Starlight Glimmer's Time Travel Mishap

by Foal Star

Chapter Four: Ponyville Nursery

The following morning, the older mares Elizabeth Hooves and Windy Whistles were feeding their foals oatmeal with the colts on one side and the fillies on the other. Starlight was enjoying her breakfast, chewing away rather happily. Meanwhile, Windy turned towards Elizabeth and asked. "So, where's your family? You live here by yourself?"

The earth pony mare waved a hoof and said, "Oh no, I live in Trottingham with my husband, Alfred. He's caring for my son while I came to Ponyville to help my other son."

She then spoon-fed a glop of oatmeal and plopped it into her son's mouth before adding. "You know, the one who didn't turn himself into a baby."

Windy threw her hooves over her face and then dawwed, "Awww, so you had to care for your adult son when he was a baby! That is so adorable!"

"Well, now that we know how to return these cuties to their original timelines," Elizabeth questioned. "How are we going to find Twilight's friends?"

They all turned their attention to the violet-colored foal, who was busy chugging away on her bottle, making adorable gurgling noises as she did so. Starlight started to wave her hooves and shout. "Hey, Twilight! Hello?!"

"Oh, sorry," The violet foal squeaked as she dropped her bottle and gave a burp, puking out some spit. Windy quickly wiped her face as Twilight turned to face Starswirl, who then asked. "Is your baby tawking speww on?"

Starswirl (who was also busy sucking down a bottle of milk before he removed it with a pop) said. "Sowie. Yeah, it is on! Just explain what we gonna do next!"

The little unicorn cleared her throat. "Weww…if I know anything about my friends, Appwejack and Wawity were born and raised hewe. So next, we should get them ta be friends with baby me and Wainbow Dashie."

Elizabeth looked from feeding her foals and asked, "Wait, Applejack and Rarity?"

The baby unicorn looked up at the earth pony mare and asked. "Yeah, what bout them?"

"Well, I went to check out the daycare here and heard those names before," Elizabeth explained. "I even became friends with their mothers, believe it or not."

Twilight started to get excited, bouncing on her padded bottom as she cheered, "That's gweat! That means we can get them to be friends with baby me and Dashie!"

Windy smiled and plopped some foal food into Twilight's mouth. "Adorable idea, But how do we do that?"
The violet-coated unicorn gulped and then suckled some of her bottles before saying. "That's easy. Stawwight will be ta one ta bridge tem together."

Starlight was suckling a bottle of milk, and upon hearing what Twilight said, she spat out the contents in surprise! "Me?! Why me?!"

Twilight turned towards Starlight and explained. "Well, I can't because I tink ta more I hang out with baby me and my other friends, I might say stuff they shouldn't know. Ya, dun knows anything, ya can act like another baby and make them friends!"

"What a splendid idea!" Elizabeth chimed as she turned her attention to the light purple-coated unicorn foal. "Starlight will be perfect!"

Starswirl threw his hooves over his chest and snapped, "What about me?!"

Dr. Whooves gave the regressed sorcerer a playful smirk, then scoffed. "Ya super mean. Ya wouwd pwobabwy make tem hate each othew!”

Starswirl turned towards his rival and whined. "Nah, uh! Ya would bore tem ta death 'bout ya dumb science!"

Twilight's cheeks flushed pink. "Noting against ya, Stawswiww, but Stawwight is bettew. I think you and Dr. Whooves should wowk together and ensure the time machine is weady. Besides, I think ya two wouwd go cwazy being in an actual daycawe."

The two colts were still pouting but seemed to agree with Twilight.

Starlight was still trying to decide about brokering the meeting between these foals. Even though she wanted to make up for trying to break Twilight's friendships. "Otay, ya got a point."
"Alright," Windy declared. "I'll get my daughter and have Twilight Velvet bring hers, and we can get four of your friends together!"

"Yeah! That will be amazing!" Twilight cheered!

Starlight bowed her head and continued to suckle on her baby bottle, realizing that this one trip to their daycare could mean the difference between getting back to her timeline as an adult or staying in diapers for Celestia knows how long.

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The next day, Windy Whistles and Twilight Velvet pushed their foals in their strollers, heading towards "Ponyville Daycare." It was a small bright blue building and had a sign with letters made out of giant baby blocks.

