Derpy huffed and heaved and grunted softly as she yanked another boxful of books towards the new club room. She hadn’t expected the process to be as quick as this, but apparently it had only taken something like, a day for all the clubs to have their memberships verified and new clubs to get their room assignments. She’d been so excited that she’d talked her mom into letting her borrow the old Wing Wagon to drive up most of her collection to the school. She’d been collecting all of these table top games for years now and while she did have space for them at home in the old rec room that she and her mother never used, it felt good to actually put them in a place where ponies might actually be able to see and use them again.

But she’d forgotten how HEAVY they all were!

She’d managed to get a majority of the boxes into the room, mostly by hefting and heaving and huffing them all by herself. She stopped just outside the room, setting the box down and leaning against the wall, brushing a few blond bangs from her eyes. “Why do these companies always have to put all these books out in such big, hardcover packages?” she mused as she pushed the box into the room with her feet. “I mean, all this info could be fit into a little paperback too!”

She pushed the box all the way to the center of the room, where a large, round table sat, now overflowing with boxes of its own, with another layer of boxes set down on the ground around it. Derpy looked at her work proudly for a moment before once again brushing her hair from her eyes, clapping her hands together, and then opening the box closest to her. “Alrighty!” she announced. “Time to start unpacking.”

“Ah, I thought I heard someone here.”

Derpy jumped a little bit at the sound of a voice behind her and turned around quickly, blushing as she saw vice principal Luna standing in the doorway, looking around the club room with mild interest. “Ah, um… hello Ms. Luna.”

“Hello, Ms. Hooves,” she greeted with a light smile. “I wasn’t expecting anypony else to be in here. Most clubs usually wait until the second week of school before they start to customize or fill their club rooms.”

“Ah, well, I know, but I was just so excited!” she said with a smile. “I finally got my club up off the ground! I just couldn’t wait to start putting a personal touch in the room when I got the assignment.” She glanced around. “Though to be honest, I’m really surprised that I got this one. This room seems super large for a club that only has the minimum amount of required members.”

Luna chuckled and shrugged. “I admit to speaking with my sister about that,” she said, walking forward. “I had a feeling that this club was going to be requiring a lot of ‘equipment’ so I asked her for one of the larger mid-sized club rooms, one with lots of shelf and storage space.” She started to open up one of the boxes herself, peeking inside. “This is a bit of a big job for just one mare. Let me help you out a bit.”

Derpy blushed and started to lift a few player’s handbooks and character guides out of the box she’d opened. “Oh, no, you don’t have to do that! I mean, you’re probably super busy right now, aren’t you?”

“I do have a few more duties to take care of before I leave for the night,” she admitted with a shrug. “But I am a member of this club as well, am I not? It certainly wouldn’t do for me to leave my club president with all of the work.” She smiled at Derpy.

The pegasus gave a shy smile in return. “Oh, okay then. Um, just take the books out and put them in the big steel cabinet. I’m trying to separate them by game and then by alphabet.”

Luna nodded, pulling out a large armful of books. “Call of Cthulu? I didn’t realize a mare like you would be into something like that.”

She gave a light giggle as she pulled out a few Ogres and Oubliettes books, walking them over to the container. “They were on sale. And while I wasn’t really into the lore, I just couldn’t pass up the chance for a new game.” She rolled her eyes. “Imagine my surprise when I found out that they just use the D20 system.”

“D20?” Luna raised a brow and drew out the player’s handbook for the game, flipping through it. “Honestly? Why? There was another version of this game that was much more suited to it. D20 is primarily a combat system. Combat in a CoC game? Pah!”

“I know, right?” Derpy said, setting aside a box full of screens and character sheets, deciding to find a different place for those to live. “Like, I guess it could work if the game master is creative enough, but when you give players the idea that a game is all about fighting, that’s their go-to answer for everything.”

“You aren’t a fan of combat games then?” Luna asked.

“Oh, I don’t have anything against them,” the mare said, holding up one of the O&O books. “I do play Ogres and Oubliettes after all. But I can only play those in short bursts. Encounter after encounter isn’t super interesting to me.”

“I suppose that is a fair point. But I certainly cannot play a game that is just diplomacy and talking and investigation all throughout.”

“Even CoC?” Derpy said.

“Well, that sort of gameplay would be much better if the players were actually playing investigators, yes. It fits the setting much better than trying to fight off the beasts from beyond. But it’s still not my sort of game.”

Derpy giggled. “You’re always so refined and dignified. I wouldn’t think you’d be into combat games.”

“I just like a good fight. I can’t be dignified all the time. It’s why I’m always playing swordswomen and barbarians and berserkers.” The two of them continued to push the books up onto the shelves, piling them up quickly, to the point that Derpy was worried they’d run out of room. Thankfully, there were two other large, metal shelves in the room that they could use, but she was still concerned that they might not have enough room for everything.

“Berserkers and stuff? No magic users?” Derpy almost giggled. “So you like characters that can hit really hard.”

“It’s not just that, thank you very much!” Luna said, a hand on her hip. “Intimidation is a factor as well! Size! Posture! A good barbarian with an axe twice their size can just as easily scare off a group of bandits as a wizard that insists on chanting a fear spell that has the potential to fail as soon as they see how tiny and lanky the spell caster is.”

“Huh…” Derpy mused. “I never really thought about it before,” she admitted.

“See? Big characters with big weapons have versatility too!” she raised her nose proudly as she opened yet another box. She gasped loudly, making Derpy turn around. “Stars above!”

