Chapter Eight
Old and New bonds
"Hey awe ya okay?”
Diamond Tiara woke, and as she looked up into a ceiling made of clouds she realized she had no idea where she was. “Oh no did I fall asleep somewhere?” she thought to herself. She then realized that something was off. Her body felt shorter than normal as she got up, and something was making an odd crinkling noise, then she saw Chrysalis. She had a big white diaper around her flank with little apples decorating it.
“Whas goin on whas happa ta me?” Diamond asked, then gasped, “Why di I wisp?”
Chrysalis giggled, “Wha ya think? Ya a foal!”
Diamond looked down and saw a pink diaper hugging her flank, this prompted her to scream “Why I a fowl?!” she demanded, she especially didn’t like wearing a diaper. She hadn’t wore such an infantile undergarment she was two (a fact she was most proud of).
Chrysalis giggled, “I don know, bu don ya want ta pway?”
Diamond turned and bellowed, “No! I wana be a bi pony! I dun wanna have to mess mysef!”
“Don wowie, this is jus a dweam. Ya not weally fowl.” Chrysalis replied as Diamond got sad and sat down on her padding. It was obvious the pink coated filly wanted to cry, but she refused to shed tears.
Diamond crossed her hooves, “I na pwaying with ya! Besides, I don wike you. My Mommy says you and youw ‘sibwings’ shouwdn’t be hewe!”
Chrysalis tried to reassure her guest, “Diamownd Tiawa, this is jus a dweam.”
Diamond shook her head, “I don bewiev ya.”
“Well ya won’t be able to tuwn back unwess ya pway with me.” Chrysalis taunted.
Diamond Tiara eyed the former changeling queen suspisciously, “Ya stiw didn tell me whewe we awe.” she complianed.
Chrysalis replied, “We awe in some dweam pawace, wook.”
The two looked around and saw other foals (two of which they recognized as The Cake Twins) that were surrounding a throne, with a shadowy mare sitting on it. The floor was pink with walls made up of fluffy white clouds, and had the feel of a castle made for foals.
The shadowy mare then cooed, “I created this palace for all of you littles ones to explore and have fun. Anything you dream up will come true, and you can stay here forever.”
Some of the foals cried, “I don wana.” While others asked. “Can we go home?” But soon foal toys and stuffed animals appeared, and that seemed to silence them.
Giant blocks appeared around The Cake Twins, and they laughed as they began to climb the tower. The other foals soon forgot about wanting to leave and started playing with the toys, seemingly forgetting they were ever adults.
The shadowy mare cooed at the foals,”Don’t worry, nothing bad will ever happen to any of you. I promise. Here, you can stay safe and young forever.”
Sombra could only stare in amazement as he crawled through the halls of the palace. With his eyes open wide he asked, “Wawity? Wha is this pwace?”
Rarity herself was looking at the castle in disbelief as she responded, “I don know, I don even know how we ended up hewe.”
Sombra looked at Rarity and asked, “So it wooks wike we stuck hewe, huh?”
Rarity smiled, “No we not. Twilie will come and wescue us soon, I know it.”
“We made Twlie dwess in a diapee the wast time we met. I doubt she wanna rescue me.” Sombra replied, looking at the ground in shame.
Rarity shook her head, “She not mad at ya, in fact she’s scawed that ya stiw mad at hew.”
Sombra smiled, then looked back at Rarity, “Well I’m not, I gwad I’m a fowl again.”
Rarity smiled back, then sighed, “Well wha ya wana do while we stuck wike this?” she asked, deciding that if she was going to be stuck as a foal she might as well make the most of it (and truth be told, part of her did miss her toddler years. The diaper useage she could do without, but the rest wasn’t so bad).
Sombra replied, “Wets dwess up in cute cwothes, togetha.”
Then, all of a sudden, a door appeared to the right of the two foals! Sombra got really curious, as he crawled over and opened the door. He was shocked at what he saw. Rows of foal clothes on clothing racks as far as the eye could see. His jaw dropped as he asked, “Wawity, di ya dweam this up ya self?”
Rarity nervously crawled in and saw the foal clothes, “No and I think I make betta fowl cwothes anywways.” she replied, slightly envious. This made Sombra giggle.
