Confident that Fluttershy would be asleep for some time still to come, Discord took the opportunity to depart his dimension. Convincing Rainbow Dash wouldn’t be as easy as Fluttershy, especially since he’d been told he couldn’t just up and regress ponies without permission.
He found the rainbow maned pegasus at her house in the middle of one of her chillaxing sessions, sunglasses and all and with a Daring Do book off to the side.
Naturally, the brash speedster and part-time Wonderbolt was not pleased to have her view of the sun blocked out by Discord’s tall form. She groaned and lifted up her sunglasses. “Discord, do you mind? I am trying to chillax here!”
“Oh, a thousand apologies,” Discord sincerely bowed. “I thought you were in the middle of something important.”
“Yeah, chillaxing. It’s serious business,” Rainbow retorted with a snort. “So if you wouldn’t mind standing aside, I can get back to it.”
The spirit stood aside, watching as the pegasus lowered her sunglasses and started to resume her optimal chillaxing position. Clearly she was in one of her lazy moods.
“Well, since you obviously have more important things to worry about I’ll just leave you to it,” The draconequus commented in that back handed tone of voice for which he was famous (among other things) “I mean, I was going to invite you over to my place to see Fluttershy. But if you’re more interested in chillaxing then…”
“Wait? You’re inviting me to your place in your dimension?” Rainbow questioned as she lifted up her sunglasses again.
Discord just rolled his eyes. “Stop repeating everything I say! I don’t do it to you, do I?”
“I’m just trying to process all this, I’ve never been invited to your place before,” The rainbow maned pegasus commented. “What’s your game?”
“Game? You think I have an ulterior motive behind all of this?” Discord innocently retorted. “I just wanted to do something nice for a friend. I just thought you might like a chance to see how awesome my dimension is!”
“If you’re trying to bait me into something, it’s not gonna work!” Rainbow Dash growled. “You’re up to something, Discord! And I know that when you get up to something, it always leads to trouble.”
“Why would I be causing trouble? Fluttershy’s already at my place, having the time of her life I might add,” Discord responded, continuing the innocent tone. “I thought I’d invite you over to play with her, since the two of you are friends and all.”
“Oh is that all? You want me to be a guest for another one of your tea parties?” Rainbow guessed.
Discord tried not to gulp. “Well actually, it’s something more than that. You see-”
But Rainbow put a hoof to Discord’s mouth. “You don’t have to lie to me, Discord. A tea party’s a tea party. I may not exactly like ‘em, but if Fluttershy wants me to attend one then I’m going to attend. I don’t have anything else I need to do today, I already fed Tank and I’m currently on leave from the Wonderbolts. Just point me in the direction of your place and I’ll be there!”
“Alright, but I should warn you that this will be an experience unlike any other.” Discord warned. The spirit hoped that it would arouse Rainbow’s curiosity and suspicion.
It didn’t. Rainbow simply replied. “I’m ready for anything, bring it on!”
“She has no idea what she’s getting in for.” Discord thought but was at a loss as to how to tell Rainbow what was going to happen to her. She’d probably laugh it off as a joke. So he just used his talons to rip open a portal big enough for his guest to fly through. “My place in ten minutes, don’t be late.”
Rainbow Dash flew through the portal just after Discord had departed. It took her awhile to find her way to his house, his dimension was full of twists and turns and dead end pathways.
At last the pegasus mare landed on what she assumed was the front doorstep of Discord’s house. Surprisingly it was the least chaotic looking thing in the entire dimension, which Rainbow found quite odd.
She knocked on the door, not sure whether to expect a reply. Instead the door swung open almost as if by its own accord. The part-time Wonderbolt found that just the tiniest bit odd, before she remembered where she was. “Of course Discord would have a self-opening door. It’s just the kind of chaos he’d like.” So she made her way inside, suspecting nothing.
However, upon setting hoof inside, Rainbow was shocked to discover a startling lack of tea party stuff. In fact, it looked like there had been some cleaning up around the place, an effort made to remove chaos rather than add to it. She had once overheard from Fluttershy something about Discord going normal and it almost destroying him. Was that what was happening now? Was Discord going normal again?
And where the heck was Fluttershy? Shouldn’t she be here, hanging out with Discord?
“Fluttershy?” Rainbow called, surprised at how squeaky and high-pitched her voice sounded. And when she looked at herself, her hooves look small and a little bit pudgy. And why did everything look so darn big all of a sudden? Had she shrunk?
