What If… Equestria Girls
The beauty
of the What If stories are that my characters could go anywhere on request –
take our latest arrivals, Beauty and the Best.
I was asked what would happen if they appeared in the world of the
Equestria Girls…
11 pm
She listened as
the light in her room was turned off, the room door closed. Spoiled was alone, unable to move, unable to
make more than a low mumbling sound as she lay there. It had been a night she was unlikely to
forget – none of them would – and yet she wasn’t afraid, for herself or for any
of the girls. As her eyes closed and she
slowly drifted off to sleep, she thought back to earlier that evening...
5 pm
As Spoiled Rich
looked round the front room of her mansion house, she smiled to herself. So what if Filthy, her husband, had to be
away on business – her daughter and her friends were going to have a sleepover,
and that made her happy. After all, it
meant they would see how wonderful her and Diamond Tiara’s life was.
Spoiled was
wearing a long pale blue dress, with capped sleeves and a thin gold leather
belt studded with diamonds round her waist.
Her shoes were made from yellow leather, with a short heel, and a gold
necklace was round her neck. Her long
purple hair fell down her back as she stood in front of the fireplace.
Smiling, she
saw the snacks and drinks that were arranged on the low table, and then heard
the cars drawing up, the ringing of the front doorbell. She walked into the hallway and opened the
door, as a young girl said “Hello Mrs Rich – thank you for letting us come over
and stay tonight.”
“You’re most
welcome, Sweetie Belle,” she said as she let the first girl in. She also had long purple hair, although hers
was lighter in parts, and she had a red headband in place. She was wearing a short sleeved red cardigan
over a white and red striped top, a black belt round her waist and the top of
her long yellow skirt. Purple leggings,
and mid-calf red boots with two yellow bands round each one completed her
outfit.
She put her bag
and sleeping bag down and looked round as the second girl came in. Unlike Sweetie’s light grey skin, she had a
skin with a more orange hue, and short cropped light purple hair. She was wearing a grey short sleeved top with
blue cuffs and a blue belt round her olive green combat shorts, and grey desert
boots with the tops of her blue socks showing.
“Hello Mrs
Rich…”
“Hello
Scootaloo – and you too Applebloom.”
“Hello Mrs
Rich,” the third girl said as she came in and put down her bag and sleeping
bag. Applebloom’s skin hue was more
yellow, but she had long red hair held back with a purple bow. A green t-shirt, blue jeans rolled up to the
knees, and long yellow boots were her clothing of choice.
The fourth girl
who came in had the same shade of skin as Sweetie Belle but was shyer, and wore
large pale blue rimmed glasses. She had
light grey hair, hanging down her back in a ponytail, and was wearing a short-sleeved
dress with a dark purple top and a lighter pink skirt. Her knee length boots were purple, with a white
crepe sole, and little blue bows at the front.
“You must be
Silver Spoon,” Spoiled said as she closed the door.
“Yyyyes – thank
you, Mrs Rich,” the fourth girl said as the other three looked to the
staircase.
“THERE you
are?”
“Ah, Diamond –
your friends are here,” Spoiled said as she turned and looked Diamond Tiara
Rich had long purple and grey striped hair, and was wearing a short yellow
jacket with white trim over a black V-necked top, her white skirt over her
black leggings, and her lower legs in long purple boots that had diamond clasps
on the black ankle bands.
“Hey DT,”
Scootaloo said, “what are we going to get up to tonight?”
“Come on up and
find out,” Diamond said as the four girls ran up the stairs with her, Spoiled shaking
her head as she heard the doorbell again.
“One of them
must have forgotten something,” she said to herself as she opened the door –
then walked back in, raising her hands in the air as she looked at the two new
arrivals. They looked as if they were
teenagers – a young man wearing a black roll neck sweater, dark jeans and
shoes, and a woman with her blonde hair pulled back in a ponytail, wearing a
tight black sweater, leggings and over the knee black suede boots. They both also had on black woollen hats –
and black eye masks.
Spoiled opened
her mouth to scream – only for the man to put his free hand over her mouth, the
other one pointing a gun at her as he said “Please, Mrs Rich – do not do
that. We have no desire to hurt you,
your daughter, or your friends, but be assured if it is necessary, we will do
so.”
