Night Glider was, like all the other villagers of “Our Town” (they had never been able to settle on a proper name, but hopefully that would change soon), was glad to be rid of Starlight Glimmer and her “equality”. She had been hesitant to join the crowd and had only done so because her good friends Party Favor and Sugar Belle had told her it was worth being a part of. Last time she ever let anypony talk her into being part of some silly cult.
With Starlight having been ousted, the village could now blossom and prosper all by itself. And that meant that issues that had long been ignored because Starlight hadn’t seen a use for them or had been occupied with other things now had to be addressed. Among them was the upgrading and modernization of the village’s plumbing.
The village didn’t have toilets. They just had trenches or in some cases buckets. And the less said about the problems those caused the better. But Starlight had refused to have toilets of any sort be built. The modern throne style toilets would’ve taken forever to install and not many ponies knew how to build the older flush models. But the real issue had been hiring plumbers, which would’ve exposed the village or so Starlight had said.
Now, however, toilets were slowly being added to the village. Only a few huts had them, which meant that the ones that did would often have long lines as multiple ponies waited on the availability of a toilet. Some that didn’t want to wait would leave to do it the old fashioned way.
Night Glider was greatly relieved that she had managed to get her toilet installed in private, only Party Favor and Sugar Belle knew she had one. Considering the long lines she often saw at Sugar Belle’s bakery, the pegasus didn’t want anything like that to happen at her home.
It also meant that the pegasus could easily slip away to take care of her bodily functions with only her closest friends being any the wiser. “I sure hope everypony else can get their own toilet eventually,” She thought to herself. “We’ll never be able to function as a village if we’re fighting over who gets to have a toilet and who doesn’t.”
One day, however, Night Glider was faced with a problem. Her toilet wasn’t working properly. She tried everything to get it to work, but it seemed there was some sort of obstruction that was preventing the water pressure from returning to normal. And a toilet that couldn’t flush was of no help to anypony. To make matters worse, since nopony in the village knew yet how to repair the toilets, a plumber would have to be called to come out and try to fix the problem. And the pegasus mare knew that would take quite a long time.
“Oh well,” Night Glider thought to herself as she set off that morning with her routine only slightly altered. “I’m sure Party Favor or Sugar Belle will let me use their toilet when I tell them mine’s busted. I’d do the same if it happened to either of them. Heck, I’d do the same for anypony if they had a problem like that.”
The pegasus went about her day as normal, giving no real thought as to what she’d do when she would inevitably need to go to the bathroom. Her toilet wasn’t going to magically be repaired all by itself.
This line of thinking inevitably came back to haunt Night Glider when potty time came around. It wasn’t really a strong urge, thankfully. But it was an urge all the same and one that couldn’t be ignored. And luck was not on the pegasus mare’s side: Sugar Belle’s bakery already had a huge line of ponies waiting for what they all knew was a single toilet. Party Favor’s place was no better, a line only slightly shorter than the one at Sugar Belle’s bakery.
Everywhere Night Glider went she could see long lines outside the huts that she knew had toilets! “Does everypony in town need to go the bathroom as badly as I do?!” She thought to herself in dismay! Had the situation really gotten so bad that what toilets there were couldn’t keep up with the demand?
The pegasus didn’t know and she couldn’t afford to wait around to find out. Line cutting was out of the question, nopony was going to let her get away with that! And she wasn’t about to try and make a bad situation worse for her out of order toilet.
So that meant there was only one option available!
Night Glider flapped her wings and took to the skies, flying out towards the mountains surrounding the village. She prided herself on having overheard that one conversation from Double Diamond about him “bringing a toilet with me” when he went on those skiing trips before meeting Starlight. Hopefully one of those “portable potties” would still be there.
As luck would have it they were, although much to the dismay of the desperate pegasus they were really just a bunch of old and worn out chamber pots that hadn’t been touched in quite a while. Still, they were better than the alternative, so Night Glider touched down and picked one up.
Never had Night Glider felt as relieved as she did now. The chamber pot did its job despite her worries that it might not. And she could easily just fly back to her house to get some toilet paper to clean up her flanks. The only real problem now was how to empty out the used chamber pot. She couldn’t keep depending on the ones that were there now, because who knew how long it would be until her toilet was fixed? She didn’t want to wait in the long lines for other toilets.
Night Glider picked up the chamber pot and carefully flew it back to her house. She would think of a solution later, for right now it was most important to her that she not arouse suspicion by staying for too long up in the mountains.