“What, what? Was something damaged? Oooh, don’t tell me pages are falling out of the Ironclaw books again!” she said, hurrying over.

“You have a first edition of the Super Human RPG!” Luna said, lifting it out of the box as though it were a sacred treasure. “They first published this when I was just getting into this sort of stuff!” she flipped it open to the publication information. “Yes, yes, right here!” she said, tapping it gently. “This really isn’t a reprint, this is a first edition, and in immaculate condition! Where on earth did you find it?” Luna asked, looking at Derpy excitedly.

Derpy blinked, hesitating for a moment. “Uh, it was part of a bulk lot,” she said. “There was a person who was selling a huge box of old RPGs and didn’t really list everything that was in there, because they didn’t even know, and so I bid on it, and I won.” She shrugged. “It was in there… and I saw that it was a little vintage, so I thought it might be rare and I kept it.”

“Definitely,” Luna said. “I’ve been trying to get my hands on one of these forever! But every time I found it, the seller wanted an obnoxiously large amount of money for it.” She sighed happily, flipping through the book for a few pages, clearly overcome with nostalgia. “Oh I wish I’d thought to keep my old characters for this game.” Her ears flicked softly. “Do you think I could run a game at some point?”

“Uh, w-well,” Derpy said, coughing a little bit, “Maybe you should let the club actually meet a few times first?” she asked, rubbing her arm.

Luna sighed and closed the book, setting it down to the side before glancing at Derpy again. “Derpy,” she started. “Pardon me if I’m overstepping a comfort line here, but… am I making you uncomfortable?”

“Huh?” Derpy wiggled a bit, clearing her throat. “What uh… what makes you think that?” she asked.

“Well, for one, you’ve been carefully keeping your distance from me the whole time I’ve been here.” She indicated with a finger the fact that the two of them had been on opposite sides of the table for most of their conversation, and whenever one of them went to put books in the cabinet, the other was back at the table with the other books. “And whenever I ask you a question, or speak to you, your response is always hesitant, as though you’re trying hard to think of what to say before you respond.” She sighed, hands on her hips. “Derpy, I know that I can be a tad intimidating, as can my sister, but honestly, there’s no need to step so lightly around me. Princess, Principal, or otherwise, I’m just Luna right now.”

Derpy hesitated again. “That’s not the impression I got when we first met,” she mumbled.

Luna’s ear twitched. “Excuse me?” she asked.

Derpy jumped. “N-nothing, ma’am!”

The amazoness sighed and rubbed her forehead. “Derpy, if my presence in this club is going to be such a big problem for you…”

“No, no, I-I’m really glad that you’re here! Really! You helped me to even get this club up and running in the first place, you were the last person I needed. But…” she sighed lightly.

“Please, if there’s an issue with me here, I… I want to know,” Luna said.

“There’s not a problem with you,” Derpy insisted, though her eyes flicked to the side a bit when she said it. At a firm glance from Luna, she shook her head. “I’m just… nervous around you, I suppose.”

“Nervous? Around me? Whatever for?” she asked.

“You don’t remember?” she asked, looking up at her. “You really don’t?”

“Um…”

Sighing again, Derpy finally approached her. “Ms. Luna, when I was a freshman, my first interaction with you was… not great.”

Luna’s brow furrowed in concern. Slowly, she took out a seat and sat down on it, motioning for Derpy to do the same. “I… really don’t remember, Derpy. I’m sorry.” She chewed on her lip. “Could you… please tell me what it was that I did that made you so upset?”

Hesitating for only a moment, Derpy pulled out her own chair and sat down. “Okay,” she said gently.

Derpy sighed gently as she hugged her clipboard to her chest, wall eyes flicking back and forth as she observed all the hustle and bustle of the other students running around, checking out clubs, talking with their friends.

She was too nervous to just up and approach any of the groups herself..

“Well,” she said with a resigned sigh, “Guess I won’t be starting this club this year,” she muttered, looking down at the small clipboard she’d brought with her from home, with a small sign up sheet bearing the title of ‘tabletop gaming club.’ There was not a single name on it. “I guess I’ll just try again next year.”

“Aww, you don’t have to do that.”

Derpy blinked at the sudden voice. She glanced around, suddenly finding three other mares standing next to her, one to her left and two to her right. When had they gotten here? All three were… hippocampi? One of them, a yellow pony with a poofy, frizzy, orange mane, smiled at her invitingly. “Sorry to startle you,” she said. “Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Adagio Dazzle. I and my friends here couldn’t help but notice that you seemed a little bit depressed.” She motioned to her purple compatriot. “This is Aria Blaze.” And then to the bright blue one standing opposite Derpy. “And this is Sonata Dusk.”

“Yeah, what’s got you so down in the dumps, huh?” the blue hippcampus asked, wrapping an arm around Derpy’s shoulders, pulling her in close, much to Derpy’s discomfort.

“Um, uh…” Derpy cleared her throat after a moment. “M-my name is Derpy Hooves, and uh… I’m just a little bit disappointed that I haven’t gotten anyone interested in joining my tabletop gaming club.”

“Tabletop games huh? Well, that’s probably why you-” Aria paused in her statement when she was given a glare by Adagio, glancing away.

“Well, tell you what,” Adagio said happily, “How about we help you out and sign our names to this sheet, hm?”

Derpy blinked. “But um… I-I don’t know… I mean, what’s the point of joining a club that you don’t have any interest in?” she asked.