“If Best takes
his hand away, do you promise to remain calm and quiet?”
Spoiled looked
at the young woman, and slowly nodded as the hand was taken away. “You…
You called him Best.”
“Indeed – and
you may call me Beauty,” the girl said with a smile. “So, as to why we are here, that is very
simple – you are rich, and we want your money and valuables.”
“Why? Why do you want what I have?”
“To survive,”
Best said with a smile, “but we can discuss that later. WE need to let your daughter and her friends
know what is happening – please, after you.”
“Please, leave
them…”
“Spoiled,” Best
said quietly, “we need to do this. Please,
after you.” She slowly nodded as she
started to walk up the stairs, Beauty carrying up with her the bag she had
brought in.
As they
approached Diamond Tiara’s room, they heard her say “And we have snacks and
movies and… Come in, Mom.” Spoiled nodded as she opened the door, the
five girls seeing her walk in and then the armed and masked man, and the masked
woman.
“Mom,” Diamond
Tiara whispered, “what’s going on?”
Beauty put the
bag down and came over, smiling as she said “Well, I know you are Diamond
Tiara, and this is your mother – what are the rest of you called?”
She looked at
the group as they whispered “Sweetie Belle… Scootaloo… Applebloom… Silver
Spoon…”
“It’s a real
pleasure to meet all of you,” Beauty said.
“So, let me explain what is going to happen – my friend here is called
Best, and we are here to steal your parent’s valuables. Now, that does mean that we are going to tie
all of you up, and your mother as well – but you are having a sleepover, so
that will be part of that as well.”
“When you say,
tie us up, you mean…” Silver Spoon
looked at the others as she started to shake.
“I mean we are
going to bind your wrists and feet, and use something to keep you all quiet,
but you can have your dinner later, and then the slumber party. It will just be a very quiet one. But your mother, Diamond Tiara, will be just
like you all as well, so there is really nothing to be afraid of.”
The five girls
looked at each other, before Scootaloo said “all right – we can be brave as
well. So what are you going to do
first?”
“I am so glad
you asked that – can you all stand up and face the wall…”
6:45pm
“Thshshsaghrththfhlm,”
Scootaloo said through the white tape that covered her mouth as she looked at
the other four girls. They were all sat
on the floor facing the television, their wrists secured together behind their
backs with white rope and a band of white rope holding their ankles together,
the rope going between their legs, and tape covering each of their mouths.
“Thshshfhn,”
Sweetie Belle said as she looked at Applebloom and Silver Spoon. As they nodded, Diamond Tiara twisted her
legs round, and looked at Best as he stood watching them.
“Wrhhssmhmmhm?”
“Upstairs, with
Beauty…”
“You say you
need our money – why,” Spoiled said as she turned the combination lock of the
safe that sat in her bedroom closet, Beauty watching every move she made.
“As I said
before, Best and I just need the money to survive – not everybody can be as
lucky as you are, and things are tough out there for people like us,”
“So this is a
question of just living for you?”
“That’s right,”
Beauty said as the safe door opened, and she watched Spoiled empty the contents
of the safe into the black bag she had with her. “Nothing more than that – which is why we
have no desire to hurt anyone, we just need to make sure none of you can stop
us.”
Spoiled nodded
as she continued to empty the safe, and then stood up. “My jewels are in the top drawer there.”
“Place them in
here as well,” Beauty said as she walked over with her, and watched her put the
contents of her jewellery boxes in with what was in the safe, and the
daughter’s own jewellery.
“So – what
happens now?”
“Now – we go
downstairs.”
“You’re not
going to tie me up as well?”
“Not yet – not
unless you want to be – but we’re going to the kitchen,” Beauty said, Spoiled
staring at her as they walked down the stairs.
“Hmmhhm,” Diamond
Tiara called out as they passed the main room, and Spoiled looked in.
“Are you girls
all right?”
“Yhhmshsrhs,”
Scootaloo said, the others nodding as Beauty took her into the kitchen.
“So why are we
in here?”
“The girls will
be hungry – I’ll help you to prepare some supper.”
“You’ll… All right then…”
8:00pm
Spoiled watched
as the five girls walked into the dining room and sat down, Best walking round
and untying their hands as he said “now the tape stays until you are all seated,
understand?”
