//------------------------------// // Carrot Top and the Can (Carrot Top) // Story: Potty Training Tales // by SuperPinkBrony12 //------------------------------// Long before they had become roommates and long before they would become parents to their own little ones (Carrot Top through adoption), Derpy and Carrot Top had grown up in their earliest years together. They attended the same daycare and their parents were friends, so the two knew each other almost from birth despite one being a pegasus and the other being an earth pony. In fact, Derpy’s family was one of the rare pegasus families who didn’t live up in Cloudsdale. They lived on the ground in Ponyville, which presented its fair share of advantages but also drawbacks. Although she was not born with the wall-eyed condition for which she’d later be associated with, Derpy was still far from the most coordinated foal. Carrot Top soon discovered that the foal she played with most often was unusually clumsy and accident prone in more ways than one. Often it was Carrot Top who suffered as a result of this clumsiness, though Derpy would always apologize afterward with “Oops! My bad!” Carrot Top knew her friend meant well. The accidents were never intentional, not even the “other” kind of accidents that mandated frequent diaper changes. But it seems that Derpy was going through diapers faster than normal and was getting herself into all kinds of predicaments that led to some amusing (and some not so amusing) injuries or other mishaps. While there wasn’t much she could do to stop her clumsy friend from getting hurt, Carrot Top became convinced she could at least help to alleviate the looming diaper shortage Derpy’s parents were worrying about. “You can use some of mine,” She told Derpy. “I don’t go through that many.” “You sure, Carrot Top?” Derpy questioned her friend. “I don’t want you to run out of diapers because of me.” Carrot Top smiled. “I don’t have a need for them as much anymore, not since my mommy and daddy made me start doing potty training. Now I get to wear something called pull-ups, which are like diapers but they’re easier to take on and off.” From a glance it looked similar to a diaper, but touching it made it possible to determine that it was not as thick or poofy (and likely couldn’t hold as much as the average diaper as a result). The little pegasus was amazed by this. “Wow! That’s amazing, Carrot Top!” The little earth pony smiled. “Well, I am older than you. I bet your mommy and daddy will make you do potty training too, eventually. Then you’ll get to wear pull-ups as well.” “What’s ‘potty training’?” Derpy asked in confusion. “What even is a potty?” “You train yourself to use the potty,” Carrot Top explained with a slight humph, convinced that such a fact was common knowledge (but she probably wouldn’t have known either just a few months ago). “And what you do with that training is you go in the potty rather than a diaper.” “So, I don’t wear them if I use a potty?” The pegasus began to frown. “I don’t know.” The earth pony filly sighed. “Come on, Derpy. At least try to use it. I’ll even show you what it is, and then you can tell your parents if you think you’re ready for the training. It’s not that hard once you get the hang of it, I promise.” Carrot Top led Derpy away while their parents were talking to each other. She was convinced that if she could learn how to use a potty in such a short amount of time then surely her friend could do the same. The methods for training couldn’t be that different between earth ponies and pegasi, could it? Well, there was no harm in trying, right? If it was to help a friend then it was surely a worthy thing to aim for. At least that’s what Carrot thought as she managed to bring her friend to what was most commonly referred to as a bathroom (though she’d also heard her parents call it the throne room, based on what supposedly resided within it). There wasn’t much in the way of light besides the natural kind, but it did enough to illuminate the room in all its glory. Derpy’s eyes beheld a variety of strange fixtures that she’d rarely seen before, at best she had only glanced at them the few time she’d been in this room with her parents (often as they fussed over her following one of her many accidents of either the normal foal kind or the clumsiness induced kind). The two foals eventually came before a tall, gleaming white object that looked like it was a cross between a bowl and a chair, with the chair part having a round seat. There was also some kind of top or lid that brushed up against some kind of box like thing. The top was currently raised, exposing the seat and the inside of the bowl. Carrot Top proudly gestured a hoof towards the object. “This is the potty, pretty much every home has one.” “Wow, it’s really big!” Derpy exclaimed as she extended a hoof to touch the bottom of it. “And it’s so cold.” Carrot only grinned. “Well, it’s for big ponies to use. That’s what you become if you do what you do in your diapers in it instead. And big ponies get awesome big