Cheating the Cycle of Life- A Padded Pony Collab

Pokey Pierce knew only one thing at the moment, he had to stop Fobia before he hurt his cousin. It was bad enough she’d come over for a sleepover while her parents were on a business trip, he didn’t need Fobia creating another frightened pony like him!

He had his own demons, and he would overcome them on his own terms. And no creature of nightmares was going to change that!

Reacting quickly, Pokey Pierce let a deafening battle cry that shook the realms of the dreamscape to its core, destroying the creations Fobia had whipped up. He would thank Princess Luna for that later. Right now, his cousin needed help, and he was the only one could save her!

“Hang on, Straight Note, your cousin is on his way!” Pokey Pierce thought, as he followed Fobia through the portal she had left behind.

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Straight Note was terrified, as Fobia had strapped her down within a nightmare bathroom. Fobia had figured that, since Straight Note took such delight in being able to potty train, it was only natural to use her greatest achievement against her.

“You will soon learn why ponies feared me.” Fobia said with a smirk. But before she had a chance to do much of anything, there was a fearsome cry of anger that came from somewhere behind her.

“Fobia! You listen, and you listen good!” Pokey Pierce growled, as he slowly approached the monster that dared invade his cousin’s dreams “You leave my cousin alone, leave now, and never bother us again, or I’ll see to it that the only one with nightmares, is you!”

“And what are you going to do to stop me? Lest you forget, I know your deepest fears, and I can use them against you!” Fobia said in a threatening tone of voice.

“Do your worst, I won’t let you hurt my cousin any longer than you already have!” Pokey Pierce replied, as he drew closer and closer to Fobia.

Fobia fired off her nightmare magic, but it bounced off of Pokey Pierce without any sort of fanfare. She kept on trying, and the same thing kept happening.

“This is impossible! Everypony has fears! You cannot be afraid of nothing!” Fobia bellowed, as Pokey Pierce drew close.

“Everypony does have fears, but when we admit to our fears and face them, they can no longer control us! And neither can you!” Pokey Pierce growled, as he angrily grabbed Fobia “I have overcome my fears of what I would do, and now I’m going to see to it that nopony else has to suffer through what I have suffered!”

It was then that Fobia felt Pokey Pierce ram his horn through her body. Being made of mist, it didn’t hurt, but whenever Fobia sustained any sort of physical injury in the dreamscape, she lost all her powers, and was left unable to do much of anything.

“NO! THIS CANNOT BE! I HAVE BEEN DEFEATED!” she shouted at the top of her lungs, as she disappeared through another portal, never to be seen again with the Pierce family line.

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Pokey Pierce awoke to the sound of crying, and he was certain he knew at once what the source was.

He got up from his bed, walked down the hall a bit, and stopped in the guest bedroom. Sure enough, sitting up in the bed was Straight Note, her pull-up clearly wet and messy.

“I had an accident and couldn’t make it to the potty!” she said in between sobs.

Pokey Pierce knew at once what to do, he used his magic to pick up his cousin and gently set her down on a changing mat, all the while saying “It’s okay, everypony has accidents at least once while potty training. You couldn’t help it.” He then proceeded to change his cousin out of her dirty pull-up, wipe her clean, powder her, and put a fresh pull-up on her.

“Now then, we’ve both had some bad dreams. So whadya say we go downstairs and relax with some hot chocolate until you’re ready to go back to bed?” Pokey Pierce asked Straight Note.

“Hot chocolate sounds good.” Straight Note said, as Pokey Pierce dried her eyes.

As Pokey Pierce made the hot chocolate, he made a mental note to talk to Princess Luna about what she could to keep Fobia from re-entering either his or his cousin’s dreams.