"How's my favorite niece doing?" Twilight asked in an affectionate tone. Princess Flurry Heart giggled as her purple alicorn aunt kissed her on the cheek.
"Now, me and Pinkie Pie are going to run a few errands," Twilight said, magically lowering the light magenta-gray baby alicorn to the ground. "Pinkie is bringing two friends over to play with you. Spike will stay and watch you three."
"Um...Twilight?" Spike asked, tugging one lock of Twilight's striped purple mane. "Are you sure letting Flurry hang out with the Cake Twins is such a good idea? It didn't go so well last time."
"Oh, don't worry your scaly head, Spike!" Twilight said, patting the young dragon on the head. "I didn't get along well with everypony else when I first came to Ponyville, and look at me now! I'm the physical personification of friendship! Friendship isn't always automatic. Sometimes it takes a while. I'm sure Flurry and the Cakes will get along eventually."
At that moment, a knock was heard at the castle's front door.
"She's here!" Twilight exclaimed. She teleported to the front door and opened it.
"Helloooo, Twilight!" Pinkie Pie shouted, prancing through the front door. Sitting on her back was a pair of toddler foals, one a tan pegasus colt and the other a yellow unicorn filly. The Cake Twins squealed with glee upon seeing the Princess of Friendship.
"Pinkie! You're here!" Twilight said. "Come on! I've set up a little play area for the three of them." She led the pink earth pony and her two adoptive siblings over to Flurry's playroom.
Pound and Pumpkin both giggled with excitement as the two older ponies neared the door. They weren't told who they were going to be playing with, but they were both looking forward to meeting a new friend. That excitement disappeared after Twilight opened the door, revealing who their new playmate was.
"Flurry, you remember Pound and Pumpkin, right?" Twilight asked, levitating her niece up to face the twins. "Pound, Pumpkin? You remember Princess Flurry Heart?"
Flurry smiled nervously at the twin foals, who both glared at her. The two both remembered the day Twilight had first brought Flurry over to play with them. That incident had been a disaster, to say the least.
"Now, you two are gonna hang out here for a bit," Pinkie said, placing both twins on the floor as Twilight levitated Flurry down in front of them. "Your big sis and Twily are going on a little trip. We'll be right back. Have fun!"
Pinkie bounded out the door as Twilight turned to face Spike. "Promise you'll watch them and try to keep them out of trouble?" she asked her assistant.
Spike saluted to the purple alicorn. "You can count on me!" he said. "Dragon's word of honor!"
"Great!" Twilight said. "Me and Pinkie will be back as soon as possible." She bent down to Flurry. "Uncle Spikey will make sure nothing bad happens between you and the twins. Have fun!" She winked at Flurry, and Flurry struggled to wink back.
As soon as Twilight left, Spike sat down on a stool and began to read through the latest issue of Power Ponies. Flurry turned to the Cake Twins, who were still frowning at her.
"Look guys," Flurry said. "I'm really sorry about the balloon toy. I remember when you two were fighting over it, and Mommy and Daddy taught me how to share cookies with the other foals by breaking them in half...so I assumed the same principle applied to toys."
"Well, it doesn't!" Pound said. "It just results in a broken toy!"
"Yeah!" said Pumpkin. "How would you like if it we broke your favorite toy?"
Flurry remembered Whammy, her favorite stuffed snail. She remembered how she had panicked when the toy had gone missing at the Ponyville hospital, and how she had caused a lot of trouble trying to find it. This had resulted in Auntie Twilight yelling at her like a big scary bear and making her cry. She never wanted anything like that to happen again. She couldn't imagine how she'd react if Whammy was broken, and nopony was here to fix him.
"I...wouldn't like it very much," Flurry said. "But I have a couple of toys you guys can play with, if it'll make you feel better."
She levitated two teddy bears, one blue and one pink, over to the twins. These were the same ones that Twilight had given her as a gift some time ago, and now they were her gift to the Cakes.
"Look! Bears!" Flurry said. The twins gained smiles on their faces as Flurry levitated the pink one to Pound and the blue one to Pumpkin.
"Whoa, cool!" said Pound.
"Awesome!" said Pumpkin.
The two older foals held their respective bears up to each other and shook them while making growling sounds. Flurry smiled. It looked like she had finally made a couple new friends.
"Hey, wait a minute!" Pumpkin said. "How come you can use magic and I can't?"
