Zecora was now seated with dozens of gifts on the table. Granny Smith cooed. “Okay, whose present should we open first?”
Pinkie immediately jumped up, shouting! “She should open mine, it's the best!” The pink party pony shoved the present up to Zecora, who giggled as she tore the wrapping paper and opened the box, revealing a giant package of “Silly Filly” brand diapers. Everypony giggled as Applejack cooed, picking up the package. “Oh, wow! These diapers will make Zecora super cute.” She commented.
The baby zebra squealed, hugging a package and feeling the diapers inside crinkle. She babbled, “Tey gweat, I wove tem! Tank you, Pinkie!”
Pinkie squealed, “It's okay, cutie! As long as you're happy.”
Zecora smiled and nuzzled Pinkie Pie, then turned her attention to the other gifts, “Otay, what’s next?”
Twilight took a small package, and hoofed it to Zecora and replied, “Hey cutie, here’s something to help you get back into reading.”
Zecora ripped through the package, and she squealed, pulling out a giant dark green book with big, bright yellow letters, and she babbled, “Wow, wha does it say?!”
Twilight blushed and cooed, “Oh, it says: ‘Foal’s First Book on Herbs and Plants in the Everfree Forest’.”
Zecora giggled. “Oh, what a titwe! Bu it might be some time befowe I can wead it.” Sure enough, she started to skim through it, but she couldn’t read anything.
Applejack took the book and added. “Thanks, Twilight. I'll read it every night to Zecora before nighty nights.”
Zecora giggled, and then turned her attention to a gift wrapped in a purple wrapping paper. She slowly opened it, revealing many different cute clothes, purple and pink onesies, cute pink plastic diaper covers, and on top of all the clothing was a pretty purple dress and a tiara. The zebra giggled. “Oh, tis is just gweat!” Applejack nodded with wide eyes. “Oh yes, you're going to be a pretty little princess.” The baby zebra twirled it about. “Abbwejack, can I weaw tis, pwease?!”
Applejack came over and cooed, “Of course, now put those adorable hooves up to the sky!”
Zecora did just that, raising her hooves. Applejack slipped the dress over the zebra, and she squealed, bouncing up and down as she babbled. “Ta dwess is gweat!”
Rarity nodded and cooed, “Oh, that's wonderful, darling. Luckily, Applejack already told me your measurements. Hopefully, I got them just right.”
Zecora giggled, before seeing that the dress did nothing to hide her diaper and babbled, “Evewythin is fine, bu why is my dwess so smaww?”
Applejack nuzzled her as she explained. “So we can all get to see your pretty little diaper, sweetie.”
Zecora giggled, nuzzling Applejack. Then she went to the next present, it was wrapped in yellow paper. Zecora opened it, peeked in, and gasped, bringing out a tiny bunny sleeper. The little zebra hugged it, feeling how soft it was, and asked. “W..who got tis fow me?”
Fluttershy tried hiding behind Pinkie, who giggled shoving her out into the open as the yellow coated pegasus shrieked in surprise. Zecora squealed as she babbled in realization, “Fwuttashy! Ya ta one who made tis fow me!”
Fluttershy gulped, stuttering, “W..well...no...Rarity made it. I...um just gave her the idea.” The mare squealed and covered her face again making everypony laugh. Zecora giggled again “Oh Fuwttashy, stop being so shy! I wove ta bunny suit, it’s so cute!”
Everypony dawwed and Fluttershy perked up, smiling. “Oh thank you, Zecora,” The little zebra made grabby hooves, and Fluttershy went up to her and hugged her close, nuzzling the foal as she whispered, “Happy Foal day.”
Zecora nuzzled Fluttershy back, making the mare blush. Applejack came over, reluctantly tapping Fluttershy on the shoulder as she whispered, “Hey...um...Fluttershy, I don’t want to bother you...but uh we should get on with the presents.”
Fluttershy jumped back giggling, “Right, sorry.”
