Celestia was the first to hear the crying, and stumble upon Sombra in the corner of the castle. She picked him up and hushed him while cuddling him. He hugged Celestia, nuzzling his former mom as Celestia asked him, “What’s wrong?”
“Tiwek pushed me and spat on me and weft he’s gonna go twy to detwoy the castwe.” Sombra whined.
Celestia gasped, “Oh no!”
“What happened?” Luna asked, having heard her sister’s cry.
Celestia turned to her sister, “Tirek has escaped! It looks like he was using this game of hide and seek as a ruse to slip away! We must find him!”
Sombra began to bawl again as Celestia hugged him again while Rainbow Dash swooped in and asked “What’s wrong, princess?”
Celestia immediately replied, “Tirek has escaped. Get Twilight and help gather uo the foals! We need to find Triek before he can cause any mischief! My sister and I will start the search, but we’ll need everypony’s help to ensure Tirek is found!” She then placed Sombra on Rainbow Dash’s back.
“You can count on me!” Rainbow Dash replied, taking off with a buzz of her wings! She quickly flew across the hall and back to find Twilight.
Meanwhile, Scootaloo was looking around the palace for Discord. She noticed something poking out behind behind a suit of armor, a familiar looking tail. Carefully, Scootaloo crept behind the armor nd pounced on Discord while shouting, “Got ya!”
Discord laughed as the two tumbled together crashing the armor to the ground. Discord gasped, “Oh no! We gonna be in twouble fow tat, and my magic isn’t stowng enough to move someting as heavy as awmor.”
Scootaloo gulped, and she looked up in time to see Rainbow Dash with the three other foals on her back land in front of her. There was no point trying to lie, and the filly knew this. So Scootaloo quickly dropped to her knees and said to her honorary big sister ”I’m so sorry-”
But Rainbow Dash silenced Scootaloo with a hoof, and quickly picked up Discord, placing him on her back. ”It’s okay, Scoots,” She told the filly. “We have a bigger problem, Tirek has escaped! I’m on my way to get Twilight and the others!”
Scootaloo reluctantly followed Rainbow Dash back to Luna’s room where Twilight was with her friends, They were in the midst of talking about something when Rainbow Dash flew in and shouted desperately, “Girls, Celestia and Luna need you, Tirek’s escaped!”
“What do you mean escaped?!” Twilight asked with concern..
“He’s gonna wun away and weck the castwe,” Sombra cried. “He a big meanie pants! He wied about hide and seek so he couwd get away without being seen! Ya got to stop him!”
All the girls mouths dropped open in collective shock, Twilight especially since Tirek was her responsibility! When she finally regained her composure she shouted to her friends. “Let’s go, we need to find Tirek and keep him from getting into trouble! Rainbow Dash, Scootaloo, stay here with the rest of the foals, in case Tirek comes back!”
Rainbow Dash went wide eyed, “Woah, you want me to watch them?! Even after what happened?! What if they trick me like Tirek did.”
But Pinkie Pie smiled, “I know you can do it, Dashie. Besides, you said you wanted to help take care of the foals, and now you’re gonna get your chance. And you’ve got Scootaloo tl help you.”
“No mind control, Chrysalis!” Applejack warned. “And the same goes for the rest of ya little ones! Rainbow Dash, if they try anythin’ don’t hesitate to punish them and that includes spanking if necessary. I know some ponies may find it a bit harsh, but sometimes a harsh punishment is needed to ensure foals learn their lesson.”
“Well, hopefully it won’t come to that,” Rainbow Dash replied, worried about whether she’d have the guts to do something like that. She’d hated being spanked as a child. “You four will behave, right?” She asked the foals.
The foals just nodded being a bit, Chrysalis especially scared at seeing the five mares go off to help find Tirek. “I hope they know what they doing.” Chrysalis muttered to herself.
It didn’t take much effort for Tirek to escape the castle, and he was now crawling around the streets of Canterlot shouting to anypony he met. ”Bow befiwe me, I’m Wowd Tiwek!” He had no idea that nopony could understand him like the princesses and Twilight and her friends could.
