//------------------------------// // Nightmare Knights in Training (Stygian) // Story: Potty Training Tales // by SuperPinkBrony12 //------------------------------// Stygian smiled as he closed the book he had been reading. “This will make a fantastic report on the possibilities of other worlds and their access,” He thought to himself. “All thanks to Princess Luna of course. Boy, won’t Starswirl be jealous?” His own published account of his recent adventures had been completed in private over the past few days, and now it was kept within what was really more of a glorified journal than anything else. The scholar used what little magic he’d been able to learn to gently float the book over to his desk. He’d worry about it later as he currently had something a bit more pressing to tend to, namely his full chamber pot. How that old thing had managed to not fall apart after a thousand years of neglect was a mystery, but he was mighty grateful to have it on him while he was still learning how to modify his “potty time” for a modern age. Carefully picking up the well worn object by its handle, Stygian carried it out to a small pit behind his house and emptied the pot’s contents into said pit before covering it up. A few rolls of paper cleaned out the pot’s interior for its next use, and a few more cleaned the scholarly unicorn’s flanks before they were sealed up in a trash bag. Stygian returned to his house and his study, carefully setting that chamber pot down near his desk so that it’d be in his line of sight and ready for when it would be needed again. True, there was a bathroom that housed a pull chain flush model toilet, but there was just a nice element of convenience to have something close by when the need arose. But before the stallion could tend to issues pertaining that report of his, he was surprised to receive a knock at the door. He got up though since it was rude not to answer, and when he opened the door he was surprised to see a familiar unicorn mare with a grayish-purple coat, who in turn was holding a familiar looking blue coated unicorn foal clad in nothing but a plain foal’s diaper. And the mare looked rather frazzled given the state of her mane and tail. “Oh, thank goodness! I really didn’t know who else to turn to on such short notice without getting a princess involved!” The mare declared in a frantic sounding tone of voice, all the while the foal in her care was squirming and fussing all about. The scholarly unicorn had to blink and rub his eyes to make sure he wasn’t seeing things. And indeed he wasn’t. “What’s going on, Starlight Glimmer? And why in the name of Starswirl’s beard do you have a foal that looks like Trixie?” He pondered as he brought the mare inside. Starlight took a deep breath. “Because it is Trixie! It’s a really long story, and I really don’t have time to explain it all!” “Why not?” The scholarly unicorn inquired. “I have nothing but time on my hooves, and Trixie and I have previously worked together. If something happened to her I think I have a right to know, especially if it’s affected my other partners.” Starlight shook her head. “It’s only a problem with Trixie, no one else,” She explained. “Ever since she came back from that mysterious trip with you and Princess Luna, she’s become even more obsessed with practicing her magic than ever before.” Stygian quickly deduced the problem. “And she became like this because she wanted to practice a very complicated spell.” Starlight reluctantly nodded. “Yeah, even more complicated than a teleportation spell. I was there when it happened.” And her mind started flashing back to the occasion that had led to the circumstances she now found herself in. It hadn’t been more than three days since Trixie had come back from a journey where she had been recruited by Princess Luna for an important (and top secret) task. One that had apparently involved a trip to a parallel world ruled by evil, including an evil force that had stolen some of Luna’s powers for a period of time. And one that had involved a Twilight who had touted herself as a “Great and Powerful” magician just like Trixie. So it was that the “totally not jealous” magician of her own world had more or less persuaded her best friend to help her practice magic. More advanced magic to boot. “The Great and Powerful Trixie must be able to prove herself no matter when!” Trixie declared as she and Starlight made use of the hillside outside of Ponyville for the magic lessons. Starlight Glimmer was naturally quite hesitant about this even though she knew she stood little chance of convincing her fellow unicorn not to do anything too advanced. “Are you sure this is a good idea, Trixie? Whenever I use really powerful magic it doesn’t tend to work out well for me. It seems like it causes more trouble than it fixes.” Trixie dismissively waved a hoof at the concern. “Relax, Starlight. You have way more experience with magic now, as does Trixie. We can easily handle any problems that might occur,” And she then instructed. “Let’s begin the lesson! Trixie wants to go beyond even teleportation! Trixie should be able to do spells like you can.” “You sure you don’t wanna start out with something a little bit easier?” Starlight pleaded with her fellow unicorn. “You still haven’t fully perfected teleportation yet, why don’t we start there?” “No, Starlight! Trixie wants to go to the next step!” The magician insisted and began to light up her horn. Starlight reluctantly did the same when she realized her friend wasn’t going to take no for an answer. “I hope Trixie will tire herself out before too long trying to do all of this.” She thought to herself as the lesson got underway. The two unicorns then practiced with high level magic for a few minutes, which mostly consisted of Trixie failing to pull off every spell shown to her: Transformation, transfiguration, transferation, translation you name it. Hoping to get