(Based on a comic sketch by MatiasDiplinLps on Discord. Contains mild flush and toilet vore, rated Teen as a precaution.) Shining Armor decides to teach Flurry how a grown-up goes potty. But Flurry unintentionally flushes him down the drain.
(Originally published on Fanfiction.net and Deviant Art. Based on a comic sketch by MatiasDiplinLps on Discord, in turn inspired by Potty Training the Princess by JAC59COl on Deviant Art. Contains mild flush and toilet vore, as well as mild potty humor. Rated Teen as a precaution.)
When Shining Armor happens to need to go to the bathroom, he decides to use it as a teaching opportunity to show Flurry Heart how to go potty like a proper pony. After all, children learn best by example.
However, Flurry Heart soon grows bored of sitting on her potty chair and decides to have a little fun. When the little one sees what looks like a treat, she tries to grab it, not realizing what it really is.
Before Shining knows it, he's being flushed down the toilet by his daughter! And Flurry doesn't seem to realize what she's doing to him. How will it all end for father and daughter?
It all started with a familiar sensation, and a need to take care of it.
Shining Armor was on his way to the bathroom (one of many in the crystal castle in fact) when he happened to pass by the nursery of his daughter and only child, Flurry Heart. It was hard to believe she was already two years old and in potty training, it seemed like it was only yesterday she’d been born. Yet now here she was, in potty training.
Thinking about that more in detail, Shining remembered what Cadence had recently told him about needing to “spend more time with Flurry”, particularly in regard to supervising her potty training. True, he’d had a little experience with that when Twilight had gone through it, but she had only been a unicorn. Besides, Cadence was the one with tons of foalsitting experience. And Twilight had herself been something of a prodigy in potty training, once she'd gotten started on it anyway.
All the same, Shining decided that since he was headed to the bathroom anyway, he might as well bring Flurry along with him: Both to keep an eye on her, and to do what any good parent should do and lead by example. Hopefully, him showing Flurry how grown-ups went potty would give her a better idea of what she was supposed to do. Every little bit helped.
So the stallion trotted into the nursery and approached his toddler daughter, sitting in her playpen in nothing but a diaper (progress hadn’t quite progressed enough to reach the pull-ups stage just yet). “Hey, Flurry.” He greeted as he sniffed the air just to make sure his daughter didn’t need a diaper change.
“Hi, Daddy.” Flurry greeted with a coo and an innocent smile. All seemed well so far, but looks could be deceiving.
Shining continued to sniff the air as he hesitantly pulled back his daughter’s diaper with his magic, fearing the worst. But he found nothing: No stains, no smells, nothing at all. The diaper was nice and clean, a welcome relief to him. “Good girl for keeping your diaper clean, Flurry,” He cooed with exaggerated praise while patting her on the forehead. Positive reinforcement was always helpful. “Bet it’s been a while since you had to go, huh? You know what that means.”
Immediately, Flurry’s expression changed as her smile morphed into a frown. She pouted, folding her hooves across her chest. “Don’t wanna!” She protested. Obviously, she was too immersed in her playtime to care about anything else, even if she was supposed to know better by now.
Shining Armor wasn’t bothered in the slightest as he used his magic to pick Flurry up and carry her out of her nursery. “Come on, Flurry, we talked about this. You need to be a good little pony and do your pee-pees and poo-poos in your potty. After all, you wanna be a big pony like Mommy and Daddy, don’t you?”
“Uh-huh,” The toddler alicorn nodded. “Wanna be like Mommy and Daddy.”
“Good,” The stallion smiled as he trotted down the hall to the nearest bathroom. “So no crying or pouting. Potty time is potty time, no ifs, ands or buts. Well, aside from the butt you’ll be sitting on your potty chair of course,” He giggled a little at his joke. “Just a little bit of potty humor. But that can make potty time fun.”
Flurry, for her part, didn’t say anything more. She knew it was no use arguing with either her mommy or her daddy whenever they were like this. And thanks to those spells that her crystaller cast, she knew she wasn’t magically strong enough to fight back against them. One way or another, she was going to be placed upon her potty, and made to sit there for a good long while, even if she didn't need to do anything.
Shining pushed open the bathroom door, walked into the bathroom and closed the door behind him. Then and only then did he release his magical grip on his daughter, setting her carefully upon the bathroom’s tiled floor. But he wasn’t finished using his magic just yet, instead he concentrated his horn around Flurry’s rump, removing her diaper and setting it aside.
Just off to one side of the bathroom was a toilet, and near that toilet was a foal’s potty chair that was a pinkish purple in color. Its lid was lifted up, exposing a circular seat just right for a foal of Flurry Heart’s size. On the right side of it was a yellow star inside a yellow circle.
“Okay, Flurry,” Shining Armor cooed as he approached the toilet and ushered his daughter towards her potty. “No need to set a timer this time. Daddy decided he’s going to teach you by example.” He used his magic to lift up the toilet’s lid and gently rest it against the tank.
“Daddy go potty too?” Flurry blinked in surprise as she was sat upon her potty.