Starlight looked up, hoping to get the other foals to be friends with Twilight and Rainbow Dash.
They then entered the building, and the filly saw it was a typical but fun-looking daycare, with posters placed everywhere and a massive playroom. There was an area full of cribs with dozens of foals sleeping away and a kitchen full of babies strapped in highchairs and toddlers snacking away.

As they headed to the nursery, the two mares pushed their foals in their strollers. An older-looking pink-coated earth pony smiled as they came in. "Oh, new customers! Welcome to Ponville Daycare! How may I help you?"

Twilight Velvet smiled and waved a hoof, then asked. "Hello, what's your name?"

The stocky, cheerful mare bounced over and exclaimed. "Oh, pardon me. My name is Singalee! I'm head caretaker and owner of Ponyville Nursery."

Windy placed her hooves over her face and exclaimed! "Oh! You sing?!"

"Yes, I do!" Singalee sang as she bounced up and down. She cleared her throat and added, "But singing time is not until after nap time."

Twilight Velvet seemed impressed. "Oh, I see you keep the foals organized."

"Yes, that is true," Singalee happily admitted. "I try to keep the older foals on a schedule. But I let the infants do whatever they wish. We're here to have fun, after all!"

Windy looked rather sheepish. "Well, we aren't from Ponyville, Twilight Velvet is from Canterlot, and I'm from Cloudesdale."

The caretaker clapped her hooves together and chirped, "Oh, lovely! We don't mind foals from out of town. We can handle the paperwork while letting your babies play."

Twilight Velvet smiled as she lifted her daughter towards them with the little filly cooing. "Well, introduce you to my daughter: Twilight Sparkle."

Windy followed suit, lifting her babies and showing off the squirming baby unicorn and pegasus. "These are my daughters: Rainbow Dash and Starlight Glimmer."

Sinaglee gave them both a boop on their noses. "They're all adorable, and I'm happy to have them." She led them to where the other infants were playing.

Starlight looked around, trying to see where Applejack and Rarity were. She soon spotted an orange-coated earth pony foal with a blonde mane playing with hoof paint mashing it onto some construction paper. And she spotted a white-coated unicorn foal putting a doll in a dress. "There they awe!"

Rainbow Dash blinked and scratched the top of her mane. "Who tey?!".

Starlight let out a sigh as she turned towards Rainbow and explained. "Listen, we got seaweed in our plans to go back home. As cwazy as it sounds, ya two gots to become friends with those babies ovew thewe, ow I neva gonna tuwn back into a big pony."

Baby Twilight turned and asked. "Otay…um, guess I'ww twy with ta unicorn fiwwy. What's her name?"

"Wawity," Starlight confirmed.

"Otay. is Wawity," Twilight gulped as she shuffled towards the baby unicorn and waved a hoof. "Hello?"

The chubby white unicorn turned towards Twilight and asked. "Who are you?"

Twilight held out a hoof. "I Twiwight."

The plump white unicorn threw her hooves over her diaper and, with a blush, said. "My name is Wawity. Neva seen ya, where ya fwom?"

Twilight pointed a pudgy hoof to her chest and proclaimed. "I fwom Cantewwot!"

The little white unicorn gave a cute gasp and squealed! "Cantewot! That's so cool; I always wanted ta go thewe!" She then showed her doll. "Do ya know Pwincess Tia?"

Twilight started to get excited! "Weww, not weawwy. But she is cool."

"Gweat!" Rarity exclaimed! "Wanna help me dress hew up?!"

Twilight bounced on her padding and squealed! "Yeah, that sounds like fun! I think she can use a diapee!"

Rarity giggled behind a hoof as she started bouncing up and down on her diapered butt and exclaimed! "Yeah! Dun know why adults dun wears diapers, tey so comfy!"

"Yeah, they awe!" Twilight encouraged. "Let's put a big fluffy one on how to keep hew butt warm!" She waddled over to a chest full of doll clothes and started to go through it. They then started to dress a plush Princess Celestia in a fluffy diaper with a silly yellow dress over her (which did nothing to hide the poofy diaper). Twilight then held the now dressed-up doll and proclaimed proudly! "Thewe! Princess Tia has now protected fwom accidents!"

"Yeah! Now wet's keep dressing hew up! Bet she wouwd wook gweat in puwpwe!" Rarity cheered. The two foals then continued dressing the doll in more outfits.

