Cmm for  Silver Bristle
Gift from  Silver Bristle for  CardShark777!

Background from the customer:

Two ponies decided to work together: Cy-Buck, the red one with programming skills, a lot of money and free time, Silver, the grey one with hardware and tinkering skills. They decided to develop and test some gaming devices. Not all the ideas were successful and needed, but some of the prototypes could be leaded to mass production and achieve sales success. This part of the job was done with the help of Cy-Buck. In total, their partnership was profitable.

In one day, the red earth pony decided to develop a VR suit that was able to transmit tactile feelings from a virtual world to a player. It was a complicated and ambitious project. Silver didn’t know if they had to start it, but Cy-Buck reassured his partner. He wasn’t limited in time and was allowed to use his VR equipment for some tests.

Everything seemed fine. The grey stallion was doing parts of the suits, testing features separately, while Cy-Buck helped with the software, letting the test equipment to understand how the game world had to work with the suit. Silver had already succeeded to make feel vibrations, light pain, heat, cold, moisture, pressure and caresses… Eventually and by chance he could feel tickles, when a tactile element by a mistake got more energy than supposed to. That happened during testing the boots. Snickering and shaking stallion could barely take the malfunctioning prototypes off from his sensitive hooves while being in a VR headset on a special platform. Happily for him, the earth pony was alone in Cy-Buck's house. Otherwise, his face risked being redder than the house owner’s one.

Speaking about the tickles… The grey pony noticed some strange activities of his partner. Sometimes the made VR program got bugged, and it showed some hidden tools and features that were supposed to stay uncovered. Mostly that was bugged design and not completely cut features. But eventually Silver saw some icons of feathers, brushes and backscratchers, duct tapes, a shiny resin ball, ropes as tools for Cy-Buck’s VR program. He tested it, but they didn’t do anything visible. They seemingly required an NPC with AI. Silver decided to leave it and focus on the suit development. He also couldn’t help but notice how bugs showed a hidden list of last opened files. There were “ticklee”, “tickle”, “latex”, “restrained”, “bound” and “helpless” words in the titles. The earth pony was curious to explore more about this. Also, that was a good teasing fuel. He pressed on a last opened file, but it showed an error about addressing to a missing directory. The red stallion kept all the sensitive data on a USB. Silver decided not to explore it more, retreat and stay focused on the project. He didn’t want to embarrass Cy-Buck and spoil their businesslike relationships with touching private themes.

That rule was followed, until the last separated piece of the suit feature was tested, before to make a costume with all development combined for Cy-Buck sizes, as the tester. At this fateful day, everything what could go wrong, went wrong. This day, the earth pony was alone in Cy-Buck’s house. The programmer pony didn't expect his partner visiting his house, so he left his USB plugged in the PC. The VR program was bugged one again, showing the list of recent opened files. Silver’s eyes caught a title of one recently opened file. When his vision focused on it, the stallion was standing in disbelief. He was looking at “Mr. Grey Hoof the ticklee_31.scene”. Silver was speechless. The curiosity took the control over his principles. He opened the file. And oh boy, it would be better for him to get the file address error... To his surprise, the file could be opened. His VR avatar with motion tracking was resembling Cy-Buck. The playable character was standing in a stone dungeon. Next to him was a set of various tickle tools, including different gags and various additional restraints. And then Silver saw nearby… His own digital copy trapped on a wooden table with stocks. The face was covered with blindfold over the glasses, the cutiemark was hid with duct tape crosses. The original’s pony cheeks were turning crimson, but it wasn’t the worst part.
“Oh, no… You’ve returned so soon… Mr. the professional tickler, or Mr. the grey hoof wrecker… Am I right with the addressing? I couldn’t hear last time properly how I had to call you due to my loud laughter… Please… Don’t tickle my poor tender hoofises…” The copy had a tone mixed with fear, anticipation and some subtle joy. And he was talking with Silver’s voice… It was pure and unmistakable.