Shining nodded and smiled as he moved to sit down on the toilet seat. “Yup. After all, that book is more right than you might think when it says ‘Everypony Poops’,” He used his magic to float said book over to his daughter while giggling about the joke he’d just made. “Mommies and daddies go pee-pee and poo-poo too. And like all big ponies, they do it in potties, big potties like the one Daddy’s using. Someday, when you’re older and bigger, you too will get to use this big potty.”
Then, after checking to make sure his daughter was occupied, the stallion lit up his horn again and brought forth a newspaper: Equestria Daily. He found that potty time was always easier when you had something to read, whether it was a book or a newspaper. He’d check on his daughter after he was finished taking care of his “other royal duties”. Hopefully, the example would be a motivator for her to take her potty training more seriously.
However, as Shining Armor occupied himself with his newspaper, he failed to notice that his daughter had quickly grown bored of her book. After all, her mommy always gave it to her to read whenever she was the one taking Flurry to the bathroom. How was it that Daddy didn’t know this?
Flurry Heart’s wandering eyes looked up from her book and drifted towards the toilet. Something long and shiny caught her attention. In her mind, it looked like a lollipop. Maybe her daddy had put it there to give to her as a reward if she did a pee-pee or poo-poo in her potty. If so, how silly of him to leave it out where she could see it. She saw no reason why she should have to wait to be given that treat, she wanted that lollipop and she wanted it now. And since her hooves couldn’t reach it, she decided to try to pull it close to her with her magic.
Flurry lit up her horn, concentrating her magic on that long, shiny thing sticking out to one side of the toilet.
If Shining had been looking up from his paper at this moment, perhaps he might have seen the soft yellow glow from Flurry’s horn as it surrounded the toilet handle. But he was too busy focusing on his paper to pay any attention to what his daughter was doing.
Flurry tried to pull on the handle, and in doing so she forced it down with a faint click. Then, suddenly, a loud roar began to echo throughout the entire bathroom!
Shining Armor heard the unmistakable sound of the toilet flushing. He set his paper down and looked up. What had caused the toilet to flush so suddenly? He knew he hadn’t done it himself.
Without warning, the stallion felt something begin to tug on his tail, almost like a powerful suction of some kind. Then, it was as if he had slipped as he felt his tail and lower body dip into the toilet bowl, splashing his backside with cold toilet water! “Eee!” He cried as he tried to pull his tail free, only to find that it wouldn’t budge!
Flurry Heart, for her part, just giggled and clapped her hooves as if the whole thing were just a show. All the while, she didn’t loosen her magical grip on the toilet handle and the toilet continued to flush.
To Shining’s surprise and horror, the flush cycle didn’t end like it usually would’ve by this point. Instead, it kept on going! “Hey!” He shouted as he felt his tail and lower body be pulled into and then down the drain! All the while, more and more of his body began to be dragged into the toilet! “Flurry! Stop!” He cried out, hoping to be heard. But Flurry gave no indication that she’d heard or understood his plea as the flush cycle continued.
Desperately, the stallion tried to grab the toilet seat with his hooves, hoping that maybe somehow that would stop what was happening to him. He was too frightened to concentrate clearly, preventing him from using his magic to try to force the toilet handle back up! But nothing worked! Instead, Shining’s entire body was dragged into the toilet and he began to be submerged until only his head was above the waters!
Flurry didn’t seem to grasp what was going on as the toilet continued to flush, and more and more of her daddy disappeared right in front of her. It was as if she hadn’t any concern at all for what might happen to him. But that couldn’t be. She cared about him enough to not want him to go down the drain, right? Right?!
Poor Shining’s hopes were soon dashed as he felt the last of him slip down the bowl and through the drain! He held his breath as he prepared for the inevitable, headed down the drain to an unknowable fate! The last thing that could be heard from him was an audible gulp, before his head went down the drain! And then and only then did the flush cycle finally complete itself as the toilet made its usual sound. Slowly, the water in the toilet bowl refilled. But there was no sign of Shining Armor anywhere! He was gone!
Now the gravity of the situation seemed to hit Flurry Heart as she opened her eyes and her horn ceased to glow. “Daddy?” She called as she looked all around, expecting him to pop back up at any second like this was some sort of prank. She waited and waited, but her daddy was nowhere to be seen.
The toddler alicorn began to worry as she rose from her potty chair, flapping her wings as she fluttered up to the toilet for a closer look. “Daddy?!” She called, a bit more frantically. But silence was her only reply. She thought she’d heard him say something over that loud noise earlier, had he been trying to tell her something?
Slowly, the reality settled in as Flurry realized the horrifying truth: Her daddy had been flushed down the drain, and she was the one who had done it! “Daddy!” She wailed and sobbed as she hovered over the empty toilet. The only trace left of her daddy now was his newspaper. Other than that, there’d be nothing to suggest he’d ever been in the bathroom in the first place. He was gone, all because of her! And she didn’t think she would ever see him again!
As poor little Flurry Heart was crying her heart out over the toilet she had just unintentionally flushed her daddy down, she had no way to know where her daddy was or what he was going through because of the flush. All she knew was that he was gone, all because of her.