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Meanwhile, Rainbow Dash flew towards Applejack and plopped her padded bottom next to the baby earth pony. The little orange-coated filly then turned around and asked. "Hewwo, ya new?"

"Yeah..I…I know… what's your name?" Rainbow stuttered.

The filly smiled and held out a hoof covered in hoof paint. "I Applejack!"

Rainbow Dash snickered, taking out her own hoof. "Weww, my name is Wainbow Dashie."

The two shook hooves as Applejack asked, "Well, Dashie, I am making a pretty picture about zap apples! Wanna help me?"

Rainbow Dash scratched her mane. "What awe zap apples?"

"Tey special apples tat only appear once a yeaw!" Applejack explained. "But they make ta best jam! And I am twying to make one!" She then slammed her hooves into a jar of blue paint, splattering the goop everywhere! She then looked up, giggling as Rainbow Dash wiped the paint from her face as Applejack apologized. “Sowie, didn' mean ta do tat.”

Rainbow smirked, then slammed her hooves in the paint and got it onto Applejack, who laughed and splattered paint on her. It wasn't long until the two fillies were having a massive hoof paint fight, with a few other babies nearby getting in on the action. Things seemed to be going well, but Starlight was impressed by how these foals had completely different personalities. It would not be easy to mesh, and I wondered how these totally different ponies in Equestria ever became friends in the first place.

"Alright, my cuties! Time to eat!" The foals all turned to Singalee, who started handing out baby bottles and changing diapers in seconds. Starlight squeaked as a bottle of Windy's milk popped into her mouth.

Singles then went and cleaned up Rainbow and Applejack. Meanwhile, Starlight waddled to Rarity, and Twilight then asked. "Hey, um… how ya two doing?"

Rarity bounced up and down and giggled. "Gweat! I made a new fwiend, hew name Twiwy!”
"Yeah, Wawity is so fun!" Twilight insisted. “She wuv Pwincess Tia, and we tink she wouwd wook gweat in a diapee!”

Upon seeing the doll, Starlight couldn't help but burst out laughing as the plush alicorn was dressed in a fluffy purple dress and a couple layers of fluffy diapers, with her hooves, covered purple and yellow striped socks, her mane and tail dressed up in bows. Starlight fell to the ground, laughing uncontrollably as she imagined the real Princess Celestia in the outfit! "Bet she wouwd! She wouwd be ta cutest pwincess eva!"

Rarity nodded. "Yeah, and uh…who awe ya?"

Starlight gulped. "Oh, um…I Stawwight Gwimma."

"Well, nice to meet another unicorn!" Rarity happily exclaimed as she held out a hoof. "Ya fwom Cantewot too?"

"No," Starlight blushed. "I uh fwom a town east of hewe."

Rarity then came over and poked Starlight's diaper. "Oh, awe tose counties?"

"Yeah, my foster mommy gets them for me," Starlight replied. "Why?"

"Well, my mommy gets me fluffy wump diapees I wike tem awot cause they comfy," Rarity pointed out while poking at her own diaper. "But Cwoudies otay."

Twilight waddled over and showed off her padded bottom. "I have counties too! My mommy got some fwom Wainbow Dashie's mommy! Tey so gweat!"

"Yeah," Rarity agreed before nervously adding. "But Cwoudies feel too loose on me. I scared. I gonna weak aww over the place. Awso, I think Fluffy Wumps have bettew designs; they got princess ponies and flowers."

"Yeah, but Cwoudies got all kinds of clouds and rainbows," Twilight argued.

Starlight started to suckle on her bottle (which was filled with Windy's milk) as she felt a little too embarrassed talking about diaper brands. But an idea popped into her head as she suckled down the sweet, tangy milk. "I got a betta idea; why dun we have two owa bottles with those two?" She then pointed a hoof toward Rainbow Dash and Applejack.

"Oh yeah, I would love to show Dashie to Wawity and compare owa Bottoms!" Twilight insisted with a smile.

Rarity looked over, made a bleh sound, and whined. "How!? She and that earth pony got aww messy in hoof paint, dun want ta get messy wike that! I hate to aww messily; tat why I gonna start potty training soon."

