//------------------------------// // Foal #6: Twilight Sparkle // Story: The Foal Six // by Matt11 //------------------------------// Discord was still debating in his head how to best approach the subject with Twilight. Should he start with a dramatic plea that something had gone wrong? Or maybe he could go for a more subtle option and tip toe his way around the issue? Perhaps it might be best to just come out and apologize, and let her lecture him on the dangers of messing with advanced magic when it involved their friends? He worried so much over the approach, that he didn’t even notice when he bumped into Spike. The little dragon was quite surprised to see the draconequus. “Hey, Discord. What are you doing here? It’s not guy’s night.” “I know that, Spike. I’m not here for that,” The spirit replied in an urgent tone of voice. “Where’s Twilight? I have to, no scratch that, I need to talk to her right away! It’s urgent!” “Really? Or is this just another one of your attempts to mess with her?” Spike questioned. “Spike, please, help a draconequus out here!” Discord pleaded. “I did a terrible thing and it’s gone horribly wrong! Twilight’s the only pony who can possibly help me now. So please, tell me where I can find her!” “I’m right here, Discord,” A familiar voice called out, soon revealing itself as belonging to Twilight Sparkle. “Now what could possibly be so important that you had to show up like this? What did you even do?” With a gulp, the spirit threw himself at Twilight’s hooves and desperately pleaded! “Oh Twilight, I take back all the things I ever did to you! Well, most of the things anyway. I really really need your help!” “With what?” Twilight questioned. “Discord, what did you do?” Discord let out another gulp. “W-well in my defense, it sounded like a good idea at the time. I just sort of… regressed our friends to foals for forty eight hours, and the spell worked a little too well. They’re starting to act like actual foals! I can’t keep them under control, they’re driving me crazy!” Now it was Twilight’s turn to gasp! “Discord! You messed with age spells?! How could you be so irresponsible?! Age spells are some of the most powerful magic ever known to pony kind. They’re not to fooled around with. What were you thinking?” “Like I said, it sounded like a good idea at the time,” Discord apologized. “I really wanted a family and I didn’t think I could just borrow some random foals. I already got everything I thought I’d need to take care of them, and the spell was only supposed to physically regress them not mentally regress them. I mean, they still mostly have their adult minds but they’re acting a lot more foalish than they should,” In the most sincere tone possible, he pleaded. “Please, princess! You have to help me! I really don’t know who else I can turn to! You can lecture me all you want about this afterward, but right now I need your magical know how to undo the spell and get everypony back to normal.” With a sigh, the young alicorn reluctantly replied. “Alright, Discord. I’ll help you out. But the next time you get the idea to use age spells to turn our friends into foals, run it by me or one of the other princesses first.” The chaotic spirit nodded. “Oh believe me, I will.” “Alright then,” Twilight replied. “Now, what kind of spell did you use exactly? If I have an idea of what I’m working with, I’ll be better able to come up with a solution.” “Well that’s the thing, I don’t rightly remember. I didn’t think it was going to be important.” Discord admitted. “Well that could be a problem then,” The princess glumly noted. “There are hundreds upon thousands of books on age spells in this library alone. It could take hours to find the one we need.” The spirit groaned in frustration, pulling out his horns. “Oh! But that’s hours we don’t have! Our friends will surely tear up the place if left to their own devices for that long!” Then he got an idea. “Wait a minute, what am I thinking? We don’t need books to tell us how to fix things, you just need to see it for yourself! Then with your highly advanced alicorn powers, you can undo what I’ve done and everything can go back to normal!” “But that’s not a-” Twilight began. “-Oh, what a splendid idea! Why didn’t I think of it sooner?” Discord applauded himself. “Come on, Twilight! We’ve got no time to waste! We’ve got to get my dimension on the double!” He ripped open a portal to his dimension and pulled the alicorn through before she could get in even a single syllable of protest. Discord led Twilight through the many twists and turns of his chaotic dimension, before they finally reached the draconequus’ home. Twilight prepared to step inside, only for Discord to throw up a paw and stop her! “You can’t set a single hoof inside that place, Twilight! The moment you do, you’ll start to regress! Only I am unaffected by it.” “And you did this to all of our friends without telling them?” Twilight frowned in disapproval. “Only Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash,” Discord confessed. “Everypony I made sure to tell them in advance what they were getting into. It actually wasn’t so bad until Applejack came along, since then they’ve been getting out of control.” “Even for you?” The princess questioned. The spirit nodded. “Yes, even for me. Trust me, I wouldn’t have come to you for help if I had any belief I could manage on my own.” “Well I can’t help you if I can’t get inside to see our friends,” Twilight protested. “And I’m certainly not going to be much help if I too regress. My magic wasn’t