For Shining Armor, the whole thing felt surreal, almost as if he were having an out of body experience. But there was no mistaking it, this was indeed happening to him and it was all too real. After he’d slipped down the drain, he was powerless to fight against the current and swim back up to the toilet bowl. The waters pulled him along as he tumbled, banged and bumped his head, shoulders, rump and every other part of his body against the cold, metal pipes.
From the s-bend on down, Shining was dragged along on the bumpiest ride of his life. He really couldn’t see anything, the pipes had no lighting of their own. And he was far too disoriented to light up his horn to provide illumination of any sort. He kept fearing that the ride would stop, that he would end up stuck in one of the pipes in Celestia knows where. But somehow, perhaps because of the same magic that caused him to be flushed down the toilet, he kept on going as he passed through pipe after pipe.
At last, the whole thing ended. Light suddenly flooded Shining’s vision as the prince popped out of a pipe and plunged face first into the sewers, landing with an audible splash in the murky waters. He quickly stood up, gagging as he sniffed the air and got a whiff of what he surely smelt like. “EW!” He shouted at the top of his lungs despite knowing nopony could hear him! He would never complain about Flurry’s dirty diapers ever again. They were nothing compared to this horrible stench.
On the subject of Flurry, the stallion immediately knew he had to get back to her. No doubt she was scared and alone, terrified and horrified at the prospect of never seeing her daddy again (to say nothing of the fact that such an ordeal would make her almost certain to never want to potty train). But before he could do that, he had to find a way out of the sewers. Or rather, a way that didn’t involve getting any dirtier than he already was.
There was no way he’d be able to swim back up the pipes. It was clear that traveling through the pipes had been a one way trip. But there didn’t seem to be any openings anywhere in sight. So with a sigh, the prince reluctantly waded his way through the murky sewer waters until he reached a small walkway. He followed the worn brick path for block after block, until finally his eyes beheld the sight of his salvation: Light was streaming down ever so faintly from an opening above.
Quickly but carefully, Shining Armor made his way over to the opening and grabbed hold of the ladder leading to it. Step by step, he ascended until finally he forced aside the covering blocking his escape! Clambering up, the prince was relieved when daylight flooded his vision. He had escaped the sewers! However, his joyous celebration quickly turned to worry as he realized he was out in the middle of nowhere in the Frozen North.
Walking back to the Crystal Empire would take too long, and who knew what Flurry was getting up without anypony to supervise her? So it was that the prince steadied himself, taking a deep breath to focus his senses. He wasn’t as skilled at teleportation compared to Twilight, he’d seldom had a need for it until his daughter was born. But teleportation was the only option available to him now.
Shutting his eyes, Shining concentrated as he tried to picture his destination. He didn’t just want to go back to the Crystal Empire, he wanted to get back to the castle and to the bathroom that he hoped Flurry was still in. Then, lighting up his horn, he disappeared in the blink of an eye! You never would’ve guessed he’d ever been there in the first place, let alone that he’d just climbed out of the stinky, smelly sewers.
Flurry Heart had no way of knowing what her daddy had been through or where he’d been. For all she knew, he was gone forever. After all, everything else that ever went down the drain never came back.
As such, the toddler alicorn was still grieving over her careless mistake that had cost her her daddy. Her eyes were beginning to turn red from all the crying she’d done.
But then suddenly, Flurry’s ears picked up the sound of a loud pop. She turned around fast, and there, to her surprise and relief, was her daddy! He looked more than a bit shaken up, appeared to be quite wet and had a noticeable smell to him, but otherwise he seemed to be just fine! “Daddy!” She exclaimed as she fluttered over to him in spite of the stench! Never in all her life was she more relieved to see him!
“Yes, Flurry,” Shining Armor nodded as he let his daughter get close (but not too close, he didn’t want her to pick up his stench, or who knows what else?). “It’s me. Daddy’s back. He’s sorry if he made you worry.”
“But…” Flurry commented as she ceased her crying and stopped before reaching her father’s chest, repulsed by the stench. “Daddy go down the drain! Me send Daddy away!”
Shining nodded. “Yes. But Daddy isn’t supposed to go down the drain, so Daddy came back. Daddy isn’t pee-pee or poo-poo, Daddy doesn’t deserve to be flushed. But Daddy knows it was an accident. You didn’t mean to flush him away.”
Flurry nodded ever so slowly. “Me sorry, Daddy. Me not mean for you to go away.”
The stallion simply replied. “It’s okay, Flurry. I'm back, and everything's as it should be. Just don’t let this happen again.”
The toddler alicorn nodded back. “Uh-huh, me never flush Daddy again. Me no want Daddy to go away again.”
“That’s good,” The prince sighed with relief. “Now please get back on your potty, Flurry. Potty time isn’t over yet.”
“But what about big potty?” Flurry asked as she nervously eyed the toilet. After what she’d witnessed, it was understandable why she now had reason to be afraid of the almighty porcelain throne.
