//------------------------------// // Chapter Twelve: trouble is brewing // Story: The Cutie Squad // by Foal Star //------------------------------// Discord woke up to the destruction of the kitchen and the small dining room. He freaked out, squealing as Rarity entered the room “Oh my Celestia!” Applejack shouted, “Granny! Applebloom!” Granny Smith got up and gasped as Nightmare moon looked up at Applejack and cried, “Wait this is all my fawlt I wanted to make abblepie but...but.” Soon everypony was trying to explain at the same time. Then Applejack shouted, “That’s enough, everypony! One at a time, if ya please.” Everypony calmed down, then Sweetie Belle looked up and whimpered, “Well Apple Bloom, Scootaloo and I tried to make an apple pie and well, it didn’t turn out too good. So Nightmare Moon, tried to fix it but it blew up. Then Discord tried to fix it.” Discord cried, “I sowie I didn’t wealise my magic would blow up half the kitchen.” Fluttershy giggled, “Well, it’s not too bad.” “I could fix this in a jiff,” Twilight replied. She lit up her horn and the wood went back into the sockets, the table repaired itself and the counter was restored. “There, all better,” Twilight replied. Then she noticed something on Discord. ”Why is your star off?” Scootaloo came up and whispered, “Well, that was me. Discord asked me to take off his star.” Discord began to cry, “Pwease don’t get Sootawoo in twouble, I asked hew to when I twied to fix the mess. ” “Well, seeing as it was an accident and the damage was undone I’ll let slide, this time,” Twilight said seriously. “But from now on, don’t take any of the foals stars unless I say it’s oaky. Applejack looked at Twilight and added, “Apple Bloom, we can discuss what happened in the kitchen later, alright?” Apple Bloom nodded. Fluttershy whispered, “Come here, Discord, you’re not in trouble. It was so nice of you to try and fix the mess your friends made.” He smiled at her and fell into her lap, and she hugged him, “It’s alright. Come on dear, let’s go home.” “Wait, can I come along?” Scootaloo asked. “I wanna help take care of Discord!” “Certainly, Scootaloo,” Fluttershy replied. “The more the merrier.” Scootaloo followed Fluttershy and Discord back to Fluttershy’s, cottage, where Fluttershy opened the door. “So Scooawoo is going to be my bi sista?” Discord asked Fluttershy. Fluttershy looked at Scootaloo as she asked, “Are you sure that’s okay with you, and that your parents will agree?” Scootaloo looked up at Fluttershy and eagerly replied “Yeah, I would love to! And I know my folks won’t mind, just as long as I’m back home by sundown! I can’t wait to be a big sister!” Discord cheered, then hee shouted “Come on Scooawoo, wets go pway outside!” Scootaloo shouted, “Alright!” and galloped after him, following him into Fluttershy’s garden, bunnies bouncing all around. Upon coming home from Sweet Apple Acres, Nightmare Moon was placed into the nursery with the Cake Twins, who were currently building a tower out of blocks. The two were babbling once in awhile and saying, “Towa” or “Wed”. Nightmare Moon was just staring at the blocks as they stacked them up. Pinkie bounced in the nursery and saw that Nightmare Moon was looking noticeably unhappy, “Hey Moony, what’s up!?” she asked. Nightmare Moon looked up and replied, “ Nothing, Mama, I jus thinkin.” “So whatcha thinkin about?” Pinkie asked. Nightmare Moon grumbled, “I mad that I couldn fix the cake and instead I bwew it up.” The Cake Twins giggled at the statement. “It’s alright, Moony, you were just trying to help,” Pinkie reassured her. “Everypony makes mistakes, even me.” “Well I waned ta make somthin wike ya and Aunt and Uncwe Cake,” Nightmare Moon whimpered. “I was thinkin if I did good with the pie, you’d wet me hewp with the baking at Sugarcube Corner. Pinkie replied cheerfully, “You know baking is harder than it looks, and nopony becomes an expert on it overnight. And even then the experts do slip up sometimes. Ask Applejack, she made all of Ponyville sick once with her baking.” “Bu can I stiww hewp make Discowd’s cake fow tomowwow?” Nightmare Moon asked hopefully. “I pwomsie I’ll do onwy what you ask of me.” Pinkie bounced over to Nightmare Moon and picked her up. “Absolutely, in fact we’re making it right now! You can help crack the eggs and pour in