//------------------------------// // Dazzling Dependence (Dazzlings) // Story: Potty Training Tales // by SuperPinkBrony12 //------------------------------// Sonata Dusk couldn’t stop grinning. She’d been looking forward to this for such a long time, even when her fellow sirens turned humans thought she was crazy. But seeing as they’d been stuck in diapers due to a lack of control over their bodily functions, it only made sense to Sonata that they do what all normal humans did to gain that control: Potty training. So she was leading both of her sisters to the bathroom, ignoring the stink eyes they were shooting at her and at each other. Sonata suspected that they weren’t really going to try, but ever since this whole diapering situation had started the youngest siren of the bunch (albeit by only a few minutes) had begun calling most of the shots. So when she said they were going to do potty training there was little either grumpy pants Aria or bossy britches Adagio could do to stop her. “Hey, come on,” Sonata chiperly encouraged. “We get to go through potty training all over again! Don’t act like it wasn’t fun back in Equestria. And we didn’t have diapers or toilets like we do here in this world.” Aria Blaze grumbled. “Yeah, it was so much easier. Quite frankly, I’d rather be dead than go through it again. Potty training is for babies, and we’re not babies.” “Just shut up, Aria.” Adagio Dazzle replied. “If there’s even a chance this could get us back to normal and make it so we don’t have to keep wearing diapers twenty four/seven, then I say it’s worth a shot,” Though she muttered under her breath. “There’s no way this will work.” She didn’t want to discourage Sonata, because when she got discouraged Sonata had a tendency to try even harder to make the impossible possible. The Dazzlings stopped outside the bathroom they shared between the three of them. “Okay, we’ve only got one toilet and one training potty, so one of us is gonna have to just wait,” Sonata explained. “I’ve got plenty of potty training books to read and games to play. And later on we can watch this really cute potty training video I found. Man, this world has got everything!” “So, who gets to try?” Aria asked Sonata, wanting it to be over and done as soon as possible. “Well, it’s my idea, so I’m gonna use the training potty,” Sonata declared, much to the annoyance of both of her sisters who could not believe how childish she was acting. “You can flip a coin, or do rock paper scissors, or whatever it is you wanna use to decide who gets the toilet,” Then she chirped. “Oh, and whoever wins needs to remember to take off their diaper. And don’t worry, we’ll keep at this for as long as we have to until we’re fully trained again.” She strolled into the bathroom with the door swinging shut behind her. It was soon possible to hear the sounds of rustling and crinkling padding, indicating that Sonata was in the process of undoing her diaper before she sat on the training potty. Aria and Adagio looked across to each other. Despite their truce a few days earlier, they were still not on the best of speaking terms. But Aria just insisted. “I’m not going to humiliate myself for Sonata’s sake over something that’s not gonna work. So you can go in there, sit on the toilet, and let Sonata do whatever she wants to do until she gives up on this stupid potty training idea. You know we don’t have the kind of control necessary to make it work.” “Whatever,” Adagio replied as she shrugged her shoulders. “I’ll try anything if it means we can ditch the diapers. And if I’m doing it, then you’re going to do it.” “Fine,” Aria groaned. “I guess I’ll play along just this once. Don’t make me regret it.” So Adagio went into the bathroom while Aria waited outside. Adagio tried not to roll her eyes when she saw Sonata sitting on a training potty that was clearly too small for her. Without even getting up from the training potty, Sonata smiled at her older sister. “Hey, Adage,” She greeted in that stupidly optimistic (and annoying) tone of hers. “The toilet’s right over there. Just take off your diaper and sit down on the seat.” “Okay, but I’m not reading any of those stupid books.” Adagio protested, strolling towards the toilet and prepared to sit down. Sonata giggled. “Adage, I told you you have to take off your diaper first. There’s no point in doing potty training if you’re just gonna go in your diapers all the time.” The eldest siren groaned and cursed under her breath as she fiddled about with the tabs on her diaper. She hated how loudly it crinkled as she slowly slid the padding down her ankles until it unceremoniously dropped to the bathroom floor. Groaning anew, she sat upon the toilet seat (at least Sonata had bothered to put the lid up and the seat down, instead of making Adagio or Aria do it themselves). It definitely felt weird to be sitting on something that she’d first taken for granted upon being banished to this world. “How long do I have to sit here?” She asked Sonata.  “Until I say you can get up." Sonata replied with a grin. Adagio groaned anew. “You’re really getting full tilt into this potty training idea, aren’t you? If anything, I should be the one doing the teaching, I’m the oldest. Without me, you and Aria wouldn’t be able to survive.” Sonata couldn’t help but giggle. “I think Aria might disagree. She says you’re too bossy. And if you ask me, I say she’s too grumpy. You and Aria both need to learn to lighten up and look on the bright side, like I do.” Adagio scoffed at the suggestion. “What’s the bright side of this? It’s bad enough we’re diaper dependent for could be forever, but now your idea is to treat this like we’re just toddlers who don’t know what the bathroom is or how to use it.” “Exactly,” The cheerful siren declared. “If we keep thinking we’ll never get out of diapers, then it’s going to be a… whatever it’s called when something you think about comes true,” Then she spoke up. “Ooh, I think I have to go potty, Adagi!” And she blushed a bit. “Uh, you mind maybe looking the other way so I can have some privacy?” The elder siren reluctantly sighed and obliged. But she nearly gagged when a powerful smell reached her nostrils a short time later! “Gah! Sonata, what did you eat?” Sonata willingly admitted. “It was Taco Tuesday. And you know about me and tacos. That bib was more accurate than it might have known when it said I was a princess.” “But I’m the one with the throne,” Adagio declared, sounding kind of jealous (and she probably was). “So, what? Are you gonna make me clean you up now?” Sonata shook her head as she got up from the training potty. “Nu-uh. I can do that myself, because I’m a big girl now,” And then she smiled! “Ooh, you know what I forgot: The potty charts! Every time we’re successful we can put a gold star on our charts, and every time we don’t make it we can put a stormy cloud on them! Guess I’ll have to remember for next time.” As Adagio continued to sit on the toilet, she couldn’t help but scoff at the fact that Sonata had not only actually used the training potty, but was using wet wipes to clean herself up instead of toilet paper. “I just love the scent the wipes give off. It’s so refreshing,” She declared and then tossed the used wipes into the trash. She then told Adagio. “You can get up now if you want, I’m gonna have to empty out my potty.” “Fine by me,” Adagio insisted as she got up. “It was getting boring just sitting around and doing nothing.” “I gave you books and games,” Sonata replied, grabbing the training potty. “I didn’t buy them so you could not use them. I swear, Adage, sometimes you’re more of a grumpy grump than Aria is.” Adagio Dazzle remarked while pulling her diaper back up (she knew she hadn’t gone and detested Sonta checking her just to be sure). “Forgive me if I decide I don’t like acting like a toddler. And you’d better not force us to undergo this at school. It’s bad enough the principal and vice principal know about our ‘situation’.” Sonata Dusk dumped the contents of the training potty into the toilet as she just replied. “Well you know, we’re not the only ones who came here from another world. That Sunset Shimmer girl did too, and she doesn’t wear diapers. Maybe we could ask her what she did to graduate from them.” “I somehow doubt she was as unlucky as us and had to be diaper dependent,” Adagio groaned. “And I’m not about to ask her if she did. Having her find out would be the worst! Just imagine what she’d do to us if she knew of our secret.” Sonata only grinned in reply. “You really think she’d do that? Everyone says she’s changed and that she’s not a mean girl anymore. Besides, it can’t be worse than what Vice-Principal Luna once did to you and Aria.” She then set the training potty back down and flushed the toilet, making everything that had just been put into it disappear. Adagio’s cheeks flushed red again. “Don’t remind me! If you tell a single solitary soul, you’re dead!” “I won’t, Adage. Have a little faith in me,” Sonata replied and washed her hands. “I guess today’s not a potty day for you. Oh well, as the saying goes ‘There’s always next time.” But Adagio simply stormed out of the bathroom. She’d had enough of this humiliating and embarrassing display, and wanted no further part in it. “At least knowing Aria has to go through this too makes me feel a little bit better about it all,” She thought to herself. “Now I’ve gotta find out how to make sure Sonata can’t show that potty training video to us later.” Aria Blaze reluctantly walked into the bathroom when Adagio came out. “Okay, so I just take off my diaper and then sit on the toilet, right?” She asked Sonata (who had finished washing her hands in the sink). Sonata Dusk eagerly nodded. “Yup. Although, the training potty’s also an option if you wanna use it instead.” “Nah,” Aria replied, shaking her head. “There’s no way I’m going to be caught dead using something so… so… infantile.” Sonata blinked. “What’s ‘infantile’ mean, Ari? You and Adage keep saying it, and I don’t know what it means.” Aria just groaned and cursed under her breath. “Nevermind! I thought you were just playing dumb, but you really don’t know what it means! Seriously, how did I ever get stuck with a scatterbrain like you and Little Miss Bossy Pants Adagio for sisters?” The youngest siren only giggled. “Ah, don’t be like that, Ari. Ooh, maybe you’re just grouchy ‘cause you already went potty and didn’t have time to take off your diaper. It’s okay, I’m here for you now.” Aria practically eeped when Sonata gave her an unrequested and unexpected diaper check! “What did you do that for? Don’t you think I’d know if I did anything in my diaper?” “Well I just thought I’d check,” Sonata insisted. “You’re still clean though, so go ahead and have a seat on the toilet. And remember, you can’t get up until I say you can get up.” But Aria Blaze had a different idea in mind. She’d been in a bad mood today, and Sonata’s sudden diaper check had only made things worse. So the middle siren’s face began to morph into a rather unusual (almost sadistic, you might say) grin. “Uh, why are you giving me that face?” Sonata asked Aria. “Are you feeling okay, Aria?” “I will be, once I do this!” Aria declared as she reached out and