The next day came like any other, with Twilight looking over her charge.Tirek was sleeping soundly, cuddled in her underbelly. He perked up looking at Twilight with uncertainty, he smiled but quickly shook his head and buried it again.
Twilight smiled and cooed, “morning sweetie.”
Tirek only answered by placing his lips back on one of her teats trying to suck the last of her milk. Twilight rolled her eyes, took the little foal in her telekinesis, took him to the changing table, and changed him into a new diaper. While doing so she asked, “So Tirek, what do you want to do today?”
Tirek mumbled, “Nothin.”
Twilight eyed him and smiled, ”You know, Discord is having a birthday party at Sugarcube Corner in Ponyville.”
Tirek for some reason brightened up and asked, “And I can go!?”
Twilight shook her head,” I’m sorry but you were really naughty, and I can’t just let you go to Ponyville until you're a good foal.”
Tirek’s mouth dropped open, then tears welled up in his eyes and he bellowed, “No I wana go to the biwthday pawty!”
Twilight smirked, “But birthday parties are for foals, not a big grown up like you.”
Triek shouted, “Bu I am a fowl and I wana go to a biwthday pawty,” Twilight giggled as Tirek realised she was tricking him as he shouted, “Nah, fowget it I don cawe.”
Twilight gasped, “You don’t? because I was going to see if Discord and the other foals can come to the palace. I guess there’s no point now.”
Twilight placed Tirek in a playpen and told him, “We can just hang out together here then.”
Tirek turned his head in frustration and muttered, “Fine! Have them come, please!”
Twilight’s ears perked up “What was that?”
Tirek shouted “Have them come, I wana pway with the otha fowls!”
Twilight smiled, “Sure, I’ll send an invitation today and see if my friends will accept. But you better be on your best behavior.”
Tirek turned his head and mumbled, “Fine.”
Twilight eyed him. “The means no running away, no pushing or hurting the other foals, and you better listen to my friends and I. One mishap and it’s back to just you and me.”
Triek nodded, “Got it.”
Twilight flashed a genuine smile “Alright then, I'll write up some invitations but no promises.” She then left Triek who started to play with his blocks.
Back in Ponyville, Twilight’s friends were gathered at Sugarcube Corner watching the foalafied villains chasing each other.
All of a sudden, Spike coughed up a scroll! Everypony gasped as Pinkie Pie shouted, “Is that from Twilight?!”
Spike nodded as he opened the scroll, “Dear Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie. I am caring for Lord Tirek in Canterlot and it’s been a trial. He is worse than we thought but I was able to calm him down and convince him to have fun. I was hoping you could have the other foals come and play with Tirek, for Discord’s birthday party.”
Rarity gasped, “My goodness, sounds like Lord Tirek is quite the hoofful.”
Pinkie ruffled Nightmare Moon’s mane. “Well she was the same when we first met. But look at her now!” Nightmare Moon began bouncing in her big pink poofy dress.
Fluttershy nods, “Discord was a little storm himself.”
Rarity rolled her eyes, “Please, Sombra when he’s angry, is a little monster. I’ve had more than a few sleepless nights.”
Pinkie bounced up shouting “Right! We can’t judge Tirek until we see him ourselves.”
Rarity nodded, “Alright but we need to talk to our foals first. Sombra is still scared of Tirek and I need to be sure he’s going to be alright.”
Rarity trotted off to see Sombra passing a ball to the Cake Twins. She then went up to little Sombra and hugged the two, and then came next to Sombra. Sombra looked up and asked, “Wha?”
Rarity smiled, “Darling ,what are you doing?”
Pound Cake giggled, “Somby pway ball.”
Pumpkin Cake giggled, “Yeah, he pway. He woads of fun”
Sombra just hugged Rarity as she asked, “So, uh little Somby, I have to ask, are you still scared of Tirek?”
Sombra shivered, “A wittle.”
