//------------------------------// // Chapter One // Story: Friendship Through the Ages // by Strip Tease //------------------------------// The sun was shining down on the deck of the Lux Deluxe as it pulled away from Bali Island. Sunset Shimmer and her friends were lounging by the pool, talking about their time at port. “I still can’t believe how much stuff you’ve bought on this trip so far Rarity.” Said Rainbow Dash. Rarity had already bought so much stuff at the ship’s gift shop and now she had bought a few pieces of jewelry on the island. “Well you know I can never resist a bargain darling. Besides, it’s only a few things.” “Yeah, a few dozen things.” The girls laughed. “Oh maybe you’re right. Everything is just so lovely!” “Yeah. But just make sure you save some of your money in case you find something you really want.” Rainbow reminded her. The girls continued their conversation for awhile about what they had done while the ship was in port. Twilight and Fluttershy had gone on a guided tour of the local rainforest and had seen many unique lizards and birds, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie had gone parasailing, and Applejack, Rarity, and Sunset Shimmer had gone shopping at the local market. As the topic of conversation began to switch toward what to get for dinner, the girls noticed a young girl laughing as she ran along the deck. This wouldn’t have been out of the ordinary, except that the girl looked very familiar. The girl looked to be around five or six years old, and had green skin with green and white hair with a pink headband in it. She wore a blue and white stripped one piece swim suit with pink frills, and had gold eyes that looked on with a childlike sense of wonder as she ran past. “Uh, Rarity? Did Lyra say she was bringing her little sister with her on the cruise?” Asked Applejack. “I… don’t think she has a sister.” Said Rarity. The girls had seen their classmate Lyra around the ship a few times in passing over the past few days. She had spent most of her time by the pool, either swimming or sunbathing, and had on a swimsuit that looked almost the same as the little girl wore that they just saw. “Aw don’t be jumping to conclusions guys. Maybe she just never mentioned having a sister, or it could be her cousin, or could just be some other random girl that looks a little like Lyra. I bet we’ll see her by the pool later before we go to bed.” Said Rainbow confidently. The girls exchanged nervous looks at each other before nodding in uncertain agreement. “Now come on! There’s a burger with my name on it at the-” Rainbow Dash stopped and stared at the ground. She was about to start leading the way to the buffet but had barely gone a few steps before noticing a locket laying on the deck. Upon picking it up, Rainbow noticed an engraving written on the back that made her uneasiness rise. To Lyra, love Bon Bon As she opened the locket, her friends peered over her shoulders in equal amazement. Inside the locket was a picture of Lyra and her girlfriend Bon Bon, smiling back at them. “Here we go again.” Said Sunset Shimmer with a sense of worry in her voice. Sunset Shimmer and her friends now sat around a table at the stern of the ship. It was more than likely some Equestria magic was at work aboard the ship after finding Lyra’s locket, and it was up to them to get to the bottom of things. They had decided to split up and search the ship in smaller groups to cover more ground, hoping to find Lyra and ask her what had happened to her, but no one seemed to find the young girl anywhere. “Did anyone see anything out of the ordinary?” Asked Sunset. “You know, Rarity and I happened to pass the kids club and one point, and it seemed a lot fuller then on previous days when we passed it.” Replied Applejack. “I noticed the same thing at the nursery when I was chasing after Pinkie Pie. There were only a few babies and toddlers in there yesterday, and now there looked to be about twenty or so.” Said Fluttershy. “Where did she say she was going again?” Asked Twilight. “She said she smelled triple chocoberry blasted butter biscuit bunt cake and rushed off before I could stop her. Apparently she really wanted to try it since we got on board.” Said Fluttershy. The girls exchanged knowing glances. That was Pinkie Pie alright. “Now that I think about it, Twilight and I didn’t see any other adults or people our age the whole two hours we looked around the ship other then the staff.” Said Sunset. “But that’s impossible! Our whole class is on the ship! They couldn’t have just disappeared!” Said Applejack. It was at that moment the girls heard footsteps coming toward them. Upon looking at the source of the noise, the girls found a teenager heading there way. She looked to be around fifteen years old, and had cream colored skin and light plum hair that flowed elegantly down her back. She wore a pale green, low cut, two piece bikini that sported colorful flower graphics throughout the fabric. A shell necklace was around her neck as well. “Lily Pad? Is that you?” Rarity asked the teen as she approached them. “Of course it is silly. Don’t you recognize me?” She said with a smirk. All of the girls knew Lily Pad to some degree. She was a girl from their neighborhood that they all had babysat at one time or another. Although the Lily Pad they knew was a shy five year old girl that attended at Canterlot Elementary, not a young high school sophomore. “Lily listen to me. Did you have anything to do with all the passengers disappearing?” Asked Sunset. “Like I would tell you.” Said Lily. She was acting a lot more brash then when she was little. “You don’t have to.” Said Sunset, grabbing Lily’s arm. Visions of Lily’s experiences revealed themselves to Sunset. She saw Lily trying to get Pinkie’s attention a couple of times and had been blown off by her, leaving her feeling sad