Before the mare with a coat of light grayish-cerulean could ponder this dilemma for long, she found herself being scooped up by what felt like a paw.
“Ah, there you are, Rainbow Dash,” The familiar voice of Discord spoke in a coo. “What are you doing running around without protection?”
“Protection?” Rainbow questioned. Now there was no denying the squeakiness to her voice. “What did you do to me?!” She demanded of the spirit.
“Oh you’ll soon see. But first we need to get you padded up.” Discord instructed as he effortlessly carried Rainbow to the back, her moderate cerise eyes taking notice of what appeared to be a giant nursery, complete with several cribs and a changing table.
It wasn’t until she happened to look at herself in a passing mirror, that Rainbow saw what had happened to her! Somehow she had regressed to the size of a foal, with only a small tuft of rainbow for a mane and tail, pudgy little hooves, and her moderate cerise eyes reduced to little round dots. “Hey?! Why am I a foal?!” She demanded of Discord as she was laid on the changing table.
“Oh didn’t I say?” Discord responded as he bent down to retrieve a diaper. “There’s a bit of a spell I put on this place. It’s nothing major, just a simple regression spell that lasts for forty eight hours.”
Rainbow growled and kicked about as she felt her legs be spread apart and a diaper slid under her rump. “I can’t believe you tricked me, Discord! I never would’ve said yes if I’d known you were gonna turn me into some stupid little foal! And I definitely don’t need diapers, those things will just slow me down!”
“Oh come now, Dashie,” Discord cooed as he struggled to get the diaper on his squirming charge. “I did try to tell you what it involved, but you insisted on cutting me off every time I tried to explain myself. Besides, all foals wear diapers.”
“Not me! And I’m not a foal!” The now regressed Wonderbolt retorted as the diaper was taped up despite her protests. “Just wait until I tell Fluttershy about this! You’re in big trouble, mister!”
But just then a familiar, gentle voice called out from the blue. “Dashie? Is that really you?” And a moment later, who should appear in Rainbow’s field of vision but a very familiar looking foal with a coat of butter yellow, moderate cyan eyes, and a small wisp of pink for a mane and tail?
Rainbow gasped in shock! “Fluttershy?! You’re here too?!”
“Oh yes,” Fluttershy nodded and then giggled. “I had no idea you were going to be part of this too.” She quickly picked up her tiny blankie that Discord had given her, she found it oddly comforting to have it near her.
“I’m not!” Rainbow retorted as she was lifted off the changing table! “I am not a foal and there is no way I’m wearing some stupid diaper! For the record, I haven’t wet the bed since I was four.”
“Well you’re not four at the moment now are you? In fact, you look as small as a two year old. You will definitely need these diapers, Wainbow Dash,” Discord cooed, and still holding his rainbow maned charge, he waved a finger and lightly scolded. “You know it’s rude to raise your voice at a grown-up. Especially your Daddy Discord who just got you all diapered up.” He said, using one of his claws to pat her diaper softly
“Buck you!” Rainbow growled as she kicked about in protest! “You’re not my dad! You turn me back to normal this instant or I’m gonna make you sorry!” And she proceeded to deliver a firm kick to Discord’s snout!
“Ouch!” The spirit doubled back for a second, thankfully managing to hold his grip. “You actually hurt me!” He complained.
Giggling, Rainbow Dash stuck out her tongue and taunted. “Yeah? Well there’s a lot more where that came from! So change me back right now and do the same for Fluttershy!”
But the draconequus just narrowed his eyes. “Rainbow Dash, you are a very naughty foal!”
“Yeah? Well I’m not putting up with your horse apples! You’re starting to peeve me off!” Rainbow bitterly remarked.
“Oh my my, you have quite the potty mouth it seems,” Discord scolded. “Well there’s only one thing to do with potty mouth foals like you.”
All of a sudden, Rainbow’s eyes widened in horror! “You wouldn’t!”
As if in answer to her challenge, Discord snapped his talons and produced a bar of soap. “We’re going to have to clean that filthy tongue of yours, young mare.”
“No! Wait! I was just kidding! Please, I promise I’ll be good! I’ll do anything you say!” Rainbow pleaded but it was no use. Her mouth was opened and Discord ran the bar of soap over her teeth and her tongue, scrubbing thoroughly. The foal gagged at the soap’s stale taste, all the while she could hear Fluttershy trying (and failing) to hold back some giggles.
