//------------------------------// // Chapter Five // Story: Pattycakes: The Remake // by GlitchyProductions //------------------------------// "Bed? What are you talking about?" Rainbow Dash crossed her arms, she got up from the floor and carelessly dropped her Lego toys on the ground, only a few pieces broke from the model house and Rainbow Dash started to waddle her way towards the nursery that Fluttershy went into, she then leaned her head into the doorway and took a peek at what Fluttershy was doing in the nursery. "Fluttershy what are you doing?" Rainbow Dash took a step inside the nursery and saw what Fluttershy was properly doing, she was leaning down inside the crib that was on the side of the nursery, Rainbow Dash couldn't clearly see what she was doing in the crib because of one of the wooden posts were covering up her body and the rest of the crib. "Oh umm..." Fluttershy leaned back up and regained her composure, she quickly looked at Rainbow Dash who was standing in between the door frames with her arms crossed and a rather puzzled at what she was doing. "I am sorting out your bed... you see... it's nearly... umm..." Fluttershy blushed a bright red. "What? You want me to get in that crib?" Rainbow Dash pointed at the wooden crib, she walked over to Fluttershy and stood in front of her. "OH... yes... you see... the time... is... umm..." Fluttershy couldn't find the right words. "Nap time?" Rainbow Dash raised an eyebrow at Fluttershy. "Yes." Fluttershy quickly nodded up and down. "You want me to sleep in that crib?" Rainbow Dash calmly spoke to Fluttershy, she wasn't angry or upset at her pink haired friend. "Uh-huh." Fluttershy quietly whispered she turned her head to look away from Rainbow Dash; she couldn't bear what was going on. Rainbow Dash put her hand up to her head and rubbed her eyes; she quietly groaned to herself and opened her eyes again to look at her friend. "Is this the last thing I have to do before all of this baby stuff is all over?" Rainbow Dash sighed out loud. "Yes, I'm really sorry if you don't want to do it, if you don't want to and you would like to end this whole thing right now I wouldn't blame you. I'm really sorry..." Fluttershy felt a hand go onto her shoulder, she turned her head to look back at her friend and saw that Rainbow Dash had put her hand on Fluttershy's shoulder. "Fluttershy..." Rainbow Dash said. "I've done weirder things in college if you remember, I went to the parties, I started a few fights in the tavern... heck I even had a fight with Applejack if you don't remember." Rainbow Dash tried to explain. "Dressing up in diapers and using a pacifier isn’t the weirdest thing to do, so far it's been a pretty rad experience if you ask me." Rainbow Dash smiled. "R-rad?" Fluttershy didn't understand. "I thought being a baby again was cool, I'm always used to going to all of these adult parties and I'm always spending time with Twilight or Pinkie Pie because of the stuff that's goin' on in their lives and I'm helpin' them get through some serious stuff, I thought it was pretty neat to relax and have no responsibilities for once." Rainbow Dash continued. "I'm so glad I c-could help Rainbow Dash." Fluttershy began to stutter a little, but she managed to give off a small faint smile towards Rainbow Dash. "You don't have to say thanks; I thought it was pretty fun. And I'll sleep in the crib if you want me to." Rainbow Dash smiled back at Fluttershy. "You're such a good baby Rainbow Dash." Fluttershy gave a big hug to her friend and wrapped her arms around her chest and hugged her tightly. "Don't worry about it." Rainbow Dash coughed, she also wrapped her arms around Fluttershy's chest and hugged her back. "So you'll sleep in the baby crib... if you really want to that is... umm..." Fluttershy let go of Rainbow Dash and began to look away from her trying not to get embarrassed again. "I'll do it, besides. I guess I need some rest after some of that jogging." Rainbow Dash shrugged, Fluttershy's face beamed up with the brightest smile that Rainbow Dash has ever seen. At least she was keeping Fluttershy happy until her hours of acting like an infant was over. "Good girl, now just let me open up the crib and then you can crawl in." Fluttershy lowered herself and sat down on her knees to reach down for the small pad locks at the bottom of the cribs gate, she undone the pad locks with a simple flick of the switch and managed to unlock the crib gate, she pushed the entire gate up and it managed to create a small passage way for Rainbow Dash to crawl in and lie down for a good afternoons sleep. "All I got to do is crawl in there, right?" Rainbow Dash asked Fluttershy about the crib. "Yes, once you are in I will cover you up with some warm blankets and I will give you your teddy bear to cuddle while you sleep." Fluttershy looked up at her diapered friend and gave a small smile, still holding the crib gate in place waiting for Rainbow Dash to climb inside. "Aha, I don't want to sleep with the teddy bear if that's okay. I don't sleep with teddies anymore." Rainbow Dash blushed bright red. "But you are still a little baby; you need something to cuddle up with while mommy is downstairs." Fluttershy asked her friend a question, Rainbow