the flour.” Nightmare Moon got up, unintentionally putting her pink pull-up on full display for the twins in the process. ”Alwight, wets go!” She cheered. “She’s wucky she gets to bake with Pinkie,” Pound jealousy muttered. “The waste time we twied to bake someting, we got all messy.” “Maybe once Mommy and Daddy start potty training us, Pinkie will let us help,” Pumpkin replied. “I just wish they teww us when they think we be weady.” In Canterlot, Tirek woke in a crib with Celestia standing over him. ”Nah! No mowe diapee changes!” He bellowed. Celestia payed no attention, she just lifted him to the changing table and began changing him while lightly cooing. ”Now now little Tirek, we can’t have you running around in a dirty diaper now can we?” Tried bawled as she continued to change him. But she hushed him with ease, and then smiled, “I remember when Sombra was here with his friends. The castle was so much lively then.” Tirek eyed the princess, “Wait, you had other foaws here befowe? Even Discowd?” Celestia smiled, “Yes, of course. And they were quite the hooful. Now let’s continue with the change.” She then powdered his rump and strapped on his diaper. Tirek mumbled as she picked him up and took over to Twilight, who was waiting outside the nursery. “Whewe am I?” Tirek grumbled, as he was drapped over Twilight’s left wing and carried through the castle. Twilight whispered, “Well, we’re going to see Mama Luna.” Tirek looked over his shoulder and saw the door with a crescent moon engraved on it. “The only thing worse than being babied by one of the princess who banished me to Tartarus, is being babied by both of them!” He thought to himself.“Still, at least Scorpan isn’t here to see this. He’d never let me live it down, and the sad thing is I’d have nothing to threaten him with. As if his betrayal didn’t sting enough as it was!” Twilight, unaware of Tirek’s thoughts, knocked on the door to Luna’s room. “Why hello there, Tirek.” Luna greeted with a smile.Tirek was freaking out, squirming on Twilight’s back as he was lifted towards Luna! But she just grasped him in her magic, hugged him close, and cooed, “Oh, there there, it’s alright little one,” She brought him into the middle of the circle on her bedroom floor. She then placed him next to a bunch of blocks and she snuggled him. But that only made him squeal and cry louder as Luna sighed, “I should have known you’d be trouble. Not even Nightmare Moon and Discord cried as much as you did.” Tirek didn’t care, he shouted! “I’ll neva stop twying to ecwape, I’m gonna….I’m gonna bweak out!” Luna cuddled him and whispered, “Hush dear, its alright. Why would you want to leave when you’re safe here?” She then asked, “What would you like to do? hum?” Tirek growled, “I wana destwoy ya!” Luna shook her head, “Looks like my concerns were right. But I know what to do with a cranky foal like you.” She picked up Tirek and placed him on her bed. “What ya doin?” He asked. Luna didn’t answer, she just bent down and blew a raspberry on his chest making him laugh out loud. Then she began to tickle him, making him giggle and squirm. He finally managed to sputter, “Stop it Wuna, ya win!” She paused then he looked up as her smile grew wider. Seeing this, Tirek pouted and said, “Ya can make me wauff, but I not gonna be tweated wike a fowl anymowe!” Luna stepped aside as she declared, “Alright, let’s play a little game. If you can go down the hall to the bathroom and and use it all by yourself, you won't have to wear diapers and I’ll no longer treat you like a foal. Deal?” Tirek got up and smiled “Deal!” He said. He quickly got off the bed and began crawling to the bathroom. He managed to make it down the hall with no trouble, but he suddenly felt the urge to pee and poo, and at the same time he looked at the bathroom door. It was bigger then he realised and he saw that there was no way he would be able to open it on his own power. That was when Luna’s horn glowed and the door popped open. Tirek giggled and opened it the rest of the way, however he frozen upon seeing the toilet. Like the bathroom door, it looked much bigger, how was he going to use it? To make matters worse for the former would be tyrant, the urge to go was now at its bursting point, and with his new foal body he realised that he actually couldn’t hold it any