//------------------------------// // Training and Teamwork (Legion of Doom) // Story: Potty Training Tales // by SuperPinkBrony12 //------------------------------// “Tirek is being a big bully again,” Cozy Glow complained to Grogar as the evil goat looked up from his crystal ball. “He doesn’t wanna listen to me because he says I’m ‘too little’. And Chrysalis barely ever talks to me, she just talks to that stupid log of hers.” Grogar grumbled. “I’ll deal with it in a minute. And you really need to stop constantly trying to befriend them. You’re not supposed to do that.” “But how else am I supposed to gain their trust so they’ll listen to me?” Cozy Glow questioned. Grogar just muttered. “Some way that doesn’t involve making friends. Now please stop bugging me!” Cozy Glow left the old goat alone. But Tirek showed up a minute later, looking visibly upset. “Don’t listen to a word that annoying little pipsqueak says. She’s a spoiled brat and a good for nothing tattle tale! And as for Chrysalis, I really don’t see why you bother to keep her around when she never stops talking to herself. It makes it hard for me to get any shut eye around here.” “I’ll deal with your problems after I take care of Cozy Glow’s, okay?” Grogar snarled a bit. “But I can’t get any work done if you keep pestering me! I know you’re bored, but none of you are ready to face Twilight Sparkle and her friends yet. Don’t forget that I am more powerful than all of you, so don’t make me regret my decision to bring you all here.” Unfortunately, Chrysalis happened to approach Grogar just as soon as Tirek had made himself scarce. “Look, Grogar, don’t waste your time on those two low lifes. They’re nothing compared to me, and they’re getting on my nerves. I swear, the next time Tirek tries to drain my magic I’m going to give him as many holes as I have! And maybe I’ll give Cozy Glow a few so she’ll stop calling me an ugly bug.” At that, Grogar stomped a hoof down. “That’s it, I have had enough of your constant bickering!” He complained aloud! “The three of you are all that I have left to bring about my plans, and I can’t do anything if you three won’t stop fighting with each other.” “They started it!” Cozy Glow insisted in a childish tone. “I don’t care who started it,” Grogar snapped! “I’m going to finish it once and for all!” His horns began to glow with a sickly green tone, as every bell on his collar hummed with the flow of powerful, evil magic. “You three will learn how to work together whether you like it or not!” Chrysalis scoffed at Grogar’s threat. “Ha, as if you would do anything to us! You need us as much as we need you!” “Which is why what I would like to do is unfortunately not an option,” The old goat declared with a hiss. “However, I have decided on a fitting alternative. Seeing as the three of you act no better than ill behaved toddlers, it only seems fitting that your bodies reflect your maturity.” The eyes of Grogar’s Legion of Doom filled with horror! Cozy most especially! “No, please! I don’t wanna be a little kid again! I don’t wanna go back to preschool!” “Who said anything about preschool?” Grogar declared as his eyes glew. “You three will be far too young even for that. And until you can learn to work together, you shall suffer this curse!” He enveloped all three members with his magic, watching as their eyes slammed shut! If they had been able to keep their eyes open, the three evildoers might have been able to see a portal open up above the ground as their bodies began to shrink and change. Cozy Glow was the first to open her eyes, and when she did, she saw that all was not right. She was no longer in some swampy environment. Everything around her looked strange and unfamiliar, and unusually tall. Most startling of all though, was the fact that instead of hooves and fur her body looked completely different. She had these strange appendages that she could fold into a fist, and it felt like she was on two legs instead of four. The child looked down, finding herself strangely dressed in some kind of light blue sleeper that only extended down to just past her waist line and did not cover up what she had hoped not to see, a diaper. That meant she couldn’t be much older than two or three years old at the most. Chrysalis and Tirek soon woke up and saw themselves dressed in similar attire. And they too looked like these strange, otherworldly creatures. “Where are we? This doesn’t look like any place in Equestria,” Tirek commented. “Everything looks so… childish.” His eyes noticed the soft, carpeted floors and gentle colors of the walls and ceiling. Cozy Glow let out a gasp! “I… I remember Twilight Sparkle mentioning something about another world once! We must’ve been sent to it somehow!” “What?!” Chrysalis exclaimed in horror! “Does that mean we’re stuck here, looking like this?” “I think so,” Cozy nervously commented. “I can’t believe I’m in diapers again, I haven’t worn them since preschool.” Tirek just grumbled. “Those are the least of our problems, though I certainly don’t want to have to wear something so thick. I don’t see how I could ever walk around when my legs are pushed so far apart.” “But just where in this other world are we? And why?” Chrysalis pondered aloud. “And more importantly, how in the name of Grogar’s beard are we supposed to get back to Equestria?! This is a fate unbefitting a