The Power Foals and Hair Raiser

Chapters

A Twist In The Tale
A Fair Decision
Taking Care Of Themselves (Literally) Part 1
Taking Care Of Themselves (Literally) Part 2
Hair Raiser's Upcoming Term
New Beginnings
Hair Raiser's Choice
The First Playdate
Powers Unleashed!
The Power Foals, Back in Action!
Hair Raiser's Doubts

A Twist In The Tale

The ancient jungles of the Amarezon. Home to some of the powerful, and most otherworldly relics of all ponykind, Deep within the massive amount of jungle, lies a mysterious temple, home to a legendary artifact known as the Otherworldly Opal.

The fortress itself was rather aged, but still sturdy in its' current position, despite the number of vines that overgrew and went to work on this place. And like all Amarezonian temples in this forest, this one was laced with booby traps, left, right, and center.

The Mane-iac was here in the temple, attracted to the gem because of the stories she had heard of it. She was aware that only the chosen could harness the power of the Otherworldly Opal. She was certain that that one gem would be enough to defeat the Power Ponies once and for all.

"Soon it will be mine, the power of the Otherworldly Opal will feel so serene once I take it for myself!" She chuckled as she came to what looked like a corridor with dozens of tiles. "Oh please. This should be child's play."

Manipulating her hair to activate all the traps in the room for her, the Mane-iac made it through the entire corridor unscathed, yet her hair was another story. It was full of arrows and had been split at some areas, there were also some parts of her oversized mane which had been singed, yet the rest of it was fine.

"Uggghhh, my mane looks like a mess." She let out an exasperated huff before remembering her provisions. Opening the bag she had been carrying, she pulled out a can hair-fixing hairspray and applied it to the parts of her mane that had been damaged by the traps.

The damage to her hair now seemed nonexistent as she pulled out the arrows and tossed them to the ground, she then pulled out a hairbrush and used the fixed parts of her hair to take care of the messy parts. "Aah, much better!"

She placed her provisions back in her bag and walked a few seconds more, until she found herself in a giant hall with some oversized vines leaking through some giant holes in the walls and ceiling. These didn't concern her, what did was a gem, on top of the pedestal in the hall's centre.

"There it is, just as the legends foretold..." She marvelled at the gem, shining into her eyes in the sunlight. "The Otherworldly Opal. And now it's mi-"

"Stop right there, Mane-iac!" A voice said from behind her literally the second she raised the gem from its' pedestal. She was then assaulted by a pink blur, causing her to almost drop the gem to the floor. But she picked it back up and turned to face the voice.

"Power Ponies, we meet again." She sniggered as she held up the Otherworldly Opal with her hair, for all of them to see. "But I'm afraid you're all too late. I have already acquired the Otherworldly Opal, and with its' power, I now have the power to rule the world!"

"Oh yeah?" Zap was unconvinced by Mane-iac's words and held up her pendant for battle. "Just what can this Otherworldly Opal do, exactly?"

Before any of them could even speak another word, they found themselves constricted by Mane-iac's freakish follicles, this hair wasn't just for show, as always when they were dealing with the Mane-iac.

"You'll see soon, my dear friends." Laughing evilly, she used the rest of her hair to take her, and the Power Ponies up to the roof of the temple, where the Otherworldly Opal was now giving off a powerful white magic aura due to the increase in sunlight.

"Now then, let's just see what powers this opal has to offer!" She wrapped her open hooves around the Otherworldly Opal, caressing the aura of light it was giving off.

The other Power Ponies tried their best to strike the Mane-iac, but the hair that held them back was strangling them, so they found themselves gasping for air, fighting to get the hair off of them, but to no avail.

Suddenly, the Otherworldly Opal turned black as the Mane-iac pressed it against her spandex covered chest, and a powerful spell started to form around her. It was unlike anything she, or the Power Ponies had even witnessed before. It got powerful, stronger, dangerous.

"Wait, what?! What's going-" Suddenly, the Mane-iac noticed a black hole was forming on her chest, where the opal was meant to be. The black hole absorbed the Mane-iac whole, causing her to shriek in terror as the powerful void pulled her, her hair, and the Power Ponies into it.

As the last of the hair was pulled into the black hole, it dissipated, returning the Otherworldly Opal to its' original state. However, with no pony holding the opal, it merely fell to the roof of the temple and shattered into thousands of pieces of smaller opal.

Spike had just walked out of the Enchanted Comics comic book store, clutching the newest Power Ponies comic: Crystalline Calamity, in his hands. He took it home to Twilight's new castle, for some much deserved R&R.

After a train ride which seemed to last an eternity, Spike finally arrived in Ponyville. However, his curiosity got the better of him, and he just sat down on the nearby bench in the park, opened his comic and read it there.

He saw each and every panel, reading the words out loud, and doing his best (yet bad) impressions of each of the characters. The comic was depicting an opal with bizarre powers, rewarded only to those who can brave the temple in the Amarezonian jungle where it slept.

However, if this gem wasn't kept in the sunlight, unpredictable and dangerous things could happen to the pony holding it. So that really got him pumped up for the story ahead.

Spike eventually got to the panel where the Mane-iac's lust for power and lack of knowledge, led to the opal forming a black hole on her chest. One that pulled the Power Ponies into it, taking them to...

"Is that it?" Spike said as he saw that the rest of the book was completely blank, besides another small footnote. He wasn't sure whether or not he wanted to read it, as he remembered the last time he read a footnote like this one.

"The story you would think is over, but it's only just begun. Both dark and light fought this battle, but neither side has won." Spike was reading the footnote, it was different that the last one, so that was good. "For the opal's power has brought these 7 right into your world, take care of them with all your love, so the story can be unfurled."

A flash of light appeared once Spike had finished, just like last time, only this time, he wasn't pulled into the book. Rather, the light merely blinded him temporarily, and made him stumble backwards onto his scales.

Spike had been out for at least 3 minutes after the flash had hit him. He opened his eyes with great difficulty and had them opened up all the way by a tiny hoof in spandex poking his face.

"Oh man, what happened last night?" He opened his eyes fully now and sat up, looking around at what happened. He saw nothing but the natural Ponyville around him. He looked forward and saw a sweet looking earth pony filly with long green hair, as well as 6 little foals, all dressed in spandex jumpsuits of sorts.

"Hey, wake up." The filly said, walking up to him with a smile on her face. She was quite beautiful up close, and had a nice Cutie Mark depicting some shampoo and hairspray. "Wow, you were out for quite a while there. Was everything ok?"

"Yeah, I'm fine." Spike said as he got a better look on the filly who was talking to him. "Just one question though, who are you?"

"Me?" The earth pony looked confused as she brushed back her extraordinarily long mane so that it wouldn't get in her eyes as she spoke. "My name's Hair Raiser. What's yours?"

"Nice to meet you, Hair Raiser, I'm Spike. Spike The Dragon to be exact." He said, announcing himself to the bunch of children he had just met after that powerful blast of light. "You know, the 7 of you remind me of some ponies I read about a lot of the time. Yet I can't quite place my finger on it..."

It wasn't long after he placed one of his hands on his chin, when he heard one of the spandex dressed foals babbling at his copy of the comic which he'd left on the bench. She obviously looked excited as she glanced at the cover, which depicted 6 mysterious heroes and a villain with freakishly long hair.

"Ah, good to know my book's still there." Spike said as he took the copy and picked it back up. "At least it didn't disappear this time, huh?"

"What are you talking about?" Hair Raiser asked, her head tilted in confusion.

Oh, nothing. You wouldn't understand." Spike said as he put his book away for safe keeping. "It's quite a special and entertaining book for boys and girls my age. And while you'd get it, I'm not sure the foals would."

"Oh, that's fine then." She chuckled, throwing her hair back some more, so that her eyes were clear.

"Hey, I think you 7 could all use some accommodation." Spike said, looking generous today. It wasn't often when he offered someone something. "I bet you're all dying to get snuggled into the comforts of a house."

"That'd be nice." Hair Raiser smiled, her tone of voice very calm, very childish, and most of all, very accepting. "Since I don't remember ever having a mom or dad, it'd be nice to see what it feels like again."

"Alright then, but I'm not sure how I'm gonna get all 6 of these foals back to our place." Spike said, turning his head towards the spandex dressed foals, who were now playing with each other, and speaking in foalish gibberish. He couldn't afford foal transportation on the small budget that Twilight was paying him. "Any ideas?"

"Oh, don't worry about that, I've got this." She then used her hair to pick up all of the foals and rock them gently. Each foal babbled when they were picked up and were reduced to tired coos as Hair Raiser's hair rocked the costumed foals back and forth in her luscious locks.

"That's amazing!" Spike whispered once all the foals were asleep, making no attempt to wake them back up again. "How did you do that?"

"Honestly, not even I know." She said as the two of them began to walk to Twilight's castle, all the while Hair Raiser's hair kept the foals warm, snug, secure, safe, and asleep. "Let's not think too much about it, ok?"

"Oh, alright then." Spike merely smiled back to the filly with the extraordinary hair. "I think I'm going to like you, Hair Raiser."

"Me too, Spike." The two of them shared a laugh as the entered the town. It truly was a sight to see, an adorable filly with 6 cuter foals in her hair, walking next to a dragon who was willing to aid anypony. The townsponies merely shared 'D'aawws' as the two walked towards Twilight's castle.

Author's Note

My god, this took a while.

Sorry if it's been so long, and this chapter was so short. I was uninformed that we would be up in grandma's house for an entire WEEK with no fast-typing laptop or no time killing consoles.

So, as you can obviously tell, this entire chapter was written on my IPad, so that's probably the reason why there's absolutely 0 punctuation errors used on this story. At the cost of typing speed, it makes your story's words and dialogue completely errorless. So that's kind of a compromise.

And, the only thing I've done so far up here in Yorkshire was going to Edinburgh for the day yesterday. The Edinburgh Dungeons were pretty dark, I got some new Keyblade Keychains, and Mum saw her long lost cousin again. So, all in all, good day, besides being awakened at 5AM and getting to sleep at 1:40AM the next day. It was a crap train ride home.

Until next time, this is Shadowmane PX-41, and as always. Keep Calm and Fanfic On!!!

See you soon, guys.

A Fair Decision

Spike, Hair Raiser and the foals finally arrived at Twilight's castle. Whilst the children were awestruck at the sight of living in a castle, Spike merely smiled and opened the door for them, courteously stretching an arm in front of the open doors as a sign that they were allowed to enter.

The eight of them trekked down the corridors of the castle, being led by Spike. Looking in each door for a short period of time before they were motioned by Spike to keep moving.

"I've gotta hand it to ya, Spike," Hair Raiser said, taking in the gorgeous design of the crystal-lined corridors. "When we heard you'd be giving us a place to live, we never expected to live in a castle." She smiled and patted him on the back.

"Aaw, thanks." Spike blushed as he took the compliment to heart. "It would break my heart to see you suffer without homes. Especially on how cute looking these foals are." He brushed their hair again, once more feeling a sense of familiarity as he did. This was replaced with a sense of adoration once he heard the foals babbling at him, in a kind tone nonetheless.

Finally, the group stopped at a massive double-door located at the end of the corridor. It was coated with a golden lining and had constellations painted all over both doors. At the top of the door's lining, was Twilight's Cutie Mark, shining brightly for all to see.

"Well, we're here." Spike said as he placed one of his hands on the door handles and grasped it tightly. "Since there are some new faces in town, they've got to meet Princess Twilight before they can be allowed to live here. As per Twilight's new law in Ponyville."

"New law?" Hair Raiser looked confused as she tilted her head at Spike. "I thought only Kings and Queens were allowed to make the law."

"It's been eons since there was a King or Queen as ruler of all of Equestria." Spike said to answer the filly's question. "At least, that's what Twilight's been telling me."

"Oh, so this land is all ruled by Princesses?" She asked, wanting complete and utter confirmation.

"Exactly, led by two sisters, Celestia and Luna. Equestria has been safeguarded from attacks on multiple occasions, even if most of them were Twilight's doing." Spike explained as he opened the doors, leading to the room inside.

The room was quite dark, and quite bare, except for the massive amounts of constellations and planets whooshing by Spike, Hair Raiser, and the foals. There was a light at the center of the ceiling, no doubt where all these constellations were being projected from.

Spike had fallen over due to the massive amounts of constellations, he placed his hand on his chin once he pulled his face out of the ground and looked up.

The seven children, however, were completely awestruck at the sight of outer and deep space, all packed into one tiny little room. They were all sharing smiles as they gazed at the stars and planets whilst being regaled by a beautiful orchestral song that made them feel so at peace with each other.

Some of the foals even tried to touch some of the planets, and merely giggled once the projections went straight through their little hooves, like a magic trick. Hair Raiser also got in on the touching of the projections as well, sharing her own share of laughs as the planets and stars went through them.

At the top of the nearby stairs (If you could even make them out in this dazzling light show of constellations), Twilight was standing on a balcony, using her hooves to move the projections around herself, checking each and every star with a smile.

Spike ran up the stairs, calling out for the children behind him. They took notice and began walking through the stars, again with that awestruck look on their face.

"Oh, Spike. Have I ever told you how much I love having a castle of my own?" Twilight said as she brought a planet onto Spike's nose, as if to lightly tap him with it. "I'm learning so much from this astronomy bedroom, it's almost ridiculous."

"Yeah, believe me, I know." Spike said, in a bored tone this time. Since Twilight got her new castle, he hadn't gotten much sleep in Twilight's new room, due to all the stars and planets constantly pulling him from his slumber.

"Oh, I see you've brought some company back with you." Twilight said as she just now noticed Hair Raiser and the six foals in her hair. "And who exactly are these children?"

"Allow me to introduce ourselves, Princess." Hair Raiser bowed for Twilight, as per courtesy when meeting with royalty. "My name is Hair Raiser, and these are Lightspeed, Glimmer, Gale, Aurora, Shy Hearted, and Honest." She said, cleverly giving names to each of the foalized Power Ponies.

"Nice to meet you all." Twilight smiled and brought down a galaxy for the seven of them to play with. "I'll be back with you all after I discuss some important business with Spike here." Twilight watched Hair Raiser put the foals onto their bottoms and begin playing with the projection she had left for them.

"Spike, might I ask where you found these kids?" Twilight said, looking a little apprehensive as she addressed Spike firmly.

"I don't know, Twilight. I was just reading the latest Power Ponies comic, and once I got to the end, they just popped out of nowhere." Spike said, as short and sweet as he could make it. "I have no idea how they got here, but they're here."

"Hmm..." Twilight looked back at the seven kids and then looked back at Spike. "Spike, do you remember who these kids are?"

"Hmm..." Spike had to place a hoof on his chin again, he could vaguely remember seeing ponies like these before, but to him, these looked like six foals with costumes on, and a filly with magical hair. "Sorry, Twilight. Nothing comes to mind."

"The book must have given you amnesia on who they were." Twilight said to Spike, patting his scales apologetically . "These are childhood versions of the Power Ponies and the Mane-iac. Huh, I'm surprised you didn't remember them. You're one of the biggest Power Ponies fans, I've ever seen."

"It takes a lot more than amnesia to make me forget about the-" Finally, the realization hit him, and he now had a shocked expression on his face. "Wait, WHAT?!?!?!"

"That's right, Spike." Twilight said, magically bringing Spike's comic into his hands with the book opened to the blank page with the footnote in it. "Interesting. Each footnote must have different properties from the last. So instead of pulling us in, it pulled THEM out."

"But still, they're here, living, breathing! These are the ACTUAL Power Ponies and the ACTUAL Mane-iac." Spike was awestruck at seeing the seven of them playing happily. "But for some reason, they're not fighting each other. That's weird."

"The power of the footnote must have given them complete and total amnesia on their lives as heroes and villain." Twilight said, examining them brush the projections through their hairs, smiling once they appeared behind them. "The only thing they do remember is the fact that they have their powers."

"So, they don't remember that they're locked in an eternal conflict?"

"It would appear not." Twilight walked over to the balcony and created a digital whiteboard for Spike to gaze at. "It would seem that the only memories these ponies have, are memories of their childhoods and being born. Nothing else." The digital board demonstrated this all with some stunning visual scenes before dissipating into nothingness.

"So that means, they only know themselves?"

"Yes, that's true." Twilight then walked over to Hair Raiser and the foals and walked them over to Spike again.

"So, can we stay here?" Hair Raiser asked, wanting a good reaction.

"Yes, you are welcome to stay in Ponyville." Twilight said as she cut off the projections, finally revealing the room around them all. "However, I am far too overworked as the Princess of Friendship to care for seven children at once, but I know some friends who can pick up the slack."

"Way ahead of you, Twilight." Spike had already pulled out the parchment and the quill he used for sending letters.

"Take a letter to my friends." Twilight began to issue a letter for him to write.

Dear fellow Spirit(s) Of Harmony.

My colleague, Spike, has recently discovered the youthened versions of the Power Ponies and the Mane-iac in Equestria. However, you should not be alarmed. They have been age-regressed into a more docile and childish state upon arriving. This is why I have called on each of you. I am in no condition to take care of all seven of these children and tend to my duties at the same time. So, I'm calling all of you to the castle to help me. Me and Spike will be taking care of Aurora, who was the Masked Matterhorn, and Hair Raiser, who was once the Mane-iac. Meet me in my quarters ASAP, so that I can distribute the other Power Pony foals to the rest of you. But be advised, these ponies may be foals now, but they still retain all of their powers. So be careful when handling them.

-Princess Twilight.

P.S: Take good care of them. I'm looking at you, Rainbow Dash!

Spike finished up the letter and copied it five times, before handing them to Twilight, who teleported the letters straight to her friends.

"When do you suppose they'll get here?" Hair Raiser asked, looking quite puzzled.

"Usually it takes my friends 5 minutes to walk from Ponyville to the castle." Twilight said as she pulled up the constellations and planets again. "In the meantime, would you like to see some of the fascinating planets that I've been studying on?"

"Sure. At least it's something." Hair Raiser smiled and turned her hair into makeshift chairs and sat the foalized Power Ponies onto them.

"Good to hear it." Twilight started pointing at planets which she'd been curious to know about. "Here's the planet which adorns Canterlot High. It doesn't seem too far away when you check this star map to be honest." She shared a slight giggle. "And here's a few other interesting planets I've been reading up on. There's Chi-Q for one, looks pretty large for the size of the people living on it. And here's PNF-404. A world that looks kind of like a massive overgrowth. And if you look over here..."

It had been a while, and now Hair Raiser and the foals had amassed a hefty amount of knowledge from the stars, courtesy of Twilight. And even though the foals would forget it anyways, they still had fun looking at the stars and hearing Twilight going on about them.

Now the door had been opened, and her friends were walking into her chambers. Twilight turned the projector off, enabling the girls to see where they were going and where Twilight was.

Once they made it to her, Twilight pushed a button on the wall, causing the stairs to disappear into the wall. The open space which would usually be at the top of the stairs, was now replaced by an extended balcony wall.

"Thank you all for coming." Twilight said as she firmly addressed all of her friends. "I trust you all know why I've summoned you all here?"

"Yeah, yeah. We know. You want us to take care of some foals which came out of nowhere and somehow arrived in Equestria." Rainbow Dash said, looking a little more bored than usual.

"First of all, I'd like to say yes, yes a thousand times yes!" Pinkie cheered as she bounced excitedly in the center of the balcony. "Now then, where's my cutesy-wutesy wittle foal?" She asked before Twilight calmed her down with her aura.

