//------------------------------// // Wittwe Mac // Story: Ponies As Foals // by Shadowmane PX-41 //------------------------------// As the doors of Memory Lane flew open, the next pony walked in. Unlike the others that walked in, he seemed to be a lot stronger than the others would have you know. His coat was red, and it had a giant green apple as the cutie mark. As for his hair, it was kind of a caramel colour, and it was styled rough-looking. Motherly walked through the door to greet her new customer. "Morning, darling. Welcome to Memory Lane." She said, in a happy tone. "How can I help you today?" Big Mac mostly remained silent, until he finally broke the silence. "Ah'd like some time off the farm. If ya'll are capable of such a thing." "Yes, dear. We are capable of such a feat here." Motherly kept calm as she finally decided to explain. "Here at Memory Lane, we have to capability of turning grown ponies into foals for the next 24 hours. This will also relieve any stress or tensions they could possibly have." Foalization?" Big Mac said to himself. "Not my idea of a vacation, but ah guess ah'll take it fer the moment." He said to Motherly who wasn't gonna break that smile anytime soon. "Alright, darling, that's gonna be 5 bits please." Motherly prompted Big Mac to place the bits on the counter. "Just 5?" He said to himself again. "Fer many of the shops in Ponyville, this is a bargain." Big mac reached into his pocket and pulled out 5 bits. He exchanged them for a loyalty card and the first sticker for it. "Alright then, get this card filled up with stickers, and the 7th session is free." Motherly said as she walked out of the counter and leaded Big Mac down the corridor towards the machine. "Now I will tell you, once the process begins, you won't be able to resist the power of our regressor." Motherly explained so that Big Mac knew what was coming. "Do ya think you can handle that, dear?" "Eeyup." Was all that came out of Big Mac's mouth as he neared the device. Once they arrived, the usual procedure was followed, Big Mac walked into the machine, whilst Motherly Love walked over to the console and began tapping buttons to prepare the process of the regression. "Now I will let you in on one thing. You won't have control over your regular common sense once the procedure is completed. Do you think you can handle it sir?" She asked "Eeyup, just fire it up." He said as the vortex opened up into the blinding lights up ahead of him. "By the way, I never caught your name. Do you mind quickly telling me before you're catapulted in?" "Name's Big Macintosh, but just call me Big Mac-" The second he began telling her the short of it, the machine shot him forward like an jet on an aircraft carrier's launch rail. Big Mac felt himself getting top heavy as the light continued to disorientate him. Suddenly, he felt light pangs of pain, as he groaned a little, he felt his voice was ascending, and quite rapidly. He then felt himself getting lighter and lighter, his body was regressing now. With the machine working at full power, Big Mac's session was about to begin, as the light enveloped what was left of his shrinking body. Father Time and Parental Guidance were simultaneously changing two foals side-by-side. This was a minor feat for Father since he was a unicorn, but Parental needed a little more time, as she was a pegasus. Once the two foals were in fresh, clean diapers. The two workers let them off with their friends again. "So, Father, can I ask you something?" Parental decided to bring up a question deep from within. "Sure, what do you want to talk about?" He replied. "Where do you and your family even live?" She asked, with the intent of being talkative. "Well, we used to live in Phillydelphia before I got the job." He decided to walk with her to the portal's receiving end. "After I came here, my daughters were a little unused to the change in their enviroment, but I quickly managed to clam them down and give them the knowledge they needed." Suddenly the receiving end of the portal fired up and a foal Big Mac popped out and was quickly picked up by Parental Guidance and taken over to the changing table for his first diapers of the session. "Hi there, cutie." Parental said as she laid him down on the table and began to change him. "What's your name?" Big Mac, as much as he wanted to tell her, could only utter babbles, instead of Foalish English, like many of the other foals here. "Not to be rude, darling, but I can't seem to understand you." Sha said as she taped the three ends of the diaper together, making it nice and snug. "But far be it from me to prevent you from having a good time here." She let Big Mac to the floor and let him off to find some friends here. As Motherly Love walked back into the room, she walked over to Parental Guidance, who was keeping a very close eye on Big Mac. "So, Parental, how are you liking our new temporary foal?" She said as she came up next to her and smiled, "Well, he does look like an adorable little devil." She started to give her criticism, "The only problem I kind of have, is that he's unable to talk like the rest of them, so it kind of makes it hard for me to understand him." "Oh, this sometimes happens, don't worry about it." Motherly decided to explain to he colleague so that there wouldn't be any more confusion. "It's just a minor bug in the regression process, he'll be fine." "Motherly, do you wonder if I could get an explanation on this machine? For future reference." He decided to asked, his curiosity piqued. "Well, it's a very complex device created by Japonese engineers. It manages to convert the oxygen inside the vortex into an anti-aging toxin." She began explaining in a scientific way which would make Twilight happy if she were here now. "This toxin is non-lethal, but may cause slight