The Foal of an Empire

        The light that expanded from the Crystal Heart chamber spread throughout the castle, engulfing every hall and room. The floors became a soft pink carpet, the artwork that hung on the walls were degraded to crude drawings, and the statues lined the halls morphed into big teddy bears while the walls themselves turned from crystal to baby pink.

Maids and butlers were swept up in the magical energy and their uniforms became foalish; with the maids being dressed in frilly pink maid outfits with large pink diapers that poofed out in the back while the butlers had blue onesies covering their diapers only exposing the white frills through the leg holes.The onesies themselves looked like tuxedos with the fronts with cute little ducks for buttons lining the middle.

The magical energy didn’t stop there, as it entered the rooms as well, transforming normal bedrooms into adult sized nurseries. The main throne room was transformed as well with the red carpet lining the middle transformed into a baby blue carpet decorated with foal toys, and the columns transformed into what looked like giant foal bottles. The throne itself became more comfy and became what appeared to be a pink sofa with two high chairs on either side. One had Shining’s cutie mark while the other was pure gold and has  jewels lining it.

        After the Ever Filly came down, she was exhausted as she fell on Sunburst’s back as she muttered, “Princess Cadence, I gave you your orders. Take charge. Sunburst? take me to the royal bedroom. I need a nap.”

 “Uh... R-r-right away Ever Filly.” Sunburst stumbled with his voice being weirdly high pitched.

Sunburst bounced away as Princess Cadance turned to meet the rest of her servants. They quivered in fear with hissing sounds now echoing throughout the room.  She then levitated Shining onto Night light’s back and barked, “Night Light? Take Shining to his nursery. It’s very late and he needs his sleep.”

“nice.” Night Light cooed as he walked out of the room.

“Twilight? You’ll take Flash to your new room.” Cadence turned at last to her with her cold uncaring gaze. “While you’re there, I need you to study the spell books the Ever Filly has provided you. She says that they are mandatory for keeping her empire in check.”

Twilight slowly stepped forward and shuddered. “Cadence why—”

“-Don’t ever question my orders!” Cadence snapped and gnashed her teeth at Twilight, silencing the alicorn immediately.

Twilight sweated, gulped, and bowed her head and ran off with Flash.

            “Come on, Nanny Twilie. I’ll get ya to ya woom.” One of the infantile guards stepped forward and took Twilight’s hoof, leading the way down the corridors.

Twilight followed the guard slowly out the door as Cadence turned to the rest of the guards that remained. She was going to give them more orders, and Twilight’s eyebrows contorted a look of uncertainty as she looked back at what had become of her sister-in-law.

        Twilight was trotting down the halls of the palace with Flash on her back. She saw the guard in front of her waddling back and forth with his huge padded rear. She looked back at Flash, who was burying himself into her dress trying to stay warm.

“It’s going to be okay. I’m going to find a way to fix this.” She turned back towards Flash and whispered into his ear. But truth be told, I’m not sure howI can solve this...

        Along the way, Twilight saw how the castle had changed. She looked upon them with remorse she could only imagine what beautiful art was destroyed and replaced by this foalish decor. She shed a single tear at how it had all changed, but that wouldn’t deter her from stopping the Ever Filly and saving the Crystal Empire.

They were eventually led into a room where many other different butlers and maids were cantering down with eager smiles on their faces. Twilight, looking at the commotion asked, “Um excuse me? What’s going on here?”

“The Eva Fwilly told us we gotta go to the thwone woom fow a special anowcement,” the first butler babbled like a foal with teeth would.

“I neva got such ordas?” The guard that was leading Twilight and Flash retorted.

“Well maybe we got diffwent odas.” The butler walked out, still smiling.

He then waddled off with the rest of the servants. Twilight just looked at the faces of the dumbstruck crystal ponies who were unsure of what’s going on. Twilight could only stand there and wait until they all waddled off before the guard continued to lead them through the hall.

They finally came upon a room where the guard opened the door. Inside was a simple room with a bed that looked more like a crib with purple plastic rails and a mobile hanging over it, with small moons and stars hanging from each end. Across from her bed was Flash’ crib, made entirely out of pink plastic with a pink blanket covering the small mat inside There was another mobile hanging from that one too, but it instead had suns, moons, and a big pink planet hanging above.

Near the cribs was a small book shelf filled with picture books. On the top it read Twilight and near the bottom read Flash. Twilight just looked at the room mournfully and settled Flash in his crib, placed the pink foal blanket over him, and kissed his forehead. “Ni ni, flashie.” Twilight began to mutter as well, but failed to notice how much as she walked over to the bookshelf.

Twilight eyed up all of the books on the bookcase until her eyes were fixated on a blue book at the top. On the cover was a picture of a pink unopened diaper on a baby blue background, with a caption that read,“How to change diapers.”But when Twilight read it out loud she said, “H-ho-w-t-ta-ch-ch-chwange-diapees.”

