"Good Morning Class," The teacher smiled as she walked into the classroom getting a choir of, "Good morning Miss Cheerlee."
Cheerlee smiled, "Today we have a new student, Spike would you please come up here?... Spike? Spike!? SPIKE!"
Spike yelped and fell out of his chair, still holding his JoyBoy.
"Spike," Cheerlee narrowed her eyes, radiating parental disapproval, "Class has started young colt. Put the game away and come up here and introduce yourself."
Spike blushed, quickly saving his game and turning it off before putting it in his jacket pocket.
"Button Mash," Cheerlee looked over at the brown colt with the orange mane, "I better not have to tell you to put yours away."
Button gave a nervous grin and turned his game off as Spike came up to the front of the class.
"Everypony," Cheerlee got the attention of the snickering foals, "Today we have joining us Prince Spike, Ward of Princess Twilight please make him feel welcomed. Spike why don't you tell us a bit about yourself?"
"O-oh," Spike blushed and fidgeted, "Well I like comic books, and Videogames, and watching hoofball, and... uhmmm,"
Cheerlee encouraged, "Why don't you tell us how the Princess came to adopt you," she was trying to get all the questions the foals were bound to pester him with out of the way now, as well as get rid of any misconceptions that Spike was just a servant or a pet.
"Oh... hummm..." Spike didn't understand why he was so nervous, he spoke in front of large crowds all the time but somehow this small school house with foals of various ages was the hardest. He felt like he did when he was in front of the tens of thousands at the Equestria Games.
He took a deep breath, "My breed of dragon can only hatch when exposed to a high level of magic, usually that comes from frequent exposure to dragon fire. Someone found my egg and brought it to the Princess, I mean Princess Celestia since there are like a billion Princesses now.
"Anyway Twilight hatched my egg as part of her entrance exam. Celestia was going to try to return me to the dragons, even sent a letter to the Dragon Lord. Celestia asked Twilight to look after me well she waited for a reply and... well Twilight sort of created a international incident when she refused to give me up when the dragons finally came to collect me."
Spike shrugged, "Celestia was able to smooth things over and the Dragons decided a Wingless runt wasn't worth the hassle so they let Twilight keep me."
Cheerlee gave a comforting smile, "Can you tell us why Twilight calls you her 'Assistant',"
"O-oh y-yeah sure," he cleared his throat, "Twilight was never very good at taking care of herself. She'd get too caught up in her research and her various duties. She always took good care of me but she would often forget to feed herself so I would make her sandwiches to make sure she ate.
"Despite how obsessed she is about organizing things she tends to be a bit messy as she tries to do a billion things at once. I started picking up after her to help and putting things back where she liked them. I helped her keep track of her schedule since she'd put so much work on herself she'd forget what she had to do. Of course she got really obsessive about that later...
"She started calling me her 'little assistant' because she often said she didn't know what she'd do with herself without me and well... I liked being her little helper and... yeah the title just sort of stuck,"
"Thank you Spike," Cheerlee nodded, "Please have a seat," Spike sighed with relief and ran back to his desk.
"Now class," Cheerlee decided to begin her lesson, "today we will talk about the origins of Equestria.
"I'm sure you've all heard about the three tribes living in conflict and the first Hearts Warming. That was nearly 10 thousand years ago, making Equestria one of the oldest civilizations on the planet. However even after the three tribes came together their was still much conflict in Equestria.
"For the first 200 years the leaders of the three tribes ruled together on a Council until the appearance of the first officially recorded Alicorn, one Queen Platinum, formerly princess of the Unicorn tribe. She ruled Equestria with an Iron hoof and remained in power until she died of old age. She ascended into an Alicorn when she was around 300, so still a relatively young adult seeing with how ponies have an average lifespan of 540 years. While Alicorns have a life expectancy of 2500 years.
