//------------------------------// // Chapter Eight: A Night in the Dream Realm // Story: Little Miss Tempest Tantraum // by Foal Star //------------------------------// Two weeks later… Back at Magical Daycare, Rebecca Pie was busy looking over her charges as she usually did. Tinkle Spark was busy playing tag with Flurry Heart and Fizzlepop. The three of them constantly booping each other. Fizzlepop was busy building a fort out of giant foam blocks, lifting them with her horn and stacking them on top of each other. Flurry Heart was doing the same, and Rebecca Pie took noticed. “My my, you two are doing very well.” Fizzlepop nodded and rubbed her horn, babbling incoherent gibberish. Rebecca nodded in approval. “Very well done, Fizzlepop! You’re improving so well, and so fast! I’m impressed,” The teacher then turned to Flurry Heart also levitating the foam blocks. She just smiled and cooed, “I have to say, you two are the fastest learners I’ve ever seen. What’s you secret?” Tinkle Spark waddled up and explained. “Weww, we pway in owa dweams and weawn things. Fizzy’s learning not to be scared and Flurry is learning to control hew excitement. I hewp them with both.” Rebecca Pie nodded. ”Good. We’re having an evaluation next week, and at this rate, I think that these two could graduate from Magic Daycare soon.” Tinkle Spark nodded. “Otay, sounds gweat!” Rebecca Pie smiled as she went over to check on the other foals. Then Fizzlepop turned and asked Tinkle Sprk. “Hey, Tinkle Sprk, wha is a e-e-eva-evathingy?” Tinkle Spark perked up as he expalined. “Oh, wew evewy month we do a evaluhh… thingy to see if ya can gwaduate Magic Daycawe. If ya do good, ya get to go magic pweschoow whew ya weawn ABC’s and tings wike tat.” Flurry Heart waddled over with a worried look. “But dun ya two wemeba wha my mommy said, if we gwaduate, Fizzy is gonna go back to hew meanie pawents and weave us fowevew.” Fizzlepop looked down and sniffled. “So…I ethew faiw ta test and stay hewe, ow pass and go with my meanie pawents? I dun wanna weave my fwiends.” Tinkle Spark started stacking blocks as he explained. “Well, ya can just fail it. It’s not wike ya have to twy evwy month, and ya can stay in magic dawcawe fow as wong as ya wike if ya do. Heck we had a few ponies stay hewe untiw tey wewe wike six!” Fizzlepop sighed. “But ten Cady may not wike me if she sees I keep having magic sugwes, espciawwy on puwpose. Eithew way, I gonna be going back to my meanie parents and weave ya both behind. Is not fair!” The little filly wailed, with tears running down her cheeks as she waddled off, and Tinkle Sparke ran after her. The colt finally caught up with the filly crying in the corner of the daycare. Tinkle sat down beside her with a plop and told her. “Hey, dun be sad. You’re not goin’ back to ya meanie parents.” Fizzlepop rubbed a hoof across her tear stricken face and asked. “How do you know?” Tinkle Spark got up as he told her. “Because ya a good fiwwy and my bestest fwiend, and babies can do what babies gots to do. I gonna make suwe ya gwaduate magic dawcawe and keep ya here with Cady.” Fizzlepop smiled. “Otay, wew we can twy I guess. But whats ta pwan?” Tinkle Spark sat down, suckling a pacifier before he gasped! “I gots it! Ya can be a gweat fiwwy fow Cady, but be a naughty filly fow ya pawents!” Fizzlepop smiled and bounced on her diaper more quickly as her excitement built. “That actually sounds wike a gweat idea! Tey vewy picky, and if tey see tat I weawwy cwanky and smewy and stuff then tey wun adopt me!” But then she suddenly stopped bouncing. “But I dun wanan be a bad fiwwy, I twyin to be good. I even supposed to stawt weawening how to use ta potty.” Tinkle Spark replied to Fizzlepop. “Is just acting, ya dun have to weally do it a wot. In fact, I know a pony who can hewp us.” Fizzlepop raised an eyebrow. “Who is tat? You got anothew fwiend we haven’t met?” Tinkle Spark raised his hooves in the air as he exclaimed! “His name somby and he’s ta biggest poopy head I’ve eva met! I’ll show him to ya both tonight!” “Weawwy? Bu how? I heawd Mommy and Daddy say he got bown up befowe I was