Author's Notes:

Yeah, as the title may have tipped you off, there will be a lot of clop related talk in this chapter

After hearing several more very embarrassing stories about her sister, I bid Luna farwell, and after stepping out, teleported myself back to the hive, hoping I hadn’t missed Ribbon waking up. Luckily, as I creeped into our room, I saw she was still asleep, albit having pulled her blanket over herself. If my sense of time was right, the sun had already risen, so she should be up soon. Not wasting any more time, I dove into her shadow, and waited.

It didn't take very long until she woke up, yawning. She looked over her shoulder, probably for me, and not seeing me, tried to roll over, but was kinda stuck to the bed. “What th-” She paused as she likely registered the feeling of my additions. “Celestia. Damnit. Chi.” after a few moments, she managed to peel away the blanket, which had a thin layer of ooze all over it, before she looked down at her body. “Ahhhhh crapbaskets.” She peeled herself off the bed, and hopped off it, before turning around and removing the goop covered bedsheets. “These were expensive too, they better not be stained.” She took a moment, before I saw her get her wings to unfold, a couple strands of goop trailing back to her body. She tried flapping them, generating a good amount of lift, looking a little surprised when goop didn’t get flung everywhere, the strands of goo holding strong.

Looking behind her, she noticed the tail I had given her, dragging across the floor leaving ooze in its wake. She got it lift up off the ground, and shook it, before shaking her ass with it. I really liked that. She lifted her wing again, looking under it and noticing the trio of tendrils there, before looking under the other wing and finding the same thing. “It’s like she has some weird forced transformation fetish.” The worst part? I think she may be right. She took a moment to look at the essence covering her hooves, before notice the claws on them. She wiggled them around a bit, flexing them, and putting them through a range of other motions. “Thats…hmm, actually kinda neat.” She walked over to the wall, and and placed the claws against it, trailing them down and looking surprised at the deep scratch marks they left. “Very neat.”

She extended a tendril, before trying to grip it in her new claw, once again, looking surprised when it didn’t stick to the claws. Although a few strands formed between them as she pulled it away, but they quickly snapped and sprung back. She trotted over to the dressing mirror, taking the time to look herself over.

“Oooh, I look intimidating, I wouldn't mind someling like me being on top.” she said in a rather seductive voice. She nervously looked back at the door, a small smile formed on her lips. She stretched herself out like a cat would, spreading her wings and making a small moan of relief. After performing that rather… enticing display, she stared into the mirror, flaring out her wings and tendrils as if she was trying to make herself appear bigger, before glaring and hissing at her reflection, swiping at it a few times. She lowered herself to the ground, wings still flared out, tendrils coiled in like a snake ready to strike, eyes narrowed, and teeth bared in an angry scowl.

Ribbon left her impromptu combat stance and looked back at the door, looking back at the mirror with a wide grin. She was liking this, it seemed. She sat down in front of the mirror, before extending a tendril and grabbing it in her ‘claw’, before letting the very tip slip between her lip, as she begun running the claw up and down a short segment, winking suggestively at the mirror…

God, I’m gonna have a wing boner once I crawl out of here.

I watched, fascinated, as Ribbon turned around, and after getting the tendril out of her mouth, kneeled on her forelegs, before lifting her tail and giving her rump a good wiggle. As she looked behind her, she frowned, her attempt at flashing the mirror ruined by the ‘ooze armor’ giving her a featureless crotch.

I wasn’t going to wait for her to try something even more suggestive, so instead, I bent the abyssal essence making up Ribbon’s new features to my will.

She turned to face the phantom probing sensation, looking confused when she saw nothing there. Making her feel another poke, from the other side, I watched as she spun around again. Then, I started making the ooze tickle her hooves. She stifled her giggling, trying to stomp on whatever was tickling her hooves, and whined when that did nothing to alleviate the feeling. Scraping her hoof against the floor, she tried to remove the ooze covering it, only making a sticky skid mark on the floor instead. “W-what the heck is tickling me!?” I redoubled my effort, now causing the ooze to tickle all her hooves at once, causing her to collapse to the ground laughing.

