Cheating the Cycle of Life- A Padded Pony Collab

Starlight Glimmer really wanted to be anywhere but Magic Kindergarten, especially considering the circumstances surrounding her return to the dreaded place.

Everything had gone downhill for her after an alicorn named Twilight Sparkle had arrived in Starlight’s village. The alicorn and her friends had ultimately succeeded in destroy Starlight Glimmer’s utopia, restoring the cutie marks to everypony.

Starlight thought she could elude capture by running into the mountains, but unfortunately, her plan was foiled when a freak avalanche blocked her only escape route.

Once she was captured, Starlight Glimmer was turned over to Princess Celestia for punishment.

Rather than banish Starlight Glimmer from Equestria, however, Princess Celestia decided that Starlight Glimmer deserved a supposedly “less harsh” punishment. And so she was condemned to serve as a teacher in the Magic Kindergarten class of Canterlot.

To make matters even worse, Princess Celestia had insisted on a particularly embarrassing undergarment, that Starlight Glimmer had to wear.

“Good morning, students.” Bright Spark said with a smile.

“Good morning Ms. Spark.” the foals replied happily.

“Class, I want you all to give a warm welcome to my new teaching assistant, Starlight Glimmer. Or Ms. Glimmer, as she will be called while she is here.”

“Hello Ms. Glimmer.” the foals greeted, as Starlight Glimmer reluctantly entered the classroom. In a matter of seconds, they took notice of what she was wearing around her rump, and they burst out laughing.

“What’s so funny?!” Starlight Glimmer snapped, instantly losing her cool and feeling her anger bubble back to the surface.

A filly no more than five years of age broke off from laughing for a moment, and said to Starlight Glimmer “You’re wearing a diaper. And mommy tells me that big ponies don’t wear diapers.”

“Now class, you know better than to make fun of other ponies for what they wear,” Bright Spark lectured sternly, commanding the attention of the foals “Ms. Glimmer is wearing this diaper at Princess Celestia’s request. The princess hoped that you would more easily accept someone that was wearing what you all normally wear. But if you’re going to make fun of Ms. Glimmer, you will be in serious trouble.”

“Why is she even here?” a colt asked.

“She is here to understand how cutie marks do not change who you are, and that nopony has the right to tell you how to live.” Bright Spark explained. The colts and fillies were quickly silenced upon learning that, largely because they had no idea what it meant.

The silence that fell over the classroom was the most welcome sound that Starlight Glimmer had heard all day. And as she took her seat, she was relieved that she still had her pride. That was something that nopony was going to take away from her. Not Twilight Sparkle, not a bunch of ungrateful villagers, and certainly not Princess Celestia.

She could only hope, that her time in Magic Kindergarten wouldn’t be too unbearable. At the moment, she wanted nothing more than to forget about the terrible hand life had dealt her.