longer. Then he felt something bulge in the back of his diaper, and he began to tear up as he fell to the ground in his messy diaper and just began to bawl. Luna picked him up with her telekinesis and hugged him close as he choked into her fur and whimpered, “I’m...I weally a fowl.” Luna hushed Tirek, “Hey, isn’t this better than being locked up in Tartarus?” She asked him. Tirek shook his head, “Nah, I watah wot in Tawtus! Now eveypony will only waf at Tiwek in his poopy diapee!” Luna had to stifle a giggle before responding, “Nopony will dare laugh at you.” “Yeah they will.” Tirek grumbled back. “Not if I don’t tell, besides everypony knows foals mess them,” Luna replied, as she took Tirek to the changing table in the back of her room and hummed a tune as she changed him. She kissed him on the forehead as he shivered. And when the change was completed she said, “Well, looks like I still kept my skills despite not doing this for a few months.” ”Ya a pwincess, wight? Why not haw a maid ow a nanny do this?” Tirek asked, quite confused at the fact that Equestria royalty would do such a thing. Back in his kingdom the royal family always depended on caretakers for the more uncouth aspects of raising their young. As Luna threw away Tirek’s dirty diaper she told him. “Because despite diaper changes being unsanitary, and something that may unnerve most royalty, this is something my sister and I may never be able to do again. Indeed, after Sombra and his friends left, we thought our days of foal care had come to an end.” Tirek giggled, “So what was it wike waising fouw foals?” he asked. Luna laughed as she replied, “Well Discord’s dirty diapers were worse, but Chrysalis seemed to have the most of the four. I suspect it had something to do with her processing love in addition to everything she was fed. Even from the beginning Nightmare Moon did it far less often, though she still justified her need to be in diapers. Sombra was the closest to a normal foal, and even then he was certainly no flower.” Tirek laughed at Luna’s comments, then his stomach growled and he mumbled, “I hungwy.” “Alright little one. Let's get Twilight in here, since she’s your mother now and is going to be responsible for raising you.” Luna replied. Tirek shouted, “Wait! Twily’s the onw who beat me! Is she weawwy goin to take cawe of me?!” Luna turned and said with a smile, “Yes she will, because she’s the one who offered to care for you, at least for now. I would expect some gratitude from you, Tirek, despite your age. You know what happens to foals who don’t behave, right?” Tirek’s head dropped and he mumbled, “Yeah.” Twilight entered the room a short time later and smiled, “So how was he?” She asked Luna. Luna just sighed, “Well I calmed him down, but it’ll be some time before I can say for sure if he’s ready to go to Ponyville.” Twilight blushed as she bowed her head, “Alright, I’m guessing he needs some num nums.” “Do you mind?” Luna asked with a blush. Twilight laughed, I fed him yesterday, it’s not that big of a deal.” Luna bowed her head,”I’ll give you two privacy then.” And she trotted out and closed the door. Now assured of privacy, Twilight turned to Tirek and smiled, “Alright, ready for some num nums?” Tirek looked up at her with puppy dog eyes. Taking that as a sign to proceed, Twilight's horn glowed, swelling her teats to twice their size. She groaned a bit once the spell was finished and she panted, “That’s a hard spell. Now, is somepony hungry?” Twilight teased and she came up to the bed. She then laid on her side, as Tirek crawled through the sheets and went up to the right teat and placed his lips around it. He suckled a giant gulp form the it and then suckled a bit more to get some more warm creamy milk and just curled underneath Twilight as she watched him closely she whispered, “Night, Tirek. Sweet dreams.” The sun was setting over Equestria, and Discord and Scootaloo were now sitting together and laughing, as Discord was sipping from a sippy cup, and Scootaloo was busy chowing down on a salad. Discord kept shouting in between drinks, ”Then mw and Sooawoo pwayed hide and seek, then we pwayed tag and Fwuwwy jumped on her and pwayed with hew, and then-” Fluttershy giggled, “Calm down, you need to finish your food. Careful you don’t choke.” Discord blushed “Sowie