-Having fun?-

“W-where are you!” Ribbon squealed, kicking at the air in a futile attempt to make the tickling stop.

-... ‘underhoof.’-

“Make it stop, make it stop!” I released my control on the essence, before emerging from Ribbons shadow, grinning.

“So what do you think of my first attempt at creating a suit of more, organic, armor?”

“You… suck!...” Ribbon was still trying to catch her breath. “The armor part… needs work...”

“That didn’t see to stop you from admiring yourself.” I replied, dispelling all the ooze stains, and generally any essence that wasn't still part of Ribbons ‘armor’.

Ribbon, for her part, just pointed a hoof at me accusingly. “Shut up.”

“You know it’s true.”

Ribbon finally caught her breath and stood up with a sigh. “Just, get this stuff off me, I’d like to fix the hot water issue today and I’d rather not scare my changelings while doing it.”

“As much as I want too… I’m still a little bitter about how you left me hanging for a day at the beginning of my last heat, and kept me waiting near the end.”

“That last bit was Cloaks fault, not mine. She told me to do it.”

“And you decided how to do it.”

“How do you know? She could have said it over the hive.”

“Because judging from how nervous she sounded, she's not as depraved as you and I.”

Ribbon gasped dramatically and puts a claw to her chest. “Depraved? how dare you insinuate that I, a Queen, am some kind of sexual deviant!”

“Says the changeling who was trying to flash her mirror not five minutes ago?”

“Why I never!” Ribbon looked away and flicked her mane. “I will have you know that I’m a respectable mare. Now clean this gunk off of me so I can go fix the hive’s water heater.”

“Its not like anyones going to be where you’re actually working, right?”

“I suppose not, just a few workers.”

“Then I’ll give you a ride there, noling will have to see you that way.” I responded with a smirk.

Ribbon sighed. “You’re not going to get this off me, no matter how much I try to persuade you, aren't you?”

“Yup.”

“Fine…” She groaned in defeat. without further prompting, I scooped her up in my miasma, and sunk into my own shadow, pulling her in after me, before making my shadow starting gliding across the floor.

“Hey, Ribbon, you should be able to fly this time, what with the wings I gave you.”

“Really?” She flapped them a few times, each motion moving her though the void. “That means I won't have to worry about getting a ride from the Kee- oof!” Just before she could finish that sentence, she bumped into the Keeper. She quickly backed up, looking surprised she didn’t stick to it. “Ha! I don’t need your help anymore.” A tendril emerged from it and tried to wrap around Ribbon, but seemed to slip off the ooze coating her body. “You can’t grab me now! No more getting stuck to- EEEK!” Ribbon squealed as the tendril wrapped around basically the only place it could grab without going for the face. Her horn. “No, let go of that!” I stifled down a laugh, before gliding over to her, and pulling the tendril off her horn.

Looking at the Keeper, I instructed it to stop trying to collect Ribbon, as she was not a loose object. It nodded in confirmation, before turning around, and gliding off. “There, it should stop bothering you now.” I quickly dispelled the essence that had gotten all over her horn.

*SMACK!*

Ribbon slapped me with her forehoof, causing me to spin head over hooves until I managed to right myself, holding a hoof to the hit area.

“You effectively just got me molested by one of your constr-” She paused mid sentence, having pointed a forehoof at me, and was staring at her claws. “Oh my gosh! I’m sorry, I didn’t mean o cut you!”

“Its okay, Ribbon, that stuff can’t hurt me.” I said as I pulled my oof away from my cheek, revealing that it was just a large bruise.

I felt all six of her tendrils rapidly wind around me and pull me towards her, where she wrapped her forelegs around me as well. “Please don’t be mad.”

“Me be mad? You were the one being molested and I laughed. I should be asking you not to be mad.” I wiggled a little. “Uhh… can you let go now please? Or do I have to tickle you again?”

