Later that evening, Twilight woke up to find she was in a crib again with the plastic bars surrounding her. This wasn't the first time this had happened to her as she instinctively looked down at her body to see that she had pudgy hooves and a small, chubby form.
Twilight trembled, realizing once again she was regressed into a foal. As if to verify one more thing, she threw the blankets off her body and revealed her rump covered in a thick, fluffy diaper. This solidified what Twilight feared as she slammed her hooves over her face and roared. “Not again! Who tuwned me into a foaw tis time?!"
“Don’t worry, Twilight, you're not actually a foal,” Twilight gasped upon hearing that it was Princess Luna who spoke. She looked up to see the princess of the night flying down towards her with a little smile on her face. Princess Luna landed right next to the filly and nuzzled her as she whispered. “I apologize; I didn’t expect this dream to be so... adorable.”
Twilight looked around, seeing the cute nursery with stars all over the room as she then whispered back. “Yeah, guess I enjoyed being a foaw a wot mowe ten I wealized," She looked down at her diaper, seeing that it had Luna’s cutie mark on it and blue leak guards. The familiar feeling of the diaper being snug around her rump was rather comforting. “This is a rather cute dream.”
“Yes, and I have to admit, I'm rather flattered you took a liking to my brand of diapers,” Luna cooed as she gave the padding a few pats. “However, that's not the only reason I brought you here,” The princess of the night explained as she showed Twilight an amulet. It looked rather similar to the Alicorn Amulet, but this one had a cute look, with the outline being a baby alicorn with tiny metallic wings springing out from it.
Twilight’s eyes lit up, and she held out her hooves, batting the amulet a little due to being enticed by it.
Luna snickered as she nuzzled the little filly and as she explained, “This is a copy of an amulet my sister and I created, and we want to show it to you and your friends. However, we don’t trust Trixie.”.
Twilight got control of herself, shaking her head to concentrate on the princess in front of her. “Right...I mean, she did come back to Ponyville to try to take revenge. I can understand not fully trusting her. But what does the amulet do?”
Luna placed Twilight down and continued to explain. “It enhances the ability to perform age spells. But we have only tested it on non-living objects, and we are unsure if it can reverse the regressions. You said that Starlight Glimmer is still out there somewhere?”
Twilight waddled about the nursery, secretly enjoying being in diapers again, even if it was just a dream. Just the feeling of the padding around her rump made her feel relaxed. She then plopped on her padded rump as she took a bottle, plopped it into her mouth, and suckled on it while enjoying the formula. As she finished her bottle, she looked over at Luna, who then giggled and asked again. “Did you hear me?”
“Oh yeah, sorry,” The unicorn with a light purple coat squeaked, feeling somewhat embarrassed at her foalish instincts took over as; she got up on all fours and continued. “Yeah, I did. That means we have to be prepared. From what I've heard, she's gone through time and regressed ponies in the future.”
“Right, which is why we made this amulet. Regardless of how they were turned younger, this amulet will hopefully reverse the effects of age regression.” Luna replied. She then scooped up the little foal and took her to the changing table.
Twilight squeaked, seeing her dream diaper was soaked. The worst part was, she hadn't noticed at all! “Eep! This isn’t real right!”
“Of course not; it’s just a silly dream,” Luna cooed as she started untaping the diaper and began cleaning Twight up. The princess of the night nuzzled the filly and whispered. “Just think of it as returning the favor for caring for my sister and me.”
Twilight cheeks flushed red, too embarrassed to say anything as she let Luna finish the diaper change. The little filly giggled and gurgled as she kicked about, and the princess laid her back in the crib. “Now, just remember when you wake up to come to Canterlot and visit us. But for now, go on and get some sleep, little one.”
“Alright.” The filly yawned as she snuggled under the covers and drifted off, hoping she had this same dream the following night.
The following day, Trixie was enduring another day as a foal in her playpen. She was keeping herself busy, trying to levitate blocks with her horn and practice teleporting them.