"Patience, Pinkie." Twilight said in a calm tone. "You'll get your foal in good time, but first we need to address some key rules for being a good mother figure for your foals."

"Not ta upset the applecart here, Twilight, but ah don't really think there are any rules fer caring fer foals." Applejack said, her words as firm as Twilight's.

"Even so, Applejack. We can't take any chances. Especially since SOMEPONY has a reputation for risking her life." She death glared at Rainbow Dash.

"Who, me?" Rainbow Dash asked, looking quite surprised as she looked at Twilight's death glare. "Nah, you're thinking of that jerk, Lightning Dust."

"Well, she has done some pretty risky things in the past..." Twilight said to herself, before turning her attention back to Rainbow Dash." But that's not the point here. I'm talking about you and your reckless daredevil attitude. If you want to take care of your foalized superhero self, you need to learn to control yourself."

"Wait, run that by me again." Dash said, clearly looking dumbfounded on what Twilight had said.

"These foalized Power Ponies are essentially us, but from another universe where somepony made us powerful, on top of our already powerful Magic of Friendship." Twilight explained to each of them.

"So, what you're trying to say is, we'll be taking care of baby us-es?" Rarity asked.

"Precisely. You'll both share common interests, even if they tend to act foalish every now and again. But they can't help it, and you can't blame them for behaving like foals, it's their nature and their burden."

"Well, I guess it would be nice to have some company around the house." Rarity smiled and accepted this fate. "Don't get me wrong on this, I do adore Sweetie Belle, but things have been taking more of a downturn as they would say in terms of interest." She walked over to Twilight and placed a hoof on her shoulder. "I'm sure I can handle two children. I mean, if Pinkie Pie can handle foals, so can I."

"Well, I have always wanted to raise a foal of my own, even if it is just me with superpowers." Fluttershy said, her voice being medium enough for everypony to hear. "I'd be more than happy to take up the responsibility of motherhood."

"Ah guess the Apples can handle having another mouth ta feed on the orchard." Applejack said, she too was now complying with the deal. "Sure, Ah can handle mah own foal. Granny did it with me, and ah partially did it with Applebloom."

"Trust me on this, Twilight. I 100% Pinkie Super Double Ultra Swear to keep foal me safe, sound and happy. Just like a regular foal should be." Pinkie Pie walked over and signed a contract which she pulled out of her hair and then put back in once it had been signed. "And it'd be a great start in helping little Pound and Pumpkin make some friends of their own."

"Alright, that's everyone in the room accounted for, except Little Miss Flying Deathwish." She looked at Rainbow Dash, who was still airborne.

"Look, Twilight. I'm good with handling foals." Rainbow Dash said, trying to get herself on Twilight's trusting side again. "I've had to take up a part time foalsitting job for some extra bits recently. And this seems no different from that."

"Alright then, I'll agree with you on this one time, but I want all of you to keep special foal status diaries just in case." Twilight gave each of them a small diary with a red ribbon coming out of it. "Write in it at the end of the day. Every day, I'll be checking your diaries to make sure you're handling them well. And just to be safe, Rainbow Dash. I'll come by your house instead of you coming to me."

"Twilight, don't you have foals to present?" Rainbow Dash said, looking a little impatient.

"Oh fine, but I will be checking on you, remember that."

Twilight stepped aside, allowing Hair Raiser and the foals to come forward. Every foal had a smile on its' face and was wearing a spandex Power Pony costume, that would have been a great dress-up article for any other foal, but looked the best on them.

"Everypony, I'd like you to meet Hair Raiser. Aurora, Shy Hearted, Gale, Glimmer, Honest and Lightspeed." Twilight pointed out each of the foal superheroes for them. "You'll get the foal version of you to look after. Make sure you treat them with care and kindness."

The girls were at a loss for words, until Pinkie finally responded by hugging Lightspeed in her hooves. She was now cooing kind things at the foal her and prompting the other girls to do the same. Besides Rainbow Dash, the rest of the girls were loving swaddling the foals in their hugs and magic.

"Rainbow Dash..." Twilight said, warningly.

"Oh, fine." Rainbow Dash said, hanging her head. This was so humiliating for her, and she wasn't going to hide it. But still, she did her best to feign happiness and meet her foalish side.

After 5 minutes or so, everypony took their foalish sides up in whatever way they could carry them and began to proceed back down the stairs which Twilight had called back, and walked out of the castle to their homes, so that they could start the preparations for foal caring.

Twilight and Spike, however, took Aurora and Hair Raiser down the corridors to another room. As the four of them left Twilight's room, she shut the door behind her and began to walk.

"So what's first on the agenda, Princess Twilight?" Hair Raiser asked as they passed a number of doors on their journey.

"First of all, you don't have to call me that." Twilight chuckled awkwardly. "You can just call me mom if you like."

"Ok, Mom." She giggled as she said it a few more times to let it sink in. "Ok, now it's stuck in my head."

Twilight giggled and arrived at the door she was looking for and motioned the rest of the group to check it out.

"The first thing, is for us all to get some lunch." Twilight said as she opened the doors to a rather expansive table with an open view kitchen nearby. There were chefs working in the kitchen, all hard at work preparing Twilight's lunch. "I'll feed little Aurora myself, and once we're all full, I'll enroll you in the Ponyville Schoolhouse."

"Sounds good to me, Mom." Hair Raiser smiled as she took her seat, next to Spike. She then watched Twilight conjure up a special high-chair for Aurora to sit in next to her. A mother is never far from her foal, after all, unless she hires a foalsitter.

"The usual." Twilight said to the butler who had walked up next to her. "And make sure to get an extra meal for my newest royal child, Hair Raiser. I'll feed my royal foal myself, but the filly gets a meal. Understood?"

"Yes, your highness." The butler jotted the request down and ran off to the openview kitchen, so that the chefs could make the lunch for Twilight, Spike, Hair Raiser and Aurora.

"A new life for me." Hair Raiser said to herself as she looked at Spike, a helpful dragon who aided her in her time of need. Aurora, her cute little baby sister who could melt the heart of anypony like butter. And Princess Twilight herself, who was looking forward to a well-deserved meal. "Something tells me, everything's just gonna get better from here..."

Author's Note

My god, I'm sorry for the delay.

When there's a problem with the phone line that's connected to your grandma's Wi-Fi, you know there are going to be inconveniences.

But still, I'm back, and after a long week of doing nothing but go on my IPad, go to Edinburgh, and attend my other grandparent's birthday, I realized my fic needs updating ASA-Now!

Also, I've dusted off a lot of my old apps at Grandma's house, playing them to kill some time. And I've noticed something. Robot Unicorn Attack 2 mutes the game music when you play your iTunes music. So you could play any Brony song (Provided you have it on your ios or android) and play that instead of the generic RUA2 music.

Also, I've been looking into Osu! recently, and it's a rhythm game I think you guys should try out for yourselves. Even if the IPad version has a very limited number of free songs(That and I have no idea how you can get more songs or play your own songs on it.) it's still worth checking out. But if you are going to check it out on IPad, beware Ignition, Set, GO! on Expert difficulty. The rhythm is insanely fast and I failed at least 22 times trying to even complete it.

I think I've rambled on long enough, so I'll let you get on with the rest of your day. Be sure to leave your CONSTRUCTIVE criticisms below and be sure to send this story to your friends, see what they think about it.

And try to be sociable. I don't want to have to keep fishing for compliments every time I push out a new chapter, I want to talk to you guys, see what you think.

See you soon, guys. This is Shadowmane PX-41, signing off.

Taking Care Of Themselves (Literally) Part 1

Pinkie Pie walked into Sugar Cube Corner, a happy face showing for all to see. Many of the ponies here were enjoying their food to take any notice of Pinkie, however and only a few looked up to see that a tiny pink foal with a white spandex costume was clutching to Pinkie's neck, to keep its' balance.

Pinkie walked behind the counter and went up the stairs behind them. This led her to the upper floor, where the Cakes lived after hours. She walked by the room of Pound and Pumpkin and peaked through the crack for a few seconds, to see that they were still alright and well.

She noticed that Pound and Pumpkin were playing with a ball, passing it to one another, bouncing it in their hooves and sometimes even trying to pick it up with their bare hooves. Pinkie opened the door and walked in, so that Lightspeed could get better acquainted with the two Cake foals.

"Pound, Pumpkin," Pinkie said, grabbing the attention of the two foals straight away. They looked up at her with a vacant expression. "I'm sorry to interrupt your foal fun, but I have something important to tell you."

"Wat is it, Pinkie?" Pumpkin asked, looking up at her most trusted foalsitter with curious eyes.

"I recently went over to Princess Twilight's castle house, and I received the greatest gift ever!" She was about to take Lightspeed off of her back, but was surprised when she discovered that Lightspeed was no longer on her back, and was nowhere to be seen.

"Wait, where is she?" Pinkie asked, looking around for the foalized Power Pony her. She checked everywhere, from the toy chest, to the cribs, even under the cribs. "That foal me is one fast little kid, isn't she?" She talked to herself.

As Pound and Pumpkin watched Pinkie frantically looking for Lightspeed, they couldn't help but notice Pinkie's mane was rustling. And if that wasn't Pinkie being Pinkie, who else knew what is was? They also heard a giggling of a foalish nature coming from the rustling mane, confusing them even further.

Pinkie was about to check the corridor to see if Lightspeed had dashed off playfully, she looked worried now. It was happening to her again, it would seem.

Just as she was about to make a beeline back for Sugar Cube Corner, she heard Lightspeed's laughter coming from the nursery once more. She looked back in to see that Lightspeed was hugging a plushie in her hooves.

"Oh, there she is, there's my little cutesy wutesy foal!" She laughed, knowing that Lightspeed was only looking for a bit of fun. She deserved this fun, she'd just come from a comic book world with no memories at all. "She just wanted to pway is all. yes you did, yes you did."

"So, dis is youw supwise?" Pound asked, looking closer at the foal copy of Pinkie very closely. "It wooks wike a foaw yoo."

"That's because she is a foal me, Pound." Pinkie began to explain, sitting down on her haunches and picking up Lightspeed in her muzzle. "Pound, Pumpkin, I'd like you to meet the newest addition to my family, Lightspeed Pie." Pinkie presented the foal to the Cake Twins, so that they could get a better look at her.

"Hehe, hi dewe." Lightspeed waved at the two foals. The shocking thing was, she was talking, and even Pinkie could understand her. She was a foal of at least 3 or 4 months old, and she was talking to them and they could understand it.

Pinkie's jaw dropped after hearing Lightspeed speak. She'd never seen a foal talk before their first birthday, so this was quite a surprise to her.

"Hewwo dewe, Wightspeed. I'm Pound Cake." He introduced himself to Lightspeed the best he could, being almost two now meant that Pound was starting to pick up on his vocabulary skills a little bit. "Dis is my sistew, Pumpkin Cake." He walked over and patted Pumpkin for Lightspeed to know who she was.

"Nice ta meet yoo, Wightspeed." Pumpkin smiled back at the pink foal. "Pinkie's a weawwy nice foawsittew and wiww no doubt be youw pewfect mama."

"I suwe hope so." Lightspeed looked back at Pinkie Pie, who was looking at her with a smile. That smile was a clear sign that Pinkie knew what she was doing and that she was kind and considerate.

"Woopsies, I almost forgot, you need a quick changing there, little me." Pinkie smiled, got up to her hooves and carried Lightspeed over to the changing table, causing the foal to giggle as she was carried through the air. "Now just hold still, this won't take a minute."

Pinkie hastily got everything she needed, a diaper and some foal powder. Once she got those, she lifted Lightspeed's flank up to apply the powder to the diaper. Once it was there, she set Lightspeed's flank back down on the powdered padding and secured the diaper around her waist.

"There we go, my cutesy wutesy little foal now has some softy wofty protetion." Pinkie smiled as she put Lightspeed's costume back on, over her diaper, so that Pinkie knew that if Lightspeed did mess herself, she wouldn't mess her outfit. She then picked Lightspeed back up and put her down by Pound and Pumpkin.

"Alrighty then, I'm just gonna leave you three to play now." Pinkie said as she walked over to the door again. "I'm just going to give Mr and Mrs Cake the heads up that I now own my own foal."

As Pinkie Pie shut the door, Lightspeed grew partially worried and ran over to the closed door seconds after it closed. She began hoofing at the door, like a dog. She was worried without Pinkie Pie, and was about to shed a tear when Pumpkin wrapped a hoof around Lightspeed's shoulders.

"Dun wowwy, she'ww be back soon." Pumpkin said, walking Lightspeed back over to the center of the room, to let her in to an activity. "Wat do yoo wanna pway in da meanwhiwe?"

Applejack walked into the barn of Sweet Apple Acres, letting off a sigh once the door had been shut. After she shut the door, she proceeded to walk up the stairs towards the old nursery. She thought she could make it a big surprise for her family as she tiptoed to avoid attention, but as soon as she placed a hoof on the old nursery door, Applebloom came out of nowhere and said-

"Hey, Applejack. Might ah ask why yer using the nursery ah used ta grow up in?" She asked, not even bothering to check Applejack's back or sides for anything odd or new.

"Aw dangit." Applejack cursed under her breath before addressing Applebloom again. "Uh, Applebloom. How would ya feel if the Apple Family had one more mouth ta feed?"

"Honestly, ah wouldn't mind a bit." Applebloom said, making sure not to show any traces of lying. "Why'd ya ask, anyways?"

"Well, ah went ta see Twilight over in her castle recently, and she gave me this foal version of me." Applejack revealed Honest to Applebloom, which made the filly's mouth drop all the way to the floor, at a speed which could rival Pinkie's. "She's basically Mistress Mareveolus from those Power Ponies comics Spike likes ta read, but after he read the footnote, it pulled her right out of the book and into Equestria, only as a foal with superpowers."

"Aawww, she looks so adorable." Applebloom said, quickly accepting the fact that Applejack now had a foal of her own. "But aren't ya kind of, ya know, surprised that ya have a foal of yer own that looks almost exactly like ya?"

"Well, ah was kinda surprised at first, but then this little cutie warmed up to me and ah just couldn't say no ta her." Applejack opened the door to the old nursery and walked inside. "Now if ya'll excuse me, ah gotta set up Honest's nursery real quick."

"Alright then, Applejack. Ah'll see ya fer dinner ah guess." Applebloom walked back donw the corridors, most likely back to her clubhouse as well.

As for Applejack and Honest, Applejack was blowing the dust off many of the items in here, making sure that Honest could use them without sneezing and intaking dust. Once the dusting was finished, Applejack let Honest onto her hooves so that she could get around her new room.

The room itself was very lightly coloured and was geared to fit any foal's nature. There was a changing table over by the wall, in case Honest needed a quick change. There was a costume rack over by the closet, in case Applejack decided to give Honest a new look. And there were enough foal toys and blocks to keep Honest going for days on end.

Lastly, was Honest's crib, painted yellow and pink. It hadn't changed since Applebloom had been a foal here, as Applejack had expected. The crib on the inside, had lovely satin sheets and big fluffy pillows, in case Honest needed a nap or a good night's sleep. There was also a stuffed bear in the crib, if Honest needed some comfort when she slept.

"Alright now, Honest. Ah think the first thing we need ta get is diapering ya." Applejack said as she laid Honest down on the changing table and took off the costume and mask that Honest was wearing, revealing an exact copy of Applejack, minus the Cutie Mark and hat.

Honest made a light squeal as she was stripped naked and had her flank lifted up, but she calmed down enough for Applejack to diaper her. There was a sprinkle of foal powder applied to the diaper before Honest's flank was set down on it.

Once Honest was placed back onto the powdered diaper, she felt it being secured around her waist with some fancy hoofwork from Applejack. Once she felt it was snug and secure, Applejack patted the diaper, causing it to crinkle a few times before she sat Honest back up.

"Uh, mama, I wanna weaw my suit again." Honest said right after she was sat back up, causing Applejack's jaw to drop.

"H-how did ya talk?" Applejack said, looking completely surprised at the fact that her own daughter of 4 months was talking directly to her, in foalish english instead of babbles.

"I dun know, weawwy." Honest blushed as she reached over for her outfit again. "I just wanna pway as a pwetend Powew Pony again."

Applejack was still stunned at the realization of having a talking foal in the family, but even so, that didn't distract her from her newfound mothering duties. She took the outfit and dressed Honest in it, causing her to coo in delight as the soft spandex once more caressed her foal body.

"There she is, there's mah super special superheroine!" Applejack said in a playful manner that caused Honest to giggle in delight once she realized it. "But wait, what's that?" Applejack said in a pretend tense way.

"Why, it's some kinda monster!" Applejack said, faking fear to warm up to Honest. She was about to show fear, but then burst out laughing as Applejack started tickling her where she was most ticklish. "It's the tickle monster! How will Mistress Marevelous deal with this ticklish fiend?"

"Ahhahahahahahaha, hehe, stop it!" Honest said as she was trying to recollect herself with all the tickles she was receiving. However, this gave her time to remember that she had powers. She pulled out her psychic whip with her mind and wrapped it around her body.

"I dun tink so, Tickwon Da Foowish!" Honest yanked herself out of Applejack's tickles with the psychic whip, smiling at the clever name she had made for Applejack's pretend tickle monster persona. "Time fow yoo ta feew my justice!"

She then used the whip to play with Applejack, whipping her lightly with the small foal-friendly whip. Her mind was a fast thinker, and she tied up Applejack's hooves with the whip, sending her crashing down to the padded floor.

"Anothew day saved by..." She leapt up for dramatic effect "Mistwess Mawevewous!" She landed back down on her diapered and spandexed flank, looking over at the felled Applejack with pride. She then used her whip to pull a pacifier into her mouth, which she accepted and took a victory lap around Applejack, sucking on the rubber end all the while.

As for Rarity, she had just walked into Carousel Boutique once more, this time with Glimmer on her back. Glimmer was mostly looking at all of the designs on Rarity's mannequins rather than looking at Rarity herself. At times, she'd tug on Rarity's neck and point towards a dress, causing Rarity to explain to her every little detail about the dress Glimmer was pointing at.

"This is my latest design." Rarity said, as Glimmer got a good look at the dress. It was a mixture of crimson and cobalt around the dress part, and had nice amethyst sleeves adorned with swishy lace. In the centre of the dress, was a shiny diamond-shaped jewel made out of topaz, this was the feature that caught Glimmer's eyes the most. "I wanted to make it appealing to ponies who just love that sparkle in the corners of their eyes.

Glimmer merely giggled and touched the topaz, feeling the smoothness of the hardened jewel seemed to soothe her for some reason. She then remembered her powers and used one of her wrist bracelets to make a copy of the jewel. She hugged the makeshift gem and began to feel more relaxed than usual.

"Well, aren't you an adorable little foal." Rarity nuzzled Glimmer, almost sending her to sleep at one point. "You know, you remind me of-"

"Hey, sis!" Sweetie Belle walked through the door, just as Rarity was about to tell her who Sweetie was. "I was just about to come looking for you."

"Speak of the devil, there she is." Rarity turned to her side to allow Glimmer to see her big sister. "Glimmer, I'd like you to meet your big sister, Sweetie Belle."

"Hi." Glimmer said, waving her hoof. Her voice was understandable, as were the voices of the other foalized Power Ponies, and similar to Pinkie and Applebloom, Sweetie Belle and Rarity were left with stunned expressions and dropped jaws.

"Did that foal just talk?" Sweetie Belle asked, still looking surprised.