Ribbon almost immediately let go of me, quickly unwinding and retracting the tendrils.

“We should be there now.” I said, before wrapping Ribbon in my miasma, and pulling her out of my shadow alongside me.

The room was really… damp. There were pipes going every which way, all branching out from a very big heater lined with red gems, which I assumed where for some kind of heating enchantment. Another bigger pipe ran out of the room, this one had a sign the said ‘Hot springs’, in fact many of the larger pipes had a sign on, ‘Bath house’ and ‘Water main’ were the others big pipes. “So what exactly did you need to fix?”

“The gems need to be enchanted. If you notice, I’m using high grade rubies instead of Twilights crystals, I just don’t trust them for my bigger projects now that she learned of it ability to generate magic. Not until she learns more about them.”

“Right. It still worries me that there's basically an unshielded reactor in the middle of Ponyville.”

“I know, but Twilight would never let that happen… Right?” Ribbon started with the main boiler, enchanting one of the gemstones and moving to the next. I watched, as she scratched her back with a tendril as she worked, and gave a little sigh of relief as she got that one spot you couldn't get under your wings with your hooves. The room was starting to get steamy, and me a bit sweaty and I hoped that Ribbon would be done soon. It took Ribbon quite awhile to finally enchant all the rubies and I could tell that having to enchant all of them in one sitting took its toll on her. The armor wasn’t faring much better, it looked goopier than usual. “And like that, the whole hive has hot water! And we did it without the ponies help.”

Meanwhile, I was sweating profusely, not from the heat so much as the humidity. “good, now I could use a nice looong soak to get all this sweat out of my fur.”

“Mmm, get this gunk off me and I’ll join you.”

With a thought, I dispelled the ooze making up Ribbons ‘armor’, and held her hoof in mine, leading her out of the room. We made for our room but Ribbon tooks us somewhere else, saying it was be just as fast. When we got there, I saw she was bringing us to the bath house and hot spring. “I like how you think. A nice, hot soak.”

“Get your mind out of the gutter. That long hall in our room that goes down to a spring, it connects here, our own private room.” Ribbon lead us in said ‘hello’ to the attendants as they greeted us.

“Hello my Queen, call us if need us!”

“I will.” Ribbon waved them off and we went to our private room. The hot spring was a lot more natural looking then I was expecting. Since it was hoof made and not a natural hot spring. Smooth river rocks and sand made the bottom of the shallow pool while bigger rocks lined the edge and made the stairs, while a wood flooring surrounded the pool for us to walk on. In the water, there was a couple of raised flat stones that come up just enough to be out of the water, each one with a slightly wider stone beneath them, just below the surface of the water, while the water itself seemed to flow very, very slowly, like a calm river as a layer of steam continued to build from the now hot water.

“Its, its… Calm, and beautiful.” I stepped down the steps, feeling the warm sand and rocks beneath my hooves. making my way to the slightly deeper part, I layed down, till my body was below the water, and let out a long sigh as I felt the heat working away at muscles I didn’t even know were tense. “Sooooo goood.” I raised my head out of the water when I heard Ribbon say something, before dipping it back below and just losing myself in the feeling.

Something nudged my side, and I lifted my head out of the water. “The Queen called for us to give her a massage, Would you like one as well?”

“Yes, please.” I stood up. Looking, I saw Ribbon laying on one of the stones, another changeling was massaging Ribbon, who had taken on her pegasus disguise, making me smile, she looked just like she did when we first encountered each other. Made sense, it would be kinda hard to get a massage when you had chiten. I walked over to one facing directly opposite from her, and layed down, also dispelling the blob of abyssal under my wing so it wouldn't get in the way.

“Now just relax.” She said as she stood before me and begun working on my shoulders, the combination of the heat soaking into them and her hooves making me go limp as I relaxed. “So tell me, what were you doing chasing the guard around, looking like you did?” I blushed profusely, and Ribbon sputtered.