Dash looked turned her head and looked away for a moment and then turned back to Fluttershy. "That might be so... but I don't want to sleep with a teddy bear... just this once." Rainbow Dash tried to calmly reason with her friend, trying not to upset her. "It’s okay baby, I understand." Fluttershy nodded up and down. Rainbow Dash started to lower herself and reach towards the passage way that Fluttershy made with the crib gate, she managed to get her torso and above into the crib so far, she felt a little stuck when it came to getting her legs in. Fluttershy moved back allowing Rainbow Dash to try and get inside the crib without too much trouble, but she saw that she was having a little bit of trouble getting her legs into the crib. Notably that the size of the crib wasn't meant for a girl of Dash's size at all, she couldn't help but giggle when Rainbow Dash wiggled her back-side to the left and to the right. Fluttershy used her strength and kept one of her hands on the crib gate and used the other to light push Rainbow Dash inside of the crib to help her get into sleeping position. "Okay, I'm in." Rainbow Dash groaned, feeling like her body parts were starting to cramp because of the small size of the crib that she was lying in. "Good girl." Fluttershy applauded her little baby. "Yeah, yeah. Let me just get comfortable." Rainbow Dash said to Fluttershy. Fluttershy gently let the crib gate slide downwards with it still in her hands, she let it slowly drop to the bottom and she started to re-attach the pad locks together so that Rainbow Dash wouldn't fall out of the crib during her sleep. She stood up and looked at Rainbow Dash inside of the crib, she noticed that there was more room in the crib that she originally thought it had. Rainbow Dash looked pretty comfortable and now was the final part of her job: putting her baby to sleep. "So Fluts... how am I supposed to get to sleep in this thing?" Rainbow Dash laid down her head on the small blank white pillow that was in the crib, she wrapped herself up with the very small blanket that came with the crib and began to get comfortable in the small baby crib. "I am going to sing you a little lullaby that will surely make you fall asleep." Fluttershy thought up of an idea. "Lullaby? Those things don't work." Rainbow Dash chuckled; she crossed her arms at the back of her head and rested by looking at the ceiling. "They are very relaxing and I think that it might help you feel more comfortable." Fluttershy said to her friend, standing over the crib and looking down at Rainbow Dash. "Well... if you can get me to sleep then I guess you deserve a medal or something." Rainbow Dash chuckled once again. "I just need to prepare the room." Fluttershy moved away from the crib and walked to the windows opposite the crib, she grabbed the wiring that controlled the curtains and pulled it down causing the thick navy blue curtains to shade the whole entire nursery with a strong blue shadow. Rainbow Dash leaned up and crossed her legs to see the sudden change in lighting and saw what Fluttershy was doing to the room. "I see; you're trying to make the mood better for me." Rainbow Dash smirked; she nodded up and down impressed at what Fluttershy was doing. "Yes my little baby, you should feel better when I start to sing my lullaby." Fluttershy said, she let go of the curtain wire and walked over back to the wooden crib and look back down at Rainbow Dash. She leaned forward over the crib and lowered her head towards Rainbow Dash. "I feel comfortable, what are you going to sing?" Rainbow Dash asked her friend rather interested in what Fluttershy was going to sing. "Well..." Fluttershy reached out and put her hand on her baby’s head, she slowly stroked her friend’s hair back and forth to calm her down. "I haven't sung this lullaby since Applebloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo slept over my house during that little... well Cockatrice incident..." Fluttershy blushed a little. "Did it make them go to sleep?" Rainbow Dash questioned. "Yes, they were perfect little angels." Fluttershy whispered to Rainbow Dash. "Try me." Rainbow Dash smirked. "Are you relaxed Rainbow Dash?" Fluttershy asked her friend. "I guess..." Rainbow Dash nodded up and down. Fluttershy didn't respond to what Rainbow Dash said, she instead reached down to Rainbow Dash's chest and picked up the plastic handle to her pink pacifier and then slowly put it in Rainbow Dash's mouth, without telling to, Rainbow Dash began to suckle on the pacifier while making loud and adorable suckling noises. "You don't have to talk now baby, your pacifier will help you calm down and sleep better." Fluttershy leaned back up and moved away from Rainbow Dash, she herself started to get back into position and she rested her head back on the pillow and started to wrap herself with the small blanket. Fluttershy waited until Rainbow Dash was perfectly comfortable and she cleared her throat and began to sing her lullaby. "Hush now, quiet now It's time to lay your sleepy head Hush now, quiet now It's time to go to bed." As Fluttershy began to sing, Rainbow Dash felt something within her that she wasn't able to explain. Her eye lids began to feel heavy; she hadn't felt a strange