Applejack nuzzled her yellow coated friend. “Oh, don’t be sorry. We just want cute little Zecora to open the rest of her presents before night fall.”
Zecora then turned to the next present, it was huge and bulky, and wrapped in blue wrapping paper. Zecora tore through it, gasping at a Wonderbolt foal kit, with diapers with thunderbolts, onesies, and pacifiers. Rainbow Dash shouted with enthusiasm, ”So, what do you think, Zecora?! I..I mean is it not the best birthday present ever?!”
Zecora looked up at the cyan coated pegasus with a big smile, “Is gweat, tank ya, Wainbow Dash.”
Rainbow Dash flew up and squealed. “Of course! I knew you’d like it!”
The baby zebra then turned to another bulky present, this one wrapped in red wrapping paper. Big Mac blushed as Applejack cooed, “Oh Big Mac, you got somethin’ for Zecora?”
Big Macintosh blushed harder, hiding his face. The baby zebra tore through the wrapping paper and beneath it was a big, red coated stallion plushie (in other words a plushie form of Big Mac). Zecora squealed and hugged it close, shouting. “I wove it, tis is a amazin’ pwesent!”
Big Mac came up and gave Zecora a huge hug, as the baby zebra pecked him on the cheek. Granny Smith then came up, putting a bright green package on the filly’s tray. “Alright young un’, time that ya got my little gift. This took me quite some time to make.”
Zecora nodded and started ripping the lumpy package open. She found a cute foal blanket. It was dark green in color with bright green, red and yellow apples decorated all over the fabric. She touched it, feeling how fuzzy and warm it wa, ands whispered, “Tis is so soft and fluffy.”
Granny gave a bright smile and cooed, “Well thanks, sugarcube. It was quite the hassle to make.”
Zecora gasped, “I so sowie, Gwanny! Ya didn’ have ta do tat fow me tough!”
But Granny came over and ruffled Zecora’s mane, reassuring her. “It's alright, sugarcube. For you, I would do it again.”
Zecora hugged the mare’s nose and nuzzled her as she whispered, “Tanks Gwanny, ya ta best.”
The next present was presented, with Scootaloo fluttering up near Zecora and placing it next to her. She peered at the small orange colored box, and opened the lid and giggled. “Wha is it?”
Apple Bloom smiled as she explained, “Oh, it's somethin’ we made at your hut.”
Zecora gasped, seeing a vial with some purple liquid inside it! She eyed it and asked, “Is this a cuwe?!”
Apple Bloom shook her head as she explained, “Oh no, it's just somethin’ we whipped up to help calm your stomach, ‘case ya get anymore tummy aches.”
Scootaloo nodded and added, “Yeah, we looked at some of your old notes and made it yesterday. I'm pretty sure it will work if your tummy aches.”
Twilight took the vail within her magic and decided, ”I’d better inspect it first before we give it to Zecora.”
The baby zebra giggled as she asked. “Afta ya finished checking it, can I have it back?”
Twilight turned and cooed, “Oh yes, of course. It was a very thoughtful gift.”
The Cutie Mark Crusaders beamed at Twilight. Then Applejack took something from her apron and set a box in front of the little zebra. Zecora giggled, “Wha is it?”
Applejack came around, and snuggled the little zebra and cooed, “Open it up and find out.”
Zecora turned her attention to the final package and slowly tore through the wrapping paper with everypony watching her. She lifted the top and gasped, lifting out a baby bottle covered with cartoon apples. Zecora squealed, hugging it and shouting! “I wove it! I wove it!”
Applejack dawwed, lifting the tiny zebra with her little legs kicking adorably, making the cutest crinkling noise ever. She nuzzled her a few times, before placing the foal on her back. Turning towards her friends with a cute smile on her face, she turned and cooed. “Thanks everypony for the lovely gifts, how about I dress Zecora up and when I come back we play some party games?”
Pinkie squealed, “That sounds like a great idea! I’ll set some up!”