"Weww, yes I did. And I can do othew amazing tings as weww." Glimmer said, using her bracelets to make a slide on Rarity's side for her to use. She slid down the slide and landed on her flank with a smile on her laughing face.

"That is so..." Sweetie Belle was at a loss for words here. She was having a hard time on whether to praise the foal or have her experimented on. Eventually, she decided to come out with her verdict. "Adorable!!!"

"Even I'm smitten with you, Glimmer." Rarity decided to join in with the adoration quotes as well, picking up Glimmer and caressing her in her aura and coat. "I can tell you'll be one wonder of a family member."

"But first, we should get you settled into your new room." Rarity took Glimmer upstairs, with Sweetie Belle following behind closely. Once they made it to the room that Rarity was looking for, they stopped and Rarity opened the door to the wonders inside.

The room inside had a nice variety of colour, as most other foal nurseries would. Besides all the colours and padding on the floor, the walls were painted half and half. There were cloudy skies on one half, with a princessy theme on the other side, in case Rarity had either gender of foal.

Even so, Glimmer loved the design of the walls, almost as much as she loved the activities and toys scattered around her feet. There were blocks, toys, plushies, you name it, it was there for her. The other important aspect, was the changing table at the back of the room, in case Glimmer needed a quick changing.

"I hope you like the place, Glimmer." Rarity said as she let Glimmer down onto her feet and let her explore the room. "I had it built with both types in mind, in case I had both a colt and a filly at the same time."

"It's pewfect, mama." Glimmer smiled as she wandered around the room, eyeing what there was for her to play with. She crawled over to the plush animals and decided to hug as many of them as possible. "Yoo've weawwy captuwed my foawish side."

"Well, I'm glad to know that you like it." Rarity said as she gave Glimmer some time to caress the plushies in her hug. Once she was done, Rarity lifted Glimmer up in her aura and carried her over to the changing table. "But first, I think somepony needs a diaper. We can't have you messing up your precious little suit, can we?" She lightly tugged at Glimmer's cheeks in a playful manner.

"Otay." Glimmer said acceptingly as she was laid down on the padded table to be changed.

Rarity didn't even need to move from that spot, she just stood back and let her magic do all the work. Using her aura, Rarity quickly and efficiently pulled out a diaper, powdered it, and secured it around Glimmer's flank in record time.

Once that was all done, Rarity pulled Glimmer up and kissed her on the forehead, causing her to squeal in delight with all the affection she was receiving. Then, once Glimmer calmed down, Rarity put her down by a scattering of blocks, in the hope that Glimmer would be inspired and build her fantasies as much as she wanted.

"I suppose I do have some time to play with you." Rarity smiled as she looked at the clock. "That shipment of velour dresses isn't scheduled until next month, so I'm sure I could get to work while you're napping. But for now, let me help you out."

"Hehe, otay, mama." Glimmer giggled as Rarity sat on the other side of the scattered blocks, to supervise Glimmer and to give her some help when she needed it.

"Ooh, I know, we can do this altogether, as a family." Rarity said as she looked back at Sweetie Belle, almost forgetting her for a moment. "Sweetie Belle, can you come and play with your little sister?"

"Well, I'll try, but I'm not sure it'll be as fun since I'm not her age anymore." Sweetie said as she sat down at another end of the scattered plastic blocks, forming a triangular pattern with her, Rarity and Glimmer.

"I'll get things started, shall we?" Rarity said as she placed one of the blocks in front of the three of them with her magic. She lightly applauded her meager feat, recalling memories she had long forgotten. "Now you, Glimmer."

"Hewe I go." Glimmer transformed one of her bracelets into an aura shaped like a hand, then, using her mind abilities, she used the hand to pick up one of the blocks around her and place it on top of Rarity's, causing Glimmer to smile as the hand aura disappeared into thin air.

"Well, you two seem to be having fun." Sweetie said as she used her magic to levitate a 3rd block onto the slowly forming tower. Once she was happy with the position and balance of the top block, she let off a quick giggle. "Actually, this IS fun. I almost forgot how much fun I used to have with these things."

"Me too. Oh, it's so fun to call up old memories from your childhood isn't it?" Rarity smiled as she placed a 4th block on up, letting out a smile afterwards that seemed and sounded childish.

Soon the three unicorns, foal, filly and mare were lost in their playtime, stacking up the blocks like there was no tomorrow, Sweetie and Rarity recalling their foalhood days, and Glimmer forging a brand new memory for herself. This family was surely one that was going to have a lot of fun working in perfect harmony, as shown here with their tower. But one must wonder how the rest of the Mane 6 are getting along with their foals?...

Author's Note

Another part within a week? Must be a new record.

I'm pretty sure that this fic will be the most focus for this part and the next. I want to get chapters with all of the Mane 6 Power Pony foals having foalish fun time before I get back to work on my other fics. So, Lightspeed was left with Pound and Pumpkin, Honest tied up Applejack playfully, and Glimmer, Rarity and Sweetie Belle are playing together.

I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter and be sure to leave your comments, thoughts, and CONSTRUCTIVE criticisms below in that little comments box below.

Anyways, on a more personal note here. I really want to Age Regress Adagio Dazzle and the Dazzlings in a future story. But I'll wait until Equestria Girls 2 comes out and they make the character tags for Adagia, Sonata and Aria. I'd like to do this fic, because not only do I like Age Regressing characters, but I also like cute. and Aria looks cute once you get through the dark and mysterious side to her. And I'd like to see a foal version (or baby version, depending on if we see the Dazzlings as ponies in the film.) and write about that, as well as the rest of them. That's right, if I'm regressing Dazzlings, I'm regressing ALL of them!

Until next time guys, this is Shadowmane PX-41, signing off.

Peace out, guys.

Taking Care Of Themselves (Literally) Part 2

Author's Note

Once again, I apologize for the delay.

You see, I had recently discovered Phoenix Wright: Dual Destinies had been released onto the IPad. And since I was interested in getting Dual Destinies, I decided to buy it and spend the 11 pounds to unlock the 4 other (5 hour or so) murder cases.

And in the time I've spent on Dual Destinies, I've dealt with a courtroom bombing incident, a made up mythical murderer monster case, and a murder at a law school. Seems like every Phoenix Wright case involves murder.

But still, I decided to put case number 4 on hold, and return with another chapter, I hope you enjoy it.

Taking Care Of Themselves (Literally) Part 2

Fluttershy flew into her cottage at a gentle pace, so that Shy Hearted could keep her balance. Once Fluttershy gently landed on the carpet, she shut the door behind her gently, so that none of her animals could get out and run amok in Ponyville, sure she could trust her animals well, but she wanted to make sure.

Shy Hearted looked at each animal with a curious look on her face, she tugged at Fluttershy's mane a few times to grab her attention and then pointed at the animal she was interested in. Every time she did, Fluttershy told her about the animal, and how to properly care for it.

"Well, it's good to know you like animals so much, Shy." She smiled and looked back at her foal before looking back forward once more. "But I think that's enough animal knowledge for one day."

"Oh, and this here is my pet. Angel, could you come up here and meet my new foal?" She asked the rabbit, who merely looked up at her and turned his back. "Sorry, he can be stubborn at times."

"No wowwies." Shy Hearted smiled as she jumped down to greet Angel Bunny. Fluttershy on the other hand was amazed at the revelation her foal could talk, she thought that she had a talented young foal for a few seconds, but then her thoughts were confirmed with the next statement.

"Hewwo, Angew. I'm Shy Heawted." She stroked Angel's fur, causing him to turn and look at the foal who was caressing him, he was then surprised when he saw the foal in spandex looking at him with a trusting gaze. "Yoo wanna be fwiends?" She reached a hoof out to him.

Fluttershy looked closely at the two of them and expected Angel to remain strong, but to her surprise, she discovered that Angel had taken a shine to Shy Hearted, as she shook Shy Hearted's hoof in welcome. Angel had never acted that nice to strangers before, Fluttershy had to think about whether her foal could talk to animals as well.

"Yoo see? He's not so tough, he just wanted ta make a fwiend." She smiled as she turned back to Fluttershy, who was left with a stunned expression. "Uh, mama, awe yoo otay?" Shy Hearted tilted her head in confusion.

"Huh, oh, it's nothing. I was just thinking." Fluttershy said as she finally broke out of her trance and addressed Shy Hearted. "Nothing for you to worry about."

"Otay." She smiled as Fluttershy lifted her back up onto her back, making a tiny little giggle once she was sat back down.

"Do you want to see your room, Shy Hearted?" Fluttershy asked, a calm and friendly tone being directed towards the foal on her back.

"Yes pwease, mama." She cooed as Fluttershy and her looked into each other's eyes with that look once more.

"Alright then, let's get my sweet little foal a nice place to stay." Fluttershy walked up the stairs and through the corridor at the top of them. She walked slightly past her bedroom to another door that was right next to it.

Once she opened the door, Shy Hearted was welcomed with a sight that would please any curious foal. There was a nursery all set up with a padded floor and painted wall. The wall was painted as a flowery landscape with rolling winds, smiling critters, and a cloudy sky.

The room itself was geared towards a foal's needs in every way. There were blocks, crayons and paper for Shy Hearted to indulge in her creative side, plush animals if she wanted to practice caring for animals, and even a feeding area, in case she got hungry and/or thirsty.

Room aside, the more important things were there as well. The crib was right underneath a small window and a changing table was right next to it. The final noticeable object, was a nearby chest filled with dress-up costumes, in case Shy Hearted got bored of wearing her Power Pony suit.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, not so fast there, little one." Fluttershy caught Shy Hearted as she attempted to jump off of her. "Before we get started in your playtime, the first thing we need to do, is to get a diaper fitted around you." She explained to Shy in a very calming and understanding way. "We don't want my little me to have an accident now, do we?

"No, mama." Shy shook her head slowly as she came to terms with Fluttershy's logic.

"Very good, my dear." Fluttershy congratulated her smart little foal by kissing her on the forehead, an action which caused Shy to blush a little before laughing like a foal would. "Now come on, let's give you something snuggly."

Fluttershy placed Shy down onto the table, then took the liberty of stripping her of her Power Pony suit. She put it in a tiny little hamper that was behind the chest, marked "Laundry" before returning to Shy, who was using her hooves to cover up her nudity.

Fluttershy merely smiled and opened up a drawer beneath the table itself. She felt each of the diapers carefully, before she felt the one she was looking for. Once she was satisfied with her choice, she took the diaper out of the drawer and closed it up, before acquiring a bottle of foal powder from the drawer next to it.

Once she had amassed both the objects she needed, she proceeded with the procedure for diapering a foal. As she began, she couldn't help but explain why she had longed for a foal of her own.

"You see, I've always wanted to have the opportunity for caring for a foal, ever since I discovered my destiny as the Spirit of Kindness." Fluttershy explained as she powdered the diaper and placed Shy's flank onto it. "But no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't sum up enough courage to start a relationship, or consider adoption. That's one of my weaknesses, I admit. But I'm actually quite proud of it."

"Why's dat, mama?" Shy asked as Fluttershy began to make the ends of the diaper meet together.

"Being shy means that I can avoid any potential conflict, for fear I might say something to offend somepony." Fluttershy said as she finally tightened the straps around the sides of the diaper and sat Shy back up. "A power in weakness, is a power to avoid pain."

"Oh, am I done already?" Fluttershy had almost forgotten that she had been diapering Shy during her explanation. "Well, I guess the only thing left to do is to let you play for a while."

"Weawwy, yoo mean it?" Shy asked with an excited tone this time. A foal's mind was something that jumped from one thing to another, if pushed in the right ways.

"Sure, and if you get confused, hurt, hungry, or wet, I'll be here to help you out, every step of the way." Fluttershy smiled as she looked down at her foal, who looked right back up at her with a happy smile.

"Yay! Pwaytime!" Shy moved as fast as she could over to the plush animals first. She sat down on her rump and started to engage in foalish conversations to the inanimate objects, this could only make Fluttershy smile a smile of pride, knowing that her own foal took after her. Once she saw Shy hugging the plush animals, she was set. Fluttershy was going to keep Shy Hearted with her, forever.

Rainbow Dash looked flustered as she arrived back at her house. The shock of having to care for a foal, with the hardened routine she had been given was going to be a living nightmare for her. And to make matters worse for her, she had to write about her foal's well being.

"You know, something tells me Twilight is giving me this foal me to teach me a lesson." Dash said as she decided to put the pieces of a mental puzzle together in her head. "Then again, I have been over-pushing my limits recently."

The foal merely looked at Rainbow Dash with a bored expression, and then sparked an idea. Remembering she had her pendant, Gale lifted it up with her teeth and spawned a miniature cloud above Dash's head with it. Then she held on tight for the incoming reaction.

"Yeeeoowwwch!" Dash yelled out at the lightning bolt struck her, causing her to dash forward at insane speeds and crash into the stairs. She rubbed her face in pain before looking back behind her. "Strange, I don't remember these clouds storing lightning in them..."

Then Gale did it again, as her smile was showing. This time, she called forth another bolt, this time striking one of Dash's flanks. Dash once more bolted forward in pain, only this time she managed to slow down before she hit another part of the house, so that it didn't hurt as much.

Then, for the coup de grace, Gale called in a mini snowstorm onto Dash's face, giving her a snow goatee and mustache. Dash shivered as she felt her face and felt traces of snow, she flew over to the mirror and saw her face was snow-gripped, courtesy of the laughing Gale on her back.

"Wait a minute, that was you?" Dash looked a little shocked as she finally put two and two together and remembered only one pony capable of conjuring up weather like magic. "YOU did this?"

"Was dat wong?" Gale asked, looking a little worried as Dash eyed down the culprit. Once more, there was a shocked reaction coming from the parent. Dash had a talking foal with her, one who could understand her perfectly, and one who didn't just speak in babbles.

"Wait, you can talk?" Dash looked even more stunned now, at the second realization, rather than the first.

"Yes, and dat wightning and snow, dat was me as weww." Gale confessed, looking guilty for a moment, waiting for Rainbow Dash to hand down judgement.

"Well, that's just..." Rainbow Dash held the last word, to give Gale a feeling of tensity as she awaited the answer. "Awesome!"

"I'm sowwy, mama. I pwomise-" Gale was talking guiltily until she realized that Dash was complimenting her. "Wait, wat did yoo say?"

"I said, awesome, kid." Dash looked a lot more calm now and was actually looking at Gale with a smile growing. "You've got that spunky attitude on you, I can sense it."

"You know, you remind me of that Scootaloo kid down in Ponyville." Rainbow Dash smiled as she flew up the stairs slowly, so that Gale could hang on. "You're both eager for a bit of excitement."

"Yoo weawwy mean it?" Gale asked as they flew down a cloudy corridor.

"Absolutely." Rainbow Dash stopped at a door at the end of the cloud corridor. "It makes caring for a foal much easier, if that foal takes on my style of unfazed awesome." Dash said with a smug smile showing. "Trust me, Gale. When you'll grow up, you'll not only make a great addition to the Weather Team, but a great addtion to the Wonderbolts as well."

"Heh, I always knew this room would come in handy one day." She said as she flew into the new room and placed Gale down on the padded surface.

Dash had been keeping a nursery to herself all this time, waiting until she had a foal of her own. She always thought she'd have a child from a love relationship, but Twilight and Spike discovering foalized Power Ponies had pushed her plans ahead a little bit.

The room itself was fitted fro everything a foal could want, the toys and activities around the floor were just one example of this room's functions. The walls,ceiling and even the floor had also had a nice paint job. The walls were painted as a cloudy sky, the ceiling light was made to look like a shining sun, and the floor looked like a bird's eye view of a town below.

This was all one big soothing illusion, to make Gale believe that she was flying majestically through the sky like her carer, Rainbow Dash. If that wasn't enough, the crib was modeled to look like it was made out of clouds, when if you touched it, you could feel plastic.

"I wanted to give my foal or foals the idea that they were flying, even though their wings wouldn't let them fly for real." Dash explained to Gale before she got moving. "Pretty cool huh?"

"Hehe, wook, mama, I'm fwying!" Gale was definitely buying the illusion of the colours and pictures. She was one happy little kid and Dash could tell.

"Alright, kiddo. Let's make a brief landing for a second." Dash picked Gale up in her muzzle and flew her over to a nearby changing table, with a padded changing top which looked and felt an awful lot like a cloud. "We've gotta make sure you don't have an accident over the ponies below us."

"Hehe, otay." Gale cooperated and flopped back onto the cloud-like padding, waiting for Dash to proceed with the changing method. "I dun wanna wuin somepony's day by pooping on dem."

Dash chuckled a little as she pulled out a soft cloth diaper and some foal powder from a drawer. Once she was happy with the choice that she made, she looked back up at Gale, set the diaper and cloth next to her and began.

Dash had seen Pinkie doing this kind of thing to the Cake Twins, so she had picked up a few tips and tricks along the way. First, Dash removed the Power Pony costume that Gale was wearing, then Dash pulled Gale's flank up and pulled a very nifty maneuver of powdering a diaper as it went under Gale's flank.

Gale giggled at Dash's techincal moves and had a smile that was begging to see more.

"Oh, ya wanna see more huh?" Dash said with that smug smile once more returning to her face. "Check this out."

Dash tossed Gale into the air, over a crash man, so that if Dash didn't pull this trick in time, it wouldn't hurt Gale much. Dash hastily made the ends of the diaper meet and opened the diaper up in a bowl fashion, ready to catch Gale. To Dash's and Gale's surprise, Gale landed in the powdered diaper, with her legs just hanging there in midair.

"There we go, I call it the Changing Chuck!" Dash said, grinning at the clever name for her new trick. Gale had caught wind of Dash's clever name, and was giggling quite happily at the outcome. "Glad ya liked it, Gale. I can tell that you and I are gonna be the best, if not, the most perfect mother and foal combo in all of Cloudsdale."

"Hehe, I suwe hope so." Gale smiled, looking up at her mother with a knowing and compassionate look.

"Alright then, kiddo. Whaddaya want to do first?" Dash picked Gale up and had her eyeing the many different activities and things to do whilst she was here.

"Ooh, actuawwy, dis fwying ting is pwetty fun." Gale said as Dash opened her wings and took the two of them airborne, even if it was a few feet off the ground, Gale still believed she was flying. "Mama, can yoo fwy me awound fow a wittwe bit?"

"Heh, sure thing." Dash said, remembering that she said that to her mother as well, at least that's what Dash's mom remembered. "So how do ya wanna do it? Riding my back, or flying straight from the pony's mouth?"

"Mouth! Mouth!" Gale said, chipper as always "I wanna fwy wid noting ta howd onto!" Gale looked very excited now, she was determined to imagine flying like a real pegasus, and Dash was giving her that opportunity.

"Alright then." Dash put Gale in her mouth and began to maneuver around the room. Gale felt herself flying, as if a dream of hers was coming to reality. "It's gonna get a bit dicey as we go along, so brace yourself, alright?"

"Otay." Gale was ready, so ready in fact, that she lowered her eyebrows in determination as Dash picked up the pace a little.

The sudden change in maneuverability was a welcome sight for Gale, she let herself get thrown around in Dash's muzzle as Dash began pulling nifty aerial rolls and loops. All of these didn't faze Gale in anyway whatsoever, and she was happy to live her life on the edge of danger.

Dash had to give credit where credit was due, Gale was a perfect copy of her personality. Besides the whole foalish nature of Gale, Dash was convinced that Gale was a copy of her. She smiled as she dived down to the padding and pulled back up, to give Gale a sense of sudden climbs. Dash had initially thought raising a foal would be an arduous task, but with Gale, she thought wrong. Dash was going to love taking care of her foal, very much.