Twilight tugged at Rarity's hoof and insisted. "Oh, come on, it'll be fun! Pwomice! Ya, wun, get that messy. Besides, being messy means, ya get to take baths. And baths are fun!"
Rarity reluctantly followed Twilight and Starlight over to Applejack and Rainbow Dash, who turned and said. "Oh, hey, Stawwight! Hey Twiwy!"

"Hey, Dashie!" Twirly squealed, hugging her friend. "Dashie, I want ya ta meet my new fwiend Wawity!"

Rarity eyed the pegasus and grumbled. "Dashie?"

Rainbow Dash snorted. "Is short fow Wainbow Dashie, the most awesome foaw ever!" Then she groaned, looking at Rarity. "Ugh, ya fwiend with hew why, Twiwy? She doesn't wook fun."

"Well, ta onwy weapon I here is because of Twiwy!" Rarity argued. "I dun wike ya, ya too messy!"

Applejack waddled over and held up her hooves. "Hey, keep it easy! We can all be friends, no need ta fight."

Dashie hugged Applejack back and jeered at Rarity. "Weww, I wanna introduce my new fwiend Appwejackie! She not care if she gets messy."

The orange-coated little filly threw herself up on her hind legs. "Hewwo, I'm Appwejackie."

"Hi, Appwejackie, I wike ya diapee!" Twilight giggled as she poked her new friend's padding.
Applejack got a little peeved and swiped at Twilight's hoof. "Yeah, it gweat. Mommy buys me ta best diapees, tey cloth. Tough, I wana to be potty trained, like my big body! He sees being potty-twained as ta best ting ever!"

"Oh, ya gots a big body?!" Twilight exclaimed! "I got a big body too! And he also potty-twained!"

"Oh, my big bwuda is Big Mac," Applejack replied. "What is you big buddha's name?"

"He Shiny Amwow!" Twilight beamed. "He's super cool; maybe they can be friends too!"

Starlight sat back, relieved that the four seemed to be getting along. So at this point, she decided it was time to do an activity together. "See, we can all get together! Why dun we shawe ouw bottwes?”

Twilight blushed as she and Rarity swapped bottles and suckled down the contents a little.
Twilight smacked her lips and then asked. "So, tis is ya mommy's miwk?"

Rarity placed her hooves over her face and squeaked! "Yeah! How ya like it?"

Twilight threw her hooves in the air and squealed. "It's gweat! Tastes like sweet tea and cookies!"

The pudgy white unicorn took her new friend's bottle, gave it a few hearty suckles, then exclaimed. "Oh, wow! Your mommy's miwk tastes like mine!"

Rainbow Dash took Applejack's bottle and gave it a few suckles. Her eyes went wide as she continued to drink, and Applejack whined! "Hey, dun dwink aww of it!"

The baby earth pony pulled the bottle from Rainbow Dash's mouth, who blushed and apologized. "Sowwie, but it tasted weawwy good. It tastes awot wike apples…and pears."

Applejack took her bottle and suckled a little. "Huh, it does taste a wittwe wike peaw. Dun know why. We onwy grow apples," Meanwhile, Applejack took Rainbow Dash's bottle then suckled down the contents. "Wow, tastes like pasta!"

Rainbow Dash burst out laughing as milk squirted out of her nose! "Yeah, my mommy wuvs pasta, and I like it too! Makes me super jumpy and helps me fwy!"

Starlight couldn't help but add. "Yeah, Wainbow Dashise is a gweat foyer! She can fly for five minutes now!"

Rarity threw her pudgy hooves across her chest and scoffed. "Yeah, right!"

"Yeah, huh! Just watch!" Rainbow Dash grunted as she fluttered in the air and held herself above the foals for several minutes before plopping onto her padded bottom as she gasped. "Thewe! See?"

Applejack clapped her hooves. "Wow, that's gweat! Maybe ya mommy's milk can help my apple bucking." She then smacked her back hooves against a tower of blocks, making them fall over.
Everypony clapped as Applejack tried to bow but fell back on her flank.

Starlight saw that their bottles were mostly half full, and another idea came to her as she exclaimed. "Otay got an idea! What if we all had a bottle-chugging contest?"

Rainbow squealed! "Yeah, that sounds like fun!"

Rarity seemed the most reluctant and whined. "But if we chug owa miwk, we might spit up, and it'ww get on my diapee."
Twilight poked her friend's padding and giggled. "Ya soggy anyways and gonna get changed. So come on, wet's see who can dwink ta most mommy miwk before ten."