Applejack nodded. “And I’ll go get Zecora ready.” And she took the bags of presents upstairs. She placed Zecora on her bed and the baby zebra eyed her. “Abbwejack, why ya actin so weiwd?”
Applejack nuzzled her as she stripped Zecora of her wet diaper, “Oh it’s nothin’, just havin’ a little fun is all.”
Zecora giggled. “Bu ya actin’ so siwwy.”
Applejack took one of the big, pink, poofy diapers out of the jumbo pack, and cooed, “Oh just you wait, soon you'll be the silly one.”
Zecora groaned, putting her hooves over her eyes, “Do I gotta weaw tose? Tey way too fwiwwy.”
But Applejack cooed, “Oh stop that frettin’, your Auntie Pinkie Pie got ‘em just for you, cutie butt.” She then powdered Zecora up and started taping her into the big poofy diaper. Zecora blushed as she replied, “Abbwejack, tank you fow evewythin’. I weawwy wove ta pawty!”
Applejack patted the filly’s rump as she giggled, “Thank you for being a good baby zebra, cutie butt., The farm mare smirked as she took out the frilly purple dress, “Rarity really went all out with this.”
Zecora was prodding her new padding and grumbling. “Is so poofy, I can’t even cwose my legs.”
Applejack turned to Zecora in her big poofy diaper and giggled, “What are you talkin’’ about, I think it’s perfect.”
Zecora rolled her eyes. “Uh huh. So funny, Abbwejack.”
Applejack just cooed, “Alright, now lift those cute hoofsies to the sky.”
Zecora blushed, reluctantly lifting her chubby forehooves, as Applejack slowly placed the dress over and smoothed it out. But it did nothing to hide her big, pink, poofy diaper. The baby zebra blushed, ruffling around in the purple dress, “Weww, how do I wook?”
Applejack giggled. “You look like the prettiest little filly in Ponyville.” And she lifted the blushing zebra, and placed the foal on her back.
Applejack then skipped back downstairs, and all the ponies turned to see the cute filly. She blushed, trying to hide her diaper with the dress, but this just made the ponies laugh even more. Rarity squealed, rushing over to examine the dress, “It’s perfect, darling.” Zecora complained ,”Bu it dun hide my diapee.” And Rarity giggled, “Sorry. It’s just that, for foals I thought the dress could be short, so mommies can have easy access to their foal’s diapers.”
Pinkie squealed, bouncing up to Zecora and lifting the dress, “You’re wearing my silly filly diapers! How do you like them?”
The baby zebra babbled, “Tey poofy, bu gweat. I bet tey gonna keep me dwy fow houaws.” Pinkie in her excitement grabbed and cuddled the filly close to her and cooed, “Oh, I bet. I heard you're quite the soaker.” Zecora kicked about making the diaper crinkle loudly as she squealed.
Then the baby zebra turned to Applejack and asked, “I guess it’s otay. Can I pway pin ta tawe on ta pony?”
Pinkie nodded. “Sure, let’s get to playing!” She bounced away with Zecora as Applejack cautioned, “Be careful, Pinkie! Don't bounce Zecora around too much, she might wet her diaper!”
Pinkie stopped, putting a pink blindfold around Zecora’s eyes, and placed the foal on the floor. She wiggled about in her dress and poofy pink diaper. Everypony watched her crawl across the ground towards the small pony on the wall. Apple Bloom was shouting in encouragement! “You can do it, Zecora! Pin the tail on that pony!”
Zecora snapped the tail on the wall, threw the blindfold off, and saw that the tail was on the pony’s face and blushed. “Uh oh, I wost.”
But Applejack picked the foal up up and snuggled her, “Oh, you didn’t lose. You did well for your first try, yes you did, yes you did.”
Zecora turned to the paper pony on the wall and eyed it. “I gonna twy again!” She vowed, and was placed on the ground and had the blindfold tied around her again. She waddled straight to the pony, but put the tail over it. She looked up and groaned, “Oh no, not again!”