The torment lasted only for about a minute or two, but for poor Rainbow Dash it felt like an eternity.
When it was over, the foal found herself being floated over to what appeared to be a giant foal swing. And indeed it was for she was soon strapped into it, said swing pushing her legs apart even more and causing them to dangle off the floor of the nursery. “Hey, what’s this for?! Haven’t I been punished enough?!” She demanded.
Discord shook his head. “I don’t think so, Dashie. Not only did you use bad words but you also hit me when I was just trying to help you.”
“I don’t need your help! And for the record, I don’t approve of any of this!” Rainbow growled! “If I wanted to be treated like a foal again, I could easily go see my parents. They treat me like one a lot as it is, and even they don’t go this far.”
The spirit only sighed and shook his head. “You really shouldn’t have said that, my little friend. Because now I’m going to make your punishment worse,” He produced a timer from seemingly nowhere, wound it up, and set it on a shelf out of reach of Rainbow’s hooves. “You can just sit here and bounce all you like until the timer dings. While you’re at it, maybe you can think about what you did and how wrong it is was.”
Rainbow looked across to Fluttershy, pleading with her fellow foal. “Fluttershy! You can make Discord stop! Tell him I’m sorry and that I didn’t mean the things I said and did.”
Fluttershy only shook her head in response. “Sorry Dashie, but I’m not the one who acted like an ill behaved foal. You did a bad thing and you need to be punished for it.”
Discord clapped his paws together in approval. “Bravo, Fluttershy! Bravo! It seems my ways of parenting aren’t completely lost on my little ones after all,” He scooped her up and then sweetly told her. “As a reward, you can help your Daddy Discord bake some delicious cookies. How’s that sound?”
Fluttershy licked her lips. “That sounds delicious!” And then she and Discord vanished as the spirit snapped his talons again, leaving Rainbow all alone in the nursery. Suspended in a foal swing from which it seemed she could not escape.
It naturally didn’t take long for the rainbow maned foal to grow bored. She supposed her punishment could be worse, she could’ve gotten a spanking and that would’ve hurt (she could vaguely remember one time her mom had spanked her for breaking a priceless vase, and her rump had been sore for the rest of the day). But that didn’t mean she wanted to be stuck in a giant foal swing, especially since her hooves couldn’t reach her diaper to poke and prod at it.
With nothing else to do, she reluctantly used the foal swing for its intended purpose. She swung back and forth a couple of times, pushing herself as best she could. But even that could do little to alleviate her boredom.
“Ugh!” The foal groaned in frustration. “I want to get out of this stupid foal swing already! I get that I did a bad thing, and I already had my mouth washed out for it. What good is sitting in this stupid swing going to do me?”
A quick glance up at the timer revealed that it had barely budged at all, it still had about half an hour to go before it would ding. Rainbow was not going to wait around for that! There had to be a way to get out of the foal swing before the timer went off.
She tried to swing back and forth to build up momentum and knock the timer off the shelf. But it seemed that no matter how hard she tried she couldn’t reach it. Curse Discord for putting the timer in a foal proof spot. Since when had he ever been good with foals?
Since the timer wouldn’t budge, Rainbow instead turned her attention to the foal swing and her diaper. The foal noticed that if she wiggled a bit, her diaper would wiggle too and seem to slide (likely due to how much the foal swing pushed her legs and lower body apart). That gave her an idea. A naughty one to be sure but an idea still the same.
“Okay diaper, time for you to be good for something!” Rainbow thought to herself and started wiggling as hard as she could. The more she wiggled, the more her diaper wiggled and slid. She then began to flap her wings, straining herself quite a bit as she tried to wiggle out of her diaper and thus the foal swing.
At last the brash tomboyish foal was rewarded for her efforts as she rose out of the foal swing, her diaper sliding off with a series of crisp crinkles as it fell to the bottom of the swing. “Oh yeah! Take that you stupid swing!” Rainbow boasted and stuck out her tongue.
The foal glanced up at the timer again. She still had roughly twenty five minutes to go before it would go off. Discord and Fluttershy were probably still baking cookies together, unaware of her escape.
