wanting to taste more of Rarity's product, to taste that wonderful vanilla flavor she had faintly tasted in the induction ceremony earlier today in a more fuller fashion.

Twilight mentally slapped herself, wondering why she was so looking forward to taking from Rarity's chest. The slime, and animistic lust overtaking her, Twilight lowered herself down, and began drinking. That was something, she supposed, that was part of the problem, in that such a horrid, unusual situation would have something that tasted soooo gooood.

As she began to nurse Rarity, Twilight felt a huge gush of lacte surge into her mouth, and as chemicals began to force her to drink faster, a realization occurred to her, that the lacte made whoever was drinking just feel – empty inside, hollow, and the only to stop feeling that way, to make that painful emptiness inside go away...was to drink more lacte.

Twilight had an even more terrible realization; she had been alternating drinking the lacte of Fluttershy, Applejack, and now Rarity for three or so days now.

Before she and everypony else had to butt their noses in, and get involved, Rainbow had been drinking from Rarity for three weeks. No wonder she was so agitated when Shining arrested Rarity! Shining was taking away the source of her drink!

After a while, Twilight felt like she had enough to pretend like she had been filled, and drew away from Rarity. "Okay...I'm done..."

"Are you sure?" Rarity asked. "You don't seem to have taken much..."

"I..." Twilight struggled to come up with a convincing excuse on the spot, before Rarity decided to ignore her protests, and just fed her the way she did to Applejack. "I had some from Applejack earlier, and I don't want to overdose and faint again."

"All right." Rarity seemed ready to accept this, then it occurred to Twilight Rarity had mind-reading abilities now. Twilight guessed that only applied when Rarity wanted to scan her thoughts. The alternative was that Rarity knew what was really going on, and was using it to lull Twilight into a false sense of security.

Twilight then joined the others on the couch, not drifting off to sleep, but getting close to it. Another few drops of skillfully applied lacte would probably do the trick, sending her off to dreamland, but Rarity was kind enough not to carry that idea out.

Over the course of the day, infected, slime-fueled Ponyvillians came by, thanking Rarity for giving them a momentary break from the stress of their daily lives, or the courage to experiment with their partners in the bedroom with courage they normally wouldn't have had.

To Twilight, it was hardly an excuse for infecting everyone, but at least a few niches would be filled.

Rarity remained haughty and arrogant throughout the day, citing every person thanking as evidence her actions weren't the result of a woman totally and utterly corrupted by the slime's magic.

The day went by like a blur. Before Twilight even realized it, the day had turned to night. Rainbow Dash, Pinkie, and Fluttershy woke up, and the sky was filled with stars, gleaming carelessly over the town, uncaring to the plight of its denizens.

Twilight was gazing out into the misty night, no end to this nightmare in sight. She supposed she may as well resign herself to being a lacte-addicted slave to Rarity, and really, Fluttershy as well for the rest of her days. While she was staring, Applejack came up behind, and tried to comfort her.

"What are you two doing?" Rarity's voice cooed softly behind them.

"Star-gazin'...Ah guess." Applejack muttered, resting her strong arm on Twilight's shoulders. "Wut 'bout y'all? Wut are you doin' – whoa, nelly!"

Twilight turned around to see what was so surprising. She didn't realize how appropriate Applejack's reaction was.

At some point during the day/night exchange, Rarity had traded in her white sundress for a black, low-cut evening gown, highlighting her lustful appearance, revealing her hips, her curves, her chest...everything. There was the slight facet of her arms being in tentacle form, the 'leaf blower cord' shoulder tentacles formed on both her shoulders and hugging her entire chest, and the lavender slime wrapped around her waist, dripping down, making her look like a lamia demon, slithering along in search of prey.

"Uh...wow." Twilight muttered. "You look nice...slime aside."

"What do you mean, 'slime aside'!?" Rarity questioned incredulously, offended that the goo could somehow impair her beauty.

"I, uh, I only...I meant..." Twilight was saved from Rarity's accusatory glare by the sound of someone knocking on the door.

"Oh!" Rarity squeaked. "I wonder who could that be this late at night..." Rarity gave Twilight a knowing smirk. "Probably another townsfolk who wants to thank me from freeing them of societal convention and the need to be decent."

"Yeah..." Twilight muttered dryly. "A real big thanks for taking away everything that makes society a society."

Rarity turned and slithered out the door. Twilight and Applejack found themselves staring at the gooey tail she now had, and to their dismay, both of them immediately starting thinking of what perverted uses it might have had.

"Who is it?" Rarity called in sing-song to whoever was on the other side of the door. "Hello? Speak up, darling, I can't hear you..." Twilight heard the door creak open. "Oh!" Rarity exclaimed.

"Twilight, get in here! I believe someone is here to see you..."

Twilight glanced to Applejack. Applejack shrugged. They ran from the window into the foyer, to see...

"Shining Armor!" Twilight exclaimed.

Sure enough, standing there in the doorway, stars glinting off his royal armor, was Shining Armor, looking surly. Twilight noticed he was in special gear, as present on his shoulderpads were large red and blue feathers not present on his normal suit, his helmet had a similar feathery plume more like a tribal warrior from Zecora's homeland than a Canterlot general. Clutched in his hand was his spear, which had an amulet mounted beneath the point. He had been preparing for this, that was clear. He didn't know anything about the goo/slime, so Rarity's appearance startled him, but he pushed past that and maintained his stoic facade.

"Hello, captain." Rarity drawled at him, showing she was not at all intimated by his presence here. She slithered away from the door, but her movement on her goo tail was so light and airy Twilight though she may have been floating. "Why don't you come in? Sit down...have a cup of tea..."

Shining Armor narrowed his eyes, but he resignedly accepted her invitation and stepped inside.

Rarity slithered over to her couch, using her new tail to lift up a chair, and placed it opposite the couch. On the couch were the two pegasi, Dash and Fluttershy. Rarity threw her tentacles around their shoulders like she was a mack daddy.

Shining Armor leered at the chair set aside from him as if trying to set it on fire with the intensity of his eyes, but when it seemingly failed to meet his expectations, he sat on it.

"How are things with Cadence?" Rarity asked causally.

"Fine." Shining Armor snapped. "She's fine."

"Oooh!' Rarity squealed, feigning her excitement by dragging her tail across the floor. "So feisty. That's good." Rarity turned to Fluttershy. "That's good in a man. Means he's...passionate." Rarity winked at him. Her innuendo was not lost on Shining Armor, who only responded by scowling.

"Ooh, such a grumpy face." Rarity cooed mockingly. "You could use some cheering up." Rarity looked at Rainbow Dash. "We should pay Cadence a visit, shouldn't we? Give her a...dose."

It spoke volumes of how much control Shining Armor was exercising when a comment like that didn't send him flying into a fit of rage at her.

Rarity frowned, seeing that Shining Armor knew her game was to provoke an emotional reaction from him. An outraged Guard bent on protecting his wife was a very erratic fighter, one Rarity could beat easily as she stayed calm herself – and why wouldn't she? She had the home advantage. However, a Guard who was maintaining his cool, keeping calm, thinking the consequences of his actions through...now that made for a difficult opponent.

"Hmm..." Realizing she had a potential weapon at her disposal, Rarity called for Twilight's services. "Twilight! Come over here and talk with your brother. He must miss you so much!"

Twilight shuddered, but she stepped forward, waving to her brother. "Uh...hi, B.B.B.F.F!"

"Twiley..." Shining Armor whimpered, the reflection of light in his eyes shivering. "How could you?"

Twilight played dumb. "How could I, how could I, uh, what?"

"How could you side with Rarity like this!?" Shining exclaimed, flailing his arms, not mindful of his spear.

"You don't understand!" Twilight snapped to her defense. "It's...it's the slime, B.B.B.F.F..."

"Slime?" Shining raised his eyebrow. "That...stuff that's all over Rarity right now? That's what's responsible for this? That's ridiculous, Twiley."

"But-!" Twilight looked absolutely crushed Shining refused to believe her. "But B.B.B.F.F-!"

"No. I don't want to hear it, Twiley." Shining growled.

Rarity growled in turn, upset her ploy to upset Shining Armor by presenting him with his sister had backfired, as well as wanting to defend her servant from Shining's reckless, hasty conclusions. "Shining Armor, the slime is really quite powerful. You can't blame Twilight for submitting."

Shining glared at her. "No. I don't believe you. Twilight would never give in like that."

"Oh, really?" Rarity responded sharply. She raised her goo tail up – her long, large, thick gooey tail, and abruptly shoved it into Twilight's mouth.

Twilight just completely dropped to her knees, clutching at the tail, desperate to keep the goo's wonderful taste in her mouth. She started gnawing, like she was trying to rip off a chunk so that she might swallow it whole. "MMPH! PHM!"

Shining was disgusted. His eyes bulged out of his head, watching his sister, for all intents and purposes, be violated by Rarity's gooey tail, which was convulsing, and rubbing her tongue.

For a moment, Shining was briefly entranced, simply because the sight was just so horrible, but he regained his bearings up and stood up, gripping his spear.

"I won't let you get away with this, you monster!"

Rarity just smiled, slipping her tail out of Twilight's mouth. Twilight groaned, collapsing onto the floor, breathing heavily.

Shining Armor stood up, and twirled his spear dramatically, prompting Rarity to roll her eyes. The twirling served a functional purpose, as the silver amulet began glowing. It must have been magic, designed for this inevitable duel.

Rarity aimed her tentacle, which became unusually stiff, and rigid. The reason for this became clear as it fired like a cannon, sending a globule of green goo at Shining Armor. Shining Armor adapted quickly, kicking up the chair he was sitting in, and sending through the air, where the green goo hit it instead of him, splattering it across the floor.

The green drips and drops that came from the goo swirled around, before beginning to edge towards Shining Armor.

Shining Armor raised his spear, and slamming it on the ground. The amulet's magic went to work, and a blue circle appeared appeared on the ground. When the goo crossed the circle, it flashed silver, and the goo droplets began swirling aimlessly around the floor, towards the couch, towards Mistress Rarity...anywhere but Shining Armor, as they dizzied from the circle, which was obviously by now a warding spell.

"Your little slime can't get through this barrier." Shining Armor gloated.

"Hmm..." Rarity raised her tail, and lunged it at Shining Armor, but the instant its tip was slightly over the circle, the magic worked. Rarity got an irritating electric shock to the tip of her tail, and quickly withdrew it.

"Hmm..." Rarity slithered to the side, examining Shining Armor, and his position of being inside a protective circle. "Hmm..." Rarity slithered to the other side, scanning Shining's defensive position for any weaknesses.

"Ah-ha!" Rarity exclaimed. "Rainbow Dash."

"What?"

Before Shining knew what happened, Rainbow Dash tackled him from the side, knocking him out of the circle's radius. Now sensing an eligible bachelor to infect, the slime droplets on the floor began graduating towards him.

Shining bucked Rainbow Dash off him, then combat-rolled onto his feet. He twirled the spear again, preparing to stab it into the ground, but Rarity shot her tentacle out, snatching the spear from Shining's grasp.

Shining Armor watched, too awestruck to do anything, as Rarity, wearing a smile that could traumatize small children, proceeded to wrap both her tentacles around it and snapped the spear in half. Presumably, as it was still hanging off the point, the silver amulet was still usable. The spear being broken in half, though, was symbolic of her victory over Shining Armor.

"Hmm..." Shining Armor, recognizing he was beat, knelt down on one knee. With a thought, Rarity called off the droplets pursuit, and they crawled back towards their point of origin, absorbing into Rarity's tail.

"Any last words before I corrupt you, Captain?" Rarity asked.

Shining closed his eyes, then turned towards his sister. "I'm sorry, Twiley. I'm sorry I couldn't make it all okay..."

Twilight blinked to show she heard him.

"Now..."

Rarity hissed, raising her tail-tentacle. She launched it directly at Shining Armor's face, but Shining raised his hand, performing a quick spell that brought the amulet to his hand. He raised the amulet, putting in the path of Rarity's tendril. When the goo touched the metal, there was an electric flash, a bright spark that blinded them all. Rarity yelped in pain.

When their visions cleared, Shining Armor was gone, though the door was swinging, so he couldn't have gone far. Rainbow's first concern, however, was checking up on her Mistress.

"Rarity!" Rainbow rushed over, wrapping her arms around Rarity's top half. "Are you okay!?"