"Thank you for this meal, Borealis." Twilight complimented her chef as she got to her hooves and begaan to feed Aurora. "It truly was another divine meal from a divine chef."

"Thank you, Your Highness." The chef bowed before returning to his kitchen to congregate with his other cooks and chefs.

"Mmm, Twilight, I gotta hand it too ya. This Marelaysian Mirepoix is simply to die for." Hair Raiser complimented as she swallowed her latest bite and looked up to speak with her new mother. "And here I thought fancy food wasn't a good idea."

"Yeah." Spike said, gnawing at his meal, chewing it nicely and then swallowing it. A look of satisfaction washed over him once the meal hit his stomach. "Twilight's always got meals to die for. It's been that way ever since she got this castle."

"Speaking of which, how DID you get this castle?" Hair Raiser decided to ask.

"Well, It's a long story, but I think I can put it in terms that anyone could understand." Once she had finished feeding Aurora, Twilight gathered her and Hair Raiser close to her and began to tell them the story on how she slayed Tirek. "Once upon a time, there was a princess named Twilight, and a centaur named Tirek..."

"And we all lived happily ever after. The end." Twilight ended the story, being completely sure she had told Hair Raiser and Aurora everything. She hadn't noticed it straight away, but Aurora had fallen asleep whilst Twilight had told the story. "Huh, I guess my foal me had confused this tale for a bedtime story. An easy mistake, all foals do that. No biggie."

"Wooooowww." Hair Raiser held it for added amazement. "So, you used to live in a library before you slayed Tirek?"

"Yes, but sadly that was stripped from me during our conflict." Twilight said, tears showing up in her eyes, after remembering that horrible, grizzled image of the torched Golden Oaks Library. She remembered that horrifying picture that had been forever burned into her mind, courtesy of Tirek.

"Is something wrong?" Hair Raiser asked Twilight, now noticing the tears in her eyes.

"Twilight was very emotionally attached to that library." Spike said, himself looking distraught at the loss of the tree. "Ever since Princess Celestia sent her to Ponyville to study the Magic of Friendship, she'd been living every day of her life in that tree."

"Oh, I can see that now." Hair Raiser decided to comfort Twilight, now that she had been showing those tears. "I know, I know. It isn't fair to lose a home, not to a centaur, not to some powerful magic, not even to coincidence."

"Sorry, I've been dwelling on the past for too long." Twilight said, finally returning to her normal emotions. She looked back at Aurora and remembered that Aurora needed some, compassion, a room of her own, and some love. "Let's give Aurora a nice fluffy crib to rest her head."

"Good idea." Hair Raiser said as she and Spike hopped down from their chairs and followed Twilight down some more corridors. "The first thing a sleeping foal wants is some comfort."

The group passed some more doors on their trek down the corridor, some of them had windows next to them, so that you could see what was inside the room. One door led out to a nice balcony for Twilight to address her kingdom when she felt like it, and there were many other doors, leading into many other rooms.

"Here we are." Twilight stopped at a door and cast a powerful spell on the frame. The frame was enveloped in a white light, before the door it was holding followed suit and turned shiny white as well. "That should fit the needs of our children."

Twilight opened the doors to the room inside. For a room being shared by two children, it was pretty expansive, almost to the point where it was ridiculous. The walls were pretty far away from each other, so that both Aurora and Hair Raiser had plenty of room to run around in.

The floor was so large, it had to be split into two equal halves. one half being foalish and catered towards Aurora, and the other half more catered to a filly of Hair Raiser's age. Aurora's side had foal toys, a changing table and crib, and Hair Raiser's side had a 4-poster bed with curtains, a dressing table, and many other things to make an elementary schoolpony feel happy with their room.

"First of all, I want to make sure that Aurora doesn't have an accident while she's asleep." Twilight took the still sleeping Aurora over to the changing table and laid her down. "Hair Raiser, could you give me a hand with this?"

"Okay, mom. I'll do the best I can." Hair Raiser smiled as she remembered her powerful hair and its' capabilities.

The two ponies were in sync with one another. Twilight was undressing Aurora, and Hair Raiser was powdering a cloth diaper. The two also worked in sync with the changing part, Twilight set Aurora down onto the powdered padding, and Hair Raiser tied the diaper around Aurora's flank.

"There we go. Perfectly snuggly for a delicate foal such as yourself." Twilight said as she took Aurora in her magic and placed her down in the crib. Whilst Twilight was tucking Aurora in, Hair Raiser decided to give her a little sleeping aid by putting a pacifier in her mouth, giving her a nice teddy bear to cuddle, and placing a rattle in her other hoof.

Aurora's grip tightened on the teddy bear, and she gently shook the rattle in her sleep, all the while, she was continually suckling on the bouncy plastic tip of the pacifier. She was in a state of utter sleep, almost to the point where she'd never want to wake up.

"Sweet Dreams, Aurora." Twilight cast a spell on Aurora's horn, a spell which would project happy dreams and eternal foal fun for as long as she slept. "I'll see you soon."

Twilight silently motioned Spike and Hair Raiser to walk out of the room. They did this without disturbing the docile and adorable foal as she slept. Once they were both out, Twilight gently and quietly shut the door to give Aurora a wonderful sleep.

"As for you, Hair Raiser. We've got to get you enrolled in the Ponyville Schoolhouse." Twilight said, thinking nothing but the best for Hair Raiser. "I'm sure you'll have a lot of fun there."

"Thanks, mom." Hair Raiser smiled back at Twilight, who was looking down at her with an accepting and welcoming gaze. "I just hope the kids come to accept the fact that my hair can do extraordinary things."

"Trust me, there's been some pretty amazing stuff going down at the schoolhouse recently." Twilight smiled, remembering the good and the bad moments from what the Cutie Mark Crusaders had told her. "I'm sure you'll get along just fine."

Things were set for the Mane 6. They had very smart little foals who liked fun more than knowledge and they couldn't be more happier. Rainbow Dash had been surprised by Gale and how well things had turned out for her straight away, and she assumed that the other girls felt like that as well.

Each and every one of the girls now felt like a big piece of their lives had been filled in. With their mothering styles, Twilight, Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and Applejack would work hard, to make sure that the time their foals would have would be enjoyable. Things were all uphill for our 6 motherly mares now, and that would only get better as the days went by.

Hair Raiser's Upcoming Term

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New Beginnings

On the next day, The Mane 6 were awakened by the morning sun. They bathed in the light for a good few seconds before finally pulling themselves out of their sleep and waking up their little foals as well.

Hair Raiser got out of her bed and saw Aurora had already done some work with her power. The bars on the crib she slept in were frozen, and she was happily sucking the icicles that came out of them, while also making sure not to impale herself as she did so.

Hair Raiser then carried Aurora out of the icy crib and broke off some icicles for her to suck on as they went on their way to get breakfast with Twilight. Spike then walked in and melted the ice Aurora had been casting, so that her crib was ready for her to use later, should she want to.

"Good morning, Aurora." She said, using her hair to carry the foal up and put her in front of her face. "Did you sleep well last night?"

Aurora merely nodded, cooing in bliss as she began to suck on another of the icicles that Hair Raiser had broken off for her. She was too occupied with her frozen treat to answer in a verbal manner.

"I'll take that as a yes." Hair Raiser smiled as she put Aurora back on her back and continued her trek for their breakfasts.

It hadn't taken them long for them to make it to the dining hall again. Hair Raiser picked Aurora up with her hair and put her down in the high-chair for Twilight to handle. Then, Hair Raiser took her own seat and looked at the breakfast menu for the day.

Hair Raiser pondered all the items she could have. The breakfast menu indicted her to one meal, a drink and some fruit. She chose the Equestria Continental, which consisted of fried eggs, potato wedges, beans, sundried tomatoes and a hint of carrot cake. For her drink, she chose some good old-fashioned orange juice, freshly squeezed. Finally, for the side of fruit, she chose to have a mango.

"So, what'll it be, Hair Raiser?" Borealis said, returning to the young filly for her breakfast order.

"An Equestria Continental with freshly squeezed orange juice and a side of mango, please." She said, tapping it with a smile on her face.

"Ahh, good choice, miss." He said, taking the menu off of Hair Raiser and writing down the order on a notepad. "Coming right up." And then he was off to the kitchen to have it prepared for her.

Hair Raiser didn't have much to do to keep her occupied at this time. She mainly liked messing with her hair for the wait. After she'd gotten bored of amusing herself with it, she used it to entertain Aurora, getting a few giggles of delight from the little foal.

Eventually, Twilight walked into the room and already saw Aurora and Hair Raiser sitting down in their respective positions. She smiled at Aurora and walked over to Hair Raiser.

"Good morning, girls." She said, greeting the two fillies as she took her seat as well. "Isn't it a lovely morning in Ponyville?"

"It looks that way." Hair Raiser smiled as she looked out the window and saw what looked like a lovely day outside. She leaned against the back of her chair and sighed happily.

"So, what did you choose for breakfast, Hair Raiser?" Twilight decided to ask as she chose her morning meal as well.

"I chose the Equestria Continental. with orange juice and a mango." She said, using her hair to show Twilight what she'd chosen. "What about you, Mom? What are you gonna have for breakfast this morning?"

"Well, personally, I prefer an oatcake on mornings. They say it's good for the mind." Twilight said, smiling as she could envision her morning meal now. "All those vitamins and nutrients are worth it, to help a smart little pony make it through their studies. Wouldn't you agree?"

Hair Raiser merely nodded as she waited for her morning meal to be served to her. It had been a while since she ordered her food and was eagerly waiting to be served. She looked at Aurora and Twilight as she waited and knew everything would be alright.

Borealis eventually came back, holding a serving dish in his magic. He walked over to Hair Raiser and gently placed the dish on the table. He lifted the top up, revealing an Equestria Continental, fresh from the kitchen.

"There you go, Miss Raiser. Enjoy." He said as he took the lid with him to the kitchen, so it could be washed up for later use.

"Thanks, Borealis." She said, waving him off with her hoof before tucking in to her meal.

She tried using her hooves to pick up the knife and fork, an action which gave her no gain whatsoever. So she ended up using her hair to grab the cutlery, which yielded more results this time around.

Hair Raiser chewed each morsel of her food as thoroughly as she could, getting most of the flavours out of it. Once she got enough of the flavour she desired, she swallowed the foodstuff and moved on to another piece of her meal.

Twilight saw Aurora, quaintly nibbling on one of the icicles she'd had from her crib earlier. She merely smiled and levitated Aurora over to her chair and laid her down on her laps. She waited patiently for Aurora to finish her frozen treat.

She barely even noticed her food had arrived once Aurora had finally finished the icicle she had been eating. Once Aurora had finished, she was lifted up to Twilight's teats and allowed to breastfeed once more.

Twilight's wings once more enabled Aurora to enjoy the majesty of a warm comfort, tied in with the delicious breast milk she was consuming. Aurora looked up at Twilight whilst she suckled, receiving a motherly gaze in return.

Even though Twilight knew this was only a temporary motherhood, she didn't mind this at all. In fact, she was grateful that she had this experience. Many Alicorns in Equestria never have the chance to marry, let alone have children.

Once Aurora had finished, Twilight burped her and set her back down in her chair, so she could wait patiently for Hair Raiser and Twilight to finish.

"Mmmm..." Hair Raiser said, taking in another morsel of her delectable breakfast. "How DO your cooks make food this good, Mom?"

"My chefs are hoof-picked from the best chefs on the planet, Hair Raiser." She said, addressing her as clearly as a filly could understand. "Out of all the greatest cooks and bakers on Equestria, I chose only the best to serve in my kitchen. Well, it was mostly Celestia who did made the choices for me, since I'm still adapting to being a princess. But I supervised her decisions, so that still counts, right?"

"I think it truly only counts if you chose them yourself." Hair Raiser said, bringing up her impeccable logic. "Having someone else do the picking for you seems lazy and pointless. Why do you have to depend on Celestia to do all this stuff anyways?"

"Well, I was Celestia's personal protégé when I went to her school for unicorns adept in the magical arts. She took a liking to me during my entrance exam. Ever since that faithful day, she's been like my big sister in a way. She took me under her wing and taught me at levels far beyond my other students. And since I became a princess and got this new castle, she's been helping me get a head start on this whole 'Princess of Friendship' business."

"Princess of Friendship? What does that even mean?" Hair Raiser said, looking a little confused as she allowed herself to stop eating for a brief moment.

"Well, my rank in the Equestrian Hierarchy went up once I'd discovered our new power." Twilight explained. "By collecting six keys from six different conflicts, we were able to unlock a chest that played a pivotal role in bringing Tirek to his knees and throwing him back in Tartarus, where he belongs. The keys opened a chest, consuming us in a rainbow-coloured light before we finally emerged as much more powerful versions of ourselves. Our new power was enough to overpower and defeat Tirek, before we sealed him back in Tartarus for another eternity."

"Oh, that makes sense." She smiled at Twilight before returning to her meal, finishing off the mango she'd started on, making a mess as the juicy remnants splattered on the empty parts of the plate and a few parts of her legs.

She used her hooves to wipe the mess off of herself instead of her hair. She was an Earth Pony with super-hair, but even she had to have manners, especially since her mother was a princess. Once her mess was accounted for, she swigged down the last of her OJ and got up from the chair.

"Well, now that I'm full, I think I'm ready for the day ahead of me." Hair Raiser said as she left the table and walked over to Twilight, who put Aurora on her back. "But first, I think we need to put little Aurora back in her room to play."

"That's exactly what I was thinking." Twilight smiled at Hair Raiser as the two of them walked out of the room with Aurora on the back. "You're a really intelligent little filly, aren't you?"

"Thanks, Mom." She said, walking down the corridors with Twilight and Aurora back to her room.

Once the three of them made it back to the room, Spike was already there, thawing the rest of Aurora's icy crib for later use. He looked a little exhausted once he used his fire breath one last time, finishing the job.

"Let me tell ya, Twilight..." He said in between gasps for breath. "This ice is colder than it looks..."

"That's alright, Spike." She said, warming up the slightly soggy crib, making it seem like it had never been frozen and was now ready for Aurora to sleep in it again. "In fact, I need you to watch over cute little Aurora again whilst I drop off Hair Raiser at the Schoolhouse.

"Are you crazy, Twilight?!" Spike said, remembering the last time he was left alone with Aurora. "The last time you told me to watch over that little freezer, she turned me into an ice sculpture!"

"I've disciplined her with a mixture of both spanking and magic." Twilight said, stroking Aurora's mane as she was lifted through the air with her magic and dropped into Spike's arms. "Now she won't freeze anything living, which means you can take it easy this time around."

"Are you sure?" Spike asked, giving Twilight a little gaze. "You promise she won't freeze me?"

"I promise, Spike." She replied, petting his scales in a comforting fashion. "Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye."

"Thanks, Twilight." Spike said, acknowledging the Pinkie Promise that Twilight had made to him.

"She'll be back in a few minutes anyways." Hair Raiser reassured Spike as she walked out of the door with Twilight. "It's just looking after a harmless little foal, what could go wrong?"

"Yeah right..." Spike said once Hair Raiser and Twilight had left him to it. Spike was still a little worried that Aurora would come out of nowhere and strike him with one of her spells. "I bet I'll get roasted or frozen within the next five minutes."

"Mowning..." Aurora spoke, opening her eyes and awakening in Spike's arms. "Wait... You'we not my Mama. Who awe yoo?" She said, readying a strike from her horn, one that flickered with fire.

"W-Wait!" Spike said, putting Aurora down as soon as he noticed the flickering flames coming from her horn. "No need to fry me, Aurora. It's me, Spike."

"Spike?" She asked, still curious as to who he was. "Weww... Whewe's my Mama den?" She said, showing some sadness as she turned off the fire on her horn.

"She's taken your big sister Hair Raiser down to the Schoolhouse." Spike said, petting Aurora's coat, getting her to feel a little more at ease. "She'll be back soon."

"B-But... I miss my Mama!" She said, bursting into tears, which all froze and hit the floor without breaking up. "W-Why did Mama hafta weave me dis eawwy?!"

"W-Whoa!" Spike noticed all the ice tears that Aurora was starting to cry and immediately decided something had to be done. "C-Calm down, Aurora. She'll be back soon, I promise!"

"Y-You pwomise Mama wiww come back?" She said, looking up at Spike with concern showing in her eyes.

"I promise." Spike said, finally quelling Aurora's sadness and smashing the ice tears she had been crying. "Now then... What do ya wanna do until she comes back..."

"I... I wanna pway wid my bwocks." She said, looking over at the toy blocks over by her crib. "Can I pway wid dem, Spike?"

"Sure." He said, letting Aurora crawl over to the blocks she desired to use. "Have fun, alright?"

"Otay, Uncie Spike." She said, giggling shortly afterwards. Then she was lost in her playtime, picking up blocks and putting them one on top of the other, to make a tower. She had immediately forgotten about all the sadness of having to wait for Twilight to come back and caress her again and was now happily putting blocks on top of each other.

"Are you sure those schoolponies won't come and treat you like a celebrity again?" Hair Raiser decided to ask as she neared the schoolhouse with Twilight.

"Don't worry, they now know I'll be coming down to drop you off and pick you up, so they'll have plenty more time to witness me." Twilight said, making sure that Hair Raiser understood the whole issue.

"Alright then, Mom." She said as she felt her saddlebags which had been filled with school apparatus, ready for any challenge that would be thrown at her. "Anything else I should know?"

"Well, not everyone here is quite as friendly as they might seem." Twilight said, remembering two very infamous little fillies who went to this school. "Be on the lookout for a pink Earth Pony with a diamond tiara and a silver Earth Pony with glasses, they've been nothing but trouble for everyone except the teacher."

"Oh come on, Mom. I'm sure it can't be THAT bad." Hair Raiser said as she walked into the classroom, where everyone was looking at her and her lengthy hair. "Umm... Hi?"

She was immediately met with a chorus of sniggers and a few ponies trying to hold in their laughter, the only ones who didn't show this were the Cutie Mark Crusaders and Ms. Cheerilee, the teacher.

"Alright, Hair Raiser, I'll be back to pick you up at 3:00 PM." She said, explaining some rules to her before she took her seat. "Remember to make lots of friends, learn all that you can and just have a good time here."

"Okay, Mom." She said, looking a little more shyer than usual. She'd never seen everyone looking at her like that. Even so, she walked over to the empty desk behind Applebloom and put her saddlebags to the sides of it before sitting down.

Once Princess Twilight had left her to it, the bell rung and class was in session. For once, Hair Raiser started to show fear. She'd never done something like this and she was worried that she might not get along with anyone here, due to her freakishly long hair. When Cheerilee began talking, it felt like an omen of doom to her ears...

"Oh! Hey, Twilight!" Rainbow Dash said, gently flying to to Twilight, who had just walked out of Ponyville Schoolhouse and was about to head back to the castle. "How's the kids been?"

"They've been quite fine for their first night." She explained. "Aurora did freeze Spike solid after we left to enrol Hair Raiser, but I managed to discipline her the only way I know how, making sure it never happens again."

"You spanked her, didn't you?" Rainbow Dash deadpanned.

"What else could I have done?!" Twilight said, looking a little stunned how Rainbow Dash had just said it. "She could have killed Spike, the closest thing to a child I've ever had!"

"Lighten up, Twi. They're just foals. They're meant to be this playful." Rainbow Dash, trying to get her own words into Twilight's head. "Sure they're super-powered, but as long as their powers don't make your job as mother harder, then it's totally justified."