Shining looked at the toilet, himself a bit concerned about the fact that it apparently had the power to flush a full grown pony down it. “I’ll have Sunburst come take a look at it,” He told his daughter. “I’m sure there’s probably some kind of spell you or somepony else cast that made the toilet do what it did. Once I know what it is, I can have somepony cast a spell to undo it. Then the toilet won’t ever be able to flush you, me or anypony else ever again,” Then he instructed to her. “But for now, just focus on your potty. Daddy promises he won’t let anything bad happen to you.”
Flurry Heart sighed ever so slowly. “Okay, Daddy. Me trust you.” She fluttered down to the ground and waddled over to her potty chair, soon planting her bare bottom upon its seat.
Shining sighed in relief, before turning his attention to more pressing matters. Lighting up his horn, he turned on the faucet in the bathtub and watched as the tub began to fill with water. He was going to need a very thorough bath after all he’d been through. To say nothing of how he'd keep his daughter from telling Cadence about this, what should she say if she found out?
Flurry Heart had not been grieving alone in the bathroom for very long before she suddenly heard the sound of the bathroom door starting to open. Was it her daddy?! Had he come back from going down the drain?! Had the toilet somehow spat him out while she wasn’t looking?!
When the door opened all the way, however, Flurry’s hopes were dashed as instead she saw the familiar form of her mommy: Princess Cadence, who of course had no idea that her husband had just gone down the drain.
“Flurry, what’s wrong?” Cadence asked in a sweet and concerned tone of voice as she trotted over to the daughter. “Why are you all alone in the bathroom? Where’s your daddy?”
Flurry sniffled and sobbed, confessing to her unintentional crime. “Daddy gone! He go bye bye! Daddy try to use big potty, but he me flush him down the drain by accident!”
Cadence had to resist the urge to roll her eyes. “Flurry, what have your daddy and I told you on numerous occasions before? You can’t go down the drain. Ponies cannot be flushed down the toilet. It’s impossible.”
“But Daddy go down the drain when me flush big potty!” The toddler alicorn sobbed anew! “Now he gone! He not come back! Daddy go bye bye, forever!”
The princess of love was still anything but convinced. “Shining,” She called out, trying not to sound upset. “I don’t know what you’re trying to do scaring Flurry Heart like this, but it needs to stop now. Please come out and show yourself to our daughter.”
There was no reply.
Cadence’s eyes narrowed. “Okay, Shining, very funny. But unless you want to be changing Flurry Heart’s diapers forever, I suggest you come out of hiding. This isn’t going to make our daughter’s potty training any easier.”
Again, there was no reply of any sort.
Flurry Heart practically buried herself into her mommy’s chest! Why didn’t her mommy believe her?! Flurry knew she had seen her daddy go down the drain with her own eyes, no way had she been mistaken. Why did her mommy insist this was all just a prank or something?
Princess Cadence felt about ready to tap into her “Royal Canterlot Voice” that her Aunt Luna had instructed her in, when her eyes happened to notice something. The toilet was overflowing, its water spilling out of the bowl, over the seat and onto the bathroom’s tiled floor. Something was obviously obstructing and blocking the drain. Sighing, she used her magic to pull a plunger close to her, so as to clear up the obstruction. “Flurry, what did you flush down the toilet this time?” She asked her daughter.
“Daddy!” Flurry Heart insisted!
Cadence sighed. Why was her daughter so insistent on that claim? Never in all her many years of foalsitting had the princess of love ever encountered a toilet powerful enough to suck a full grown pony down its pipes. It simply wasn’t possible. If there was, she would've known about it.
Well still, the toilet was overflowing. Something was blocking the drain, something that would have to be plunged up. And whatever it was, Cadence knew she would have to give a lecture to her daughter afterwards about what to flush and what not to flush down a toilet. Why was Shining making her do all the hard work? Did he want her to be the “bad guy” in this situation? Was this how he had helped when Twilight had been going through potty training?
The princess of love didn’t know, and right now she didn’t particularly care. Whenever her husband returned from… wherever it was he had disappeared to, she’d confront him then and there. In the meantime, she needed to clear up the blockage. So she raised the plunger and used her magic to put the rubber end in the toilet bowl.
Up and down, up and down, up and down. Cadence kept on plunging as her daughter watched. Whatever it was that was blocking the drain, it sure was big. Had it perhaps been Shining Armor’s fault? Had he done something to clog up the toilet and had roped Flurry into an elaborate scheme by which to get out of trouble? She’d never recalled her husband having any kind of problems in the bathroom up to this point. What was he eating?
Before Cadence could dwell further on that possibility, she felt the plunger’s rubber end make contact with something. Something so heavy that it practically pulled the plunger halfway down the toilet bowl! “Oh no you don’t!” The candy colored alicorn exclaimed! No clog ever got the best of her! She surrounded the plunger with her magic’s soft blue glow and yanked upward as hard as she could!
A loud pop sound echoed throughout the bathroom as Cadence felt the plunger break free of her magical grip and go flying through the air! And something else went flying too, or rather somepony! A faint, snow white blur flashed by as the water in the toilet finally receded back down the drain, the blockage (whatever it was) having been cleared up.
Flurry Heart’s eyes widened to the size of dinner plates as she turned her attention to what (or rather who) her mommy had fished out of the toilet! “Daddy!” She happily exclaimed as she fluttered over to him!