bown!” Flurry Heart babbled, having overheard the conversation. “Wew, somehow pawt of him suwvived, and now he in te deam wealm,” Tinkle Spark explained. “I onwy visit him once, bu I wemembew how to find him.” Later that night, Tinkle Spark was once again with Fizzlepop and Flurry Heart in the dream realm. The two fillies stood as Tinkle Spark was explaining things. “Otay I tink ya two awe doin supew wew on weawning to contwow ya magic. So tonight, we instead gonna weawn things to hewp Fizzy stay with Cady and not go with hew meanie pawents.” Flurry nodded and babbled. “I gonna go see Daddy in potty twaining while ya and Fizzy goes find Somby. But be cawefuw, I heawd he supew scawy.” Tinkle Spark shook his head. “Nah, not anymowe, Wuna found him some time ago and put him in a dweam jaiw, he can’t bothew ya.” Fizzlepop blushed at the thought of there being a prison within dreams. “Weally? Whas the dream he’s twapped in?” Tinkle Spark giggled. “It’s a dwaem whew he goes thwough wife as a foal and Pwincess Cady’s his mommy. You gonna meet him, cause ya gots to learn to act wike tat with ya pawents so tey won’t adopt you.” Fizzlepop sighed as she bounced on her diaper. “I’m not really suwre if tis is a good idea. Whenever I acted battwy towads my pawents, I got gwounded.” Tinkle Spark threw up a hoof. “Tey can’t do tat if tey not ya parents. Come on, Sombra’s tis way,” They were lead to a strange red bubble and Fizzlepop shuddered, but Tinkle Spark placed a hoof on her back. “Dun worry, he can’t do anything to ya. Undewstand?” Fizzlepop nodded, but still closed her eyes as she entered through. On the other side, she opened them and saw that she was in a nursery of some sort, with foal toys scattered all over, and bright blue pull-ups thrown all over the place. In the middle of the room, something caught Fizzlepop’s eye. A little black coated colt was  whining and fussing as a “fake” Cadence was putting him in a fresh pull-up.“Somby, for the hundredth time, stop this right now!” Sombra shook his head. “No, dun wana dwess in puww-ups, ya not my mommy!” Cadence eyed the little colt. “Somby, you know you can’t leave until you start behaving better. Those are the rules” But Sombra shook his head. “Nuh uh, not gonna eva wisten to ya!” Cadence scoffed. “Fine, little trouble maker, it looks like diapers again for you,” She poofed a thick, pink poofy diaper with her cutie mark on it onto his rump. “You’ll have to wear that all night, or day in your dream case.” Sombra grumbled and plopped onto his diaper, he hated it. Cadence shook her head, then turned to see Fizzlepop. “Oh, I didn’t know I was going to have visitors,” She hastily greeted. “Luna usually tells me in advance when she comes over to check on the prisoner..” Tinkel Spark waddled up and explained. “Well, uh Cady, ya see… um... I want Fizzlepop to pway with baby Somby.” Fizzlepop nodded, playing along. “Yeah, uh…I was a bad fiwwy who tuwned good in ta weaw wowd and I want to see if maybe I can hewp him behave.” Cadence chuckled. “Alright, I’ll let you play with Sombra until he calms down. But I must warn you, he’s not very nice.” Fizzlepop giggled. “It’s otay, this is a dweam, so I know nothin’ bad can happen.” Cadence nodded and left as Fizzlepop waddled to the angry colt he glared at her. “Wha do you want, fiwwy?” Fizzlepop sat down on her diaper and asked. “So, guess ya in big twobwe?” Sombra nodded and mumbled. “Wew, yeah, I did twy enswavin aw of ta Cwystaw Empiwe. And I got bown-up fow it.” Fizzlepop looked down and whispered. “I tried enswaving Cantewot to get my hown back, so we awent too diffewent.” Sombra growled as he stomped around his room. “When ta weaw Cadence twied to destwoy me, I came hewe in ta this dweam weawm wherew Pwincess Wuwu tuwned me into a foaw and wocked me up. She says I stayin in diapees and puww-ups untiw I weawn to be a good colt. Is so not fair.” Fizzlepop sighed. “Well why dun ya twy being good? Twust me I weawn my weason and am twyin to be bettew. Is not bad, actuawwy.” Sombra plopped onto the seat of his diaper and crossed his forehooves in defiance. “No, I dun wana. Being bad