"Yeah!" said Pound. "And you can fly better than I can! What's the deal?"
Flurry thought for a minute. "I think Auntie Twilight said that baby ponies tend to start out with a surge of power that represents the amount they'll have when they grow up. But when they get a little older, it wears off, and they have to wait until they're fully grown before it comes back. So sooner or later, I'll probably be down to the same level as you guys."
"Say..." Pound said. "Would you like to make me and Pumpkin fly? Me and her could fly when we were a month old, but I guess our magic wore off like you said, and we've been really missing that."
"Sure!" Flurry said. "Hold on tight! You two are going for a ride!"
The twins giggled as Flurry levitated them both into the air with her magic. She held them up over her head and began to slowly spin them around in a circle.
"This is great!" shouted Pumpkin.
"Faster!" cried Pound.
Flurry began to spin the foals around faster and faster until they formed a blurry ring above the little alicorn's head. Spike continued to flip through his comic book, seemingly unaware of the Cake Twins' excited cries.
All of a sudden, Pound turned green, and his cheeks puffed up. He put one hoof over his mouth to prevent from vomiting.
"Whoa! Flurry, we'd better stop now!" shouted Pumpkin. "I think Pound's getting sick!"
Flurry abruptly stopped spinning the two foals and gently placed them down to the ground.
"Trust me," Pumpkin continued. "You do NOT wanna see Pound puke. I know from experience how nasty it is."
Pound's simple dot eyes continued to spin around in circles. "Ugh...why is the ceiling on the floor?" he moaned. As soon as the pegasus colt's eyes stopped spinning, all three of the babies began to laugh.
"Hey, I just realized something," Flurry said. "How come I have to wear a diaper, while you two can run around with no clothes on?"
"Who said you had to wear that thing?" Pumpkin said, smiling with her eyes narrowed.
Flurry looked down at her blue cloth diaper for a minute, before magically removing the safety pin. The blue cloth flew through the air and landed on Spike's head. The young dragon shook the cloth off before continuing to read his comic.
"Alright!" the now-nude baby alicorn said. "Let's go have some fun!"
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"Spike! We're home!" Twilight pushed open the playroom door, before gasping at the sight before her.
In the middle of the floor, Flurry and the Cake Twins lay sleeping in a pile together, Pumpkin sucking on her hoof. Twilight's eyes watered with liquid pride as a big smile formed on her face.
"Spike?" Twilight whispered. She gently shook him.
"Huh? Wha?" The dragon turned to Twilight. "Oh, Twilight! You're back! How did the errand go?"
"It went great! And I see the foals had a good time too."
Spike glanced down at the three napping little ones. "Oh, yeah. The foals. They weren't too much trouble."
Twilight gently levitated the Cake Twins so as not to wake them, before carrying them over to Pinkie and placing them on her back.
"Be sure to bring them here next time Flurry comes over," Twilight said quietly.
"You bet I will, Twilight!" Pinkie said with a wink. She then tiptoed down the hall towards the front door.
"See Spike?" Twilight said, walking back into the playroom. "I told you Flurry and the Cake Twins would get along eventually."
She bent down towards Flurry and softly nudged the sleeping baby alicorn a few times.
"Flurry? Flurry, wake up. It's me, Auntie Twilight."
Flurry yawned and slowly opened her eyes. Upon seeing the smiling face of her aunt looking down at her, the filly squealed with delight and leaped up to hug her aunt's neck.
"Aww, you missed me?" Twilight asked. "I missed you too, bug. Wait...where's your diaper? Spike?"
Spike was just about to walk out the door, only to turn around when Twilight called his name. "Huh?"
"Where's Flurry's diaper? Did you take it off?"
"I...I have no idea where her diaper went." Spike began to sniff the air, only to cover his mouth and gag at the horrid smell he had somehow missed.
"Well, we'd better find it before Shining and Cadance come back," said Twilight as she levitated the toy box to find the diaper. "If we don't find it soon..."
All of a sudden, Twilight stepped in something. Something wet, gross, and smelly.
Twilight struggled not to gag as she turned to Flurry, who was sitting on her aunt's back giggling innocently, seemingly unaware of her accident on the floor. Twilight then turned to Spike and glared daggers at the dragon, who chuckled nervously before darting out of the room.
"SPIKE! GET BACK HERE AND CLEAN THIS UP NOW!"