"What are you saying, Rainbow Dash?" She asked, still not getting the full picture.

"You shouldn't spank Aurora for playing, let alone freezing Spike." She said, putting a hoof on her shoulder. "The least you could have done is giving her a time-out or something, but spanking her? And you call me the bad mother..."

"Sorry, Rainbow Dash. I've just been a little stressed out by this whole thing." Twilight said, finally sharing her thoughts. "These new children of ours only came into Equestria yesterday, and they're already proving to be a handful for me."

"That's how every mother feels when they first get foals. The feeling's mutual, Twilight." She said, showing off Gale at last, who looked at Twilight with a tiny little smile. "Even little Gale here proved to be a little more than what I bargained for when I brought her home, but I'm still able to cope with her."

"You... Like her?" Twilight looked a little surprised, Rainbow Dash was caring for a foal... And liked it!

"Yeah, she's a playful little one, like I was." She said, petting Gale's hair, getting her to laugh and make a little flurry in front of Twilight and Rainbow Dash. "You don't get many playful foals with superpowers as awesome as my speed, so you might as well take this chance while ya still have it, in my opinion."

"Thanks, Rainbow Dash. Now I can see that you make an exceptional mother." Twilight said, smiling at her. "If you can handle a super-foal and like it, I'm sure I can do the same with Aurora."

"Good to hear it." Rainbow Dash flew up and was about to head to town. "Now if you'll excuse me, I need to get little Gale here some extra 'supplies'." Then she flew off.

Twilight smiled and walked the rest of the journey home alone. Of all the ponies to teach her to grin and bear it when it came to foalcare, it was Rainbow Dash, somepony who she'd never have guessed would have taught her that.

If she saw how good of a mother Rainbow Dash was, then she knew that she could follow her example and raise Aurora and Hair Raiser perfectly, and lead them on a life of prosperity before they returned to the comic book from whence they came...

Author's Note

I've been meaning to update this story for a while now, but I've also been working on a pretty big Dazzlings trilogy as well called The Siren Song. The three stories are: 1: Dazzle Dazzle, Little Stars (The Dazzlings using the Second Life Song and turning into babies under Sunset's care) 2: Razzle Dazzle (The Dazzlings trying to make it through elementary and high-school, with tons of adventures in store for them) 3: A Siren's Fight (The Dazzlings and The Blasters having one last confrontation to determine the fate of all three worlds.)

Check it out when you have the time...

Oh and also be sure to comment on this story as regularly as possible. It helps me know that you guys really do want to see more on this story. I'll be trying to make more chapters of this story more frequently as well, but I also have little Adagio, Aria and Sonata to write about as well.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Make sure to thumbs up it if you liked it, make sure to comment as often as you can, it helps me out a lot. Oh, and send this story to your friends as well, hopefully they'l like it as well. Now then, I've gotta go, Celestia's aft-

Celestia: Shadowmane!!!

Me: Oh boy...

Celestia: Did you steal my cake again?!

Me: Wat awe yoo tawking about, Mama?

Celestia: You know I love cake more than anything else in this world!

Me: So I guess yoo don't wove us den?

Celestia: (Remains silent, but pulls out a spanking mallet)

Me: Gotta go! (Uses magic to teleport away from Celestia)

Celestia: Don't you run away from me, Shadowmane!!!

Hair Raiser's Choice

"Alright, everypony. Settle down now." Cheerilee said as she addressed the class clearly as possible. From this point on, Hair Raiser felt the most vulnerable. Anything she said here would determine how the class felt towards her.

"Now then, before we started on today's lessons, I have a new student that I'd like you all to meet." She said, using her hoof to call Hair Raiser up to the front of the class.

She was very nervous in doing this, but Hair Raiser also had to show a sign of bravery. It was what Twilight would have wanted. She walked to the front of the class and turned around to face her fellow students. She thought her hair would be her undoing at this moment, but was surprised to hear words of awe from some of the whispering fillies and colts.

"Alright, little one. You may introduce yourself to the class now." Cheerilee said, prompting Hair Raiser to begin speaking.

"Hello, everypony." She said, looking pretty calm and collected as she saw everyone was bearing a smile towards her now. "My name is Hair Raiser, and I recently moved here from Manehatten. I look forward to spending some time and getting to know you better."

As she made her way back to her desk, she was greeted with applause form the other fillies and colts. The colts mainly applauded her for her looks, whereas the fillies applauded for how brave she was, standing in front of the whole class and greeting themselves like that.

"That pony was so brave." One of the children said, admiring Hair Raiser. "Having to stand up in front of the whole class is no easy feat."

"Ah have a feelin' that she might make the perfect new recruit fer the Cutie Mark Crusaders." Applebloom said, watching Hair Raiser sit back down at her desk, pushing her hair away so that it wasn't on the chair itself. "Just so long as Little Miss Princess don't get in our way."

"They actually... Liked me?" Hair Raiser spoke in her mind, still confused at the fact that everyone loved her, despite her freakishly long hair which could be controlled freely. "Maybe this whole school thing won't be so bad after all..."

"Well, Hair Raiser. I personally wish to welcome you to the classroom. With my teachings, you're sure to learn a lot here and eventually prosper into the great mare you'll eventually become." Cheerilee said, after she found where Hair Raiser had sat down.

"Thank you, Miss Cheerilee." She said, showing a little smile afterwards. She first thought that this would be unbearable for her, but she'd managed to pull through and enjoy all this attention. And it wasn't even the first lesson yet. "I'll do my best."

"I know you will." Cheerilee said, smiling as she took a nearby piece of chalk and began writing on the blackboard with it. "Today, we're going to be discussing the topic of Unicorn Magic. Now I know this will interest some of you, due to the fact that some of you are Unicorns yourselves."

"Like me!" Sweetie Belle said, grinning as she looked at her horn.

"Yes, Sweetie Belle, just like you." Cheerilee said as she also looked at Sweetie's horn.

"Unicorns can do a wide variety of feats that Pegasi and Earth Ponies can't." Cheerilee said, resuming the lesson. "For example, Unicorns have a basic skill known as 'Levitation' which they can use to move objects simply by concentrating their magic into a powerful stream known as an 'Aura' and using that stream of magic, they can move anything anywhere, even other ponies."

"Now, can anypony tell me what usually happens when a Unicorn casts spells?" She stopped, hoping that one of the kids would be able to answer the question for her.

"Oh! That's easy. Their horn glows whilst they cast them." Scootaloo said, raising her hoof to answer that. Sure, she was a Pegasus, but that didn't stop her from knowing this fact. "To be precise, their horns glow until they stop casting them."

"Excellent work, Scootaloo." Cheerilee said, smiling at the orange Pegasus before she went back to writing on the blackboard. She drew a unicorn casting a spell with a special field around its' horn. "When a Unicorn's horn glows, then that means they're casting spells. But whilst this happens, they have to have the utmost of concentration. Because if they get distracted, they lose their concentration and stop casting the spell."

"Something I'll have to remember..." Said a whispered voice that Hair Raiser could immediately tell came from in front of her. It was whispered, so it couldn't disrupt Cheerilee's class, but it belonged to a pink Earth Pony with a diamond tiara, just like Twilight had described earlier.

"There's actually much more to Unicorn Magic than meets the eye." Cheerilee said, rubbing off the previous chalk illustration and drawing a much more detailed one, with a Unicorn struggling with their magic and their aura intensified. "If a Unicorn is suffering from undesirable memories or emotions, their magic intensifies and is released in a powerful burst called a 'Magic Surge'."

"What's a Magic Surge?" Hair Raiser raised her hoof to ask the question, and was happily met with Cheerilee's answer.

"A Magic Surge is a massive increase of power, caused by all the repressed memories or uncontrollable emotions that a Unicorn feels." Cheerilee explained. "Whenever a Unicorn suffers psychological trauma, their magic becomes enhanced, but at the same time, unpredictable."

"In what ways?" Hair Raiser furthered the question with another question.

"A Magic Surge's power can vary, depending on how skilled in magic the unicorn truly is." Cheerilee explained once more. "The results also vary on how deeply they suffer from all this. The most common effect of a Magic Surge is transformation, in which case a pony is transformed into something else, or a younger version of themselves."

"Now then, I'm going to hand you all some very important worksheets that you must fill in before the bell goes." Cheerilee said as she pulled out a stack of paper and proceeded to hand copies of the same sheet to each of the children. "Everypony take out your pencils."

Hair Raiser complied with this order, as did the rest of the children. She used her hair to open up her saddlebag and pull out a pencil. Many of the students saw her doing this and were quite intrigued as to how she was doing this, but she didn't notice and instead curled her hair around the pencil so that she could write with it.

She spent the next few minutes writing down answers in the boxes, hoping that they would be right. She showed a little smile at some of the answers but a little concern with some others. She partially knew about Unicorn Magic now, and was worried that it might not have been enough to complete this worksheet.

As she wrote the answers, she was watched by many other ponies. Some of which were actually awestruck that such a thing could ever be possible. They were looking at a pony who could write with her hair alone. There were five children out of this group who saw great potential in Hair Raiser's abilities and would make a valuable addition to their groups, but it would all depend on who she wished to side with...

Once the bell rang, all the kids handed in their papers to Miss Cheerilee and went out for a quick recess period. Hair Raiser was the last to leave, since she had to ask what the date was so that she could write it down, but this didn't bother her either.

She finally handed in her completed assignment and rushed outside to have her well-earned recess period. She was almost immediately swarmed on by dozens of fillies and colts, who were all admiring her and her special tricks with her hair.

"There she is! The filly with the fabulous follicles..." Rumble said, looking at Hair Raiser's fantastically long-flowing mane.

"They say that her hair is so magnificently long, that it could be used instead of a ladder whenever she wants to get to high places." Said a random filly who was also fantasizing over Hair Raiser's mane.

"The only question is, who is she gonna side with?" Snips decided to ask to himself as he too was smitten with how long Hair Raiser's hair flowed.

"Why let her wait then?" Said a shrill voice that immediately got everyone to stop and let someone in. "After all, such a divine filly such as herself needs to decide whether or not she's cool or not."

"Not so fast, Diamond Tiara!" Applebloom said, dispersing the whole group, but not Diamond Tiara, or her cohort, Silver Spoon. "She has a right ta choose fer herself. She don't need ya'll breathing down her neck so she'll crack from peer pressure."

"Ah, the Cutie Mark Crusaders. We meet once again." She said, as she quickly left Hair Raiser to it and went over to the CMC, with a devilish smile on her face. "Come to add another Blank-Flank into your stupid little club, have we?"

"Blank-Flanks aren't stupid, Diamond Tiara." Sweetie Belle said, standing her ground along with her fellow crusaders. "You're pretty smart, I will admit that. But then again, you used to be a Blank-Flank yourself, didn't you?"

"Used to is not a term we prefer to use in this sort of discussion." Silver said, trying to keep the argument going. "We prefer the term to be more as a distant foalhood memory."

"Listen, I don't know what's going on here, but I believe that this is something that shouldn't be dealt with mere pessimism." Hair Raiser said, grabbing the attention of all five fillies. "This is something that needs to be decided with something a little more... Stylish."

"Oh? And what exactly did you have in mind, Hair Raiser?" Applebloom said, curious to know what she was thinking of.

"A little something like... This!" She said, using her hair to grab Diamond Tiara's tiara and throw it away. Causing everyone else to laugh at her. "I can immediately tell that that tiara of yours is what's making you such an arrogant jerk. Let's see how you feel when you spend a few days without such a piece of plastic!"

"H-How dare you!" Diamond said, looking a little steamed that Hair Raiser stripped her of her most prized possession. "Daddy paid good money for that thing. You'd better give me it back or else!"

"Or else what? You'll cry? Maybe want your teddy bear? Or how about a pacifier to shut that flapping trap of yours!" Hair Raiser said, quickly silencing Diamond Tiara, making her threats seem like a dull roar. "I have no time to deal with such idiocy craving schoolfillies such as yourselves, I'm out of here." She said, walking off to another part of the playground.

"Whoa... Did you see how awesome that filly was?" Scootaloo said, still amazed that Hair Raiser had stood up for herself. "She not only flinched, but she also embarrassed Diamond Tiara in front of the entire school!"

"Ah have a feelin' she's made her choice..." Applebloom said, smiling at how brave Hair Raiser had been in the face of danger. "The Cutie Mark Crusaders is gettin' a new member."

"Come on, let's go over and congratulate her!" Sweetie Belle said, already running after Hair Raiser. The other Crusaders were quickly following her.

Meanwhile, Diamond Tiara merely stood there, lost for words. She'd not only been embarrassed, but had lost her tiara as well. Her expression stayed the same for around two minutes, shock and awe.

"Pbbth, whatever, we don't need her. Come on, Di." Silver said, merely walking off to another area of the playground, but immediately stopped when she noticed that Diamond wasn't even moving. "Uhh... Diamond?"

"She's tough, and not only that, she managed to embarrass me with merely a thought." Diamond said to herself. "However, since she now hates me, she might be a tough nut to crack. But I'll get there eventually, I always do with ponies."

Five minutes after that little 'incident' had happened, Hair Raiser was over at the see-saw with a pony who was quite impressed with the way she stood up for herself back then.

"You're really brave, you know that? Not many ponies here had the courage to stand up to Diamond Tiara like that." He said, with a very British accent in his voice.

"Well, thank you, Pip." She said, using her hair to push herself upwards and help Pip get back down to the ground, due to the difference in their overall weight.

"In fact, there are really only three other ponies who've stood up to her before and succeeded."

"Oh? And who are they?" She asked, curious to know who their names were. She'd seen them earlier but was at a loss for their names.

"Applebloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo, or as they're more commonly known as... The Cutie Mark Crusaders!" He said, imitating one of their voices, with poor effort.

"Well, I think they sound like my kind of friends." Hair Raiser said, once she got off and helped Pip to get off as well. "Where are they now?"

"Coming over to greet us by the looks of things." He said pointing a hoof towards the three fillies who were coming over to say hello to her.

Hair Raiser watched with interest as she was greeted by a yellow Earth Pony with red hair and a bow in her mane, a white Unicorn with curly pink and purple hair and an orange Pegasus with purple hair. They were the Cutie Mark Crusaders that Pip had just told her about and were quite excited to see her.

"Howdy there, Hair Raiser." Applebloom said, greeting Hair Raiser. "Ya'll were really brave back there, standin' up ta Diamond Tiara like that."

"Yeah, I've been getting that recently." She said, lightly admiring her feat back there. "What is her deal?"

"Oh, well, Diamond Tiara's been a pain in all of our flanks ever since we came to the Ponyville Schoolhouse." Sweetie Belle said, speaking her mind. "My advice? Don't even acknowledge she even exists. That's what Rarity told me."

"My mom did tell me that those two weren't as friendly as the rest of the kids here. What happened back there is a prime example of that." She said, completely agreeing with what Twilight had said back there.

"Who's your mom, anyways?" Scootaloo asked, wondering who could have raised such a brave young filly who could handle herself like that. "I bet she's someone awesome, if she told you about the two of them that quickly."

"Well, I don't mean to brag, but I happen to be the eldest daughter of the fabled Princess Twilight."

"Wait... What?!" Sweetie Belle said, looking pretty surprised that she had been told this. "Princess Twilight never had kids before!"

"Well, she hadn't, until I came into her life." Hair Raiser said, smiling as she told the CMC all about how she came into being. "I was just a poor little foal, abandoned on the streets of Ponyville with six babies. Spike came round and brought us all to Twilight and now, here I am. Back on the mend."

"Aww... That's sad." Sweetie Belle said. Not many ponies here were orphans. "So, you're adopted, are you?"

"Unfortunately." Hair Raiser said, sighing sadly at how her past seemed non-existent to her. "I never even knew my true mother and father before they threw us out onto the streets..." She then ended up crying her eyes out.

"That's terrible." Scootaloo said, putting a hoof on Hair Raiser's shoulder and rubbing it tenderly. "Nopony should ever have to feel that much heartbreak, especially not in their childhood days."

"Come on, let's play together. That way, ya can stop worryin' about yer tragic past and have some fun with us." Applebloom said, leading Hair Raiser over to the nearby ball in the field.

"Thanks, girls." She said, sighing as if there really was no hope for her now. "I could use the entertainment."

"Cheer up, that's what being a filly is all about. Having fun!" Sweetie Belle said as she kicked the ball over to Hair Raiser, who caught it with her hair. "Nice catch."

"Thanks, Sweetie Belle." She said, starting to smile once again. She used her hair to bat the ball around, preparing to serve it up to one of the CMC. "Scootaloo! Head's up!" She said, turning her hair into a giant pair of fists and using it to toss the ball to her.

"Haha, nice one, Hair Raiser!" Scootaloo said, bucking the ball right back to her.

"Thanks." She said, now playing tennis with this new ball with Scootaloo shooting it right back to her. "This fun stuff is quite nice, actually."

"Ya really like it?" Sweetie Belle said as she now had the ball and passed it over to Applebloom, who tossed it right back to Hair Raiser.

"It's made my day much more exciting now!" She said, laughing every time she bounced the ball to another member of the CMC. "If this is how fillies play, then I say let's play!"

"Yay!" The CMC all said, happy that Hair Raiser was happy playing with them and their ball.

Together, the four of them spent their recess with the ball, bouncing back and forth to one another, laughing all the way. Hair Raiser was loving every second of it, she'd found kids who had introduced her to fun and helped her enjoy every moment of it. When she hit the ball, she giggled, when they hit the ball, they giggled and even when they missed the ball, they all still laughed together.

Eventually, they decided to move on to Tag and began running around the place wildly, trying to land a good tag on one another. Since it was a game of touching, Hair Raiser decided to make things fair by agreeing not to use her hair to tag the CMC. Regardless of it all, one thing was certain. Hair Raiser loved fun, and the CMC were happy to have introduced her to it.

Author's Note

Thanks for reading the latest chapter of The Power Foals and Hair Raiser. I hadn't really had much time to update this latest chapter, what with my busy schedule and all. I have recently updated Dazzle Dazzle, Little Stars just yesterday or so, so I kind of got distracted with all the praise that the newest chapter got for that one.

I don't really have anything more to say except I hope you enjoyed the chapter and have a nice day/good night. Now then, I need to be getting back t- (Hit with sleeping spell) Going down...

Luna: Silly Shadowmane, I know you love my night, but even you need your sleep as well.

Me: Aww... Do I weawwy hafta go ta sweep?

Luna: Don't worry, you can still play with me in your dreams...

Me: I wove yoo, Mama...

Luna: And I love you too, Shadowmane. (Levitates me into my Crib next to Night--Mist and Autumn Breeze) Goodnight, my little angels of the night...

The First Playdate

Author's Note

Hello, everyone. I just wanted to come out and say that I'm truly sorry for the long and agonizing wait that I might have caused you during the wait for the next chapter.

You see, somethings tend to catch my eye for a brief second, and eventually, I'm hooked on the whole thing. I got into The Dazzlings, and so much new stuff was drawn to light, even going so far as to making an entire trilogy on them, which ate up a LOT of my time. I was just so determined to finish the trilogy on Adagio, Aria, and Sonata, before Season 5 came out.

So, once more, I apologize for the nightmarish hiatus that this fic went on, but now it's over, so let's get right back into the story!

P.S: Thank you for keeping up with this story, I really do appreciate it.