is good.” Fizzlepop rolled her eyes. “Otay, wew if ya dun wan to be good tats fine. I weawwy came hewe to weawn how to be naughty.” Sombra laughed and started kicking his hooves in delight! “Oh, otay. Wew ya gonna weawn fwom ta mastew! Come on wets stawt by steawin cookies!” He ran off as Fizzlepop gulped and thought. “I hope we don’t do too much damage. Even if that Cadence is fake, she can alert Luna and I can get in really big trouble in the waking world!” Tinkle Spark left Sombra’s dream prison and lead Flurry to Shining’s blue bubble again, here Flurry saw something fun. Shining was a toddler in bright blue pull-ups with his cutie mark, donned in plastic armor, and a rubber sword at his side. He was standing at attention with other colts all wearing the same foal armor and foam toys as Princess Celestia was coming down the castle the hallway with a motherly smile. “Alright little foals, today, while you play ‘Royal Guard’ make sure you ask me if you need to go potty, okay?” They all nodded “Yes, Pwincess Tia.” Celestia giggled. “Oh, and the foal who doesn’t have an accident gets to ride with me to raise the sun tomorrow.” The colts all became excited, but maintained their composure and said. “Otay, Pwincess Tia.” She then came down and said to them. “Now come on, give your princess a hug.” They all tackled the sun princess as she laughed, and smothered each guard with kisses. Flurry flapped her wings and bounced in excitement wanting to join in on the fun. And Tinkle Spark giggled. “Otay, Flurry. Better put ya in a disguise so ya don’t wuin ta dweam.” Flurry nodded and let Tinkle Spark dress her like a baby version of Princess Luna, with a short, dark blue starry mane, a matching blue coat, and dark green eyes. The baby alicorn squealed and flew off while shouting. “Yay, I Auntie Wuwu!” Tinkle Spark put on some fake foal armor and a matching foam sword. “Alright, I’ll keep an eye on Flurry. We’re just here to watch Shining potty train, not embewass him.” He thought to himself. He ran off and folloed Flurry over to see her tackle Princess Celestia, who nuzzled her. ”Oh, hello Luna. Do you want to see the big colts?” Flurry flapped her wings and nodded. “Yeah, wana pway with colts!” Shining giggled. “We pwayin woyaw guawds! We gots to pwotect the pwincess fwom meanine bully Prince Blueblood.” One guard giggled. “Yeah, but ya shouwd be pwotecting ya fiwwy Cady. Bet he gots cooties fwom kissin hew.” All the other guards giggled and cried out in chorus. “Ewww!” Shining pouted furiously. “I dun got cooties!” Celestia cooed, stopping the argument. ”Now now, no fighting,” She lightly scolded. “You can all play royal guard while I go do big pony things. Just come and find me if you have to go potty.” And she then departed. Shining turned to Flurry, not recognizing her through her disguise. “So, Pwincess Wuwu, ya ta pway pwetty pwincess. And I got to pwotect ya fwom ta monstews undew ta bed.” Many of the other colts whimpered, and one started peeing his pull-up as he whined. “Du..du wana fight ta monstew undew ta bed.” Shining turned. “But we gots to! I the captain, and I say ya can’t be scawed of ta monstews!” Tinkle Spark came up to Shining. “Wew, we aw need night wights and teddies fow pwotection. The monstews awe scawed of night lights and teddies.” The foals all looked at each other, still unsure, as Shining sighed. “Fine, I’ww beat the mosntew. Come on, Wuwu.” He led Flurry away as Tinkle Spark followed close behind. Fizzlepop was now on a kitchen counter, with Somby standing over a jar of cookies. He bounced on his back legs with anticipation. “Look at all the cookies! “ He took a hoofful and shoved them into his mouth! He chomped down and rubbed a chocolate covered hoof over his belly, moaning in delight. “Yum.” Fizzlepop giggled, as she took a hoofful and shoved the cookies into her mouth. “Oh, they're so good! I used ta do tis aww at the time, bu my mommy and daddy wouwd awways say ‘cookies awe fow dessewt onwy’.” Sombra nodded. “Gown-ups stink. Don’t ya see, being naughty can be fun!” Then he turned to the red bubble and smirked. “In fact, we can have