“Awe ya gettin jeawous?” Sombra teased with a huge grin on his face.
Rarity got pouty “No, I na jeawous! A wady doesn get jeawous!”
“Don wowie, I thin ya make the best foaw cwothing in all of Eqwestwia,” Sombra told her. “I wish you’d been awound when I was a foaw, the foaw cwothes I had wewe not vewy comfowtable.”
Rarity smiled at the former king. “Than ya, Sombie.” she hapilly replied.
Sombra bowed his head a little, then went over to the clothing rack. He sifted through and brought out a little blue onesie with a bright yellow bowtie, and a plastic blue diaper.
Rarity crawled to the other clothing rack and took out a purple frill dress and a plastic purple diaper ,and carried them off. She placed them on the ground and said to Sombra, “I’ll help ya fiwst, then ya help dwess me.” Sombra nodded and laid down on the ground. Rarity started off by taking off his old diaper and placed the new blue one around his rump. She then asked, “Ya know I neva asked how old ya and ya fwiends awe?”
Sombra smiled and said, “Well Mama Cewestia told us she tuwned me ta a onw yeaw old, Discowd is onwy a half a yeaw olda then me, Cwysalis jus tuwned two, and Nightmawe Moon is now two and a hawf.”
Rarity nodded, “I see,” as she taped the diaper over Sombra’s front.
Sombra then asked, “Ya wan ta know a secwet?”
“Wha?” Rarity whispered
“I…I twought a wot abou ya eva since ya weft the castle.” Sombra said, as he bowed his head
“I twought awot aboua ya too,” Rarity replied, as she helped Sombra to his hooves. They looked at each other, then Rarity took the onesie in her telkinesis and asked, “Can ya wift ya hoowes?” Sombra stood on his back hooves and lifted his front hooves to the sky. Rarity slipped the onesie over his head and buttoned the flap around his crotch.
Sombra did a few crouches to get used to his new padding, which made Rarity giggled. “Well, its ya tuwn now.” he said to Rarity.
Rarity then laid on the ground as Sombra took off her diaper. As she was dressed she asked, “Somby, ya wonwie at the pawace?”
Sombra paused, then he started to sniffle, “A wittle, I wove mommy Cewestia a wot bu I got no fwiends to pawy wit.” he confessed.
“Oh Somby.” Rarity replied, now wishing she hadn’t asked.
Sombra smiled, “Wawity I… I don know wha ta do. I wan ta stay with Mama Cewestia. Bu I miss my fwiends in Ponyville.” As he taped the diaper over her front then she told him, “Sombie, I don wana be between Cewestia and ya fwiends, bu I thin she would want whas best fow ya.”
Sombra nodded, “I heard Mama Cewestia and Wuna talkin. They want me move to Ponyville. I jus scawed that Cewestia will get woonwy.”
Rarity got a little sad as Sombra helped her to her hooves. But then she kindly offered, “Sombie, if…if ya decide to wive with me I pwomice that I’ll find time to have ya go to Cewestia.”
Sombra shook his head and replied, “I don know...it’s a wong ways fwom Ponyville.”
Rarity replied, It don matta. I the Ewement of Genowisty, I can visit her anytime I wan.”
“I don know…” Sombra began, unsure of what he should say. Rarity placed a hoof on his shoulder and cooed, “Wisten ya can’t spent ha west of ya foawhood wife awone, ya need fwiends.”
Sombra looked at Rarity and asked her, “Hawe you eva made a tough chowice wike this?”
“Na, I can’t say I hawe,” Rarity confessed. Sombra bowed his head, as Rarity then said to the former king “Wisten, Sombie, it’s okay. Just talk with Cewestia and I’m suwe she’ll understand.”
Sombra wiped the tears from his face and asked, “Ya suwe?”
Rarity hugged him as Sombra hugged her back. She then cooed, “I pwomice.”
The two foals broke the embrace as Sombra then remembered what he was doing, “ I gwess ya still need a dwessie?” he asked Rarity.
“Ya.” Rarity nodded, then lifted her front hooves as Sombra slipped it over her body. She then wiggled in her new clothes as she giggled.
“So wha do ya want ta do while we wwait fow Twilie to come save us?” Sombra asked his new playmate.