As luck would have it, Twilight Velvet was doing her weekly grocery shopping at the time. When she saw the baby centaur waving his arms, she was surprised, what would a baby be doing wandering the streets of Canterlot all by itself, especially without a parent or guardian?
Tirek tried to steal Velvet’s magic, but nothing happened. Instead the mare just laughed at his attempts and cooed. “Oh you're just too adorable. I love that motion you’re making with your arms. What’s an adorable little one like you doing out here all alone?”
Tirek groaned, seeing that he was just drawing a crowd that was cooing and dawwing at him. He screamed “Stop cawing me adowable! I not adowable, you shouwd fear me!” But nopony heard him.
Twilight Velvet gave Tirek a motherly smile, picked him up wiith her telekinesis and started to nuzzle him, making him laugh and giggle. “Oh, he‘s ticklish.” She commented, and proceeded to tickle him senseless. “I wonder who this little guy belongs to?” Velvet thought in between tickle sessions. “I know my husband and I talked about having foals again and possibly adopting one, but I wasn’t aware of baby centaurs up for adoption.”
Tirek was horrifed at being tikcled! “No, stop, ya goin-” He pleaded, but before he could finish, Velvet came down and gave him another raspberry, causing him to sputter in laughter once more (he also wet his diaper), prompting only drawing dawws from the crowd. He wanted to steal their magic, wreck havoc, but he could do nothing but giggle and squall in the mare's hooves! Now he realised, even after his escape, he was nothing more than a foal unable to do anything. This made tears well up in his eyes and he began to bawl shouting, “I'm wost and hungwy, and I need a changie, my diapee is wet!”
Twilight Velvet now felt sorry for the poor centaur, and with a motherly smile she told him. “Oh, don’t you worry, I’ll get you changed and then some we’ll see about num nums.” She then took the foal in her telekinesis and placed him over her shoulder. He just bounced in her grasp, crying softly at his predicament.
“No,no,no.” Tirek protested, as he tried to fend off Twilight Velvet’s attempts as she changed his diaper. But like with Luna and with Twilight ,Twilight Velvet completed the change and placed a gold star on his new diaper (she wasn’t sure why his old one had one, but she remembered seeing similar ones on Nightmare Moon, Discord, Chrysalis, and Sombra during her visit to Ponyville a week after the gala).
Velvet kissed Tirek on the head and cooed, “There, all fresh in a new diapee,” He looked at it with disdain, as he saw it was purple and had little stars and moons decorating the outer edge. Velvet sighed, “I’m sorry but I had to use one of Twily’s unused diapers. I wasn’t exactly expecting to care for another foal. Thank goodness I still had these.”
Tirek looked at Twilight Velvet and babled ,”Ya Twily’s mom?”
Velvet nodded. ”Yep. I’m guessing you were that big mean monster that she mentioned. Tirek was it?” Tirek bowed his head and started to whimper, but Twilight Velvet just cuddled him as she cooed, “There there, it’s alright. You're just a little foal now and I'm not mad at you.” She then took him over to the bed, took out a foal bottle filled with milk and placed it in his eager mouth. He began to suckle as she hummed a tune rocking him back and forth in the cradle of her hooves.
“There, I bet you were fussy because you were hungry, huh?” Velvet asked, Tirek just looked down as she placed him on Twilight’s old bed. She then started to take out some old outfits from a box, and began to dress him in an onesie. He tried to squirm away but Twilight Velvet was too fast as she placed it over the foal. ”Come on! It took me a while to find something that would fit,” Tirek wiggled and squirmed to no avail as he was dressed him. And when his bottom crotch was fially buttoned he looked at himself in a mirror he groaned as he saw that it was a bright blue with little teddy bears decorating it. Velvrt once again dawwed “Oh that used to be one of Shiny’s, but it suits you just as good. Oh, I wish my husband was here to see how adorable you are.”
Tirek sighed as he mumbled, “Well it could be wowse.”
