Ab Initio-From the Start-Al Principio.

by Daxn


The Lost One (Scrapped Chapter)

Twilight looked up at her father, joy and hope banishing resignation and despair in her heart, and her body charging up with energies.


"Velvet, what just happened here? Why my daughter is in a diaper? Why there is a stranger in this house playing with her? Why the cameretta returned fully operative?" Night Light shouted, as he glowed his horn and walked in the room with a threatening look in his eyes.


Pinkie Pie, unable to gave an appropiate response to the situation, dropped the toy syringe, and gave a textbook example of genuflexion towards Twilight's angry father.


Night Light dragged Velvet in the cameretta by an ear.. But he wasn't going to give any respite to Velvet.


"Come on, explain, I'm curious to know!"


Velvet looked up at her husband, her eyes watered a bit.


"You don't recognize her? She is Pinkie Pie, our second-oldest daughter!"


Night Light's neck was inflated for a brief moment in surprise, then he went back to his state of enraging towards Velvet. Angirly, he let go of his wifes ears.


"We have only two children, Shining Armour and Twilight..." Night Light, in a swift and sudden movement, pressed his nuzzle agaisnt Velvet's "and both of them are adults now."

Velvet retreated, until she slipped and hit the floor with her back.


"You are running too fast and have a bad memory, Nighty," Velvet sang, sweating profusely "They’re still little. Twily has yet be fully potty trained..."


Night Light looked at Twilight, his face cringed, looking disgusted at his daughter infront of him. Since Twilight understood what he was implicitly saying with that look, she quickly decided to answer back, just for be sure of going in the right direction. It was time to tell him everything that happened while he was away, finally she was going to talk to a sane adult that wanted and could act.


Twilight sat down and started talking of every experience she’s had in the past week.


"She lies! Lies, lies, lies, lies! She stuffed me of laxatives and diuretics, only for make me go in the diaper, saying I was constipated! She has forced me to drink from a baby bottle in her lap! She has locked me up in this room for force me to play with toys! She has yanked Cadence from her job as Chairpony of the Council for use her as babysitter for me and my friend Pinkie! She has forced my six friends and their three little sisters, barely nine-years old, to endure this torture for an entire day! Worst of all, she has impeded me from serve my punishment, and go to the Kindergarten, on the grounds I was too young for it! She never once asked me how I felt about anything! She is unbelivably, completely, utterly, totally, extremly, unspeakbly, and shockingly mad!"


Night Light's face got redder and redder, steam coming out of his ears, eyes squinting, angry gibberish coming from her mouth and eyes tearing. Fearing the worst, Pinkie ran out of the room in fear, while Twilight and Velvet staired with completely different expressions.


Night Light burst into flames and grabbed his wife from the chest fur. Drawing his wife’s face nearer to his own, a fire in his eyes resonated to show his anger


"What I have told you, Velvet? What I have told you, before I left this house for work last Friday?"


Velvet, feeling the heat of the flames, sweated even more, and tired to look away from her husband.


"Y-you told m-me t-that I-I could t-treat T-Twily in a-any w-way I wanted to..."


Night Light grabbed the fur of Velvet even stronger, to the point she shouted in pain, all while Twiligth smirked.


"In a way that did not interfere with the punishment or degrade anypony else!" Shouted Night Light, spitting out a flame tounge that burned out some hair of Velvet's mane "You forced our daughter to live like a foal! You’ve forced her eight friends to act like foals! You even kidnapped one of them!”


Twilight was going to reply that Pinkie Pie was actually there for her own will, but she refrained herself from that, and let the situation deleplov in her favour.


"But..." Velvet said with a trembling voice, tears truly forming in her eyes.


"There is no excuse! What you have done is already sick! But what really upsets me is you forced three little fillies to take part in your sick little game! Do you know the damage you might have done to them?!"


Velvet shook her head, as her husband closed his eyes and huffed deeply.


"This act alone is worthy of institutionalization, but, wait, there is more! You have brought the Archduchess Cadance in this mess withotu any reason but use her as babysitter. If she didn't knew you and was so patient, I bet she would have sent a squad of ponies in white to take you away!"


Night Light's opened his fiery eyes again and staired into his wifes magenta one’s,

"But, worst of all, you had no respect for your daughter..." he said, more with contempt than rage "You have filled her food with laxatives to make sure she’d always need diaper changes. You wanted to make her dependent on you. Not only that, but you wanted to make one of her friend’s dependent on you, and for what? I understand you miss your little filly, but Twilight needs to grow up. She’s a mare, a beautiful young mare, and you’re trying to hold her back because you don’t want to let her go. Is that it?"


Velvet broke in crying, thign that gave a last burst of rage to Night Light.

"Ah, now you cry. Was that it? Are you sad because Twilight isn’t always going to need you? Don’t be Velvet, there was a time when she needed you, but she’s over that. She’s strong now, Shining is strong now, and you just need to except that, because one day they’re going to need to be strong for their fillies, and their colts like you were for them!"