Spike was still angry at her for what happened yesterday as he sat in the kitchen, chomping on his gems angrily while glaring at her.
Trixie just stuck her tongue out and continued concentrating on the blocks. As she floated the blocks about, she mulled over her situation. She realized that she only had four days left to give Starlight some information about the mane six, and all she’d learned so far was that some bats were sucking the juice from apples at Sweet Apple Acres.
Trixie could be foal for months, if not a year, from the sounds of Twilight’s progress in a cure! That meant Trixie’s only real option to turn back into an adult was to give Starlight somehow what she wanted. But to do that, Trixie needed better information.
“Spike, we have a problem!” Trixie heard Twilight shout as she came running downstairs! The unicorn then turned to her assistant and continued to explain. “We need somepony to babysit Trixie, now!”
“Not me!” Spike snapped, throwing his claws up in protest.
Twilight rolled her eyes. “Yeah, like I would trust you with a baby. Besides, you’re coming with me,” She then turned to Trixie and explained. “Look, last night Princess Luna said she might have found something promising about age spells to turn you back to normal. But she wants Spike and I to meet her in Canterlot and for you not to come along.”
“Tats fine with me, but it wooks wike ya need to find a babysittew,” Trixie mumbled, trying to act like she didn’t care. But she kept her ears perked up, thinking that there could be more news as to what Celestia and Luna discovered.
Twilight started to pace back and forth. “Yes, we’re going to need a foalsitter for you, Trixie, but…”
Spike shrugged. “Everypony we know has foals now. We can ask one of them to watch her. Maybe Applejack, Fluttershy, or Pinkie Pie?”
Twilight sighed, rubbing a hoof over her face. “If only, but they have their foals and responsibilities...I could ask Applejack again….”
Pinkie Pie then came bursting in with a pair of familiar changeling foals on her back as she asked. “Hey, can you do me a favor and watch the changelings for a few hours? I was told I was needed in Canterlot.”
Twilight blinked, looking somewhat confused, and asked, “you too?”
“Yeah, guess Luna said something about an emergency.” Pinkie explained as she placed the baby changelings in the playpen next to Trixie.
The little unicorn filly eyed the two and waved a hoof as the changelings nervously waved back.
Then following close behind her, Applejack came along with Zecora in tow. “Huh, y’all got the same message?”
“It seems so,” Twilight mumbled.
Zecora, meanwhile, ran over to Trixie, who smiled at her new friend. “Hey Twixie, how ya doing?”
“I’m fine...tough I focusing on using my magic and not going to ta potty wight now.” Trixie admitted as her cheeks flushed red.
The other foals snickered as Zecroa threw up a hoof. “Is fine, being in diapees are comfier anyways. I wanna go see if Twiwight gots some cool potions. Ya tink it would be ok if I go upstaiws?”
Trixie giggled, seeing that Zecora’s mindset was that of a toddler, and seeing that the adults were distracted. Plus, to her, it would be a great little prank on Twilight to have Zecora mess with her stuff. “Yeah, go ahead and have fun. But be cawefuw, dun make anything too dangeouws.”
“Otay!” Zecora squealed as she ran upstairs when nopony was looking.
Rarity came through the entrance with her little colts a moment later. Looking around at her friends and the rest of the foals, she just sighed. “Oh dear, it seems we all were called to go to Canterlot today.”
Fluttershy slowly walked behind Rarity with Midnight and Discord in a stroller with a pink diaper bag strapped around her midriff. She buried her head under a wing and stammered. “Same as me...whatever is going on must be important."
Rainbow Dash flew in soon afterward, seeming to have noticed the commotion and exclaimed. “Hey, am I the only one who didn’t get the message?! What's going on?!"
Twilight was still somewhat confused herself, and she didn't know how to explain what's going on. But she wanted to reassure her friend that it wasn't anything too serious, as she explained to the best of her ability. "It's ok, Rainbow Dash. Princess Luna just gave us a message that she and Princess Celestia have created something that could possibly help with the age regressions."