Rainbow briefly thought about crawling to the kitchen to help but she quickly rejected it. Discord would be sure to notice that she had gotten out of the foal swing and removed her diaper. And he’d just plop her right back into that foal swing and probably tape the diaper up more snuggly, maybe even increase the amount of time she’d have to stay in the swing.
Besides, this was a golden opportunity to do some exploring. She had never been to Discord’s house before, she wanted to see everything there was to see.
Flying proved to be difficult though. Rainbow Dash found herself flapping her wings for longer just to cover a distance that as an adult she’d have already cleared. Plus her wings were starting to get sore. “Guess I’ll just crawl and give my wings a rest.” She thought and lowered herself to the ground just as she was about to exit the nursery.
The foal with a coat of grayish-light cerulean crawled around the house, taking care to avoid the kitchen and thus detection by either Discord or Fluttershy.
But there wasn’t much about Discord’s place that fascinated the foal. There was the obvious mismatched floors and walls, and the furniture that floated on the ceiling upside down. But that was stuff that Discord did outside his dimension whenever he felt like it.
Just as the foal was about to give up on her search of the house though, she discovered what appeared to be the door to a bathroom. “Never knew Discord had a bathroom. Wonder if it’s an different from a regular bathroom?” She thought aloud and carefully crawled through the door and into the room proper.
Alas, the bathroom was a standard affair with the usual plumbing fixtures: A sink, a bathtub with an attached shower head, a mirror, and of course a toilet.
However, by a stroke of luck the toilet lid had been left up. Maybe the water in the toilet was actually chocolate milk? That seemed like something Discord would do, he already showered in chocolate milk sometimes. So with a great deal of flapping, Rainbow managed to fly up to the seat and grasp it with her hooves. It was a little bit slippery, especially when she wasn’t used to balancing on her hooves in her regressed state. But she managed and peered down into the bowl as best she could.
“Aw, that’s lame. It’s plain old toilet water.” Rainbow groaned in dismay. There was nothing special about this toilet. Had she come all this way for nothing?
But then the foal got an idea. She was still pretty mad with Discord for regressing her like this, and she wanted to get back at him. And what better way to make him regret turning her into a foal than by doing what foals loved to do best? Flushing stuff down the toilet.
The only question was: What to flush? It needed to something that would be easy to notice was not there. Glancing around the bathroom, the rainbow maned foal’s wandering eyes fell upon a rubber duck that was resting on the side of the tub. That was good a place as any to start. She hopped down from the toilet seat, crawled across the bathroom floor and grabbed the duck. Holding it tightly in her hooves, she carried it back to the toilet and dropped it into the bowl. Then she carefully made her way over to the handle. “Bye bye ducky!” She declared and forced the handle down, watching with delight as the rubber duck spun around and disappeared down the drain with a squeak.
Rainbow giggled. “This is so much fun! Now, what else can I flush?” She scanned the bathroom again, soon noticing a bar of soap that rested in a dish near the sink. Was it the same bar of soap that Discord had used to wash her mouth? The little pegasus didn’t know and she didn’t really care. Either way it would be fun to watch it disappear too.
So she made her way over to the sink, grabbed the bar of soap and brought it back to the toilet. She tried to drop it in the bowl, but the bar slipped out of her hooves. She tried to grab at it, only to extend her reach too far. She lost her balance and plunged into the bowl, landing with a light splash. “Ew!” She complained as she managed to lift her head above the water’s surface, it was unpleasantly cold.
Just then, an unsuspecting Discord came into the bathroom with Fluttershy in tow. The pegasus was covered in traces of what appeared to be cookie batter, some of which had even gotten onto her diaper. “My goodness, you are such a messy little helper.” He commented to his young charge.
“Sorry.” Fluttershy apologized with a blush. But in her defense the cookie batter had been really good.
“Oh I’m sure you didn’t mean it, Fluttershy. You’re so much better behaved than Dashie,” The spirit cooed. “Even so, we need to get you cleaned up, pronto!”
Discord carefully deposited Fluttershy onto a mat near the bathtub and leaned over to turn on the tap, adjusting the settings so that it would be plain old water. As he was about to do so, he happened to look in the mirror and saw a familiar rainbow maned foal bobbing up and down in the toilet bowl like a cork.