"I'm fine, darling... a bit dazed." Rarity answered. "But now I've beaten the Captain of the Guard...which means, of course, that pending Celestia, there's no way for anyone here to challenge me!" Rarity let out a wicked cackle. "Oh, this is going even better than I expected!"

Rarity slithered over to the couch, coming to rest on it. Rainbow Dash rejoined her at the side, and Rarity lifted both her tentacles, inserting the tip of each one into Fluttershy's and Rainbow Dash's mouths, and starting to feed them.

Twilight, and Applejack slumped against the door frame, watching their friends submit so easily. They exchanged looks, before resting on each other, eyes closed to push away the reality of it all.

There was another knock on the door. Rarity scoffed, apologetically slipping her tendrils out the pegasi' mouths. She rubbed their cheeks with her tendrils to assure them she would return, then went to answer the door.

"What is it now?" Rarity hissed, using her tendril to swing the door open.

At first, there was no one there, which confused Rarity. If there was no one there, who had been knocking?

Rarity then noticed someone in a cloak and hood, running away from the Boutique.

"Wait!" Rarity raised her arm. "Who are you?"

The hooded stranger stopped, turned to face her, then raised a hand – a hand that had a faint pink tinge to it. The hand glowed with blue magic, producing another blinding flash of light. Rarity raised her arm to block the light, but when the light had gone, so had the stranger.

"How awfully bizarre." Rarity murmured, before noticing a pink envelope at her feet. "What's this?" Rarity picked the envelope up, unfolded it, read it, all that was to be expected when a letter is found at their feet.

Rarity's eye twitched. She started slithering backwards into the house, and she fell back against the couch, the letter in her tendril. She looked like she been punched out of the will to live.

"Rarity?" Rainbow Dash asked, noticing Rarity's sorry state. "Mistress? What's wrong?"

Rainbow Dash was worried over what could have robbed Rarity's confidence so quickly. She was so sure of herself before, what happened? What could be in that letter that could put her down so badly?

Rarity offered the letter to Rainbow Dash, and when Rainbow Dash read it, it made perfect sense for what was written on to destroy Rarity's self-esteem.

It wasn't written, either. Someone had cut up pieces of a newspaper, then glue the shreds of paper they wanted to use onto the envelope. There would be no way to figure out who it was from their handwriting, because there was no handwriting.

It read;

I have Sweetie Belle.

If you want her, come to this location.

Then there was a map of Ponyville, with an 'X' marked in a corner of town some distance away from the Boutique.

Rainbow snarled, instinctively crumpling the letter in her hand. She was all for fighting dirty if it got her what she wanted, but messing with someone's baby sister was a line that was not crossed, no matter what.

"Rarity, we're gonna find this jerk." Rainbow assured her. "We're gonna find him, then we'll get Sweetie Belle back, then we'll...well, I'm not sure what, but we'll do something to him. Something nasty." Rainbow slammed her fist into her open palm.

Rarity looked at Rainbow with a spacey expression, like Rainbow was an alien talking in alien languages Rarity didn't understand.

Rainbow shook her head, then grabbed Rarity, and pulled her into a kiss.

"Mmm..." Rarity drew away, and as Rainbow had been hoping, her display of affectionate renewed Rarity's confidence somewhat. "You're right, my darling. This atrocity will not stand." Rarity stood up, absorbing her slime tail and tendrils back into herself. "Let us find this ruffian."

Rarity clapped, summoning all her slaves to her. Twilight and Applejack came out from their hiding place, and Pinkie appeared from...wherever she'd been.

Rarity began conducting her servants out the door. They followed behind her like ducklings, out the Boutique, around the corner, and towards the location on the envelope.

"Now..." Rarity didn't pay much attention to the environment around her, entirely too focused on getting Sweetie Belle back. "The letter says to be right...here." Arriving at the set destination, Rarity pulled the envelope away from her face...

And where the envelope had instructed them to go to get Sweetie Belle back, there was a contingent of Guards waiting for them, spears raised and eyes narrowed.

"Oh...come on." Twilight signed exasperatedly. These Guards were clearly not under Rarity's control, but Twilight reasoned the outcome would be all the same , with Rarity infecting the Guards with the slime again. Twilight's was a bit piqued that amidst the Guards were a few members who had unusually crisp skin, almost like it was see-through, but what kind of person had a see-through skin?

...Crystal Ponies!

Twilight, despite having learned better than to hope that someone had a way to combat Rarity, couldn't help but have her heart skip a beat when she made the connection of Crystal Ponies, as where there were Crystal Ponies...

There was Cadence. And where there was Cadence, there was hope.

"What have you done with my sister!?" Rarity indignantly shrieked.

"She's fine." One of the Canterlot Guards answered, brandishing his spear at her. "She's somewhere safe. Away from you, you freak."

Being called a freak, of course, did not sit well with Rarity. She snarled at them, and unwisely stomped forward to challenge them. Them, a platoon of highly trained, highly qualified military Guards, while she herself was a lone woman.

Granted, a lone woman with a bunch of goo-addled slaves, and the ability to summon slime tendrils from her arms, but still, only one against many.

Rarity drew her tentacles. She lased them at the two Guards in the forefront, then yanked their spears from their hands and tossed the weapons to the ground. She swept the tips of her tendrils on their chins, incapacitating them. The other Guards started splitting up into positions, going around and forming a circle around Rarity.

Rainbow Dash rolled her sleeves, marching towards them. "I don't know where you get off foalnapping Sweetie Belle, but there's no way you're getting away with it!" Rainbow shook her arms, and tentacles just like Rarity's began forming around them, only slightly shorter, stockier, thicker, as well as being a rather sickly cactus dark green.

Working together, using their extendable tendrils, Rarity and Rainbow had no trouble taking the platoon down. Rainbow extended her tentacle and stole one Guard's helmet right off his hat, then slammed the helmet into his face, knocking him out. When he was done, Rainbow hurled the helmet into the helmet of another, dragging him down as well. Rarity lassoed her tentacle around the midsection of a Crystal fighter, lifted him up, then threw his flailing body into his compatriots, rolling them over like bowling pins. With tactics like that, it was almost too easy to bring all the Guards down, all except for one Crystal fighter, who could only stand there and shiver, looking at all the other Guards around who fell against the gooey onslaught.

Rarity smirked at him.

He threw his weapon down and raised his arms in the air. "I surrender!"

"Oh, isn't that cute?" Rarity cooed to Rainbow Dash. "He surrenders!"

"Yeah." Rainbow laughed. "Cute."

The Crystal fighter looked at each of them. "I don't...what's so funny?"

Rarity raised her tentacle and launched it towards him, shoving it into his mouth. He screamed, then succumbed to the taste.

"Now, listen here, you brute." Rarity jerked her tendril backwards, bringing the Crystal fighter into arm's reach. "You're going to go back to whoever sent you, and you're going to tell them-"

"BRAVO!"

Rarity and the gang all whipped their heads to see who was addressing them. Off in the distance, the hooded stranger who left the envelope at the Boutique was approaching them.

"Bravo, indeed!" The stranger clapped her hands. "So that's how you've been controlling Shining's Guards."

"Who are you?" Rarity demanded. "What do you want?"

"Sorry for you using as a sacrificial pawn like that, but I needed to see her fighting tactics." The hooded stranger said to the Guard, ignoring Rarity.

The Crystal fighter nodded his head to show he understood. The stranger raised her hand, enveloped it in blue magic, and the Crystal fighter closed his eyes as though drifting into sleep. His body relaxed, and he dropped to the ground, his mouth sliding off the tendril, where he collapsed to the ground.

"Who are you!?" Rarity demanded the cloaked stranger again.

The stranger looked to her oddly, then pulled her hood down, where she shook her head to clear out her mane. Her long, multi-colored, luxurious mane. She unfurled moderately sized pegasi wings, and the cloak folded back to reveal a long, flowing pink dress.

"Princess Cadence!" Twilight exclaimed. She rushed forward. "Sunshine, sunshine, ladybugs awake..."

Everyone glared at Twilight.

"Riiight." Twilight raised her finger and smiled sheepishly. "So not the time. I'll just...go hide back there." Twilight pressed herself behind Fluttershy and Applejack.

"What have you done with Sweetie Belle, you monster!?" Rarity screamed.

Cadence chuckled. "Oh, I'm the monster. I'm not the one who started, what do you call it, gooping? Collecting? What?"

"Infecting..." Rarity huffed, after hesitating to answer.

"Not the one infecting all the townsfolk, kidnapping my best friends, making slaves of all the Royal Guards, but I'm somehow the monster because I put your sister somewhere safe, where you couldn't get your- well, I want to say 'grubby little tentacles' but, ah...well..." Cadence put her hands on her hips. "I think you can guess what's wrong with that."

"I would never let this horrid stuff anywhere near my sister." Rarity growled.

Cadence raised her eyebrow. "Well, isn't that thoughtful?"

Rarity lashed out her tentacle, whipping it against the ground and shaking it loose of any kinds. "I'm going to enjoy making you produce, Princess Mi Amora."

Twilight bit her lip, the idea of Cadence being made to produce absolutely horrifying to her. (Yet oddly arousing, though that might have been the slime talking.)

Cadence huffed. "Produce, huh? Well, I don't know if you noticed, but I knew those Guards didn't have a chance against you."

"What do you mean by that?"

"I set this up." Cadence explained. "The entire time you were fighting, I was watching. Observing, you might say! I know your tactics. I know how you fight..." Cadence narrowed her eyes, raising her fist.

Rarity grimaced, then ignored Cadence's taunts and launched her tentacle straight at the Princess. Cadence had no reaction to the slime accelerating directly at her. In the split-second that followed, Twilight only just now realized what Cadence said, matched with the fact she wasn't doing anything...

With grace like a ninja, Cadence stepped slightly to the side, causing the amorphous slime to miss her completely. Rarity only had a moment to realize what happened, and in that moment, Cadence raised her arms, prepared a spell, and blasted a huge surge of blue, blinding light onto Rarity's tentacle. For a second there, Rarity couldn't see, but even though that was happening, she could already feel the effects of Cadence's magic, like needles and pins were sticking into her arms. Her arm felt incredible heavy, too heavy to keep up, and Rarity dropped to the ground.

Rarity opened her eyes, and she was bewildered when she saw her tentacle.

It was frozen. Covered in ice – turned into ice. Her tendril had gone from a tendril to an icicle. Her arm was inside a huge icicle. What had been a somewhat cool-tempered tool of domination and control, had turned into a heavy, imprisoning weight that went far past freezing temperatures.

Rarity weakly pushed herself, glaring at Cadence, who seemed rather imperious and detached from her ordeal.

Rarity raised her other arm, straightening up her other tendril and cannon-firing a globule at Cadence. Cadence sidestepped it again, then prepared another freezing spell.

Rarity quickly pulled out her goo-tail, reforming it around her legs, and tried to use it to push herself up into a more maneuverable pose. But Cadence launched her spell, temporarily blinding Rarity and causing all the goo on her person to turn into ice.

As she collapsed, her legs in an frozen cocoon and her arms in icy vises, Rarity attempted to figure out what went wrong. She never encountered this kind of resistance before. Twilight and Fluttershy had been stubborn there for awhile, as had Applejack, but no one had thought to do something like freeze her goo limbs.

What went wrong? How did Cadence managed to beat her?

Rarity attempted to move her quickly-numbing fingers, but couldn't. There was simply no space around them in the icicle for them to move at all. Rarity whined. The ice was numbing her, removing her sense of feeling. A suitable ironic punishment for the things she had done with the slime, to be sure. So much sensual torture, only to be removed of her senses.

Rarity's vision started dimming. She briefly wondered if Cadence was going to just stand there and let her die of hypothermia. She only heard of the condition in passing conversation, but now that she was actually suffering from it, she supposed she might have had more interest in it.

It occurred to Rarity that the slime shifted between states of matter, going from liquid to solid depending on what barriers it was presented, and what would, of course, be more beneficial to corrupting its next victim. But even in its most solid state, the slime was still liquid at its core. That was how it was so slick and amorphous. That was how it could be used with as much versatility as it had.

Now all that advantage, all that adaptability, was a curse. Instead of Rarity filling Cadence with the delightful taste of the goo, Cadence had frozen Rarity in inside her own limb appendages. Rarity could feel her blood redirecting, in the name of staving off death. Keeping her eyes open was turning into a laborious chore, so she started inching them shut, even though she knew closing her eyes was essentially accepting that she was doomed to die.

"Rarity!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed, kneeling down towards her beloved. "Rarity, are you okay? Well, I mean...are you going to be okay?"