“Buuut,” Sonata pointed out, still squeezing Derpy’s shoulder uncomfortably firmly, “If you don’t get at least four other ponies on that list, you don’t get a club at all right? Then you gotta wait a whole other, lonely, agonizing year before you can try again! And that’d just be sad, wouldn’t it?” she asked, her lip curling into a light pout as she looked at Derpy.

“Besides,” Aria said, taking a stance next to Derpy’s opposite side, her arm sliding around the pegasus’ waist. She was now much closer to the two mares than she was really comfortable with, but she was too polite to tell them to back away. “Even if we aren’t interested, we could probably scrounge up someone who is. And once a club is formed, it can’t be disbanded unless the president decides to do so, or if there aren’t any other members aside from the president after it’s formed.” She smirked. “So we’ll help you form your club, you get at least one other interested, and we’ll step away.”

“R-really?” she asked. Then her eyes focused and narrowed slightly. She was trusting, but she wasn’t a moron. “What’s the catch?” she asked.

“Oho, clever girl,” Adagio teased. “All you have to do is do us a tiny favor.”

“Which is?”

Adagio turned around and started to walk off, motioning for her to follow. “Walk with me, talk with me.”

Derpy wasn’t given much choice as the mares flanking her on either side practically started to drag her, leading her away from the sanctity of the gymnasium.

Derpy looked nervously at the large blue door in front of her. The hallways were eerily quiet with almost all of the students out at the club booths and most of the teachers either using this as a break or an opportunity to prep for the future. A small sign hanging at eye level on the door read ‘Luna Galaxia - Vice Principal.’

“So um… what are we doing here?” the nervous mare asked.

Adagio smirked. “We had a little snafu with Luna earlier today,” she said. “Seems she was under the impression that we shouldn’t be using our phones the way we were.”

Sonata sighed and gave a light shrug. “You bring up one butt wobble gif and suddenly you’re public enemy number one.”

“Still, taking all our phones like that wasn’t cool,” Aria said. “And she’s probably gonna forget to give em back by the end of the day. So you’re gonna sneak in there, grab our phones, and bring em back to us.”

“What?!” Derpy asked. “But, I, I mean… w-well…”

“C’mon, it’ll be a cinch,” Adagio said, pointing to the door. “She’s not even in her office, and we know for a fact that she won’t be back until the end of the period, when the club fair is finished. Plenty of time for you to go in there, grab our phones and get out.”

“But… if that’s all you need, then why don’t you three…”

Aria shook her head. “Look, we’re already on Luna’s list since she took our phones, and if they go missing, she’ll come for us right away. But if you go in there, grab em, and hold onto them for a little while, we’ve got plausible deniability, see?”

“Yeah, we’ll be off scott free, we’ll get our phones back early, and you get your club!”

“But… I don’t know… you’re going to get them back eventually, right?”

“Luna confiscates tech left and right,” Adagio said with a wave of her hand. “I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a ton of other phones in there right now, that never got returned, or are still waiting on being returned. I’m sure as hell not waiting a week for MY phone.”

“Still…”

“Look, you do this for us, we sign your sheet, we get one other interested party to sign up, boom, you got your club,” Sonata said, once again invading Derpy’s personal space to wrap an arm around her shoulders. “Who knows? I might even decide to hang around for a meeting or two, see what your club’s all about, see if I like it and want to stick around.” She winked.

“Uh… w-well… I guess so. You’ll give me a signal if someone’s coming, right?”

“We’ll give the door a quick knock to let you know you should get out of there,” Adagio promised, patting her back. “Trust us, you scratch our backs, we’ll scratch yours… friend.”

Derpy didn’t know if she liked the way she was saying ‘friend’ or not. Still, she supposed helping them get their phones back wasn’t the absolute worst thing she could do. Back in middle school, she’d been pushed and tricked and bullied into doing a lot worse. She chewed her lip, looking between the three other ponies and then at the big door in front of her, knowing she had to make a choice soon. “Okay, I’ll do it.”

“Awesome. Okay, you get to it then.” Adagio glanced back down the hall. “Like I said, we’ll keep watch and signal you if anyone’s coming down this way.”

Biting her lip and nodding, Derpy shuffled forward and tested the door. Like they’d said, it was completely unlocked. She slid inside and shut the door behind her, after a few more encouraging words from the three mares behind her. She took a deep breath and looked around the small room.

Luna’s office was decently sized, a lot like a personal office rather than a school office. There was a large L-shaped desk sitting in front of a spacious window, with two computer monitors sitting on top of it. She could see the computer itself sitting down on the floor nearby, humming softly in its place. Her desk was kept immaculately clean, not a single piece of paper, pencil, paper clip, or coffee mug out of place. An couple of bookshelves sat against the left wall, one full of large text books and teacher’s reference guides, while the other was a series of alphabetized binders that seemed to be files and records for various students and faculty on the school. Seemed like she and Celestia split the organization of those files between the two of them, as the letters stopped around ‘M’ in here. Opposite the shelves, against the other wall, was what Derpy felt was best described as a non-alcoholic wet bar. There was a three foot dorm fridge sitting there, with a large three-level shelf next to it, stocked with several different varieties of glasses, cups, bowls, and several different kinds of junk food. Chips, chocolate bars, hard candies, donuts, the list went on.