Twilight Velvet sighed, “Alright, I need to inform Twilight that I found you. She’s bound to be worried sick.”
Tirek gasped as he began to shout, “No, I wove the onesie!”
Twilight Velvet smiled, ”You do?” She asked.
Tirek nodded. “Teah it’s vewy wovwy.”
Twilight Velvet giggled and asked, “Well, are you going to tell me where you come from?”
Tirek gulped, “Well, um..I got tuwned to a fowl by Twily duwing owa batwe and got tewepowted, I’ve ben wost and I’m cold and hungwy, I jus wana stay hewe.”
“I...I cant,” Velvet protested. “Even if you’re a foal I need to-”
But Tirek gave her puppy dog eyes, “Pwease? could ya dwess me up in some mowe foal clothes?”
Twilight Velvet's heart melted as she sighed, “Well, alright but only for a few more minutes. Then I have to inform my daughter.”
As Twilight Velvet scooped Tirek up he thought to himself,"Maybe Celestia and Luna will give up looking for me. Even if I have to endure being a foal, at least I won’t go back to Tartarus.”
Twilight was now in front of her old house, with Rainbow Dash carrying Sombra on her back, still a bit nervous. Somehow, Sombra and the foals had managed to learn of Tirek’s location, and passed word of it along to Rainbow Dash, who then told Twilight. “Um, Twilight, you sure you can handle this?” Dash asked nervously.
Twilight sighed, “I'm sure my mom doesn't really know what’s going on with Tirek. This is just a simple misunderstanding.” She and Rainbow Dash entered the living room of her house, Sombra in tow. And that was where they found her mom with a photo album, with Tirek sitting besides her in blue onesie (this one had little cuddly ducks all over it),and a foal bonnet wrapped around his head suckling a pacifier with Shining’s cutie mark on the mouth guard. “This is Twilight when she was about your age with her big brother Shining,” Velvet cooed to Tirek. “She thought his mane was like candy and tried to eat it.”
Tirek giggled and asked. “So. I weally am weawing one of Twilie’s diapees?”
Twilight Velvet nodded, “Yes you are and they fit you perfectly. But after your next change I'll dress you up in one of Shining’s if you want. I think you’ll get a nice print from them.”
Rainbow Dash chuckled a bit as Twilight coughed. Twilight Velvet looked up with Tirek now squirming nervously. Twilight Velvet replied. ”Oh, hello Twilight, Rainbow Dash. It's so great to see you both.”
Twilight blushed, “It's good to see you too, Mom,” She then turned to Tirek who looked down as Twilight asked, “So you’ve been caring for Tirek this whole time?”
Twilight Velvet nuzzled him, “Yes and he’s been so calm and happy. At first I expected him to be a little troublemaker, but’ he’s been such an angel.”
Twilight sighed, “You even dressed him up in Shining’s old foal clothes?”
Twilight Velvet smiled, “Yes, and I even gave him one of your old diapers. The poor thing wet himself when I found him, and you know I couldn’t just leave him to get a rash.”
Twilight groaned, “I can’t believe you kept those old purple ones. What was wrong with plain white ones?”
Rainbow Dash was now laughing hard making Twilight Velvet laugh as she replied, “I’m so happy I didn't throw away your and Shining’s foal stuff, I also have your old cribs and training potties. I just couldn’t get rid of them, too many memories.”
Twilight just blushed even more, only imaging what was going through Rainbow Dash’s mind. She was happy that her friends along with Princess Celestia and Luna had decided to go back to the palace and wait.
Tirek looked at Twilight with puppy dog eyes as Sombra asked, “So, Tiwek, ya gonna saw sowie?”
Tirek looked up teary eyed and mumbled, “I sowie Somby, fow pushing ya. I weally am.”
Sombra looked at Tirek and whispered, “Alwight, Tiwek, I fowgive ya. Just as wong as you pwomsie to stay away fwom Mommy Wawity fow a while, unwess you wanna be hew wittwe fashion victim!” The former greedy king couldn’t resist chuckling a bit at that thought.