"I don't know..." Rarity signed. The bright flash of Rainbow's main was the only thing keeping Rarity awake. "Rainbow Dash...Rainbow Dash, are you there?"

"I'm here..." Rainbow placed a hand on Rarity's cheek. It was so cold, it felt like it had been drained of air. It was so cold, so very cold, but Rainbow refused to remove her hand. Rarity needed to know that her servant was there for her. Rarity needed her Lacmancipium.

"I'm so cold..." Rarity muttered.

"Yeah. You're kind of...submerged in ice, so..."

Rarity's vision was losing focus. "Rainbow, are you still there?"

"Yeah...I'm here. I'm here, Mistress..."

"Rarity." Rarity said without explanation. "It's Rarity..."

"All right...Rarity..." Rainbow Dash didn't quite understand what Rarity meant by that.

"Rainbow Dash, I know I've been...somewhat flirty with everyone. Letting everyone take a turn drinking from me..." Rarity mused. "But in my heart, there is still a special place. A very special place, just for you."

Rainbow creased her eyebrows.

"Rainbow Dash, I..." Rarity couldn't keep her eyes open anymore. "Love...you..."

Rarity groaned, then her head slumped down. Rainbow brushed her fingers through Rarity's mane.

"I love you too..." Rainbow nuzzled up to Rarity, rubbing her nose into Rarity's mane. "I love you, too..."

Rainbow gave Rarity's hair one last comb over, then stood up and faced Cadence.

Cadence shook her head disapprovingly.

Rainbow armed her cactus-tentacles, and lunged at Cadence.

"I'll kill you for hurting her!"

"Rainbow!" Twilight raised her arm, but Rainbow was already running at Cadence with tentacles molded into a club shape that would be perfect to smash Cadence's bones in.

Cadence calmly launched another freezing spell at Rainbow Dash, freezing her tentacles as well. Rainbow Dash dropped to her knees and immediately starting shivering. Having her arms trapped in icicles was so not comfortable.

"I'll be taking you into custody." Cadence informed her. She glanced up from Rainbow Dash at the rest of her friends. "All of you. For your own good."

Fluttershy and Pinkie were clearly unsure what to think about this, while Applejack seemed to smile, and from the corner of her eye, Cadence could see clearly, Twilight mouthing.

Thank you.

Far away, there was a castle.

In the castle was a dungeon room.

In the dungeon room were bars and chains.

In those chains was a gorgeous damsel.

The damsel flexed her fingers. She had been so cold before she lost consciousness, and being able to feel again was a wondrous relief that brought sighs from her lips.

She wiggled her fingers, trying to see if there was any damage done to them, but they all bent at the knuckles like they were supposed.

"Mm..." She groaned, then attempted to wriggle her wrists to do the same, to gauge whether or not she had been hurt, but when she tried to move her wrists, she was met with a terrible chafing sense. Like she was in chains, hanging from the ceiling.

Rarity opened her eyes, and she was surprised when she was indeed, strung up in chains, her back pressed against a cold, stone-grey brick wall.

"What?" Rarity futilely jerked at the chains. "What is going on here!? I demand to be let free from these chains at once!"

"Yeah..." A male voice drawled at her haughtily. "That's not happening."

Rarity turned to see the bars of the room she was in. Shining Armor was standing on the other side of them, arms cross, eyes squinted at her.

Rarity took in her surroundings. She was chained, hanging from the wall, inside a dungeon room. From the expansive, picturesque view of the window, which had several sculptures of ice coming from it, she was not only in a dungeon on the top floor, but the top floor of the Crystal Empire's Crystal Castle.

"What did you do with Twiley?" Shining snarled, getting right into the interrogation. "And more important, how do we fix it?"

Rarity smiled at him, then pouted. "Wouldn't you like to know. Unfortunately, I don't know that any more than you do."

Shining growled at her. "Rarity, we have you captive, and even if you got out, you'd have to go through floors of highly trained Crystal Ponies – Crystal Ponies who well aware of your icky...slime...stuff. So don't think that will save you now." Rarity rolled her eyes. "I mean it! So, when you feel like talking...I'll be waiting." Shining Armor turned around and left, leaving Rarity alone.

Rarity examined her situation. It was daylight, so there had to have been some time between when Cadence had subdued, the Guards had carried her, and when she woke up here. The sunlight shone in, taunting her that it was right there, that freedom was so no near, yet, so very, very far.

Oh dear... Rarity thought to herself. That meant there had been a sizable amount of time that passed since her last...session.

"Oh, please no..." Rarity closed her eyes. For a moment, she thought about maybe being able to use the slime to lockpick her chains, but she didn't want to run the risk of Cadence coming and freezing her again. Besides, she was fairly sure her arms would be sore from the aftermath of Cadence's attack.

Just as Rarity had been fearing, a gurgle came from her chest. It was an impressive one as well, a very loud rumble that Rarity knew meant she was full, and needed to medicate, or else...

"Oooh..." Rarity groaned.

Rarity heard a squealing noise like rolling wheels, and she perked up when she saw Shining Armor, Cadence, and someone in a lab coat, wheeling a strange device towards her prison cell.

The device was on four wheels. It had two bags attached to it, back to back, with a vacuum hose on the front of it that the person in lab coat – presumably the device's designer- was holding.

"This is a Crystal Pony doctor." Shining Armor explained. "He's a...gynecologist. He's here to try to understand the slime a little more." Shining explained. "Of course, if you would just tell us everything you do know, this could go a little easier on you..." Shining Armor added.

"Hmph." Rarity turned her head away.

The gynecologist raised the vacuum hose, and it it let out a beam of green light that began sweeping over Rarity's body, going from her feet to her arm and her head. It reminded Rarity eerily of that thing in the cavern, and all those vines...

"The scan is done!" The doctor exclaimed when the green light disappeared. He wrapped his hands around the machine and began wheeling it out of the room. "I'll let you know when the results are printed out..."

Rarity huffed bemusedly. They were all in for a big surprise.

"Now, is there anything we can get you?" Cadence asked sweetly. Being a prisoner didn't mean Cadence wouldn't be a polite hostess, it seems.

"Rainbow Dash." Rarity responded in an instant. "I would very much like for you to bring me Rainbow Dash."

"Not happening." Shining Armor insisted. "No way."

Rarity narrowed her eyes at him. "Captain, I need to medicate." She spoke with a deadly seriousness.

"Well, that's too bad for you." Shining responded.

"Shining Armor, maybe we should let-" Cadence started, but Shining cut her off.

"No. Absolutely not." Shining Armor's furious gaze on Rarity never faltered, even as he left the room. "Until this abuser decides she wants to tell me what she did to Twiley, she doesn't get anything."

Cadence looked down, gave Rarity an apologetic glance, then followed after her husband.

Rarity sighed. She turned her head to the window to look out at the amazing landscape out there, before another a gurgle, so loud as to made the grade into a rumble, came from her. "Oooohh!" Rarity howled and winced, as getting to Rainbow Dash became the only thing she could think about.

Elsewhere in the sprawling complex of the Crystal Castle, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie, and Twilight had also been imprisoned, in cells that were right next to each other, but a ways away from where Rarity was being held. Detainment, Shining told them. They were being kept captive for their own good until Shining's men could work out a little more of what was going on. They weren't chained up like Rarity, as they weren't seen as that high of a threat.

It infuriated Rainbow Dash, in the cell farthest down, that Applejack and Twilight were in the cell closest to the door together, and that Pinkie and Fluttershy were in the cell between her's and Twilight's cell, but she was stuck, alone, without Mistress. For several minutes, Rainbow Dash paced angrily back and forth from one cell of her wall to the other.

"It's not fair!" Rainbow whined, raising her fist in the air. "How come you all get to be locked up together while I can't be with Rarity!?"

"Well, you have to remember, as far as Shining Armor is concerned, you're an abuse victim." Twilight explained, trying to calm Rainbow Dash down.

"Abuse, schmabuse!" Rainbow scoffed, gripping her hands on the bars. "I want Rarity..."

Twilight took in a deep breath and sat on the uncomfortable bench of the cell that was meant to also serve as a bed. Applejack took a seat next to her and started rubbing Twilight's shoulder up and down. Twilight raised an eyebrow at Applejack curious behavior. "Uh, Applejack?"

"Ah want it, Twilight." Applejack whispered. "Ah don't want to want it, but Ah do. Please?" Applejack moved to start fiddling with the straps of Twilight's dress.

"Applejack..." Twilight whined, placing her hand in the path of Applejack's, preventing from it traveling down her form. "No..."

"Please?"

"Applejack!" Twilight grabbed Applejack's shoulders and started shaking. "Get a hold of yourself! The more you drink, the more you want it! Please...please, just...try fighting. Hold out a little longer."

"But-but..." Applejack stuttered, before looking into Twilight's eyes. "Yer right." Applejack hung her head. "Yer right, Twilight, Ah'm sorry...Ah...Ah'll try." Applejack hugged Twilight tightly. "Even though it is really good..."

"Applejack..."

"It's kind of got this taste that makes me think of-"

"Applejack!"

"Right, right..." Applejack rested her head on Twilight's shoulder. "Sorry."

"It's okay...well, no, it's not, but- I mean, that is..." Twilight slapped her hand to her face, then quit trying to salvage her mangled sentence and settled for just brushing her fingers through Applejack's hair. Applejack tapped her fingers on Twilight's shoulders.

In her cell, Rainbow Dash continued pacing angrily. It wasn't fair. It wasn't fair. Applejack and Twilight got to be in a cell together, so did Fluttershy and Pinkie, but she didn't get a partner. She didn't get someone to feed her. "Aaaggh...dang it..." Rainbow Dash got on to her knees, scraping her nails along the wall to distract herself from her predicament. She felt so empty.

"Mmm..." Applejack nuzzled more into Twilight, bringing her head in Twilight's neck. Twilight bit her lip and looked away. Applejack cuddled, rubbing her head on Twilight's neck, oblivious to Twilight's worry.

"Applejack..." Twilight patted Applejack on the back. "Applejack, you're getting too...comfortable." Twilight's eyes widened when she felt the urge rising in her. "Oh no..."

"Wut?" Applejack questioned, raising her head. "Do-do ya need me tah drink now?" Applejack tried to be detached, but there was a pitch in her voice that was just a bit too hopeful.

"No...no." Twilight shook her head, even though her back was lurching. "We're going to hold on this as long as possible."

"Mmh-hmm..." Applejack closed her eyes and lowered her head again. "But sweet apple harvests, Twilight, Ah want it bad...good grief, is this how Rainbow Dash feels most of tha' time?"

"Yeah..." Twilight answered. "It is..."

There followed a clink of steps from the dungeon's entrance. Someone was coming down the stairs. Someone was approaching them.

Shining Armor stepped out, and he gave Twilight's and Applejack's cell a scrutinizing glare, before moving on to Pinkie's and Fluttershy's, and finally Rainbow Dash's.

Rainbow Dash immediately launched at him, snapping her hands around the bars around of her cell. "I want to see Rarity."

"Not happening."

"I'm thirsty." Rainbow hissed.

"Is-is that supposed to make me change my mind?" Shining asked, incredulous, but also sounding a little amused.

"Where is Rarity?" Rainbow rasped, her breathing becoming heavier and more tolled. "Where is she!?" Rainbow kicked the bars, producing a clang.

"Mh-hmm." Shining noted, dismissing her like she was an expendable, easily-replaced specimen for a science experiment he was conducting. "So!" Shining shouted, his projected voice echoing around the room, putting his military training to work. "Here's how it's gonna go down. I'm going to ask you what's happening, and one of you is going to explain it to me, or you stay in here until we decide what we need to do with you." Shining Armor stopped in front of Fluttershy's cell. "Is that clear!?"

Fluttershy nodded.

"Now, what's going on!?" Shining yelled. Fluttershy backed against the wall of her cell. Shining rolled his eyes, then moved back to Rainbow Dash. "What about you?"

"Rarity." Rainbow growled. "Here. Now."

Shining narrowed his eyes at her. "You don't understand how this works, do you?" Shining moved on from Rainbow Dash to his sister.

"Hey..." Twilight waved at him.

"Hey." Shining responded. "So...are you or Applejack going to pony up and tell me what happened?"

Twilight turned her head away. Shining Armor placed his hands on the outside of the bars.