Rarity found herself getting super excited as she bounced on her new diaper, “We got a wholw castle to pway in! Wets dweam up a big pway pwace full of swides and ball pits!”
Sombra smiled, as the whole room transformed into an indoor playground full of slides and ball pits just as Rarity suggested. “Last one to the swide is a wotten egg!” he teased, running ahead.
Chrysalis was with Diamond Tiara who looked a bit worried. The former changeling queen asked, “Diamwon Tiawa, wha do ya wan to pway?”
Diamond looked up and nervously asked, “So, we can do anything I wan? And nopony is going to teww me ‘No!’?”
Chrysalis nodded her little head, “Yep.” she told the pink coated foal.
Diamond pondered a she stroked her chin. Then she closed her eyes and a giant pink table rose from the ground, filled with little tea cups and a pot with dolls sitting in the chairs. Diamond squealed as she climbed onto one of the chairs, “I aways wanta a tea set!”
“Wha, ya neva had one befowe?” Chrysalis asked, as she sat across from Diamond.
Diamond grew sad when the question was asked, “My moma said I couldn pway stupid games when I was a fowl,” she admitted. “She put a wot of pwessuwe on me to gwow up fast, heck she stiww does it now.”
Chrysalis reassured her new friend, “Well wets pway, she aint stopping ya now.”
“Right, so fiwst ya gotta ask fow tea wike ths.” Diamond explained then she cleared her throat and asked in a polite voice, “May I pwease have some tea?” The teapot came over and poured her a cup of tea. She squealed, “This is amazing!”
Chrysalis smiled, then asked “May I have some appwe milk instead?”
A baby bottle with milk in it appeared in front of Chrysalis. “Whas appwe milk?” Diamond asked.
Chrysalis blushed, “I not gonna tell ya that.”
Diamond then whimpered as she felt something build in her bladder, “ I gotta go pee.” she declared, jumping down from her chair.
“Ya a foal just pee in ya diapee.” Chrysalis encouraged.
Diamond shook her head in protest, “Is not wady wike to pee in a diapee. Besides, is not what a wich pony is supposed to do. Wich ponies use the potty wike big fiwwies.”
Chrysalis sighed, “Diamond, ya a fowl, and this is a dweam. No pony will evea know. Isn’t it time you stopped wowwying about acting wike a wich pony, and just stawted being youwsef?”
Diamond smiled as she realized Chrysalis was right. She let it out and the two foals giggled as the hissing continued for a bit, “Thank ya Cwysalis… Im sowie such a meanie to ya.” Diamond apologized once the hissing had stopped.
“No pwoblem, new fwiend,” Chrysalis replied happily. “Now, we need som snacks with owa tea.” A plate of apple fritters magically appeared before them, but Diamond shook her head. She had apple products all the time because of her family’s business connections. She wanted something she knew her mother never let her have in real life. “I wana hawe some suga cookies.” she declared. Then a plate of sugar cookies appeared, and Diamond started shoving them in her mouth.
Chrysalis jokingly cooed, “So whewes ya mannas?”
Diamond stopped shoving cookies in her mouth, as she swallowed hard and blushed. “I sowie, I didn mean ta do that.” she apologized.
“It’s okay, I jus messin with ya. We don hawe ti haw mannas.” Chysras gurgled as she started to suckle her foal bottle.
Diamond smiled then said, “Alwight. What if.. .what if I had a bottle of milk too?” Then another baby bottle appeared and Diamond readily accepted the bottle, as Chrysalis took out hers and they both shouted, “Whoeva dwinks the fastes wins!”
In Rarity’s boutique Spike was busy looking over the unconscious Rarity lying on her coach as Pinkie was holding baby Discord. They’d heard occasional mumbles from Rarity, but she showed no signs of waking up anytime soon.
“I figured it out!” Twilight declared, as she burst through the door,
“So what’s wrong with Rarity?” Spike asked in a worried tone.
Twilight smiled, “Don’t worry, Spike. She’s just trapped in the dream world, as well as the rest of our friends, including the foals.”
Spike and Pinkie gasped, as Discord began to cry! Twilight put on a sheepish smile and replied, “Hey, it’s alright, it’s not as bad as it sound. I believe that Nightmare Moon must have awakened something when she entered the dream world.”