queen such as I!” Just then, light suddenly flooded into the room as a door swung open. In strolled a rather elderly male figure that seemed to resemble Grogar if he were in this other world. He even had the beard, though his horns were absent. “Grogar?!” All three regressed Legion of Doom members commented in collective shock. If this Grogar heard the three he did not acknowledge it. He instead approached each of them and scooped them up with those appendages that apparently all creatures in this other world had. He set all of them down upon some kind of table with a padded surface, pulling down their dresses as he appeared to inspect their bottoms quite thoroughly (or rathered what was attached to them). “Hm, how very surprising to find you all clean. Usually at least one of you is not,” He said while stroking his beard. “Perhaps you are finally ready to be taught about how big kids address their bodily functions. What do you think?” He asked as he set them down upon the floor in just their diapers. “What does he mean by that?” Tirek asked the others, as he sensed that this Grogar couldn’t hear him. Cozy, being the most knowledgeable of the three (as far as she was concerned, anyway), seemed to fight back a gulp. “I think he means that we’re going to learn how to use…” The next words left her mouth quite slowly and ominously. “The potty.” Chrysalis scoffed and rolled her eyes. “You mean those ridiculous pots with the unnecessarily fancy name? I highly doubt this world has such silly things.” “Perhaps you refer to the trenches?” Tirek pondered. “I don’t see why we would need to be taught about that. Simply dig a hole in the ground and you’re all set.” “Well, I don’t know what kind of potties they have in this… other world. I remember the ones at Twilight’s school being more advanced though. Maybe she was inspired by whatever bathrooms they have here?” Cozy concluded. The Legion of Doom members received the answer when they were brought into a bathroom by this other Grogar. At the edge of the room stood a looming throne like object of pure white. It had a weird bowl shape to it, a curved seat, and some kind of lever on one side. It appeared to tower over them (though that might have been due to their shrunken stature). And the very sight of it was enough to unnerve them, especially Cozy Glow. “What in the name of all things evil is that?!” Tirek let out a gasp! “That thing looks like it could eat us up if it had teeth!” Cozy replied while shaking. “It probably couldn’t, but I don’t wanna find out if my hunch is right.” The other world’s Grogar just replied to the three trembling toddlers before him. “Now, now, the potty is nothing to be scared of. Yes, to your toddler eyes it looks quite big. But I assure you it can’t harm. And it is time you learned how to use it instead of your diapers. That is what the one who left you in my care wanted.” “This must be Grogar’s curse!” The three displaced baddies realized! “Now then,” The other Grogar continued as he gestured to the potty. “There is only one potty, so you’ll have to take turns using it. Which of you would like to try first?” “ME!” Chrysalis loudly declared! “Royalty like myself must always be given favorable treatment!” Cozy shook her head. “Nu-uh, I’m going first! I’m the only one who has any real experience with this.” Tirek protested. “Nonsense, I should go first! I’m the biggest out of all of us, and the biggest always go first.” All three began to push and shove each other, trying to decide who should be first. Unfortunately for Cozy Glow, she was not used to having to fight for anything, especially not in a body she was unfamiliar with. She lost and fell to the ground. “Tough luck, pipsqueak!” Tirek taunted as he stuck out his tongue. “So, Chrysalis, still want to be first?” But at that moment Cozy began to cry, tears welling up in her eyes. The other Grogar was at her side in an instant. “Oh dear,” He commented upon inspecting Cozy’s diaper. “Seems you were not ready after all, you’re quite wet.” “I wouldn’t have wet myself if poopy head Tirek hadn’t shoved me!” Cozy protested as she saw Tirek not so subtly knock Chrysalis to the ground. “I will deal with him and your other friend after I change you.” The other Grogar replied in a caring tone as he picked up the crying toddler. He promptly carried her out of the bathroom, leaving Tirek and Chrysalis to their own devices. Tirek, for his part, found it almost impossible to reach the potty. Even when he jumped his stubby little appendages couldn’t grasp the seat. “How do they expect me to use this thing if I can’t even reach it?!” He complained. “Simple, really,” Chrysalis snickered as she got up and went over to a nearby stool. “Obviously you’re supposed to use this. Only a truly clever creature like myself would think of that.” She subsequently pushed the stool across the bathroom floor (a task that was made difficult with her tiny body) and lined it up with the potty. To her it seemed much more like a throne, and what was a throne without a queen to sit on it? Using the stool, Chrysalis clumsily climbed onto the seat. It was definitely big, she could only barely stay on it. But barely was good enough, it wasn’t like there was anyone else around to knock her off. Then she looked down at the bowl, noticing that it was full of water. And her diaper was directly above