"Twiley, I know that look." Shining explained. "That's the look you have when you want to tell me something, but you're too embarrassed to say it out loud. Please." A kindness shined in Shining's eyes. "If you know what's happening..."

"I do, but..." Twilight quietly answered. "Like you said, it's...embarrassing."

Shining smiled and patted the bars. "I'll give you some time, and you can tell me when you're ready."

Hearing that made Twilight cheer up immensely. Shining understood talking about this would be awkward for her, even if he didn't know what 'this' was.

"Oh, and uh..." Shining grimaced. "Did you, uh...uh" Shining tapped at his chest, implicating at her own. "Grow?"

"It's..." Twilight held out her hand. "Related to the problem."

"All right." Shining Armor nodded. "So, I'll go try talking to Rarity again, and while I do that, you work up your courage and get ready to explain it to me."

Twilight nodded. Then her eye twitched, along with her shoulder jerking.

"Now?" Applejack questioned.

"Now." Twilight answered, laying down on the bench and pulling her dress down. She didn't want to do this- she didn't want to give in, but her lacte was building, demanded to be let out, and the kind of endorphins they were released from both drink and drinker during a session were amazing. The addictive quality of it was so powerful. Twilight wanted to feel Applejack drinking her, licking her, taking her essence away from her...

Shining climbed up the stairs, navigating his way through the Crystal halls to the room where the doctor he and Cadence had hired was working on his machine.

"How's it coming along, doc?"

"Good, good..." The doctor answered. "Although, did we know that the patient is pregnant?"

Shining spluttered. "PFAH! WHAT!? PREGNANT?"

"Well..." The doctor held up a paper. It was an odd paper, being black, but with a white outline. In the black space of was a sketch of Rarity's body done in green inking. It was very comprehensive, like an X-Ray, as it showed her bones and organs. "According to this scan I took, she's lactating, and there's this big huge bulging thing in her stomach. Now, everything I know about anatomy suggests the conclusion is that she's pregnant." The Doctor trailed a hand along his machine.

"Perhaps...we might get better results with an actual X-Ray, and not my new invention." The doctor humbly suggested.

"Do it." Shining ordered.

Rarity was 'hanging around' from her chains in her room, wallowing in her gloom. There wasn't much else for her to do other than groan and wail and murmur resentful words about the fact she didn't have Rainbow Dash here to help her. Or even Applejack or Twilight. She preferred Rainbow Dash, of course, Rainbow Dash had been helping her with for the longest of any of them. She just shared with Applejack and Twilight because, as far as she was concerned, she was a lustful beast to look upon.

Rarity only slightly tilted her when she heard the sound of wheels rolling into her room again, only this time, they were much louder, enough so to rumble as they were dragged in.

She was amused when she saw the source of the noise was a large X-Ray machine, Shining Armor, Cadence, the doctor, and several of Shining Armor's Guards having to work together to get the massive machine to move. The room was filled with the sounds of their grunts as they heaved and hoed it inside. It was a large machine, much larger than the experimental device the doctor had test-ran on her. Its wheels were bigger than the prototype's machines wheels. There was a large, black computer screen, with two smaller screens adjacent to it, hung up like the rear-view mirrors of a car. Another screen, this one blue, was mounted on the side, right next to what appeared to be a cross between a phone and a hand-held vacuum cleaner that was attached by a cord. On the side of the machine was a large, black tarp. A lead sheet to shield herself from the radiation.

"Rarity." Cadence spoke kindly, lifting up an the corners of a lead sheet off the machine. "The nice doctor is going to take an X-ray and a sonogram of you now, okay?"

Rarity rolled her eyes.

"Yeah..." She heard one of the Guards mutter to his coworker as they surround the machine and began lifting the large tarp up. "Now that you mention, she does look a little...engorged."

Engorged? What did that mean, engorged!? What possible reason could this Guards have for discussing whether or not she was en-

Oh no.

Oh please no.

Rarity would have to die of embarrassment right now if they had figured out the secret. If they knew what happened. Twilight could have told them. Rarity's mental link with the rest of them wasn't being exercised right now, as her head had hurt, and she wasn't going to risk getting a headache, so Twilight easily could have told them everything while escaping Rarity's notice.

"So..." Shining drawled. "The Doc's prognosis is that you're pregnant and lactating. Confirm, deny?"

Rarity laughed at him, mocking him. Disrespecting his position of authority. "Deny." Rarity rasped at him. "Lactating? Is that what it's called? Perhaps. Pregnant? No."

The doctor raised his head, confused. "I don't understand...you're not pregnant? Then what's the thing in your stomach in my machine's scan?"

"I don't know!" Rarity answered in a dismissive sing-song. Shining Armor was getting really fed up with her attitude, balling his hand into a fist. He remained calm enough to pull out his keys and unlock the cell door, where he and his Guards worked together to carry the sheet in and affix to Rarity.

"Don't forget this." The doctor said, picking the phone-thingie off its post. One Guard broke away from the pack and took it. The Guard went around his brothers and pointed his finger to Rarity's stomach.

"Do you mind if I..."

"I'm hardly in a place where I can object, darling."

The Guard grabbed the bottom of Rarity's night dress and pulled it up, enough to see her stomach, and put the tip of the thingie to her stomach, which was as flat as could be. On the tip of the thingie was a blue roller of some sort, covered in a blue gel that adhere to Rarity's stomach and was somewhat ticklish. Rarity giggled. "That tickles, darling! Really now!" The Guard click his tongue and pressed on, awkward as it was. He traced the device in circles around Rarity's stomach several times, interrupted by a cheerp sound from the machine it was attached to.

"Done." The doctor raised his hand. "Now put the sheet up."

The Guard nodded, taking the scanner away from Rarity's stomach and letting her dress drop down. The other Guards, and Shining, began working on getting the sheet over, which consisted mainly of trying to figure out how to tie it to her shackles. They eventually settled for just stuffing in there, which kept Rarity from moving her wrists while at the same time giving her a sort of soft padding against the coarse metal of the cuffs.

"Everyone stand back." The doctor ordered. The Guards cleared the room, but left the cell door open. There was a whirring sound from the machine as it charged up, followed by a flash like a camera going off. Rarity wasn't prepared and yet again, suffered temporary blindness in her eyes, but that cleared after a moment.

After several minutes, the doctor ordered the sheet be taken down and that it was clear to move freely about the room. The Guards hurried to yank the sheet out, but when they did, one of them got rather close to Rarity, pointedly observing her chest beneath her night dress.

"Soldier." Shining scolded. "Ladies don't appreciate the peeking."

"Yeah, yeah..." the soldier nodded. "It's just...did her dress have that wet spot on her when we started?"

This caused Shining's and Rarity's eyebrows to both go up. "What!?" They said in unison, though Rarity's exclamation was significantly calmer.

"No, no she did not." Rarity answered. "You know what would really hit the spot right now? If one of you brutes would bring me Rainbow Dash."

"No." Shining insisted stubbornly.

"Captain...as your doctor has discovered, I'm...producing." Rarity ashamedly admitted. "Prior to recent events, Rainbow Dash was my primary, ahem, means of dealing with the problem."

Shining crossed his arms. "Can't you...can't you you just...leak it out, or something?"

"You would think that," Rarity answered, "but it doesn't like that."

"It doesn't like- what!? Are you telling me your...your."

"'Pectora lacte' is the suggested euphemism from your dear sister."

"Pectora lacte..." Shining choked out. "Doesn't like to be leaked."

"Maybe." Rarity answered coyly at him.

"Rarity, all we want is to help." Cadence explained. "You're only hurting yourself. Tell us what's going on."

"Hah!" Rarity scoffed at them arrogantly. "'Helping' would have been leaving Rainbow Dash and I alone to our medicating. You know what the funny part about the good Captain continuing to call me an abuser? The day you arrested me, I was starting to improve!"

"What does medicating mean?" Shining asked dully.

"It's when I let – or rather need- Rainbow Dash – or anyone, really, but I prefer Rainbow Dash - … drink from me."

Shining blinked, trying to decipher the hidden meaning in Rarity's sentence. He shook his head when he worked out, disbelieving such a ridiculous thing could actually happen- had been happening for all that time.

"You're telling me..." Shining Armor closed his eyes, then covered his face with his hand; symbolic of the total rejection of what he was about to say, and how he would not face it if he did not have to.

"She's telling you that she lets Rainbow Dash drink her breast milk, yes." Cadence quipped.

"I don't...I can't..." Shining pinched at his forehead. "I can't...don't..." Still muttering various contractions, Shining Armor walked off.

"Oh, dear..." Rarity looked down to see her night dress had gotten damper, making the silk hug her chest, tightly and loosely at the same time, almost bordering on being completely exposed. She noticed the awkward looks she was receiving from the Guards around her, some of them quite embarrassed, one who seemed disaffected, and a few who were making no efforts to hide their shameful interest in it. "Mh-hm. Like what you see, darlings?"

All the Guards but the one disaffected one blushed profusely.

"Rainbow Dash?" Rarity asked again.

"No." Shining insisted. "I don't care if she is your- your trash can, you're not getting her."

"It's really quite a lovely union." Rarity pouted. "I'm full, so I empty into her. She's empty, so I fill her. It's really quite...exotic. It's like my spirit is...inside her, somehow." Shining Armor attempted to tune her out. "You know, I think you would enjoy it with Cadence, actually." Shining Armor had to try really hard not to turn around and swing at her for that remark.

"Excuse me." The one disaffected Guard said, stepping out of the room.

"Oh, where are you going!?" Shining exclaimed.

"To get a towel." The Guard answered. "For our prisoner's...leakage." The Guard left the room, but his words left an impact on Shining.

"There we go!" Shining pointed to the door the Guard left from. "He know what he's doing! What's wrong with the rest of you? Why can't you be more like him?"

"Uh, sir? You didn't think to get a towel either..."

"...Oh, shut up." Shining Armor turned to the doctor. "Any news, doc?"

"Not much, but there is this..." The doctor answered. "I don't know what's is in her stomach, but I can tell you it is not a baby."

"Wha...then how is she...? Well, you know..."

"I don't know how." The doctor answered. "I'd like a live feed, if at all possible. More research needs to be done, but it appears there's some of … goop in her stomach!"

Shining became flustered. "Wha- goop? Waitaminute, wait a minute...she had these slime...tentacles around her arms when I fought her last night." Shining Armor turned to Rarity. "Ready to explain yourself?"

Rarity humphed. "No." She sounded like a spoiled child.

Shining shook his head, then left the room. "Guards, help the doctor set up his video. I'm going to go chat with Twiley, see if she's ready..."

In the other collection of cells, Rainbow Dash was sitting her bench, being grumpy and resentful, as well as knowing – just knowing that Applejack was having no trouble giving Twilight her medication at all, unlike herself, who was stuck in a cell, not knowing where Rarity was, or had been, or could be. She grumbled and mumbled and wonder if Fluttershy and Pinkie were doing the same thing. Of course, Pinkie could be a little rambunctious, so it would follow that timid Fluttershy would hesitate to use her in that manner... in their cell, Fluttershy was sitting, tapping her fingers nervously, while Pinkie was lying on the bench, dragging her foot across the wall.

In their cell, Twilight was on the bench, on her back, Applejack atop her, drinking at a pace that was slow, but steadily pleasant.

"I'm sorry, A.J..."

Applejack briefly popped her lips off. "Ah know, Twi...Ah'm sorry, too..." Before Applejack could lower herself and resume drinking, Fluttershy shouted.

"Someone's coming!"

Applejack scrambled to get off Twilight, while Twilight herself struggled to make herself decent. She did not want her brother to see her topless, that was for sure.

Shining Armor made his way down the steps, the stairs echoing clinks every time he lifted his legs, and scanned the room.

"So..." Shining drawled, stopping at Twilight's cell, which looked completely normal and not at all they had been doing anything private or untoward.

"So?" Twilight responded back airily.

Shining Armor shook his head, placing his hand over his face. "Rarity... Rarity told me she's been feeding Rainbow Dash her... um...well, she said you suggested 'pectora lacte' as the go-to euphemism."

"R-really?" Twilight stuttered, nervously looking to Applejack. "Did she say anything else?"

"No. Just that she's been...oi vey, that she's been... feeding Rainbow Dash, and would appreciate it if we brought Rainbow Dash to her to feed."

"So would I!" Rainbow Dash shouted from her cell.

Twilight and Applejack looked to each other, smiling nervously.

"Well, Twiley?" Shining asked kindly. "Are you ready to talk?"