Sliding closer to the desk, Derpy peeked at some of the coffee mugs sitting there right now. They all had cute little slogans on them, like “Gamer Girl,” “Don’t talk to me till I’ve had my 1up,” and “Eyes off my Pixels.”

Derpy couldn’t help but giggle. The vice principal was a gamer? Hmmm… maybe that was why she had two monitors for what was supposed to be a simple office PC. She shook her head. She’d have to muse on that later. She started to look around for anything that could be a container for confiscated cell phones. Not seeing anything out in the open, she slowly started to open up the drawers on her desk. “Hmmm, notebooks, pencils, extra supplies… detention slips…” she shook her head and moved to the next one, blushing deeply. “Um… brushes, paddles and straps. No thank you.” She quickly shoved that one closed, not wanting to imagine which one would be used on her if she was caught in here, snooping through a teacher’s desk.

“No, no, no…” she said, quickly pulling each one open and then closing it again when it didn’t have what she needed. Finally, she reached the last drawer and slid it open, letting out a sigh of relief when she saw that it was full of confiscated phones and similarly assorted electronics. “Woah, she either takes a LOT of phones a day or she really doesn’t give back those phones.” She reached in and started looking over a few of the phones before finding a few with custom cutie marks on them. “These ones were on top… hope they’re the right ones. I didn’t really ask them what make or model they had.” She smiled and closed the door and started to get up.

“Ahem,” a voice said from the doorway. Derpy yelped and jumped up, flushing as she saw Luna there, scowling.

“V-vice principal Luna!” she gulped.

“Indeed,” the alicorn said, slowly walking in. “You are… Derpy Hooves yes? One of the freshmen this year?” Derpy gave a light, flustered nod. “Not the best way to make a first impression,” the mare noted humorlessly, walking forward.

Derpy was rooted to her spot, not sure how to react. Wasn’t there supposed to be some sort of warning? Had the three other mares gotten caught as well?

Luna walked up to her and plucked the phones she’d been handling out of her hands. “Seems Adagio was right. Someone did sneak into my office. I’m not sure what you were hoping to find, but you invaded both MY privacy and the privacy of these phones’ owners.” She shook her head, glaring down at Derpy.

In shock at the moment, the pegasus mare didn’t have an answer. She couldn’t find words as Luna took the phones, put them back in the drawer, slammed it shut, and drew both Derpy, and the office chair out from behind the desk. Glancing over at the still open door to the office as she was drawn away from the desk, she saw the three mares that had sent her into the figurative lion’s den, grinning as they peeked inside, waving their phones at her.

Derpy flushed deeply in anger and embarrassment.

“You’re lucky this is only the first day,” Luna stated. “In most cases, trying to sneak into a teacher’s office and rifling through her things in this manner would constitute a suspension at best. But as I did not have anything terribly sensitive stored here at the moment, I am willing to overlook this transgression and merely give you what I give most naughty ladies who cross me.” She sat down on the chair and pat her knee. “Bend over my lap.”

Derpy finally managed to find her voice. “B-but Ms. Luna, listen, this is a misunderstanding! I was-”

“I find it very hard to believe that there can be a misunderstanding about me walking into my office and finding a student shuffling around in my desk drawers,” she interrupted.

“But…”

“I don’t want to hear any excuses.”

“But please, I just-”

“Young lady,” Luna said, her voice raising sharply, “If you do not do as you’re told this instant and get over my lap for your punishment, you can expect a good strapping and a note home to your parents!” she warned.

Derpy whimpered, opening her mouth again, but seeing the serious look on Luna’s face, she closed it again and flopped down over the bigger mare’s large lap, her frustration getting the better of her. It must have come off more petulant than she meant, because she was given a good, hard smack over her skirt. “Don’t give me attitude, young lady,” Luna warned. “That won’t get you anything but a harder spanking.” She reached down and pulled up Derpy’s skirt in a swift, no nonsense manner before grabbing the hem of her pure white, cotton panties, and sliding them down, all the way to her knees. “Hmm, well at least you have respect for the dress code,” she complimented. “I can’t tell you the number of thongs and tanga panties I’ve had to deal with over the last couple of years.” She rested her large hand over Derpy’s bottom, making the Pegasus girl squeak gently. She shivered a little bit and glanced over to the door again, seeing the three mares there snickering gently as they peeked at her before disappearing away from the door again.

“M-ms. Luna-”

SWAT!

“Hush! I said no excuses!”

“B-but the door is still open!” she protested.

“Hmmm, so it is.” She nodded and gave Derpy another firm swat. “Good thing most of the students are elsewhere in the building.”

“Aww! But, but, but, but…”

“The only ‘butt’ here, is going to be yours. And it’s going to be good and spanked before I’m finished. Now, enough delaying.”

SMACK! SMACK! WHAP! WHAP! SLAP! SLAP! SMACK!

“Eeep! ACK! OW! Ooooh!” Derpy whimpered. “B-but I-I….”

“Young lady, your protestations are NOT going to help you. I am not interested in hearing a single excuse you have for why you were in here, on your own, looking through my things!” she growled.

“Aww! But it huuurts!” Derpy whined, feeling her bottom cheeks bounce up and down as they were smacked. Despite how large her palm was in relation to Derpy’s bottom, Luna still seemed to favor the tried and true method of alternating from one cheek to the other, one smack in the center of each cheek and then another stinging to each sit spot.

WHAP! WHAP! SMACK! SMACK! WHAP! WHAP! SMACK! SMACK!