Princess Cadence spun around and gasped! No, her eyes did not deceive her! Before her stood her husband in all his glory, his fur dripping with water and his mane and tail looking thoroughly soaked! “Shining Armor?!”
Shining, for his part, didn’t hesitate to rush over to his wife and give her a massive hug and kiss! “Oh, thank Celestia you came when you did, honey! I thought I’d never get out!” Then he turned to Flurry Heart. “Sorry if Daddy gave you a scare, but you gave him quite a scare too when you sent him down the drain. Now what do you have to say for yourself, young filly?”
Flurry whimpered as she apologized. “Me sorry, Daddy. Me no mean to send you down the drain.”
Shining Armor sighed and took a deep breath. “It’s alright, I know you didn’t do it on purpose. Just please don’t ever do anything like that again, okay? Flushing ponies isn’t very nice, even when they might deserve it.”
Flurry nodded. “Uh-huh, me no do it again. Me promise.”
The prince smiled. “Good, glad we got that cleared up,” Then he pointed to Flurry’s potty chair. “Now please get back on your potty, Flurry. Potty time isn’t over yet. No need to add another mess for Mommy to clean up.”
The toddler alicorn nodded her head, waddling over to her potty chair and sitting down upon it. It seemed she was in no mood to disobey an order from her daddy this time.
Princess Cadence, for her part, was practically speechless. “You didn’t actually go down the drain, did you?” She asked her husband.
“I’m telling you, I did,” Shining firmly insisted. “I think Flurry Heart cast some sort of spell on the toilet that made the drain much more powerful. We should probably have it checked out so we can figure out a way to undo the spell.”
Cadence still refused to believe it. “Come on, stop playing around. Just tell me where you really went and how you somehow clogged up the toilet. I promise, I won’t be mad. It looks as if Flurry isn’t scared off from using her potty, thankfully.”
Shining Armor could only shake his head from side to side. “You saw it yourself, I came out of the drain. How could I have done that if I hadn’t been flushed?” Then he sighed. “But if you don’t believe me, that’s fine. I’m just gonna go dry off. I’ll come back to relieve you on bathroom duty soon, I promise.” And with that he turned and trotted out of the bathroom to find a towel.
Princess Cadence sighed deeply to herself as she approached the toilet. Her husband had to be joking. It had to be an elaborate ruse or prank of some kind. There was no other possible explanation for it. No way could any toilet ever flush anypony down it, magic or no magic.
But as the princess of love eyed the toilet handle, a nagging part of her mind couldn’t help but wonder: Could her husband be telling the truth? Had he really been flushed down the drain after all? Just because there was no record of it ever having happened before didn’t mean it wasn’t possible. After all, nopony would’ve ever suspected it possible for an alicorn foal to be born, yet that had happened. Was a toilet that could flush a full grown pony down it really that hard to believe given all the other seemingly impossible things that had happened in Equestria?
Knowing that (reluctantly) there was only one way to find out, Cadence moved to sit down on the toilet. Then, once she was comfortable, she used her magic to surround the toilet handle and force it down. “Here goes nothing.” She said to herself, even though she fully expected nothing to happen.
That was not what happened. Instead, the princess of love soon felt a powerful suction take hold of her tail. “Huh?” She blinked, before suddenly finding herself slipping off the seat and into the bowl as her front hooves were propped up, all the while her lower body started receding further and further down the toilet bowl!
The flush cycle didn’t stop as the princess of love found that even after she’d released her magical hold on the toilet handle, it didn’t go back to its original flat state. It remained pressed down. And the toilet continued to flush, greedily devouring more and more of the candy colored alicorn by the second! Soon, she was submerged in the toilet up to her head. “HELP!” She cried at the top of her lungs, hoping to be overheard!
Alas, it was too late for Cadence! With one last massive flush, her head disappeared down the bowl! In a matter of seconds, she was fully flushed down the drain with an audible gulp! And then and only then did the toilet finish its flush cycle.
Poor Flurry Heart had seen everything! “MOMMY!” She cried at the top of her lungs, now having witnessed her other parent go down the drain!
It was at that very moment that Shining Armor happened to come trotting back into the bathroom. Immediately, when he saw his daughter hovering over the toilet, he realized what had happened. “Well, I tried to tell her,” He thought to himself as he retrieved the well worn plunger in preparation for the task ahead. “Guess it’s my turn to return the favor.” “Hold on, Cadence!” He shouted to the toilet! “I’ll get you out!” Maybe now she'd believe him about being flushed down the drain.
One thing was for sure, he was definitely getting somepony skilled at magic to come take a look at this toilet. A toilet that could flush a full grown pony down it was far too dangerous to be left in operation!
“Daddy! DADDY!” Flurry cried again and again to the toilet, looking down at the drain as if she hoped that would somehow cause it to unflush her daddy and bring him back. Of course, it didn’t do anything. The toddler alicorn was all alone in the bathroom, left with the memory and realization that it had been her fault her daddy had gone down the drain.
The foal didn’t know what to do. What could she do? What was one supposed to do in a situation like this? Everything that ever went down the drain never came back. But her daddy had to come back somehow, he just had to! Not only would she be in really big trouble if it was found out she’d flushed away her daddy, but she didn’t want to face a life without him.