Trixie to completely deplete her magical reserves (and thus force the lessons to end), Starlight decided to change the lesson’s focus. “Why don’t we try working on combat magic? That sounds like something that would benefit you, Trixie. Even magicians need to know how to defend themselves.” Trixie forgot all about her earlier frustration and ignored her growing exhaustion and boasted! “Great idea, Starlight! See? This is why you’re Trixie’s great and powerful friend!” Then the magician settled on an idea. “Trixie shall amaze you with a shield spell so powerful it’ll repel anything you or anypony else could possibly throw at it!” She promptly started making her horn spark as furiously as she could, visibly straining herself in the process! Somehow though, she managed to produce a small protective bubble in front of her. “Better not overtax it too harshly, I don’t wanna hurt Trixie or make her collapse.” Starlight thought to herself as she made her own horn spark in response to the display her eyes were witnessing. Without warning though, a beam of magic shot off from her horn! “Trixie, watch out!” The mare screamed! But Trixie just stood there, confident her shield spell would protect her. The beam of magic struck the shield, and something most unexpected happened as there was a sudden spark and a huge puff of smoke in the same light pink color as Trixie’s magical aura. When it had cleared, where before there had stood a full grown mare there now sat a helpless (and kind of pudgy) unicorn foal with only a faint wisp of light blue for a mane and tail. Horrified at the sight of seeing her friend physically regressed, Starlight Glimmer rushed over as fast as her hooves could carry her! Yet once she arrived a new problem presented itself as the familiar smell of ammonia filled the air, and underneath Trixie a small puddle began to form. “Starlight!” The foal blushed, helpless to stop herself from releasing. “Trixie pottied!” Starlight fought back a gulp. “Yes, I can see that,” She tried to stay calm. “I’ll… uh… have to get you some supplies. And then we can look for a cure once I know you won’t leave puddles everywhere! Stay there!” She instructed and teleported away. The foal that had once been a magician just pouted. “Not like Trixie has a choice in the matter.” She complained to herself. “So the Great and Powerful Trixie is now The Great and Padded Trixie,” The foal said to Stygian as Starlight’s story concluded. “And Starlight hasn’t been able to find a cure yet. Though that may be partially Trixie’s fault.” “You’re the one who refuses to be a good little foal and do all the foals things,” Starlight Glimmer groaned in annoyance before turning to Stygian and pleading. “So that’s why I came to you. I need to do some tests and pour over what knowledge I can find on age spells, and I can’t do that when Trixie keeps needing something or wanders off every time I turn my back.” Stygian was still greatly confused. “I’d like to help, but I don’t see what any of this has to do with me or where I come in. I don’t have much knowledge on age spells, or foal care for that matter.” Starlight pleased in desperation. “Please, Stygian! I just need you to keep Trixie out of trouble for at least a few hours. I can bring over all the supplies I ‘borrowed’, though Pinkie Pie basically says the Cakes don’t need them anymore.” Trixie blushed anew. “Trixie doesn’t need nearly that many supplies, Starlight. And neither does Stygian.” “You go through way more and we both know it,” The grayish-purple unicorn mare protested. “This isn’t up for argument.” Stygian started to ponder. “Why is Trixie still in diapers if she hasn’t mentally regressed? Surely she still has some control over her behavior and bodily functions.” “Yes, but let’s just say that potty training didn’t go so well.” Starlight commented as she recalled the ill fated first attempt. Trixie hadn’t been diapered for more than an hour, and she was already hating every minute of it. “I don’t need to wear these stupid things, Starlight! Trixie only had one small accident.” “It’s just a precaution, Trixie,” Starlight Glimmer replied while using her magic to pull various books off the shelf in the library of Twilight’s castle. “Be thankful Twilight’s even willing to help. I wasn’t supposed to be using such advanced magic without her.” Trixie frowned. “Just Trixie’s luck that Princess Twilight wouldn’t know how to cure this. She once said age spells were something only alicorns could pull off.” “This is a highly complicated age spell. Most don’t have the user retain their adult mindset,” Starlight explained. “Now stop being so fussy! You’re not helping either of us find a cure when you keep bugging me.” Trixie whimpered. “But Starlight, Trixie really needs to go!” Starlight answered. “You’re wearing the diaper for a reason. I’ll change you in a minute.” “No, Starlight! Trixie isn’t using her diapers!” The regressed magician protested! “The Great and Powerful Trixie demands that you take her to a toilet this instant!” Reluctantly, Starlight set the book she’d been reading down and picked Trixie up with her magic. “If it’ll get you to be quiet for a while, fine. You sure you can hold it in?” Trixie nodded. “The Great and Powerful Trixie is a master of holding it!” “Let’s hope so for both our sakes, I have no idea how Sunburst can make changing diapers look so easy.” The unicorn mare replied as she carried Trixie out of the castle library. “Less talking, more carrying!” The regressed magician demanded of her friend, and then concentrated all her efforts in preventing herself from going into her diaper. The two unicorns soon reached one of the bathrooms in the castle, thankfully unoccupied. Starlight Glimmer soon set Trixie down upon the floor next to the toilet. “Okay, Trixie, there’s the toilet.” Trixie nodded, eyeing the magnificent porcelain throne. “Yes. And all Trixie has to take off her diaper