A few weeks went by after Princess Cadence officially took over as the royal foalsitter, helping to mitigate Discord's chaotic nature. Despite this, Princess Celestia was quite exhausted from spending much of her time with Discord, trying to keep him out of trouble.
Princess Celestia was now packing a diaper bag to prepare for a playdate. Just recently, she learned that Mr. and Mrs. Cake had had rather chaotic foals. Princess Celestia had proposed the idea that the Cake twins and Discord should get together for a playdate, and surprisingly enough, Mr. and Mrs. Cake agreed.
Despite the fact that the playdate had been her idea, Princess Celestia was anxious about this being Discord’s first interaction with any foals his age. She then strapped the diaper bag around her back and headed off towards the nursery where Discord was toddled over towards her, and she picked him up while nuzzling. “Hello, Discord? You ready to have fun?”
Discord rose up and toddled over with his forelimbs in the air as he cried out. “Yeah, I’m ready, Auntie Tia!”
Princess Celestia levitated the little bundle of chaos and drifted him onto her back. She adjusted herself, shifting the saddlebag full of foal supplies, and groaned a little from the weight. The alicorn princess then looked at a nearby mirror with a sigh, seeing the bags under her eyes. She really needed a break. Maybe Pinkie Pie could watch Discord for her in addition to keeping an eye on the Cake twins?
With a wink and flash, Celestia teleported herself and Discord to Sugarcube Corner. “Nervous?” Celestia suddenly asked as she turned her head to face Discord.
Discord, for his part, realized he was bouncing up and down on his diapered flank a little too much, so he stopped and said. “Yeah… it’s just, I neva played with another foal before.”
Princess Celestia set Discord down next to her hooves and ruffled his head. “Don’t worry, just relax and have fun. And remember, if you have the urge to use your chaos magic…”
“Think about somethin’ else,” Discord mumbled under his breath.
Celestia nodded, and then she then knocked on the front door. It opened to reveal Mr. and Mrs. Cake, and they both bowed and exclaimed, “Princess Celestia!”
“Please, let’s forgo the formalities.” Celestia insisted.
Mr. Cake forced back a gulp. “We got your letter. And you mentioned the creature Discord?”
“Yes, this is him.” Celestia nervously responded. She then stepped out of the way, revealing baby Discord, who stood there, giving the couple a nervous glance. His cheeks blushed red while he squished the diaper between his thighs.
“Oh, he's adorable!” Mr. and Mrs. Cake both cried out, and they came over and hugged and nuzzled him.
Discord was overtaken by the two ponies, who started smothering him in love.
Mrs. Cake turned her attention to Princess Celestia. “So this little cutie is the troublemaker you’ve been talking about?”
“Yes,” The sun princess slowly nodded. “He's well-behaved overall, but he can have outbursts of chaos magic occasionally. And they can be very problematic.”
“I…I see…” Mr. Cake stammered, seeming to be somewhat unsure about this new information.
“Oh, that's ok! Pumpkin is just like that!” Somepony very familiar shouted. All turned to see Pinkie Pie bounce over as she waved a hoof. Discord had heard of this pink pony before from the letters Princess Celestia reads to him sometimes. She was as energetic as he imagined with her bubbly personality and seemed to be as childish as he was. Pinkie Pie then picked him up, squeezed his body into her chest, and squealed. “Oh, this little cutie isn’t dangerous at all!”
Celestia sighed. “Don’t let his looks deceive you. He can be quite a hoofful.”
Discord kicked and squealed about as Pinkie started to tickle his pudgy belly. “He's definitely diaper dependent, huh?”
Celestia giggled. “Well, he is only a few months old, after all. I’ll worry about potty training him after we get his chaos magic under control. And I think him making friends his age is a good place to start.”
“Well, he came to the right place!” Pinkie Pie insisted. “Pound and Pumpkin just love making new friends!”
“Well, you will be the one watching them,” Mrs. Cake cautioned. “So that means you need to keep an eye on Discord, and Pumpkin Cake, in case of magic surges.”
“I know, Mrs. Cake,” Pinkie nodded her head quite firmly. “Don't worry! I babysat the twins once, and I can do it again! Discord won’t be any more trouble.”