So distracted by her grief was Flurry Heart that she forgot to pay attention to where she was going. Too late, she found out where she had been unintentionally flying towards while consumed by her grief. She felt her tiny body brush up against something cold and metal, and force it down.
Just like when her daddy had gone down the drain, there was a click and then a roar! Looking down, she saw the waters in the toilet bowl spinning around and around in a dizzy, disorienting fashion!
The loud noise and the swirling motion took the alicorn by surprise! And to make matters worse, that was when her tiny wings decided to give out! She fell down into the toilet bowl with a splash! It was a struggle just to keep her tiny head above the water! Around and around she spun, faster and faster by the second! And was it Flurry’s imagination, or did it seem like she was being pulled?
Suddenly, it hit Flurry! She was going down the drain too, just like her daddy before her! She tried to light up her horn and flap her wings to escape the pull of the hungry drain! She didn’t want to be the toilet’s next victim! But alas, no matter how hard she strained she couldn’t get her horn to spark! And her wings were too weighed down with water to be of any use! This was it, she was being flushed away in much the same fashion as her daddy had disappeared just moments earlier! At last that meant she’d hopefully end up where he’d ended up.
With a garbled and gurgled cry, Flurry Heart was sucked tail first down the drain as the flush cycle ended! Then the toilet slowly refilled, giving off no indication that it had just “devoured” a full grown stallion and an alicorn foal. If not for the newspaper, the book and the discarded diaper, one would’ve been mistaken for thinking that nopony had ever been in the bathroom in the first place, let alone that two ponies had been in there just moments ago and had now gone down the drain.
As for Flurry, once she had gone down the drain and past the s-bend, everything was a blur for her! She was tossed one way and then the next, banging and bumping up against the cold, metal pipes as she was powerless to fight the flow of the water. She was along for the ride as a helpless passenger, bound for an unknown destination. All the while, she could barely see at all due to how dark the inside of the pipes were. It was almost as scary as being caught in the flush cycle itself!
By this point, Shining Armor had already been spat out of the pipes and into the smelly sewers below. After initially being repulsed by the horrible smell he’d picked up, he’d quickly gathered his bearings as he tried to think of what he should do next. He didn’t quite know where he was. He wasn’t in the Crystal Empire anymore, but he had no way of knowing how far the pipes had taken him or where this sewer led.
The prince also had no way of knowing what had transpired in the bathroom in his absence. All he knew was that his daughter was alone, unsupervised and undoubtedly horrified by what she had seen. He knew he had to get back to her somehow! But he didn’t know how just yet.
Suddenly, Shining’s ears picked up what sounded like the faint sound of screaming. And the voice that was screaming sounded vaguely familiar to him. Where had he heard such a voice before? And was it his imagination, or did it seem to be growing louder by the second?
All of a sudden, a pinkish-white blob appeared before Shining as he saw a very familiar looking foal be spat out, plunging into the sewers where she landed face first with an audible splash. Immediately, he ran to the foal, realizing at once who she was! “Flurry?!” He exclaimed with disbelief!
Flurry Heart quickly forgot to be scared when she lay eyes upon her daddy, relieved to see that he was okay! “Daddy!” She exclaimed, fluttering over to him and burying her face into his chest! “Daddy okay!”
“Yes, Flurry,” Shining Armor nodded. “I’m fine. Daddy’s sorry if he made you worry. And he knows you didn’t mean to flush him down the drain on purpose. It was just an accident.”
Flurry just sobbed. “Me thought Daddy gone forever when he go down the drain! Me thought me never see Daddy again!”
“So you flushed yourself down the drain?!” Shining gasped, and received a confirming nod in reply! “Flurry, why in the name of Celestia would you do such a thing?! Don’t you realize what could’ve happened to you?! You could’ve drowned!”
At that the toddler alicorn whimpered, shrinking from her father’s gaze. “Me sorry, Daddy. It was an accident, just like when me flush you. Me fall in, toilet flush me down.”
The prince sighed deeply as he put a hoof to his head. “Well, at least you’re okay. But now you smell absolutely horrible! This is worse than any of the times I’ve ever had to change your dirty diapers!” Then he sniffed himself. “Although, I’m not one to talk. I stink just as bad now. We’re both going to need a bath after this.”
“This where pee-pees and poo-poos go?” Flurry asked as she let her father pick her up and hold her close.
Shining confirmed his daughter’s suspicions with a nod. “Yes, Flurry. This is where everypony’s pee-pees and poo-poos go after they’re flushed down the toilet. It all eventually goes to a special place, one that we’re not going to see. We need to get out of here, now!”
Flurry Heart hesitantly asked. “How we get out of here? Me no can swim back up.”
The stallion sighed anew before carefully setting Flurry down to wade alongside him. “I know you can't. I couldn't swim back up either. We’ll just have to look for an exit. There should be a ponyhole cover or drain pipe somewhere around here. Then, we’ll teleport back to the bathroom so we can both be cleaned up,” With a blush he added. “And, if you have to go while we’re down here, just… go. Pee-pees and poo-poos end up here anyway.”