and get onto the seat all by herself,” She sarcastically declared. “I am a foal in body you know. Foals can’t exactly do everything on their own.” Starlight had to force back a groan as she pulled the diaper down and then off of Trixie, before floating the foal carefully onto the edge of the toilet seat. “There. Now you’d better go, I’m running out of magic to use.” She told her friend, emphasizing her point by gesturing to her horn which was starting to produce only sparks. The foal that had once been a magician took that as a sign that she needed to hurry up and do her business, which is exactly what she did! “Yes! The Great and Powerful Trixie has gone poo poo in the toilet like a big filly!” She cheered, proud of her accomplishment even if it had required a great deal of assistance on her best friend’s part. Starlight let out a sigh of relief as she thought to herself. “I hope Trixie will keep herself quiet long enough that I can get back to work on finding a ‘Great and Powerful Cure’ and get her back to normal.” But just as she was about to pull some toilet paper off from the roll, there was trouble! “And now she shall make it all disappear!” Trixie suddenly declared and concentrated what magic she had upon the silver handle attached to the toilet, surrounding it within the pink aura of her horn.  “Trixie, wait!” Starlight called, trying to stop her friend from prematurely declaring victory. But it was too late! Trixie’s magic had already pulled the handle and the toilet started to flush. The loud noise startled Trixie so much that she ended up losing her balance and splashed into the bowl! Already, she felt herself getting swept up by the rapidly spinning waters! “Starlight, help!” She screamed as they turned into a dizzying whirlpool which began to pull her tail and taking her towards the drain! The unicorn mare rushed to the toilet, concentrating her horn on the bowl to try and snatch her friend out! However, all she got for her effort was a set of sparks, her magic was completely drained at the worst possible moment to boot! “Trixie!” She cried and desperately extended her hoof as far down the bowl as it could go! “Take my hoof, hurry!” Trixie tried but she just couldn’t reach that grayish-purple hoof. And in the blink of an eye she vanished down the hole! The waters soon returned, sparkling clean. But the pony they had taken along for the ride was gone! A frantic Starlight Glimmer rushed out of the bathroom, making a beeline for the castle doors! “Just hold on, Trixie! I’ll save you!” She thought, hoping to reach a drain pipe or sewer grate in time to see her best friend float on by. “Ever since then, I’ve been way too busy and way too afraid of another accident like that to even consider potty training again.” Starlight concluded her story. “But Trixie keeps putting up a fight during her diaper changes.” “It was only the one time that Trixie got flushed. Hardly Trixie’s fault if the seat was so slippery and the toilet so big,” Trixie pouted. “Besides, Trixie did technically use the potty. She just needed to wait before flushing.” Starlight sighed. “So between the interruptions thanks to that, and for all the other things a foal needs, I’ve been struggling to get any research done at all. I’m hoping there’s something in the Canterlot Archives that can help, and Twilight’s working with Sunburst to see if there’s anything in the Crystal Empire’s library that’ll work. But I can’t just leave Trixie in the care of anypony. I figured that since you’d worked with her before and your house is out of the way, you could watch her for me.” The scholarly unicorn agreed without hesitation. “I can definitely do that. This could be a chance to learn about how far foal care has advanced since my time. After all, we hardly even knew what a toilet was back then. Only Starswirl even got a chance to see a prototype be made.” “Great!” Starlight eagerly declared as she levitated over a saddlebag containing the supplies she’d mentioned earlier! “Just make sure she doesn’t get into any trouble or ends up anywhere she’s not supposed to. Trixie will definitely let you know if she needs something,” Then she looked at her friend. “Trixie, please be nice to Stygian. I promise, if I find anything that even looks like a cure I’ll come right back to test it out on you!” And then, lighting up her horn, she teleported away. Trixie just pouted, frowned and folded her hooves across her chest. “Trixie is not a helpless foal who can’t take care of herself, Stygian. You of all ponies should know that even Trixie is not to be underestimated.” Stygian responded in a surprising motion, by cooing at his charge. “Oh, I know you aren’t. In fact, I think you’re quite clever to figure out how to use a modern toilet even as a foal. I’m still only vaguely aware of how my own toilet works.” “Is that why you have that old pot by your desk?” The regressed magician questioned. The scholarly unicorn nodded his head. “Indeed. It’s a chamber pot, which is what ponies used to use back then. It’s kind of like diapers for big foals. Now, I kind of use it even though I have a toilet I could use as well. I don’t really need to use my chamber pot, but it’s there as an alternative until I’ve fully mastered using the toilet.” Trixie couldn’t help but smiled. “Trixie understands what you mean,” She said. “If Trixie’s able to do it, then you can too. After all, the more you try, the better you get.”   “And I’m sure your get better at doing spells, just like your friend,” Stygian encouraged. Then a clever idea popped into his mind. “Perhaps you can teach me a thing or two about the toilet.  Trixie suspected Stygian was just humoring her, but for the sake of her ego she decided to play along. “Then prepare to be amazed as the Great and Padded Trixie once again uses the toilet,” She declared. “And this time she shall ensure that only what’s supposed to disappear actually does!”