Fluttershy had finally gotten the foals to sleep, spending the entire night listening to them smacktalk her until she threatened to smack them for talking.

The threat wore off after the ten try at it, though. Mostly because she'd apologize every single time she had said it. Or, thought of saying it. Or, imagining it.

But, that was all behind her now, as her cute-when-muzzled charges slept like the babies they were, sucking on their pacifiers with peaceful faces nuzzled together in a subconscious cuddlefest.

"Ahhhh," were the murmurs of an exhausted mare, content with having children despite the crap she was put through all night into morning.

She sighed in relief as her head touched down onto a cool pillow, easily starting to snore as her eyelids closed for a few hours of napping.

"Mommmmm!!!", a young teen voice shouted out to be heard from the kitchen, sounding alarmed.

Fearing another concussion, Fluttershy's motherly instincts rustled her from sleep to rush down the hall to find an unharmed Rainbow.

Rainbow slightly turned around from the cabinet, asking as she poured a bowl of cereal, "Sooo...got milk?"

Fluttershy's face twisted and contorted into a face resembling her vampire form, eye twitching as the creepy cherry on top.

She slipped out from her disturbed face, "You woke me up...because we had no millllllk?!"

Rainbow didn't seem phased by the mare, unaware sharp/blunt objects were very much in the vicinity of the enraged adult.

And, by Equestrian law, beating your child was only serious if the child wasn't found guilty of being a little irritant.

Rainbow decided to lay out the facts for her mother, oblivious of any danger as she spoke cheerfully, "One. I don't have a job, and am growing. Feed me. Two. Well...it's 'have no' milk, not 'had no'. Because we still don't ha-"

"Child, I will literally stare you back into diapers if you do not leave this house for the next several hours!!!"

"But, momma-"

"Hiiissssss!!!!"

Rainbow didn't want to go outside right now.

But, the broom was very persuasive, and it's hard to argue at a broom. Especially one that's airborne.

So, Rainbow decided to walk around town for a bit, hoping to maybe run into classmates or whatever from school. But, the only ponies outside was a mare selling apples with a baby straddled to her chest.''

Rainbow dashed over to the stand, lips licking at the mention of food.

Applebloom coughed a bit before explaining to the filly, "You thinkin' bout buying, or picture takin'?"

"Are these free?!", Rainbow hoped as she asked the very stupid question.

Applebloom's eyes dimmed at the sheer idiocy of the words that dribbled from the pony's open maw.

She shielded her baby sister's ears to keep Applejack from hearing the incoming answer, "Girl, do you think I'm out here just hoofing out apples for my health?"

"I mean, that's kinda what I was banking on. So, yes. One free apple. Please."

Rainbow extended a hoof of desire, only to have it slapped away by the hoof of denial.

Applebloom wanted this annoying runt gone before her A.J. got any stupid that rubbed off from the rainbow maned moron.

As Rainbow's eyes began to shed tears from the unfair world they lived in where stealing was a crime, Applejack began to coo at her, making grabbie hooves at the teen.

Applebloom noticed this, and decided it was now her time to become a security guard before this girl made a scene enough to scare away actual potential customers.

Applejack hated this. Hated everything about what had happened yesterday. She just thought she having another weird dream where her mother held her again as a foal...only to find out that she was a foal. Again.

Worst part is that she was breastfed during this age. And, Applebloom...didn't deny tradition.

That was going to scar Applejack for awhile. But, maybe that'd be better once she killed Discord.

Yeah. Probably.

Stuck as a foal. Unable to talk unless it's to other foals. And, to top it all off, this information was relayed to her as the breastfeeding was going on.

So much weird in one place can't be good for a pony's mental health, Applejack assumed.

Rainbow cupped her hooves together, whimpering as she dropped to her backhooves.

Applebloom rolled her eyes, dismissively saying to the teen, "Getta job, ya bum."

She didn't mean it to sound mean, but Rainbow's lip quivering as her eyes and muzzle started to...run told her the semi-joke had not landed as intended.

So, she opened up to the disappointed filly, "There's plenty of jobs in Ponyville. Even for kids...like you."

Dumb like her.

Rainbow wiped some tears and mucus off before asking with a little hope, "D-do you have a job? Ma-maybe apple-taster?"

Apple Bloom say how A.J. was visibly, for a foal, fighting to unleash herself from her harness to reach the filly.

Sighing, not even knowing if this would work, she agreed to let Rainbow have an apple if she could get Fluttershy to accept a playdate with her baby sis..

Rainbow nodded excitedly as she ran home to take the foals away from their crib. Before Fluttershy woke up. Hopefully.

Author's Note

I'd just like to apologize for the delay in anything from me.

I'm working on a fan animated series based on my MLP stories, and it's been taking up a lot of time! I'll be trying to balance up my animating, college for animation, job, and story writing more next time!

I'm...just gonna leave this here for those of who wondering what's been taking up so much of my time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_avon6Me--4

My Solely Animation Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV1BVqPK4LazrjKBQh5mquA?view_as=subscriber