Cheating the Cycle of Life- A Padded Pony Collab

“We’re going to be very busy in the morning so I want you to get out of bed by 6am sharp. There’s a lot of spell books and we need to categorize and I can’t afford you to waste sleep, even by a few minutes.”

It was dark outside and everyone was going to bed. Twilight dipped her body into the thick blanket and wrapped it around her body, finally resting her bed on the pillow. Her eyes started to get heavy before she quickly drifted off into a deep sleep, ready for a bright tomorrow.

Spike on the other hand slowly walked over to his basket and glanced at the unicorn. He didn’t know where the day went, from making breakfast for Twilight, categorizing a new shipment of books to finally cleaning up the library.

Each step the young drake made over to his little basket he felt what morsels on energy he had left invisibly drain from him. He rested his head on the pillow and wrapped his blanket around his scaly body.

“Goodnight Spike,” Spike growled, imitating Twilight’s voice. “Goodnight loyal Mr. Dragon who’s been doing nothing but cleaning up and shuffling books around…”He tossed and turned until getting into a comfortable position. “Oh Spike!” He continued, “You’ve done so well you should take a break. Let me make the sandwiches for once… Humph.”

He turned his body round one more time and got a good look at Twilight loudly snoring.

“Gee,” He whispered, “A little break would’ve been nice, Twilight. We’ve been doing this all week…”

The lack of energy and the sudden weight on his eyelids began to take hold. Spike soon fell into a deep sleep.

“Wha-“

Spike opened his eyes and found himself to be in a different room. Instead of his basket, he noticed that he was sitting inside what appeared to a crib for foals.

“What’s going on?” He slowly stood up and grabbed the bars, shaking them violently.

“T-Twilight?”

Despite using all of his strength to rattle the bars, it wasn’t enough for them to move. The dragon quickly scanned the room and noticed he was inside a large nursery.

The walls were coloured white with several multi-coloured images of baby bottles, pacifiers and teddy bears all scattered along the walls. Toys of all kinds were on the floor. Teddy bears, plushies, toy carriages, building blocks and more were everywhere.

The door to the nursery slowly opened, creaking as it bounced off the wall behind. Spike took a step back and curiously watched before seeing Twilight enter the room with a smile on her face.

“Twilight!? What’s going on? Why am I in a nursery? Is this some sort of joke?”

The unicorn stepped into the room and looked through the crib bars to see Spike making random baby noises and unintelligible gibberish.

“Hello, little one.” Twilight trotted over to the crib, avoiding the various toys on the floor and peeked through the wooden bars. “How’s my little-“She squinted and noticed the lack of diaper around Spike’s waist. “How did you take off your diaper?” Twilight quizzically asked, mixing a motherly tone in her voice to appear friendly towards the baby dragon.

“What diaper!?” Spike exclaimed, he took another step back, feeling his back rest up against the other side of the crib. “This isn’t funny! I haven’t worn diapers in years.”

Twilight wasn’t listening; she couldn’t anyways, her horn started to charge up and her levitation magic started to envelope Spike and lift him up into the air.

“I can’t have you playing in your crib and suddenly pee all over the place. It’s highly unsanitary” Twilight lifted Spike over to the changing table in the middle of the room. Her magic animated the straps on the table and pieced together once Spike was in position.

Spike didn’t bother to respond to the unicorn anymore.

He wrestled with the straps and groaned in frustration only to be silenced by a large green pacifier being shoved into his mouth. An urge instantly came over him to start suckling on the pacifier, he didn’t even realise that he had begun to.

“You’re being a noisy little guy today, aren’t you?” Twilight nuzzled the dragon and sealed the diaper, placing the tapes on the front for a tight and snuggly fit.

He wanted to reply with a witty retort or at least scream at her for putting him in this embarrassing situation but he couldn’t spit out the green pacifier. His long tongue wrapped around the nipple and he continued to loudly suckle. Spike wanted to spit it out, but the feelings that came from it toppled his will and made him continue, soon forgetting that it was  in his mouth.

“All done!” Twilight sang, smiling at the baby dragon. “I don’t know how you got out of your diaper but I think I’ll need to keep a better eye on you.”

Another surge of magic came from Twilight’s horn and Spike found himself back inside the crib. Upon landing on the soft mattress he heard his backside crinkle, blushing intensely at the noise.

A teddy bear from the ground soon dropped into the crib, being levitated by Twilight’s magic, and swayed in front of the baby dragon. Spike fixed his eyes on the big bear and found its movements to be strangely hypnotizing.

“Hello, Mr. Dragon!” Twilight imitated a child’s voice, attempting to pass off her voice as the bears. “Twily is going to be busy for a little while! She’s got some spell books to organize!”

The news hit Spike like a ton of bricks.

The baby dragon quickly crawled across the crib and held onto the teddy bear, grabbing it by the shoulders.

“Wait!” Spike cried, his speech being muffled somewhat by the pacifier. “Twilight can’t leave!”

Twilight noticed the baby dragon’s cries and shook her head.

“Oh, Spikey…” Twilight cooed. “I’ve got to go and sort out these books. Princess Celestia told me it was very important that I-“ She stopped and looked the dragon in the eyes, something stuck her and his cute look instantly won her over. “Oh what the heck, I think the Princess will let me play with you for a few minutes. You’re too adorable to ignore!” Twilight squealed.

Her magic enveloped Spike and the teddy bear up into the air. Spike found himself being placed onto the carpet, surrounded by the wide range of toys. A part of him wanted to ignore the toys and find a way to escape the nursery but there was a force he couldn’t comprehend pushing him closer to the toys, he stood up and looked at a nearby rattle.