They all nodded
as Spoiled went into the kitchen, returning with Beauty as they placed the food
on platters where it could be reached, then plates and glasses, followed by
pitchers of water.
“Well done
girls – you may remove the tape now, and eat.”
“Thank you Mister
Best,” Applebloom said as she removed the tape, “do we do it again after this?”
“I think we will be,” Scootaloo said as she watched her friend take a bite of
her food, “isn’t that right Mister Best?”
“That’s right –
but you have all been very brave so far, so I think you will cope later.”
“He’s
right… You girls have all been very
brave,” Spoiled said as she looked at the five of them.
“Thanks mom,”
Diamond Tiara said, “and it is a very different sleepover, right girls?”
“RIGHT!”
Spoiled shook her
head as she started to eat herself whatever was going on, at least they were
not afraid, and she felt a grudging sympathy for the masked man and woman. If this was what they had to do just to get
by…
9:15 pm
As Best took
Spoiled into the main room, Beauty led the girls back up to Diamond Tiara’s
bedroom, each of the four guests taking their bags and sleeping bags up with
them.
“Time for you
girls to change,” Beauty said as she closed the door, “and then we see what
happens.” She watched Scootaloo as she opened
her bag, removed her clothes and put on a thick, bright blue fleece onesie,
with feet attached and a zipper which she pulled closed up to her neck. The fleece had white clouds printed on it,
and as she pulled the hood over her head to cover her purple hair she smiled
and said “ready…”
“Me too,” Applebloom
said as she fastened the front of her bright green flannel pyjama top, and sat
down on the bed to pull a pair of white socks on over the legs of her pyjama
bottoms. The pyjamas were covered with a
red apple print as well.
“Just like you
name,” Sweetie Belle said as she pulled down her nightdress. It as shocking pink, with long sleeves and
almost touching the floor, white fluffy fleece at the collar wrists and
hem. She was also wearing white socks,
as she sat and looked at the other two.
Diamond Tiara
was pulling a pair of white socks over her feet, as she sat in a floor length green
nightgown that had a white lace collar and cuffs. Finally, Silver Spoon had put on an old-fashioned
magenta nightdress that came to the floor, with a raspberry purple collar and
hem – and white socks on her feet as well.
“We’re ready,”
Diamond Tiara said as they looked at Beauty, “so what happens now?”
“Well, we’ll go
downstairs in a minute,” Beauty said, “but there is something I need to do to
all of you first.” Looking at Diamond
Tiara, she said quietly “hold these and make two fists with your hands…”
“There you
are,” Spoiled said from her seat as she watched the five girls walk in,2i trust
they behaved themselves?”
“I assure you,
they did,” Beauty said as Spoiled looked at her daughter and her four friends,
in their nightdresses and fleeces and pyjamas, the white socks pulled up over
their hands and taped to the sleeves with white tape. She leaned forward, the white rope holding
her wrists and ankles as well, before she said “What did you do to them?”
“We just need
to make sure they can’t use their hands” Beast said as he took a length of white
rope from the bag and walked behind Applebloom, crossing her wrists behind her
back and then using the rope to secure her wrists tightly together. He went down the line, making sure ach girl
had their wrists secured with bands of rope over the white socks, between their
arms, and the ends secured on top of the binding.
“Well, this is
different,” Sweetie Belle said as she saw Beauty unravel and double over a
longer length of rope. “What is that
for?”
“To make sure
you can’t move your arms,” she said with a smile as she stood behind the cotton
candy haired girl and passed the rope around her stomach, pulling it tight and
forcing her arms into her sides before she wrapped it round her body again and
again, forming two bands around her stomach and her upper arms, and then
bringing the bands together behind her back. The masked woman then fed the rope
under one arm, up and around the back of her neck as she held her hair out of
the way, and then under the other arm.
“How does it
feel,” Silver Spoon said as Beauty repeated the process with another length of
rope on Scootaloo.
“It feels as if
I’m being hugged,” Scootaloo said as she twisted round, the ropes moving on
her. She felt a little strange, as the
bands of rope pressed down on her chest, but she smiled as the ends were tied
off. She then went to Silver Spoon, the
young girl’s eyes opening wide behind her glasses as she felt the ropes
pressing down on her own chest.