The First Playdate

As soon as Twilight walked back into Ponyville, she could see that everything seemed relatively normal and peaceful. Many of the townsponies were out and about, doing their everyday errands, having conversations with one another, and just making Ponyville seem much more pleasant for all of them.

Some inhibitions then crept into Twilight's mind. She wondered how the town would react to the fact that she and the rest of the element bearers were now mothers. At first, she figured that the town would appreciate this decision, but then, there were some senses of fear and doubt starting to sink in. She'd remembered that not everypony in Ponyville was as accepting as the rest of them, and that these certain ponies may see Twilight as an unfit ruler if she had children to deal with as well. Whilst those thoughts buried themselves deep in her mind, she still continued leisurely trotting towards her regal castle.

"Should I really tell them?" Twilight asked herself, unaware on what the consequences would be if she revealed Hair Raiser and Aurora to Ponyville. "How would they react? More so, how would the other princesses react?" Then, she began to think about her other friends. "And then, what would happen if my own friends revealed their age-regressed Power Ponies? There could be thousands of questions from all ends, to which we might not be able to answer them all!" she began sweating and panicking.

But then, Twilight took a deep breath and thought of the positives. "No... No, the ponies of Ponyville would never be so harsh on us, especially not after all the times we saved their flanks..." She then began perking up when she thought of the positive side of things. "I know these ponies all too well, and I can tell that they'd be very welcoming with this decision that was thrust upon us all..."

Not wasting anymore breath, Twilight walked into her castle and shut the door as soon as she was inside. Hearing the noise of the door shutting behind her echo throughout the walls of the castle wasn't something she was completely used to, but it was still something that seemed right to her in a sense. There were also some echoes as she walked across the floors towards Aurora and Spike, to see how exactly they were getting along. Once more, the echoes weren't something she was completely fine with, but she still accepted it.

Eventually, she arrived at Aurora and Hair Raiser's bedroom, putting one of her ears on the door so she could listen in on what exactly was going on beyond the door. When she heard Aurora's giggling on the other side, she felt equal parts worried and relieved. She was worried that Aurora would still be using her superpowers on Spike and the other things in the room, but she was also relieved that Aurora was happy, even without Twilight watching over her.

She felt that the door was unlocked and wasn't sealed up with ice, so she lit up her horn and opened up the door slowly. As soon as the door was open wide enough, she walked in, seeing that Aurora was chasing after Spike in what seemed like a friendly game of Tag.

For being only a foal, Aurora was quite good at getting some distance between her and Spike. She used a combination of both her hooves and her tiny wings to propel her across the room, giving her much more space to run to. She watched as Spike tried intercepting her at a point, but she merely lit up her horn, turned around, and slid on the ice to get away from him.

Spike seemed to gasp and pant for breath every time that Aurora managed to give him the slip. To him, it seemed like she was completely untouchable, no matter what he tried. However, he then got a clever plan that involved Aurora's favourite pink blanket. He picked the blanket up in his claws, and went after Aurora once again.

The young Power Pony was quite good at utilizing her powers, which meant that her icy powers meant that she could slide right underneath Spike and still keep her speed up. She looked at Spike come back for her and said, "Yoo can't catch me, Spikey!" before she blew a raspberry and began running again.

Spike didn't respond to that comment, and instead took the blanket and held it to his side, ready for the plan that he'd prepared. He got close to Aurora, seeing that his angle of where he'd reach her would make the foal turn left. As predicted, he watched as Aurora then shifted her body to turn. Once she'd done so, Spike put his plan into action.

Without even realizing it, Aurora was scooped up by a soft pink material. She felt that the material was warm and snugly, making her immediately calm down and shuffle around in it, feeling much more soothed the more she felt the blanket with her tiny hooves.

"Yoo got me, Spikey..." Aurora said lightly, letting out one last giggle before she began cooing in the soft blanket. "You'we wots of fun ta pway wid..."

Twilight giggled as she walked up closer to Spike. "I trust that you and Aurora are friends now, Spike?"

"Well..." Spike said, looking back down at Aurora with a little blush. "We're getting there..."

"She does look adorable, doesn't she?" Twilight said, looking at how cute Aurora looked in that little blanket she was wrapped up in. She knew that in truth, she was looking at a foalized version of herself, but it was still cute to look at. "Remind me just to research on those comics later, Spike..."

Suddenly, Twilight could see that her friends were all standing outside the room, all of them swooning at how motherly Twilight and Spike looked towards Aurora.

"Oh, hey, girls," Twilight said, allowing her friends to come into the room and get another glimpse of Aurora, the foalized version of the Masked Matterhorn.

"Don't mind us, Twilight. We just let ourselves in to see how you're getting along with Aurora and Hair Raiser..." Fluttershy said, gazing into the blanket that kept Aurora from touching the ground.

"From the looks of things, you're quite a figure of motherhood, Twilight..." Rarity said, almost being cut off by something tugging at the back of her mane. "Oh, Glimmer! Do you want to see Twilight's foal?"

Glimmer merely nodded, and was then lifted off of her back with Rarity's magic. She was levitated close to the blanket, where she could get a good look at the soothed Aurora. She reached out to try and touch Aurora in her sleep, but was then levitated onto the floor.

The rest of the Mane Six let their foals look at Aurora before they put them onto the padded floor as well.

"So, while you're all here, girls, let's do a little check on how you're raising your foals..." Twilight said, putting Aurora onto the floor, where she slowly crawled out of the blanket to play with Gale, Shy Hearted, Light Speed, Glimmer, and Honest. "First things first, did you all remember to bring your diaries with you?"

Responding almost immediately, the girls all pulled out their little diaries. They then handed them to Twilight, so that she could open up all of the pages to the first entry. Once she did so, she put them all on Hair Raiser's bed and shuffled them up behind her.

"Let's begin," Twilight said, picking up one of the diaries without looking, so that she could still keep the suspense up. "Our first diary entry is from Rainbow Dash. And it reads:"

Dear Diary...

Today was different, to say the least. I woke up, busted some clouds, and found that little baby versions of us had just been pulled from another one of Spike's comics. I gotta say, I'm still confused as to how those enchanted comics are actually selling... But that's beside the point. The real surprise today came from the fact that I took baby-me home, because Twilight says that six foals and one filly all at once would be too much, even after all she's done in the past. Anyways, she had no actual name, but Twilight had already taken the liberty of calling her Gale. Pretty awesome name choice, huh? It's as if she knew me inside and out. I can just see it now; Gale Dash, the leader of The Wonderbolts when she grows up... She'd be radical, awesome, and daring. Anyways, let's get back to the topic of me caring for Gale. She's quite a feisty foal, I'll admit. Just like Zap, she's capable of utilizing weather for her own personal amusement. In fact, she was capable of firing snowballs at my flank when I tried preparing her food for later. That, and she struck me with a bit of lightning when we actually got home that day. Some last words for the day, I'd say that Twilight's got it all wrong. If anything, Gale's more dangerous, not me. But even though she's got some untamed power, I know she'll be capable of great things once she's older...

-Rainbow Dash

"Well, it appears that I've got some apologizing to do, Rainbow Dash," Twilight said, looking at Rainbow Dash with an apologetic look on her face. "I said that you weren't capable of handling foals, but you've definitely proved me wrong with that entry..."

"It's alright, Twilight. You don't have to be right about everything," Rainbow Dash said, putting a hoof around her shoulders as she flew close to her. "Not everyone has all the right answers. And even if they did, they'd probably be too pompous and stuck-up to even tell them."

"Anyways..." Twilight gave Rainbow Dash's diary back to her, before blindly picking another diary for her to read out to them. "Our next diary entry comes straight from Rarity..."

"You would not believe the amount of time I spent trying to get it in-between the lines..." Rarity said, watching as Twilight levitated the diary up close so that she could read it.

"And this one says:"

Dear Diary...

This day has been, well, very bizarre... After filling out some dress orders for some patrons, I found myself summoned to Twilight's Castle for a rather odd request. Upon arrival, I saw that there were infant versions of me and my friends. And not just that, but they were actually from one of Spike's magical comic books. What was even more surprising, was that I was actually selected to care for the baby version of myself. She was already given a name; which had been called Glimmer. Not the name I would have chosen, but I wasn't the one who found her. Anyways, Glimmer's such a sweet little foal, very well behaved, and quite happy when playing with Sweetie Belle. Just like comic book character; Radiance, Glimmer's capable of making anything she can think of with these little bracelets she wears on her hooves. Most of the time, she makes teddy bears and pacifiers for herself, since foals aren't really capable of thinking about much, expect for baby stuff. But back to the topic at hand, it now brings me to the topic of this diary. Twilight wants me to chronicle the time I spend with Glimmer, so that she can make sure that I am indeed fit to mother foals. So, I guess that all I can really say now, is that Glimmer's a wonderful little bundle of joy, and a pleasure to have in Carousel Boutique. I look forward to the days ahead of us, so I can see just how much sweet little Glimmer grows...

-Rarity

"Well, that's two good parents down," Twilight smiled, giving Rarity's diary back before picking up the next diary. "Now let's see who's next for evaluation..."

"Ooh! I hope it's me!" Pinkie Pie said, putting herself in front of the rest of the Mane Six, seeing that their eyes were already on her. "Go for it, Twilight!" she then blindfolded herself with Aurora's blanket, so that she couldn't see which diary Twilight picked up.

"You can lose the blanket, Pinkie. I've got the next diary right here," Twilight said, using her magic to pull the blanket off of Pinkie's face and put it into Aurora's crib. "You'll be happy to know that I've pulled yours this time..."

Pinkie Pie squeaked with joy as she jumped back to the rest of the group.

"And this one reads:"

Dear Diary...

Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh! Today was a such big day for me, and probably my friends as well! Well, aside from the day when I created MMMM, but that was totally different from what's happened today! Today, I made a cake, got a letter from Princess Twilight, then found myself with a foal named Lightspeed, who's actually a little foalified version of me! I was so excited, that I immediately said yes to Twilight and took little Lightspeed home for the evening. She's so fast, even for a foal! Not even little Pound and Pumpkin could keep up with her crazy speeds! Kinda like me, huh? But anyways, Lightspeed's such a sweet little foal, that I always cracked a smile whenever she would do stuff. Like getting into the cupboards and trying to get to my secret stash of cookies for one. How did she even know about that anyway? Either way, Mr and Mrs Cake generously let me borrow some of their supplies to look after Lightspeed. They were oh so generous in doing so, happy to see that I too was a mother. And though this is kinda gonna cut my party organizing duties short, I'm sure that cute little Speedy here is gonna be worth it in the long run.

-Pinkamena Diane "Pinkie" Pie

"Good to know that Cup Cake and Carrot Cake are there for you, Pinkie," Twilight said, sighing in relief as she let some of her stress go. She said to herself, "That's some supporters on our side in case the whole town knows..."

"What?" Pinkie asked, leaning in on Twilight when she heard her talking to herself.

"Nothing," Twilight said sheepishly, trying to get the girls to forget their sudden suspicions.

"It sounds like ya said som-"

"Nothing!" Twilight was once more quick to the punch, stopping Applejack mid-sentence.

"No, seriously, Twilight. It sounds like you're hiding som-"

"Anyways," Twilight got Rainbow Dash to stop as she picked out the second to last diary out of the remaining two, surprised that none of the foals had broken from their playtime. "Let's get back to the diaries..."

"This next one belongs to Fluttershy," Twilight looked at Fluttershy, making her suddenly jump with the mention of her name. "And this one reads:"

Dear Diary...

I'm pretty sure that all the other girls will say this as well, but today was quite strange. Not in the bad kind of strange, I mean the weird kind of strange. I was tending to the animals, as usual, checking their health, feeding them their food, doing what I usually do on mornings like these. But then, I was called to Twilight's Castle, where I was given a little foal copy of me. But actually, it's a foal version of my Power Pony self; Saddle Rager. I'm quite surprised that she was somehow pulled out of the comic and into Equestria, since the last one actually pulled us into their world, but I was still quite accepting of sweet little Shy Hearted. I know it's a strange name, but I'm still quite accepting of looking after foals. They're so happy, adorable, carefree... Where was I? Oh, right! The diary. Anyways, Shy's coming along just fine, girls. She's eating well, being changed when she needs to, getting her required amount of naps and sleep, and she's generally in good health.

-Fluttershy

"Well, I expected nothing less from you, Fluttershy," Twilight said, smiling as she hoofed Fluttershy's diary right back to her, watching her take it with a smile on her face. "Good work with Shy."

"Thanks, Twilight," Fluttershy said with a smile as she put the diary away.

"Now then, we've only got Applejack's diary to go, then we can play with the foals again," Twilight said, picking up Applejack's diary and putting it up to her face. "And this one reads:"

Dear Diary...

Things took a rather strange turn for the Apple Family today. The day was just like any other day, me, Big Mac, and Applebloom were all out on the orchard, bucking apples and dropping them in buckets, when I was suddenly called to Twilight's Castle for something important. I knew that I couldn't just let Twilight's call go unanswered, so I let Big Mac and Applebloom cover for me. I made it to Twilight's house, when I was suddenly presented with a little foal version of myself. I took Honest home with me, and put her in Applebloom's old nursery so she could fit right in. I gave her some time to play, some time to eat, and then she slept like an angel from heaven. I'd say that the Apple Family picked up a great new addition to the family. I'm looking forward to what else Honest can bring me in future.

-Applejack

"And, that's everything sorted out," Twilight said, levitating Applejack's diary back to her, watching her take it back when she cut off the aura. "You've all done an exceptionally good job with raising your foals. You five would make wonderful mothers in my eyes..."

"Thank ya kindly, Twilight," Applejack said. "But ya hafta remember that this is only temporary, until we can send the little ones back to the story, so they can finish the tale..."

"Oh yeah..." Twilight then got sad once again. She know remembered that these were the Power Ponies from the story, and if they didn't get back to finish the story against Hair Raiser's older self; the Mane-iac, then things just wouldn't work out well for Spike, nor anyone else who reads the Power Ponies stories. "That's right..."

"Hey, don't feel sad, Twilight," Rainbow Dash said, putting her hoof on her shoulders once again. "We've all gotta say goodbye to some things in our life, even children eventually grow up and lead their own lives."

"Rainbow Dash is right, sugarcube. Everypony has ta say goodbye ta children eventually," Applejack said, walking over to Honest and gently tussling her mane with her hoof. "But until then, we've still gotta take care of our little ones until then..."

"I agree with Applejack, darling. Everything has to part, eventually..." Rarity said, lifting Glimmer up so that she could brush her hair. She could hear her cooing with bliss whenever her hoof went through Glimmer's indigo curl. "But we still have to stay motherly for them. They'd appreciate it, after all..."

"You're right about that, Rarity," Twilight said, finally coming to her senses. She smiled once again as she watched all of the foals playing together. "Let's have fun with them while we can, girls. They need all the excitement they can get before they go..."

And then, Twilight, Fluttershy, Rarity, Pinkie, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash all got together with their foal versions of themselves and began playing together. The playing was mainly the foals playing with all kinds of toys, with the Mane Six being their caretakers throughout the whole thing. They were there to cuddle them, help them feel better when they were sad, and even play big group games that the foals didn't understand at first, but quickly caught on. From the looks on everyone's faces, they were all happy to be playing together, happy that their foals were growing and laughing together. It seemed like something that could never be duplicated, at least not by anyone else...

Powers Unleashed!

"So, Hair Raiser, ah know that you stood up ta Diamond earlier. But ah have to ask, why did ya stand up to her?" Applebloom asked once the bell rang and everyone was called in for their next lesson. "Not many foals in this class have the guts to do that, let alone in such a powerful way that makes her feel weak..."

"Well, you see, Mum told me that Diamond Tiara wasn't to be trusted," Hair Raiser said, sighing shortly afterwards. "I just don't really know how to stand up to ponies without using my hair. I know that Cheerilee's here, but Diamond would probably try and pull some kind of puppy-dog face to make me seem like the bad one..."

"Yeah, that sounds like something she'd usually do," Scootaloo said, remembering just how much of a brat that Diamond Tiara could be at times. "I've had that idea many times, but Sweetie Belle and Applebloom keep telling me that it's best to just let it go and just continue with what we're doing..."

"But, if you just leave her alone, doesn't she usually come back to cause misery?" Hair Raiser asked, wondering whether or not Diamond Tiara would be a recurring problem, both for her, and the rest of the CMC.

"She does, and she does strike at some pretty deep points as well..." Sweetie Belle said as they all made it inside the schoolhouse once again. "She usually nitpicks by saying we're never going to accomplish much, and even went so far as to say that Scootaloo wouldn't be able to fly..."

"That's horrible..." Hair Raiser looked at Diamond Tiara with a rather bemused and disgusted look on her face. "Nopony that cruel should be allowed to be seen in public, let alone do things to other ponies that make them miserable..."

"You're right about that, Hair Raiser," Applebloom said, completely agreeing on what she was saying as she too looked at Diamond Tiara. "Eventually, every bad apple gets thrown out. And someday, Diamond Tiara's gonna hafta fess up fer her actions..."

"Yeah, but until then, we're just going to have to grin and bear it..." Sweetie Belle said as they all took their seats for the next lesson of the day.

"Alright, everypony. Quiet down for our next lesson, please," Cheerilee said, getting all of the fillies and colts to direct their attention to her voice, as well as the lesson she had prepared for them. "Let's all settle down for our next lesson."

The lesson that followed was a seemingly long telling of the Crystal Empire's creation, and the princess who presided over it before Sombra began enslaving everyone. Many of the fillies and colts in the class were scribbling down notes on the lesson they were learning, so that they were able to retain the knowledge, should Cheerilee ask them to recall any facts that she was confiding to them. Despite their devotion to learning, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon were merely listening and messing around with their hooves to pass the time.

Hair Raiser looked at the two fillies and scoffed to herself before she returned to her notes. She was quite adept at writing, for being a filly who'd only just arrived in Equestria yesterday. Whilst many foals would find it daunting to go into detail over what they would have to be writing about, Hair Raiser found it much easier to show the facts instead of tell them to the class. This meant that her facts were much more descriptive than usual, which would garnish a better grade if she applied them later.

However, Hair Raiser could suddenly feel something in her hair. Not something physical, but something otherworldly. She tried using her hoof to find what the problem was, before her hair suddenly curled around her, like someone putting their hooves through silk drapes. Something was wrong. This sudden realization had Hair Raiser on edge, and before she could even think of anything else, her hair suddenly shot upwards and spread across the ceiling, much to the surprise of everyone.

"W-What's happening?" she asked herself as she tried letting her hair drop, with little avail. It was like something was controlling her hair instead, making her seem like a freak of nature amongst the rest of the class. "Get down, hair! You're not supposed to act like this!"

As if the hair was obedient to her words, it suddenly fell down from the ceiling, covering the faces of many other foals in the class. As it recoiled and returned towards Hair Raiser, she know knew that everyone else in the class knew what she was. With that in mind, Hair Raiser looked towards Cheerilee with a look of terror.

The Earth Pony merely looked surprised that Hair Raiser had such a unique gift. She should have been feeling apprehensive towards Hair Raiser, but something was telling her that she would be able to control this in the future, and use it for the greater good of everypony. She merely trotted towards Hair Raiser, and put her hoof on her shoulders.

"Is something the matter, Hair Raiser?" she asked, feeling rather sympathetic for the startled filly. "Why did your hair suddenly grow out of control like that?"

"I'm... I'm not really sure, Miss Cheerilee..." Hair Raiser said, struggling to get a feasible explanation for what had just happened in the class. "It just... got out of control, just like that..."