"Wait, you mean that's it?! I was hoping it was a summon for another monster to beat up." Rainbow Dash irritably grumbled, clearly disappointed by the news.
“That’s good and all, darling, but we still have one issue we need to address,” Rarity pointed out as she looked over to the playpen. “Who will care for the foals while we're gone? We need someone to do it."
Everypony looked at each other with nervous looks as Rainbow Dash flew up and exclaimed. "It's going to be me, of course! I didn't get the message, so obviously, Princess Luna and Princess Celestia want me to babysit."
Twilight shook her head, sensing that leaving all the foals with Rainbow Dash would be a terrible idea ."We can’t leave you with all these foals for a day! That's crazy!”
Rainbow threw her hooves across her chest and scoffed. “Oh, come on! I can totally handle a couple of foals! You all make it look so easy."
Rarity rolled her eyes. “Darling, do you even know the first thing about taking care of foals?”
“Yeah! I’ve helped all of you once in a while!” Rainbow shouted back!
“Playing with them, not necessarily caring for them,” Fluttershy whispered.
But the daredevil mare threw her hooves up and replied. “I can care for them; how hard can it be? Change some diapers? Make sure they're fed? Have them in bed by eight? Easy peasy if you ask me.”
Pinkie Pie snickered, sensing that Rainbow was just like her when she’d cared for the Cake Twins for the first time. “Oh, I'm sure it’ll be fine! Rainbow Dash can handle anything, and she never gives up!” She exclaimed while making notes to set up a hidden camera.
Rarity turned to her colts and eyed them. “Well...if it’s coming to that, I expect you two to behave yourselves and help Rainbow Dash care for the other foals. Understood?"
“We will!” The colts cried out as they hugged Rarity while she kissed them on the forehead.
“You two better behave as well, no using any kind of magic while I'm gone." Fluttershy scolded her charges.
Discord saluted her. "Don't ya worry, we be good! I’ll keep an eye on Midnight."
"Oh yeah!? Is more wike I'ww be keepin' an eye on ya!" Midnight snapped back.
The two began to argue, but Fluttershy would have none of it, flaring her wings up. "Both of you, stop!" Both foals stopped immediately as she lowered her head to their level. "Behave, alright? If I hear any of you causing any trouble, you'll be grounded for a week. Do I make myself clear?"
"Ok." The two mumbled as Fluttershy threw them into a hug and nuzzled them.
"Just play nice and listen to Rainbow Dash,” Fluttershy concluded. “She's in charge now." She then placed the foals into the playpen next to Trixie, who eyed the two with a suspicious look.
Twilight just stood there, shaking her head. “This is a bad idea; we should get somepony else to help, like Big Mac or Cheerilee. Doesn’t anypony else agree with me on this?”
Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes. “Oh, stop worrying. It's only going to be for a few hours, right? What’s the worst that could happen?”
Twilight pointed a hoof, shoving it into Rainbow Dash’s snout as she shouted! "Don’t say that! Don’t ever say that!” But it seemed that despite her misgivings, she might not have a choice. So she reluctantly relented. “Fine, we’ll leave the foals with you, Rainbow Dash. But I still think this is a terrible idea,” She looked over at Trixie and gave her a stern look.“You think you can behave yourself while I'm gone?”
“Of couwse, Twiwight!” Trixie squealed.
Spike got up and walked over to the others. “Well, I’m coming with you girls. I’d rather not get buried under diapers again.”
The rest of Twilight’s friends couldn’t help but burst into laughter as Twilight then led everypony except Rainbow Dash out of the library.
As soon as her friends left, Rainbow Dash walked over to the foals and glared at them. “Alright, you little troublemakers, I'm in charge! That means we're going to play a game of hiding and seek.”
“Ok!” The foals all squealed in unison, and almost every foal ran off to hide as Rainbow stood there and shouted, “Hey! I didn’t even start counting yet! That’s not fair!”
