Cheating the Cycle of Life- A Padded Pony Collab

While Ruby Pinch occupied herself with cleaning up the mess her sister had left on her bed, she found her thoughts drifting towards her friend, Noi.

The last Ruby Pinch had seen of her, was when she had flushed the filly down her bathroom toilet out of retaliation for not speaking up about a diaper shortage.

That had been a few days ago, during which time Ruby Pinch had reluctantly accompanied her big sister to a pub, then escorted her home when she got drunk. But Noi had not returned, and Ruby Pinch was starting to get a tad bit concerned.

“I know it’s not every day you get flushed down a toilet, but the sewer system can’t be that big,” Ruby Pinch thought to herself, as she disposed of the heavily used diaper in the toilet “So where could Noi have ended up, and why hasn’t she come back yet? Is she mad at me for what I did?”

Ruby Pinch shook her head, she was thinking too much about something that had already happened. Right now, she needed to tend to her hungover sister, and clean up the mess before their parents got home. (Despite Berry Punch being old enough to drink, her parents certainly did not approve of her going out to pubs to get drunk, especially when she dragged her sister along when she wasn’t old enough to drink.)

It took a lot of wipes to get Berry Punch and her bed cleaned up, but somehow Ruby Pinch managed without too much trouble.

But even as she was working away, Ruby Pinch kept wondering about Noi, and what she could possibly do to earn forgiveness for her admittedly hasty actions (aside from letting Noi flush her, Ruby Pinch was quite certain she didn’t want to go down the toilet and end up in the sewers with all those dirty diapers.)

Berry Punch, for her part, occupied herself with fixing some coffee to ward off the effects of her hangover. “One of these days, I need to start cutting back on the cider. I swear, these hangovers exist solely to torment me. If it weren’t for coffee, I don’t know how I’d manage.” she said to herself.

Ruby Pinch had just sat down to rest after FINALLY cleaning up the last of her sister’s mess, when she heard the doorbell ring. But one look at her big sister was enough to make her realize that it was probably best if she answered the door herself. Berry Punch was anything but a pretty sight right now (for safety reasons, Ruby Pinch had left her in diapers. She didn’t want to have any more messes to clean up).

Upon opening the front door, Ruby Pinch was greeted with the sight of a very angry Noi, traces of wet fur still visible if one looked closely enough.

“Ah, there you are! I’ve been looking all over for you!” Noi said, and stormed into Ruby Pinch’s house without hesitation “You’ve got a lot of nerve to do that sort of thing to me, and you know what I’m talking about! You think it was funny?”

“Well, maybe under different circumstances it would’ve been,” Ruby Pinch said nervously, which only served to make Noi even angrier than she already was “But no, I guess it wasn’t.”

“Darn right it wasn’t, I could’ve drowned!” Noi insisted “You’re lucky I got spat out where I did, there are a lot of ponies out there that could’ve hurt me, or worse!”

“Look, I’m sorry about the whole flushing thing,” Ruby Pinch apologized “It was stupid and foolish, and probably quite frightening. It’s just, I got so mad, and all I could think about was making sure you didn’t deplete the diaper stash we got from The Cakes.”

“Speaking of which, were you able to get the supplies?” Noi asked “I wouldn’t be too surprised if you hogged them all to yourself, seeing as I was swimming through the sewers and everything!”

“Well, sort of,” Ruby Pinch said with a shrug “I was able to obtain and enjoy the diapers for about a day or two after you got flushed. But then my big sister dragged me to this pub and told me she was putting me on changing duty while she had a few drinks. I told her no, and then she threatened to tell Mom and Dad about my secret stash. Don’t ask me how she found out about it.”

“Be thankful your sister didn’t rat you when she had the chance, if it were Carrot Top, I don’t know if she would’ve been so generous.” Noi replied.

“Anywho, long story short I agreed, then she got drunk and I took her home,” Ruby Pinch explained “Then she woke up, and I had to clean up her mess, and she’s still a bit hungover so I’m leaving her in diapers until she recovers. So I haven’t gotten a chance to pad up again.”

“Well, I came here hoping to maybe get my revenge on you for flushing me down the toilet, which I’m still not okay with,” Noi said angrily, before she took on a somewhat more gentle tone “But I’d say cleaning up after your drunken sister and getting caught by her was punishment enough. So, consider us even. But if you ever do what do you did during the last diaper shortage, don’t expect to ever earn forgiveness. That is, unless you’re willing to see what it feels like to be flushed by somepony you thought was your friend.”

“No thank you, I have no intention of ever seeing what that’s like!” Ruby Pinch immediately replied “So, what do you say we wait until my sister finally snaps out of her hungover state, and then we can talk about our next playdate?”

“Fine by me, I guess.” Noi said with a shrug.