//------------------------------// // Tempest Shadow - Potty Training With A Twist // Story: Yosh E O'Ducky's Potty Training Tales // by Yosh-E-O //------------------------------// New Horizons was a village that had an excellent view up towards the great city of Canterlot. The fillies and colts were never made aware of how everypony there was an orphan. From the youngest foal to the eldest mare or stallion. However, there did come a time when the village elders would tell the young mares and stallions of the village’s ‘secret’. But all who knew were warned against ruining the ‘Happy Herd’ that still believed all were part of one great whole. Homes in New Horizons were built and assigned by the town’s elders. Most were occupied by ‘siblings’ who had assigned ‘caretakers’ to guide them into adulthood. The caretakers had their own home within a short gallop range from the children they oversaw. The New Horizons Nursery was the closest one would ever find any sign of the town serving as one large orphanage. It is here that three unicorn friends: Spring Rain, Glitter Drops and Fizzlepop Berrytwist were starting on their journey to having their very own homes within the village. “Hey, Spring Rain!” An energetic unicorn who was clad in only a diaper called. “Where’s Fizzy Twister?” Spring Rain, who could easily be believed to be the eager unicorn’s twin sister, stopped her playful headbutting of a large ball upon hearing her name called. “Glitty Drops?” She asked, before finding herself sitting down on a far squishier diaper than she had remembered it being. “Oh!” She suddenly remembered. “Fizzy is going to use the potty.” “The potty?” Glitter Drops thought, before seeing the giant ball and sparking her youthful horn to see if, just maybe, it would improve on her ability to move it. “Why Fizzy Twister not play magic ball game?” Spring Rain sparked her horn as she head bonked the large ball back towards her friend. “Fizzy say potty important,” She replied. “Fizzy says using potty make magics better faster.” “But she not here?” Glitter Drops asked with confusion as her focus on the ball and using her magic kept her from realizing she was now using her diaper the same way Spring Rain had earlier. “This magic play practices? Spring Rain continued to keep her focus on her horn, the ball, and how she would get it moved telekinetically back to Glitter Drops. “You know Fizzy,” She replied while feeling the ball push back towards her friend with just a bit less effort than before. “She no focus like we do.” Glitter Drops felt the ball be a bit less difficult to roll back to Spring Rain. “We her friends?” She thought with a hint of worry. What if Fizzy was already forgetting about them. “We are,” Spring Rain assured her friend as the ease of pushing the ball seemed a bit less this time. “But she says potty help improve magics.” The sound of grown-up hoof steps soon came into the playroom. “Hello, Glitter Drops,” A female pony greeted. “Hello, Spring Rain.” Both foals looked towards one of their unicorn caretakers with open eyes and wide smiles. “Hello, Nanny Fruity!” The two replied while gesturing towards the ball. “See what we do?” The white coated mare with lime-green hair nodded in approval before using her magic to levitate the foals in the air. “I also see that you both made a little magic in your diapers too,” She giggled. “Remember that putting all your attention on horn magic makes you forget about other things your body is trying to tell you.” The young fillies blushed as they became instantly aware of how much they were not paying attention to the rest of their bodies. This was soon followed by a tummy rumbling duet as they became aware of how they had skipped snack time. “Sorry, Nanny Fruity,” Spring Rain pouted. “Got too into ball magics.” Glitter Drops added. The nanny just nodded and gave a warm smile. “It’s alright,” She replied. “We’ll get you both cleaned up and then get you both a snack before naptime.” The unicorn caretaker then pulled a saddle-like covering from her saddle bag, placed it on top of her back, and levitated the two foals onto the saddle-like covering. “By the way?” She asked them. “Have either of you seen Fizzlepop? She’s normally with you two and I saw no sign of her between the nanny’s room and here.” The unicorns frowned as the answer reminded them of their current situation. “Fizzy is going potty.” Glitter Drops replied sadly. “She be big filly,” Spring Rain glumly added. “We still foals.” Nanny Fruits Basket felt alarmed. Each part of the large nursery had multiple washrooms with modernized toilets, sinks and baths. However she could not alarm the foals on her back by showing panic. She also couldn’t risk a rash, if one had not already formed, on Spring Rain and/or Glitter Drops. All she could do was hope another nanny found the remaining foal of the group, before the overly ambitious filly got herself in some real trouble. The washroom that Fizzlepop had come to was the furthest away from all the known nanny patrol routes. It featured a stall-style shower, a simple sink with no foal-friendly stepping stools, and the target of her mission. This being a modern-aged, throne-style toilet. “Okay,” She said aloud. “It times I go from foal to big filly!” Even as a foal, FB was quite the strategist. Though the caretakers in the village nursery always took extra effort in encouraging those in their care to, “Be their best to inspire the rest!”