Derpy started to whimper and sob. Not really from the spanking itself. It hurt, yes, but she’d taken a lot worse before, back when she was younger. It was more the feeling of exposure that was getting to her. The open door, the loud smacks, the fact that at least three other mares knew what was going on…

The pegasus had almost always had the courtesy of a ‘behind closed door’ punishment in the past. But this? Even with just an open door into an empty hallway, it felt way, way too open. She let out another string of sobs as her bottom cheeks wobbled and she began to kick her legs out of instinct.

WHAP! SMACK! WHAP! SMACK!

“Now, Derpy,” Luna stated, in her usual calm, but commanding tone, “I certainly hope this is the only time I have to talk to you about something like this. What you did could be considered a very serious offense, you know, and had this been later in the year, I would definitely have considered…”

She continued her scolding as she spanked, but Derpy was mostly tuning her out, focused on her own tears and sobbing and the fact that her bottom was stinging up a storm right now. She started to buck as Luna’s palm fell even harder, and she tried to focus on the open doorway, petrified that a wandering passerby might walk past and see her in this state.

“Please don’t let them see, please don’t let them see, please don’t let them see,” she thought to herself over and over again. Her sobs were just starting to deteriorate into bawls when the spanking started to slow, and then came to a stop, the vice principal’s palm resting atop her buttocks.

“I trust that this has made an impression?” she asked after a moment.

Not trusting herself to speak at the moment, Derpy just gave an affirming nod.

“Good.” Luna gently stood her up. “Now, let’s complete the punishment.” She led Derpy over to her desk and bent her over it. Derpy gasped, teary eyes widening as she realized, to her horror, that her buttocks were perfectly aligned with that open door. Then that horror grew even further when she saw Luna walk around the side and open up the implement drawer.

“I-I thought we were done!” Derpy whimpered, wiggling softly. “Please, my bottom hurts so much already!”

“I know,” Luna said. “But rather presumptuous of you to think that it would end there. I am going to make absolutely sure that this foolishness does not return.” She drew out a short, thin strap and drew it taught in her hands.

Derpy felt a cold sweat starting to form on the back of her head. “M-Ms. Luna… please, I’ve learned my lesson, r-really I have.”

Luna looked at her, her face softening a little bit. “I’ll give you a choice. I was going to give you a dozen snaps with this. But I will drop it to a half dozen if you will also do corner time.”

Derpy flushed deeper and bit her lip. “Y-you won’t just not use it at all?”

The scowl returned. “Don’t push your luck, young lady.”

Sniffling again, Derpy gripped the front of the desk firmly. “I-I’ll… take the full dozen,” she said gently.”

Luna raised a brow, but nodded. “All right then. Just remember, that was your decision.” She slowly walked around to Derpy, pinning her tail to her back and setting a heavy hand against her back to keep her in place, before setting the cold, cruel strap along the top of her buns. “One dozen strikes,” she reminded her. “Then we’ll be done.”

Derpy nodded again and whimpered, gritting her teeth and clamping her eyes shut, trying to ignore the open door, or the light, rhythmic tapping that she was being given as Luna lined up her shot.

Tap, tap, tap…

Then it rested on her bottom for a moment. Next, she slowly started to pick it up into the air. Derpy tensed up, waiting for the first strike, wondering when it would come and what it would feel like.

She didn’t have to wait long.

CRACK!

“EEEK!”

It didn’t feel good.

CRACK!... CRACK!... CRACK!...

Luna gave a slight pause between each blow, both to allow the sting to really sink in, and to line up her next shot. Each smack left behind a painful, stinging red line that overwrote the sore redness underneath it, and each one was spaced uniformly, only about a quarter inch apart, ensuring that there wasn’t any overlap, but the redness would spread out and cover her entire butt by the time she was done.

CRACK!... CRACK!... CRACK!... CRACK!...

“AWWW! WAAAH! BWAAAAH!” Derpy let out a full fledged howl with every spank, using the time in between to take in deep gulps of air and blubber out a quick apology or a plea for it to stop early. She wasn’t sure if she could even be understood or not, but she still tried regardless. She couldn’t really focus on anything beyond the throbbing in her rear right now.

CRACK!... CRACK!... CRACK!...

Derpy bucked against the desk as the final four started to come down, her strap so low now that the final strike was almost all but guaranteed to snap against her sit spots. She writhed at the white hot agony she was in, sure that she was going to be sleeping on her tummy for several nights afterwards. And then the final strike came.

CRAACK!

Just as Derpy had guessed, it strike right across her sit spots, making her howl even louder than before as she lifted both legs up and spread them in one last, massive, two footed kick outward that might have actually struck Luna, had it not been for the panties around her knees keeping her from spreading them any wider.

Luna nodded in satisfaction and set the strap down on the desk right next to Derpy before helping the poor girl stand up. “There, I think we’re done here.”

“N-never again,” Derpy sobbed softly.

“Good,” she said with a nod. “Just so long as you remember this lesson.” She turned and started to walk behind her desk, to one of the cabinets in the corner.

Derpy didn’t wait around to see what else she had to say or do. The teary-eyed, embarrassed pegasus bent over, yanked up her panties so hard and fast that she accidentally gave herself a wedgie, and turned away, running out of the office as fast as she could.

Luna winced deeply as Derpy wiggled in her seat, sighing. “So… that’s what happened,” Luna mumbled.

“Do you remember now?”