“Mom…”
“I know, DT,”
Spoiled said as she watched Best secure her daughter’s arms, “but we will have
to be like that, so we all get the same.”
“Mom – did you
just call me DT?”
“I did,”
Spoiled laughed as she watched Applebloom being bound like the other four,
before they all sat down on the couch, Spoiled watching as one by one they had
their ankles tied tightly together, and then rope round their legs below their
knees, going between the legs of Applebloom and Scootaloo, and gathering the
skirts of the nightdresses around the legs of the other three girls.
“So they’re
going to be tied up all night,” Spoiled said quietly.
“As are you – but wait until you see what’s next,” Beast said with a smile.
“What happens after this?”
“You will see how the girls will be quiet,”
As the girls wriggled beside each other on the sofa Beauty took from a bag five
white squares of silk, folding them into pads as she said “open wide girls”. One by one they had a square put into their
mouths, and then a knotted strip of towelling pulled between their lips to keep
the cloth in place. As Beauty tied the strip round their heads, Beast took a roll
of white tape and started to wind it tightly round each of their heads – Beauty
following with a roll of silver tape over the top of that band, the edges of
the white tape visible underneath. While
the tape trapped the hair of four of the girls against their heads, for
Scootaloo the bands went round the hood of her onesie.
She then took a
white headscarf for each of the girls from the bag the supplies were in, folded
it into a wide band, and then tied it tightly round their heads from the bridge
of their noses to under their chins making it look as if they were in a Shadow Spade
detective novel.
“Goodness me – are you girls all right,” Spoiled whispered, Diamond nodding and
saying “yhssmhm” under the bands and cloth. The other four nodded in agreement
as Beauty then cut her free, and said “time to get ready.”
As they slowly stood, Beast turned the television back on, and said “we’ll
watch a film.” The girls nodded as Beauty helped Spoiled to stand up.
“You can now go
upstairs and get ready – come.” She escorted Spoiled out of the room and up the
stairs. As they went into Spoiled’s
bedroom, she opened a walk-in closet and retrieved a blueish-green long sleeve
floor length nightgown with gold trim on the hem, collar and sleeve cuffs and
placed it on the bed.
“You will also
need two pairs of long white socks,” Beauty said, Spoiled nodding as she started
to strip off, and pull on the nightgown. She then sat on the bed as Beauty
handed her a pair of socks, and pulled them up over her feet and legs.
“Well, at least
I will be warm,” Spoiled said quietly.
“Now what?”
“Time to re-join the girls,” Beauty said as she removed from a bag she had
brought up two half sponges, and handed them to Spoiled. “Make two fists with
your hands, holding these, and then hold your hands out.”
Spoiled nodded as she made fists with her hands and held them out, then watched
as Beauty ripped the end of a roll of silver tape free and then wrapped it
round Spoiled’s hands, making them look like silver boxing gloves before she
pulled the second pair of socks up over her hands, and used white tape to
secure them to her arms.
“Let’s go
downstairs – it is only fair that the girls see you are bound in the same way
as them.”
“I must say your methods of restraint are quite thorough. Was it really
necessary to do all this to my daughter and her friends?” Spoiled asked quietly
looking at her covered hands.
“Oh yes – for their own safety. When they are put to bed, the less they move,
the less likely they are to fall off and hurt themselves,” Beauty said with a
smile.
“That actually – makes sense oddly,” Spoiled said as she walked down to the
living room.
“Whhewhsshnshhpphe,” Diamond said, Spoiled nodding as she saw the daring do
movie playing that Scootaloo had brought, before Beauty said “put your hands
behind your back, Mrs Rich.” She felt the rope on her sock covered wrists as it
held them together behind her back, and then the bands of rope as her arms were
forced against her sides, framing her chest.
She nodded as Beauty cinched the bands between her arms and body, before she
was sat in an armchair, watching the girls as their eyes slowly closed.
“The darlings are exhausted, aren’t they?”
“Aye – they’ll sleep well,” Beauty said with a smile as she looked at them,
“let them sleep there for a little while, and then you can all go upstairs.”