It was only now she noticed that her voice was beginning to deteriorate. What happened? Why can’t I read a simple phrase like this? What is going on?! she thought as she began to open the book.

Twilight turned the page to a a big picture of a simple unicorn with it’s horn glowing. She looked down at the bottom, seeing another caption that read, “To change a diaper you have to make your horn glow.” As much as she tried to say it, all that came out of her mouth was, “To c-ch-change a d-diapee- ya gotta ma- ya hown gwow.”

Twilight turned the pages and each page was the same with a picture of unicorn using it’s magic to change diapers with the captions written as sloppily and as squiggly as a foal would have written it. What was more unnerving was the fact that Twilight was having trouble even reading it. She shrieked and dropped the book, stumbling back against her crib and falling inside of it with her head planted into the blankets.

She heard something thump against the wall as she turned to see the guard that escorted her, who was now outside the door and had tears in his eyes, “Nanny Twilie, I… I did a wettie in my diapee and I don know how to change it,” he whined.

Twilight smiled at him and cooed, “Don’t worry sweetie. I’ll get it changed for you.” She picked him up and put him down on the changing table. The Ever Filly may have taken my ability to read but she hasn’t taken my magic.

She then lit up horn and shot a stream of energy at the guard. She smiled, thinking she broke the spells the Ever Filly placed on him, when instead, all it did was make the diaper fall off and materialize pair of baby blue pull-ups in its’ place.

“Na twilie I can’t be weawing pull ups.” The guard looked at his new undergarments and frowned.

Twilight tried  zapping him again, but this time a bunch of foal powder was dumped all over his head. “Nanny Twilie what ya doin!?” He cried out as the powder turned him a shade of pale white.

Twilight gave a grimace as she looked at how worse the guard looked. None of my spells are working! What the buck is going on?

All of a sudden the guard started crying his eyes out. Twilight, feeling bad for what she did, came over and hugged him, cooing, “I’m sorry sweetie, I’m still learning these new spells.”

“Nana Cady is gonna yell at me,” he whimpered.

“Just tell her I did this, okay?” Twilight whispered in his ear.

He nodded softly.

“Young colt what is going on over here?!”

Twilight and the soldier bit their lips as they turned to see Cadence marching towards them with fire in her eyes.

“It’s not my fawlt! Nana Twilie was just twying to change my diapee!” The guard blurted out as his training pants began soak and a yellow liquid began to drip on the floor.

Princess Cadence’s horn glowed causing the foal powder to disappear as the baby blue pull-up turned into a fresh pink diaper. “Alright, little one. You won’t be punished.” She gave the diapered pony a big hug and sent him towards the door. “Now go to the throne room and wait for me.”

He just sniffled and dropped his head as he slowly trotted out of the room.

Princess Cadence’s gaze met Twilight’s. She stomped forward and yelled, “Twilight! I suggest you read your spell books and make sure you know how to change a diaper properly!”

“Cadence! Why is all my magic gone?!” Twilight showed some pang of resistance, but then recoiled at what she had just said.

Cadence’s horn glowed, and she sent a bolt of energy that slapped Twilight across the face a few times before doing the same spell on her butt. “Don’t you talk to me like that, you little brat!” The Cadence Twilight knew was long gone as she wiped Twilight’s tears from her eyes. “Now are you going to read your books and learn to change diapers like a good little foal? Or do I have to get even nastier?”

Twilight, unwilling to fight back simply shed a few more tears as she wiped her aching butt from the spanking spell. “Y-yes, Nana Cadence.”

Cadence shoved the book into Twilight’s chest and opened it up. “Then start studying. We’ll be very busy tomorrow morning.”

        She walked out of the room as Twilight just stood there. She didn’t even look back and see her burst into tears. Scoffing, she merely shut the doors behind her and returned to the Ever Filly’s room.

            “Twilie, don cwy. Ya gonna make me cwy too.” Flash looked at Twilight with big, pleading eyes.

Twilight turned to see Flash grasping the bars of his crib. She wiped the tears from her eyes as she picked him up and brought him into a cuddle. “Come here...” her tears had stopped but from her tone of voice, she was still in shambles over what Cadence had done and said to her.

“Twilie? Can I have some milkies?” Flash asked, reached out for the cabinets under the changing table.

Twilight nodded slowly and stepped over towards the small doors. She pulled out a bottle of milk and heated it up with a smaller spell. She inserted the nipple of the bottle into Flash’s mouth and watched him drink and look around gazing at his new nursery, while she had time to slip into her own train of thought.

First the Ever Filly conquers the Crystal Empire, then everyone gets turned into foals, I can’t use my magic, and Cadence has turned into a monster of a pony. How can this get any worse?! she said in her mind while she continued feeding Flash.

That night, Shining’s old friend and captain of the guard in the Crystal Empire, Steel Horn was waddling to the barracks. His appearance, much like the other ponies, had changed drastically. He now had a bright yellow coat and a big poofy pink diaper around his flank. His armor was pastel pink with foal booties, and he wore a visor that looked like a foal bonnet.

