Four of the six friends lay on clothed reclining beds with green kelp facial masks and cucumbers on their eyes.

Rainbow Dash sat by Applejack’s bed while Applejack groaned in frustration. “Ah swear, if they don’t get ta my hooves in the next five minutes-”

“You’ll wait longer!” Pinkie added. Rarity and Fluttershy giggled.

“Well, I don’t mind a wait. These masks are so refreshing. I must thank Twilight, when she arrives, for helping me out of the sauna. I had to drink several glasses of water to recover enough to stand alone.

“So, did anything else happen while I was in the capable hooves of the spa ponies?”

“Nah, just a bit’a ramblin’ and whatnot ‘fore we left.”

“And all I did was talk for a bit about nothing with Twilight. Well, not really nothing because if it was nothing then it wouldn’t be talking, would it? Because-”

“Oh, here they are,” Fluttershy said happily and moving her legs to the side of the bed, as did the others.

“So, if we were talking about nothing then would nothing be-”

“Hush, Pinkie.”

“...Yes, Mistress,” she whispered just loud enough for Fluttershy to hear and smirk at while the others looked to Fluttershy with raised eyebrows.

“Now, how in Applesauce’s purple mane did ya manage that?”

“I just know how to talk to Pinkie, is all,” Fluttershy said reaching and fixing the towel on her head.

“Rainbow, get on a bed and let ‘em file yer hooves,” Applejack said firmly with a scowl to Rainbow.

Rainbow’s ears flattened to her head and she nodded, getting up and going to a bed before stopping and turning back, quickly.

“Hey, I don’t have to do what you say!”

The girls giggled at Rainbow’s reaction. Twilight turned the corner to see her friends giggling as the spa ponies set their equipment down and prepared to do some hoof work.

“Well, Twilight, won’t you be joining us?” Rarity asked replacing the cucumbers to her eyes that fell off when she was giggling.

“Oh, yeah… Let me just get a spot. Uhm, Rainbow, are you gonna be joining us?”

“Yeah, that’ll be the day,” Rainbow huffed as she lay on a clothed bed and frowned, “And don’t give me flak, I have my reasons.”

Applejack laid flat on her side as the spa pony began the process of removing her horseshoes.

“Dashie, ya should at least let ‘em change yer shoes. Ah ain’t gonna keep buggin Big Mac ta help me with ‘em.”

Rainbow blushed as she looked around to the others who were snickering at her. Even a spa pony smiled that certain way at Rainbow that just grit on her multichromatic nerves.

“Grrr, fine. When we’re here they can change my shoes, that’s it.”

“Whoo-hoo! Take it off, girl,” Pinkie shouted as the spa pony removed her left rear horseshoe, dropping it at Pinkie’s shout. “Oh, she dropped it like it was hot,” she snickered into her fetlock.

“Pinkie, you’re always going at it, how can you have so many jokes?”

“How can an egg have so many yolks? It just does!” Pinkie retorted bursting into laughter and rolling to her back, kicking her legs in joy.

“Ahem.”

“Oh, sorry Aqua, I forgot again.”

“Quite alright, madame. Please, try to not use the legs I’m working on while expressing such… joys.”

“I do say, you have a lovely accent. Canterlot?”

Aqua looked at Rarity before rolling her eyes and focusing on Pinkie’s next horseshoe.

“Well, that’s certainly rude. When a paying customer asks you a question you should answer,” Rarity stated haughtily.

Aqua frowned and lowered her head to her eyes were below Pinkie’s body, blocking her from sight of Rarity.

“Well, I never! Where’s Aloe, I demand to see-”

“Miss, I am from a suburb of Canterlot, happy?” Aqua hissed over Pinkie’s body.

Pinkie reached a cupcake between the two mares and leaned impossibly over and rested her chin on her side, raising her eyebrows suggestively.

“Not now, Pinkie,” Rarity nearly spat, “Canterlot has no suburbs, darling. If you’re going to lie, then I suggest you choose a more realistic place.”

Aqua grit her teeth as another spa pony trotted over and whispered in her ear. She huffed loudly through her nose across Pinkie’s cupcake sending a pout across Pinkie’s muzzle before Aqua got up and, with her head held high, she pranced away.

“I’m sorry, ladies. She has an interesting past and her life in Canterlot wasn’t the best.”

“Well, with her attitude I can see why,” Rarity grumbled, looking at the spa pony who was intently ignoring the exchange and working on the last horseshoe.

Within a minute all the mares, except Rainbow Dash, were having their hooves cleaned and scraped of a weeks worth of town experience.

The spa pony working on Fluttershy wore a safety mask, a result of Fluttershy living with so many animals usually meant some things would be growing in the cracks and gaps her hooves; none of them pleasant to ponies’ senses of scent.

“Applejack sighed as her hooves were carefully smoothed and polished to a shine. A snore from behind her sent a wicked idea through her mind.

“Hey, Fire Mane,” she whispered, “get a polish ready for Dashie. I’ve got a plan ta get her hooves done up right.”

Reluctantly the spa pony looked over Applejack to the sleeping Rainbow Dash and nodded.

“Want me to finish yer hooves or what?” Fire Mane asked.

“Well, yer already half way, might as well.”

“Right-o, boss.”

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