Rarity whispered, “It’s alright. Twilight wants to know if you want to go play with little Tirek back in Canterlot, but it's up to you. You don’t have to play with him if you don’t want to.”
Sombra pondered for a few minutes before he looked up and said, “That alwight, I don thin he’ll be scawy as a fowl.”
Rarity nuzzled him, “It's quite alright, darling. And thank you for trying, you’re such a brave little foal.” Sombra giggled at the compliment.
Discord was playing with Scootaloo bouncing around with Scootaloo chasing him. Fluttershy smiled at them and Discord looked up with his big round yellow eyes and giggled, “Me and Scootawoo wew pwaying hide and seek!”
Fluttershy smiled, “That’s wonderful but um.. I just came to ask a question.”
“Wha is it?” Discord asked.
Fluttershy gave him a warm smile, “I just wanted to ask if you would like to visit Tirek as a foal in Canterlot?”
Discord blushed, “Would he be mad since I helped tuwned him into a fowl?”
Fluttershy giggled, “It’s quite alright, Twilight said he’s sure to be on his best behavior.”
Discord nods, “Alwight, I'm gonna go then. I sure I can outsmawt him”
Fluttershy smiled, “Great, that’s good to hear.”
Discord hugged Fluttershy as Scootaloo asked, “Can I come? I would love to go to Canterlot again! I think the last time I was there was for The Grand Galloping Gala!”
Fluttershy blushed, “Only if you ask your parents first, I don’t want to get in trouble with them..”
Scootaloo turned to Discord and said, “I’m going to ask my parents if I can go. I’ll be back!”
Discord shouted in glee, “Alwight, hurry!”
Scootaloo galloped down the stairs as fast as she could.
Celestia and Luna were both clearing the palace hallways of staff, except for a few guards knowing that five foalified villains would be staying over. Celestia and Luna looked around and Celestia asked, “You think we can handle the four one more time?”
Luna sighed, “I hope so, besides I miss them so much.”
Celestia giggled, “I do too. In fact, I’m not so sure if this is such a good idea. Sombra may still have feelings for me, and I may still have feelings for him.”
Luna nodded, “Nightmare moon and I have been talking through our dreams. I think Sombra is quite content with being in Ponyville. As are the rest of the foals.”
Just then five mares came through the giant double doors. Celestia and Luna greeted them and as they bowed Celestia smiled, “Please rise, you’re all welcome here.”
Rarity rose first as Sombra bounced off Rarity and crawled to Celestia shouting ,”Tia! Tia!”
Celestia took a hold of Sombra and hugged him close hushing him, “There there, little one. I know you’ve missed me. I promise that as soon as I find the time I’m going to come to Ponyville to visit you,” Sombra buried his face in her fur as he then crawled onto her back and she giggled. “Alright, Twilight’s upstairs with little Tirek, so please everypony don’t do anything sudden. He’s still quite shy from his transformation.”
They all followed Celestia up to Luna’s tower, where Twilight was playing peek-a-boo with Tirek on his changing table. Celestia coughed as Twilight turned and smiled, “Hey, glad you’re all here. I just finished changing Tirek’s diaper.”
Fluttershy dawwed “I keep forgetting how cute a baby centaur looks.”
Twilight took her charge and placed him back in his playpen, as the other mares put their foals in with him. Then Twilight smiled as she turned to see her friends and asked, “What’s up?” They all turned and said in unison, “We missed you!”
The five mares all hugged their best friends, as Scootaloo just went and sat by Discord in the playpen. Scootaloo watched as Discord and the other four foals crawled closer to Tirek who was crawling backward with tears welling up in his eyes. Sombra asked, “So ya the onw who bwew up Tilie’s wibaway.”
Chrysalis muttered, “Yeah, he’s the one. Neawy made me wet mysewf with fwight”
Nightmare Moon looked him over, “He doesn’t wook too mean anymowe.”
Discord whimpered, “So Tiwek, ya not mean anymowe, wight?”