"Sounds like somepony's been bathing herself in mane-care products," Diamond Tiara said, striking at Hair Raiser's emotions with speed and precision. She'd found a weak point in her psyche, and was taking full advantage of it. "The next thing you know, she'll have enough hair for a forest!"

"Watch your step, everypony! You're entering the forest of Hair Raiser, where every step you take could hurt the wildlife!" Silver chimed in, once more following on Diamond Tiara's insults. Despite the fact that she and Diamond had had their comeuppance earlier, this was their chance to get back at her for what she'd done.

Cheerilee's expression suddenly changed as she shot death glares at the two cackling fillies. "And as for you two, I'll be having stern words with your parents, discussing whether or not we decide to hold you two back or have you expelled!" she suddenly calmed down and returned to Hair Raiser. "Look, Hair Raiser, why don't you spend the rest of the lesson outside? I'll give you a copy of the book I'm reading from so that you won't miss anything out, OK?"

"OK," Hair Raiser said, slowly getting up from her seat, feeling a little sad that she'd been struck that deep in her psychological mind. Through some sorrow, she said, "Thank you, Miss Cheerilee," before taking the book that she offered her and walking out of the class to study in peace.

As soon as the door shut behind her, Hair Raiser let out some small tears. She had been told that Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon were bad, but she hadn't known how bad until just recently. If that was what the CMC had to put up with every day, then she began to question whether or not going to this schoolhouse was a good idea to begin with.

As she read each different paragraph on each different page, Hair Raiser quickly took in all of the lore that the book had to offer her. Within the entire lesson, she'd read up almost everything she could on the book before the bell rung, signalling the end of that lesson.

She got up and picked up the book with her hair, putting it onto her back. "Wait a second..." She remembered that she wasn't the only visitor from the comic book, and that she might not be the only one who might have their powers suddenly freak out. "If my powers suddenly freaked out like that, I shudder to think on what the foals will do then their powers get out of hand..."

"Come on, Hair Raiser, we've gotta do somethin' while we're out here," Applebloom said, watching Hair Raiser give the book back to Miss Cheerilee, watching the two of them exchange smiles before she returned to the CMC.

"Oh, but before we do, I have to know," Scootaloo said, getting a question for Hair Raiser to answer. "Why did you hair freak out all of a sudden?"

"I'm not really sure, girls..." Hair Raiser sounded quite worried as that horrific memory from earlier was emblazoned into her mind. "It was perfectly fine this morning..."

"Well, whatever it was, I'm sure you'll be able to control it eventually," Sweetie Belle said, lighting up her horn for a brief instance before stopping it. "just like I'm starting to control my magic the more I practise!" She then walked over to Hair Raiser and helped calm her down. "Don't worry about it, Hair Raiser. Just focus on the fact that you're a filly, and a respected member of the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Now come on, let's do something whilst we're out here on this warm, sunny day..."

"Yeah... Good idea..." Hair Raiser said, following the CMC. Her morale had returned, but now there was something else on her mind. The very fact that she had arrived with six foals with super-powers, and that she might not be the only one to freak out today. "Mum, you and your friends better know how to handle super-foals, or else you're going to be in for quite a shock..."

Meanwhile, back at the castle, the Mane Six were watching over their foals, helping them play with the many different toys that were on offer. It was mainly each of the Mane Six helping their individual foal out, but there were sometimes where multiple different grown-ups would help multiple different foals play some big games, such as Tag or Hide-and-Seek.

Eventually, Twilight had had a marvellous idea, and grabbed the attention of everyone in the room. "You know, this room does seem rather small for six foals..."

"So, whatcha thinkin' bout, Twilight?" Applejack asked as she picked up Honest and put her onto her back.

"I've got some rooms to spare in this castle, despite the fact that many of them are taken, so I think that one of the empty rooms could be re purposed into a day-care room for multiple different foals," Twilight said, bringing her plan to light, already grabbing the attention of all of her friends, who seemed to agree with her on that matter. "There'd be enough space for large groups of foals to play together, including the foals we already have. I'd also have to get some supplies ordered, as well as hire some more ponies to act as caretakers for all of the foals, but the best part would be that it'd be an open day-care, for all the foals in Ponyville!"

"Well, that sounds like a rather marvellous idea, Twilight. It boosts fame when a princess is seen showing love and compassion for children of all ages. You'll be respected by many different groups for your decision!" Rarity said, waving her hooves for emphasis. "And I'd love bringing little Glimmer into your day-care, knowing that she'd be in good hooves..."

"Ah hafta admit, Twilight, that's a pretty good decision yer makin', but ah think that it'd rival that of any othe day-care centre that might already exist in Ponyville..." Applejack said, thinking about the possibility of a day-care that might already be in business. "It's a good idea, ah hafta admit, but ya might get a little flak from other ponies if it does turn out that there's another day-care in Ponyville..."

"Well, there's another thing I was about to explain," Twilight said, continuing her explanation. "Whilst I go out and see all of the foal supplies for sale, I'll also be checking for any other day-care centres that already exist in Ponyville, and then ask them whether or not it's alright to make another one in my castle."

"Either way, I suppose I should be able to show you all the room that I'd plan to put all of the foals in, provided my plans go through without fail..." Twilight said, getting all of the ponies to start to pick up their foals and show them as well. "No, you don't have to bring your foals with you. I want it to remain a surprise for them, until we finish with the construction..."

"Are you sure about that, Twilight?" Fluttershy asked, worrying about what her foal could do if her powers were invoked. "I mean, we do have foals with super-powers as our children... Who knows what could happen if we just leave them all alone in this room, free to use their powers as they see fit?"

"Spike, surely you don't mind looking after our foals whilst I show the girls the room, right?" Twilight asked Spike, seeing that he was about to walk away, but her words had stopped him.

"Me?! But why?" Spike looked back at all six of the foals, remembering that they were foal versions of the Power Ponies, and that at least one of them could still use their powers. "I know that Aurora's easy to deal with now, but handling the rest of the foals as well?"

"It'll only be around five minutes, Spike. It's just down a couple of hallways, and it's all one large room with tons of stuff to put in," Twilight explained, rubbing his scales with her hoof as she proceeded to walk out of the door. "And besides, they're just foals, they can't help it if they use their powers. It's their way of having fun..."

"Surely, you can handle a few rambunctious little foals, right, Spikey-Wikey?" Rarity asked, looking at Spike with pleading eyes.

"I... I..." he was taken aback with Rarity's gaze. On one hand, he felt like all of the foals were going to unleash their powers on him, making him feel unsafe. But at the same time, he didn't want to disappoint Rarity, or any of Twilight's friends. With a defeated sigh, he said, "Alright then. But only for you, Rarity..."

"Thank you, Spikey-Poo," Rarity said, rubbing his scales as a sign of gratitude before putting Glimmer down next to him. "It's truly a kind and generous thing you're doing, looking after all of our foals whilst we go with Twilight..."

"Yeah! I mean, not many ponies would vouch for looking after foals with hyperspeed, the ability to control weather, create anything, control a lasso with their mind alone, fire both ice and fire from their horn, and turn into a super-massive monster whenever the foal has a temper tantrum. They'd just disagree and walk right out the door, continuing their day in Ponyville like nothing ever happened!" Pinkie Pie said, making Spike suddenly feel more worried.

"Pinkie!" Twilight shot a death-glare at her, getting her to stop and calm down. Her demeanour then returned to a more neutral one once all of the Mane Six had walked out of the room. "Now, Spike. For extra protection, I'm locking the door behind me, so that the foals can't get out and cause chaos. That way, you'll be able to keep them all in this one room, safe and sound..."

"You can count on me!" Spike said, feigning bravery as he saluted Twilight.

"You'll be fine, Spike. It's only five minutes. I'm counting on you..." were the last words that Twilight said before she shut the door with her magic.

The loud sound of a lock being locked could be heard, an audio clue that Spike and the foals were now locked in the room, unable to escape.

Spike looked at Aurora, who was using little waves of her hoof to attract the other foalized Power Ponies to her. Though he thought that the other foals wouldn't be able to understand her, he was clearly mistaken when he saw Honest, Shy Hearted, Lightspeed, Gale, and Glimmer crawl over to Aurora. He looked as the six of them huddled up together, so that they could speak to each other in private.

"So, giwws, wat do yoo wanna pway whiwst Mama and hew fwiends awe gone?" Gale asked, her voice no louder than a whisper as she spoke to the other foals.

"Wait... Yoo undewstand me, Gawe?" Aurora asked, surprised that she could understand what Gale was saying to her.

"Weww, duh, Auwowa. We'we aww babies now, Babies undewstand odew babies pewfectwy. Which is pwobabwy why Spikey-Wikey ovew dewe can't undewstand us now..." Gale said, pointing over to the dragon who was keeping guard over them. "

"Weww, I guess dat makes some sense..." Glimmer said, using one of her bracelets to create a massive blanket than then enveloped the six foals. "Hehe... I wove having dese powews. Now we can tawk widout Spikey undewstanding us."

"Yoo mean yoo dun wemembew who we weawwy awe, Gwimmew?" Aurora said, speaking to the giggling unicorn. "And wait, why I caww yoo Gwimmew, and why I caww Gawe Gawe? Weww, not exactwy, but yoo know wat I mean..."

"Yoo dun wemembew, Auwowa? We wewe onwy bown yestewday," Lightspeed said, shedding a little light on the situation as she spoke to Aurora. "We onwy babies fow one day, no memowies means no pwobwem, wight?"

"It's bettew not ta tink of tings and just pway wid da wife yoo have, Auwowa," Honest said, rubbing her back. "We wewe bown yestewday, by each of our diffewent Mamas. Dey aww wove us vewy much, and wanna make suwe dat noting bad happens ta us..."

"Speaking of which, we shouwd pway a game whiwst dey'we gone. It'ww makes us happy whiwst we wait fow ouw Mamas to come back..." Shy said before she put one of her hooves into her mouth and began to suckle it.

"Weww, whadda yoo wanna pway, den, Shy?" Aurora asked, then put her hooves over her mouth as she mispronounced another one of her partners in crime-fighting. "Again wid dat... Why I not caww my teammates wike I usuawwy caww dem, and why do dey say we wewe onwy bown yestewday? Someting's not wight hewe, yet I tink it's also wight at da same time..." she then cringed at how long she'd heard herself talk. "And why I stiww tawk funny? Is it because I youngew now?"

"What's going on under there?" Spike asked, looking at the blanket that Glimmer had made with her bracelets. If it was to do with concealing the Power Foals, then Spike knew that they were planning something big, which was irregular for foals their age. "I don't like the looks of this..."

"But den, why we have dese powews?" Aurora asked herself another question as she used her horn to fire a small beam of fire at the ground. "If we'we foaws, den we supposed to not have powews, and just be owdinawy babies. Yet, someting tewws me dat we now bown wid dem..."

"Come on, Auwowa, you'we nevew gonna have fun if yoo keep moping wike dat," Shy said, nudging Aurora to break her out of her train of thought. "Now den, I have big game pwanned fow us aww. And we aww gots ta pway it, odewwise we won't aww be happy..."

Spike was pacing the floor, wondering what the foals would do with him once they'd finally finished their plans. At first, he wondered if they would be able to use all of their powers at once to destroy the lock and break out of the room. Then he realized that they were all foals, and knew that something as simple as opening a locked door of that size and scale would be impossible for them, with or without their powers.

He was about to breathe a sigh of relief when he could hear the Power Foals' voices become audible again as the blanket began to vanish. He could tell from the sight alone that they'd finished their deliberations, and were about to play their game together.

"One... Two... Thwee!" the Power Foals all said before they leapt up into the air, put their hooves together in a high-five motion and said, "PWAYTIME!" in perfect sync with one another.

"Oh boy..." Spike sighed in desperation as he looked at the six foals leap up and land shortly afterwards. "Here we go..."

The Power Foals, Back in Action!

Author's Note

Sorry for the delay. I almost missed out writing again, since today I got MORTAL KOMBAT X.

If you want to try your might at MKX and see if you want to play with me, my PSN name is azerothian698472. I'll be waiting...

to kick your ass with D'Vorah, that is...

Enjoy the chapter!

The Power Foals, Back in Action!

Within seconds, all of the Power Foals ran into hiding spots around the room, so that they couldn't be seen by Spike. From there, they all peeped out of special little spots in their hiding points, so that they could see him, but he couldn't see them.

"Oh, it's Hide-and-Seek you want to play, is it?" Spike said, humouring the Power Foals as he began to make them believe that they'd vanished into thin-air. "Well, alright then..." he feigned wonder as he began looking for each one of the Power Foals. "Gee... I wonder wherever they all went?"

Each one of the Power Foals looked as Spike walked past their hiding spots. Glimmer was hidden underneath a blanket underneath Hair Raiser's bed, along with Shy, who was suckling on her hoof in boredom. Gale crawled out of her hiding spot with Aurora, then used her powers to create a small gust of wind that she could freely control. Doing this, she and Aurora flew into the air, and put their backs against the ceiling. Then, there was Lightspeed, who'd hidden herself quite well underneath Aurora's covers in her crib. Yet, the comfort of the soft covers almost made her forget about her game altogether. In fact, she almost fell asleep the more she wriggled around underneath the soft covers. Finally, there was Honest, who was roping in building blocks to create a makeshift bunker where she could avoid detection. The six of them had hidden themselves quite well, as Spike was beginning to struggle to find them.

"Spikey-Wikey wiww nevew see us coming, Shy. He tinks it's aww a game of Hide-and-Seek, when in weawity, we'we getting weady ta stop his diabowicaw pwot to ban cookies fow foaws wike us!" Glimmer whispered to Shy Hearted, who was getting a good look at Spike from the blanket that she'd made. "When we wooks undewneath dis bed, I'ww stwike fiwst. Den, Gawe and Auwowa wiww dwop down and zap him tagedew. Den, we'ww aww come out and stop his eviw pwan fow foaw domination!"

As if it were on cue, Spike looked underneath Hair Raiser's bed and saw a pink blanket with two lumps underneath. He said, "There you are..." before advancing in on the blanket.

Without another word, Glimmer's blanket suddenly turned into a wall. She used the wall to immediately push Spike out from under the bed and take him for surprise.

Spike found himself suddenly shot out from under the bed by the wall. His reaction was that of complete surprise as he rolled across the floor. He wasn't even given time to shake off the surprise, as he was suddenly zapped by a lightning bolt, and hit with a sudden volley of snowballs from the ceiling.

When Spike recovered from the ambush, he looked at Gale and Aurora, who were on their backs, giggling as Spike slowly got back up to his feet. He got up and watched them high-five with their hooves, before they used Gale's small wind to fly back into the air, giggling even more as they felt themselves fly skywards.

Spike was about to give chase, when he was suddenly ambushed by a golden lasso that came out of a small bunker made of blocks. He was hastily tied up at the legs, making him trip over and land on his face in surprise. He grumbled a little as he tried to get back up, but it all seemed in vain as he felt his legs were tightly bound by Honest's lasso. He looked up and saw Honest come out of her bunker, chuckling as she walked over to Spike and sat on his back.

"Hehe, nice twy, Spikeziwwa, but you'we not gonna keep us foaws fwom ouw cookies!" Honest said, laughing in merriment as she lightly pulled Spike's left ear. She then leapt off and untied him, before regrouping with the rest of the Power Foals.

Within seconds, all six of the foals advanced on Spike, surrounding him on all sides. They stopped when they were right next to him, making him begin to sweat and panic. Aurora then froze his legs on the spot, making him look at her suddenly.

"Spikeziwwa, youw pwot fow confiscating cookies aww went howwibwy wong. And now, you'we going back to Awcatwotz pwison," Aurora said, in her newly found foal tongue. The rest of her team could understand her, but Spike could not. "Now den, anyting you'd wike ta say befowe we take yoo away?"

"What's going on?" Spike said, unable to understand a single word that Aurora had imparted on him. "Why are you doing this to me, girls? I thought we were friends..."

"Awwight, Spikey, wet's get moving..." Gale said, using her pendant to create a small windstorm around Spike, lifting him into the air, where Honest tied him up again with her lasso. When Spike landed, Gale began shoving him towards the door, like many other heroes would do when escorting a subdued villain out to the authorities.

It wasn't long after that, that Shy Hearted suddenly stopped and felt the area around her flank. Something in her stomach had given way, and she was now beginning to use her diaper. The more moist her flank area had become, the more worried and scared she became. She began feeling more and more down in the dumps, grabbing the attention of the rest of her team in seconds.

"Shy? Wat's wong?" Glimmer asked, seeing the sorrow begin to show on Shy's face.

"Umm... giwws? I tink I went to da bathwoom in my diapew..." Shy said, blushing as she began to shed a small tear.

"Weww, den just have youw Mama change yoo and-" Gale then remembered that Fluttershy wasn't in the room, nor were any of the other Power Foals' mothers. "-Oh, dat's wight..."

"Giwws, hewp me! It's icky and sticky!" Shy Hearted said, her sorrow becoming more and more intense the longer her poop lingered in her used diaper.

The girls tried to help Shy out, but their efforts were all in vain as their hooves merely slid off of the costume that Shy was wearing. They were in a hopeless position, being foals that tried to change another foal. Even when they finally made it to Shy's diaper, it was far too pungent for them to even get close, as the smell wafted into their noses and made them cringe and recoil.

Finally, with her sorrow maximised, Shy Hearted burst into tears, streams of her tears leaking out of her eyes and trailing down her cheeks were what now replaced her once happy face. As she cried, she felt herself begin to change, to grow, to suddenly have her sorrow pitched much deeper than what it should usually be.

"Uh-oh..." the rest of the Power Foals said as they watched Shy Hearted continue to grow, bigger, and bigger, and bigger... Her height was almost the height of the door, which was roughly the size of two grown ponies.

When the change stopped, Shy Hearted was no longer the small, innocent, and playful little foal that was playing along with the rest of the group. Instead, a monstrously muscular pony with ripped spandex and tiny wings and hoof stumps stood in its' place. The diaper that it'd been wearing had been completely ripped to shreds with the transformation, and the pungent poop was now on the ground, where everyone could see it.

The beast ran towards the door, knocking Spike out of the way before it arrived at the locked door. Pounding its' hooves on the door, it viciously attacked the very thing that was keeping her from her parent. Finally, with one massive smash, the muscular Shy Hearted smashed the door off of its' hinges and ran out down one of the corridors.

The rest of the Power Foals peaked out of the door, along with Spike, who'd been freed from his lasso binds. The six of them then showed signs of worry to each other after they'd watched Shy Hearted run down another hallway, desperately trying to seek Fluttershy out.

"Well, now what do we do, girls?" Spike asked, looking at each one of them, hoping that one of the foals could come up with a plan on getting Shy Hearted back to the room.

"Aftew hew!" Aurora said, giving chase to Shy Hearted with no other prompt than her own words.

Within seconds, all of the foals ran out of the room. However, Spike watched them all go off, then groaned in desperation as he facepalmed and followed them. After all, they needed all the help they could get in subduing Shy's new form...

Meanwhile, Twilight was showing the girls around a large empty room that seemed to be devoid of anything other than the crystal columns. While it did seem rather tall, and had a certain echo that resonated with each hoofstep and breath uttered, Twilight knew that with some furnishings, some paint to make it seem more foal-friendly, and some caretakers to help out with the foals, that this room would be an ideal place to have a day-care in.