pony privileges.” Derpy promptly asked. “You mean, like pull-ups?” The little earth pony nodded. “Yeah, and other things too. But you gotta use it properly to get those privileges. That means you have to come here when you know you’re about to do something in your diapers, so you can do it in the potty instead.” “Gosh, I don’t know how you’re supposed to use something so big. Derpy admitted as she eyed her little stubby wings. “I don’t think I could get up there even if I flapped my wings really hard. How can you get up to where you’re supposed to be?” Carrot Top rolled her eyes. “You don’t fly up, you climb up. I even have a special seat that makes it easier for me. Plus I have a step stool,” She pointed a hoof to both objects and frowned. “Watch, I’ll show you how easy it is. I kind of had to go anyway, so this is the perfect opportunity for you to learn. You can do what I do, and soon you’ll be a big pony too.” With a fair deal of difficulty, Carrot was able to undo her pull-up and slide it down all the way so that her bottom was bare. She normally never took it off fully but for the sake of this demonstration she felt it best to do so. She walked her friend through the procedure as she scrambled up the step stool, wiggled around on the special foal seat to adjust her position and then sat down as her rump hovered over the bowl. Derpy watched, keeping roughly eye level with her friend. It looked so easy. “Now you just relax, lift up your tail, and let it all out. It takes practice to do it as well as I do it though. It might take awhile sometimes,” Carrot Top bragged before blushing. “And uh, you’re supposed to give other ponies privacy when they’re on the potty. So you do mind turning your head for me?” “Oh, okay. Just let me know when I can look back.” Derpy replied as she turned her head. The young earth pony was able to relax quite easily once she had sat down. It wasn’t long before she could hear the tinkling, plopping and splashing echo into the bowl beneath her. “I make it look so easy. Or maybe it’s really just that easy.” She thought to herself, beaming with pride at her achievement. “You can look back now, Derpy. I’m done.” She told her friend. The young pegasus was amazed! “Wow, that was fast!” She said as she turned around. “Now for the fun part!” Carrot Top declared, standing up carefully. She stretched out her body and reached a hoof out to touch the silver handle resting to her right side. She was able to pull it down. Both the filles heard a loud noise which lasted a few seconds. “What was that, Carrot Top?” Derpy asked once it faded. “That was a flush. When you’re done using the potty that’s what you’re supposed to do,” Carrot explained to her friend. “You just press down the handle and the potty empties itself of everything. After that you wipe yourself up if you have to, which is actually what you’re supposed to do before flushing since you put the stuff you wipe with in the potty. Anyway, after you do all of that you’re done, all that’s left is to wa-.” “That sounds like fun!” The little pegasus suddenly interrupted. “Let me try flushing it now!” She started flapping her wings even before her friend had gotten off the seat. “Derpy, wait!” Carrot Top pleaded as she tried to get down. But her friend wasn’t paying attention. Derpy ended up flying so high and so close in eagerness that she inadvertently knocked the earth pony back. Carrot Top plunged into the bowl with a splash, managing to keep her head above the waters with some effort. The pegasus didn’t quite hear the splash because of how excited she was. So excited in fact that she unintentionally bumped up against the silver handle with her rump and forced it down. “DERPY!” Carrot Top screamed at the top of her lungs as the toilet roared loudly. She started spinning rapidly with the water in the bowl! Lacking either pegasus wings or a unicorn’s ability to teleport there was no way for her to escape in time! And soon the young earth pony’s shout of annoyance was drowned out as the fast swirling water became a powerful whirlpool that began taking hold of her tail, pulling her down! Derpy landed on the toilet seat just in time to see her friend get sucked down the drain. “Oops!” She exclaimed upon realizing that her signature clumsiness had struck yet again, this time causing her to accidentally flush away her friend. “My bad!” She called to the drain, even though Carrot Top didn’t return with the water. She could already hear the sound of hoofsteps approaching her location though, so hopefully one of the grown-ups would be able to help. Carrot Top, meanwhile, ended up on a dark and smelly ride that she strangely grew to actually like, sort of. It felt not unlike she was taking a bath. At least, that’s how it felt until she plunged out of a drain pipe and into the sewers. The fun quickly faded as she realized she had a long way to go to find a way back to her house. “Of all the things to have happened to me because of Derpy, a potty training nightmare was hardly one of them.” She thought to herself.