Tirek looked at Discord, then at Twilight who stared right back at him. Then he turned and smiled at the fellow foals, “Wight, I’m fine bein a foal. Well, minus the whole diapee part.”
“Ah, but tat’s wike the best part.” Sombra chuckled. The former villains all giggled as they began to jump on Tirek, and started to play with him. He then laughed as they pounced on him and started to crawl over him.
They then began building a tower together as Twilight just smiled at them. “He’s doing so great right now,” She commented. “For a while I was worried he might still be grumpy.”
“Um Twilight can I ask you something?” Rainbow Dash spoke up, somewhat shyly for the brash speedster.
Twilight turned with a light smile, “What’s up, Rainbow?”
Rainbow looked up with a look of remorse, “Well, um, you know how you and the rest of our friends have foals, but I don’t have one?”
Twilight giggled, “Rainbow Dash, do you want a foal?”
Rainbow Dash scratched the back of her head as she rolled her eyes “Well ,not exactly. But could I help care for them once in awhile? You know, maybe play with them and feed them, and I guess maybe change their diapers or pull-ups?”
Twilight laughed “Of course, I don’t mind at all. Feel free to help out with Tirek anytime. I could use a helping hoof or two.”
Rainbow perked up, ”Thanks, Twilight! Now I don’t feel so left out!”
Pinkie giggled, “Hey you could have just asked if you wanted to care for Nightmare Moon or the Cake Twins.”
Applejack continued, “Yeah Rainbow, it’s not like we would have never offered you chances to watch our foals.”
Rarity cleared her throat. “It’s not as easy as you might think. Sombra is cute but the last few months have been dreadful with him crying, not to mention the diapers. I don’t mind it too much, I love the little guy, but being a parent is tough.”
“Yeah I get what you mean,” Twilight added. “Tirek cried more than once last night and most of the time I had to figure out if he had a wet diaper, or he just needed to be calm down after trotting around.”
“And potty training’s not easy either,” Pinkie spoke up. “Accidents can and do happen. Nightmare Moon hasn’t been having them too much now, but when we started out she’d occasionally wet or mess herself before she could make it.”
“Tell me about it,” Fluttershy sighed. “Discord’s still having trouble now. And there are times when he’s a little trouble maker. But those moments when he’s a sweet and innocent little angel make it all worthwhile.”
While the grown mares talked to each other, Tirek looked up at the other foalafied villains. Sombra was the most nervous as he turned his head and placed his hooves over his eyes. Nightmare moon was the first to come up to the baby centaur and say, “Hewwo, my name is Nighmawe Moon, but I just wike being called Moonie.”
Chrysalis then came up and said, “ Well my name is Chrysalis, bu mama calls me Chysie.”
Discord also blushed and mumbled “I...I... Discowd...I sowie I took ya amuwet.”
Tirek eyed Discord, while Twilight turned and looked at Tirek. Tirek gulped and looked back at Discord with a smile, “Suwe, is fine. I was a big meanie.”
Sombra perked up as he looked up and asked, “So ya not a meanie anymowe?” Triek shook his head.
Scootaloo smiled, “It looks like you changed a lot, huh?”
Tirek muttered, “Sure, whatever.”
Sombra looked around and asked “So, what do you like to do?”
Tirek pointed to the block tower, “I’m twying to make a big towa bu I can’t weach the top.”
Scootaloo pointed to herself and said, “Well I can help you all build the tower. If that’s okay with you guys, that is.”
Triek smiled “Sure, why not?”
So Scootaloo retrieved the blocks, placing them in the playpen, and letting the foals take turns stacking them on top of each other. Discord hugged Scootlaoo and nuzzled her fur when she placed the last block on top of the tower. “This is the best biwthday I eva had!” He cheered.
Tirek grinned and asked, “So what if we try to do something super fun for Discord’s birthday?”
Discord grinned, “Yeah like what?”
Tirek laughed, “What about we pway a supa game of hide and seek in the pawace? Just the five of us?!”
Sombra scratched his chin, “I don know, I mean what if we get in twouble?”