headaches. The powers of the anti-age toxin are accelerated quite powerfully when a pony is launched into the vortex. The G-force amplifies the particles in the toxin, and begins to regress the pony down to a foal. Makes sense, doesn't it?" "Kind of." Parental said, she was eavesdropping, no doubt about it. "I've got it, I've got it all." Father told her. "I have a PHD in science." Parental's jaw dropped, and it dropped big. "What?" Father said, in an awkward fashion. "Nothing, nothing. Let's just get back to our job." Parental flew off to get to a foal faster. She quickly landed next to Big Mac, wait... Does it still count as Big Mac even though he's a foal? I don't even know anymore. Let's just keep reading, shall we? Fluttershy, on the other hand was getting used to making new friends in Memory Lane. Her secret was out, and now she had nothing to be scared or nervous about. She had noticed Mac was here, and decided to attempt to make foal friends with him. She crawled out of her group and over to Mac, who was quite content on seeing what there was to see. He continued to wander, blissfully unaware that Fluttershy was trying to keep up with him. Eventually, the butter yellow pegasus foal caught up to him and tapped his side to grab his attention. Once Mac turned to face her, she began to introduce herself. "Hi dewe. My name's Fwuttewshy." She said with a giggle as she addressed herself to Mac. "Wat's youw name?" This next part will be translated into Foalish English for your convenience. "My name's Wittwe Macintosh." He addressed himself as he looked right into Fluttershy's eyes with a smile. "Yoo wanna pway wid us?" Fluttershy walked around to show the rest of her foal friends to him. "Suwe." Little Mac was easy to convince in this form. "I guess I couwd have a wittwe fun fow da time I'm hewe.." With that, Fluttershy lead Little Mac over to the group to introduce him to the other foals she was associated with. They all greeted themselves to Little Mac and began addressing their names as well. He would try and remember them for future reference. "Wet's play hide-and-seek." Fluttershy suggested to the foals once introductions were out of the way. "Suwe, I'm in." Little Mac went along with Fluttershy's choice with a smile. "I couwd nevew tuwn down a game wike dis, in a body wike dis. I'm in as weww." Cloudbreak smiled as she said it. "Hehe, I awways wove a good game of hide-and-seek now and again. I'm in as weww." Derpy giggled as she agreed as well. "I tink we aww know whewe dis is going." Dash said as she attempted to count the votes. "Hide-and-seek it is, I'm in." The other foals knew the vote would be unanimous now, yet they still cast their votes without a care in the world, and made light chuckles once they did. "Otay, who shouwd go fiwst?" Rainbow Dash decided to ask her foalish colleagues. They just sat there with their eyes darting around the group, looking for a suitable candidate to find them first. "Weww. Wittwe Mac's onwy been hewe fow a few minutes." Fluttershy decided to state out at this moment in time to the other foals in the group. "I tink it wouwd be nice if we wet him find us fiwst." "Tanks, Fwuttewshy." Mac smiled, he'd never seen a pony nor foal put him in control of something before. And for some reason, it felt good to him. "Otay den, Wittwe Mac, yoo count to ten, we'ww wun and hide, otay?" Dash spoke to the first seeker of their little game clearly, so that he would understand. "Otay." He smiled, "Twy and hide as quickwy as possibwe." He put his hooves on his eyes and began to count. "1... 2... 3..." As soon as he uttered the first number, Dash and the group of foals jetted off in multiple directions, each taking secluded hiding spaces around Memory Lane. They all chuckled under their breaths once they found their hiding spots and waited patiently for Little Mac to finish counting. "8... 9... 10! Weady ow not, hewe I come!" He uttered to the room around him, signalling to his group that he was coming for them. He began to navigate the nursery, seeking out the foals he was searching for. He started with the cribs, it was common for foals to sometimes be hiding underneath one of them. Their diminutive stature allows for them to slip through the gap with ease. He looked under each and every one of the cribs until he found someone. "Gotcha!" He tapped on Cloudbreak, who's hiding spot had been discovered. He simply chuckled before crawling out from under the crib, with Little Mac close behind. Little Mac then went to check inside the forest of padded shapes. No doubt a foal or two would be hiding inside that labyrinth of padding and colours. He crawled inside the the shapes and climbed up, in an attempt to find the other players. He peaked into hidey-holes left, right, and center. He was just about to give up, when he heard a light giggle coming from the last little hideaway. There was somepony there, no doubt. He poked his head into the hole and saw Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy hiding here. "You'we weawwy good at dis, awen't yoo?" Dash said as she and Fluttershy crawled out of the hideaway with Little Mac behind them. They went down a slide together, giggling all the while. Once they landed, Dash pulled Little Mac in so that she could whisper something into his ear. "Twy checking out da kitchen." Dash whispered, hinting Mac on where to go from here. He had found three of the seven foals he was looking for. He only needed to find Derpy, Twinkleshine, Colgate, and Stardust. He crawled over to the kitchen, hoping to find some more foals here. He saw what looked like a breakfast bar (You know, that little part of your kitchen that vaguely represents a bar counter that's good for presenting food on?) and crawled over to check for foals. To his delight, he found Colgate and Twinkleshine