“I… do yes. Especially the end. I was… going to get some cream and offer you some aftercare, but you were already gone when I turned around.” She looked down. “I tried to find you afterwards, but it was almost like you disappeared off the face of the earth, even though I kept seeing your name pop up for classes. Eventually I just stopped trying.”

“I… was avoiding you,” Derpy admitted. “I just didn’t want to see you again after that.”

“Why didn’t you tell me about those three girls after the fact though?”

“With no proof?” Derpy asked. “And after you shut me down when I tried to explain the situation!?”

Luna winced. Derpy winced back. “Sorry,” they both said at once. Luna shook her head. “No, no, you have nothing to apologize for I… I see now why you’d be uneasy around me. I definitely didn’t… make a very good first impression.” She rubbed her arm gently. “Those girls… Adagio, Aria, Sonata… they didn’t give you a hard time afterwards, did they?”

“They teased me every opportunity they had,” Derpy admitted. “They never told anyone else, because they knew they’d be outing themselves if they did. But it made me… really self conscious. Even more so than usual.” She indicated her eyes.

“I see…” Luna mumbled.

“Yeah…” Derpy cleared her throat. “I’m um… I’m gonna get back to putting books away.” She turned away and started to unpack another box. Her ear flicked and she blinked, hearing some heavy footfalls for a second. She turned back around and her frown deepened when she saw that Luna had left the room. “Oh…” she sighed. “I guess it might be best if she wasn’t in the club.” she mumbled. “I mean… things are awkward between us, super awkward now. Way to go Derpy, you should have just sucked it up and not said a thing…” she turned and started to put some more books back into their place.

She’d gotten about halfway through it when the club door opened and closed again and she turned to see Luna standing there, with a very familiar looking strap in her hand. The pegasus tensed, that same cold sweat slowly starting to take over… but it stopped when she saw the gentle, slightly nervous look on Luna’s face. Her eyes flicked back from the alicorn to the strap. “Um… hi?”

“Hello again, Derpy,” she said with a nod, walking over and setting the strap down on the table.

“What’s that for?”

“For making things right,” she stated. “Derpy what I did to you was… above and beyond what you deserved. Had I just given you a chance to explain, perhaps did some investigation of my own, rather than just assume I knew what was going on from the get-go, I might have been more inclined to just let you off with a warning.”

Derpy shuffled uncomfortably for a moment. “O-oh, no, Luna, it was a year ago now, I did still break a rule, and…”

“And as a consequence of my not letting you tell me your half of the story, you have been avoiding me since then, and never spoke out about being teased and bullied by the girls that tricked you into that situation.” She chewed her lip. “And regardless of the length of time, the fact that it was still bothering you, to the point where you felt nervous and uncomfortable around me? That just tells me that I failed as an educator, and as an adult meant to guide young minds. Discipline and comfort need to be given in even measure, and I did not keep that balance.”

“Wow, that was… kind of poetic.”

“Thanks, it was my minor back in college.” She shook her head. “Anyway, I want to make this right, Derpy.”

“Um…” she wiggled a bit more. “How… do you think you’re going to do that.”

Luna started to blush a little, looking more than a tad nervous herself. “You’ve heard the expression ‘an eye for an eye’ before, yes?”

“I have,” Derpy said. “I tend to think it makes the whole world blind, though.”

“Hmhm, clever,” Luna praised gently. “But in this case, I think it is justified.”

“So… wait you’re… asking me to…”

“Give me what I gave you, yes.”

Derpy bit her lip. But she still wasn’t sure. “Which is?”

Luna gulped a little bit. “A… a spanking and a strapping,” she said, hands folding behind her back. “As firm as you wish. I… trust your discretion.”

Derpy’s head swam for a moment. Spanking the vice principal? For something she did to her two years ago? Hadn’t she had dreams like this when she was a Freshman? “Are you sure?”

“Derpy, I joined the club because I have a genuine interest in its subject and I was more than happy to help get it off the ground. And if we’re both going to be in this club, I am not going to have this hanging over both of our heads while we nervously try to sidestep each other or act like we might dredge up bad memories.” She put her hands on her hips. “I’m not going to make you do this if you’re truly uncomfortable with the idea… but I’m asking you, not as a teacher or as an authority figure, or even as a fellow club member. I’m asking as someone who wants to be your friend: Will you please spank me like I did you?”

Derpy listened to her in rapt silence for a moment. Once her mind had finally taken some time to process what was being said, she took a deep breath and gave a solemn nod. “Okay.”

“Wait, you will? Really?”

“You’re right, Luna. Running this club has been a big dream of mine since I first had the opportunity to try and get it up and running, and I can’t let something like this ruin my passion, my hobby… or a potential friendship. So yes, I will spank you, just like you did me.”

“Oh, well… good,” she nodded gently. “I was worried you weren’t going to be comfortable with doing this, but I feel like it’s the best way… um, what are you doing?” she asked, as Derpy walked over and opened the door to the hallway, nice and wide.

“Just prepping,” he stated.

Luna’s face flushed in realization. While it was after hours and the school was mostly empty, there was still the janitorial staff wandering around, and there might be a few other students or teachers staying afterwards for various reasons. Still, she couldn’t complain. She had told Derpy to spank her exactly as she had done.

Derpy pulled one of the chairs out from the table and set it so that it was facing the door. “Please come here, Luna,” she said.

Luna approached her. “Are you sure?” she asked. “I mean, sure about me going over your lap.”

“What do you mean?”