grabbed her fellow siren by the head! Sonata began to scream in pain! “Ow! Ari! Stop it, that really hurts!” Aria refused to loosen her grip. “Yeah? Well this is gonna hurt even worse. And it’ll hurt you more than it’ll hurt me, I’m glad to say,” She proceeded to drag a squirming Sonata across the bathroom floor, shoving the younger siren face first into the toilet bowl! And Aria wasn’t content with a mere soak. So, she shoved Sonata’s head as far down the bowl as it possibly could. Sonata couldn’t say anything, she had to focus on holding her breath so she wouldn’t inhale toilet water. Try as hard as she might, she was unable to overpower Aria. “Since I can’t actually flush you down the drain, this is the next best thing!” Aria declared as she used her free hand to reach over to the lever on the tank of the toilet, even though she knew her fellow siren couldn’t say anything in reply. “This is what I think of your silly potty training idea!” Then she pressed it down as hard as she could! Sonata Dusk was subjected to a severe swirly, and upon being yanked free from the toilet bowl by Aria she was completely soaked. “I’m gonna tell Adagio you’re being a poopy head!” She sniffled. “And you know what poopy heads like you get?”  “You can’t do anything to me, Sonata!” Aria roared back! “And neither can Adagio! If I ever get out of diapers, it’s going to be on my terms and nobody else’s!” Her rant was cut off as a sudden, strong smell reached her nostrils! “What the?” Now Sonata was starting to giggle uncontrollably. “I didn’t mean it literally when I called you a poopy head, Aria! Maybe if you hadn’t been bullying me, you could’ve actually gone poo poo in the toilet and become a big girl, just like me.” The stinky siren grumbled and snorted. “You don’t know that! This doesn’t prove a thing!” “Oh, then I guess you won’t mind staying in that dirty diaper for a while?” Sonata not so innocently asked (she didn’t go along with her sister's schemes because she had no choice). “I’m not gonna change you after that swirly you gave me. But I think Adagio might be willing to do it, for a price.” “I can change myself, you know! Just give me the supplies!” Aria demanded. “And I’m....” She struggled to force the next words out. “Sorry I gave you a swirly, Sonata. And I’m sorry if Adagio and I weren’t cooperating on this potty training idea of yours.” Sonata only replied. “Hey, it’s okay. We can’t all be big girls like me. But I’ll be here for you and for Adagio until we’ve all mastered potty training. And who knows, maybe someday we’ll go back to how we were before we came to this world?” Aria just grumbled. “Let’s hope that day comes sooner rather than later,” And she protested. “Remember, you can’t tell a soul about this. And we’re NOT playing along outside the house!” “Fine, go it alone,” Sonata somewhat smiled, and then turned to the cabinet where she’d stored the changing supplies, eyeing the pull-ups she’d bought. “We’ll just see who gets to wear the big girl panties first.” “Pull-ups are still diapers, you dweeb.” Aria groaned. “Nu-uh, they’re totally different!” Sonata protested. “They don’t hold as much as diapers do, which is why we’re not gonna wear ‘em until we can go for a long enough period of time without leaving puddles or making messes.” Aria just sighed, realizing it was no use arguing with Sonata as the young siren retrieved the changing supplies to give to Aria. After the change was complete and the old diaper tossed away (with its contents flushed down the toilet), Sonata and Aria washed their hands in the bathroom sink and then exited the bathroom. An impatient and frustrated Adagio Dazzle was waiting for them. “Well it’s about time.” “Ah, did you have a change of heart and wanna try to go potty?” Sonata half asked/half teased Adagio. Adagio blushed and roared! “No! Never in a million years!” And she looked at Sonata as she demanded! “Where’s that potty training video you mentioned?! I couldn’t find it anywhere!” Sonata giggled. “Oh, are you silly, Adage. It’s not a real video like you could find on the t.v. It’s online, on the computer,” And she grinned. “I’m gonna show it to you and Aria later. I made sure to memorize the title so I wouldn’t forget it. It’s got everything! They even do songs!” “Do you always have to act like a child?!” Aria groaned in annoyance! Sonata just replied with a smile and a wink. “Hey, don’t be like that. By the end, I think you two will like the video even more than I did! I tell ya, this world has got it all! I don’t know if I’ll ever wanna go back to Equestria.” Aria and Adagio could only share mutual looks of annoyance, frustration, and resignation to their fate. At least until this all blew over and they were diaper free, they were unfortunately at the mercy of the youngest of them’s child like approach. They could only hope that it wouldn’t be too long. Because they weren’t sure they could survive months of being treated like big toddlers. An unaware Sonata simply waddled away, not even bothering to hide her diaper that bounced and crinkled with every step she took. “Oh, I can’t wait to show them that video! And maybe we can practice getting our voices back by singing the song in it. I’m sure I can find the lyrics somewhere.” She thought to herself, as she went to retrive her laptop. While Sonata was away, Adagio whispered to Aria. “We both agree we’re never going to speak of this after this is over, right?” Aria nodded. At least that was something she and Adagio could both agree on. It was perhaps the one silver lining to this embarrassing streak that they were stuck in for the time being.