mama.” Fluttershy sighed, “It’s quite alright, just continue to eat. Slowly if you don’t mind.” Discord dug into his bowl of carrot sticks, this caused Scootaloo to laugh and ask, “Why do you have to eat carrot sticks?” Discord muttered. “Mama said is a good diet and it keeps me healthie.” Fluttershy just smiled, “Yes it does, and I’m proud of you for sticking to it..” Discord nodded and chowed down on another carrot stick. Scootaloo sighed upon seeing that the sun was going down, “I better go home, it’s getting late. Mom is sure to worry if I’m not back by dark.” Discord’s mouth dropped,and asked, “Can’t ya stay the night?” Scootaloo saw the disappointment in his face. “I’m sorry but I can’t, Mom and Dad don’t like me having last minute sleepovers. I have to go.” Discord began to wail prompting Scootaloo to quickly say, “Wait, don’t cry! I’ll come back tomorrow and play with you.” Discord stopped crying and whimpered, “Ya..ya comin ta Sugacube Cownaw tomowow fow my biwthday pawty?” “Suwe, I’ll come for your birthday.” Scootaloo promised. Discord smiled, “Thank ya!” Fluttershy escorted Scootaloo to her door as Discord crawledup to the two and hugged Scootaloo closely, Scootaloo hugged him back, kissed him on the forehead and whispered, “See you tomorrow” Discord waved goodbye as he trotted away and Fluttershy waved her hoof, then Discord looked down. He wanted to cry, but before he could Fluttershy picked him up, hugged him, and hushed him, “It’s alright, my dear. Scootaloo will be back tomorrow.” Discord nodded and hugged her as she escorted him back to his nursery. Then as she lead him to his bed and tucked him underneath the covers he mumbled, “Scootawwoo is comin to my biwthday towmow, wight?” Fluttershy kissed him on the forehead, “Yes she will come to the birthday party, I promise,” She then turned off the lights and whispered to Discord. “Sweet dreams.” Then she slowly trotted out of the room. Tirek woke to darkness and saw that Twilight was fast asleep. He stiffled a giggle and looks towards the door, it was open! He jumped off the bed, landed on the floor, and was just about to leave the room. When Twilight woke up and glared at him. “Tirek, what are you doing?!” She asked. Tirek shouted in reply, “Fowget it! I gonna gwow big and defeat all of ya!” And he ran out of the bedroom. But upon stumbling across two royal guards and opening his mouth, Tirek found that he couldn’t drain a single drop of magic from them. “Was going on?! What have you done with youw magic?!” He cried. The guards only chuckled. “All the regressed badies did this at some point, they all thought their powers would carry over in their regressed state no matter what.” One guard spoke up. “Yeah, sorry pal but Princess Celestia decided not to take any chances this time,” The other guard added. “All ordinary unicorn magic that was transferred to her, Princess Luna, and Princess Twilight, you won’t find a speck of magic on us.” “Come on,” The first guard smiled. “Let’s get you back to your mommy, I can imagine she won’t be too happy to hear about this. And indeed Twilight wasn’t. “Now Tirek you were rude and disrespectful,” she scolded, slapping a gold star across his diaper “I cannot have you do whatever you want and cause havoc, or you’ll be stuck here for a long time. This star will make sure you can’t use your powers until Celestia and I think you’re ready to learn how to behave.” Tirek only mumbled “Like I care. You can’t tweat me wike this forevew. Once I gwow up you’ww be sowwy.” “Don’t...don’t you feel anything for me?” Twilight asked, sadness slipping into her tone of voice. Tirek looked up, his eyes full of tears, “Well a wittle, bu I don wike bein a fowl. Scorpan was the owder bwother and he never wet me fowget it!” Twilight looked sternly at her charge, “Well you are a foal now, like it or not, and I’m trying to be your mother. Now say sorry and maybe I’ll have you come back with me to bed and you can finish you num nums. Otherwise, you’ll be sleeping tonight in the time-out crib.” Tirek mumbled, “Sowie.” More because he was still hungry, rather than because he didn’t like the idea of sleeping on his own (he wasn’t sure why part of him was bothered by that). Twilight nodded “That’s better.” She then lifted him with her telekinesis, and settled him beneath her teats.