Every foal was now looking for a place to hide somewhere within the library, except for Trixie and Midnight. The mysterious alicorn foal flew into the playpen next to Trixie. “Hewwo! Can I pway with you?”
“S...suwe…” Trixie stammered, looking over at the baby alicorn suspiciously. She only vaguely remembered the newspapers claiming an evil enchantress named Midnight was the one who was turning ponies into foals a few years ago. And from what she remembered, Midnight was the one who’d turned Prince Blueblood into a colt (and for a little while into a filly).
“So, what’s ya name?” Midnight asked as she helped stack one of the blocks.
Trixie paused. She’d heard that Midnight and Starlight had at one point teamed up, but she felt it would still be wise to befriend this alicorn since more allies couldn't hurt. She took out a hoof. "My name is Twixie."
The little filly snickered behind a hoof. "Tats a siwwy name. Hewwo Twixie, I Midnight.”
Trixie placed a block on top of the others and asked. “So, Midnight, ya didn’t get tuwned to a foaw by yasewf wight?”
“Of couwse not! I can’t say what happened, but I basicwwy been punished fow messing with ya ponies.” Midnight explained.
Trixie smirked upon learning of that fact. Maybe that meant there was a way to get her to spill the beans on Twilight and her friends. She looked over next to her, ensuring that the “spy” teddy was nearby while she kept stacking blocks and talking to Midnight. If she could befriend this foal, maybe she could get the information she needed.
Just maybe...
After what felt like two hours’ worth of chasing the foals around, Rainbow Dash was quite exhausted. She was panting heavily after the rather intense game of hide and seek, as she was chasing the changelings who were flying around all over the library as baby copies of herself. “Get back here!” She roared, snatching Ocellus from the air before she saw Thorax zooming by. “Can you foals just stand still?! I already found you!”
“Yeah, but now ya gotta catch us!” Thorax nagged at Rainbow while Ocellus was blushing as she followed her brother.
However, Rainbow eventually caught up with the changelings. She captured the two just before she crashed into the bookshelves. Shel landed on the ground with the two babies laughing and giggling, bouncing up and down on the daredevil’s belly. “Alright, I caught you two!” The speedster wheezed, feeling exhausted.
Thorax nuzzled her and babbled. “Tat was fun. Can we pway again?”
“Yeah, pwease?” Ocellus whimpered as she placed her hooves over her face.
Rainbow was too tired to respond right away as she plopped the two changelings in the playpen. “Maybe later. For now, I need to find the other foals.” The pegasus then heard the sound of the two colts giggling and enjoying themselves.
She flew upstairs only to look in horror to see the two colts were throwing diapers all over the place in Twilight's room. The entire room was covered in padding. “What are you colts doing?!” Rainbow Dash roared in frustration.
“We just pwaying!” Blueblood squealed at her as he threw several diapers into the air.
Hoity Toity threw his hooves across his chest and pouted. “Yeah, we make better diapees tan these with our mommy.”
“It doesn’t matter! This is insane! You two pick up these diapers this instant!” Rainbow scolded them. “I’m in no mood for games anymore.”
“Ok.” The two colts reluctantly grumbled as they nevertheless began to scoop up the padding and throw the diapers into the closet.
Rainbow then turned to see Zecora’ on Twilight’s desk, mixing potions and laughing hysterically. “Zecora, stop! Those aren’t toys!” She shouted as she flew across the room to try to stop the baby zebra, but it was too late!
Zecora was pouring a strange mixture. Suddenly, her flask lit up, and a side of the library exploded, covering the entire room in a foamy substance!
Rainbow squeaked as the foam rushed her and the other foals caught into it downstairs. Soon the entire library was covered in the white substance, with the rest of the foals caught in the tide. They all started to splash into the foam as well, throwing foam at each other. And Rainbow was lying in the foam with most of her body covered in it. She just stared up at the ceiling, looking somewhat dazed.