“Well… I’m not exactly small,” she said with a light laugh, indicating her wide hips and tall physique.

“Oh!” Derpy blushed. “Well uh… just don’t squirm too much?”

“I’ll try.” She nodded and reached down to her tight jeans, gently unbuttoning them and undoing the fly so that Derpy would have an easier time getting them down. Then the vice principal slowly lowered herself down, carefully centering herself over the smaller mare’s legs. She just barely managed to fit herself over them, putting both of her hands on the ground to properly balance herself. She lifted her tail out of the way and laid her feet against the floor as well, her toes touching the ground.

Derpy wiggled a little bit, grunting lightly at the weight on her knees before gently grabbing the hem of her jeans and carefully starting to pull them back. Luna wiggled from side to side as they were shuffled down, helping her to get them down properly. Once they were down around her knees, she stopped and took a look at the older mare’s underwear, a light blush coming to her face. “Oh wow,” she mumbled.

“What?” Luna asked, looking over her shoulder, tossing her mane to the side.

“Nothing it’s just… you’ve got really cute underwear is all.”

Luna blushed a bit as well, wiggling her rear, showing off the ‘cloudy night sky’ patterned panties, with a large, full moon printed right over both cheeks. “Well… thanks.”

Derpy cleared her throat, regaining her composure. “But they still have to come down! N-naughty mares get spanked on the bare after all.” She gripped the hem of Luna’s panties and slowly started to ease them down, taking her time as she revealed her bubble bottom for the first time. It was even bigger than she’d thought it would be. Her only immediate thought on seeing the two wobbling globes in front of her was, ‘Wow, there’s a lot of butt to spank…’

She hoped her arm was up to the task.

After her panties were deposited against her pants, down near her knees, a thought occurred to Luna as Derpy wrapped an arm around her waist, or as best as she could do with how thick she was. “You know, I don’t know if you’ll be able to properly get a reaction out of me with a hand spanking,” she mused. “It might be best if we just skip right ot the straAAP!”

WHAP! WHAP!

Derpy landed a pair of powerful, resounding smacks against Luna’s bottom, one on each cheek, striking them upward, making each one wobble for a moment before they settled down and Derpy gave each one a light pat where she’d struck. “I think I’ll manage,” she said gently.

“Oh dear…”

WHAP! WHAP! SMACK! SLAP! SPLAT! WHACK!

Derpy alternated from cheek to cheek, not bothering to aim her strikes all that much, knowing that there was plenty of space for her to cover, so she figured there wasn’t much point in using a pattern, so long as she eventually covered all of it. And she spanked nice and hard and fast, trying her best to emulate both how Luna had spanked her that time in her first year, and also how her mom had done so when she’d been a little girl. Every smack created a very nice echoing clap sound around the room while the impacts made Luna’s ample cheeks pancake and contort and wobble hard.

Soon, she was smacking them hard enough to turn her butt into a dancing, jiggling mess.

WHAP! SMACK! SPLAT! WHAP SMACK! SPLAT!

“Owww, oof! Nngh!” Luna gasped and wriggled lightly, kicking her feet in surprise. She had accepted punishment, and knew she deserved it, but in her mind, she hadn’t thought that Derpy would be able to spank quite this hard…

WHAP! SLAP! WHAP! SPAT! SLAP! WHAP!

Luna began to kick a bit more firmly, hissing a little bit as Derpy started to smack at her sit spots. That’s when she realized that the door was still open to the club room and her nervousness skyrocketed, anxiety overtaking her as she thought about the potential of someone actually seeing her in this state. Her heart pounded a bit more, in time with the hefty swats she was being given. She wondered if this is how Derpy felt when she was in this same position… She groaned, not liking the feeling at all.

WHAP! SPANK! SPANK! SMACK! SLAP!

As Luna started to writhe in pain and embarrassment, Derpy struggled a little bit to keep her center over her lap, but she still managed, and continued to her quick, rapid strikes, taking in the big, blue buns she had in front of her. Luna’s rear was pinkening up nicely, and soon it would be a nice, bright red. Derpy wanted to get her to that point before moving to the next part of the punishment.

WHAP! SPANK! SPANK! SMACK! SMACK! SMACK!

“Owww! OWW!” Luna whined gently. “Hnngh!

“I hope you’re learning your lesson, young lady,” Derpy said, totally serious as she started working over Luna’s sit spots a bit more, making sure they matched the rosy tint of the rest of her buttocks.

Luna’s blush deepened until it almost matched her cheeks in coloration. “Y-yes ma’am, I am!” she panted, lip curling into a quiver as she felt tears starting to leak from her eyes.

Derpy wanted to continue on for a little bit longer, and really get that booty smoking, but her palm, not used to such treatment, was starting to sting fiercely, and Luna’s rear was reddening up pretty nicely anyway. So she nodded softly and decided that now might be a good time to continue to the next step. “All right, stand up, Luna,” she said gently, helping the frazzled mare to stand up and allowing her to rub at her sore rump for a little bit. She tried her best to keep her serious face, but she couldn’t help but enjoy herself, just a little bit, at seeing Luna standing there, shifting from foot to foot, hands squeezing her butt, as she tried to get rid of the sting. “Okay,” she said after another moment, pointing to the table. “You know what’s going to come next, right?”