. It was now time for Fizzlepop to show her friends how magic and the potty could be mastered together. However, as per regulations, the toilet lid was down and little Berrytwist knew that proper potty use meant the lid should be up to show the watery depths that were meant for what her lower-half had been using her diapers for. Fizzlepop’s young mind went about imagining all the ways in which she could safely lift that lid. However time was running out as her bladder and bowel muscles gave her what the caretaker’s referred to as: “The tell tale signs that it is potty time.”. “Okay,” Fizzlepop said while managing to hold enough magic in her horn to pull away the tabs of her diaper. “Step one done,” The confines of the diaper had helped maintain a comfortable temperature around little Berrytwist’s hindquarters. The sudden change in how the air felt against her lower half only served to increase the pressures she was told needed to be held until finding a nanny and getting help to use the potty. “Oopsie.” She said aloud, upon realizing she had missed some very important steps. Though she wanted to show she was strong, powerful, and ready to show her undiapered flanks to the world. Plus, as the most daring of the trio of herself, Spring and Glitter, she needed to keep up her reputation. GURGLE-CHURN FWOOF “Tail rise means potty surprise!” She cried with fear upon recalling more of the potty training lessons that Nanny Fruits Basket, Nanny Kimono and Nanny Hot Springs had told all foals who were ready for ditching their diapers, and prepared to really start their magical training. Fizzlepop eyed her target and knew she needed to not only lift the upper lid but also pull herself up onto the sides of the ‘potty pool’ in order to properly do what needed done. “Special seat avoids wet feet,” Echoed in Berrytwist’s mind as she sparked her horn. This was another step she forgot in ‘The Potty Plan’ where one of the nannies would levitate a special covering so potty training foals did not fall into where their ‘icky-yucky stuff’ went. FLICK SLAM! It would have been a sight to see as Fizzlepop mustered enough magic to use her horn to lift the lid of the toilet, throw it back against the back of the throne-like porcelain tank, and find her front hooves and head dangling just barely above the water inside the toilet bowl, her barrel teetering on the outer rim and her hindquarters scrambling as she did not know whether to pull herself up or lower herself down! Luckily, as this happened, Nanny Fruits Basket had managed to, calmly, play ‘Hide & seek’ with the freshly cleaned and diapered Spring Rain and Glitter Drops to find their purple-coated friend in the ‘Staff Only’ washroom. “Found you!” The two foals cheered as they saw only the rear of their friend squirming over the toilet. Nanny Fruits Basket tried very hard to hold back her worry for Fizzlepop’s well-being. Unfortunately her friends’ loud outburst scared the ‘stuff’ out of Fizzlepop before she plummeted horn first into the ‘deep end’ of the watery bowl. SPLOOSH THUNK The two friends sitting atop the nanny’s back couldn’t help but laugh as Fizzlepop plopped into the potty to show only a set of hind legs kicking about while bubbly gurgles came from within. SHING SQUOO-LOP-WHOOSH The nanny managed to remain calm as she gently wiggled the stuck foal from the watery depths, sat her gently upon the floor and used a nearby towel to help dry the shivering, daredevil unicorn off. Spring Rain and Glitter Drops were laughing so hard at all the silly sounds and sights that they fell off of the nanny’s back. Fortunately their thick diapers cushioned their fall as they simply just rolled on the floor with a massive case of the giggles. “Need some help?” A white coated unicorn who had red hair and strawberry-red eyes asked. Fruits Basket sighed as she too tried to hide a snicker from escaping her muzzle. “Kimono,” she said as calmly as she could. “Could you take Spring Rain and Glitter Drops off to the napping room? I need to get little Fizzlepop cleaned up.” Kimono took in the scene before her and knew this was one that needed her to ask no further questions. SHING FWOO CRI-CRINKLE PLOP “Okay you two,” Kimono cooed as she brought the giggling duo onto her back. “It’s nappy nap-nap time!” Neither of the unicorns complained as Kimono couldn’t even help but let out a little snort, for what she knew Fruits Basket needed to ‘take care of’. “Good luck,” She called as straight-faced as possible. “And you’ll get the potty down soon enough, Fizzy!” As Kimono left, Fruits Basket found the discarded diaper and used it to clean up what had fallen on the floor in front of the toilet. She then removed all her nanny supplies, levitated Fizzlepop in her magic and entered into the shower stall to wash the frightened young foal (who was shivering from her scary experience and from how her mane and coat were drenched in cold, icky toilet water). “Don’t worry, Fizzy,” She assured the foal as warm water and lavender scented soap found its way upon the young filly’s body. “It’s brave ponies like you who will go on to change the world. And to be honest, I don’t mind changing a few more diapers if it means not getting your horn stuck inside a toilet bowl, or worse.” The foal said nothing. She just felt herself grow tired as the warm water, lavender scent, and soft scrubbing of the nanny put her to sleep. If she had just remembered all the steps and had planned around them, she wouldn’t have fallen in. Next time would be different, and she couldn’t wait to show her friends just how magical potty training could be.