The original’s heart raced up. He poked his copy’s right soles with his shaking front hoof. The digital stallion twitched, squirming in the restraints. Silver couldn’t handle it. He took off the VR headset. His cheeks and ears were flaming. The stallion was feeling, how his face was in front of a red-hot furnace. He had to stand, stare to nowhere, walk around, before to calm down. Silver just closed the scene unsaved rapidly. He decided to shuffle the recently opened files list by their previous order. Now, the red-faced grey earth pony didn’t care about the privacy of his partner. Among regular projects he could find some tickle scenes of other creatures: some celebrities and some of the programmer’s acquaintances. In different places, in different settings… To his horror, their models were less detailed than his. And they had fewer serial numbers in title than nine. Who knows what was happening in other scenes with him…

Silver simply finished his testing session, before taking his brought stuff and leave the house. The grey earth pony was feeling ashamed after the discovery. He couldn’t believe that Cy-Buck not only imagined him being tickled, but actively did it with his digital copy. However, the stallion decided not to break up. He continued to visit Cy-Buck. The programmer couldn’t help, but notice how the grey pony became less talkative, but he didn't interfere. A revenge plan was ignited in Silver’s mind…

Before Cy-Buck’s test day, Silver leaned how to build locations for VR. Also, he managed to keep it in a secret by replacing files of the recent project with a plain corridor that reminded a regular developer room. Then he returned the original map back during his work from a brought flash drive. Eventually the suit and the testing location were ready…

In the day of punishment Silver arrived to Cy-Buck with a big bag and a cardboard tube, while he wore a red necktie (not his regular black one), jackboots and striped grey socks on the hind hooves. His face had a cheeky smug expression. Cy-Buck was surprised to meet Silver in such attire. And his mood was noticeably different.

“Oh, my necktie is in a laundry, while it was cold today to walk unshod.” Silver answered the question about the regular outfit changes. Last time, the grey pony had arrived barehoofed, despite the colder weather. Cy-Buck shook it off and decided to focus on the planned final tests. Silver helped the programmer to put the tight-fitting suit on, before to attach his hooves with ropes to winches on the borders of the VR platform.

"Is this required?" Cy-Buck asked, not remembering this mentioned and tested.

"It will allow feeling a pressure and limit your movements, if you be close to a wall." Silver said, smiling wider, since this wasn't programmed, but could prevent taking the VR devices off.

While the red pony was standing prepared, Silver uploaded on his PC the prepared location of a dungeon, full of tickle traps and other sensory triggers, before to open the VR program and connect to the gear. Cy-Buck appeared on a cold stone, moist floor of a dungeon corridor. The stallion was looking at his hooves, shift from one hoof to another. Meanwhile, Silver brought a recently prepared stepladder with a tinkered chair. It was hid in his attic. Then he took a poster of feather and placed it on the wall near the computer.
"Huh? What are you doing?" The red stallion asked, hearing the noise. He paused from stepping on every stone of the paved floor, but his hooves couldn't reach the headset.

"How are your test going?" Silver ignored the question, he brought a bag closer to the stepladder, took off his hoofwear and sat down on the chair with a riding crop in his hooves.

Cy-Buck, was still confused from the noise, but focused on telling the report.
"That's… Fascinating… I can't believe that's not real sensations. The immersiveness is rai- Err… What are you doing?" The red pony was embarrassed and confused, when he felt, how warm and tender bare hind hooves started to massage and knead his back through the suit.

"What? Me? That's happening in the game." Silver snickered and kept doing it.

"Silver… I don't see anything touching me virtually. I can only guess that's you-ooouhuhuuu…" Cy-Buck was cut with sudden ants running on his red hooves.

This is where the punishment was begun. Silver slapped his red heel in suit with a riding crop, while the pony ran away from the tickle encounter. The programmer ran directly to a tickle labyrinth, full of tickle traps. The suit intensity was reduced, but the tester was feeling pretty ticklish already. Cy-Buck had to complete this level, before go to another, where the pain, heat, cold, electrical zaps and other feelings would be tested on his crimson hoofsies on full intensity in addition to tickles. To reduce the amount of complaints, he would be granted with a ball and a sock gag from Silver's socks. And that was all for the virtual crime of the red programmer…