Then he let his wife from his storng grasp, amking her thump on the ground. Velvet cried a bit more, before raising her eyes from the floor and looking at her husband.


“B-but… they… are not ready...”


Night Light shook his head.


“That seals it, you are compeltely delusional. I will likely send to a psychiatric hospital, so I may get back my wife, and not this regressing abomination that I have in front of me.”


And Velvet wept.


When Night Light’s rage lessened a bit, he and her true daughter looked at eachother.


“Should we give her some time alone?” Asked Twilight.


Night light nodded and walked towards the door with an haughty stance.


“Yes. Come on, make me company while I have breakfast. I want to relax a bit, especially after what happened in the cameretta. Seriously, it rattled my nerves.”


Twilight smirked and thought. “A bit more than that. Also, that scene destressed me in ways I thought impossible.”


Night Light went into the living room, only to find Pinkie nervously waiting on one of the couches.


"Is it..." she tired to say, before seeing Twilight's father in her direct line of sight, She ducked, but was spotted in vain.


"Now you, Pinkie Cake, or whatever you are called. Get out of this house and never show up ever again, alright?"


Pinkie walked away with her ears lowered, but, when she was near the entraace hall, she asked.


"Can I bring Velvet's insanity furniture with me? I would have actually a sane and consensual use for it..."


Night Light did not thought too much about it with snorting sigh.


“Sure, whatever. Take anything foalish you want, we’re not going to have any more adult foals in here from now on.”


Pinkie Pie ran immediately back in the hallway that contained the cameretta, and came out of it ten minutes later with the wicker baskets full of toys tied to her back.


Smiling she waved to Night Light as she walked out the doorway, “Hehe, goodbye Mr.Twilight’s Dad!”


“Goodbye,” said night Light dryly.


Twilight smiled at his fahter.


“Father… you don’t know how much I am happy that you are back. I don’t know for how much longer I could have last.”


While walking towards the kitchen, he said with an hint of acidity.


“For a pretty long time. Are you not my daughter? Are you not a brilliant pony?”


Twilight nodded proudly.


“Yes, I am.”


Night Light and smiled widely at his daughter.


“See? You are indeed, blood of my blood!” He said entering the kitchen, opening a shutter contaiing the food, takign out two plates of salty foods, and sitting down at the table.


Twilight watched carefully what her father was picking, for be sure it wasn’t laxative-laced, before remembering that her mother served to Pinkie normal food. The laxatives came were all in the formula. Unless his father had a secret liking for baby formula, it was unlikely he wasn’t going to have bowel problems. She sighed relaxed.


As her father took out a couple of the random food items and started munching them down, Twilight sat down at hte table, and looked awkardly around the room.


“So Dad… what do you wanna do now? I mean, we can’t send Velvet to an insane asylum, are you aware how terrible that’d be on your reputation? But, we need to do something about this obsession of hers!”


Twilight’s dad wiped her face off, “Listen…” he said pausing briefly to think, “I know you’re not going to like this, but can you bear with her for just a few months longer?”


The mare’s eyes shot wide open, “Huh? B-but...”


Night Light closed his eyes, “I’m sorry Twilight, but I can’t jeprodize my entire political career because you got yourself in a tangle with your insane mom. Now I’ll give you the option to drop out of Celestia’s patronage, but that’ll mean you’ll need to start earning your keep…”


Night Light took a drink of water, “The other option of course is to stay under our care. You’d be living like Velvet’s ‘foal’ I suppose, but I’d play along and make sure she doesn’t overstep her boundairies alright? You have until night to decide, I have to work on some papers alright?”


“B-But Dad!” Twilight said sitting up straight in her seat. A sudden pain arrived in her stomach as she tried to object, “I-I don’t want to be a foal any longer!”


Night Light smiled back at his daughter, “Well, we can always look for libarian jobs in Canterlot…”


Closing her eyes, Twilight relaxed. Taking a deep breath, she looked at her fleeting father, “I-I’ll talk to Cadance later about all this.”


Night Light nodded, “Good girl. By the way, feel free to ditch the diaper for now. Actually, you might wanna leave the house all together at the moment.”


Twilight ran up to her dad and hugged him, “Thankyou!” she looked at her dad’s smile and returned one. A sudden pain in her stomach made her cringe, “Ooh, uh. Actually, first I’m going to use the little fillies’ room. Um, talk to you later alright?”


The dad nodded, “Understood!”


Smiling, Twilight ignored her current decision. All that mattered was making it upstairs. Quickly, she trotted through the kitchen and back upstairs to the bathroom.


After several minutes of ‘doing her buisness’, Twilight relived herself and cleaned everything that was dirty, and, thankfully for her, all by herself..


Idly, she stepped out of the washroom and fellowed the subtle cries of her mother. She opened the empty cameretta’s door and stepped inside.


Looking down at her hoofs, Twilight squinted her eyes at her sobbing mother. She looked in absolute dispear, like her life was over.


