- Sweetie Bad by Dangerous Creature (fimfiction.net/user/Dangerous_Creature)
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- >There wasn't much Crusading that could be done on a rainy day.
- >The CMC's were stuck inside at Sweetie Belle's house, bored out of their wits.
- "This is hopeless!" moaned Apple Bloom, "We'll never get our cutie marks sittin' around playing dress-up & board games!"
- "More like bored games" sighed Scootaloo.
- >Sweetie Belle cringed.
- >As host she felt responsible for her friends having a good time.
- >They'd tried every option in her room.
- >Mom had already booted them from the kitchen.
- >And there was no hope of the weather clearing; Rainbow Dash told them rain was scheduled for the whole day.
- >Sweetie knew this called for her Ace-in-the-hole.
- "Girls, I got an idea, but we gotta be REALLY quiet."
- >The other two fillies were shaken out of their lethargy.
- >Equal parts puzzlement & curiosity.
- "We could practice being Cutie Mark Crusaders: Sommeliers!"
- >Now it was 100% puzzlement.
- "Eh, Sweetie Belle, what's a So-ma-li-what now?"
- "I think it's where Zecora is from."
- "No it isn't!"
- "Is too!"
- >Apple Bloom & Scootaloo began fighting until Sweetie's Mom shouted up the stairs.
- "What's going on up there?"
- >The little unicorn ran to her door and replied;
- "Sorry, just playing. We'll be quiet!"
- >She snapped at her friends.
- "You two dweebs cool it! We don't want any unwanted parental attention!"
- >That intrigued her two pals.
- "Rarity told me a Sommelier is a pony who's an expert at wine. They work at fancy restaurants & tell ponies the best wine to have with their dinner."
- >Apple Bloom puffed up with pride.
- "Well that's silly! Every poney knows the best wine in Ponyville comes from Sweet Apple Acres. I help Applejack make it!"
- >Sweetie Belle shook her head and continued;
- "It's more complex than that. There's certain kinds of wine that go with certain kinds of food."
- >Scootaloo stopped both of them.
- "Hold on. How are we supposed to become expert wine tasters when we're not old enough to buy wine? Also, we have no money."
- >Sweetie grinned.
- >Time for the big surprise.
- "I've got that covered!"
- >She reached under a loose floorboard and pulled out a bottle of red wine.
- >The other two fillies gasped.
- "Ta-daaaaa!" sang Sweetie Belle.
- >Apple Bloom's eyebrows arched down in anger.
- "That's NOT Sweet Apple Acres wine! I call disloyalty!"
- "Apple Bloom, are you cocoa in the loco?" asked Sweetie Belle.
- >Scootaloo interrupted;
- "Oh please don't start talking like that, Sweetie, one Pinkie Pie is enough in this world."
- >But Sweetie Belle remained on track.
- "What would happen if you swiped a bottle of wine from your family's pantry, Apple Bloom?"
- >The yellow filly looked scared by the very suggestion.
- "Granny Smith keeps careful track of that stuff. They'd figure out it was me & I'd get the whippin' of my life! I'd have a second crack in my butt by the time they finished with me!"
- >Sweetie Belle nodded.
- "Well of course. I knew that so I got this from somewhere else!"
- >Scootaloo was the most skeptical.
- "Sweetie, like I said, none of us ever have any money. Where did you get that?"
- "Umm...well it maybe kinda fell off the back of a cart near Barnyard Bargains."
- >Scoots got so angry she actually generated a few feet of lift with her wings.
- "That's stealing!"
- >Scootaloo was especially fearful of being caught stealing.
- >She'd once shoplifted something from Sugar Cube Corner.
- >She was caught & got an awful paddling from her parents.
- >That was not an experience she wished to risk again.
- >But Sweetie Belle rationalized it.
- "It really did fall off the back of the cart...with maybe a little help...and once we're all famous Sommelier's we can pay Mr. Filthy Rich back. Why, we'll be so famous he'll be happy to have had a small part in us getting our start! It'll bring extra business to his store!"
- >Unexpected, Apple Bloom took Sweetie's side;
- "Or by that time Diamond Tiara will be in charge...and I don't mind swiping a bottle of wine from her!"
- >Outnumbered, Scootaloo caved in, although her rump still twitched at the memory of that last spanking.
- >They had a hard time getting the bottle open.
- "It's almost like ya need some kinda screw to get the cork out" mused Apple Bloom.
- >Eventually they used a dowel to pound the cork down inside the bottle.
- >That splashed some wine on Sweetie's bedspread.
- "It's not much" said Apple Bloom "just tell yer Mom it's grape juice."
- "I'm not allowed to have grape juice on my bed either!"
- >Well, can't deal with that right now.
- >The CMC's had no wine glasses so they used Sweetie Belle's tea set.
- "Rarity says real wine tasters just swish it around in their mouth, then spit it out" explained Sweetie.