Tirek continued, “Cewestia and Wuna hawe the pawace cleaw, but they won't wisten to me. And dun wowwy, we won pway fow too wong.”
Discord smiled, “How about I be the seeker? I the bowthday colt after all.”
Scootaloo replied, “That’s a great idea, and I’ll keep an eye on you all,” She trotted over to Twilight and asked, “Hey Twilight, can the foals play a big game of hide and seek in the palace? I promise I’ll keep an eye on them.”
“Sure, Scoot,” Rainbow Dash spoke up before Twilight could say a word. “Tell you what, how about you and I set it up together?! That way we’ll have two pairs of eyes watching the foals.”
Scootaloo giggled. “That’ll be great!”
Rainbow Dash looked up at Twilight, “Please, Twilight, this is the perfect chance for me to prove I can take care of foals!”
Fluttershy gave her childhood friend a confused look and said, “Um I’m not so sure…”
But Twilight replied, “Hey, it’s fine, I just have to get permission from Celestia. Wouldn't want a bunch of foalafied villains running around without her knowing.”
As Twilight left to find Princess Celestia, Rainbow Dash came over to the foals while Discord was shouting “We did it, we gonna hawe the whole pawace to owa selves!”
Tirek grinned as he suckled a block, his plan would soon be set into motion. "Perfect, now I’ll bide my time and escape,” He thought to himself. "Then I’ll steal some magic and return, I’ll have my revenge!”
Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash had the foals with them in the palace hallway as they both said at once, “Now for the ultimate game of hide and seek in the Canterlot palace!”
Just then Celestia and Luna came up. “Woah, you two want to play?!” Rainbow Dash asked.
Celestia smiled, ”Well, we never played a game of hide and seek in the palace before, and we didn't clear everypony from the palace for no reason.”
Luna smiled as well, “My sister and I actually expected something like this would happen. Plus, this will ensure the foals don’t try anything funny. Can’t risk one of them wandering off and getting lost, hurt, or flushed.”
“Hm, this complicates things a little,”Tirek thought to himself. “But no matter, I will find a way to escape!”
Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes, “Whatever, but me and Scoots are going to be in charge.”
Celestia bowed her head “I wouldn't have it any other way, but let's keep the game confined to the second floor of the palace. If we included every floor this game would go for too long, and we’d easily lose track of the foals.”
“Got it, second floor only!” Rainbow Dash declared, then continued, “As I was saying, I’m the one who’ll be doing the seeking in this first round. So you all better find good hiding places.”
Scootaloo nuzzled Discord, as Tirek just smiled up at Rainbow Dash. Rainbow then placed her head to the wall and called “Alright ill do the count to 100, here I go! 1...2...3...4...5...”
The foals all crawled away, with the princesses going about the palace. Tirek turned to the stairs and crawled down thinking, “I’m going to do it, now I’ll make my escape!” But just then Sombra came up to him and asked, “Hey Tiwek, whew ya goin to hide!”
Tirek groaned turning his head to see Sombra standing above him. Tirek shouted, “Leave me awone, I’m twying to hide on a wower floor!”
“But Mama Cewestia said to only hide on the second fwoa of the pawace.” Sombra replied.
Tirek grinned, “So, Somby, ya used to be the most evil pony in all of Eqeustiwa. Bu now ya a stupi wittle fowl, so go pway hide an seek! I gonna escape and take over the
Tirek kept crawling to the stairs as Sombra with tears in his eyes stood his ground and shouted back, “I’m not gonna move!”
Triek turned and shouted, “Move now!”
Sombra with tears in his eyes shouted, “No, I not gonna be scawed of ya anymowe, and I won’t let ya huwt me ow my fwiends oww Wiaty ow the pwincesses! I wana be a good colt!”
But Tirek just shoved Sombra against the wall, spat at him, and continued his way down, while Sombra began to wail.“He got what he deserved,” Tirek thought to himself. "So why do I feel so guilty?”