"I know it is common to think of Alicorns as gods but in fact they are just ponies who have reached a form of enlightenment, a superior level of self awareness, which greatly increases their magical power and gives them the traits of all three races (The strength and connection to nature of Earth Ponies, The flight and weather magic of Pegasus, and the versatile magical abilities of Unicorns).
"Queen Platinum was the first Alicorn who had ever been officially confirmed up until that point, although myths of them had existed throughout all recorded history. She is why so many ponies think of Alicorns as gods. She advertised herself as one and convinced the other ponies to worship her.
"After her passing a new Council was set up, representing the various city states in Equestria. They ruled as a democracy for the next 600 years until the arrival of the Alicorn Dynasty. Queen Justice Divine was just as cruel as her predecessor and demanded ponies worship her. However when a second Alicorn appeared Queen Justice Divine invited her into her empire, Declaring her Queen of one of the city states and continued the practice for each Alicorn that appeared.
"The Alicorn Dynasty had the largest population of Alicorns in recorded history. This was a result of Queen Justice Divine purposely teaching others how to become Alicorns. Her school was only accessible to nobles, which is why most noble families are descendants of Alicorns now.
"Unfortunately the Alicorn Dynasty was filled with greed and corruption with the nobles living in luxury and all others living as peasants. The Alicorn Dynasty stood long after Justice Divine passed and ruled cruelly for thousands of years.
"They were eventually defeated by one of our true gods, the Draconequus. In this case a Spirit of Chaos, Discord himself. Although Discord has proven himself a friend to pony kind in recent years, back then he was far from it.
"Discord destroyed the Alicorns for falsely declaring themselves gods and decided to show Equestria what a real god could do. He spent the next thousand years warping reality and making things very difficult for ponies. However he was overthrown by the Two Sisters, Celestia and Luna, with help of the Elements of Harmony. Once mere Pegasi peasants they achieved enlightenment on there own during the rule of Discord.
"After his defeat the two sisters assumed the role as rulers of Equestria as per tradition with Alicorns. However instead of calling themselves 'Queens' the two sisters, as I'm sure you all know, took the title 'Princess' and declared anyone descended from them was to be called 'Duchess' or 'Prince' well the current nobles retained their titles. They wanted to assure their subjects that they would not hold themselves so above them as their predecessors had done,"
"They even made it impossible for Alicorns to have absolute political power as tradition dictated. They gave each City State the ability to elect someone to represent them on a new Senate. The Senate was to keep the Alicorns in check and hold them accountable as well as have a say in policy. Although Alicorns have the final word in most cases if the Senate votes with a 70% majority, against, then the Alicorn's ruling is dismissed.
"It should be noted that the Senator also works as the Mayor of their city in between Senate meetings. They are meant to act as the voice of the ponies of their city. However not even they have absolute power even within their borders. Each city has a council of nobles who the mayor must listen to and respect. This makes our current government a mixture of a matriarchy and a democracy.
"Since then Celestia has made many social changes, including gender equality in Equestria. She did away with poverty and has turned Equestria into a near utopian society and now that Princess Luna has returned to us things are better then ever. Well Celestia looks at the whole Luna handles the individuals by visiting the dreams of many of her subjects and helping them through personal crises and... BUTTON!"
Button hurriedly tried to hide his game. Unfortunately it was too late and Cheerlee walked over and held her hoof out. Button groaned but reluctantly handed over his JoyBoy.
"See me during recess," She ordered before walking back to the front of the class and continuing the lecture.
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Spike chewed on his bottom lip as the class cleared out and Button reluctantly stepped in front of the teacher. Spike took a deep breath and built up his courage. He got out of his chair and walked over to Cheerlee, "M-miss Cheerlee?" he dared, "B-button wasn't the only one playing videogames... I was playing with him,"
Button stared at the Dragon like he was insane.
"I should receive the same punishment as him," Spike insisted.