The only thing that made him any different was his binky which was bright baby blue. He unintentionally sucked on it as he waddled out in the night air. He carried his long rattle—which had replaced his spear—that the Ever Filly had assigned him in case anyone tried to fight back against her.

The outside of the palace had changed too with the ground now covered in soft padded grass. The bushes were cut into the shapes of foal items such as foal bottles and pacifiers. The barrack doors were bright pink with a giant heart over it and two rattles crossed in an ‘X’ shape.

Steel Horn opened the doors and walked through. Inside the barracks was a long pink room with padded walls and floors. The sides of the halls had bunk-cribs with pink bars and ladders that came down connecting the high and low bunks. The guards were sleeping under the blankets with their coats turned pee yellow and giant puffy diapers wrapped around their butts.

Steel then reluctantly took out his pacifier and said, “Alright, little ones. Time to get up.”

The guards all woke and yawned as they looked up at their newly decorated barracks.

 One guard near him lisped, “Bu we still..” as he rubbed his eyes and saw what had become of the barracks.

“Don’t worry. We were changed by the Ever Filly. “ Steel Horn picked the guard out and put him on the floor. “I’ll explain more later, but you all need to get ready.”

The guards were confused as they began to climb out of their cradles. Some of them were crawling down from the top bunks and accidentally hit their padded rears on the guards coming out from the bottom bunks. Some guards just climbed over and plopped to the ground, while others tried to crawl over head first over the bars only to fall on their protected rears .The ones that fell on accident started to cry as the captain went over and comforted them.

“It’s okay come on get up.” He gave them hugs until they were all standing on their own four legs. He then barked, “Now form a line quickly!”

The stallions all gathered in front of each other pushing and shoving each other as they tried to get to the front of the line.

“If you push or shove, you’ll get a public spanking,” The guard warned as he watched their behaviour.

The guards all stopped and quickly formed a line in front of their cribs, unwilling to receive any more warnings from their captain.

Steel Horn went to the back of the line and slowly trotted forward looking at each and every stallion. They lost a lot of their former military experience as some were crying from when he was yelling earlier. He went to the sobbing guards and helped place their pacifiers in their mouths. “I don't want to be tough, but if you don’t listen to me, I will have to get mean.” His tone had degraded into a much calmer one. “Now if you’re sad or you need to cry, just suckle on the binkies around your necks okay?”

“Okay, captain.” The guards all mumbled as some of them popped the pacifiers in their mouths.

One guard had his hoof in his mouth and began to suck on it. It was seconds later that the captain quickly swatted it out and shouted, “No! That's dirty.”

Steel then took the guard’s pacifier and placed it into his mouth and continued trotting down the line. “If I catch any of you sucking your hooves, you’ll be getting a public spanking,” he said.

He then heard a loud hissing sound and watched as of the guards’ diapers turned a shade of dark yellow.

“Captain! I did a wettie!” The guard with the wet diaper cried.

The captain walked over to him and draped his hoof around the soldier’s shoulders. “It’s okay. We’ll get you out of that wet diapee soon, okay?”

The guard nodded as the captain took his binky and placed it in his mouth.

“Alright. You're all ready now. Follow me.” The guard instructed as he walked towards another door in the barracks with a sign that read Changing Room.

        Inside the changing room was a nimiety of  pink padded changing tables; each one with visible bottles of foal powder and a stack of fresh diapers sitting on the top. The floors were just as brightly coloured as the rest of the carpets in the castle and barracks, and there were cartoonish designs scribbled onto the walls.

“Alright. Now tell me who used their diapers.” Steel Hoof turned to his infantile troops.

Immediately, a large number of guards raised their hooves and stepped forward to face Steel Hoof, who pointed out the tables they were to be changed on.

They all went to their own tables and laid down on the top. They waited for Steel Hoof to continue.

“Now I’m going to show you all how easy it is to change with this new device.” Steel watched all of the guards get comfortable as straps secured them in place. “First, tell it that you’re a guard.

“I a gwad,” the guards on the changing tables chorused.

The changing tables hummed to life as the captain said, “Now just tell it what you did in your diapee.”

“We pooped ouwsewves,” half of the guards blushed.

“We wet ouwsevwes,” said the other half.

The changing tables hummed to life as the guards’ diapers were soon unstrapped magically. With their bottoms exposed, wet wipes appeared and wiped their bottoms clean. They giggled and squirmed as the other guards just watched in astonishment.

Then, their crotches and rumps were rubbed with foal cream and powdered before new diapers wrapped themselves around the ponies’ rumps. After that, pink foal armor appeared around the guards with foal booties strapped onto their hooves. The straps were gone and the changing tables stopped glowing.

The newly changed guards got up and waddled to the Steel Hoof.

“See how easy that was?” he asked. “Each of you will go on the changing table each morning and night and do as they did. The table will change your diapees and give you the clothes you need.

“Now when all of you are changed and ready, I’ll give out your rattles and we’ll go to throne room.” He escorted the changed guards out of the room and turned towards the others.