Celestia simply replied by lighting up her horn. A yellow bubble slowly formed around the bakery as she then explained the Cakes. “I thought I’d be prepared and put up a shield spell around Sugarcube Corner to keep the foals from escaping, just in case. Meanwhile, while we are here relaxing, we can have Pinkie Pie keep an eye on the foals upstairs.”
“That sounds like a great idea! My children definitely need to learn how to play with foals their own age,” Mrs. Cake smiled as she escorted Pinkie Pie and Discord upstairs to the nursery. There, she had the twins already out playing with blocks. They both eyed Discord as he was plopped right next to them while Mrs. Cake cooed. “Ok, you two, play nice with your new friend! And try not to give Pinkie Pie a hard time again.”
After Mrs. Cale had left the room, Discord clumsily waved a claw at the twins. “Uh, hello, my name is Discord…”
Pound Cake eyed the newcomer and babbled. “My name is Pound Cake. Tis is my sister, Pumpkin Cake.”
The baby unicorn eyed Discord as well. “Yeah. We twins…what are ya?”
Discord paused and tapped a hoof to his chin. “Auntie Tia said I a draconequus.”
“Oh, ta princess, she’s ya, auntie?!” Pound squealed as he clapped his hooves and flapped his wings in excitement!
“Well, tats what I call her and Auntie Lulu, tey take care of me, along with tis othew pwincess: I tink her’s name Cady or something,” Discord explained.
Pumpkin gasped, then placed her hooves over her face! “No way! Does tat make ya a pwince?!”
Discord squeaked, not realizing that Pumpkin sort of has a point. “What… no?! I um…dun wana be a pwince for now, I want to be a friend.”
Pound smirked and asked. “Otay, ya want to be our friend, huh?”
“Yes!” Discord excitedly exclaimed! “I’ww do anyting!”
Pumpkin smirked too. “Well, tat means ya gotta help us with something fiwst!”
“Like what?” Discord asked, suspecting nothing.
The twins gave each other a look, then they both gave a nod before turning their faces back to Discord and saying in unison! “Bake a cake!”
“Yeah!” Pound explained. “My sissy and I wanna bake a cake like Mommy, Daddy, and Auntie Pinkie. But they won’t let us in ta kitchen.”
“Bu we wana show Mommy and Daddy we can bake a cake like tem!” Pumpkin insisted.
Discord blushed as he knew of Celestia’s “cake addiction” and how much she secretly loved it. He would love to bake a cake for her. “Otay, I’ww hewp ya bake a cake!” He turned towards Pinkie Pie as she was looking over them and being quiet, seeing they were in conversation (even if she couldn’t understand a word they were saying). Then he whispered. “Well, we gotta somehow get past Pinkie Pie fiwst. Any ideas?”
Pumpkin Cake rolled his eyes. “Tats why ya here! Can’t ya us ya chaos magic to twick her ow somethin?”
Pound Cake stuck a hoof into his mouth and babbled. “Wha is chaos magic?”
Discord cheeks flushed red. “Well, I tink so…Listen, my chaos magic can do a lot of tings. But I dun have full contwol ovew tem. So I shouldn’t use my powers unwess I weally need to.”
Pumpkin crawled over. “Hey, it’s otay. My horn lights up and I teweport all over ta pwace ow cause weird stuff ta happen too! But fwom what I heawd, ya got supewpowers!”
The baby pegasus’ eyes started to grow really wide as he asked Discord! “Weally?! Ya a supewhewo ow someting?!”
Discord buried his face behind his paw and claw as he squeaked. “I not a supewhewo. I tuwned ta moon into cheese.”
This caused the babies to burst into laughter as Pumpkin giggled. “Weww, I turwed Auntie Pinkie Pie’s mane into cotton candy one time!”
Pound snickered, “yeah tat was fun! She let us eat it until she was bawd, ten she grew it out as if nothin happened! Wike tis!” He put his paw into his mouth then blew his cheeks out to demonstrate.