- >Scootaloo cocked her head sideways.
- "Where are we gonna spit wine out in your room?"
- >They agreed, better not do that.
- >Better to just swallow it.
- >Each filly nervously head their teacup.
- "Okay" said Sweetie Belle, "bottoms up?"
- "That sounds bad...can we say something different?" Scootaloo objected.
- "Sure, cheers!" offered Apple Bloom.
- >The 3 fillies each down their cup of wine in a gulp.
- >They looked at each other strangely.
- "Umm, okay, what next?"
- "I don't know."
- "Are we supposed to talk about how it tasted?"
- "I don't remember...I drank mine too fast."
- "Me too."
- "Me three."
- "Okay, we need to have another drink, but take it slower this time."
- >Sweetie Belle poured out another three teacups carefully.
- >Not too much was spilled.
- "Okay, second try...cheers!"
- >But at that moment the door swung open.
- >With the cup to her lips Sweetie Belle remembered something terribly important.
- >She'd forgotten to lock the door.
- "Hi girls, I just took a batch of cookies out of the oven and..."
- >Then she noticed the bottle of wine.
- >Uncomfortable silence.
- >Busted.
- >Sweetie Belle's mother put down the tray of cookies.
- >She picked up the bottle of wine.
- "Young filly, I certainly hope that is filled with water & you're just playing with it."
- >The fillies cringed. They knew that was not the case.
- >A sniff confirmed it.
- >Mom's face turned angry.
- "What do you think you're doing!?"
- >All 3 knew they were in trouble & Sweetie Belle knew she was doomed.
- "W-we were only t-tasting it" she squeaked, "so m-maybe we could get our c-c-cutie marks for..."
- >Mom didn't wait for the whole answer.
- "SCOOTALOO, APPLE BLOOM! You get your little rumps home and PRAY to Celestia that I don't tell your parents about this!"
- >The Pegasus and the Earth filly scampered out of the room in terror.
- >Their unfortunate Unicorn pal remained trapped under the gaze of an angry mother.
- "Sweetie Belle, you know you are too young to drink wine. I want to know where you got this!"
- >Poor Sweetie Belle was trapped.
- >If she refused to talk it would make her mother angrier.
- >If she admitted stealing it would make her mother angrier.
- >If she lied she might get caught, which would make her mother angrier.
- >So she stalled; which made her mother angrier.
- "Well...I...sorta...f-found it."
- >Mom did not believe her.
- "Did Rarity give this to you? If I find out..."
- >No, Sweetie could not unfairly implicate her big sister in this.
- >Besides, Rarity would clobber her.
- "I...I got it off the back of a cart" she admitted.
- "YOU STOLE IT?"
- >Sweetie was crying too hard to give her an answer.
- >She just nodded.
- "Come with me, young filly. I am going to teach you exactly what happens in this house to little ponies who steal!"
- >Sweetie Belle tried to move on her own, but Mom grabbed her by the year.
- "Oowwwiiiee! Mom I'm sorry! I'll never do it again!"
- "Oh I'm going to give you a good reason never to do it again."
- >About that time Magnum arrived home.
- >He had been fixing a loose gutter at their older daughter Rarity's shop.
- >Not easy in the rain, but Rarity was a bit obsessive when something was wrong.
- >It was much easier to fix it now than listen to his eldest whine about how the rain water was draining too close to her petunia beds.
- >Plus, she'd made him lunch and he really didn't get much one on one time to talk to her.
- "Pearl, Sweetie...I'm home. Rarity says hello."
- >It did not take him long to realize something was amiss.
- >He went upstairs to find his younger daughter in tears.
- "Sweetie dear, what's wrong? Are you hurt?"
- >Pearl pushed their daughter forward.
- "Tell your father what you've done. Every detail!"
- >Sweetie Belle hoped that daddy might save her from a terrible fate.
- >She put on her sweetest, sorriest face and wept out the full story of her misdeed.
- >Putting emphasis on how sorry she was.
- >And how she will never do it again.
- >But Magnum was unmoved.
- "Sweetie Belle, I'm surprised at you! Drinking wine AND stealing? What do you have to say for yourself?"
- "I'm really, really sorry."
- >But that was not good enough.
- "That's not good enough I'm afraid. Not after the fact. Pearl, are you going to handle this?"
- >Mom nods.
- "I'm taking her for a spanking right now."
- "Well once your Momma is done with you we're gonna have a serious talk too, young filly."
- >Sweetie Belle was not looking forward to that lecture.
- >Maybe he was planning on giving her another spanking when Mommy was done.
- >But she couldn't worry about that right now.
- >Pearl led her daughter into the bedroom.
- "We're going to talk about stealing later & you're going to pay for what you took, but right now I'm going to give you a good reason to remember this day for a long time."
- >Sweetie knew she was doomed, her little rump would definitely be getting a spanking today, but it did not stop her from begging.
- >She was already crying & it hadn't even started yet.