"Yes." Twilight assured her. She lowered herself to the ground and wrapped her arms around her knees. Applejack did the same. "However, you might want to sit down for this..."

Shining Armor did as requested, taking the same seating position as they had and leaning in curiously. "What is it?"

"Well, there's sort of hierarchy." Twilight explained. "With Rarity at the top, me underneath her, and Applejack underneath me, and..."

Twilight proceeded to explain the details of what happened to him. She told him everything, about the goo, about the drugs, about the mental link Rarity had developed that pleasured them in the head, about how it good it felt to be feeding an unfortunate somepony – or to be that unfortunate and how deliciously-sweet a Lacmagistra's product was. Shining Armor reflected on the nature of the drugs in the product, how, by sexualizing its drugs by implanting them into women, the slime could ensure its curse spread from one to another.

"But to what end?" Shining asked Twilight when she was done. "What purpose does it all serve?"

"I don't know..." Twilight murmured.

"So, it's – it's a goo, with main objective of causing people to, ah... you know, solely so it can spread to more people and cause them to you-know-what?"

Applejack threw in her two cents. "Sounds 'bout right."

"Right...wow, just, wow." Shining put his fingers to the side of his head. "This is... a lot to take in at once." Shining cleared his throat. "Uh, you understand I still can't let you out, right?"

"Of course." Twilight nodded.

Shining got up and left, even as Rainbow Dash charged the bars of her cell, screaming to be let out and reunited with Rarity – and from how hoarse her voice got, Shining wasn't sure it was just because she wanted to drink...no, no, that was kind of scream that someone made when they couldn't see their true love.

Shining Armor returned to the doctor, who was monitoring Rarity's stomach contents from afar. "Anything new, doc?"

"Yes, actually." The doctor moved away to let Shining see the results on his screen. Shining, mildly creeped out by seeing Rarity's organs, opted not to. "This...slime structure is in her stomach, but it has also established a link to her spinal cord and is sending signals to her brain."

"So..." Shining motioned for the doctor to continue.

"So she is quite literally addicted to the sensation of nursing her adult partners."

"Huh." Shining pursed his lips. "What do you think would be the best thing to do, doc?"

"Well, for now...further study of this specimen."

Rarity sat around, still shackled to the wall. Another new device had been hooked up to her; this was like an old stereo that was made to look futuristic... thirty years ago, making it look quite dated. Two wires extended from it, both of which were stuck to Rarity's stomach by placing clothe pads like an electric blanket over them. Shining had left two Guards behind to keep watch her and prevent any funny business. One of the two Guards had been the calm one who so kind as to fetch a towel for her little problem. Said towel was presently stuffed deep into her night dress, bundled around her chest to keep her dress from getting anymore ruined than it already was. A thoughtful gesture, certainly, but she was well aware the parasites inside her wouldn't be happy with that.

"Can we get you anything?" The Guard asked kindly. "Maybe a snack, or..." He paused. "A second towel?"

"Nothing at the moment." Rarity told him, glancing sharply to her right. "But if you could unlock the cell door, step inside, and swat this pesky fly who keeps buzzing about in my ear..."

The two Guards looked at each other.

"Uh, miss, there's no...fly around...you." The Guard started raising his head, looking for the alleged fly. "Is there? … Nope, no, there isn't."

Rarity adopted a confused expression.

"Wait...does that mean I'm hallucinating?" Rarity shrieked. "Oh, no! Oh dear...honestly, how much of a hint do you need to prove I need Rainbow Dash!?"

The Guard shrugged.

Rarity rolled her head away and signed. She was so … full right now. She would do whatever the Guards asked if it meant they would finally bring her Rainbow Dash. She briefly entertained the notion of just having one of them suckle out of desperation, but brushed it aside. If she had to compromise at all, it would be with Twilight, or Applejack, or Fluttershy, even, but not them.

Then a terrible thought struck her; if the Slime wanted her to infect as many people as possible, then where did she get off rejecting the idea of having a big, strong husky Guard drink from her? The only reasonable explanation, of course, was that she reserved her milk for her friends, but... she wasn't comfortable with that idea, as it carried the implication that she had some control over what was happening.

She thought back to what an absolute joy it was to have Rainbow Dash and Applejack drinking from her at the same time, in the shower, no less. She thought about last night, she had fed Twilight, even though Twilight was clearly reserved about the idea. But...the entire reason she did was that because Twilight had been disappointed when she couldn't drink from Rarity at the Boutique that time they were interrupted by that store merchant.

Rarity groaned, another gurgle coming from her chest, the liquids inside demanding to be let out, demanding to be fed and sent down someone's throat. But there wasn't much she could do beyond just moan and groan while hoping the Guards would eventually take pity on her.

Shining Armor and the doctor, now joined by Cadence, watched intently at the scan showing the insides of Rarity's stomach, and the squishy goo inside. Shining Armor didn't get a moment of peace where he couldn't be squicked out by the malleable thing, but Cadence stared intently, wanting to find any way possible to help Rarity.

The gross-out factor was starting to wear off on Shining after a while, and he began to nod off. No sooner than he had fallen half-asleep the doctor shook him awake, decrying that the slime was doing something.

"Look!" The doctor pointed to the screen as he shook Shining awake. "Look!"

"I'm looking, I'm looking!" Shining insisted, opening his eyes and leaning forward at the screen. "What am I looking at?"

"Can't you see? The goo is moving..."

"I don't..." Shining squinted. "There we go. Now I see it. Eeeww."

The slime that their advanced technology was allowing them to easily see inside Rarity was moving, sliding, edging, bumping against the walls of Rarity's stomach, as if not-so-subtly telling Rarity to do something.

"What do you think it's doing?" Shining questioned the doctor.

"From appearance, it would seem its attempting to control its host."

Rarity began to wail, stretching her shackles out and banging them on the wall to try and distract herself from the slime's punishment of her body.

Yes, I know you want me to feed! Rarity snapped in her head. I'm trying, but these brutes refuse to bring me Rainbow Dash!

"Will you please me bring me Rainbow Dash now!?" Rarity snapped at the Guards. "Or Twilight, even? Or Applejack? She likes it, I know she does..."

The Guards looked at each other.

"We're sorry, miss, but Captain Shining Armor gave us very clear instructions not to bring you Rainbow Dash for any reason."

"You think we should go ahead and have someone bring her Rainbow Dash?" Cadence asked softly.

"No." Shining insisted. "And let her try to convince Rainbow Dash to break out, or...something?"

"Shining, the place is crawling with Guards!" Cadence shouted, gesturing her hand around the room. "And Crystal knights, as well, all of whom are well aware of Rarity's brainwash-y tendrils! Why can't we bring her Rainbow Dash?"

"Because I don't want Rarity to convince her victim of anything..." Shining Armor muttered. "Twiley said I didn't try hard enough to get Rarity in jail cell, and then she went around and got addicted the same way Rainbow Dash was... so I'm going to make up for it now."

"By letting Rarity suffer." Cadence said dryly.

"If that's what it takes, yes." Shining Armor looked at the machine's screen, where the goo had suddenly expanded, taking over Rarity's stomach and sending out pulses in the form of a curved spikes that would be poking Rarity's stomach from inside. Shining wondered how that must have felt, how it must have been nearly painful...

Rarity began flailing her legs out, banging her shackles even more, her mouth frothing, being driven absolutely crazy by the slime's prodding around in her stomach.

The lesser Guard tilted his head. "Is your... you know, going to, like, explode if we don't bring you Rainbow Dash?"

Rarity gave him an unamused glare. "Please. Don't be ridiculous."

"...Says the woman who's infected by magic goo that causes her to lactate drugged milk. Hey." The Guard turned to his compatriot. "I got a question."

"Shoot." The Guard responded, ignoring Rarity as her body continued flailing erratically, with no goal in mind.

"Why do we have to keep Rainbow Dash away from her again?"

"The Captain doesn't her convincing Rainbow Dash to do or believe something she shouldn't, and...uh..." The Guard then noticed Rarity's flailing had gotten significantly worse. Far worse.

To the point they had to be total idiots not to realize she was having a seizure. Her limbs were shaking and moving, not to bang her shackles, or kick futilely against the wall, but because she had lost the motor control that kept her limbs still. Foam began bubbling up and out from her mouth, her eyes wide, yet somehow dilated at the same time, unable to focus on anything except for the fact Rainbow Dash wasn't there. Two little streaks of dark lines appeared between her towel and her dress, and the Guards quickly worked out between them that was the slime monstrosity was making her leak out at unhealthily fast speeds – and was making her leak blood at that. The slime was making her lactate out her own blood.

Both Guards overcame their shock, quit gawking, and ran out the room, just in time to avoid hearing the "BLEEAAAUGH!" noise Rarity made when the slime, in addition to already making leak her blood out of her chest, also made her projectile vomit her blood, making hurl so fast and forcefully the blood splattered all the way from her position onto the bars, covering them in blood and spit.

The worst part was, the Guards could just imagine her saying- they could hear it in their heads "I wouldn't have died if you'd have just brought me Rainbow Dash like I asked." So they made due post-haste to retrieve Rainbow Dash from her cell.

Shining and the others watched the screen, not knowing what the slime's intent was, or the purpose of it growing lumpy tentacles and swinging them around drunkards wielding a baseball inside Rarity's stomach. Shining's earlier disgust had since given way to a very morbid curiosity and fascination.

"What's it doing?" Cadence asked the doctor.

"I'm not sure." The doctor answered. "It seems to be controlling her, somehow, accessing her brain and telling her directly to do things...I'm just not sure what."

"Mh-hm." Shining took a few steps backwards to ponder on this new information. So the slime was controlling Rarity from inside – that much was established by now. He idly turned his head, and saw to his horror the two Guards he stationed to watch Rarity carting off Rainbow Dash down the hallway.

"Hey!" Shining shouted at them, running out into the hall to stop them. "What do you two think you're doing?"

"Getting a woman her medicine." The elder of the two Guards answered flatly.

"Oh no you're not!" Shining growled. "I said-"

"Captain, look."

The two Guards turned around, showing that they were carrying an unconscious Rainbow Dash, her arms lopped around each one's shoulders. She was totally out. It almost looked like there would be absolutely no waking her... hang on.

Shining Armor approached for a closer look. Upon observation, he saw that Rainbow Dash was actually quite pale, her body was limp, and her mouth was hanging open.

"What's wrong with her?" Shining Armor attempted to lift Dash's eyelid open, and got a soulless, empty gaze from a tired, bloodshot eye as a reward for his troubles. He was so startled, he jumped backwards, landing into Cadence, who'd come out to see what was going on.

"Shining?" Cadence asked, gently whisking Shining into her arms.

"Rainbow Dash's eyes are bloodshot..." Shining explained to her, looking up.

"Yes." The younger Guard answered. "Now if you'll excuse us, we need to get this woman to her, er, source before they're both beyond recovery!"

The two Guards turned around and began marching down the hall, Rainbow Dash between their shoulders.

Shining Armor looked up to his wife, who responded to his eye's questioning look with a unsure shrug from her shoulders. Cadence pushed him up out of her arms and they followed the two Guards to Rarity's cell. As they walked, Cadence couldn't help but think...that Rainbow Dash looked like a junkie who gone just a little too long without a fix. That she was undergoing withdrawal symptoms. She felt a pang of guilt in her heart when she made an educated guess and figured it had something to do with Rarity's...milk.

Reaching the cell, they were not met by a pretty sight. There was fresh blood splattered onto the bars that they had no idea how it got there. It was still soaking, dripping its merry, crimson way down the bars, where it dropped from there to the ground.

The inside of the cell wasn't much better, as in it, Rarity's seizure had stopped, but she was so pale, and her head was rolled to the side. Not like she being dismissive or anything, but more like she was... dead. The towel in her night dress was deeply and totally soaked with dark liquid.

The Guards wasted no time unlocking the cell door and carrying the sack of meat formerly known as Rainbow Dash up to Rarity, silently praying under their breath. Before he realized it, Shining Armor started praying too. Twiley would never forgive him if Rarity and Rainbow Dash died because of his restrictions on letting prisoners see each other kept them away from each for too long.

The two Guards quickly yanked the towel out, then pulled her dress down, exposing her chest. One Guard rubbed the towel roughly over her chest to get out some lingering droplets of blood out. The two Guards raised Rainbow Dash up to it, then started pressing Dash's mouth to Rarity's tip.