Applejack came over and hugged her as she asked, “How ‘bout I help ya?” The farm mare picked the baby zebra up by the waistband of the diaper with her giggling. She took out the tail and Applejack waddled to the paper pony, Zecora garbling as they got closer. “A little to the right.” Applejack instructed.
Zecora snapped the tail on the pony’s rump, threw the blindfold off, and squealed in delight! “I did it!” Everypony around her clapped and cheered.
Applejack hugged the little zebra and nuzzled her close, “Oh, I know you did. Such a smart, cute foal.”
Zecora just bounced up and down shouting, “Did ya see, Mommy?! Did ya see?!”
Applejack gave her a boop on the nose. “Oh yes I did.” And she hugged Zecora close, patting her diaper and smothering Zecora in kisses.
Then Pinkie shouted, “Hey, how about we do ‘The Pony Pokey’ next?!”
Zecora nodded. “Yeah, wets do it!” She wiggled off and headed to the middle of the room with the rest of the guests. Applejack stepped back, but Pinkie Pie jumped up and pushed her into the circle, “Come on Mommy Jackie, you have to play too!” Applejack grumbled as she was pushed to the center.
Later that evening, most of the ponies at the party were gone. Only Applejack’s family, and her friends stayed, sitting around and talking. As Zecora was building blocks with the Cutie Mark Crusaders, the baby zebra heard her stomach grumble and she whined. “Abbwejack, I hungwy.”
Applejack simply replied. “Oh dear, better get you a a baba.” And scampered off to the kitchen to make Zecora a bottle. She came back, scooped up the zebra, and cradled her into the embrace of her forehooves, watching the baby zebra suckle gently on her new bottle. Twilight dawwed, “Wow, she calmed down immediately with you.”
Applejack blushed, “Thanks, Twilight. It’s amazin’ how well we’ve been gettin’ along.”
Rainbow Dash groaned. “Okay, Applejack, what’s going on with you, seriously? Why are you acting so weird?”
Applejack looked up with a smile, “Oh it’s nothin’, just carin’ for Zecora changed me a little.”
Rarity giggled as she waved a hoof. “Don’t fret, darling. I think you're doing just wonderful.”
Pinkie hopped over to Applejack and gave her a big hug and exclaimed, “Don’t listen to Rainbow Dash! I LOVE your new personality!”
Rainbow Dash still had her hooves crossed and grumbled, “Well I don’t like it, I want the old Applejack back.”
Twilight turned to the cyan coated pegasus and replied. “Well, I did read that mares go through personality changes with foals. It’s actually quite common, and I'm fine with Applejack getting in touch with her maternal side.”
Applejack’s face turned a deep red and she whispered. “Thanks, Twilight, you're such a cutie when you say something smart.”
Twilight blushed at this as, Rainbow rolled her eyes and turned to Fluttershy, who was smiling while gently sipping a cup of tea. The cyan coated pegasus asked, “So, Fluttershy what do you think about all of this?”
Fluttershy squeaked. “I...I don't know…”
But Rainbow insisted, flying up to her friend. “Come on, Fluttershy, back me up here. Didn’t you like the old Applejack better?”
The shy yellow coated pegasus mare hid behind her wings as she stammered, “W..well..I like her new personality..a lot really…”
Applejack smiled at Fluttershy. “Thanks, Fluttershy. I’m glad that ya do.”
Rainbow groaned, sitting back onto the couch as Applejack cooed, “Oh, it’s alright, Rainbow Dash. Do you need some warm milk? I'm sure that will cheer you up.” Everypony laughed out loud at the statement as the angry tomboyish mare grumbled, “Now you're just being silly!” Pinkie Pie and Rarity both exchanged smirks.
Zecora finished her bottle, and turned and asked, “Hey, Abbwejack, awe ya wowwied about somethin?”
Applejack shook her head and explained, “Oh no, nothin’ like that, I’m..just..well..well..lovin’ bein a mommy.” Her friends all dawwed at the statement.
Twilight nodded and chirped, “That's great to hear! Let us know if you need anything, okay? I can even come by and teach Zecora how to read once in awhile.”