mowe fun going into anothew pony’s dweam.” Fizzlepop gulped. “Uh, I dun know…” Sombra poked her belly. “Come on, pwease? I pwomice we’ll be wight back aftew we have some fun. Ya wanted to wean how be naughty, wight?” Fizzlepop grumbled. “Otay, but ya gots to pwomice we go stwaight back aftew one dweam.” Sombra shook his hoof. “Pwomice.” They then crawled to the portal and Fizzlepop lead Sombra out. He giggled in delight! “Yes, I fwee!” He jumped into the air, but then looked around, seeing the thick pink diaper still strapped around his rump, and his chubby belly. “What?! Bu…but why am I stiww a foaw?!” Fizzlepop growled at Sombra. ”I knew ya was twyin to twick me!” Sombra babbled. ”Yeah, so what? Ya dumb enough ta twust me!” He stuck his tongue out in protest. “I may onwy be a foaw, but I stiww gonna be a meanie in otha ponies dweams. Just watch me!” He waddled off as Fizzlepop chased after him! They both fell into Celestia’s dream. Here, she was in Cheerilee’s class, talking about the sun and how cool it was. Sombra popped in and waddled over. “Awso di ya aww know tat Tia is a poopy, meanie head? She bwows ya up if you don’t agree with hew.” Celestia and Cheerilee both looked down and Celestia giggled. “Oh my, how did you get out of your daycare prison, mister cranky pants?” Sombra looked up. “Dun know, but why ya in diapees?” Celestia eyed him, and suddenly squeaked as she felt something poof around her! She looked down to see a diaper with a big smiling sun printed on it as she whined. “Hey!” Sombra laughed wickedly and poofed a yellow bib and baby bonnet onto Celestia, smirking. “Aww, look, it’s Tia ta baby.” The class all started laughing. So did Cheerilee, as Celestia backed up, whimpering. Fizzlepop came down from above, having seen everything. “Stop it, Somby! This has gone too faw!” Sombra stuck his tongue out. “So what? How ya gonna stop me?!” Fizzlepop babbled. “By tweating ya wike ta wittwe foaw ya awe!” She then poofed Sombra into a baby bouncer. As Sombra bounced up and down, she turned to Celestia, and poofed her into a foal and now the class was dawwing as Cheerile came over. “Hey, where did all you foals come from?” Sombra tired to say something, but he was now suckling a pacifier, and Cheerilee picked him up first. “Oh my, looks like he’s quite the little stinker.” She took him to change the colt in front of the class as he kicked and wailed. Fizzlepop giggled and poofed herself and Celestia over to see Sombra’s diaper now untaped, with Cheerilee wiping him down. Celestia turned, still in her foalish state. ”So, Fizzlepop, I guessin ya was ta one who wet Somby out of his nuwsewy?” Fizzlepop whimpered and confessed. “Yeah…I was twyin to weawn how to be naughty.” Celestia giggled and asked. ”Why? Being naughty is bad, dun ya know that?” Fizzlepop turned. “Pwincess Tia, my pawnets awe weawwy mean, and tey said if I pass Magic Daycawe and am potty twained, tey gonna take me back! I…I want to twick them when they come so they dun take me! Weaning how to be naughty was the onwy way!” Celestia listened intently to everything Fizzlepop told her, and then commented. “Well..that does sound wike a good pwan. In fact, Cady told me about the situation, and I've been looking into Equestiran adoption law I couldn’t find anything that could help. Luckily, ya just might have found a loophole.” Fizzlepop blushed. “Really, ya suppowt my pwan?” Celestia nodded, ”I do, but ya bettwew keep it a secwet. So ya just focus on gwaduating Magic Daycawe fow now heck I can teach ya a few twicks on being naughty.” Fizzlepop giggled. ”Weawwy?!” Celestia nodded. “Uh-huh. Now wets get Somby back to ta nursery befowe Wuna finds out.” They turned to see him blushing, being held up in a super thick diaper with ABC printed on the front as Cheerilee proclaimed. “And that, class, is how you change a diaper!” Back in Shining’s dream, he, the guards, and Flurry and Tinkle in disguise, went up the castle steps to find the baby Prince Blueblood sitting on the top of stairs, crying. Shining waddled up to him. “Hey, Bwuey what’s wrong?” Blueblood whimpered. “Shiny, t-thewe’s a