Rarity turned to see the remaining foals waiting for her and sighed. "Fine, but I gonna wose 'cause I dun wike making spit up."

Starlight held up her own bottle. "Awwight, every baby, pick up ya, baba!" Every foal picked up its own bottle and hoisted it to their lips. Starlight then explained. "Otay, hewe ta rules: Ya dwink ya baba until it empty. If ya take ta rubber nipple out of ya mouth, ya worse. If ya spit up, ya worse. Whoeva drinks their baba aww the way twist and doesn't spit up wins."

Rainbow Dash looked up and asked. "what do we win?"

Starlight tapped a hoof to her chin. "How 'bout ya win a dolly I have?!"

"Oh, ya mean ya Wondewbowt plushie?!" Rainbow excitedly asked as her eyes lit up!
Starlight slowly nodded. "Yeah!"

"Otay, weww, I gonna win, ten!" Rainbow squealed before picking up her bottle.

"Awwight," Starlight instructed. "On a count of thwee, ya dwink! One, two, thwee, dwink!"
All three foals started chugging on their bottles of milk immediately afterward. Rarity was the first to lose, pulling her bottle out and giving a small burp as a bit of spit-up came out. Twilight stopped midway as she spat up her milk. Starlight herself couldn't help but burst into laughter with milk squirting from her nose.

So it was down to Applejack and Rainbow Dash, who glared at each other as they chugged their bottles. The other babies watched intently, wondering who would win, but as the two finished, they both slammed their bottles down. But then Applejack gave a hiccup and spat up some milk. Rainbow Dash flew up, squealing! "Yeah! I won! I ta best bottwe chugga eva!"

Starlight nodded. "Guess ya win; I'we give ya my plushie when we get back ta ya nursery."

Rainbow Dash shook her head, held up a plush pegasus, and gave it to her. "Nah, ya keep it. Maybe when ya a big pony, ya wun forget me."

Starlight had tears come in her eyes and wiped them away. "Tanks, Dashie. I've neva forget you."

Rarity was wiping her face with a handkerchief as she asked. "Otay, we did ta gwoss game now. I wanted to build a castle for my plushie Princess Tia. So do you aww wanna help me?"

"Yeah, that sounds like fun!" Applejack cheered as she rushed off to grab blocks.

Rainbow Dash gasped! "Oh, we can make flags with ta hoof paint!"

"That sounds like a gweat idea!" Applejack chimed back.

Meanwhile, Twilight waddled over to Rarity and asked. "Why dun we go find plushies and dress them up in diapees and dresses? A castle needs ponies and otha stuff wike guards and maids."

"Sounds good. Make sure they got diapees! And pretty dresses!" Rarity chirped as she and Twilight waddled off.

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Starlight sat back and relaxed before giving a loud belch as she spat up some more.
The foals spent the rest of the afternoon building a castle of giant, multicolored foam blocks, stacking them about. Starlight saw Rainbow Dash hosting her hoof paintings on top of some towers. Meanwhile, Applejack placed plush animals around the castle's exterior. And Twilight and Rarity created a throne of plush animals and a throne for the padded plush Celestia.
Starlight sat back, suckling Windy's milk from a bottle as she admired the castle made of foam blocks. She was surprised at how fast these foals could build this castle and how quickly they became friends.

"Oh my gosh, this is so imaginative!" The foals all turned to Singalee, skipping over as she took pictures of their creation. "I can't wait to show your parents this. But for now, it's nap time!" She then started scooping the babies and checking their diapers as she giggled. "Well, before that diaper changes!"

Singalee bounced to the diaper changing area and, within a few minutes, wiped the foal's bottoms, strapping them up in fresh padding. She then plopped pacifiers in their mouths and settled Starlight and her friends in separate cribs among the dozens of other foals.

The lights in the building began to dim as the sounds of muffled crying and suckling on pacifiers or bottles filled the air. Starlight wasn't annoyed, sighing relief and kicking about in her new padding. She suckled away on her own pacifier, feeling proud of herself for accomplishing her mission as she felt sleep take over. Starlight hugged her Wonderbolt plush tightly and felt her diaper grow warm. She couldn't help but feel relaxed and happy; she'd gotten to experience being a foal and had made many new friends.