holed up back here, they were whispering to each other before Little Mac came in and tapped them both. "Onwy two mowe ta go." He clapped as he calculated the foals he needed to find. "Oh, you'we wooking fow Dewpy?" Colgate asked as she took notice of Little Mac's words. "She's hiding between da stuffed animaws wid Stawdust." She gave away the positions of the last two foals. "We'ww guide yoo ta dem now, if you'd wike." Twinkleshine streched out a hoof to Little Mac. "Suwe, I tink I'm gonna feew hungwy in a few moments." He said as he rubbed his stomach gently. He followed the two unicorn foals towards the colouring table, where his last two foals would be hiding. He circled the table, until he could see the last two foals. The grey pegasus foal; Derpy. and the dark blue unicorn foal; Stardust. "Dat's da game." He said as he tapped on the last two foals. They all crawled out from under the table and began to congratulate Little Mac with a round of applause. Once they were finished applauding him. They heard a number of rumbles coming from their stomachs. They were all hungry. "Mama, we'we hungwy." They all addressed Motherly at the exact same time, in the cutest tones they could muster. "Father, Parental. Give me a hand with this please." Motherly addresed to her two co-workers, who quickly took some foals up in their magic aura/muzzles. "You're gonna love what we've got on the menu tonight." She addressed the foals as each one of them was sat down in their own individual high chair. "I just hope it's someting dewicious." Cloudbreak turned to Stardust. "Someting we can keep down as weww." "Yes, none of dat icky fowmuwa." She shook her head to the thought of the pale flavourless abomination of foal sustenance. "Twust me, Wittwe Mac, you'we gonna wove dis." Colgate spoke to him. "I had someting fwom dis kitchen awweady. It was dewicious." "Grub's up, everypony!" Parental said once she had opened the foal food jars and gathered 7 spoons for the 7 foals that were eating. Parental Guidance took a spoon and dipped it into this brownish mixture. Father Time took multiple spoons in his magical aura, leaving the last spoon for Motherly Love to take. "Open wide, darlings." Parental sing-songed as the three employees begun to feed the foals at the chairs. Everypony got a different flavour of the foal food, but each of them enjoyed it. They gulped each bite down like heaven was wrapping itself around their lips. "It's wike a pawty at Pinkie's, and evewypony's invited." Little Mac said as he downed a few more spoons of the delicious orange texture. "Hehe, so whadda yoo tink, Mac?" Fluttershy giggled before downing another spoonful, this time for her, it was yellow. "I wove dis!" He said as he took in another spoon. "I can't bewieve I didn't get dis in my actuaw foawhood days." "It's good isn't it?" Parental smiled as she looked down on her little consumer with a smile on his face. "But that's just the food. Now you're gonna need something to wash it all down." She flew over to the fridge to pull out 7 bottles of the special milk from earlier. Once she counted well, she placed the into the microwaves for heating up. In the meanwhile, the foals were playing pattycake with Father and Motherly. Each of them making up the words as they went along. For the ponies that weren't currently pattycaking, they were talking to each other, most of the time in incoherent babbles and foal talk. Once the bottles had finished heating up. Parental quickly took them out and placed them onto the breakfast bar for her co-workers to take. Motherly took two, Parental took two, leaving the last three for Father. They proceeded to place the nipples of the bottles into the foals mouths. Each one of them making squeals of delight as it was presented to them, and making some foalish noises of content as they downed their heavenly follow-on milk. To Little Mac, it felt like he was drinking the nectar of the gods. he felt like he was drinking a mixture of maple syrup mixed in with sugar and cream for most of the process. he was still able to make noises of content as he continued to drink, and once he was finished, he was lifted out of the chair and burped by Parental, but not before he was able to giggle in delight and content. Soon all the foals were carried out of the chairs and burped. Each one of them giggled before and after burping, and didn't want to stop anytime soon. They were all picked up by the three employees and were being placed over by the cribs for a little nap. Each one of them got a separate crib from each other, except for Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash, as well as Colgate and Twinkleshine, who whined to sleep with each other. They were all laid down with their heads resting gently on the pillows. Each of them got a special pacifier from Motherly's cupboard on the wall behind them. The backs were designed with their cutie marks so that they could tell each other's pacifiers apart. After they received them, they were tucked in by the three employees, before feeling sleepy. "Sleep tight, everyone." Motherly coo'd to the 8 foals who were definitely about to fall to sleep now. "Sweet dreams." Father smiled as he turned off the lights in the nursery, so that the light wouldn't interfere with their sleep. "Enjoy your nap, kids." Parental smiled as she kissed everyone of the sleeping foals, causing them to snuggle deeper into the tucked in blankets. "I'll see you in a few hours." The three grown-ups left the nursery to let the foals sleep. Once they shut the door behind them, the foals were deep into dreamland. Their movements were minimal and the pacifiers aided in their nap. Little Mac slept the most, he was the most content foal out of all of them. He had loved his time here, and for all he knew. His session was only beginning...