monstew unedw my bed. I so scawed, I did a pee pee in my pull-up. I gonna get a stormy cloud stickew on my chawt.” Shining helped him up and reassured him. “Oh, tats otay, I got a bunch of stowmy cwouds and waindwops too. Ta potty is bowin, diapees awe bettew. I onwy use ta potty cause it makes the gwown-ups happy. I’ll beat tat monstew fow ya.” Blueblood snifled. “Otay, wew good wuck, Shiny. I gonna go get a changie.” He waddled down the stairs as Shining turned to the door and entered. As Shining and Flurry looked under the bed, what popped out was an enchanted training potty. But it was a lot more monstorus in design, it was completely black in color and sharp teeth, not to mention glowing red eyes! Shining squeaked in fright, he was not prepared for this! “Oh no, how do you defeat a twining potty monstew?!” He whimpered, already peeing his pull-up. But Flurry (not as frightened of little potties) waddled up to it, put her hooves on her hips and shouted. “Bad potty, ya stop bein a monstew! Ya pwincess commands you!” Then the teeth disappeared and the black color turned blue, complete with Shining’s cutie mark printed on it. Flurry turned to face Shining and shouted. “See, Shining Awmow, wook! It’s oaty! Ta potty’s not a monstew.” Shining whimpered, scrunching his soggy pull-up. “Bu..but I’m still scawed.” Flurry took Shining and slowly pulled down his pull-up. “It’s oaty, now come on. Show me how a big cowt uses his potty.” Shining slowly waddled over, pulling his pull-up all the way down as Tinkle Spark and Flurry Heart watched, and he plopped down on the training potty. Tinkle Spark came over. ”Wow, you’we so good at tat!” He exclaimed! Shining nodded and hugged the two. “Tank you. I dun know why, bu ya two wook famiwiar and awe so cool!” “Well, we gotta go now,” Flurry declared. “But maybe we can visit ya tomowwow to see how ya go potty? We actuawwy weawning how to use it owaselves.” Shining squeals with excitement! “Sure, tat sounds like fun! Ya stick with me, and ya two awe gonna get potty charts covered in sunshine stickers!” Meanwhile, in Sombra’s nursery prison, he was being scolded by the fake Cadence. “I can't believe you left! Bad colt you're going to be in super thick diapers for a week! And no sweets either!” She poofed him into a super thick diaper, with a stormy cloud with a frowny face printed on the front, and then placed him in a crib. Sombra grumbled, laying down as he suckled a bright pink pacifer. Cadence turned to Fizzlepop, who whimpered and started peeing her diaper. Cadence sighed. “Well I heard everything, and Princess Celestia already explained it. But you can’t come back here again. At least without permission from one of the princesses. Sombra can’t be allowed to run off again. Even as a foal, if he were allowed to wander the dream realm unsupervised, there’s no telling what kind of trouble he could cause.” Fizzlepop lowered her head and nodded. “I undewstand. I won’t wet him twick me again.” Cadence cooed. “It’s alright. I actually think you could make a good role model for him.” Fizzlepop turned to the angry colt and waddled over towards his crib, looking up at him. “Hey, wisten, Somby. If ya weawwy wants to pway with me and ya wants to weawn to be nice, I’ww come back some night.” Sombra got up, his legs bowing from the thick diaper as he whimpered. “Otay. Maybe I can set-up a pwaydate aftew my time-out.” He then squeaked, plopping down on his padded rump and sending a cloud of foal powder into the air. Fizzlepop giggled. “Otay, wew ya dun get into anymowe towbwe.” Sombra sighed. “Awight, I’ww twy,” Fizzlepop waved a hoof and waddled through the portal as Sombra sighed. ”Wew if she was a bad pony and now is a good foal...maybe I can be a good foal too.” He thought out loud. “Shining, Shining.” Shining Armor suddenly woke up with a start and mumbled. “Huh?! What?!” Cadence peered over him. “Uh, Shining, sweetie are you okay?” Shining happened to look down and saw he was on the toilet. He blinked and rubbed his eyes, he didn’t remember falling asleep on it. He specifically recalled climbing into bed. “Huh? What happened? How did I get here?” Cadence shrugged. ”Don’t know. You just got up, muttering about fighting the monster under the bed, and then plopped on the toilet and raised your hooves as you said: ‘I went potty.’ like when you were a little colt. It was cute, but a little concerning.” Shining groaned. “Oh, Fizzlepop and Flurry are behind this, I just know it.” Cadence giggled. ”Don’t worry, nopony saw you,” She helped a still groggy Shining off the toilet and asked. “So what was the dream about?” Shining blushed as he explained. “Well, I don’t remember the exact details, but it was about me as a foal, learning to use the potty. I guess the little ones wanted to face their fears over using the potty. We fought the monster until I got on it and peed into the bowl.” Cadence burst into laughter and nuzzled him. “Oh, I wish I was there to see that. I remember all those pictures you showed me of Twilight potty training, they were adorable.” Shining smirked. “Yeah, they were,” Then he asked. “But are you ready to potty train Flurry? I mean, you think she’s ready to give up her diapers?” Cadence squeaked. “Oh no, not yet! But i’m glad she’s learning not to be afraid of the toilet. It’ll help when we try to work on potty training Fizzlepop, we’re still obligated to do that at the moment.” Shining nodded. “Okay. I just hope there aren’t too many dreams like last night.” Cadence then took out a form as she and her husband exited the bathroom. “On a more important note, we need to discuss Fizzlepop. I heard from her teacher how well she’s improving in her ability to control her magic, and she’s going to have her evaluation next week.” Shining looked the form over and sighed. “Cadence, we don’t have a choice. We talked this over constantly with Celestia. If Fizzlepop’s parents come, they’ll take Fizzlepop and legally we can’t do anything.” Cadence blushed. “Well, what if she fails the test?” Shining eyed his wfie suspiciously. “What are you implying, Cadence?” Cadence turned. ”I mean, Fizzlepop doesn’t need to completely control her magic with us. We love her just as much as we love Flurry. Why can’t we just take her out of the daycare right now and just let her be?” Shining shook his head. “That’s too dangerous, and we’re going to eventually need to help calm her down,” Then he turned. “The only thing we can do, is see the parents for ourselves and evaluate them. If we know they’re bad and will abuse Fizzlepop, Celestia said she’ll trust us our report. And if they are cruel beyond reason or we see the slightest hint of abuse, we can keep Fizzlepop.” Cadence rolled her eyes. “But what if they’ll be on their best behavior for the show? I know how nobles are. They can act nice to your face, but backstab you when it’s most beneficial to them.” “I don’t doubt that, but we should prepare for the worst, Cadence,” Shining concluded. “I don’t like it anymore than you do, but our hooves are tied.” Now it was Cadence’s turn to shake her head. “Well, there is another option, but it comes down to Fizzlepop herself.” Shining eyed Cadence suspiciously. “And what is that?” Cadence turned and explained. “Celestia told me in a dream last night, that Fizzlepop had a little adventure with Sombra. He’s imprisoned in the dream realm as a foal.” Shining gasped! “Seriously?! Why would she do that?!” Cadence giggled. ”She wanted to learn how to be naughty so she can trick her parents into not wanting her.” Shining blinked. “Wow! She would do that…just to stay with us?” Cadence nodded. “Yeah. amd I have to say, Fizzlepop is an ambitious little filly. She’s smart, talented, and kind.” Shining hugged Cadence. “She reminds me of you if I’m being honest...but we have to keep this possibility to ourselves. We can’t let anypony suspect Fizzlepop’s intentions.” Cadence laughed. “Yeah, I just can’t believe how smart is,” Then she trotted away. “Well i’m going to go help your mom make some breakfast,” But before she left she added. “If you need help going potty, just let me know, big colt.” Shining just blushed as she gave a wink and closed the door behind her. “I am NEVER gonna live this down!” He thought to himself.