- "Mommy, please...I'm sorry...please don't spank me."
- >Pearl sighed in frustration.
- >She sat down and pulled Sweetie Belle close.
- "Don't be a silly filly. This is much too serious to talk your way out of. You will be getting your fanny spanked today, that is beyond doubt. In fact I think you're old enough now for more than a simple spanking."
- >The light gray filly froze, too scared to even beg anymore.
- >She had an idea of what Mom was talking about.
- >Rarity had warned her about it many times.
- "Sweetie Belle, stealing & drinking wine at your age is serious enough that today you'll be spanked with my hairbrush for the first time."
- >Horror flooded the blank-flank's mind.
- >A hoof spanking was bad enough...the hairbrush was like the death sentence for young fillies.
- "Mommy, please no! Your hoof will hurt enough, I promise! Please don't paddle me!"
- >Pearl answered by levitating her daughter up & plopping her down on her lap.
- >The Sweetie watched in dismay as Mom levitated the big wooden hairbrush over from her dresser.
- >She whimpered and cried; a last minute plea for leniency.
- "Sweetie dear," Pearl said in a kind voice "This is going to hurt but you'll be okay. Rarity was spanked with this hairbrush when she was younger and your Gramdma even used it on me when I was a naughty filly. What you did was very bad but remember your father & I always love you."
- >Sweetie gulped even though her mouth was dry.
- >Up until this point she had only been worrying about her punishment.
- >For the first time she considered her misbehavior.
- >Drinking, stealing...she deserved this.
- >Mom didn't even warn her when she took the first swing.
- >It smacked right in the center of Sweetie Belle's rump, contacting both cheeks equally.
- >One swat from that hairbrush felt worse than a whole hoof-spanking!
- >Sweetie squealed and struggled but Mom held on tight.
- >What the filly did not know was that her mother was using the clock.
- >For the first 30 seconds the spanking was hard & fast...intensely painful without allowing an instant to let the pain die down.
- >But then she settled down into a more merciful pace.
- >Such subtleties were lost on Sweetie Belle, who could only cry her eyes out and wait for it to be over.
- >Her rear-end felt like it was on fire, with angry bees stinging it at the same time.
- >Sweetie felt like the worst pony in the world; she deserved every painful spank.
- >But she'd have given everything sh owned just to have it over right NOW.
- >That was not Pearl's plan though.
- >After those first, intense 30 seconds she had decided to spank for 2 more minutes at a reasonable pace.
- >2 and a half minutes, 150 total seconds, does not seem like a lot.
- >Unless you are a crying foal with a bottom that hurts more & more with every spank.
- >To poor Sweetie Belle it felt like eternity.
- >From years of experience as a mother, Pearl knew her child's breaking point.
- >As the last few seconds ticked away she did not hit any harder or faster.
- >But she focused on the most painful spot.
- >Right at the base of Sweetie Belle's rump it hurt the most.
- >And there she got the last 20 spanks on the same exact spot.
- >It was agony that she could not escape from.
- >Sweetie Belle wailed at the top of her lungs.
- >But at last it ended.
- >Pearl allowed her to lay across her lap & cry for a bit.
- >When she was ready, Sweetie Belle picked herself up and rubbed her sore rump furiously.
- "OwOwOwOwww! It still hurts so much!" she bawled.
- >In spite of herself, Pearl chuckled as her youngest did the "spanked filly dance" around her bedroom.
- >Then she gathered her foal up for a tender hug.
- >That night Magnum tucked Sweetie Belle in at bedtime.
- >They had a long & serious talk about what she'd done.
- >But to her great relief he did not give her bottom another warm-up before bed.
- >The next day they went to Barnyard Bargains with the half-empty wine bottle.
- >Sweetie Belle confessed her crime & Magnum insisted on paying for the bottle.
- >She'd work it off with chores.
- >Unfortunately Diamond Tiara had witnessed the apology.
- >She used it to tease Sweetie Belle mercilessly.
- >Until she got caught.
- >DT did not get punished as badly as Sweetie Belle had...
- >But Filthy Rich gave her a quick & embarrassing hoof-spanking in front of all 3 Cutie Mark Crusaders.
- >Feeling guilty, Apple Bloom & Scootaloo confessed their parts in the wine debacle.
- >They both got punished, but neither as badly as Sweetie, the ringleader.
- >Sweetie Belle never stole anything again.
- >Well...except the occasional bolt of fabric from Rarity's shop, but that hardly counts.
- >Years later, on Sweetie Belle's birthday (when she became legally old enough to drink) her two old friends found a bottle of the exact wine she'd gotten in trouble over.
- >Same brand, same vintage.
- >They gave it to her as a gag present, along with a big wooden hairbrush.
- >Sweetie took the joke with good humor.
- >She dug her old tea-set out of the closet and they all shared a drink.
- >But none of the Cutie Mark Crusaders ever became a Sommelier.
- THE END