said water. “Oops,” She realized. “Cozy once said that you can’t use the potty if you’re wearing a diaper.” So she used her appendages to rip off her diaper, letting it fall into the water below without a care. Chrysalis was about to make her attempt to “use” this magnificent throne she was seated on, when the silver handle shaped device caught her attention. “I wonder what that does. It must be important.” She thought to herself and subconsciously got up from her sitting position. Standing on the seat was even harder, it was a tough balancing act. Yet somehow she managed, grasping the handle with one of her appendages and pushing it down. “Fwoosh!” An unfamiliar sounding roar reached Chrysalis and Tirek’s ears, it was so loud that Tirek had to cover his ears (Chrysalis would’ve done the same if not for the fact that one of the appendages she would use to do so was currently holding onto the handle). As for Chrysalis, she gazed down at the bowl as the waters below her seemed to suddenly turn into a raging whirlpool! She watched as they snatched up her diaper and sucked it down a hole at the bottom of the bowl where it disappeared! But only a few seconds later there came a strange, gurgling sound. Suddenly, the water returned and started to rise above the bowl! It began to spill out onto the floor! “What did you do?!” Tirek snapped at Chrysalis as he felt his diaper grow warmer! Any sense of self control had left him due to how frightened he was! A frightened Chrysalis could only reply. “I don’t know!” She held onto the handle with all her might, too afraid to let go for fear that the water might snatch her up as it had her diaper! At that moment, the other Grogar happened to come back into the bathroom. And he was anything but pleased if the scowl upon his face was any indication. “Chrysalis! Tirek!” He shouted in anger! It took the other Grogar a very long time to clean up the mess Chrysalis had caused in the bathroom. Her diaper was water logged and saggy, completely useless. Thus it was tossed into a wastebasket with little fanfare. Cozy Glow couldn’t help but snicker as she saw her two companions exit the bathroom with nothing to show for it but wet legs and diapers that had to be changed. Once the changes were complete, the real Grogar placed both Tirek and Chrysalis in a corner of the room and made them face the wall. Then he took out a key, closed the bathroom door, and inserted the key into the door. He took it out a moment later. “It seems you three are not ready to learn about the potty just yet. Clearly I will have to make other arrangements,” He put the key into a pocket of his uniform as he scowled. “Until I can trust you all not to cause trouble or pick fights with each other, the bathroom shall be strictly off limits to you.” And with that he departed, the key still in his pocket for safe keeping. “This is all your fault!” Tirek snapped at Chrysalis! “Now, thanks to you, we’re never going to get out of diapers! We’ll be stuck here forever!” “It’s… it’s not my fault! You were the one who shoved Cozy Glow!” Chrysalis complained! “How was I supposed to know that you can’t put your diaper in the potty, or that the handle would make the potty do… whatever that was?” She shuddered a bit. “It’s definitely scary, scarier than any creature I’ve ever encountered! To think that in this other world there exists such a thing that can make whatever enters into it disappear completely.” “And does it have to be so loud?!” Tirek whined! Cozy laughed as she overheard Tirek and Chrysalis’ conversation. “Boy, considering you two have been around longer than I have you really don’t know anything. But I guess that’s to be expected when you don’t listen to me. This is exactly why the real Grogar always left me in charge when he wasn’t around.” “No he didn’t!” Tirek and Chrysalis both shouted back. Cozy shrugged. “Whatever. You don’t have to listen to me if you don’t want to. But then I guess you’ll never know how to actually use the potty. You two can stay in diapers forever and be stuck here with me.” Both Tirek and Chrysalis protested! “No! Anything but that!” Cozy Glow gave an evil grin as she looked down at her companions. She had them right where she wanted them. “Then you’d better start doing what I tell you to do. After all, I have the key to the bathroom,” She pulled out the aforementioned object. “I stole it from that other Grogar when he wasn’t looking. But I can’t reach the bathroom door without your help. Help me do that, and I’ll teach you both the proper way to use the potty.” “How could you possibly know how that… that… that thing works? You only used chamber pots!” Chrysalis snorted! “Not when I was at Twilight’s school, we had potties like the ones in this world,” Cozy explained. “But if you don’t want my help…” Tirek gave a faint cough to interrupt. “We’re sorry we were rude to you earlier, Cozy Glow. Maybe if we’d listen to you we wouldn’t be in this er… mess we’re in now.” Cozy smiled as the scheming child replied. “Good, because speaking of messes I have one that I’d like to do in the potty instead of my diaper. Though making you two change me sounds just as appealing.” Chrysalis growled. “Don’t push your luck. We are not changing you!” “Then I guess we’d better hurry and get the bathroom door opened,” Cozy told them. “I can only hold it in for so long, you know.”