Shining Armor grimaced. It was weird simply knowing Rarity was feeding Rainbow Dash breast milk straight from the source, and that it apparently had addictive qualities, which apparently went so far as to include the effects of most hard drugs, like withdrawal, but actually seeing it happen was another layer of weird and awkward. Let's not even get into the fact that the act could actually save their lives and keep them from dying (never mind the near-dying was the goo's fault in the first place) was another, huge layer of weird.

When simply putting Rainbow Dash's mouth on it wasn't enough, the two Guards looked to each other for ideas. Then they both looked at Rarity's exposed breast, had an idea, then quickly looked away.

"Eer...Princess Cadence?" The younger Guards asked nervously while trying to remain chipper at the same time. "Would you mind helping?"

"Not at all." Cadence answered seriously, moving towards them. "What do you need me to do?"

The Guard forced a smile, then sighed. "Poke her breast. Try to...sort of..."

Cadence gave him the eyebrow. "You want me to try and squeeze the milk out?"

"...Yes." The Guard answered. "Thank you so much for filling that sentence in for me."

"Noo problem." Cadence raised her wing and pressed the tip of it down like a finger on Rarity's breast, before Shining Armor could object to his wife touching the intimate parts of another woman. Cadence pushed her feathers down, softly but firmly, and eventually the flesh gave away and a quiet, 'suullllu' sound was made when Rarity's milk finally leaked out into Rainbow's mouth.

Cadence peered her head over the Guards. "Is it working? Did it work?"

"I'm not sure..."

Everyone began preparing themselves for the inevitable. Everyone started thinking about what they would tell Twilight and her friends when they broke the news that Rainbow and Rarity had died. Shining Armor started thinking of a cover story so that Twilight wouldn't completely hate his guts. Cadence tried to think of whom she knew that would serve as effective counters to the grief Twilight and her friends would no doubt have.

It was all rendered moot when Rainbow groaned softly. "Mmmh?"

"Rainbow Dash!" Cadence yelled. "You're alive!"

Rainbow Dash was disoriented. At some point while in her cell, she blacked out. The sunlight streaming into the room was burning through her eyelids and getting to her, as was the loud noise of the person next loudly proclaiming her name as well as something else. Like "Fur at five!" or something?

Rainbow Dash realized there was something inside her mouth and felt her tongue around to feel out what it was. Recognizing it for Rarity's gland-organ, Rainbow Dash promptly quit caring about whoever was yelling and began to suck. "Mmmh..."

"Yes!" Cadence and the Guards threw their fists into the air, overjoyed they managed to get Rainbow Dash to Rarity just barely in the nick of time. It didn't occur to them they were cheering for the fact Rainbow Dash was suckling goo-drugged breast milk from Rarity. If they made that connection, they probably wouldn't be celebrating as much.

After a few minutes of suckling, Rainbow Dash's skin started regaining luster, and she got more lively. The same thing happened to Rarity, who started responding again, briefly lifting her head as she felt a pair of lips on her breast.

"Mm...hmm?"

"Mmmm..."

"Hmmm?"

"Mmmm..."

"Hhhmmmm?"

"Mmmph..."

It went on like this for a while before Rarity's eyes started twitching. They fidget, before she gently opened one eye and looked down to see Rainbow Dash, drinking from her – like she was supposed to, and should have been doing hours ago.

"That's it, Rainbow Dash..." Rarity moaned, coming to. "Take..." A yawn interrupted Rarity's sultry tones. "Take as much as you want...mmm..."

Rainbow Dash eventually recovered enough that she could stand without the two Guards supporting her weight, and more importantly to her, could reach her arms up around and grasp Rarity's waist, pulling herself closer so she could drink more out from Rarity.

"Okay." Shining recovered from the initial shock of seeing Rarity's and Rainbow's states, as well the near-grief of having nearly killed the two of them, and decided he had been watching this for long enough. "I think that's enough for now..."

"Captain!" Rarity snapped, raising her head. "You quite nearly kept us from each other for almost too long. It would hardly be remiss if you gave us our time together. I will decide when she's had enough."

Shining glared, disliking her perpetually challenging of his authority. Even since this whole mess started, she'd been nothing but rude to him. "And how do you decide that?"

"Simple." Rarity looked down at Rainbow Dash. "Rainbow, darling, do you feel as though you've had enough?"

Rainbow Dash moaned, and shook her head.

"There. See?" Rarity told him. "Oh, make sure you get the other side,too, darling...it won't do me any good if you empty one just to let the other 'overflow'."

Rainbow Dash nodded in acknowledgment, and gave one incredibly fast and hard suckle which left Rarity moaning for more, before moving on to the other side.

"Oh my, yes..." Rarity rolled her neck again, closing her eyes. "Just...relax and release." Rarity took in a deep breath and held it for awhile, before exhaling. The tension in her muscles faded just enough so that her milk could escape into Rainbow's mouth more easily. Rainbow moaned, holding Rarity tightly, and continued to drink as she had before, as she had several times over this week and the last three, barely to even think about stopping she was sure she was absolutely chock-full of Rarity's essence.

"Are you going to be done soon?" Shining questioned. "I don't want to look at this any more than I have to."

"No one said you had to look." Rarity responded to him dryly. It was true. No one went up and put a wand to his head and said "Watch Rainbow Dash nurse Rarity or I'll shoot". Had they?

"Rarity..." Cadence asked politely, resting against the wall next to her. "How...how much do your produce, if you had to guess?"

"Mmm..." Rarity's eyes lifted upwards in thought. "I would have to say, about, on average...oh, around an ounce per minute."

Cadence adopted a disgusted expression. "Uugh...that's...that's quite a lot."

Rarity glared unamused. "Really? I never would have guessed. It's not like I have to put up with having that much inside me or anything."

Cadence raised her hands in the air. "Sorry."

Shining grunted, impatient for this session to be over.

Rainbow's moans and groans started getting louder. "Mmm...MMMH...MMPH!" She started drinking faster, bucking her hips up and down.

"Uh..." Cadence raised a finger. "Is- is that normal?"

"Yes."

"MMMMMMMMPH!"

"Is she..." Cadence stuttered. "Is she having an org-"

"Yes. That's normal."

"That's it! This session is over!" Shining Armor stomped forward and grabbed Rainbow Dash by the shoulders, abruptly pulling her away from Rarity.

"Nhhhh!" Rainbow exclaimed, surprised by Shining's sudden rough handling, milk leaking from her mouth. "Hey! Pfth!' Rainbow shook her head wildly, tucking her bottom lip to salvage the drips of lacte sliding down her chin like drool. "I wasn't done!" Rainbow struggled, reaching out to grasp at Rarity. "I'm not...I'm not full." Rainbow Dash became frantic, really trying hard to get out of Shining's hold and back to Rarity. "I'm now allowed to stop until I'm full, damn it!" She shrieked.

Shining was about to launch into a tirade about how ridiculous and – he assumed – unhealthy this was, but Rarity lowered her eyelids at Rainbow Dash.

"It's all right, Rainbow Dash." Rarity said softly. "Just this once..."

"But...but..." Rainbow stammered. "No...no! I want more! Let me go, damn it!" Rainbow scrambled again to get out of Shining's grasp, then swiveled around at her own waist and slapped Shining across the cheek, which startled him enough for him to let go and stumbled backwards, but the other two Guards tackled-grabbed Rainbow Dash before she could get back to Rarity.

Cadence cleared her throat, then quickly pulled Rarity's dress back up while everywhere else was preoccupied with subduing Rainbow Dash.

Rarity chuckled airily. "You know, Cadence, your husband isn't looking. I wouldn't mind if you took a sample... it is quite delicious..."

Cadence flushed and backed away. "I'm, uh, I'm good, thanks." She looked to her downed husband and moved to help him stay steady while his troops escorted Rainbow Dash back to her cell.

"Shining, are you all right?"

"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine..." Shining looked up at his wife. "Say, did you put on extra make-up or something? Because you look...prettier."

Cadence blinked. "W-what do you mean, prettier?"

Shining shrugged. "I don't know...you just look nice..."

"Okaaay." Cadence patted her husband on the back and bade him to move. "Let's get out of here before this gets any weirder."

Cadence drove her husband out of the cell and held his hand, the married couple walking a safe distance behind the Guards as they left the cell block and went into the gleaming hallways of crystal. At some point, Rainbow quit fighting the Guards, which Shining found both confusing and suspicious.

"What's wrong, Shining Armor?" Cadence inquired.

"Well, it's just...look at Rainbow Dash. She's calmed down. Rainbow Dash is not the kind of pony who calms down." Shining explained.

"Mmm..." Cadence pursed her lips, but she couldn't think of anything to say. "I don't know what to tell you."

"Yeah...hey..." Shining stopped abruptly, and Cadence jerked forward, having continued to walk while her husband had stopped, still with his hand around hers.

"Shining, are you all right?" Cadence asked. Shining began squeezing her hand. "Ow! Shining!"

Shining groaned. He felt nauseous, and right now, Cadence's hand felt very weird to him. Looking down, he saw that was because Cadence's hand was covered in an aqua version of the slime.

"AAAAAH!" Shining yanked his hand off, raising up to observe how much goo had gotten on it. "Oh, this is bad!" He began scraping at his palm, trying to get the goo off.

"Shining, what's going on!?"

Shining Armor looked up at the sound of his wife's voice. Cadence was looking with concern, with sympathy, caring, kindness, and concern. All of which was undone by the fact her arms were bleeding out more and more aqua, and her shoulders were spewing out their green goo like the tendrils Rainbow Dash had last night. Her wings, even, seemed to be leaking out the slimey stuff, only in a purple color that matched Rarity's. What was even worse, she didn't even seem to realize she was covered in-in slime!

"Shining!?" Cadence extended her hand towards to touch his shoulder. "Calm down, all right? Everything's fine. Tell me what's wrong."

"Everything is not fine!" Shining yelled. "You're- you're infected!"

"What!? No, I'm not-!"

Before Cadence could get any further in her sentence, Shining Armor charged and pushed her aside, bullfighting his way past his troops, whom he knocked down and threw off Rainbow Dash.

Cadence groaned and pushed herself up on the floor, wondering what the heck just happened. She rubbed the back of her head and saw the dark blue outline of her husband fleeing down the hallway, as well the two Guards who were attempting to get up, and Rainbow Dash was just standing there, not sure what to make of it all.

"After him!" Cadence pointed her finger at Shining's direction. "Stop him before he hurts himself!" Cadence got up and pursued after him.

The two Guards looked to each other, than to Rainbow Dash.

"Don't try anything funny while we're gone." The elder Guard warned her. "You stay right here until we get back."

"Something funny?" Rainbow Dash said coyly. She quickly drew her cactus-green sparkly tendrils, made them as solid as possible, and slammed both Guards in the head with them, knocking them to the ground.

"Wouldn't dream of it." Rainbow quipped as she stood over their inactive bodies. She stole her way past, back into the cell.

"Rainbow?" Rarity questioned. "What are you doing back in here? I heard a commotion, but I couldn't make anything out...besides the screaming, of course."

"Yeah." Rainbow responded, not actually answering the question. "It's a mess out there. I'm gonna wait in here until my plan works out."

"Plan?"

"I'll tell you all about it in a minute, but first..."

Rarity rolled her eyes teasingly. "Oh, all right, if you must." She raised up and presented her bosom to her. Rainbow went to work, taking her dress down and suckling more of her milk.

"Aaah..." Rainbow sighed when she was finished, pulling away. "Full again...I feel so much better now. Anyways," Rainbow pulled Rarity's dress back up, "you remember when I slapped Shining awhile ago?"

"Yes, what of it?"

"Well, check it out." Rainbow gloated. "I slipped some slime into that slap."

"Ooh! Do tell!"

"Yeah..." Rainbow reached up, covering her hand in slime and using the boneless, shifting appendage to unlock Rarity's shackles. "He thinks Cadence is infected, and now he's hiding somewhere in the castle... wait for it..." Rainbow raised a finger, looking around as though struggling to hear something. "Yeah. He's hidden down the hall in a closet."

"Keep looking!" They could hear Cadence shout from the hall. "He can't have gone far!"

Rainbow chuckled. "Say, why didn't you undo the locks yourself?"

"I didn't want to risk it..." Rarity murmured, turning her head away as she plopped to the ground, released from the shackles.