For the first time in a week and maybe her whole life, Twilight frowned at her mother with a sympathique expression on her face. She was no longer the insane caretaker she was earlier today, she was the lonely mother that she had yet to see since Celestia first moved her out of her house.


A part of Twilight made her want to reach out to Velvet and tell her that everything was going to be fine, but she just felt… scared. As if Velvet were an upset tiger or bear that just lost it’s cubs.


Twilight inched back towards the door, looking around at all the things that wearn’t there any more. Pinkie Pie took so much of the foal stuff, leaving behind only three empty shelves nad the wallclock.


Closing her eyes, Twilight walked out of the door and muttered, “Sorry…”


With a heavy heart, Velvet’s daughter trotted down the stairs and into her father’s study.


Being carefuly not startle him, she opened the door slowly and crept inside… “D-daddy?”


Night Light raised an eyebrow and turned her chair to look at Twilight, “Yes dearest?” He paused, looking at her small phyique, “Twilight, you’re still wearing a diaper?”


Twiligth blushed a little bit, “Hehe, yeah… those laxatives are a pain. Would mind if we discuss some of mother’s issues some more?”


“Like here foal obsession?” Velvets asked, adjusting his glasses.


Twilight nodded, “Where’d it start?”


Night Light climbed on top of his study’s couch. The room itself looked ultra-offical for any study she’d ever seen. All the furiture made out of wood, shelves of volumes of books, and all the furniture padding, green and red to match the room’s cozy feel.


Clearing his throat, Velvet helped his daughter climb up next to him, “Listen, back when Velvet and I were first married. No, when we first had Shining, there were some… ‘issues’.”


“Issues like what?” Twilight asked, tensing up in her seat.


“Well you see, your mother never had given birth before. At that time, they medical magic wasn’t as good as it is now. Velvet… well Velvet almost died giving birth to Shining dear.”


Twilight yawned as she got more comfortable on the plush couch, “Y-You’re saying that she almost died? What saved her?”


Night Light closed his eyes, “We don’t know. Velvet prayed to Celestia durning that operation that she’d do anything she could to protect her children as long as she lived…”


Twilight’s heart seemed to almost stop in that moment, “I-I didn’t know.”


Night Light nodded with a small smirk on his face, “It’s alright, now you know why Velvet feels this ‘protective over you…” the stallion looked at his daughter, “Twilight, you’re shaking.”


Tears formed in Twilight’s eyes as she collasped in her hoofs, “D-Daddy! I didn’t know!”


“It’s alright baby…” Night Light cooed, hugging unto his daughter. He smiled a bit as he wrapped a hoof around her neck. Slowly he brought her into a hug, “Funny, I haven’t held you like this since you were a child Twily.”


Twilight’s sobs continued to lesson as she fell into some silent rest. It didn’t take long for her to calm down completly.


Smiling, Night Light hoped off the couch and threw a blanket over his daughter, “You rest as long as you need to kiddo. I’ll be right over here, working on my notes if you need me.”


Before Twilight’s dad finished the sentence, Twilight seemed to be completly out of it. Perhaps it was the warm atomsphere of the room, or maybe the sincere concern from one of her parents from once, but it was enough to put Twilight to sleep.


***


“Twilight?” Cadance sang, nudging her friend’s shoulder, “Twilight, I umm…”


Night Light looked at Twilight and back to Cadance before shrugging, “I don’t know, you’re free to leave if you’d like.”


“No!” Twilight said, waking up groggy from her sleep, “I-I’m up, I just-” she sighed, “I just need a moment.”


Cadance smiled, “It’s quite alright… your father and I were just discussing what to do with you and Velvet.”


Twilight’s eye opened wide, “W-what?”


Nightlight smiled, “We’ve decided we’ll invite Pinkie Pie back as her perminate daughter. Doesn’t that sound like fun?”


Twilight raised an eyebrow, “Umm… I’m not sure how I’d feel about that.”


“Come on Twilight, think of it! Velvet wouldn’t ever threaten you with diapers or dicipline again! You’d be your own mare and she could live out all her fantasies with no boundries!” Night Light sang cheerfully.


Cadance nodded, “It does sound like quite a deal doesn’t it Twilight? I’m sure your mother will be so caught up with you, that you’ll hardly hear from her.


Twilight close her eyes, “Well… I just I choose…”


Velvet stepped into the room, gathering the attention of everypony around her. In a passive agressive tone of voice, she trotted up to her daughter, splitting both Night Light and Velvet apart.


Frowing, she held back tears in her eyes, she tried to say something but just looked away from her daughter. Angrily, she stomped her hoofs and turned away, “I can’t even look at you… you’re not my daughter.”


Twilight cringed as she and the rest of the ponies in the room looked confused at Velvet, “I-I’m sorry… I just.”


Night Light moved his head close to his duaghter, turning it so Twilight could give him her private answer.


Closing her eyes, Twilight frowned, “Daddy I… I chose…”