Discord couldn’t help but giggle as he thought Pinkie Pie’s mane looked like cotton candy. And hearing how silly she was, it made him wonder if he could hang out with her after the playdate.
Pumpkin the crawled over to Discord and stuck her hoof out. “So, ya gonna hewp us bake a cake or not?”
Pound Cake fluttered over and stuck his own drool covered hoof out. “Yeh ya gotta shake on ta hoofsies!”
Discord smirked, then stuck out his eagle claw and whispered. “Otay, here’s ta plan, we gonna have a nap time soon, and when tat happens Pinkie Pie will lower her guard. When she does tat, we should sneak out very quietly. Once we head downstairs, I’ww teweport us to ta kitchen, avoiding Auntie Tia and your parents. Then we bake ta cake with my chaos magic!”
“Otay!” The twins exclaimed.
Discord smirked, then turned his attention to Pinkie Pie. “Weww, befowe we can start our escape we gotta tire her out. Tat way, when we take our nap she will be taking one too!”
The twins burst into a fit of giggles once more and they said in unison. “Tats ta easy part!” They then all put their hooves together and then shouted with Discord! “One…two…thwee! Wet’s bake a cake!”
The three foals then ran over to Pinkie Pie, who gave them a smile. “You guys had a lengthy conversation. What were you talking about?”
Discord nodded and gave Pinkie Pie puppy dog eyes as he asked. “Pound and Pumpkin Cake want to pway tag, is tat otay?”
“Of course it is!” Pinkie cheered as she then started to bounce around the nursery, chasing after the foals! After an hour of playing, they were all tuckered out, so Pinkie went and tucked the foals into their crib.
Discord was now snug between the twins and he couldn’t help but smile seeing that the playdate was going so well. He could only hope that this cake baking won’t get him into too much trouble.
Discord was the first to wake up from his nap and looked over to see that Pound and Pumpkin were both sound asleep (with their diapers slightly wet) and he looked down to see his diaper was slightly used as well. But diaper changes would have to wait as he looked to see that, to his delight, Pinkie Pie was fast asleep on the ground.
Discord then nudged the twins awake, who both seemed to be rather groggy and wanted to cry out seeing the state of their diapers. But he pointed a paw at Pinkie Pie and they both nodded in unison. Then without a word, the three slowly crawled out of the crib and plopped down onto the wood planks below, and onto their padded bottoms. Discord led the two towards the door and slowly opened it and then three snuck down the stairs.
Eventually they came to the main room and peeked around the corner to see the twins’ parents, talking to Princess Celestia as they had tea and cake. That meant the grown-ups were distracted. The three foals then teleported across the hall and into the kitchen.
Once they were inside the kitchen Pumpkin looked around and asked. “Um? What do we do now?”
“We gotta get out the ingredients!” Pound chimed.
“But how we do tat? All ta stuff is locked away in ta pantry or ta fridge!” Pumpkin whined.
Discord snapped a claw as an idea came to his head! “Dun worry bout tat!” He then stood up on his back legs, lifted his forelimbs and then began to wave them about as sparkles of magic sped into the pantry, fridge and some cabinets. Suddenly, all kinds of objects marched into the kitchen with the mixing bowl, an egg beater and spoons. Then the ingredients started to plop into the bowl, a carton of milk, an entire bag of sugar, a dozen eggs, a glop of butter and a bag of flour all mixing together.
But as Discord did so, he could see the batter bubbling and frothing as he called out. “Um, can ya two help?!”
“Yeah, we gotta mix it!” The twins shouted! Pound and Pumpkin Cake then began to mash their hooves into the bowl, pounding the batter. And they giggled as they went about their messy work. Discord then continued to work his magic as he was getting into the rhythm, pouring all kinds of things he thought Celestia would like: Vanilla icing, frosted cookies, some peppermint sticks, a chunk of chocolate, and a basket full of strawberries. He plopped the mixture into the bowl, and Pound and Pumpkin Cake continued working, mashing the ingredients into a pink, viscous liquid bubbling and boiling with magic.
Discord squeaked, fearing it would explode, and quickly poured the batter into a cake pan, then shoved it into the oven! He waited until the mixture frothed and formed, but when the oven suddenly “dinged,” it exploded out a massive cake that engulfed foals into the pastry!