the greatest as a foal outside the occasional magic surge.” Discord groaned and sighed. “I’m well aware of that, princess. Just hold still for a second,” He snapped his talons, and Twilight briefly felt some kind of tingling sensation all over her body before it faded. “There. That should protect you from the affects of the regression spell I cast on this place. But it won’t last long, at best it’ll only hold for about half an hour. And if you’re inside my house when it wears off, you’ll start to regress.” “Then we’ve got no time to waste!” Twilight declared. “We need to get inside right now!” “Okay, but be careful. In their regressed state, there’s no telling how well our friends will cooperate.” Discord warned as he opened the door to his house and let the princess inside. As he did though, he had the strangest feeling that he was somehow forgetting something. Once the two were inside, they immediately beheld a sight that would terrify even the most experienced of foalsitters. All five foals were running about every which way, laughing and giggling, all the while they were overturning chairs, throwing stuff onto lampshades, and just in general making a mess of the place. “Whoa! You weren’t kidding about the chaos,” Twilight commented to Discord. “You’re sure it was only supposed to be a physical age regression spell, and not a mental one?” “Yes, of course,” Discord firmly responded. “And now you see why I need your help. I like a good deal of chaos, but this is way too much!” Twilight simply sighed. “Alright. Well, I think I know a spell that can reverse all of this. But you’re gonna have to round up all our friends and get them to hold still. This is going to require a great deal of concentration on my part.” “Say no more. You just leave everything to me, princess!” Discord replied with a salute. “I’ll get the little ones all rounded up for you. You just get that spell ready!” And then he took off in pursuit of the foals. Meanwhile, Twilight took a deep breath. “Okay, you heard what Discord said. So concentrate,” She mentally convinced herself, even as a nagging thought started to form in her mind. “My friends seem to be having fun though. It’s really a shame this all has to end so soon,” She shook her head, dismissing the idea. “Wait, where did that come from? The regression spell isn’t supposed to start affecting me yet.” She was snapped out of her mental ponderings by a series of faint thuds and crinkles. Five very familiar looking foals were all seated before her, with Discord watching over them. “Okay, Twilight, they’re all ready for you,” He instructed. “Just cast that spell and turn everything back to normal. I know you can do it!” Meanwhile, all the foals were looking up at the new grown-up with amazement. “Twilight! Did you come here to help Discord take care of us?” Pinkie happily exclaimed with a giggle. “We’re not trying to give Discord a hard time, honest,” Fluttershy apologized. “It’s just that being a foal again is so much fun.” “Yeah!” Rainbow encouraged. “You oughta try it, egghead! Beats having your nose in a book all day!” But Twilight just brushed the foals aside with a hoof. “Sorry, everypony. You’ve had your fun and now it’s time to end it.” She did her best to ignore the groans of protest from her regressed friends. Taking a deep breath, the alicorn closed her eyes and lit up her horn. A reddish-pink glow similar to the skunk stripe in her mane and tail enveloped the foals, all of whom giggled at the funny feeling of the magic as it washed over them. The anti-regression spell took a lot of magic to pull off. Twilight’s horn soon began to spark quite ominously. “This is harder than I thought! Whatever kind of spell Discord put on my friends, it must be something super heavy duty!” She thought to herself. “But I never back down from a challenge! So give it all you’ve got, spell! I’ll still beat you!” Yet all of a sudden, Twilight felt a sneeze coming on. And a sneeze in the middle of a magic spell always spelt trouble. Her nose started to twitch and the princess tried her hardest to resist the urge. “Ah… ah…” She stuttered, the urge becoming stronger by the second. And the more she tried to hold back, the more her horn seemed to spark ominously. Rarity knew a sneezing face when she saw it. She’d had plenty of experience with this sort of thing from when Sweetie Belle was a little one. “She’s gonna blow! Everypony duck!” She shouted at the top of her lungs! The foals all did so, covering their heads with their hooves. Just seconds later, Twilight let out an audible. “Achoo!” A shower of sparks and reddish-pink magic shook the ground, producing a huge puff of smoke! When the smoke faded, before everyone’s eyes stood not the tall and slender alicorn that was Twilight, but an alicorn foal with a light purple coat, little moderate violet eyes, and a short little mane and tail of dark blue and moderate purple, with a reddish-pink skunk stripe running down it. Everyone let out a gasp! Twilight, their last hope and salvation, had been transformed into a foal as well! The alicorn foal looked at her chubby hooves and diminished stature, and immediately she squeaked out with a blush. “Oopsie! I guess I was trying a little too hard.” Applejack was the first one to regain her composure. “Twilight, you’re a… a…” “A foal? Why, yes I am,” Twilight giggled. “This sure feels weird, but in a good way. At least now I’m not missing out on all the fun.” “Oh no! No no no!” Discord exclaimed in horror! “You can’t be a foal too, Twilight! I need your