Cheating the Cycle of Life- A Padded Pony Collab

Being a pegasus pony that struggled with flying had its disadvantages, and poor Fluttershy had to endure more disadvantages than she had ever possibly imagined handling.

She had practically begged her parents not to send her to flight camp, but they had not listened. “You’ll never overcome your fears or get yourself off the ground if you don’t face your problems head on.” her father had told her.

Unfortunately, the flight camp Fluttershy attended was anything but enjoyable, at least to the shy pegasus. Against her better judgement, she made an effort to reach out and befriend a pony at the camp. But just about everypony she met either wanted nothing to do with her, or loved to pick on her for being the weakest flyer at the camp.

Only one pony was willing to look past Fluttershy’s exterior and see her for what she was. That pony was Rainbow Dash, the fastest flyer in the camp.

With Rainbow Dash’s help, Fluttershy slowly made some improvements in many areas. But she remained the weakest flyer at flight camp, and this subjected her to torment that made the yellow coated filly want to curl up into a ball, and roll away.

“Come on, Fluttershy. You can do it!” Rainbow Dash encouraged, as the two fillies currently stood outside the fillies’ restroom of the flight camp. With little effort, Rainbow Dash opened the restroom door and led Fluttershy to the door of one of the stalls. The door to the selected stall was then opened without further ado.

Fluttershy gulped, as she now stood before a white toilet with its seat placed in the downward position. To her, the porcelain throne seemed much bigger than it actually was. Nervously, Fluttershy began to back away, the pull-up around her waist crinkling softly as she did so. “There’s really no need for me to sit on that giant thing.” Fluttershy thought to herself “I have my own toilet that I can use whenever I want.”

“Whoa there, Fluttershy!” Rainbow Dash replied, rushing forward and pushing her friend back into the stall “There’s nothing to be scared of, it’s just a toilet. Ponies use them all the time.”

Fluttershy tried to fight back against Rainbow Dash, but it was no use. Rainbow Dash seemed determined to get Fluttershy to sit on the toilet, and she clearly wasn’t taking no for an answer. “Do I really have to do this?” Fluttershy asked her friend, even though she was certain of the answer.

“Of course you do, Fluttershy. You’re not a baby anymore.” Rainbow Dash said, as she removed her friend’s pull-up. She had never understood why her friend had just given up on using the toilet after only a few days at flight camp.

As Fluttershy suddenly felt her pull-up being untaped and thrown onto the ground, memories that she thought she had banished for good came flooding back to her.

It was practice time at flight camp, and poor Fluttershy knew that she was not going to do well at all. Just looking at the ground made her wings lock up in fright. But the coach either didn’t notice or didn’t care, and went ahead and pushed Fluttershy off the cloud base she was on.

Panic rocketed through Fluttershy’s mind like never before, preventing her from remembering to flap her wings and take to the sky. She hit the ground of the camp with a thud, relieved that the clouds had broken her fall.

But at that point, all the colts and fillies (except Rainbow Dash) began to look at her and point at her with their hooves. All the while, they chanted “Fluttershy! Fluttershy! Fluttershy can hardly fly!” over and over again, to the point where Fluttershy felt like she was going to cry.

To make matters worse, at that very moment, the coach left to tend to an injured Rainbow Dash. This left Fluttershy alone with the other flight camp residents, and from the looks on their faces, it was obvious that their intentions were anything but good.

Almost before she realized it, Fluttershy felt herself being picked up by some of the stronger pegasi. “Where are you taking me?” she asked, unable to see anything except the retreating flight ground.

“To a place where useless flyers like you belong.” a colt replied. Was it Fluttershy’s imagination, or did that voice sound incredibly malicious?

“Turn her around, so she can see what fate awaits her.” a filly instructed, a second later Fluttershy was quickly spun around so that she now faced forward. She was surprised at what she saw. There was the flight camp bathroom, where showers, sinks, and toilets could be found.