“Okie, captain.” The remaining guards formed lines at each of the changing tables.

The guards had their second inspection as they were now in front of their cribs in their foal armor with their long rattles placed upright in their hooves.

“Alright. Now I’m going to demonstrate how the rattle works.” Steel Hoof lightly tapped the end of his on the floor repeatedly. ”Can I have a volunteer?”

All the stallions looked at each other, their eyes darting rapidly back and forth as they looked at how menacing their captain looked. None of them wanted to be a part of this demonstration.

Steel Hoof sighed and pointed at one of the guards, who yelped and hid behind a few others who pushed him out to the front. He saw the guard approach him and turned to the others.

“Now the rattle is only used if a foal is being naughty and trying tell others that the Ever Filly is bad,” said Steel Hoof. “If you hear this, then lightly tap the foal on the head like so.” He raised the rattle and placed it on the guard’s head, watching it spontaneously cry as he retracted his toy. “The Ever Filly enchanted these rattles with the power to make someone demoralized and unable to resist. Use them whenever you see a pony causing trouble, or saying mean things to her.”

Steel then took the binky around his volunteer's neck and slipped it in his mouth, hugging the pony for being brave. He whispered in his ear, and the volunteer slowly waddled back with the rest of the group.

“Easy, right? Just do that and report what you did to me or a nanny.” Steel handed out more of the elongated rattles to the rest of the guard. “You can’t miss them. Just look for a pony with a big yellow dress. Understood?”

“Yes, captain,” the guards all said.

“Good. Now let’s go.” Steel started to lead the way towards the exit. “We don’t want to be late.”

The guards all turned and waddled out the door with Steel Hoof leading the way.

Later that night, the throne room was packed full of ponies. The ones on the left side were the servants and the ones on the right were the foal guard. The doors opened, and a plethora of mares trotted forward with the foal guard escorting them. They stood before Princess Cadence, sitting on her pink sofa looking over the ponies in the room.

“Now that every pony is here, we can begin.” Cadence nodded her head as everyone turned their gaze towards her. “First off, all of you are now under the rule of the Ever filly, and I shall become the head nanny,” she said. “Tomorrow, all of the Crystal Empire will be padded and made foal-friendly as you were.

“It sounds like a wonderful place, but it will be chaos without order. That’s why all of you are here.” She turned to the servants. “Each of you was given a map of the city and the location of where you will work. There, you will go among the infant-minded ponies and make sure everything is cleaned; from the changing rooms, to the dining rooms, and even their play areas.”

“Yes, Nanny Cady” The servants all bowed and mumbled together.

“You will all be assigned areas to patrol as well.” Princess Cadance turned to the guards next. “Not every pony will like being a foal again, so your job is to lightly bop them on the head with your rattles and report to us if there’s trouble.”

“OK, Nanny Cady,” they all chorused again.

 “As for you, you’re all here because you are now nannies. And as such, you have a job and prior experience in caring for foals.” Cadence looked at the mares who had entered the room last. ”I need all of you to stay behind and wait for further instructions.

“Servants will go with the head butler. He’ll show you how to use the changing rooms.” Cadence began issuing orders to the ponies. “The guards will go gather the ponies.” She waved her hoof. “I want every pony in the Crystal Empire standing at the front of the palace by sunrise. Understood?”

“Yes, Nanny Cady.” Everyone nodded before stampeding out of the room to do their jobs, leaving only the mares that were escorted earlier were standing in the middle of the throne room.

“Your jobs are the most important.” Cadence held the hooves of the nannies she had been assigned. “You'll be caring for the ponies that will be regressed.”

“Wait, what?!” The first mare jumped at Cadence’s statement.

“As you can see, the Ever Filly is changing some things with her powers.” Cadence let out tiny streams from her horn that mesmerized and hypnotized the ponies in the room. “I have succumbed to her power, and as her second-in-command, you have no choice but to follow my orders.”

The nannies simply nodded as Cadence continued.

“Now, I will link each of you to my horn telepathically and I’m going to place the exact instructions of the Ever Filly into you,” she whispered. “These rules must be followed. No exceptions.”

The nannies nodded once again, unable to talk or respond as Cadence amplified the streams of magic and planted the spells in their minds. All of their original minds and consciousnesses were absorbed into the Ever Filly, as yellow flowing gowns were placed on each of them, along with large green hats and giant yellow diapers around their waists.

Cadence smiled at her handiwork as she gazed upon Butterscotch. “Now you will stay here until the Ever Filly is ready. Understand?.”

They all bow in unison. “Yes, Head Nanny Cadence.”

Cadence turned and left the throne room as the nannies started chatting amongst each other. With their new mindsets they couldn’t wait until the Ever Filly turned everyone into foals.

Twilight was dealing with a cranky Flash Sentry, trying to stop him from running all over the place and throwing his toys everywhere. She eventually caught him in her magic and and brushed his mane, calming him down as she wrapped her hooves around his body

“I wanna cuddle wit ya!” Flash smiled, looking up at Twilight.