Pinkie smiled and replied. “So, she has to absorb the thing that’s making all the ponies act weird?”
Twilight nodded, “That’s right, I believe Nightmare Moon is the key to freeing everypony. Though I don’t who or what was awakened by Nightmare Moon’s visit.”
Discord whimpered, “So how is Nightmawe Moon gonna save evewypony? I doubt she even knows was goin on.”
Twilight then turned to Discord and smiled sweetly, “That’s where you come in. The only pony that can tell her to leave, is a friend. Somepony who she can trust.”
Discord whimpered, “Bu what if the dweam wold is weally fun, and I don wanna weave too?”
Pinkie stoked his scales, “Just think about Fluttershy and how much she’ll really miss you.”
Discord nodded, “Wight, I will think weally hawd about Fwuttashy…and Fwuffy my bunny.”
Twilight replied, “I believe in you, Discord. I have to admit you’ve changed a lot since you became a foal.”
Discord blushed, “Well Fwuttashy is weally nice, and I wna be wike hew when I gwow up.”
Pinkie hugged him. “I bet you will. Now come on, you’re the only one who can rescue Nightmare Moon and The Cake Twins.”
Discord laughed, “Well don’t wowie, Pinkie, I’ll get The Cake Twins and Nightmawe Moon back! Nothin can stop Discowd!”
Twilight then lit up her horn and told Discord, “I’m going to put a tracer spell on you to make sure you’re alright. We can talk telapathically, and if anything goes wrong I’ll pull you out.”
Discord nodded, “Alwight, Twlie, I weady!”
Spike giggled and cooed, “Well, you have to go to sleep first little guy.”
Discord nodded and snuggled into Pinkie’s lap, then as he drifted off to sleep he whispered, “I gonna save ya big sissy.”
Nightmare Moon was crawling through the halls of the dream castle with Luna, Luna then nervously said, “Nighmawe Moon, we gotta go bwack.”
“I know Wuna, bu we stuk hewe and I don know how to get evewypony back.” Nightmare Moon confessed.
Luna seeing how distraught her former alter ego was. She decided to change the subject and asked, “Do …do you wememba when we wew togetha?”
“Not weally I wost a wot of my memowies and I don wike what I did,” Nightmare Moon responded. “I’m suwe I was vewy mean and cwel though.”
Luna replied, “It wasn’t all yow fawlt, I was jeawous of my sissy and tat’s what wed me to embwace you.”
“Wike when I get jeawous of Discowd?” Nightmare Moon asked.
Luna shook her head, “No, not weally. I’ll tell ya mowe when ya olda. Fow now, we need to twy and find out who bwought us hewe. It shouwdn’t be possibwe fow somepony besides the two of us to entew and puww other ponies into the dweam wowld.”
Nightmare Moon nodded, then she remembered, “Ya know somthin, ya neva got a chance to show us that supwise on the day we weft Cantewot.”
Luna replied, “I know, mawbe when ya all come up fow the Gallopiwn Gawa ya I’ll be able to show ya.” She offered.
Then something exploded overhead, and Discord fell into the room and landed on his giant white diaper with a thump!. When he saw Nightmare Moon, he smiled and shouted, “Nightmawe Moon, wha happen?! Pinkie Pie is weally wowwied about ya an The Cake Twins Pound and Pumpkin. You gotta get out of hewe and fwee evewypony!”
Nightmare Moon sniffled and whimpered, “I sowie Discowd, I jus wana to see the mwrket with The Cake Twins, but I got bowed so I decided to pway theiw favowite game with them. Then I telepowted hewe and we cant weave.” As she began to cry, Discord hugged her, as Luna dawwed at the two.
Discord then said, “Don wowie we gonna get ya and evewypony out of hewe.”
Nightmare Moon nodded and wipes the tears from her eyes, “Bu how?”
“I was sent hewe by Twiliey,” Discord explained. “I think she said this is wike a t-t-a tanti”
Luna whispered “The Tantibus?! But I thought it was confined to my dweams!”
“Wuna, whas tha tantibus?” Nightmare Moon asked. “And why does it sound so famiwiar?”