“Okay, Daddy.” Flurry agreed. At least that was one positive in this case, she was free to potty wherever and whenever she wanted: No diaper, no potty chair, no anything.
Eventually, Shining’s eyes spotted light streaming down ever so faintly from above. Taking hold of his daughter once again, he trotted over to it and slowly ascended a ladder resting to the side of a brick wall. Step by step, he rose until finally both he and his daughter were back above ground and in the light of day once again!
“Alright, now let’s go home! Hold tight, Flurry.” Shining instructed, before lighting up his horn and picturing his destination clear in mind as he teleported away with his daughter in tow.
About a second or so later, there was a pop and a flash of magic, and then both daddy and daughter were back in the bathroom they had been in just moments before, almost as if they’d never left in the first place.
“Remember, Flurry,” Shining Armor insisted as he placed his daughter upon her potty chair while he prepared a nice warm bath for the two of them. “Not a word of this to anypony, okay? Not even to Mommy. This never happened.”
Flurry Heart nodded and winked. “Uh-huh, Daddy. Me not tell anypony that we both get flushed.”
Shining smiled and winked back. “Exactly!” And with that “loose end” taken care of, he could now focus on bathing himself and his daughter. Thank Celestia Cadence wouldn’t be coming back anytime soon. He had no idea how he’d ever explain this to her, or if she’d ever believe him.
Well, what mattered most right now was that his daughter wasn't scared out of giving up her diapers. He could worry about this unusual toilet later.
Discord was busy doing, well, Discordy things. That was what he always did whenever he was in his own dimension and had nothing better to do. He wasn’t due for one of his Tuesday Teas with Fluttershy, there were no big disasters that required his intervention, and the next Guy’s Night was still a ways away.
So it was that the spirit of chaos went about dirtying up his dishes, giving the dust bunnies under his couch more companions, unsorting his mail, and giving his clean windows lots of soap and suds to cover them up. All the usual chaotic things he did when he was alone.
Although, come to think of it, Discord was getting the strangest nagging feeling that he was forgetting something. But what could it be? Oh well, it was no use dwelling on the matter. If it was important, he was sure he would’ve remembered it by now.
Suddenly, however, the spirit heard what sounded like a scream! Somepony must’ve accidentally stumbled into his dimension and gotten lost, again! Well, there was only one thing to do: His guilty conscience wouldn’t leave him alone until he rescued that poor, helpless pony and pointed them in the right direction.
Discord immediately stepped outside his house, and when he did so he saw at once who the pony in need of rescuing this time was. It wasn’t just anypony. It was Shining Armor. What was he doing here? It wasn’t like the prince of the Crystal Empire and the old captain of the royal guard to just stumble into Discord’s dimension unannounced.
Well, those were thoughts for another time and place. Right now, what mattered most was rescuing the prince. Fortunately for Discord, the rescue itself was an almost literal piece of cake. With a simple snap of his talons, he brought the price to him and had him standing firmly on the ground in front of the cottage.
“Discord! I should’ve known!” Shining groaned once he had gotten hold of his senses.
“Whatever do you mean?” Discord innocently asked. “I’ve not done anything… yet.”
Shining was anything but amused if the frown upon his face was any indication. “Very funny, Discord. My daughter just flushed me down a toilet by accident, and I know that as magically gifted as she is, there’s no way she could magically enchant a toilet so its drain could suck down a full grown pony. It was your chaos magic that made it possible!”
The spirit gasped in exaggerated worry! “Oh dear! I guess maybe some of my magic got away from me in the brief amount of time it was being held in Grogar’s bell. Never would’ve thought it would get all the way to the Crystal Empire, though,” And he sincerely apologized. “A thousand apologies, Shining Armor. I assure you, I never intended for any of that to happen.”
The prince just narrowed his eyebrows as he glared at the spirit. “Yeah yeah, I’m sure this is all just another ‘happy accident’ to you. But it’s not every day that you get flushed down a toilet. And what’s worse is that Flurry Heart probably thinks she did it and that she sent me away. Her potty training is hard enough as it is without complications like this. I don’t need her growing up afraid of toilets. If that happens, she'll never want to get out of diapers.”
Discord nodded his head as he tried his best to look like he was taking the whole thing seriously. “Right, right. I know. I’m guessing you want me to send you back now?”
“If you wouldn’t mind,” Shining Armor insisted. “And please take that chaos magic away with you. I don’t need this happening to anypony else.”
“Oh, not to worry,” Discord innocently replied. “It’ll be like it never even happened. In fact, I’ll make it so you won’t remember any of this at all.”
Before the prince had a chance to ask Discord what he meant by that, he was teleported away with a snap from the spirit’s talons.
Shining Armor blinked as he found himself standing in the bathroom, staring at the toilet while Flurry Heart was already seated upon her potty chair. “Huh, where was I?” He asked himself as he tried to get his bearings.
Flurry just giggled. “Daddy said he gonna show me how mommies and daddies go potty. Where mommies and daddies do pee-pees and poo-poos.”