Zecora giggled, “Yeah, tat wowd be gweat! Though Cheewiwee’s awweady teaching me.”
Fluttershy smiled, “I could foalsit once in awhile.”
Rarity chimed in, “That’s simply darling, I would love to come by as well. I could use some inspiration for my new foal line, not to mention a model.”
Pinkie raised hoof as she started bouncing. “Oh, I wanna help too! I would love to help out!”
Applejack turned to Pinkie with a small smile, “Oh Pinkie, there’s no need…”
But Rainbow Dash interrupted and offered, “I should do something to help too. Maybe I could teach Zecora how to fight Timberwolves. She lives in the Everfree Forest for Celestia’s sake! She’s gotta learn how to protect herself! Self defense and all that!”
Applejack turned and shook her head. “No way, Rainbow Dash! My little appleseed isn't going anywhere near the Everfree Forest, too dangerous!”
Rainbow Dash groaned. “Fine, whatever, just trying to help.”
Applejack rolled her eyes and looked over to the window to see the sun setting and mumbled, “I’m goin’ to get Zecora into her cute bunny sleeper.” She then carried Zecora upstairs, and as Applejack started to take off Zecora’s dress, the baby zebra looked up at Applejack with a curious look and asked, “Hey, Abbwejack, why awe ya actin’ so diffewent?”
Applejack sighed, looked at the baby zebra, and replied, “Oh, well...I..I didn’t want anypony thinkin’ that I’m not capable of carin’ for you by myself.”
The baby zebra (who was now having a cute bunny sleeper being put over her head) asked, “Why ya actin’ so weiwd tough?”
Applejack lifted the bunny hood over the baby zebra’s head and continued to explain, “Look, it was supposed to make my friends miss the old me. And so far it seems to have only worked on Rainbow Dash.”
Zecora sighed while pouting, and babbled angrily, “Weawwy, Abbwejack? We aww wove ya no mattaw what. Ya showd go downstaiws and just act wike yasewf.”
Applejack smirked as she looked at Zecora and replied, “Yeah, you’re right. This plan is stupid and gettin’ out of control.”
Zecora nodded, and got up in her cute bunny costume and babbled excitedly, “Otay ten, wets go downstaiws.”
Applejack nodded, putting Zecora back on her back. She slowly stepped downstairs and turned to her friends. They all turned to see Zecora in her cute bunny sleeper, complete with a poofy tail and long floppy ears. Fluttershy blushed as she whispered. “Wow...it looks great.”
Zecora nodded. “Tanks, Fwuttashy, I wove it. But um...Abbwejack’s gots somthin’ ta say.”
Applejack turned towards her friends and explained, “I got carried away tryin’ to act like an overprotective mom, to make ya girls want the old me back. Sorry.”
Everypony laughed as Twilight got up with a smile, “It’s alright, Applejack. I understand completely. If you want to care for Zecora by yourself, we should give you the space to do so.”
Rainbow Dash immediately got up, shouting. “I knew it was an act!” And she flew over to Applejack. “Looks like that means I won something, right?”
Zecora giggled as Applejack rolled her eyes and grumbled, “No, Rainbow Dash.”
Rainbow shrugged in defeat. “Eh, was worth a try.”
Pinkie and Rarity giggled, then Applejack sighed. “Well, anyways, it’s Zecora’s bedtime and I should get her into her crib.”
Applejack slowly trotted back upstairs, placed Zecora in her crib, and put the foal blankets (including the one Zecora had gotten from Granny Smith) on.
As Zecora snuggled her big red pony plushie, and her ursa minor plushie. she babbled “Abbwejack, tank ya fow ta gweat pawty.”
Applejack nodded. “No problem, sugarcube. Glad ya liked it”
As Applejack trotted slowly out of the room, Zecora turned to her and babbled “Abbwejack, I wove ya.”
The farm mare turned with a smile and whispered. “Love ya too, sugarcube.” And she closed the door as she went downstairs.