Luna gave a little hiccuping sound, something between a sob and a sigh before she nodded and shuffled her bare bottom over to the table. She cleared a space on it and bent herself over so that she was playing flat on the table while Derpy picked up the strap, giving it a few practice swings to get a feel for it. She smiled gently at the wiggling Luna. “I’m gonna give you the same choice that you gave me,” she told the alicorn. “You can take twelve with the strap, or you can take six and then take corner time.”

“B-but… I gave you the full dozen,” Luna whimpered.

“Because that’s what I chose. I… really didn’t want to risk more embarrassment by standing in the corner, I was already feeling self conscious enough.” She shook her head. “But you get the same choice.”

Luna wiggled a little bit more before taking a deep breath and closing her eyes. “The full dozen, please…”

“Are you sure?” Derpy asked, though she got right up next to her hip and placed a hand squarely on her lower back, pinning her tail out of the way as well.

“I am,” Luna said, relaxing her bottom gently, though she gave a soft gasp of surprise as Derpy laid the strap across her cheeks. “I… deserve it.”

“Okay then,” Derpy said gently. “After this, we’re square and even, all right?”

“We start over? As friends?” Luna asked.

“As friends,” Derpy promised, smiling raising the strap up. “So let’s get through it then!”

She paused for effect, just for a moment. And then…

SWI-CRACK!

The first strike came down with a powerful snap across the top of both her cheeks, making her yelp loudly.

SWI-CRACK! SWI-CRACK! SWI-CRACK!

Derpy didn’t take as much time between strokes as Luna had, instead flicking her arm up and down in a rhythmic, constant motion. This had the effect of building up the sting much, much faster, but at the cost of accuracy; her blows criss-crossed and overlapped one another sloppily as she moved from the top of Luna’s butt to the very bottom.

SWI-CRACK! SWI-CRACK! SWI-CRACK!

“OWWW! AWWW! OOOO!” Luna whimpered and whined, arching her back upwards, shaking her ass hard, though it did little to save it from the incoming strikes. Long, overlapping lines of crimson were plain to see surrounded by the sea of lighter red from the palm prints, the wobbling of her bottom acting almost like waves on the ocean, or ripples in a pond. And it definitely looked like a storm was brewing.

SWI-CRACK! SWI-CRACK! SWI-CRACK! SWI-CRACK!

Luna went limp, sobbing hard, muttering apologies and shuddering gently. Derpy nodded gently and took her time lining up this last strike, wanting it to be absolutely perfect. She took hold of Luna’s dock, gently pulling up, making her arch her back and raise her bottom up, revealing her sit spots perfectly. Derpy reared back, and light fly with one last, mighty flick, licking the strap right across both of Luna’s sit spots.

CRAAACK!

“EEEYOW!” she howled loudly, giving one powerful buck that made the table rock slightly before going limp again and sobbing gently.

Derpy set the strap to the side, taking a few deep, calming breaths. Her palm was numb and she could feel a few shakes and shudders run through her. That had been… surprisingly exhilarating, and looking down at her handiwork right now, she had to admit that she was very glad that Luna had made that offer. After a few more breaths, she reached down and ran her hand up and down the alicorn’s bare, soft, hot bottom. It felt so warm…

“Nnngh… i-is… is it over?”

“Almost,” Derpy told her gently. “There’s still one more really important thing to do.” She took her hand off of Luna’s butt, reluctantly, and then helped the mare to stand up, holding her side, as she was having a little bit of trouble keeping steady. Then, when she had both feet planted firmly on the ground, one hand covering her front in embarrassment and the other rubbing her backside in pain. Derpy walked forward and wrapped her arms tightly around Luna. “I forgive you,” she said firmly.

Luna sniffled and smiled, raising one hand to wipe her eyes before returning the hug gratefully. “Thank you. I-I… I needed that more than you know.”

The two mares stood there like that for a long while, just holding each other. Then Derpy blushed. “Um… I think it’s time for you to pull up your pants,” she mumbled.

“Ah, um… g-good point.” Luna gave a slightly embarrassed chuckle and broke the hug, turning away and bending over to grab at her panties and jeans. Derpy’s eyes widened and focused fully as she took the opportunity to just stare at the great big flank she was presented with for a while before Luna finally managed to straighten up and get her underwear and pants to follow. She let out a hiss and a sigh as the fabric traveled over her rear end, but finally managed to regain her composure, dabbing her eyes again. She smiled and turned back to Derpy. “Friends?”

Derpy smiled gently and picked up the copy of Super Human that Luna had been squealing about, offering it to her. “Friends.”

Luna gasped, shaking her head. “O-oh no, I… I couldn’t possibly…”

“Luna, you really like the game, right? You’ve been looking for it for a while? I’ve got plenty of other games here. But this one is special to you. So you should have it.”

“Are you sure?”

“It’s why I’m offering.”

Luna smiled wide and took the book, hugging it close to her chest. “Oh thank you! How can I-”

Derpy held up a hand to stop her, smiling. “You don’t have to do anything. It’s just a gift to celebrate our new friendship.” She giggled.

“Well, there is at least one thing I can do,” she said with a smile. “Let’s finish putting this club room together, hm?”

“Yeah!” Derpy gave a firm nod, some of her bangs falling into her eyes before picking up a few more books. “So… I did always want to ask you… what sort of games do you like to play?” she asked with a grin.

Luna grinned back. “Anything at all, Derpy. Especially if I can get away with playing it at school in my office.”

The two of them giggled gently to themselves, proceeding to have a nice, long chat about their interests in RPGs as they finished putting together the brand new tabletop club.