Twilight chuckled, “Flashie I have to get ready for tomorrow.”

Flash then peed his diaper and pointed down at it. “Well ya can twy to change me now.”

Twilight rolled her eyes as she placed Flash Sentry on the changing counter and began to change his diaper manually. She undid the straps, cleaned Flash’s bottom, powdered and creamed it, and applied a new diaper.

“I‘m serious, Flash. If I’m not ready by tomorrow, Cadence is going to have my hide.” Twilight picked Flash up and carried him over to the crib.

Flash cried as she strapped a big poofy pink diaper over his body. “Why do I have to have a pink diapee?

“It’s the rules, okay?” Twilight sighed, “If I don’t follow them,bad things will happen.”

Flash crossed his front hooves and pouted. “It’s not faiw.”

“Now you get some sleepies so I can practice.” Twilight laid Flash down and tucked him in while plopping a pacifier into his mouth.

Flash just spat it out. “No, Twilie. I can’t go to sweep!” He wailed.

All of a sudden, there was a knocking noise coming from the door. Twilight looked over and saw Cadence step into the room.

“Twilight? I’m sorry about earlier, but I need to speak with you.” Cadence walked up to Twilight.

“What do you need, Head Nanny Cadence?” Twilight decide to use her new title instead of just her name, as she knew that falling out of line would be grounds for punishment either by her or the Ever Filly.

Cadence chuckled for a bit, but then brought her serious demeanour back. “I’ll be blunt, Twilight. The Ever Filly is going to need your help tomorrow to turn the clothes in this city into foal clothes.”

“With all due respect, Head Nanny Cadence, I’d like to help, but my magic’s been limited ever since the Ever Filly took over the empire,” Twilight said.

“I know that. That’s exactly why I got some mares to help you.” Cadence clapped her hooves together two times, causing two maids to come rushing in right to Twilight’s side. She  then went over to Twilight’s book shelf and pulled out a book called, “How to make a pretty filly dress and diaper.”

            “This is the spell that the Ever Filly needs you to master.” Cadence opened the book and flipped past the table of contents to the first numbered page. ”You still have all of your magic ability from before. She just made you forget all the spells you learned in case you tried to be a naughty filly and dethrone her.”

“Well, will I ever get those memories back?” Twilight batted her eyebrows at Cadence.

Cadence’s smile turned into a frown. “Highly doubtful. With the Ever Filly in charge, there will be no traitors in her kingdom—not even from the most powerful alicorn of all,” she said. “Just read the book and learn the spells. You are not allowed to read anything else.”

“Twilie! I did a poopie!” Flash blurted out as loud as he could.

“And make sure that you change Flash as well.” Cadence walked off towards the door. “I will see you tomorrow to see if you have learned the spells.” She stopped and lit up her horn. “And if you haven’t…”

“I know, I know. More spankies…” Twilight hung her head in resentment as she glanced at the book.

“Good. Looks like you finally understand…” Cadence walked out of the room and shut the door.

Twilight groaned, This is going to be a long night.

Shining was being squeezed by Night Light in his old nursery. Despite the Ever Filly’s takeover, the room was mostly unchanged. There were only some minor differences, such as the pictures of the royal guard being replaced with the foal guard, the walls blue instead of pink, and the floor having much more toys than usual.

“Daddy wet me go!” Shining thrashed around as hard as he could to get out of the hold, but to no avail.

            “Oh shiny you’re just too cute to let go!” Night Light giggled.

“Daddy ya squishing me!” Shining squealed at the top of his voice.

Night Light looked out at the setting sun and sighed. “Yeah, you’re right.” He loosened his grip and put Shining down in the crib. “It’s time for your ni ni’s anyways.”

“I don wan ni nis!” He wailed and shook his hooves erratically. “I wana things to go bwack to nowmal! I wan my old daddy back!”

Night Light brushed Shining’s mane and whispered, “But this is what you wanted. You’re immortal and I’m going to stay here for a very long time. You can thank the Ever Filly for that.”

Shining began to cry. “No this wasn suppwose to happen! I whan my Cady back! I wan my sistew back!”

Night Light hushed him as he placed a binky in Shining’s mouth.

”No. What you NEED are some sleepies, little one.” Night Light tucked Shining in for the night and activated the moblie.

Shining Armor found the pacifier quite soothing, and as much as he wanted to try and plead and beg to be turned back to normal, those thoughts were soon lost with the soothing taste of the amber nipple of the binky now bobbing in his mouth.

“Don’t worry, Shiny.” Night Light reassured him. “Soon we’ll both have everything we ever wanted.”

Shining woke up a few hours later. He looked around in the darkness, thinking that Night Light was gone. He slowly climbed up out of the crib, landed on the ground, and began to explore in the shadows.

On the ground, Shining saw that things were a lot bigger and scarier the moon outside.  As clouds ran across the bright celestial body, they made shadows dance in front of him. The shadows were basic, but from his point of view, it looked like he saw strange shapes move back and forth.