The rest of the foals didn’t care; they just went about playing in the foam, Thorax and Ocellus splashing and throwing the foam at each other.
Zecora took a hoof of the stuff and shoved it into her mouth. “Oh yum!” She exclaimed! “It tastes wike formula!”
Discord took handfuls of the stuff and shoved it into his mouth, squealing in delight as he declared! “Oh, my Cewestia! It does taste wike fowmula! So good! Ya outdid ya self, Zecowa!”
The baby lord of chaos waddled off, rolling the foam up into balls and tossing them at the other foals.
The other foals got mad at him first, but they soon started to roll the balls of foam and toss them back at Discord. A “snowball” fight soon started with the balls of foam being tossed all over.
Seeing the chaos unfold, Discord sat down with a bag of popcorn, clapping his claws and enjoying the madness as he began to shove popcorn into his mouth.
The only two not going nuts were Midnight and Trixie, who both swam up through the foam and popped their heads up.
Trixie looked over. Seeing that Rainbow Dash was indisposed, she took the opportunity to question the alicorn. “So...um, Midnight? Ya was the fiwst to twy wegwessing evewypony?”
“Yeah, bu it didn’t wowk out too, weww.” Midnight irritably grumbled as she flew up out of the foam.
“Yeah, but Stawwight is gonna wescue me and tuwn me back into an aduwt.” Trixie whispered under her breath.
Midnight’s eyes lit up and whispered. “Ya serious?... She is stiww out thewe, wegressing ponies wike I taught her?”
“Yeah. I dun know wha her pwans awe. Aww, Trixie cawes bout is getting wevenge on Twiwight and hew fwiends.” Trixie replied with a smirk, seeing that Midnight was now interested.
The alicorn princess tapped a hoof to her chin. “Wha's da catch?”
A grin grew on Trixie’s face. Midnight had taken the bait, and now it was a matter of reeling her in. “I need more info on Twilight and the others fow hew. I tink she gonna try regressing them., I got some good info bout ta Apples. Tey has a bat problem. I heard of the fruit bats sucking the juice fwom ta apples….” Trixie paused as she took the time to suckle on her hoof with some tasty milk foam, then she added. “Wha if we get hew to twy stopping them alone.”
“Right! Bats attract bat ponies! Maybe they should turn her into a baby bat pony? Tey scoops her up, and then she has to be raised as a bat pony, brilliant idea!” Midnight cheered.
Trixie was starting to get excited. “Yeah, weww...wha about ta west?”
Midnight irritably grumbled again as she tapped a hoof to her chin. “Not sure, I mostwy have been under ta watch of Fluttershy…but I know tat Twilight has hew friendship lessons! Tey got a lot of info on tose ponies!”
Trixie's eyes glowed: This was exactly what she wanted...revenge! Now she was going to have it, thanks to this evil baby alicorn. The unicorn filly then asked. “Ok, but wha about Wawity? She’s not gonna be easy to get along with.”
Midnight just yawned. “Pwease, just have her be tempted with some fancy jewel or something and have it be in Manehattan or Cantewwot. If she gets picked up by some posh ponies, she’ll live a wife of luxury as a foaw. That mare won’t be able to wesist such a pampewed wifestywe.”
“Ok, what about Pinkie Pie and Twilight? Those two were turned to foals before, and on top of that, they both seem to be rather hard to trick.” Trixie commented with concern.
Midnight replied. “Eh, if we can get one, tey can’t use ta Elements of Hawmony, and we win. Besides, it’ll be hilarious if they do find their friends onwy for them to have to cawe fow them as babies! We need to find those lessons and exploit ta info.”
Trixie smiled. “Tanks fow helping me ensure I can town back into a big pony,” And then she asked. “Wanna make Wainbow’s wife miserable?”
“Oh yes!” Midnight exclaimed with a devilish grin!
“Hey, did I hear ya two want to make Rainbow Dash’s wife miserable!?” Discord shouted, waddling over in his crinkly pampers.