feeling of being tired so much in a very long time since college. Rainbow Dash was falling asleep to a lullaby, the strangest thing ever. Fluttershy walked closer as she continued repeating her lullaby until Rainbow Dash fell fully asleep, she walked over to the crib and lowered herself and sat on her knees and looked at Rainbow Dash though the wooden bars. "Did you like the lullaby Rainbow Dash?" Fluttershy calmly whispered to her friend. Rainbow Dash didn't reply, she sucked on her pacifier and weakly nodded at Fluttershy, only causing a small smile to Fluttershy. "When you wake up, you will be grown-up again and you can go back to your daily routines and I will continue on with my job of looking after the animals. You have been a very good baby and I loved every moment being with you." Fluttershy put her hand through the wooden bars of the crib and stroked Rainbow Dash's cheek. Fluttershy perfectly run her fingers down Dash's cheek and it was set. Rainbow Dash closed her eyes and she stopped suckling her pacifier as it slowly fell out of her mouth with a small trail of drool escaping from within the inside of her mouth. "Sweet dreams Rainbow Dash." Fluttershy whispered, she moved her hand away from Rainbow Dash and stood up back on her feet. She now decided that her role was finished, she looked after her own baby, she diapered her, fed her, played with her, took her to bed, sung a lullaby and even watched her fall asleep. Her job was finally done; she didn't want it to end. But she had a deal with Rainbow Dash to let her go when she wakes up. "Time to clean up." Fluttershy whispered under her breath, she walked out of the nursery and closed the door behind her so that no sound would disrupt her precious baby with the valuable sleeping time left. Fluttershy walked over to her bed and saw that her bedroom was in a big mess, the dolls were all over the place because of Rainbow Dash and the blue lego bucket that was in the middle of the floor, the lego bricks were in the same spilt over position as they were when Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy stopped playing with them. The two little lego houses that both of them made were lying down on the floor. She leaned down and picked both of them up and walked over to one of the shelves that was nailed to her wall, she placed the little lego houses next to her photo frame which had pictures of all of her friends including a cut-out of her little bunny rabbit Angel. Rain started to pour down from the sky, a slight crackle of thunder high above the clouds raged a massive echo, breaching through the cottage walls, startling Fluttershy like no other. The clouds darkened and the sun hid its face from the rest of the world. Fluttershy took small steps to her bedroom window and saw that the world around her started to darken in an instant. Fluttershy began to imagine what would happen if the thunder woke up her little baby, she would have had the perfect chance to use her lullaby to calm her down after waking up. But from experience and knowing Rainbow Dash, she is a very heavy sleeper and it would take a very loud bang to wake her up. She turned around and looked back down at the mess of lego, the light in her house turned on all by themselves and she began to clean up the giant pile of lego bricks that Rainbow Dash made earlier, like a brush she scooped up the bricks with her hands and began to put the pieces into the blue bucket. She scanned the area to make sure there was no stray pieces lying around that could be tripped on. Fluttershy picked up the buckets lid and clicked it onto the top of the lid. She picked up the bucket by the handle and proceeded to walk back into the nursery, taking a quieter take as she walked inside trying her best not to wake up Rainbow Dash in her happy slumber. She placed the bucket full of lego on one of the nursery shelves right next to a plush of a pink elephant. Fluttershy quickly scurried along and left the nursery to complete her final chore for the day before going downstairs to enjoy a nice cup of tea and watch TV for the next few minutes until Rainbow Dash wakes up on her own. She walked into her bedroom and picked up one of the dolls that were left lying on the top of the staircase that obviously was put there by Rainbow Dash when she was playing with the lego bricks; she turned to her bed and saw Mr. Snugglebuns lying on her bed where Rainbow Dash was trying to sleep earlier. She too picked it up and walked back into the nursery for a final time, putting the dolls one of the many shelves that were found on the nursery walls. She turned to see that Rainbow Dash was perfectly asleep in her little crib, it was an adorable sight. Fluttershy walked over to the crib with her teddy bear in hand and saw the perfect place to put Mr. Snugglebuns in between Rainbow Dash's arms, she had a piece of her blanket wrapped around her arms as if it were the teddy bear itself. Fluttershy moved the blanket out of the way and placed Mr. Snugglebuns into Rainbow Dash's arms, immediately after he was placed into her arms she began to tighten her grip on the teddy bear whilst in her sleep. "Sweet dreams." Fluttershy kissed her hand and then placed her hand on Rainbow Dash's cold cheek.