“Awe those monstas?” He whimpered, shuddering as he got closer to them.

As much as he wanted to crawl back into his crib, he noticed that the bars were too high. Shining then saw something with glowing eyes underneath the crib. He cried as he crawled away screaming. He was right back at the shadows from before making him think he was trapped.

With nowhere to run, Shining’s tears got louder and louder. He was alone, he was an foal, and he was absolutely helpless. All that he could do was cry and wait for someone to save him.

He cried for a good few minutes before Night  Light opened the door to his room and turned the lights on. Shining giggled in relief as the shadows and darkness disappeared in the bright flash.

Night light took him into his hooves and carried him back to the crib. “Oh, Shiny! How did you get out of bed?”

“I jus wana go away. I don wana stay hewe.” Shining’s tears returned as he looked down at his body.

“I’m so sorry, Shiny. You must be lonely.” Night Light stroked Shining’s mane.

“Kind of…” Shining Armor looked at the door. “Can I go see Twilie and Fwashie?”

“Of course, little one.” Night Light put Shining Armor on his back and walked out of the room. “Let's go see your big sister, okay?”

Shining nodded as he clung on to Night Light’s neck to avoid falling off.

Twilight was in front of the two mares Cadence had left her. They were now wearing pink foal bonnets and puffy pink diapers. Unlike the other ones, these diapers were flexible, allowing the two mares to trot around comfortably. Twilight smiled at her handiwork as she picked Flash up out of the crib.

“Twilie, they wook weally cute,” Flash complimented. “You did a good job.”

Twilight sighed and slumped back down onto the floor. “I’m just absolutely tired out from trying to get that spell right. I’m just glad that I did it.” She wiped the sweat off of her brow. “That would’ve been a disaster if I hadn’t.

Then she heard another knock and heard her dad’s voice as he strolled into the room. “Hey Twilie, it’s granny Night Light.” The first thing that he noticed when he came in was Twilight’s foal clothes. ”Oh, wow. You look so pretty in that pretty princess dress.”

“Daddy?” Twilight looked at her Dad.  “What brings you here?”

Night Light lifted Shining Armor into Twilight’s line of sight. He lowered him into Twilight’s hooves and watched her cuddle her little brother. “He won’t go to sleep, so I guess having him see you for a bit should calm him down.”

Before anyone could say anything else, there was a loud hissing sound coming from Night Light’s diaper. “Whoops. Looks like I did a wettie myself. I’ll go get a quick change, just be a good colt, Shiny.” And he walked out of the room and waddled down the hall.

“Ya weally wet yoself go Twilie,” Shining chuckled.

“Shiny, you still make messies and wettie in your diapees too.” Twilight smirked.

Shining pouted and crossed his front legs. “All wight, Twilie. Ya win that one.”

Twilight looked around and saw that the mares were now sleeping on the ground, suckling on pacifiers. She surveyed the room to see if there was anyone listening to or watching them. When the cost was clear, she pulled Shining Armor close to her and whispered, “Shiny, we need to make a plan to save Flurry heart and defeat the Ever Filly.”

“I know, but you got a pwan?” Shining nodded. “Cady’s been acting awfuwwy weiwd too. She second in command to Evew Fiwwy.”

“Queen Chrysalis has probably turned herself into Cadence again.” Twilight peaked out of the window, saw Cadence talking to someone, and shut the door quietly. “But we’ll get back to that later.

“As for the plan, there is the library.” Twilight took one more look out the crack in between the doors.  “I don’t think the Ever Filly will transform the rest of the empire. She just wants everyone to be a foal, so she’ll probably have no time to read books with all of the stuff she’s doing..”

“But how we get past the gawds?” Shining raised an eyebrow. “Dey aww act wike foaws, and wid dose wattwes, just one bop on the head ya be cwying fo mommy.”

Twilight’s smile still persevered as she picked Shining Armor who was squriming and was a bit restless backup. “Well I’m going to be helping the Ever Filly keep her power and attention on the ponies,” she said. “I can use my status to get close to her and get access to the rest of the castle. I can even make an excuse to care for you and we can help each other.”

 “Alwight, Twilie, bu we can twust any otha pony. Dada has been acting weally stwange too.“ Shining nodded again. ”I think he’s been bwainwashed wike de othews. I also heawd fwom otha gwads dat Sunbuwst is acting kind of wike a wittwe filly.”

“For now, it’ll be just me, you, and no-one else.” Twilight nuzzled Shining’s neck who was more concerned with Twilight’s purple fur. “We’ll get through this together.”

Flash who was still in his crib—and had been listening to the whole conversation,  but was staring at the asked, “Wha ya two talkin abou?”

”Oh! Nothing, Flash!” she lied. “Just talking about our old childhoods.”

“Just shut it, Fwashie. It’s none of ya bwisness.” Shining Armor blew a raspberry at Flash.

“Well, Shiny, I won’t tell ya any of my buisness.” Flash crossed his arms and glared at Shining.