Luna looked at the ground, “Is..is somthin I cweated to punish mysewf, fow wha did when we wew togetha. It was just supposed to give me nightmawes fow a whiwe so I’d weawn my weasson, somehow it must’ve gwon.”
Discord, after recovering from the shock of what he’d heard, replied “Is okay, we just gotta fin the west of owa fwiends and get them out of hewe toegtha. Then we can come up with a pwan to take down this tanti-whatevew you call it.”
Nightmare Moon nodded, “Ya wight, most of them awe in the twone woom pawaying, wets go!” The three then crawled down the hall to the main throne room, and Nightmare Moon rubbed her eyes in disbelief. It had transformed into something she couldn’t imagine. With giant stuffed teddy bears and foal block towers with foals climbing them, as well slides with ball pits, and in the middle a bunch of little fillies were playing tea party.
They then saw Chrysalis at the front of the table now in little pink dresses, sitting across from a foal that seemed to have a dazzling magenta colored coat. Then Chrysalis saw Nightmare Moon and Discord and shouted, “Hey ya two, come dwink tea with us!”
Discord whispered. “We gonna hawe a tea pawty?”
Luna shrugged “Why not, it wooks wike fun. Besides, we might wearn somethin about whas going on.” The three crawled over to the table.
“Stop! Ya gotta dwess up fiwst.” The magenta coated foal declared, jumping down from her chair and appearing in front of the three guests. She then took them to a clothing line full of dresses and foal clothes. She took out some pink frilly dresses, and placed them over Luna and Nightmare Moon. Then she turned to Discord and gave him an onesie with a yellow bowtie.
“Ya Diamown Tiawa wight?” Discord asked the foal.
“Wight.” Diamond Tiara smiled.
Nightmare Moon frowned and replied, “I hewe ya a big meanie.”
Diamond bowed her head, “Ya I was a bit mean, but I tink I gonna stawt being nicew fwom now. I couwd use some mowe fwiends.”
“How di ya end up hewe?” Luna asked Diamond.
Diamond shrugged “I don know, I jus went to sweep and I ended up hewe. Bu this is jus a dweam wight?”
Nightmare Moon nervously smiled, “Kind of, can we talk to Cwysalis?”
Diamond laughed, “Of course, we jus pwaying tea pawty.” She then led them to the table, and each of them climbed onto their seats around the table.
Chrysalis gasped upon seeing her friends and shouted in glee, “Nighamwe Moon, Wuna, Discowd, welcome to my tea pawty! I so gwad you couwd make it!”
They all smiled back as Nightmare Moon asked, “Chwsyalsis, when did ya come hewe?”
Chrysalis giggled, “A while ago, I dissapeawed then I think I fell asweep in Sweet Apple Acwes and woke up hewe.” She then poured them little cups of tea and handed them out.
“Cwysalis I nee ya help to help us beat the pony or ting who cweated this pwace.” Nightmare Moon pleaded.
Chrysalis gasped, “Bu…bu why?”
Discord smiled. “Chwysalis, this isn’t weal. We got ta ho home to owa famiwes.”
Chrysalis pouted and muttered, “Ya mean wheew weaw we will be tweated wike viawns and pwisonas.”
Discord crossed his clawd and replied, “Chwysalis, we are not prisoners! We chose to go to Ponyville.”
Chrysalis realized Discord was right and looked at her younger sibling, “Yeah I do wike Ponyviwee, especiawwy with the Appwes. Diamond Tiawa said those mean things about us, but she’s wight. We wew awful Discowd, we made awot of twouble and some ponies stiw don’t wike us. Don’t tell me you havent notice?” She then started to suckle her bottle of milk.
Discord responded, “I did notice but we can’t just weave. Wook I used to be mean and did mean pwanks, bu I changed. I want to help otha ponies, wike Fwuttashy.”
Chrysalis pulled the bottle of milk from her mouth then asked, “Di..did ya see Abblejack or Abble Bwoom?”
Discord shook his head, “No I haven’t, bu I bet they wowwied about ya.”
Chrysalis nodded as she got down from the table. “Alwight, wets go find the west of owa fwiends and get out of hewe!” she declared.
Discord smiled as he jumped off with Luna and Nightmare Moon, then Diamond Tiara came after them, “Wait fow me!” she cried!