"I'll still never get used to the intense height of each different room..." Twilight said, craning her neck to look up at the ceiling above her and her friends. "But I believe that with the right supplies, and some kind ponies willing to handle foals on a daily basis, then this should be the perfect spot for the day-care."

"But just look at all these crystals, Twilight..." Rarity said, feeling some of the crystal columns that could be seen at each corner of the room. "It might take weeks to get all of them padded for the little ones..."

"Don't worry about that, Rarity. It'll all be a part of the furnishing process. We just need some trusty hooves on board to help get everything settled, have some ponies paint foal-friendly wall pictures, and fill out some applications for ponies willing to look after foals, then everything should be perfectly fine," Twilight said, putting a mental schedule in her mind for the preparations on her new day-care room. "I imagine that Glimmer and the others would love it..."

"Speaking of which, we should probably be getting back to them all by now..." Fluttershy said, thinking about how Spike was doing with all of the foals. Even though she believed that Shy Hearted was in good hands, something in her mind was telling her to be worried for Spike. "I know that foals aren't really his strong suit, let alone super-foals. Oh, the poor thing must be running rampant trying to take care of them all..."

"Yeah, let's get back to him before-" before Rainbow Dash could finish, she and the rest of the girls could hear a loud crashing noise resonate from the room's entrance.

"What in Equestria was that?" Twilight asked, dashing over to the entrance to find out what was wrong. As soon as she poked her head out of the door, she could see the cause of all of the noise that had just transpired. "Uhh... Fluttershy?"

"What is it, Twilight?" Fluttershy said nervously.

"What was Saddle Rager's power again?" Twilight asked in fear as an oversized Shy was charging towards her.

The girls all looked at the hulking monstrosity that was once Shy Hearted. It was large, had most of its' outfit ripped to pieces, had tiny wings and hoof stumps, nothing covering its' bottom, and was speeding towards them at a rapid pace with tears flowing out of its' eyes. It was about to collide with the girls when...

"SHY! BAD GIRL!" Fluttershy yelled at the top of her voice, getting Shy's new form to screech to a halt as it looked at Fluttershy, who looked like she was about to cry murder. "Is this any way to act in front of your mother and her friends?!" her voice struck into the oversized foal like tiny, yet sharp daggers.

The girls watched in awe as Fluttershy quickly subdued Shy's giant form with her commanding tone of voice. They knew that Fluttershy was very capable of handling other ponies, and mythical creatures who tried to cause pain or misery to her friends.

"You've been a very bad girl, Shy! A very bad girl!" Fluttershy's Stare came into play, getting the monstrous Shy Hearted to crouch down and cover her eyes with her hooves. As the foal began to cry, Fluttershy said, "Now calm down, and think about what you've done!" making Shy shrink back down into a tiny, terrified, and sobbing foal.

As Shy cried out the rest of her sorrow as her regular self, Fluttershy scooped her up in her hooves and gently put her against her chest, making her snuggle into Fluttershy's warm embrace rather quickly. "There, there, Shy. Now, if you could tell me what made you so angry, I'd be happy to make it all better..." Fluttershy said as she began to help Shy feel much better in her time of need.

"M-M-Mama... I used my diapee wen yoo weft us wid Spikey..." Shy explained as she sniffled out the rest of her tears. "Whewe wewe yoo, Mama? I was fwightened so much, dat I tuwned into a giant..."

"She also destroyed the doors that you locked, Twilight..." Spike said, as he and the rest of the foals caught up with Shy and Fluttershy, taking heavy breaths as he caught his breath at last. "And that, is why I never work with foals..." he said before collapsing on the ground in exhaustion.

Within seconds, all of the Power Foals that Spike had ran with moved towards their parents and leapt into their hooves. They all babbled lightly as each of them was cuddled by their individual mothers. With their parents back to them, the foals all felt much better. In the hooves of the Mane Six, each and every one of them felt safe, protected, shielded from any harm that might befall them in the future.

"Aww... Poor little foals..." Twilight said, putting Aurora on her back as the rest of the Mane Six put their foals on their backs. She felt sympathetic for Spike as she said, "They must've been through quite a lot with you, Spike. I'm sorry for leaving you in there alone, with no-one to protect them..."

"In future, we'd better take them all with us, Twilight," Pinkie Pie said, feeling just how shallow Lightspeed's breathing became the deeper she slumbered on her back. "I mean, Spikey's great at handling foals, but in future, we should take these cuties with us, since they've got all of our superpowers from those comics that he reads..."

"I'm sorry for all the trouble the foals caused you, Spike..." Twilight said as she put Spike onto her back right in front of Aurora. "If anything, the seven of you deserve some sleep. Then, when you wake up, you'll feel much happier..."

Later, all six of the Power Foals slowly awakened from their slumber, being covered by something soft, something warm, something... foalish. The six of them eventually woke up all of the way, to find that they were all in Aurora's crib, naked if it wasn't for the six new diapers that were secured around their flanks. As they felt the cushion-like garments around their flanks, they felt much more comfortable than before.

The six of them were then compelled to suck on their hooves, as if they desperately needed to soothe themselves further. It wasn't long before they all put their front hooves into their mouths and sucked away in a rhythmic, yet slow fashion. Whilst they moistened their hooves in doing so, they felt like they were returning to a state of bliss as they were in before.

Only a minute after they'd started to suckle on their hooves, the six foals were levitated out of the crib and put onto the backs of their respective parents. They barely even noticed that they were riding on the backs of their older selves until their hooves fell from their mouths and draped down the sides of the Mane Six.

"Thank you for all of your help, girls. Now, you should head home, where your foals can rest up for the days ahead of them..." Twilight said as she began to escort all of her friends out of the castle with their foals on their backs. "I've gotta get Aurora back to bed as well, so that she won't be worrying where I am once I pick Hair Raiser up from school."

Saying their goodbyes to Twilight, the Mane Six all went their separate ways home, where their foals could play once they woke up. They moved slowly, so as not to disturb the half-sleeping foals and wake them from their slumber. It wasn't long before the girls were all out of sight and making their ways to their homes.

Twilight walked back to Hair Raiser's room, with Aurora lightly bouncing on her back as she took each individual step towards the room for her children. She cared very much for Aurora, as well as Hair Raiser. And whilst she believed that Hair Raiser still needed some help in school, what with her oversized super-hair, she still needed to ensure that Aurora was completely devoid of sadness, boredom, and pain.

Twilight gently put Aurora back in her crib, wrapped her up in her blanket, covered her up with the covers, and put a pacifier in her mouth. As she watched her foal return to a state of sleep, Twilight leaned into the crib and lightly kissed Aurora on her forehead and whispered, "I promise, I will never, ever let anything happen to you... Aurora Sparkle, my youngest daughter..."

Hair Raiser's Doubts

When Twilight left the room to give Aurora some time to sleep, she began to take a rather long walk towards the door of her castle. Her hoofsteps resonated across the walls and ceilings as she got closer and closer to the door. While she was certain that Aurora and the Power Foals were safe, she wasn't entirely sure that Hair Raiser was safe at the school, even with the other fillies and colts that would be willing to welcome her into the class.

Eventually, she walked out of the door and spread her wings. Within seconds, Twilight was airborne, and was now flying towards the schoolhouse to collect Hair Raiser for the evening. She did a quick scan of the kingdom as she flew over, to make sure that nothing was wrong. Happy that her findings were still serene and peaceful, Twilight flying speed bolstered as she progressed towards the school.

When she arrived, she was quite welcomed. Not just by Cheerilee, but most of her class as well. The students quickly dispersed as Hair Raiser made her way towards Twilight, so that they could give Twilight and Hair Raiser some space as they reunited.

"I trust that her first day was a good one?" Twilight asked once Hair Raiser was put onto her back and secured by one of her spells.

"Well, she did express a little bit of empathy towards Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, but they too seemed a little riled up as well. I've already told the two troublemakers off, since Hair Raiser's new to the class. However, I'm going to have to warn her that she shouldn't lash out at fillies for no good reason..." Cheerilee said.

"Well, I did tell her that Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon were troublemakers, so I guess she was just trying to do some good," Twilight said, looking back at Hair Raiser before continuing. "However, once I get home, I'm going to tell her that doing the right thing, doesn't always involve throwing your weight around at somepony who thinks they're better than you..."

"You're absolutely right, Your Highness," Cheerilee agreed with her, knowing that the two of them were quite knowledgeable mares. "Sometimes, fighting back isn't the right way to go when dealing with bullies. No matter how intimidated or angered somepony feels, that doesn't mean that it's a cue for them to begin a physical fight with their tormentors..."

"Umm... excuse me?" Hair Raiser tugged on Twilight's ear lightly, quickly grabbing her attention. "I don't mean to interrupt, but why exactly did you tell me that Diamond and Silver are such meanies?"

"Well, Hair Raiser, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon are the daughters of some of Equestria's biggest moguls; Filthy Rich and Gold Treasury." Twilight explained.

"What's a mogul?" Hair Raiser asked, confused by what the word meant.

"A mogul is a pony who has either earned millions and millions of bits, or acquired territorial dominance," Twilight began explaining. "In short, a mogul is a rich pony, or the leader of a lot of towns and cities."

"Because their fathers are so rich, it only makes sense that they're driven down this path, Hair Raiser," Cheerilee took over for Twilight. "Anyone in the family, be it child, wife, or even relatives, they all share the same family fortune. Diamond and Silver are given all of the best stuff, because their fathers are quite rich and famous. You could call it sucking up to cute-looking faces like theirs, but in truth, this is the kind of thing you expect from the daughter of a business tycoon," her words made Hair Raiser think. "They can't help showing off most of the time, as they're usually right in saying that they're richer than most others. However, that gives them no reason to torment somepony into believing that they aren't special as well. They might be in my class, but they sure as Tartarus aren't running it, that's for sure..."

"Don't worry about it, Hair Raiser. Those two might look and sound intimidating when you're not in lessons, but they're actually suckers for attention, since they're the daughters of Filthy and Gold." Twilight reassured Hair Raiser with her words, seeing the filly brighten up only slightly.

"Anyways, we'd better get going," Twilight said as she began to flap her wings, making Hair Raiser hold on tight to her neck. "There's a rather wonderful Aurora Borealis over Ponyville tonight, and I want to make sure that Aurora and Hair Raiser get the best views..."

Twilight bid farewell to Cheerilee, then took to the skies for her house. She performed one more mental scan of the town, seeing that everything was still fine before moving onwards to the front door of her castle.

"You know, there's a perfectly good balcony up there, Mum," Hair Raiser said, pointing out Twilight's castle had a rather beautiful golden balcony sticking out of the left side. "How come you can't land on there?"

"While the balcony is a good place to land, it's primarily used for royal decrees only," Twilight said before she began to blush. She then sheepishly said, "Not like I'm gonna be giving any of those any time soon..."

The massive door opened up once more, and Twilight took Hair Raiser inside before shutting it again. Once the door shut and its' noise echoed throughout the castle, Hair Raiser leapt off of her back and walked down the hallways with her.

Once they arrived at Hair Raiser's room, Twilight said, "If there's anything you'd like to do in your room, be sure to do it quietly or take it out with you."

"Why quietly?" Hair Raiser asked before the door was opened slowly. She was walked into the room and over to Aurora's crib.

"That's why..." Twilight said, showing the sleeping Aurora off to Hair Raiser. "Your little sister's fast asleep..."

"Aww..." Hair Raiser swooned over how cute Aurora looked in the blanket that she was wrapped in. "Look at the cute widdle foal... She's so squishy and adorable!"

"True, but she's also quite powerful, Hair. She almost gave Spike a run for his money today..." Twilight said, thinking about all of the things that she and the other Power Foals could have possibly done to Spike. "But anyway, she needs her sleep. All foals do at this state. It's to help re-energize themselves and get ready for the last few hours of the day."

"Hmm... I wonder what I was like as a foal..." Hair Raiser pondered that as her hair grabbed some crayons and a large notepad. As she pondered what her foalhood was like, Hair Raiser walked out with Twilight. They did so quietly, so as not to wake Aurora from her slumber.

When the two of them were out, Hair Raiser and Twilight went their separate ways. Twilight went towards the upper levels of the castle, whilst Hair Raiser decided to do some drawing in the confines of one of the castle's rooms.

She found herself in a rather spacious room, with a large variety of furnishings inside. There were banners and drapes all across the walls, chairs and tables across the floor, and even a bookshelf with "fiction" and "non-fiction" areas if someone needed to grab a book. She walked into the room and used her hair to pull one of the massive chairs towards her.

Then, a thought struck her. How was it that it was always her hair that was this long? And that it had these powerful properties? She then thought about the other ponies that she'd come across during her time in Equestria. None of them used their hair for all those things, let alone for one thing other than just being shown off to the world. Something was clearly wrong. How was it, that her mane and tail could do all kinds of extraordinary things, but other ponies' hair couldn't? As that thought sunk deep, she pondered her existence, and how it aligned itself with the ponies of Equestria. Was she really a freak of nature, and the only one who could use her hair like this? And how was it that she could control this hair perfectly, even as a small filly?

Eventually, she decided not to let those thoughts bother her, as she could tell Twilight all about it for future reference. Instead, she focused on using her hair like an artist's easel, whilst using her mouth to draw on the notepad that her hair was suspending in the air.

Meanwhile, the Cutie Mark Crusaders walked into the castle, since they now came in for their usual Twilight Time sessions after school. However, since this was their first time in the castle, they couldn't help but be awestruck with how colossal the foyer was. However, that didn't stop them from travelling down the corridors in an attempt to find Twilight for their Twilight Time session of the day.

"Where do ya think she could be?" Applebloom asked after a rough five minutes of exploring the hallways.

"I think she's probably upstairs, handling some important princess business..." Scootaloo thought about Twilight position as the Princess of Friendship. "Maybe she's having an off-day today?"

"No, I don't think that's possible, Scootaloo," Sweetie Belle responded, thinking about how Twilight still seemed like a normal pony, despite being Equestria's latest princess. "Even though Twilight's a princess now, I don't think she'd forget about us. I mean, she has been teaching us some amazing things..." she finished whilst lighting up her horn.

"Maybe she's just fillin' in some paperwork or somethin'..." Applebloom walked down another hallway with the rest of the CMC in tow. "We should find her and then wait. She'll have our Twilight Time just like the other days."

Just before they could walk down another hallway, something had caught Sweetie Belle's eyes. One of the doors was open, and there was the almost inaudible noise of crayon being used on paper. Her curiosity piqued by the noise, Sweetie Belle walked over to the open door and poked her head through the crack.

Inside, she could see that Hair Raiser was hard at work, drawing pictures of whatever came to her mind. Most of her hair was doing the work, but she was using a crayon in her muzzle as well, to prove that she wasn't entirely lazy.

"Hey, isn't that Hair Raiser?" Applebloom whispered to the other Cutie Mark Crusaders, so as not to break Hair Raiser's concentration and make her drawing sloppy and ruined. "What do ya think she's drawin'?"

"Probably pictures of her and Twilight..." Sweetie Belle thought, looking at how focused Hair Raiser was on the picture she was drawing. "The two of them do seem to have some sort of connection with each other..."

"Well, she is Twilight's adopted daughter, from what I've heard..." Scootaloo said, looking at how childish Hair Raiser was looking at this point. Sometimes, she would catch little glimpses of crayon colours in Hair's hair, or on her face and hooves. "But then again, she might just be a filly who loves Twilight so much that she refuses to leave the castle..."

"Huh?" Hair Raiser was broken from her concentration. However, she had stopped using her crayons for a bit, so her picture wasn't ruined. She looked at the source of the noise, seeing the heads of the Cutie Mark Crusaders peering in at her. "Oh. Hi, girls! Come on in!" she used her hoof to signal the fillies that they could come into the room and talk to her. "I'll be honest, I didn't expect to see you three here this evening..."

"Well, truth be told, Hair Raiser, we come to Twilight every evening for her special Twilight Time after-school sessions," Sweetie Belle explained the reason that she and the other Cutie Mark Crusaders were at the castle with her. "You see, every day after school, Twilight tutors us in specific fields, helping us develop some skills we're quite interested in learning for the future..."

"She's helping me develop alchemy, Scootaloo with mechanic work, and Sweetie Belle with her magic," Applebloom said, bluntly listing all of the things that Twilight helped them out with. "And those are only a few of the skills she offers. In fact, ah heard she'd offerin' up even more chances fer us. Maybe things like stargazin' and hairstylin'..."

When hair was mentioned, Hair Raiser then felt a wave of doubt wash over her. She remembered that her hair was abnormal, and had unique properties that no-one else's hair had. Her expression shifted from interested to glum in seconds.

"Oh... Did ah say somethin', Hair?" Applebloom asked, looking at how suddenly Hair Raiser's mood had shifted.

"Applebloom..." Hair Raiser eventually said after a long breath. "Do all ponies have extend-able and functional hair like me?"

"No," Applebloom said rather swiftly. "Why'd ya ask, Hair?"

"Well..." she sighed and used her hair as a makeshift bed for her to flop onto. "I've been wondering why my hair's so long, and why it's got all these properties that nopony else's hair does..."

"Girls... let me ask for your honest opinions," she said, looking at each of the CMC with a rather worried look on her face. "Am I really a freak of nature?"

"What? No! Of course not!" Scootaloo immediately responded, seeing the immediate stress that Hair Raiser bore. "Why would you even think of things like that?"

"Well... I've been seeing that nopony else uses their hair to do all the amazing things that I've done. Not even you three, Twilight, or my baby sister Aurora have powers like this..." Hair Raiser explained, making the CMC think about the conflict she was struggling with. "I'm just worried that me using my hair this way'll make me feel like an outcast. A freak of nature. A monster..."

"You're not a monster, Hair Raiser..." Sweetie Belle said, putting a hoof around her shoulders.

"She's right, you know," Twilight walked into the room, getting Hair Raiser to walk over to her.

"Mum? I thought you were doing some important paperwork in your study..." Hair Raiser responded once she got close to Twilight's legs.

"It was extraordinarily short for paperwork, Hair. I literally just needed to put my hoofprint on a signed document by the princesses to authorize DNA changing spells at Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns," Twilight said, explaining how she was with Hair Raiser instead of doing her duties. "I figured that since being a Breezie was a nice experience, I thought that it'd be nice to teach other aspiring unicorns this spell as well, so that they too can change their biology..."

"But still, you can see it, Mum... I'm just an outcast with strange hair that can do anything..." Hair Raiser's doubt seemed to be winning in this situation.

"No, you're not. You're my oldest daughter. And I know for a fact that nopony would call their child a freak of nature, no matter whether they're crippled with either mental or physical abnormalities," Twilight said, comforting Hair Raiser with a motherly hug. "You need to remember that if you ever feel worried or frightened, I'm right here for you. I'll never let you go, Hair. Not as long as I live and breathe..."

"Aww..." the Cutie Mark Crusaders all watched as Twilight and Hair Raiser pulled each other into a rather sweet hug. The two of them were quite a match, in reality. They were both looking out for each other, and knew that their lives would be much happier with each other instead of them being alone and miserable. And even though Hair Raiser was still unaware of the fact that she was nothing more than a fictional character, she was still loving the time she was having in Equestria with Twilight.

"Thanks, Mum. I feel much better now..." Hair Raiser said, shooting a little smile as she gave Twilight some space.

"That's alright, Hair Raiser..." Twilight smiled as she took her and the Cutie Mark Crusaders out of the room. "And I think you'll feel a little better when you indulge in one of my Twilight Time sessions. I'm sure I can find at least one skill that you'll enjoy learning on..."