Celestia was finally relaxing a bit after weeks of parenting and ruling a kingdom. She had to admit it wasn’t easy doing both, and this was the first time in a long while she felt so relaxed, being able to drink some tea and chomp down on cake. Of course, her conversation about the Cakes was interesting, seeing their perspective on raising foals. From the sounds of things, their twins were much like Discord in how rambunctious they are, along with Pumpkin’s bursts of magic
“One time, we were having her take a bubble bath. And then her horn lit up and covered the entire bakery in them!” Mrs. Cake explained as she burst into fits of laughter.
Celestia couldn’t help but giggle at the thought of how Discord probably would’ve turned the suds into cotton candy.
Mr. Cake, however, didn’t seem to be so enthused and groaned. “Please don’t remind me! We had to close the shop and spend all day cleaning up the place. That’s not including all the pastries that were ruined.”
Mrs. Cake nuzzled her husband. “Yes, but it was enjoyable and not all that bad. Besides, the shop needed to be cleaned anyway.”
Princess Celestia smirked. “Well, lucky for you, at least your daughter didn’t turn the moon into cheese.”
“What?!” The Cakes exclaimed in mutual surprise.
Before Princess Celestia could start the story, a loud “ding” was heard. She then heard what sounded like an explosion, and the strong scent of cake began wafting in from the kitchen. She and the Cakes rushed to the kitchen to see the twins and Discord sticking their heads out! She and the Cakes carved up the massive pastry, eventually freeing their foals as Celestia picked up Discord. She gave him a glare and growled! “Discord, what do you have to say for yourself?!”
Discord whimpered. “S-sorry, I...I just wanted ta bake ya a cake, Auntie Tia.”
The Cakes dawwed, and Celestia touched her chest with a hoof, unable to stay angry as she could clearly see he didn’t have bad intentions. She then took a bite of the cake and gasped in surprise. It was the oddest cake that she had ever tasted, as it was super sweet, but it was like a blend of all her favorite things in one! The fact Discord made this made her feel even more elated as she pulled him into a hug. “Oh, Discord, thank you! Just…don’t do that again, ok? If you want to bake cakes, we can do that together with adult supervision, alright?”
Discord smiled and nuzzled into her chest and whispered. “Otay, Auntie Tia. Next time we bake a cake togetha.”
It took about an hour, but Celestia was able to use her magic to craft several smaller cakes together (the Cakes themselves didn’t like it as much as she did). However, before the two left the Cakes, the twins came out to say goodbye to Discord. With the three in the living room Discord looked downward with blush and said. “Sorry for us getting caught.”
Pumpkin giggled. “It’s otay; ya took ta blame. And from ta looks of tings ya not in trouble! So aww it good!”
Pound Cake flew through the air and hugged Discord and squealed. “Yeah, ya owa best friend!”
Discord turned to Pumpkin, who waddled over and hugged him too. “Yeah! Ya better come visit soon!”
The adults couldn’t help but daww once more as Celestia picked Discord up, placed him onto her back, and then asked, “So I assume everything went well?”
“Wait, ya didn’t hear tem?” Discord asked.
“Of course not; I don’t speak baby babble.” Celestia snickered as she then spread her wings, readying herself to fly back to Canterlot
“Yeah, it did, tey ta best.” Discord yawned as he snuggled into Celestia’s mane as she gently flew up into the sky. Discord held her tight (even though he was also strapped to her back in a makeshift foalseat).
“That sounds great to hear,” Celestia smiled. “I'm not going to punish you for the cake incident, as it's clear they pressured you to do it. But you can’t be doing stuff like that without adult supervision. You don’t want to hurt yourself or your new friends.”
“Otay, Auntie Tia. I pwomise, next time I’ww bake a cake with ya and Auntie Lulu.” The little lord of chaos yawned as he lay his head back, and it wasn’t long until Discord was sound asleep.
“That sounds like a wonderful idea,” Celestia whispered back, and that was the last thing the little lord of chaos heard before drifting off to sleep.