“G-get the k-key to our room back from h-him. Ribbon locked me out…”

“And just what was she doing during that?”

“C-Cloak… Although it was more of being done by.”

“Oh…” She looked over her shoulder at a blushing Ribbon, at a loss of words.

“...I know I pay you not to say anything about what happens in here, but don’t you think you’re going a little too far?” Ribbon said.

“That’s not how I see it. Chances are, we’re going to end up seeing it happen sooner or later.” Said the other attendant that was working on Ribbon.

“She’s probably right.” I pointed out.

“Why do you think we’re the ones that took this spot, hmm? Even though we’ve never work at a spa before?”

“You do a pretty damn good job for someone with no experience.” Looking over at the changeling attendant, I noticed her lack of blush, despite the topic. “Amusing, that you to aren't the slightest bit embarrassed by this.”

“Why would we?”

“We used to be prostitutes in Las Pegasus.”

…

Me and Ribbon shared a look, clearly she didn’t know about that.

“The more you know.” I chuckled.

“So tell me Lily, what was the best lay?” I blushed even brighter red. They where going to talk about stuff like that!?

“Hmm, we to tell the truth, Ivy, it was probably that griffon, he really liked being rough.”

“But don’t they have barbs on thei-”

“Thats just an urban legend, yes, they have little nubs, but not barbs like a actual cat. Feels really good.” Lily stopped massaging me, a far off look in her eyes. “Really good.”

Oh my god. “Well RIbbon, it appears we aren't the only two sexual deviants in the hive.”

“Yeah, I see that.” she replied flatly.

“Moving on from the topic of griffon dicks, what was your best lay Ivy?”

“Well, there was this unicorn, oooh~ now he knew how to use his magic to really please a mare. Shortest time I ever lasted.”

“Okay, this is getting ridiculous.” I interjected. “She called you for a massage, not for you to talk about your sex lives!”

“Right, right. My apologies.” Said my attendant. I think her name was Lily.

“Yeah, sorry about that. We got carried away.” Said Ivy. I hope got that right.

“We’d be willing to make it up to you, if you want.”

“Just make this a good massage and I’ll call it even.” Yeah, I knew what they meant by make it up, and I wanted to save my stamina for Ribbon.

After our massages had been finished, me and RIbbon got up to leave, and while she left, I stood aside. “I sorta wanted to ask you a favor, Lily… Your Lily, right?”

“Yes, what do you need?”

“Well, considering you, and Ivy are the only two changelings who wont really question this, I’m kinda planning on fulfilling Ribbons… Abduction fantasy, and I kinda wanted you to make sure the rest of hive knows that so they don't go crazy if Ribbon starts to panic. You know, like last time.”

“Oh right, when she thought she was being eaten by a sludge monster. Everyling was up in arms wanting to know how it got her and wanting it dead. But when she calmed down we all got to learn of the sludge monster that bucked her unconscious! Good work by the way!” My god, she has no shame.

“Ummm… Thanks?”

“No problem. What does she like? We’ll keep it secret.”

“being used like a toy or a pet, light pain play, generally being the submissive one.” Lily seemed a bit shocked at that, the whole hive really did think it was the other way around.

“She’s really the submissive one?” Lily asked in awe. “I thought... Well, the whole hive thought you were the submissive one.”

“According to Ribbon, she’s only the dominant one because I’m bad at it.” Lily took a second to think about what I just said. Suddenly she had a massive smile that only a pervert should use.

“I can fix that.”

I actually had to think about that for a moment, before hesitantly asking “Define ‘fix’.”

“I can teach you, help you be the dominant one.”

“I don’t think I’d be willing to go that far, some tips would be much appreciated though.”

“Ok, ok. I’ll have Ivy make some kind of distraction and I’ll come to your room to riffle through your things and teach you some things and give you some advice. Nothing sexual… aside from the topic.”

“Yes, please.”