Midnight snickered. “Yes, and I tink ya can have a wot of fun with ya chaos magic! Hewe’s ta pwan.” She then got Trixie and Discord to huddle together as they discussed a plan to make Rainbow Dash’s life more miserable.
Discord cracked his knuckles as he got up. “Oh, this is gonna be fun!” He then scrunched up his face, and tendrils of magic swarmed around his tiny body. He summoned as much chaos magic as his little body could as he sent it outwards! He turned the foam thicker, making it bright blue and pink. Then it spread out, covering the entire treehouse.
Rainbow Dash just watched in horror as the tendrils of pink and blue foam covered everything in sight. “No! No! No! Discord, stop!”
But it was far too late with Rainbow Dash’s hooves no longer on the hardwood floors but instead a soft, rubbery substance. She shuffled across the bouncy floor, trying to grab the little troublemaker, who ran off giggling and clapping his paws in glee.
Midnight clapped her hooves together, enjoying the madness. “Tis is so awesome! I haven’t had tis much fun in ages!” She then came over to Trixie and held out a hoof. “Now, while Wainbow Dash is distwacted, why dun we do some hunting fow info?”
“Good idea,” Trixie replied, and the two went upstairs to find the friendship lessons that Twilight kept.
The two foals began looking through the basket full of scrolls, opening them and pouring over them. Midnight grumbled as she found one about Rainbow Dash and her having an opening to the Wonderbolts academy. “Aha! Found sometin’ useful!”
Trixie waddled over. Despite her reading level being diminished because of her regression, she could still make out some words. Just thinking about humiliating Rainbow in front of her idols put an evil smile on the filly’s face. “Yes, tat’s gweat! Even if she tuwns back to nowmaw somehow, she’ll be a laughing stock fow ta west of hew wife!”
Midnight smirked as she then picked up the lesson about the Flim Flam brothers making a machine that produced apple cider and squealed. “Hey, check tis out!”
Trixie read the lesson through and was a bit confused. “So wha? Who awe tese Fwim Fwam bros? Tey sound coow, but how does tis hewp?”
Midnight started to bounce up and down on her padded rump as she explained. “I heawd tat tey awe makin’ a potion to make ponies younger. Is probably fake, but Stawwight can probably help tem make a weaw age regression potion!”
Trixie snickered behind a hoof, thinking how horrible it would be for the Apples to have to see Flim and Flam destroy their family farm. “Tats a gweat pwan too! No matter what happens, we will make tem suffer!”
The fillies started to chuckle evilly, but then Midnight suddenly slammed a pacifier into Trixie’s mouth. “Shhhh! Wait!” They then heard Rainbow Dash coming upstairs. Midnight quickly took a jar of ink and spilled it all over her and Trixie’s hooves as she shouted! “Stawt smearing tings with ya hooves, act wike a siwwy foaw!”
Trixie did as Midnight instructed, getting her hooves filled with the ink and smearing it around, and splattering it all over some blank scrolls.
“What are you foals doing up here?!” Rainbow called and then gasped, seeing the friendship lessons scattered all over the floor. “No!!!!” She quickly snatched up the foals and looked over the scrolls! She sighed relief upon seeing they mainly were okay with only a few splotches of ink on them.
But Rainbow had had enough as she picked up the foals and shouted at them! “What were you two doing up here?! Why were you messing with Twilight’s stuff?!”
Trixie quickly came up with a lie, whimpering as she said. “We just wanna pway and make a pictua...we sowie….”
Midnight gave Trixie a wink, approving of the simple lie as the daredevil mare just gave an exasperated sigh. “Fine, but don’t do this again, alright?! Now come on. Let’s get you foals fed; then it’s off to bed. I’ve had enough of this craziness for one day!”
The foals smirked at each other, seeing that Rainbow Dash was oblivious to their true intentions as she placed them on her back, and they flew downstairs.
Trixie herself was feeling rather triumphant; She now had some secrets to give to Starlight.