The spirit immediately rushed over to it, snapping his talons as he donned a fisherman’s hat and jacket, and using a fishing rod with a plunger instead of a hook he pulled Rainbow out of the toilet. “Oh would you look at that?” He commented to himself. “I caught a rainbow one. It must be my lucky day,” Then he put the lid of the toilet down and glared at the water logged foal he’d just rescued. “What is the meaning of this, Dashie?! Don’t you know the big potty is not a toy or a bathtub?!”
“Yeah, I know that,” Rainbow retorted as she shook herself dry. “It’s not like I meant to end up in it. I just lost my balance and fell in. I could’ve gotten out by myself.”
“Really? Seems to me like you could barely stay afloat,” Discord replied with a look of skepticism. “You’re lucky I rescued you when you did. What if you’d drowned or gotten flushed?”
Rainbow Dash gulped, she hadn’t thought of that. She’d been lucky the toilet wasn’t that big and that she’d been able to keep her head above the water. She didn’t want to imagine what might have happened or where she might have ended up if she’d gone down the drain like that rubber duck.
“And where’s your diaper?” Discord remarked as he noticed the stark naked foal.
“It just fell off.” Rainbow vaguely answered. At least that was partially correct.
The spirit simply sighed and shook his head. “Whatever, now it seems I have two foals in need of a bath.”
“Can it be a bubble bath?” Fluttershy pleaded with Discord, shooting him the best pair of puppy dog eyes she could muster.
“Well I wasn’t going to, but I suppose a bubble bath wouldn’t hurt,” The chaos loving spirit replied as he reached over and adjusted the settings on the tub, before he turned on the water. Soon, the tub began to fill up with water and bubbles. To Rainbow Dash he then added. “Be thankful that I’m willing to do just about anything for Fluttershy.”
The two little pegasi were soon deposited in the bathtub, splashing all about and playing with the bubbles.
“Hm, that’s funny,” Discord commented as he looked around. “I could’ve sworn I had a rubber ducky here.”
Rainbow tried not to look guilty. She didn’t want to tell Discord she had flushed it, for fear of what he might do to her.
“Oh well, I’m sure it’ll turn up eventually.” Discord declared as he put his paws behind his back, producing a brand new duck that he then placed in the tub for his little ones.
The bubble bath was a grand affair, both foals enjoying themselves too much to notice that they were being scrubbed clean by Discord. Even Rainbow Dash seemed to be coming around to the idea of being a foal in Discord’s care. Judging by how relaxed and cooperative she was becoming as the bath went on.
At last, Discord lifted both foals out of the tub and wrapped them in towels to dry off, before he pulled the plug to drain the bath waters.
“You know what, Fluttershy?” Rainbow spoke to her friend as they were drying off. “Being a foal again actually isn’t as bad as I thought it would be.”
Fluttershy smiled. “Oh, are you starting to enjoy this, Dashie? I didn’t think you’d be into it.”
Rainbow shook her head even as a blush started to form on her cheeks. “No no no, I’m not really enjoying any of this. I still would rather spend my time chillaxing. But this is actually kind of nice in its own way.”
“I see what you mean,” Fluttershy smiled and then whispered. “It’s alright, Dashie. I know you’re getting to like this. I am too.”
“Yeah. I mean.. it’s different, but different in a good sort of way if you know what I mean,” Rainbow whispered back. “Almost beats a massage at the spa. Almost.”
Upon hearing the word “spa” Fluttershy let out a gasp! “Oh my goodness! I completely forgot!”
“What?” Discord and Rainbow Dash both asked together.
“I was supposed to meet Rarity for a spa date today!” Fluttershy realized! “But there’s no way I can go to her in this state!”
“No problem,” Discord smiled. “If you can’t go to the spa with Rarity, I’ll just have to bring Rarity here.”
“Uh, I don’t think Rarity’s going to be as into this stuff as Fluttershy is.” Rainbow scratched her head.
“And you can’t lie to her either, Discord,” Fluttershy demanded. “You have to tell her the truth.”
The spirit gulped. “Well, that might be a bit of a problem. It’ll take a lot of convincing,” Putting a paw to his chin he added. “Fluttershy, can Daddy trust you to keep an eye on your little sister while he’s gone? Make sure she doesn’t get into anymore trouble and all that good stuff?”
Fluttershy gave a firm nod. “I know all of Dashie’s tricks, she won’t get the best of me.”
“Good,” Discord smiled. “Daddy needs to step out for a while, but hopefully he’ll be back with a fabulous new foal for you two to play with.”