“In the meantime,” Beast said as he compressed a red sponge ball in his hand
and held it in front of Spoiled’s mouth, “time for you to be quiet. Yes, it’s
different – but they will not know. So, open wide.”
Spoiled nodded as the ball was pushed into her mouth, and she felt it expand in
her mouth as the knotted strip of towelling was pulled between her teeth, and
the strip tied round her head, “Snhhtshbhd,” she mumbled as she felt her cheeks
bulge out – and then come back in as Beauty wrapped the white tape tightly
round her head, followed by the silver tape, and finally the headscarf from the
bridge of her nose to under her chin, She nodded as she leaned back into the chair
and watched the film to the end.
10.30 pm
“Alright, bedtime for these little ones” Beauty said as beast picked Applebloom
up and carried her up the stairs, returning for Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo one
at a time. As he picked Diamond Tiara
up, Beauty picked up Silver Spoon and “please, Mrs. Rich, walk in front of us”.
Spoiled nodded and then stood up, walking up the stairs as her daughter and her
friend were carried up behind her. As they walked into Diamond’s room, she saw
Applebloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo already in their sleeping bags. Beauty carefully laid Silver Spoon down and
removed her glasses, folding the legs and putting them to one side as Diamond
Tiara was laid on her side on her bed.
The masked man and woman then went round her four friends, zipping up
the sleeping bags so that they were all cocooned and ropes tied round their
bodies and legs to make sur they stayed there.
“Whthbbhtmhdhthr?”
“She will be
like you,” Beauty said as Best pulled Diamond Tiara’s ankles back and secured them
to her chest ropes, and then covered her with her duvet. Spoiled nodded as they left the room, Best
turning the lights off and closing the door, before they made their way to her
own room.
Spoiled sat on
her bed, watching as Beauty crossed and bound her ankles together over the
fluffy socks she was wearing. Her legs
were then secured, below and above her knees, the skirt of her nightdress
gathered under the tight bands as she watched.
“Please lie one
your side, Mrs Rich.”
“Fhnnkuh,
Bhtthe,” Spoiled mumbled as she did as she had been asked, feeling Beauty pull her
ankles back, and then the tug as they were secured to her own chest ropes. The duvet was pulled up her, covering her to
her neck as Beauty said “Sleep well, Mrs. Rich – and thank you for your
hospitality.”
Spoiled closed her eyes as the couple left the room shutting the door behind
them, unable to move or speak clearly. It had been a day she was unlikely to
forget – none of them would – and as she slowly drifted off to sleep she
thought back to earlier that evening….
7.30 am
Filthy Rich
walked into the mansion, the driver putting down his bags and nodding as he
left, closing the door behind him.
“Hello? Is anybody home?”
There was no
reply, as he walked up the staircase and went into the master bedroom. He saw Spoiled on the bed, but as he got
closer he saw the white scarf tied round
her head, covering her from nose to chin.
“Spoiled?”
“Hmgghdd –
fhlfffh?”
Filthy walked
round to see Spoiled looking at him, eyes wide over the scarf – and then he
pulled the duvet back to reveal her hogtied body as she twisted on the bed.
“Oh my
goodness,” he said quietly as he managed to untie her ankles from her chest
ropes, and helped her to sit on the edge of the bed, removing the scarf and
then staring at the silver band with the white edges that went round her head.
“Hthdhrrhh,”
Spoiled said as she nodded to the bedside table, Filthy opening a drawer and
taking out a pair of scissors which he used to carefully cut the bands of tape
away. He then untied the towelling strip
as Spoiled pushed out the soaking wet sponge with her tongue.
“We… We were robbed,” she finally said as Filthy
sat with her, “a man and woman… The girls
are in Diamond’s room…”
“Will you be all right,” Filthy said as he held his wife, Spoiled nodding as he
ran to his daughter’s bedroom, and opened the door.
“DHDHHHE! LHKHTHLHFHS!”
He stared as
Diamond as she rolled over on the bed, the other four girls wriggling round in
their sleeping bags as the ropes held firm.
Filthy swallowed, and said “I’m going to phone the police, and then I’m
going to untie your mother. Can you wait
until I do that before I free all of you?”
They all nodded
as he walked out of the bedroom, and down to make a call…
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