Manipulating Starlight

Cadence sensed the change Spike had made with growing dread, the last thing she needed was another pony knowing about Spike’s true power. Especially one who wasn’t yet in the harem, especially one with ‘noble’ intent. Fortunately, Spike should be blissfully unaware of the changes he’d made to Twilight and herself, unfortunately, Cadence didn’t know who he’d told. His question wasn’t specific enough.

‘Then again.’ She thought to herself, flipping another pancake for her Master. ‘Unless there was a visitor last night there's only one pony he could be talking to.'

Cadence's worry hadn't gone unnoticed by Twilight, who was waiting at the kitchen table with her nose buried in a spell tome, had noticed Cadence's concern on her face. "Cadence what's wrong?"

"Spike has told somepony else about his power, and even asked them a question that would allow them to perceive his changes. Twilight there's someone else who knows," Cadence explained, her voice growing cold and calculating. An attitude she had to learn for the worst of times at the Crystal Empire. "And they're not involved in the harem. This Twilight could either be a threat... or perhaps an opportunity."

Twilight's expression became determined, the young Princess was so ever so very determined to become a slut like Cadence, it was ever so heartening. She saw in Twilight the same sort of loyalty to her and the slutty ideal she embodied as she gave Celestia in her previous life. A small part of her felt a genuine sense of pride at the thought. "What do I have to do?"

"For now keep Spike distracted. I will deal with Starlight myself," Cadence ordered, and Twilight nodded firmly.

"Starlight's my student so I know her well," Twilight said as she got up from the table. "Ask me anything you need to. Personally, I think you could either try guilt-tripping her with her past mistakes, or you could use her impulsive use of magic against her. She often has the best of intentions, so slip a few of our own inside those good intentions and we might get somewhere."

The casual way Twilight betrayed her student's trust brought a smile to Cadence's face and was a not so subtle turn on for the insatiable Princess of Lust. "Excellent Twilight you really have become a manipulative horny bitch haven't you?"

Twilight gave a prideful grin. "Just trying to live up to your standards.”

Cadence sauntered up to Twilight and gave her a not so gentle nor innocent kiss, one that Twilight found herself eagerly returning, their tongues wrestling. Unfortunately for her, they had to be quick, so much needed to be done. So they had to pull out of the kiss quickly, leaving Twilight mewling for more, before collecting herself. “I’ll make sure Spike is distracted. Send a message when you’re ready.”

Keeping good on her word Twilight rushed out the door, muttering to herself different strategies on how to handle Spike, which meant that she didn’t notice Starlight coming through the same door, also muttering to herself. As such they immediately crashed into each other.

“Aah, what the heck?” Starlight wondered to herself, clutching her head where Twilight crashed into her.

“Ow,” Twilight muttered, also massaging her head. All the while Cadence just sighed at the comedy of errors before her.

“Sorry Twilight I guess I wasn’t paying attention,” Starlight groaned getting back up. In the chaos, a series of notes that she had been clutching had fallen to the ground.

Seeing an opportunity Cadence moved forward, levitating the notes into her hands. “Here Starlight let me help.”

As she suspected however these weren’t just any old notes, even with a quick glance at them she could see they were plans and ideas to use Spike’s power for such noble causes. But causes that could be so easily perverted to her Master and Mistress’s ends.

“Sorry Starlight I gotta run…Spike…things…need...” Twilight blurted in a panic before rushing off, leaving Starlight confused.

“Wonder what that’s about?” She asked with a shrug.

“Twilight has a pressing engagement with Spike you see,” Cadence explained, earning quite a sceptical face from Starlight.

"Yeah 'engagement'," she said, making finger quotation marks. “She’s just too much of a slut.”

“You say that like it’s a bad thing,” Cadence pointed out, causing Starlight’s eyes to widen.

"No,” she said, waving her hands in front of her in a panic. Only now realising that she had said that to the literal Princess of Lust. "No, what I meant is that's there a time and a place is all. That's all I swear."

Cadence smiled at Starlight's embarrassment, much like a teasing mother. "Don't worry too much Starlight. Do you want your notes back?"

"Oh right yes please," Starlight answered hands outstretched as Cadence handed the papers back. She frowned at them in her hands. "Seems they got all shuffled together."

"Perhaps I can help with that. I'll get you some breakfast and we can work through what you're working on together. No sense in working on this with an empty stomach," Cadence offered her, with a convincing yet fake smile.

Starlight seemed to be hesitating. Likely suspecting that Cadence wouldn't approve of some of her changes. "Are you sure? I mean it's kind of important and big."

"All the more reasons to have some help and a full stomach," Cadence pointed out, walking back to the kitchen and taking the plate of pancakes she had made earlier. Giving them a quick warming up with a spell.

"Besides," Cadence called to Starlight, as the latter lay her papers at the table and Cadence brought over her newly fresh stack of pancakes. "I've had experience using Spike’s new power.”

Starlight froze her face looking as if she had been caught with her hand in the cookie jar. She then chuckled embarrassedly. "I guess I should have told you huh? You probably think it's a bad idea right?"

"Oh, hardly Starlight. In fact, I’ve had Spike make some changes of my own,” Cadence said slyly, watching Starlight’s eyes round in awe.

“No way.” Starlight gasped but when Cadence didn’t confess she grew curious. “What did you change?”

“Well, I wasn’t always the Princess of Lust,” Cadence said, covering her mouth to hide her sly smirk.

“No. Way. You became an alicorn?” She asked stars in her eyes.

“Oh no I was always an alicorn, but I was the Princess of Love. Still am, but now lust too, with all the power that entails,” Cadence said with a proud grin.

“I can’t even-why though?” She asked in disbelief.

“That Starlight is a private affair,” Cadence said firmly but not harshly. “But enough about me. It would be rather unfair if we didn’t consider what you wanted as well.”

Starlight looked at her list with a not insignificant amount of worry, like a student handing in their test. “I was hoping to use this power for some good you see.”

“Hardly something to be ashamed of,” Cadence assured her, sitting down alongside her.

“You don’t think it’s a bit too similar to what I did back at the village?” Starlight asked with a whisper to match Fluttershy.

Cadence gave a gentle laugh. "How about this? We'll make a list together and I'll tell you if something you do is crossing the line. It'll make it a lot easier to get Spike to change it as well. We'll just ask him if everything on the list is true."

"Oh sure that's a good idea," Starlight said reaching for a pen, but Cadence snatched it out of her hand.

"I'll write, no offence but your handwriting is terrible," Cadence said, not too harshly, but her voice making it clear there was no room for discussion. "So what did you have in mind?"

A/N: Suggestions for changes that Starlight could propose as well as for Cadence to pervert to her ends. Try and keep it limited to changes that aren't larger than affecting Ponyville for now though.