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// Starlight The Foalsitter 
// Story: Pound and Pumpkin Cake's Adventures (And Misadventures) In Potty Training 
// by SuperPinkBrony12 
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                 About two weeks passed uneventfully after the flushing of Pound's pacifier for both twins. Pound started occasionally using his potty when he really felt like it, but for the most part he still preferred his diapers.

As for Pumpkin, she tried to use her potty as much as possible, but sometimes she just wouldn't make it in time and would suffer an accident. And after a few tears, her mother, father, or big sister Pinkie would take her to get cleaned up (though they soon found Pumpkin liked having the contents of her used diapers flushed down the toilet).

And then, as the one month anniversary of the beginning of potty training drew close for the twins, they were dealt a huge bombshell one faithful day!





"We have an important bakers conference to attend in Fillydelphia, we received tickets to it about a week ago." Mr. Cake told the twins, as he and his wife began packing for their trip.

"Unfortunately, the conference is an all day thing tomorrow, and you two probably wouldn't find it very interesting," Mrs. Cake added, a small frown forming on her face as she then said. "It's too bad Pinkie Pie isn't available to foalsit for you two today," then she smiled as she continued. "But luckily, one of her friends was eagerly willing to take her place for the next two days."

Pound and Pumpkin began to babble back and forth between each other, wondering which of Pinkie's many friends was going to be their foalsitter?

"I hope is Pwincess Twilight, she's so amazing!" Pumpkin eagerly exclaimed.

"I tink is gonna be Wainbow Dash! I hear she now a Wondewbwot, whatevew tat is!" Pound eagerly replied.

Mr. and Mrs. Cake both smiled at their toddlers' enthusiasm, they'd been a little worried that their children might not be comfortable with a foalsitter that wasn't Pinkie. "I think they're going to be pleasantly surprised by who volunteered." The parents both thought.

Just then, there was a knock at the front door. Mrs. Cake smiled. "That must be your new foalsitter now." she said to the twins, and trotted over to the door and opened it. 

With the jingle of the bell above the door, a unicorn with a light grayish purple coat, and a two tone mane and tail with light grayish streaks throughout came trotting in. She had a small saddle bag strapped over her right shoulder, and wore a bright smile as she approached her young charges. "Hello you two, so nice to see you. My oh my, you are so adorable!" she cooed at them.

"Thanks for agreeing to foalsit them on such short notice," Mr. Cake said to the unicorn, then looked at his kids and pointed to the unicorn as he said "Pound Cake, Pumpkin Cake, this is Starlight. She'll be looking after you two until we come back from Fillydelphia, she's a good friend of Pinkie's."

"Starwight?" Pound and Pumpkin asked each other, looks of confusion on their faces. They could've sworn they heard Pinkie talk about a pony named Starlight maybe once or twice, but they'd never seen her in pony before. For somepony who was supposed to be the student of Princess Twilight, she looked awfully big.

"Yup, that's my name," Starlight smiled. "I've heard so much about you guys from Pinkie Pie, she just loves you both to pieces."

"Take good care of them, Starlight," Mrs. Cake replied sweetly. "Remember, they're old enough for potty training, so make sure to take them to the bathroom if it looks like they have to go. Pound's potty is blue, and Pumpkin's potty is pink."

"And do keep a close eye on them," Mr. Cake added, as he and his wife headed out the door. "Pound Cake especially doesn't seem to like his potty all that well. We left a list with instructions on top of the fridge, don't hesitate to check it if you need help with something."

"Don't worry, I will," Starlight reassured them, then picked the twins up with her magic as their parents left to catch their train. "Wave goodbye to your Mommy and Daddy." she instructed the toddlers.

"Bye Mommy, bye Daddy! Have fun in Fiwwdewphia!" Pound and Pumpkin called at the same time, and they waved at their parents (who waved back at them) until they were out of sight.

Starlight then brought the two foals back inside, and placed them on the floor in front of her. She smiled brightly at the two bundles of joy, and they reluctantly smiled back at her after a moment of uncertain. "This'll be easy," Starlight thought to her. "I know all about foals from my experiences with Flurry Heart." But Starlight was mistaken, two foals were a lot more trouble than one foal, even if neither of them were alicorns. And she was about to find out just how much trouble two foals could be.





"Too bad fow you Starwight knows you're supposed to be using the potty," Pumpkin teased at her brother. "Mommy and Daddy must've thought ahead when they picked hew and towd hew evewyting."

But much to Pumpkin's surprise, Pound didn't seem worried or upset. "So what? She's no Pinkie Pie, she wooks wike she'ww be easy enough to outsmawt."

"You got an idea on how we can have fun with hew?" Pumpkin asked her brother. "Because the wast time Daddy and Mommy weft us with somepony, youw idea wead to a wot of twouble."

Pound laughed. "Dun wowwy, we not gonna fwush much down the toilet this time," he said and whispered his plan to his sister who began to grin mischievously. "We do it whenevew Starwight takes us to the bathwoom to use our potties." he grinned, and prepared to play the waiting game.

But the twins didn't have to wait long for their chance to outsmart Starlight and play a trick on her. If all went as planned, they'd give her a good scare.