help!” But when Twilight tried to light up her horn, nothing but a few small sparks of magic would escape. “Sorry, Discord,” She apologized. “But it looks like that sneeze drained all my magic. I couldn’t turn back to normal even if I wanted to. I guess I’m stuck as a foal for the next forty eight hours.” “Yeah, but look on the bright side, Twilight,” Pinkie eagerly encouraged. “Now you get to play with all of us! We can go on all kinds of foalish adventures!” “And you get to wear diapers! They’re so soft and crinkly!” Fluttershy added with a smile. Twilight looked down at herself, noticing that she was without padding. She blushed and covered her hooves. “Oh yeah, I should probably put one on so I don’t have an accident. I just hope I don’t have to wear two of them. My mommy says she always had to put two on me so I wouldn’t soak my crib.” “Oh don’t worry about that, Twilight,” Discord reassured his newest foal. “My diapers are much thicker and much more absorbent than any you ever wore. I made sure to get only the best,” He scooped her up as he instructed to the other foals. “You all just stay put, I need to get your new sister diapered before she makes a mess.” “Okay, Daddy,” Fluttershy nodded in reply. “We’ll just play with some toys in the playpen until you get back. Come on, girls!” And they all waddled away after the little pegasus, who had once again taken control of the rag tag group of little ones. Meanwhile, Discord brought Twilight to the back of his house where he had set up his nursery. He carefully laid the little alicorn on the changing table, securing a strap over her so she wouldn’t wiggle about. “I’m not taking any chances with you,” He cautioned. “I’m not sure if you’re as chaotic and energetic as Flurry Heart, and I don’t want to find out.” “Hey, don’t be knocking my B.B.B.F.F’s parenting skills!” Twilight protested as she kicked about. “He even changed my diapers from time to time, after Cadence taught him how of course,” And she giggled. “You should’ve seen the funny faces they would make every time they did it. Cadence even used to say I was a little stink bomb!” “Really, or was she just playing with you?” Discord questioned as he retrieved a diaper. “Either way, I hope you’re going to behave better for me,” With a gulp, he added. “You’re not still mad about all the times I messed with you, are you? I was only trying to have a little fun.” The alicorn foal just grinned. “Well now it’s my turn to have fun. Between friendship quests, managing the school, and keeping my castle’s library organized, I almost never have time to do the things I really want to do. At best I’ll get to cuddle up for a while with a good book before bed. But now I finally get to have a break from all that stuff! And I intend to make the most of it.” “Well, vacation or not, you’re in my care now,” The spirit cautioned as he carefully strapped up the diaper. “So from now you can call me ‘Daddy’. And if you need anything at all, I expect you to ask me. Do I make myself clear?” “But of course, Daddy,” Twilight replied with a wink as she was helped down from the changing table, delighting in how soft and crinkly her new diaper was. “So, what are we gonna do first?” “Well what you’re going to do first, is join your friends in the playpen so I can keep an eye on the whole lot of you,” Discord instructed quite sternly as he scooped the foal up. “It’ll give me time to think about how I’m going to handle six foals for the rest of the day and into tomorrow. Once Fluttershy’s back to normal, then I’ll breath easier.” But just as Discord was lowering Twilight into the playpen, he (as well as everyone else) was surprised to hear what sounded like a wail. A rather high pitched wail at that. The wail seemed to be originating from the living room, so Discord followed the voice to there and he nearly jumped back in surprise at the sight that greeted his eyes! There sat a pale, light grayish-purple coated unicorn foal with moderate persian blue eyes. Said foal sported a moderate purple mane and tail with lighter purple and pale, light-grayish aquamarine highlights, all of which was styled into a lovely set of pigtails for the mane. And the foal appeared to be sitting in a puddle of yellow liquid. “Starlight Glimmer?!” Discord gasped in surprised as he approached the foal! The foal seemed to briefly stop wailing as she admitted. “Yeah, it’s me! And I had a bit of an accident! I didn’t mean to!” “Oh I’m sure you didn’t,” Discord sympathetically replied to the foal. “But we’d better get you cleaned up before you get an infection. And we should probably diaper you too so you don’t have another accident like this on the floors,” Then he levitated over a spare pacifier, gently inserting it into the sobbing foal’s mouth. “Here, suck on this. I’m told it helps calm foals down.” “Okay.” Starlight lisped behind the pacifier as it bobbed up and down in her mouth. With a snap of his talons, Discord levitated the foal up off the floor and brought over some wet wipes to clean her up. With another snap of his talons, some brooms and a bucket of hot water with soap levitated close to the puddle and started to clean it up. “Just two brooms will do, no need to make more. Last time, they multiplied out of control and flooded my house from top to bottom.” The regressed unicorn seemed to giggle at the mental image that conjured up, and so she didn’t seem to notice as she was floated over to the changing table and laid down upon it. Soon, she could feel herself being diapered, as the delightful smell of