Bathtime for Ponies Part 2

by Starry Eyed

Babs Seed

You sit next to the tub, waiting for it to fill up for today’s bath. In the meantime, you talk with your boss on the phone, “Yeah boss, everything’s going well. Yeah. Yeah. Augh, you’re not going to let me forget about losing the time machine that time are you? Don’t worry I know, no using knowledge of the future to change the past and all that. Yeah. Ok, bye boss.” Your call ends with perfect timing, as it is now time to turn off the water.

Now that the bath is ready you have a young Babs Seed to find. So far, Lil Macintosh has been the only member of the Apple family to willingly take a bath. You decide that it would be best to just go find the young filly rather than call out for her. You make your way down the hall to her room to find her playing happily. She seems to like you, because she immediately comes to greet you.

You feel better knowing that you’re appreciated, and tell her it’s time for a bath. She gives you a panicked expression which quickly becomes a pleading one, but somehow just deflates into a sigh. “Wow” you think to yourself, “That was so easy.”

Not wanting to wait until she changes her mind, you make your way to the tub, followed closely by Babs. You stand aside to let her go in first, which she does with only a little hesitation and you close the door.

You place Babs into the tub and let her get comfortable as you ready your travel bag. You get out the apple gel shampoo that you used on all the Apple siblings and squirt some into your palm. You begin lathering it into Babs’ mane. Her mane is not very long or thick or full, but it is as soft as silk, so you wash it gently for a good thirty seconds until it’s extra sudsy.

With the mane lathered, you scoop up some of the nice warm bath water and pour it over her mane. Normally you would have her tilt her head back so that the suds wouldn’t get in her eyes, but once wet, her hair just flowed back against her head anyway, so there is no need.

Now that her mane was clean, you kindly ask Babs to raise her tail out of the bath so that you can wash it. Babs complies without complaint, and you start on the tail. Thanks to the fact that Babs had a very short tail, all of which could fit in your hand at once, it only took mere seconds of scrubbing before it was fully lathered.

Moving onto the rinse cycle, it only takes three rinses for her tail to be lather free. With that, your job here is done, in record time no less. You know it’s only because she has so little hair to wash, but it’s an accomplishment nonetheless.

Not wanting the bath water, which is still warm and toasty, to go to waste you decide to get out the bath toys so she can relax herself. You get out your standard toys: two rubber boats, a rubber ducky, a seapony toy, and just for the occasion, a floating toy apple.

Babs regards the last of these, and then proceeds to give you a deadpan, “Seriously?” look. You shrug. You had been so excited to get to come to the Big Apple and Manehattan, that you had went out and seen all the attractions.

Obviously you had to buy some souvenirs, and that was about the only thing relevant to bathing ponies. Second only to getting to see all the adorable baby ponies and things, the best thing about this job is that it let you see the world and explore great places. You had wondered if it was a coincidence that the surrounding area was nicknamed, “The Big Apple” and that there was a branch of the Apple family living here. You decide to think about such things after you finish bathing Babs.

Babs reaches out to the toy, but only to push it away. You predicted that would happen, so you’re ok with it. She does seem to love the other toys though, and immediately sets out to make them get to know each other.

The duck and the seapony quickly become best friends, and go on adventures into the great unknown, as far away as the edge of the bath even (it was an accomplishment for her). Most importantly, they all became good friends, and laughed together when their adventures were over. Since Babs was doing the sound effects, this literally translated to bountiful heartfelt giggles.

Once you had metaphorically restarted your heart from Daww overload, you decided that it was time to bring this bath to a close. You unplug the tub a lift Babs out of the bath and onto the bath mat. There you bring out the towel and begin gently drying the young pony. Once the drying is over, Babs giggles warmly, she had more fun than she thought she would. You get up and open the door to let her out. On her way out the door, she nuzzles up against you as if to say thank you. The cuteness overload forces you to resort to the only word still in your vocabulary at this point, “Eeyup.”

With that, Babs is on her way. She’s such a sweet little filly; it makes you sick to think that she’ll be bullied later in life. You have to do something else for her, you just have to!

You decide to call up the boss again, “Hey boss? Do you think that, in the future when Babs has to change schools, do you think we could use some of the profits from this to send her to school? I would feel bad if we did nothing… how much? Full? As in Full scholarship? Thank you sir! Yes, thank you sir!”

You do a victory dance right then and there! The sound of giggling alerts you that Babs never went far, and is laughing at how silly you look. You blush at being caught, but decide to use the Manehattan atmosphere to roll with it, “Yeah that’s right. That’s how we roll in the Bronx!”

Author's Note:

• Time spent researching different types of apple and seed based soaps: 30 minutes
• Time spent re-watching the Babs episodes: less than one hour
• Time spent re-reading the Apple family chapters from the original story: about 30 minutes
• Time spent dreading that I had to throw out the original ending because it involved the Sitter babysitting the bullies and blackmailing them not to pick on Babs with embarrassing photos of them when they were foals because it goes against my nature: one second.
• Time spent writing an alternative that was heartwarming and good-natured: Two Whole Hours!
• Time spent proud that we helped Babs in the end: FOREVER
There are some things that are timeless, for everything else, there’s the Sitter’s time machine.

Comments

[Honeytiger]

YESH! MAKE MORE CHAPTERS SLAVE!

[Armadaes]

wink

[SuperPinkBrony12]

This ending works out for the best since we don't mess with the timeline. It is a bummer that Babs gets bullied but at least she manages to make one friend before all that.

As Frosty said in Frosty Returns "One friend is better then none."

[Icarus Crimsonhoof]

Jolly good.

[Themaskedferret]

2554722 Oh god I remember that! *brohoofs*

Another darling chapter!

[KiaraKovu123]

Da'wwwwwww!