Later that evening, Twilight and her friends returned to the Golden Oak Library from their long trip to Canterlot. Twilight herself was somewhat nervous about the state of her library and of leaving Rainbow with eight foals all by herself.
Twilight slowly trotted up to the front door and sighed relief upon seeing things looked relatively normal from the outside.
However, Pinkie sniffed the air. “Why does it smell like formula?”
Applejack sniffed the air too, and if by instinct, one word came to mind. “Zecora.”
Twilight gasped! She was well aware of Zecora’s obsession with making “potions,” most from what she heard were somewhat volatile! She burst open the doors of the library, and her mouth dropped open at what she saw! The entire library was covered in blue and pink style foam padding, looking like the innards of a bouncy castle.
The rest of Twilight’s friends eventually caught up with her, looking around the place with utter bewilderment! Pinkie, however, just burst into laughter and then shouted. “This is awesome! It’s a bouncy library now!” She squealed and started bouncing around like a rubber ball while the rest of the mares ran upstairs, all now fearing a little how the foals were doing. But when they reached the top, all gave sighs of relief, seeing that all the foals were sleeping soundly.
Rainbow Dash looked over with bloodshot eyes, her mane was a mess, and her coat was covered in green foal food, formula stains, and ink splotches. The daredevil looked somewhat nervous as she stammered out an apology. “S-sorry about the library. This all happened when Zecora made a bunch of foam explode, which I think was baby formula. Then Discord used his chaos magic to turn your library into a nursery, sort of,” She took a moment to catch her breath before finishing. “But I did change all their diapers, fed them mashed peas, and put them all to sleep. And I made sure to feed them bottles of formula if they woke up.”
Twilight looked over the foals, all sleeping peacefully around the room, with Trixie and Midnight sharing a crib while the rest of the foals were sleeping sporadically on the floor on little mats, with blankets covering them. Despite the state of the library, Rainbow Dash had done an admittedly decent job keeping the foals in check.
Rarity scooped up her sleeping colts and asked. “I hope my foals were well behaved?”
“Yeah, they were mostly fine...minus throwing diapers everywhere.” Rainbow bitterly muttered.
“Oh my! I’ll scold them about such unruly behavior.” The fashionista insisted.
This made the other ponies snicker as Fluttershy picked up Midnight and Discord and started to strap them into her stroller as she replied. “I’ll make sure Discord is grounded for this and fixes up the library when he wakes up.”
“Alright, but don’t be too harsh. This fabric probably saved the foals from getting bumps and scrapes.” Rainbow insisted, remembering having a few close calls, especially with the changelings wanting to fly all over.
Twilight nodded in approval as she took another look around. The foam material (despite its babyish look) was rather prudent regarding future age regressions. “Yeah...actually...this might sound weird, but maybe keeping my library ‘foal proof’ for now wouldn’t be too bad of an idea. I think I'll keep my place like this until we know for sure that the age regressions have stopped.”
“Yes...I agree this material does make things safer for foals,” Fluttershy agreed, but she still gave a glare at Discord. “But still, Discord will be grounded for this. He can’t just use his chaos magic without approval or permission.”
Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes, not agreeing with her friend in the slightest. “Ugh, when did you become such a mom, Fluttershy?”
“Well, unlike you, Rainbow, I need to make sure Discord is behaving,” Fluttershy commented rather sternly, trotting off with her foal before Rainbow Dash could retort.
Pinkie eventually came bouncing back upstairs as she scooped up the changelings. “Aww, they look so peaceful and happy. Thank you, Rainbow! I think you did a great job! Next time though, I suggest maybe throwing flour over yourself to calm them down.” She hugged her friend before bouncing off.
Rainbow blinked, looking confused. “Flour? What is she talking about?”
Applejack then came over and picked up Zecora and grumbled. “Don’t you worry, Rainbow? I’ll scold Zecora myself.”