cornstarch reached her nostrils. “How did this all happen? I specifically recall not inviting you here,” Discord questioned his newest little one. “And I only have enough cribs for six. So if you’re going to stay here for the next forty eight hours, you’ll have to share a crib tonight.” “Oh that’s okay, I used to share a crib with Sunburst all the time when we were foals,” Starlight smiled as she took the pacifier out of her mouth to speak more clearly. “As for how I got here… well, it’s a long story.” “Humor me.” Discord replied. The regressed unicorn sighed. “Well, it all started about an hour ago or so.” Starlight groaned in frustration as she walked the hallways of the castle. “Come on, I’m sure there was a bathroom around here somewhere! Why hasn’t Twilight gotten around to labeling these rooms yet?” As she trotted along, she was reminded of her need to visit the porcelain throne with a faint but growing twinge in her bladder. But it seemed the unicorn had taken a wrong turn and gotten lost again. Something that had been happening to her even in spite of how long she’d been living in the castle. “One of these days I need to make my own map of this place. Seems like I keep forgetting what’s where.” She thought, hoping to at least bump into Spike or Twilight and ask for directions. It’d be embarrassing to have to ask, but it was certainly better than leaving a puddle on the floor for them to clean up. Suddenly, while trotting past the library, Starlight’s wandering eyes happened to notice a strange glow coming from inside said library. Being a curious sort of pony, she reluctantly tip hoofed her way towards the door. “Twilight?” She called from the other side, just in case her former teacher was in the middle of something. But there was no reply. Starlight took that as an invitation to open the door and trot inside. By now she had forgotten all about her need to visit the bathroom. Besides, she could hold it. Whatever was inside the library warranted her full attention. In a corner of the library was what appeared to be some kind of opening, what you might call a portal. “Odd,” The mare commented to herself. “I thought Twilight and I both agreed not to experiment with opening portals after what happened with the Pony of Shadows.” Yet it seemed like Twilight was nowhere to be seen. That was definitely strange. It wasn’t like her to not be aware of a portal in her own castle. Or had she left it there for a reason? Curiously, the unicorn reached out a hoof towards the portal. Maybe there was something on the other side? There wouldn’t be any harm in just quickly putting her hoof through it, would there? Unfortunately, upon sticking a hoof into the portal, Starlight discovered much too late that there was a strong magical pull surrounding it! She dug her hooves into the floor, trying in vain to avoid being pulled in! “Somepony, help! Twilight?! Spike?! Trixie?! Mommy!” And that was the last thing she said aloud before she was pulled through completely! Horrified, Starlight shut her eyes! “And when I opened them, I was out here and I’d been reduced to a foal,” Starlight explained. “Then all of a sudden I felt the urge to go to the bathroom, and I couldn’t hold it in.” “Ah, I knew I was forgetting something!” Discord realized as he set the foal down in the playpen with the others. “I’ll have to make sure I close up that portal before it sucks in anymore unsuspecting ponies. That’ll have to be added to my list of things to do.” “What do you mean?” Starlight asked as she and her regressed friends all looked up at the spirit. “Where are you going?” The spirit responded. “I’m afraid this has gotten quite out of hand, or paw, or whatever you prefer. Five foals was pushing it, but now that I have seven foals I’m in way over my head! This is too much for one draconequus to do all alone. I need help,” He then snapped his talons, producing another version of himself. “I have to step out for a while, so I’m leaving my other self in charge. I hope you’ll all treat him with the same respect you would show to me.” “But, when will you be back?” Twilight questioned Discord. “And who are you going to tell about all of this?” “You’ll find soon, hopefully,” Discord replied with a wink. “Until then, behave yourselves. Ta ta for now.” And with another snap of his talons he disappeared, leaving his other self in charge. “Well, I guess there’s nothing we can do now except wait.” Starlight declared as she sat in the playpen and folded her hooves. But the rest of the foals just giggled, and Rainbow Dash spoke up. “Come on, Starlight! You’re a foal now! It’s time to let your inner foal shine!” “But.. but I can’t be a foal again! I never wanted to be a foal again!” Starlight protested. “Really?” Twilight arched an eyebrow upward. “What about the time you turned yourself and Sunburst into foals so you could play Dragon Pit?” The recently regressed unicorn groaned. “That was different!” “How was it different? Regression is regression.” Rarity commented. Starlight blushed. “W-well for one thing, we weren’t in diapers. Although maybe I should’ve put us back in them, then it would’ve been like we were in potty training again. Those were some of the best years of our lives.” “Well think of this as your chance to relive those days, Starlight,” Rainbow encouraged. “You can be as mischievous as you want.” “Yeah!” Applejack chimed in. “And I already have the perfect idea in mind for what we can do! We’re gonna give that other Discord the time of his life!” And she started to rub her hooves together.