"Right. Well, let's go get Shining Armor and get some leverage done." Rainbow gently pulled Rarity towards the cell block exit. They heard a Guard approaching and then hid behind the corner of the door, but he seemed to proceed on his way down the hall. Peeking out to make sure he was gone first, Rainbow Dash and Rarity bolted across the hall, all the way from one shiny end to the other, before Rainbow swung around abruptly and went inside a door. Rainbow Dash was going so fast, Rarity only barely made inside before the door closed.

"Goodness, Rainbow Dash, you nearly slammed the door on me!"

"Sorry."

Upon observation, Rarity saw the room they were was not a closet, as Rainbow Dash's link with her slime inferred, but a broom cupboard. Rarity looked down to see Shining Armor crouching, chattering nervously as he hid from his wife.

"Oh no." Shining groaned. "Now you two are in here as well...oh, I'm going to be infected, aren't I?"

The two women chuckled.

"Hate to break it to ya, Cap, but you're already infected." Rainbow Dash bent down and pressed her thumb to Shining's cheek. The cactus-green slime Rainbow had acquired began oozing out of Shining Armor, back to their point of origin in Rainbow Dash's hands.

"Duuuh...ugggh...ooogh." As the slime was sapped away from him, Shining began groaning like he was sick. After all the goo had been removed from him, he collapsed again the shelves of the cupboards with a thud. Rarity and Rainbow promptly giggled. Their laughter was cut short when they heard Cadence's voice again.

"Did anyone else hear that? Check that cupboard!"

Rarity and Rainbow Dash knew Cadence was referring the thud Shining made, and the cupboard they were inside. Putting everything on the line, they burst out the door and immediately ran down the hallway. Cadence and her contingent of Guards were so startled by their sudden appearance from the door it gave them time to get away.

"Wha- what happened!? How they'd get out of their cells!?" Cadence shouted. "Agh, never mind! Stop them!" While the Guards gave pursuit, Cadence went inside the cupboard to find her groom.

"Shining!" Cadence exclaimed, kneeling down to his side and cupping his chin. "Are you all right?"

"Huh?" Shining groaned and turned to his wife. "Oh, it's you. What'd you say? Oh, yeah, um...I think Rainbow Dash infected me with the goop, but I'm fine now...I think. I'm not sure how that works."

Back out in the hallway, the two prisoners running away from the long hoof of the law...

"Go find the others." Rarity instructed Rainbow Dash.

"But...I just got back to you!" Rainbow objected.

"I know, I know, and I admit I'm sad to see you go again so soon, but we'll have better chances of getting out of here if have them backing us up. Go, my sweet..."

Rainbow, somewhat tearfully, turned around and dashed off to parts unknown to look for the rest of their friends-turned-slaves. Using her super speed, she effortlessly mowed down the Guard platoons, rolling through them like a bowling pin. Strike!

The Guards were temporarily disoriented by the pegasus flying through them at a fraction of the speed of sound, buying Rarity enough time to run ahead into a six-branched fork in the hallway. She picked one at random and just hoped it would take her somewhere useful. The Guards, once they recovered, split into two groups and went opposite directions, one chasing Rarity, the other chasing Rainbow Dash. Living in the Crystal Palace was nice, but it was such a pain to chase down fleeing prisoners! Especially when coming to those blasted forks! The Guards, with their diminished force, split up again and went down every hallway but one – they didn't have enough members left to send any more than one person down the remaining one, and they didn't want to risk sending him in without backup. Woe be it, then, that the one they didn't go down, was the one Rarity had gone through.

As she ran, the crystal decorations of the hall passing her by in beautiful blurs of purple and mauve, Rarity cursed the fact she was wearing a night dress. It hugged her curves in all the right ways, of course, but it was an absolute pain to run in.

She heard a clap of thunder from down the hallway.

"Oh, good." Rarity murmured to herself. "Just what I needed. A thunderstorm. Thank you so much, pegasi. AAH!" Rarity yelled to relief her frustration with the situation and resumed running, meaning to get to the other end of the hallway as soon as possible, before the Guards caught up with her.

Rarity raced til she got to the end of the hallway. She was particularly infuriated by the fact the hallway led to a pavilion that allowed one, if they were so inclined, to reach and look down at the Crystal Empire for all to see. It was an outside balcony.

Outside.

Where it was raining like the clouds thought they didn't have enough water to rain, even though the soppy mists reflection forming off the balcony's diamond handrail said they very much did have enough to go around. The pavilion was large, roomy and circular, with an intricate star pattern etched into the transparent floor. There was room enough for a small dinner party.

Looking at the gloomy landscape, Rarity sighed. It was so dreary and dank, she could have just dropped down and wallow in the misery of it all. The storm had blotted out the sun totally, and there was not a glimmer of light to be found anywhere. The constant drizzle had a rhythm going for it, even. A study, beating, rhythm.

Rarity supposed she might as well step out and get her perfectly fine nightdress even more soaked. It's not like it wasn't ruined already. As she stepped out into the downpour, the rain beating at her like she was a drum, Rarity thought back to how she got in this awful predicament. It took mere minutes for the rain to turn her dress from slightly wet from a leakage issue to a completely soaked disaster. It looked like she wasn't wearing a night dress so much as she had dived into a laundry basket, then came out wearing the result. It felt like she had run through a pile of shredded, unused lace that was now clinging at her form. The darkness of the dress, combined with being damp, did not do well to cover her.

She though about Twilight and Fluttershy. About Applejack, about how she had made poor Applejack drink her breast milk, and forced her to drink and drink and drink... she thought about how Fluttershy seemed to like it when she herself got nursed, and how Pinkie just kind of rolled with it.

She wondered if maybe it was Twilight and Fluttershy, or anyone else besides her and Rainbow Dash who gone into the cave first, if they'd been having this problem now. It was all because of her. It was all because she insisted on keeping the fact she was having Rainbow Dash nurse a secret for all that time after going into the cave and being- being- being molested by that thing that was inside her. Before she could realize it wasn't a good thing to keep this a secret, the slime had overtaken her so much that making all her friends lactate as well sounded like a jolly good idea.

Rarity murmured about how, initially, she was too embarrassed to tell anypony besides Rainbow Dash, and Rainbow Dash knew because she had been there in that cave with her. Rainbow Dash because she'd been molested too by that thing.

In the present, Rarity closed her eyes and dropped to her knees, sitting in the center of the pavilion's star pattern, the rain still beating at her and her dress.

Rarity remembered her's and Rainbow's first time. She never thought of herself as the type to engage in the lovemaking with another woman, but she did, and when she did, she liked it. Or at least, she thought she liked it. The very first thing that thing in the cavern when it was done molesting them was to press their bodies against each other, and let them have their way with each other.

Rarity took in a deep breath and sighed. She remembered almost every detail of that dreadful, awful night. She and Rainbow had simply been out for a walk. Nothing fancy, not a date or a picnic, just – just a walk between two friends out in the Everfree Forest. It was dangerous, most of the time, but they had found a path or two that minimized the chance of encountering a wild beast. Of course, that meant nothing when it came to encountering wild plants.

The plants found them. The plaints enticed them with their intoxicating aroma, and then the vines picked them up and made them rub each other until they were good and aroused. Then the plants carried them into the cave, where the crystals hypnotized them – or at least, were supposed to hypnotize them.

Then the vines did a trade-off to that thing inside the crater, which immediately began caressing them, rubbing them, violating them. It undid their tops and wrapped around their chests, raising up extra-thin tentacles as it did so.

The extra-thin tentacles had turned red, and the still-purple tentacles around their chest began rubbing and suckling, inserting drugs into their system that made them both lactate. It began sucking out both their breast milks with amazing force and power, and the red tentacles... the red tentacles went into their mouths and began regurgitating the milk after it had been mixed with more drugs.

It made her and Rainbow Dash both lactate, and then it fed them both the others' milk after mixing it with drugs.

After a while, it raised another two tentacles and began violating them in their privates, but the milk had tasted so good then that they didn't care what it did, so long as they could keep drinking more of it. And when it was done, it pulled its tentacles out of their mouths and brought them close to each other, and the milk made them want nothing more to grab hold and start lovemaking, which the slime adjusted itself until they could, and did.

Then the weeks that followed, where Rainbow Dash stopped producing, but Rarity continued to. It was so painful, having all that milk in her mammoth chest, the drugged milk that practically screamed at her to feed it to someone. Rainbow Dash had been there, so Rarity consulted with her what to. Rainbow selflessly volunteered to be Rarity's dumping grounds- her trash can, as Shining put it, and began to do Rarity's 'medication' whenever the milk inside got so full and she needed to let it out.

Rarity didn't realize the milk she made herself was also drugged. Rarity didn't know that Rainbow doing was going to get both of them addicted to it. Rarity didn't realize she was going to turn into an abusive girlfriend and keep Rainbow Dash chained to her at all times, just to be sure the pegasus racer was on call whenever she needed to feed. What Rarity did know was the kind of things that happened when she went too long without feeding. The slime would start mucking with her body, making her faint, making her lactate out her own blood, that kind of thing.

Rarity thought again about she just randomly decided, "Hey! You know what would be a good idea? Taking over Ponyville and lactate-infecting all your friends!"

And she thought about she didn't know much of that was the Slime talking, and how much of it was herself wanting to see what the rest of her friend lactating would be like.

And she started to cry, and wail. The rain masked her tears. She went down from her knees to her stomach, pounding on the ground as she wracked herself for ideas, for excuses, for reasons to be forgiven for what she'd done, even though she knew what she did was unforgivable.

"Hey..."

Rarity raised her head from the floor, then rolled around on her side. Shining Armor was standing in the doorway with his hand pressed against the wall. It was rather awkward for him, seeing a woman he'd been keeping locked up, clearly distraught and with a wet-dress that bordered on undressed.

"You seen Rarity run through this parts?" Shining inquired.

Rarity sniffed, then sat upright. "I am Rarity."

"You? No, no...last time I saw Rarity..." Shining Armor stepped out the doorway into the rain. Being covered in armor, the downpour wasn't as much of an issue for him. It would take some time for the rain to make all that gold-plated metal rust. "She was a cruel woman, using Rainbow Dash as a garbage dump for her, ahem, problem. Not the kind of pony who lies out on a balcony in the rain crying over something."

Rarity sniffed. "I'm a very complex woman!" She snapped, turning away.

"Hey, hey, hey..." Shining said comfortingly, getting close to her. He knelt down next to her and cupped her chin, turning her head to face him. "I know you're upset about something, and this is kind of awkward for me, but being married has taught me to listen to woman in need. So!" Shining patted her cheek and sat down next to her. "Why don't you tell me what's on your mind?"

Rarity looked at the floor, at the handrail, anywhere but him, before pressing her hand to her heart and taking in a deep breath.

"I'm...sorry. I never imagined all this would happen."

"I don't think any of us did." Shining said dryly. "Er, sorry. Go on."

"I thought Rainbow Dash and I could keep to ourselves." Rarity explained to him. "I didn't want to admit to anypony what happened... I didn't want to explain my problem. And then...you came along and arrested me for it, and I...I decided to get revenge on Twilight for keeping me and Rainbow Dash away from each other, but then the others threw me an apology party. But...I had already set your sister up to be infected! I-I had to go through with it! You understand, don't you!?"

"Not really, but keep talking."

"And I...I just went on a power trip." Rarity said. "I felt like I could do anything with no consequences, I felt like I was on top of the world! I felt like...like a goddess. Especially when I-I made Applejack drink the milk..." Rarity's voice started to crack. "I made her drink so much! ...Because I wanted to be sure she was completely under my control! Ohh..." Rarity burst into tears again.

"Hey, it's all right- well, no, it's not all right. But we can't do anything about if you just keep crying, okay? Come here..." Shining Armor reached forward and pulled Rarity into a hug. She started crying on his shoulder. "There...see? Sometimes all we need is just a shoulder to cry on..."

Rarity continued to sob into his pauldron. "T-thank you..." She managed to choke out between sobs. "You really are a knight in-in shining...armor."

Shining Armor chuckled. "Heh-heh...well, hey, when you've got it, you've got it."

Shining patted her back. Rarity continued to sob and cry for awhile. Shining Armor reflected on how bad this would look if Cadence were to walk in on them without any context.

Rarity sniffed one last time, then pulled away from Shining Armor. "Thank you so much."

"You're welcome."

"You were very kind to come and listen to my problems." Rarity thanked him, causing Shining's heart to swell with pride.

"However, I think we're done here." Rarity said coldly.

"Wha-what?"

Before he could even register what had happened, Rarity had her tentacle out again and wrapped it around his ankle, pulling him down as she stood herself up. As if one cue, thunder flashed dramatically in the background of the storm.