"I'm not sure how long it's been since you two last sat on your potties, or were changed," Starlight announced, as she carefully picked up the twins with her magic and settled them onto her back. "So I think now is as good a time as any for a trip to the bathroom. I brought plenty of reading materials to keep you both occupied."

"So she's an egghead wike Pwincess Twilight, huh?" Pound whispered to his sister.

"It wouwd appeaw to be so," Pumpkin whispered in reply, as they were carried to the upstairs bathroom. "It's gonna be a wot easier than you thought to twick her. Although, maybe we shouwdn't do it?"

Pound groaned in response. "Come on, sis. No way awe you backing out now! You in or out?!" 

Pumpkin sighed. "Oh, alwight. But we only doing it this once, okay?"

"Whatevew." Pound shrugged, as Starlight brought them into the bathroom and placed them on their potties.

"Alright you two," Starlight smiled, as she sat Pound on the blue potty and Pumpkin on the pink one. "You comfortable?" The twins nodded, so Starlight took that as a sign to pull down their diapers so they could do their business. "Good, now how's about a story to pass the time?" she offered, as she used her magic to take the saddle bag off her right shoulder, set it down on the floor, and pulled out a couple of books. "Let's see here," Starlight said to herself, as she sorted through the stories she held up. "Has Anypony Seen My Potty?, maybe that's a mystery to read later. Pirates, Princesses, and Potties, not historically accurate and a fairly uninteresting read for anypony not interested in the characters. Daring Do And The Temple Toilet, I don't even know why A. K. Yearling published that other than to enter Daring Do into the toddler market. Aha, here we go!" 

Pound and Pumpkin saw that the book Starlight had selected, was a fairly plain and uninteresting one with the title of "Everypony Poops". Starlight wasn't seriously going to read THAT to them, was she (unless her intent was to bore the pee-pees and poo-poos out of them)?

Starlight smiled even more, as she opened up the book. "Fun fact you two," she told the twins. "This is the very book that my parents read to me when they were potty training me. For a good two years it was with me every time I sat on the potty. I'm sure you two will love as well, once I've read it." And with that, she started to read from the first page of the book in a very enthusiastic tone.





Starlight quickly became engrossed in the book, to the point where she toned out just about everything else. This gave the twins the chance they had been waiting for, and they didn't hesitate to take it. They'd have much rather had any of those other books be read to them instead. 

"Weady bwother?" Pumpkin asked.

"Weady sistew," Pound nodded, then giggled. "The wook on Starwight's face is gonna be pwiceless!"

"I hope so." Pumpkin replied, and lit up her horn while trying to suppress the urge to chuckle.

Starlight was so engrossed in reading that she just barely the sound of the twins disappearing in a poof of magic. "Huh? Where did you go, little ones?" she asked, setting the book aside and beginning to search for any clues to the twins locations. "They couldn't have just vanished into thin air." she thought to herself, pretty sure that such a thing wasn't possible.

Unknown to Starlight, the twins were right above her, floating just beneath the ceiling with the help of Pumpkin's magic. In fact, they were hovering right over the toilet, which was going to play a VERY big role in their little prank.

"Pound?! Pumpkin?! Where are you?!" Starlight frantically called. "If you're hiding from me, this isn't funny anymore! Please come out!" Just seconds later the unicorn foalsitter's ears picked up the faintest sound of a splash, coming from the toilet. 

"Hewp us, Starwight!" the twins shouted, though Starlight couldn't determine their location. All she knew was that the sound of their voices had originated from the toilet.

Starlight rushed towards the toilet as fast as she could! She wasn't sure how the twins had ended up in it, but she was going to make sure they got out! "Hold on you two, just keep your heads above the water!" she instructed, all the while thinking desperately to herself. "Please don't let the toilet flush! Please don't let the toilet flush!" But that's exactly what happened, the toilet began to flush as Starlight approached it! "NO!" she cried, rushing towards it at a breakneck speed. She reached it just in time to see the last of the water disappear down the drain, and when the water in the bowl had refilled completely there was no sign of The Cake Twins. "Oh dear Celestia, why?!" Starlight exclaimed. "How am I gonna explain that to The Cakes?!"

But just then there came another poof, and the twins reappeared in front of Starlight in a burst of magic as they shouted. "Suwprise!"

Starlight stumbled back in shock. "Huh?! But I... I mean you were... and I thought..." Starlight was so overcome with shock that she fainted, right as her tail dipped into the bowl.





"Uh-oh, I tink we had a bit too much fun with Starwight." Pumpkin realized, as she observed the sight of the fainted foalsitter before her.

"Yeah," Pound nodded. "But how do we wake hew up?"

Pumpkin eyed the toilet handle, and got an idea. "Maybe this wiww do the twick." she said to her brother, and used her magic to force the toilet handle down, thus starting the flush motion.

Starlight jumped, as the water surrounded her tail and tried to pull it down the drain! That woke her up alright! She lifted her soaking tail out of the bowl and rose from the toilet, feeling quite embarrassed. "Well, at least Sunburst wasn't here to see this." she thought to herself, and hoped that when Flurry Heart was old enough for potty training, she wouldn't pull a similar stunt.