“What could they possibly do with me in a bathroom?” Fluttershy thought to herself, as she was carried into the building. In a matter of seconds, as the yellow coated filly was carried into the fillies restroom, and past the showers and sinks, she knew what the answer was.

“Open the stall door and dump her in the toilet, that’s where she belongs!” the filly from before instructed harshly.

Poor Fluttershy tried her best, but she was unable to break free from the grip of the colt that held her. In a matter of seconds, the bowl of the toilet greeted her eyes.

Before Fluttershy could get in a word of protest, she was tipped over and dropped into the bowl where she landed with an audible splash!

“Are we ready to do this?” the colt asked the filly.

“Go ahead and pull the handle, this should be fun to watch.” the filly replied fiendishly.

“Wait, are they actually going to do what I think they’re going to do?!” Fluttershy thought nervously to herself, as she tried to free herself from the bowl.

Suddenly, Fluttershy could hear a loud roaring sound, and the water around her began to spin faster and faster. She realized that the colt had just flushed the toilet, with her in it!

“Toilet time! Toilet time! Toilet time for Fluttershy!” the colts and fillies chanted, as poor Fluttershy spun around and around with the toilet water. As the water began to disappear down the drain, it pulled Fluttershy along with it. But she only got as far as getting her face into the first pipe, before the water stopped pulling her along. Her tail still sticking out of the drain.

“Ah man, she got stuck!” Fluttershy could hear the colt complain.

“Just go grab a plunger and push on her tail a few times, that should clear up the blockage.” Fluttershy heard the filly instruct.

Fortunately for Fluttershy, the coach came to her rescue before the colts and fillies could obtain a plunger. But ever since that day, Fluttershy could still hear the colts and fillies chanting “Toilet time! Toilet time! Toilet time for Fluttershy!” every time she got near the bathroom.

“It’s easy!” Rainbow Dash instructed, snapping Fluttershy out of her flashback and placing her on the toilet “You just sit down on the seat and do your business like always. When you’re done, you wipe yourself with some toilet paper, and then flush.”

“I can’t do it! I won’t do it!” Fluttershy protested, hopping off of the toilet.

“You can do it!” Rainbow Dash replied, placing Fluttershy back on the toilet.

“No I can’t!” Fluttershy protested, hopping off of the toilet again.

“What do I have to do to show you that there’s nothing to be afraid of?” Rainbow Dash complained, as she and Fluttershy eyed each other in the stall.

“Well, I’ll only use it again on one condition.” Fluttershy said seriously.

“Name your price!” Rainbow Dash said boldly. She was prepared for anything, or she thought.

“I want you to wear one of my pull-ups.” Fluttershy explained “And for every day you made fun of me for wearing them, you have to use them at least once for each day that you wear them.”

Rainbow Dash was barely able to keep herself from foaming at the mouth when Fluttershy pitched that suggestion to her. “You can’t be serious! I made fun of you for wearing those stupid things for a whole month and a half.”

“Then you’d better get used to using them for that long of a period of time,” Fluttershy replied, as she reluctantly climbed back onto the toilet and sat down on it. “That is, unless you don’t want me to start going to the toilet again.”

“Can’t you just use the toilet and pretend that all those times I teased you about your pull-ups never happened?” Rainbow Dash pleaded.

Fluttershy shook her head firmly “Either you wear and use pull-ups for the next month and a half, or I’m never setting hoof in a bathroom stall ever again. It’s your choice, Rainbow Dash.”

Rainbow Dash wanted nothing more than to speak up and protest such an agreement, but truth be told she was getting tired of having to constantly change her friend every time she went either number one or number two in her pull-up. “If it weren’t for that stupid chant.” she thought angrily to herself, as she put on the discarded pull-up.

“You’re the best friend ever, Rainbow Dash!” Fluttershy exclaimed happily. Rainbow Dash just sighed, the next month and a half was going to be really long.