and angry. She then saw Lily looking upset and pinking up shells on the beach in Bali, picking up the one she was currently wearing around her neck. The vision then changed again to Lily on deck, wishing she was older and the shell shooting off equestrian magic into Lyra and making her younger and Lily a bit older. The vision then changed rapidly to Lily reducing other cruise members to kids, toddlers, and infants, remarking that she would regress everyone until she was as old as Pinkie and her friends. The visions then ceased and Sunset found herself back on deck with Lily and her friends. “Lily, I’m sorry you felt like Pinkie and the rest of us were ignoring you, but this isn’t the way to get our attention.” Said Sunset. “It certainly seems to have gotten your attention to me.” Lily said. “Yes but this isn’t the right kind of attention. You’ve changed the other passenger’s ages! That’s not something you can just do to people!” “Well with this magic shell I can, and if you don’t want to be my friends, maybe you should join everyone else.” She said grabbing the shell and causing it to glow. The girls tried to run forward and grab the shell from Lily’s hands but it was too late. Magic shot out from the shell, hitting each of the girls. Fluttershy found herself beginning to shrink, losing five inches of her height. Her body began to lose much of its curves. Her ample breasts and butt receded in on themselves until they both were barely noticeable under her wetsuit. Her hair also changed, losing some of its volume and length, looking less like that of a styled young woman and looking more like that of a girl just learning how to do her hair. That was exactly how she appeared now, having lost about seven years of her age and leaving her at the delicate age of twelve, just starting puberty. Her mind changed to that of a prepubescent, concerned about how she looked compared to the other girls, insecure about most aspects of her life and shying away from her classmates due to her already shy nature combined with the new awkward stage of her life she was experiencing. Sunset was next in line for an age down, shrinking until she was just under four feet tall. Her body, which was one of the more gifted ones in the assets department then most of her friends, slimmed down, her body now that of a little six year old. Her stylish swimsuit top and bottom cover up merged together until they became a grey one piece swimsuit, sporting her cutie mark in the middle with a few rhinestones surrounding the design. Her flip flops were no longer on her feet, likely left in her cabin in excitement to get to the pool. Her mind required quite a bit of reworking, her knowledge of time at human high school as well as all her memories in Equestria disappeared and were replaced with a knowledge of always being a human girl, barely six years old and learning the basics at Canterlot Elementary. Twilight was the next to be hit by the shell’s powers, loosing much more of her height then Fluttershy had. The tall teen lost nearly two feet of her height, leaving her at just barely three and a half feet tall. Her breasts and butt receded completely into themselves, giving way to a five year old child. Her one piece swimsuit changed, going from a suit that showed just a bit of skin to one that covered everything. All the fashionable touches that made the garment a fashion statement faded away until all that remained was a simple dark blue suit with a lighter blue and white tutu that gave the garment just a touch of cuteness to it. Her flip flops disappeared from her feet, a young girl like her not caring about wearing them when she’d be in the pool anyway. Her hair shortened a bit and gained a pink headband to keep her hair out of her face. Her mind was the last thing to change of course, losing all the knowledge of high school, middle school, elementary school, and even kindergarten. Twilight was now a young five year old girl, just about to start kindergarten. Her eyes stared wide out the lenses of her glasses in awe of the world and all it had to teach her. Rarity was next to face the magic’s affects. The fashionista shrank until she was just an inch shorter then Twilight. Her body that she took great pride in began to lose its definition, losing her busty breasts and bubble butt until her body became that of a young girls. Her stylish bottom cover up and swimsuit top vanished in favor of a pink Speedo shirt with a few print on diamonds scattered across the middle of it. A pink bikini bottom with a short skirt covered her bottom. Her flip flops vanished, a young girl like her not needing them. Her hair shortened to neck length and lost some of its styled curls, looking shaken out from playing all day. Her mind that was filled with all knowledge of fashion, etiquette, and how to attract boys left her, leaving her with carefree mind of four year old girl in daycare that was only starting to care about looking pretty like her Mommy. Applejack was the magics next target. Her body not only shrunk to barely three feet tall, but her muscle toned body that she gained from years of farm work also disappeared, giving way to a body layered with an adorable amount of cuddly baby fat. Her ponytail shortened in length, going from resting just above her butt to barely at the bottom of her neck. Her Speedo swim top and swim shorts shrank and merged together, leaving the toddler in a blue one piece swim suit that had an adorable pattern of apples scattered all throughout the garment. Her flip flops changed to small saddles that were fastened to the toddler’s feet so she wouldn’t lose them. The last change to her attire was perhaps the most humiliating and obvious. The area around her butt and crotch expanded outward, making the fabric of the swimsuit taut around her waist. The bits of poofy pink plastic peaking out of