"Rarity? What-!?"

Holding Shining in her tendril by the ankle, Rarity started dragging him towards the handrail. "While I appreciate you listening to my problems, you'll understand of course, if I'm still upset that I could have died due to your stubborn insistence on keeping Rainbow Dash away from me!"

"Okay, yeah, but...Rarity, we can help you!" Shining protested.

"Riiight." Rarity drawled, disbelieving. Using the strength of her amorphous tendril, Rarity picked up and threw him over the handrail, where he hung upside down from the goo, pressed painfully against the castle's roof tiling.

Shining looked at the odd position he was in. "Ummm..."

Rarity's tendril began extending, pushing him down the castle's tiling, which made his back chafe. "I'm trying to figure out how long a fall you would need to hurt, while still being short enough to keep from killing or crippling you. Hmmm..." Rarity continued to slide her tentacle down the castle's roof.

"Rarity- oow oow these tiles really hurt! Rarity, stop!" Shining protested as Rarity pushed him further and further down. "We really can help you!"

Thunder flashed again, causing everything in the area to be covered in a dark shading, including Rarity's cold, unchanging face. Rarity pressed him further down...he was almost at the edge of the rafter, which of course made him even more panicked.

"Rarity, stop! Twiley will never forgive you!"

Rarity kept up her pace.

"I KNOW WHAT HAPPENED IN THE CAVE!" Shining screamed suddenly, finally causing a reaction. That reaction was to stop extending her tendril, just for a minute, so he could talk.

"It's not your fault." Shining assure her as she continued to dangle him dangerously from the roof. "Twiley told me. She told me everything she knew, and a lot of things she guessed. And based on how you were when I found you, I'd say she guessed right! So please, please, just...let us help you. Give us one last chance. We can do it- we really can! But we need you to cooperate with us, and answer questions when we ask them. Please, I'm begging you, please." Shining Armor put his hands together. "One last chance?"

For a moment, Rarity did nothing, only glaring at him imperiously with those cold eyes of hers that showed little to no emotion.

Shining closed his eyes and braced himself, preparing for his end.

"Can you?" Rarity spoke shakily, like raising her voice would cause her to turn into glass and shatter. "Can you really help? Do you really know what to do?"

"Uh..." Shining wasn't prepared for Rarity to respond like that. He recovered and nodded his head. "Yeah, yeah! I think we do! Never know unless you try, right?"

Again, Rarity did nothing for awhile.

Then, she started retracting her tendril and pulling him back up.

It was awkward for the Guards when their Captain suddenly gave the order to let out Twilight and her friends, as well as stop pursuing Rainbow Dash, and told they were going to help Rarity solve her problem when they had just been trying to keep her cell not twenty minutes ago. They weren't sure he hadn't been infected, despite his assurance. Only when Rarity stepped forward and told them as much did they believe it. They did, however, want to confirm that Cadence hadn't been either, which took awhile and mostly involved asking Cadence whether or not she wanted to get into bed with Shining Armor.

"Of course not!" Cadence snapped at them. "How can you think about that at a time like this?"

That answer was good enough for them to believe she was, in fact, not infected.

The Guards rounded up Twilight's friends, and all together, working as one unit, they went from the Crystal Empire back to Ponyville. It was a long, long trip, but they got there without incident. Along the way, Rarity changed her soaked night dress back out for her white sundress – which , surely not coincidentally, was the same thing she was wearing when she came here unwittingly with Rainbow Dash the first time. Perhaps the slime formed an attachment to it.

Shining directed Rarity to led them to the cave. Marching through the partially-abandoned town, the Guards were disturbed by all the infected townsfolk, even more so when they saw their comrades-in-arms just standing, stationary, doing absolutely nothing without Rarity telling them to. What was to prevent her from summoning the entire town and jumping them, huh?

She didn't, though. She kept leading them, back to the Everfree Forest, back to the cave where this all started. As they got closer and closer, the Guards and Cadence had to constantly shove themselves between Twilight and her afflicted friends, as they kept trying to grope each other at the breast and stomach.

"We're here." Rarity said coldly when they finally arrived.

Shining Armor narrowed his eyes, knowing he had seen this cave before while dealing with Rarity's rogue escapades. Cadence kept her eyes on the vines, suspicious of them doing something.

"Well..." Rarity turned to Shining Armor. "Shall we go inside?"

"Yes." Shining answered. He made sure to bring along the magic amulet he confronted Rarity with last night, as well the rest of his protective magic gear. "We shall."

Sensing the presence of a woman whom they had yet to touch, the rose-covered vines outside the cave entranced raised up.

"Can't we just burn them?" Shining questioned irritably.

"But...but they're plants!" Fluttershy protested, horrified at the thought. Shining sighed.

Rarity lead them inside the cave, raising up her slime finger to keep the vines at rest. They raised and curled like they were bowing, but a few of them undulated like they leering at Cadence.

"Be careful not to look at the crystals too long, darling, or they'll hypnotize you." Rarity warned them once their entire platoon was inside.

They continued their trek, Rarity in the lead, until they reached the crater where that thing had molested and violated Rarity and Rainbow Dash, and later, Fluttershy and Twilight.

"Here we are..." Rarity murmured, staring into the depths of the craters, where the tentacles of the beast were on the walls of the pit, at ease and rest. "The lair of the Pipe Slime."

"'Pipe Slime'?" Shining questioned. "Is that what its called?"

"Yes." Rarity turned around and raised her arms in the air like she was a ancient teller of stories. "That's its name. Very fitting, given what it does with breast milk." All the males in the room flinched the words. "As you may well know by now, I have a link inside its head. It was created by Celestia in her youth."

"Wha...really?" Shining stammered. "Celestia, kind, caring, Celestia created this disgusting thing?"

"Yes, but it was an accident." Rarity clarified. "She wished to create a companion for company because she was lonely as a child, and she got a few ingredients mixed up, so this thing was the result. The royal palace ministers responsible for raising soon saw it, and came just in the nick of time to keep it from subjecting her younger self to its touch. They banished and buried it here, but as you can see, it's resurfaced."

"Well," Shining gripped his spear, "now we're gonna... un-resurface it!...Unsurface?"

Twilight faked a cough. "(Hack) The word you're looking for is 'rebury' (hack)."

"You say something, Twiley?"

"No!"

"Hang on..." Rarity turned back towards the crater. "I'm going to attempt to summon it..."

Rarity closed her eyes and tilted her head forward at the crater. Bizarrely, she started humming.

The limp tentacles in the crater began moving in response, slowly lifting themselves up erotically out of the cave. Shining Armor and his men drew their weapons, Cadence looked on in disgust, and Twilight and friends merely looked away ashamedly...except for Pinkie, who seemed oddly interested int the creature now rising from the depths.

A thunderous gurgle came from the earth around them, making it shake underneath them. From the depths rose a huge globule of a humongous, house-sized dark purple slime, roughly in the shape of a smoothed-off rock with no edges, or perhaps a slightly flattened gumdrop.

The creature sat in the pit, like it wasn't capable of escaping the confines of it. Its tentacles reached and grasped at the air blindly, like it didn't know what it was doing out of its crater hole.

"All right, you've got this Pipe Slime thing out here!" Shining exclaimed. "Now what do we do!?"

Rarity turned as still as a statue. For a moment, Shining worried seeing the creature again was inducing a traumatic flashback in Rarity.

Rarity turned around, glaring daggers at Shining Armor.

"This...was a mistake." Rarity hissed. "I shouldn't have brought you here. We shouldn't have done this."

"Rarity, what are you talking about-"

"I won't let you, you hear me!?" Rarity shrieked. "I won't let you take Rainbow Dash away from me again!" Rarity ran towards Rainbow Dash and pulled her into a possessive hug.

The Pipe Slime raised one of its many, many tendrils and swung it down, wrapping both Rarity and Rainbow Dash up.

"I-I don't understand..." Twilight muttered.

"The Pipe Slime's got into her head!" Cadence concluded. "It's made her think we'll take Rainbow Dash away from her again, and is using that to convince her to fight us! Eeguh...what...what in blazes?"

The Pipe Slime reached up another tentacle around the two bound ladies already in its grasp, then smooshed the two tentacles together, adding more goo to the total volume of it. The two tendrils merged into one, then started undressing Rarity and Rainbow Dash, just as it had done three and a half weeks before. It raised two more tendrils, these ones the super-thin red ones of Rarity's nightmares, which inserted themselves easily into Rarity's and Rainbow's mouth. The purple tendril holding their bodies began sucking and rubbing at their breasts again, but as they were already lactating from the sickness it installed the first time, it wasn't long before their breast milk was being pumped and pulled out of them...and then pumped and pushed into the other.

When the taste hit her mouth, Rarity moaned and caved in instantly. Despite learning how to use the slime tendrils of her own to induce lactation, she hadn't had a good opportunity to drink Rainbow Dash's milk again since the last they were in here, and in this position.

Rarity could barely make out a voice, too enraptured by the taste, yelling at her. Something along the lines of "Rarity, stop! You don't want to do this!"

You don't want this, you're better than this, na na na nan! Rarity mocked in her thoughts. Shut up, whoever you are! I DO want this. I want it so badly. I need it. I want more of it. I want all of it. More. More!

Rarity suckled desperately on the red tendril in her mouth, hoping it would do something to increase the flow and stave off that feeling of emptiness she was getting. Her efforts did not go unrewarded, as the tendril soon began pumping more and more milk into her mouth. Her's and Rainbow's moans produced a sweet symphony of lust as they each were fulled with the others' milk and product, with the others' essence.

Soon, the two thin tendrils slid out of their mouths, finished filling them. And what a filling it was. Their stomachs were bulging, as were...certain...other parts.

The Pipe Slime altered the make of its tendrils to bring them closer to each other, and the first thing they did, as soon as they were in reach of each other, was to lean in and kiss passionately, wrestling with their tongues who got to be on top. They wrapped their arms around each other, and were able to swing their legs through the slime over the thighs of the other, and start brushing against themselves down there. The heat of their arousal was enough to make them start sweating, and as the Slime didn't think to maneuver them in a position where they could lick each other, they started screaming as the most direct way of being aroused was denied to them.

"MMMH! MMMH! MMMMMMMMMMMPHHHHHHH!"

"EEMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMH!"

For a moment, they stopped to catch their breath. In that moment, they turned to look at the ground, where the Pipe Slime was currently attempting to squash Shining Armor and his platoon in its bulky tendrils, with no intention of giving them this kind of pleasure.

Delirium setting in from being all wrapped in the wonderful-feeling, delicious-tasting slime, Rarity started raving at Shining Armor.

"I won't let you take Rainbow Dash away from me again, Captain! DO YOU HEAR ME!? I WON'T!" Rarity screamed at him at the top of her lungs. Shining Armor tried to remind her of how she felt when she was on the balcony earlier, but she couldn't hear him, the voice of the Pipe Slime drowning out his. The gurgle and rumble and slosh of breast milk waiting to be drank echoed in her head over and over. Yes. The Slime was singing to her now. These infidels were attempting to pry Rainbow Dash – her Rainbow Dash away from her, and the only way to keep them from doing that, was to feed to the Pipe Slime. The only way to feed the Pipe Slime was to make love to Rainbow Dash while in its sticky, ooey, squishy hold. So Rarity resolved to just that, her earlier ethical questions of how much of it all was her fault and how much of it was the Pipe Slime's ground into a fine powder. Making love to Rainbow Dash was all that mattered now, drinking breast milk from Rainbow was the only important thing now.

She couldn't hear Shining Armor barking orders. She couldn't Cadence preparing spells. She couldn't hear Twilight, or Applejack, or Fluttershy screaming for her to stop and fight it. All she could hear was sloshing and gurgling. Sloshing and gurgling. Sloshing and gurgling. Relax. Relax. Relax and release.

Relax and release your milk. Just relax. Don't pay any mind to the idiots don't below who want you to stop...just relax in the goo, and have your way with Rainbow Dash. That's all you have to do!

Again, for a moment, Rarity stopped to turn and shout at the morons around who were trying to interrupt her's and Rainbow's special time.

"I won't let you take her away from me again! I WON'T, DO YOU HEAR ME!? NEVER! NEVER AGAIN! SHE'S MINE! MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE!"

Rarity raised her arm and engulfed in her own tentacle.

"I won't let you...I won't let yoooooou!" She started lashing her tentacle at them, at all of them.

At all her friends who had only wanted to help...