“Wike I cawe.”

“Good.”

“Now, now, you two. Calm down.” Twilight used her hooves to separate the two bickering foals. “It’s an hour past midnight, and you’ve both been up all night,” she said. “You’re going to be very cranky foals tomorrow.”

  Night Light eventually came back into the room, smelling a fresh scent akin to that of roses in place of foal powder and messed diapers.

“Thanks for covering for me, Twilie.” He took Shining Armor out of Twilight’s hooves and put him on his back again. “I should start feeding my little Shiny-Whiny now.”

“No problem. See you two in the morning.” Twilight waved both of them off as they went back to Shining’s bedroom.

As soon as both of them walked out of the room, Cadence walked in and the maids in the back who were completely silent began to quiver as the pink Alicorn princess examined the room.

“Good evening, Twilight,”As she turned her cold gaze to Twilight. “Did you perform the spell?”

“Yes, Head Nanny Cadence.” Twilight stood up and nodded, showing Cadence the two mares.

As Twilight revealed them, the two mares woke up and made a big mess in their diapers. But instead of a foal scent, the air was filled with the scent of lilac and mint. Cadence let the smell hit her nose, and she gave Twilight a pat on the back.

“You even got the scent blockers working!” She showed a genuine smile for that one moment. “Twilight, I knew you could do it.”

“Of course, Head Nanny Cadence.” Twilight humbly bowed.

Cadence’s horn glowed and she snapped the mares snapped out of their trance. “Good work, you two. Now go and get changed and back into your normal maid uniforms.”

The two maids obliged, and walked out of the room to get changed again.

“Now do you think you can do that for a few hundred more ponies?” Cadence looked back at Twilight with another grin.

“Of course. The spell isn't that complicated.” Twilight picked the book up and put it back on the shelf. “I got it on the first try after you left.

“Great!” Cadence exclaimed, nearly jumping into the air. “Keep that up, and we might just make it through this.” She then ran out of Twilight’s room to attend to other duties in the castle.

Does Cadence really think the ever Filly will keep her word? Twilight thought as she watched Cadence run off, her diaper lightly bouncing as she did so. She seems to be too trusting towards this filly, and I don’t really like it that much...

        The royal bedroom that was once Shining Armor and Princess Cadence’s royal quarters was decorated like the rest of the palace; with the walls and carpet a bright shade of pink. The bed was replaced with a royal crib that was made of pure gold and had soft pink silk sheets covering the Ever Filly in Flurry heart’s body. She woke with a yawn and she smacked her lips she felt her diaper was soaked and had something squishy was in it.

I’m still in this accursed body of a foal. Too bad I can’t find a more suitable host. she spluttered mentally. Oh well. At least it’s better than being stuck in some cursed fountain for all eternity.

“Sunburst! Diaper change!” The Ever Filly called out as loud as she could.

        Sunburst burst through the doors of the room and pushed his glasses back onto his nose. “Yes, Ever Filly.” He scurried to pick her out of the crib and put her down on a nearby changing table.

        “Did Cadence make all the necessary preparations last night?” the Ever Filly asked.

        “Yes.” He nodded, looking out of the window. “Everyone’s dressed as a foal now, and Twilight’s already used the spell to make changes to the rest of the clothes.

        “Good,” she smiled. “Then every pony should be in front of the palace, correct?”

        Sunburst froze up at the question and stopped changing.

”What’s the matter, Sunburst?” The Ever Filly tilted her head sideways as she watched him stop changing her. “Is there something you’re not telling me?”

        “I-I can’t tell you.” He swallowed and went back to changing her. “You’ll punish me if I do!”

“Tell me what's on your mind, and I promise that no punishment will come to you.” The Ever Filly squinted her eyes into a malicious look.

Sunburst quickly finished strapping the Ever Filly’s pink diaper and said, “Well, you turned every pony in the palace into an adult foal and now you’re going to do the same to the whole kingdom.”

“And why in Equestria is that such a bad thing?” She sat up and paced back and forth on the table. “Think about this: None of you will have to work anymore. You’ll always have time to play,” she said. “With my magic, I’ll provide this kingdom with more food and happiness than this world has ever seen!

“At first, every pony will hate me and my ways, but they’ll crack in the end.” She too looked out at some of the ponies in their diapers and adult foal clothes. “Everyone does. I assure you.

“You too, Sunburst.” She jabbed a hoof at him. “You’ll see that this way is so much better; living carefree without worrying about a silly thing like mortality.”

A silence took the room as Sunburst processed what the Ever Filly had monologues about into his head. As much as he did partially enjoy that prospect, he still showed signs of uncertainty. His forehead began to drip, and he bit his lip as his eyes shot around the room.

“Still nervous?” The Ever Filly leapt up onto his back. “Don’t be. This is the only way that we can live forever, Sunburst.” She stroked his neck. “I’m not doing this for my own selfish gains or anything like that. I just want everypony to be the same: Unaging, immortal, and eternally happy.”