the leg holes of her swimsuit left no doubt what was strapped to the toddler’s waist. A poofy swim diaper lay underneath her swimsuit that spread her legs apart about two inches in case of accidents. Not that the little Apple tot cared. Her mind lost not only all its knowledge of what she had learned in school all the way back to nursery school, but also any worries, fears, and inhibitions as well. Her Mommy and Daddy had tried to potty train her, but she didn’t want to yet. She hated having to stop playing to go potty. She much preferred just going in her diaper. She squeezed her legs together and giggled, enjoying the bulk between her legs. Rainbow Dash was next to find her maturity slipping away. The athlete found herself shrinking down until she was a few inches short of two feet in height to match her new age of just two years old. Her slim and toned figure became pudgy with baby fat typical for such a young toddler. Her hair shortened slightly and became messier, reflecting her hours of playtime. Her tank top remained unchanged, other than shrinking to fit her smaller body. Her athletic shorts were not as lucky, bunching up and poofing outward as the fabric morphed into plastic and became a thick swim diaper. The diaper was very unique in that in sported a blue and yellow color scheme with the words “Super Soaker” printed on the disposable garments rear, a nickname her parents had given her due to her heavily used diapers they found themselves changing quite often. Her mind like Appejack’s emptied itself of all worries, fears, and inhibitions and a bit more of her knowledge of what she had learned all the way back to nursery school, leaving her as an innocent tot who could only speak a few words and possessed only basic cognitive skills. The now pint sized Rainbow Dash plopped her diapered butt on the floor and found herself filling her first of what would be many diapers, the garment expanding outwards as it absorbed all Rainbow threw at it. When she was finished, she reached down and gave her diaper a satisfying squish with her hand, giggling at what she had done. As the magic finished its work on the former high school seniors and poofed them away, the magic then rushed back into the necklace around Lily Pad’s neck, the fifteen year olds body ready to receive the magic’s gifts. Her body grew slightly taller, and her breasts and butt grew, giving the now eighteen year old some generous D cups and a nice bubble butt. Lily looked down at herself, now the age she really wanted to be. “Finally! Now no one can ignore me anymore!” She said as the changes wrapped up. “Lily Pad! What do you think you’re doing!?!?” A voice said from behind her. Lily turned to see none other than Pinkie Pie marching towards her, looking annoyed. “I go off to get some bunt cake and come back to find you making my friends younger? Where did you send them off to?” She demanded. “Oh they’re around here somewhere. The shell knows what to do with them. Now we can hangout without anyone bothering us! What do you want to do first?” Lily asked. Pinkie stared back at Lily, more annoyed than ever. “Hang out?!? I’d never hang out with a meani panini like you! You turn everyone back to normal right now or you’re gonna be in big trouble!” Pinkie said, glaring at Lily. She didn’t take people that messed with her friends lightly. Lily gazed back at Pinkie Pie stunned. All she had done was to be better friends and to hang out with Pinkie, and now she had no interest in being her friend? This was something she could not take lightly. “Ok Pinkie Pie. Whatever you want.” Said Lily as she grabbed the shell and activated it. The shells magic burst forward, shooting right into Pinkie Pie and began taking affect. “Lily! What are you doing?” Said Pinkie Pie as she began to shrink. “If you don’t wanna be my friend, then maybe you’re better off going back to before you learned to make them.” She said, gazing down at her with an evil smile. Pinkie Pie found herself shrinking down until she was barely over two feet tall. Her slightly pudgy figure became slightly plumper, reflecting the physique belonging to a baby. Her poofy hair shortened considerably until it was just a pony tail stuck up straight above her head. Her swimsuit changed going from a cute one piece to not even a swimsuit at all anymore. The garment became a simple pink onesie with snaps at the crotch to make changes easy. Her crotch swelled as a thick and white disposable diaper appeared around her waist, keeping the new baby protected at all times. The diaper’s thickness was apparent by the way it peaked out the leg holes of the onesie, where a cup cake appeared on the garments chest area and butt flap for a touch of style. Her mind emptied itself like a deflating balloon, losing all her knowledge of school topics, social expectations, and even her ability to talk. As this happened, her diaper began to expand outward, all the knowledge having to go somewhere as mess filled the back and warm liquid filled the front, the diaper expanding until the onesie snaps couldn’t contain the diapers increasing bulk and burst open to put the diaper on public display. The now baby Pinkie Pie lay on her back and looked up at Lily Pad curiously, like she was grasping onto the last thought she had been thinking before the changes had occurred. This soon passed though and the baby then began babbling and stuck her finger in her mouth to suck. The magic then whisked Pinkie away, no longer in Lily’s presence as she gained a barely noticeable amount of height, now at almost nineteen years old. “Well now that there’s no friends left on board, I guess I’ll have to go and find new ones.” She said as the shell went and fulfilled her desires, steering the ship back toward Canterlot City. “No one can stop me now.” She thought as she went off to find something to occupy her time.