It was then that the prince suddenly remembered. He’d had to go to the bathroom, and had decided that since he did he might as well use the opportunity as a teaching experience for his potty training daughter. After all, Cadence had been getting on his case about needing to do more to help make the process go smoothly.
“Oh, right,” Shining realized with a blush as he used his magic to pick up a copy of The Equestria Daily that he always kept for occasions such as this. “Just get comfortable, Flurry and let Daddy do what he has to do. Remember, it’s your potty time as well. That is why you’re sitting on your potty chair, after all.”
Flurry Heart nodded. “Uh-huh, me know, Daddy.” And then she picked up the book she was always given to ready for potty time: Everypony Poops.
Smiling, the stallion whistled a cheerful little tune to himself as he moved to sit down on the toilet seat. As he did so, he felt the faintest sense of deja vu, as if he’d already done this today. But that couldn’t be.
Unknown to either father or daughter, Discord was watching them through manners similar to what he had used during his masquerade as Grogar. He’d already taken care of the chaos magic. All was as it should be. “Good,” He said to himself. “They don’t remember a thing,” Then a rather mischievous idea came into his mind as he thought. “Although, Shining Armor didn’t say anything about doing this to other ponies,” And he began to scheme. “I wonder, who would be the perfect unsuspecting pony to send on a trip down the drain next?” It would be a shame to let such good chaos magic go to waste, after all.
“ENOUGH!” Cried the familiar voice of Princess Luna! Just like that, everything disappeared as if it had never existed in the first place. The bathroom, the toilet, even Flurry Heart all simply faded away into nothingness.
Shining Armor barely had time to get ahold of his senses before he found himself face to face in a bluish-green void with white stars all around it, gazing upon the familiar form of Princess Luna in all her glory. “Princess Luna?” He commented in surprise, now face to face with one of his aunts-in-law.
The princess of the night nodded and bowed. “Indeed, Shining Armor. My apologies for not coming sooner. But I was busy with other dreams and did not realize the nature of your dream until just now.”
“Oh, thank goodness it was all just a bad dream,” Shining breathed a sigh of relief. “I should’ve known. It’s not actually possible to go down the drain.”
Princess Luna nodded again. “Indeed, though usually that is a fear that most ponies have when they are your daughter’s age, before they know the truth. It is most unusual for the parent to be suffering such a dream.”
Shining sighed as he realized what this meant. “Guess I’m just really worried about Flurry’s potty training. Cadence is way more of an expert on this than I am. Twily practically ran her potty training all by herself, the most I ever did was help her with wiping. And, from what I remember of my training,” He blushed. “I was kind of a late bloomer. Twily actually started her training later because it took me so long to get out of diapers. It was a good thing she was so good at it when it was her turn. Kind of hoping I'm just the exception and not the rule, that Flurry will be more like her aunt than her father when it comes to potty training.”
Luna spoke in a sympathetic tone of voice. “Every parent has their worries about such things whenever they have children. My niece’s worries are lessened due to the fact that she has had so much experience with child raising. But even she has her concerns, even if she won’t admit to them. I do not know how well her own training went, as obviously I was not around for it.”
“Probably more worried about whether we’re doing the right thing potty training Flurry Heart now,” Shining realized. “But Cadence and I both agreed she was ready for it, and so did everypony we consulted on the matter: Twilight, Sunburst, the Cakes, even you and your sister.”
The princess of the night just smiled. “Your judgment is indeed sound, you mustn’t question it. Flurry Heart doesn’t hate either of you for what you’re doing. Just because progress so far has been bumpy doesn’t mean you’re not getting through to her,” She then commented. “In fact, I was just tending to your daughter’s dream before I came to yours. Her dream is more straightforward, she thought the toilet was a monster. And the truth is, she fears what she’ll lose if she gives up her diapers.”
“True, but she can’t stay in them forever. Nopony can,” Shining Armor insisted. “Besides, potty training can be fun if you put your mind to it. That’s what I’ve been trying to do for her, trying to get her to see that potty time doesn't have to be boring.”
Luna nodded once more. “Indeed. And I assure you, both you and my niece are fine parents. Your approach to such subjects such as this are a bit unorthodox, but I’m confident they will produce results within time. Everypony learns at their own pace. Flurry Heart will get out of diapers eventually, I am quite sure of this.”
“Thanks, Luna,” Shining commented, before he let out a yawn. “Well, guess it’s back to dreamland for me. Maybe this time if my dreams do turn to my daughter, they’ll be more positive and less worrisome.” And then he trotted through a door bearing his cutie mark and shut it behind him.
Only once the prince had retreated back to the safety of his own dreamscape did Princess Luna breathe a sigh of relief. “Good, he suspects nothing,” She said to herself. “There’s more to his dreams than he might suspect.” And she made a mental note to have a secret chat with Princess Cadence about Flurry Heart’s unique magical powers.
Suffice it to say, the first ever alicorn foal to be born in Equestria possessed a magical potential that far exceeded anything anypony had ever seen before.
Well, that was a subject to discuss with her sister, as well as with her adopted niece. And perhaps, for good measure, they should also include the other fully grown alicorn princess to see what she had to say on the subject.