“Again, don’t worry about it; Twilight said, this is fine. I don’t get why you and Fluttershy are so mommy-like.” Rainbow grumbled as the farm mare shook her head.
“You’ll get it when ya have foals of your own, sugarcube.” Applejack replied before she walked off with Zecora sleeping on her back.
Seeing that only Twilight was left, Rainbow Dash turned to see her friend was looking over Trixie sleeping soundly in her crib. Twilight had this peaceful smile over her face as she whispered, “She wasn’t a little troublemaker by any chance? Was she?”
Rainbow Dash winced and rubbed a hoof over her mane. There was one thing she left out. “About that...she and Midnight got into a pot of ink and spilled it on some of the friendship lessons you had stored away.”
Twilight gasped in horror and shouted! “Oh no! They didn’t ruin them, did they?!”
“Of course not! They just got the ink smeared on some unused scrolls!” Rainbow Dash explained, frantically trying to clarify.
Twilight ran over, checking the box where the scrolls were kept. She made sure they were fine before she sighed in relief. “Alright, good, I hope this is a lesson that you shouldn’t bite off more than you can chew. This could’ve all been avoided if we just got another pony or two to help you care for the foals.”
“Yeah...trust me, I’m NEVER! Going to do something like this again! I’ll write about it, and you can send it to Princess Celestia tomorrow if you’d like,” Rainbow replied before yawning; the pegasus mare was quite exhausted as she added. “Now, I’m gonna go hit the hay; see ya later.” She then flew off out the window, feeling rather beat and at the same feeling relieved she didn’t have any foals of her own to take care of.
Trixie woke up in her crib the following day to feel her rump being cleaned as she was going through another diaper change by Twilight. She didn’t bother protesting or anything, instead of letting the mare do her job. She was somewhat surprised to see that the room still looked like a nursery with padded pink and blue walls. Twilight must’ve noticed Trixie was awake now as she asked. “Good morning, little one. How did you sleep?”
“Trixie swept fine, tanks,” Trixie yawned as she stretched her tiny limbs. She was still rather tired but was feeling relaxed, confident she would be a big pony again. However, there was still that burning question in her mind. So Trixie gave Twilight her best pair of puppy dog eyes and asked innocently. “Um, so wha did Pwincess Wuna wanna tew ya yestewday?”
Twilight looked down at her charge with a smirk. “Sorry, but it’s a secret. As adorable as you are, I can't trust you with that information yet. Besides, you should be glad I'm not punishing you for digging through my friendship lessons yesterday while I was gone.”
As Twilight started to tape Trixie up in a fresh diaper, the little filly replied. “Twixie didn’t do anythin’. Twixie was just pwaying with ta ink, and we happened ta need a scroll.”
Twilight finished making sure the tapes on Trixie’s new diaper were secure before continuing, “Well, in any case, that was still rather rude. However, I'm willing to forgive you on one condition.”
“What’s tat?” Trixie asked in a suspicious tone.
As she explained, the unicorn then showed Trixie a colossal package of Luna brand, extra-thick, super-absorbent diapers. “Princess Luna got me these brand new diapers! Also, while on the train, my friends and I decided you're going to hold a show tomorrow wearing these along with an adorable outfit that Princess Luna and Rarity made for you!”
“Wha?!” Trixie wailed. She kicked and whined at seeing how thick the diapers were in the package, looking like they had triple the padding than the ones she went to sleep in. “Bu..bu...bu….” She could only stammer out, seeing that she was about to look incredibly humiliating probably.
“No buts! We’ll get you practicing your routine today! Then tomorrow, we're going to have you perform at Cheerilee’s schoolhouse, where we’ll set it up for the rest of the foals.” Twilight squealed, clapping her hooves and looking rather excited.
“Ya gots to be kidding me!” Trixie groaned as she was tucked back under the covers in her crib. Not only had she learned that Twilight still had a secret, but now Trixie had to give a stupid performance. This was not good! What's worse, she only had a few days left; she needed to learn what that secret meeting was about and fast!