”So I’m guessing Tirek did something naughty?” Velvet asked.
“Yes he did, he pushed little Sombra and escaped from the palace.” Twilight replied.
Tirek started to cry. “I sowie Twilie, I weally am. I just twied of getting cooed at aww the time.”
“What do you think we should make him do for all this trouble?” Rainbow asked Twilight. “I mean, I’m probably not an expert, but isn’t this the sort of thing that requires punishment?”
Twilight looked at Tirek, still currently dressed up in her old foal clothes. Then she grinned as a mental lightbulb lit up inside her head. “I have an idea.” She said with a grin, and whispered to it Rainbow Dash and Sombra.
A few days had passed since Tirek’s escape attempt, and everypony across Canterlot had recieved a pamphlet of a talent show that was to be held within the castle starring little Tirek.
Tirek was complaining, as Twilight Velvet was in the royal dressing room with him, fussing over his costume. It was a big bulky diaper with a poofy foal suit.
“What’s wrong?” Velvet asked, as she combed Tirek’s hair.
Tirek babbled, “I don wana do a tawnet show, my tawnet isn even that good.”
Twilight Velvet sighed, “Come on, Tirek. Don’t you want to have fun with your friends?
Tirek whimpered, “They awe stiw mad at me.”
Twilight Velvet nudged him, “Maybe so, but didn’t Sombra forgive you for pushing him?” Tirek nodded his head as Velvet continued “Did he give you a big hug?” Tirek nodded his head again as Velvet added, “Well that means he’s not that mad at you. He probably even loves you.”
“How do you know?” Tirek asked.
Twilight Velvet with a light smile replied, “Despite what Twilight claims, she and Shining fought all the time as foals, and yet they grew up just fine. I’m sure the same will happen with you and your friends.”
Tirek looked up, “They did?”
Twilight Velvet nodded, “Yes they did, and I had to scold them and tell them what was right and what was wrong.”
Tirek spoke up, “Well, I don't wemeba much about my past, but me and Scowpon fwom what I do wemba, use to fight sometimes.”
“Did you two make up?” Velvet asked.
Tirek mumbled,” Yeah, I guess,” Then he began to cry a bit, “Bu he’s gone and fow some weasown when I thin abou him, I miss him. Why? What’s this fewing?
Twilight Velvet hugged him and kissed him on the forehead. “It’s heartache, sweetie.”
Tirek whispered, “Thanks gwanma.”
Twilight velvet giggled and cooed, “Thats alright, sweetie. Glad I could help.”
Twilight then came into the room and asked, “Hey, is Tirek-” But she saw she had no reason to question further, when she saw Tirek in his little foal tuxedo and dawwed. Twilight Velvet whispered something in her daughter’s ear as Twilight came up to the baby centaur. He looked at the ground as she asked, “So i guess you learned your lesson?”
Tirek nodded, “Yeah, I deswve the spankies. I know, i twied to be eviw, bu I jus ended up almost gettin wost.”
Twilight came over and hugged him “It’s okay, Mommy is here.”
Tirek hugged her and snuggled her fur as he mumbled, “Mama.”
Twilight kissed him on the forehead. “You’ve already changed a lot, I guess my mom talked some sense into you.”
Tirek sighed, “I gwess, ya mommy is good with foals.”
Twilight replied, “Yeah, she is. She raised Shining and myself. Maybe I’ll even let you play with her some more while we're still in Canterlot, how does that sound?”
Tirek giggled, “Yeah that sounds awsome!”
Twilight couldn't resist hugging the baby centaur and kissing him on the forehead as she whispered, “You’ve grown so much.”
Tirek actually teared up, “I weally sowie fow escawping and wuwining Discowd’s biwthday pawty.”
Twilight ruffled his mane, “That’s okay, sweetie. At least now you’ve learned your lesson. Are you ready for the talent show?”
Tirek nodded, ”Yeah, I weady!” Twilight then placed him onto her back and headed to the throne room.