Cheerlee smiled, "Thank you for telling me Spike, that was very brave and noble, but Button is in a lot of trouble because this is the 3rd time I caught him playing that game during class. I don't think it be fair to punish you as harshly since this is your first offense,"
"Please Miss Cheerlee, I'd feel just awful otherwise!"
Cheerlee smiled, "Alright Spike but how about I tell you how Button is going to be punished first then you can decide, okay?"
Spike hesitantly nodded.
"Button is going to spend some time over my lap for a firm spanking and after school he'll deliver a note from me to his parents that needs to be signed... do you really want Twilight to learn you got spanked on your first day of school?"
Spike gulped and hesitantly looked at Button, "I-it's only fair,"
Cheerlee continued to smile pleasantly, "Alright," She pulled out her chair from behind her desk and sat down, "Alright boys, both of you get over my lap,"
The boys blushed and crawled over their teacher's lap, pressing right up against each other so they could fit. She patted their butts with her hoof, "Alright boys, you know you're not supposed to play videogames during class right?"
"Yes Miss Cheerlee," Both the boys chiored.
"But you did it anyway?"
"Yes Ma'am,"
"That was very very naughty," Cheerlee informed, "and what do naughty colts get?"
Spike blushed well Button wiggled a bit. It felt weird to have fur rubbing against his scales like that.
Button answered, "A spanking Miss Cheerlee,"
"That's right Button. Now Spike, what do naughty boys get?"
"A spanking," Spike blushed.
"That's right," Cheerlee brought her front leg down across both the small bottoms, "They. Get. A. Spanking." SMACK SMACK SMACK SMACK SMACK. She delivered a series of solid smacks to each getting the boys to cry and squirm from the start.
She began switching between them, going from smacking a scaled to furred hide. She wasn't quite sure how much armor the young dragon's scales provided so she might have been hitting him harder then she would other foals but wasn't giving him as many swats as Button. She wasn't sure if this was the right way to go about this as the little dragon felt soft, like snake skin.
The boys little legs began to kick as they struggled but Cheerlee had them pinned under her other hoof. The boys continued to cry and gave out little shrieks each time her hoof made contact with their rumps. She smiled as she saw the little dragon's claw tightly grasp Button's hoof and the young colt squeezing right back.
"We're S-sOWWie!" Button cried as his body jetted forward from the force of the smack.
Miss Cheerlee held them both down firmly with her free hoof, pressing the boys tightly next to each other as they both just barely fit over her lap. She also used that hoof to pin both their tails to their backs, and out of the way of the spanking. She felt them weakly struggling, with their tails desperately wanting to go back down to protect their rumps.
She gave one last smack and let the boys up. Button reached back with one of his hooves and tenderly rubbed his bottom all the while saying "Ow ow ow ow ow," well Spike did some bizarre little dance where he hopped from foot to foot well rubbing his bottom with his claws. It was cute in a weird way.
"Now wait right there," Cheerlee went to her desk and got out two red notes before quickly writing out a message on both. She then gave the notes to the boys, "Be sure your moms get those as soon as you get home and bring them back signed. Am I clear boys?"
Spike sniffed as he took the note "Y-yes Ma'am" well Button looked at it with dread.
"Alright boys, you can go play now. Enjoy the rest of your recess"
The boys continued to rub their bottoms as they walked outside. As soon as they were free from earshot Button said, "You know you're crazy right?"
"Eh?" Spike blinked.
"Who in their right mind volunteers for a spanking!?" Button gaped.
Spike blushed, "It wouldn't be fair if you got in trouble and I didn't."
"I guess," Button was still looking at him weird, "... wanna play on the swings? Miss Cheerlee still has my JoyBoy so we can't play with those anymore,"
"How about something that doesn't involve sitting?"
"... we would lay on our bellies and swing. It might even get our butts to cool down from the breeze,"
Spike blushed at the reasoning, "... ok,"
Button Smiled, "Race ya," and immediately took off.
"Hey no fair," Spike gaped before running after him.