“If we’re going to play together then why don’t you choose what toy you want?”

Spike couldn’t choose, the sheer selection of toys surrounding him was more than his mind could take. He reached for the rattle he saw, but then imagined himself playing with the teddy bear.

“Can’t you decide Spikey?” Twilight giggled, “That’s alright. I’ve got an idea.”

A grin appeared on Twilight’s face; she pounced and landed on top of Spike. She blew raspberries into his stomach causing him to laugh hysterically. He kicked and flailed his arms in the air, unable to stop Twilight’s attack.

“You like that, huh?” Twilight stopped.

Spike nodded in response, still unable to remove the pacifier from his mouth, if he even cared about it.

“Good!” She ducked and commenced another attack on Spike’s belly, soon blowing another round of raspberries into him, causing another fit of laughter and uncontrollable kicking.

“S-Stop! It’s t-too much!” Spike mumbled, caught in his own laughter, he managed to push Twilight’s head away from his belly and prevent another series of raspberries and laughter.

Twilight leaned her head back and smiled at the baby dragon. Her smile slowly dropped when she noticed a yellow patch appearing on the front of his diaper.

“What?” Spike asked, tilting his head in confusion.

“It looks like my little Spikey has wet his diaper!”

He should have been angry, embarrassed even, but the warmth surrounding his crotch and the yellow spot appearing on the front of his diaper was the least of his concerns. Not once did he think about ripping off the tapes and making a mad dash for the shower to clean the filth off of him. He kept on thinking about playing with his toys, regardless of the state of his diaper.

And he kept on playing.

He felt naughty for making a foul in his diaper and it humoured him to see Twilight frown.

“Ugh,” Twilight recoiled, “You’re going to get a rash if you play too long in that.” She smiled and looked at the changing table opposite her. “Let’s get you changed.” Twilight sang.

Another round of magic wrapped around Spike’s body and he was lifted back onto the changing table.

He was strapped in and Twilight started to clean him down, the wipes were liberally rubbed against his body and a whiff of powder was applied to his backside. A fresh diaper was soon placed on him and the tapes were magically set on the front.

“All done!” Twilight continued to sing, “Happy now?”

Spike nodded in response.

“But I’m afraid you’ve got to back in the crib.” Twilight’s smile dropped, she looked back over to the crib and sighed. “Now that we’ve had some fun, I’ve got to go back downstairs and sort out those new spell books.”

He was lifted up into the air with another charge of magic and was dropped back into the crib. Spike was now starting to panic, he didn’t want to sleep, and he wanted to play with the toys on the floor.

“Nighty night, my little Spikey.” Twilight trotted over to the light switch and turned it down, the room darkened and the room filled with darkness. She exited the room and closed the nursery door behind her.

“W-Wait! Twilight! You can’t go!” Spike reached through the bars and tried his best to grab Twilight, despite the fact she was already gone.

Tears ran down his face and he burst into a full wail, he held onto the bars and tried his best to shake them.

He fell on his padded bottom and rested his head back onto the pillow, his crying depleted his energy and he found himself closing his eyes and seeing the world around him fade to black.

“Goodnight, Spikey.”

“Did you have a good night’s rest?” Twilight asked, loudly munching on her bowl of cereal. She looked at her dragon assistant grab the orange juice out of the fridge.

“Feelin’ fine!” Spike happily announced. “I don’t know what happened last night but I feel like I could run an entire marathon.”

“I guess all of that work yesterday must have done quite a number on you.”

“Well…” Spike hopped onto the table chair and started pouring into a glass. He started to drink from the glass and start on his toast.

Twilight stared at the dragon’s smile and felt a thought come to her.

“Say, Spike…” Twilight started.

“Yep?” He munched on his toast, getting crumbs all over him.

“I was thinking. Instead of sorting out those books, why don’t we go out and get some ice cream later?”

Spike stopped, placing his toast back onto his plate.

“Wait why? I thought these spell books we got from Princess Celestia were super important.”

“I know.” Twilight smiled, “I just thought you wanted a little break is all?”

“What made you change your mind, I mean… I don’t mind having a day off but, how come?”

“I don’t know.” Twilight mused. “I had this dream last night and it made me think about all the work we’ve doing lately.”

Spike blinked. “What kind of dream?”

“I don’t know.” Twilight shrugged, “I can’t remember. But it was nice.”

“How do you know it’s nice if you can’t remember it?”

“I just woke up feeling really happy and refreshed for some reason. I can always talk to Princess Luna to find out about my dream.” Twilight continued on with her cereal before stopping again, she looked at Spike and smiled. “What did you dream about?”

Spike paused. He thought back to the moment he fell asleep and the memories suddenly came flooding back to his head. The nursery, diaper changes and the floating teddy bear all stuck out in his mind. His cheeks burned a bright red and he sunk in his chair.

“Well… I had this nice dream with Rarity…”

“Okay.” Twilight giggled, “I’m guessing you were rescuing her from more Diamond Dogs, right?”

“Y-Yeah,” Spike nodded. “That’s it!”

“Alright.” Twilight nodded, smiling. “I’m going to categorize a few spell books and I’ll call it a day.”

“Want me to help? You said it was important, remember?”

“Nah, you can go back to bed and get a few more hours if you like.” Twilight used her magic to levitate the cereal over to the sink and placed it inside the wash bowl. She hopped off her seat and trotted over to the library door.

“Don’t forget to clean up before you go back upstairs, my little Spikey.” Twilight grinned.