“But..But if we have no freewill then what’s the point?” Sunburst gulped as he asked.

The Ever Filly rolled her eyes, “Please tell me that if you could dress like this now and not be scoffed for it. Is that Free Will?”

Sunburst blished, “I’m not sure, but we have tal...talents ya know? that’s what defines us.”

The Ever Filly laughed, “you’re a  stuttering old stallion who can’t do much but be a fool for Shining and  Cadence.”

“Well, when you put it like that, I suppose that it can’t be that bad…” Sunburst seemed to gain a bit more confidence at the prospect of the Ever Filly’s Equestria, unaware that her influence was seeping into his mind.

“Excellent.” The Ever Filly jumped back into her crib “Now, tuck me in. I want to sleep in just a bit longer.”

What if the Ever Filly is right? Sunburst’s old train of thought battled against his new one.Maybe I should just accept this. I mean, it’s not like we can beat her. She’s limited everyone’s magic—even Twilight’s! He had been thinking so much that he almost forgot to tuck the Ever Filly in. He did so, giving her a light kiss on the forehead, and walking out of the room to let her sleep.

Shining was now in a large dining room devoid of a table. Only rows of pink high chairs lined the walls, with servants and foal guards being served foal food with enchanted spoons that the Ever Filly had conjured up with her magic. Shining himself sat in a special high chair that was much smaller than the others, with Night Light personally putting spoonfuls of yellow gloop into his mouth.

As he swallowed bite after bite, he slowly became attached to the food. It tasted like honey and cream and was easy to swallow. Night Light just kept on stuffing his face with spoonfuls. Shining wanted to shout at him, but the only noises he could muster up were grunting noises which only made his dad smile more.

“Oh does Shiny want more num nums?” he asked in a childish voice before putting another spoonful of food in Shining’s mouth.

Shining felt full,  but the foal food was also making him fatter faster than food should. Then he moaned. He then felt the pressure build in the back of him, and as he tried to hold it in, he eventually let it all loose with one massive blast from his butt.

“Whoa! P.U!” Night Light dropped the spoon and pinched his nose. “Shiny! You’re a stinky little foal.”

“Ya ova fed me dada!” Shining Armor went red in the face as his dad picked the spoon up and levitated it off to the kitchen to get cleaned.

Night Light then picked Shining up with his telekinesis and revealed that the foal’s pink diaper was sagging, with a brown patch on the bottom. He took him to the changing room nearby and laid him down on the table. “Manual change, Shining.”

Then a tray of diapers and wipes opened up above Shining, and Night Light began changing his diaper, wiping him clean of his mess.

“Now I have to go the opening ceremony of the Ever Filly’s new Crystal Empire, so you’ll be watched over by an old friend of yours.” Night Light picked Shining up yet again and carried him out of the room.

“Who?” Shining asked.

“Wait and see...” Night Light flashed him a patient smile as he took Shining Armor back to the nursery.

Before long, both Shining Armour and Night Light arrived in another room where a yellow mare was playing with Flash Sentry, helping him stack blocks to make the highest tower that he could. She notice that the two boys had walked into the room, so she stood up and faced them.

“Hello, granny Night Light. It’s good to see you,” the mare said.

“Yes it is, Butterscotch.” Night Light bowed. “I just fed and changed Shiny, so he should be little trouble.” Using his telekinesis, he placed shining next to Flash who was too busy building blocks to notice. “Now you two behave, alright? If I hear either of you were naughty, Cadence will have a talk with you two.”

Both of them quivered, knowing that Cadence was the only one who delivered the punishments. And they knew that Cadence was very, very nasty with her punishments. They nodded together, and gave each other a small hug.

Night Light smiled and waddled out the nursery door.

Shining tried to get up, but his fattened body wouldn't budge an inch.

“Oh, Shiny. You ate a lot, didn’t you?” Butterscotch tickled him in the stomach, making him giggle like a maniac. “Well, I guess that just makes watching you so much easier.”

I wonder if that was the intention of me being overfed Shining pondered as Butterscotch sat back down to help Flash with his tower again.

        Dawn came as Celestia’s sun rose over the crowd of ponies that were now  surrounding the courtyard. The citizens felt uneasy seeing the foal guard creating a semi circle around them to keep them from escaping. They were all separated into groups of five with a foal guard assigned to each group. The servants were also with their perspective group and the ponies tried to ask them questions about why they were wearing foal clothes, but none of them responded.

Then the crowd saw the Ever Filly riding on top of Sunburst, strapped in a small foal seat. She was garbed in a beautiful white dress with a gold foal bottle in the middle with her mane curled around her head. A small crown with a heart sat on her head, which was made of diamond.

In her clutches was the Crystal Heart, and at her sides were Twilight and Cadence. Steel Hoof was in the back of the crowd watching everyone and keeping the foal guard in check. Then the Ever Filly starred among the crowd and cleared her throat, silencing the murmuring crowd instantly.

“Many of you are wondering what is going on, and why the guards are dressed like babies,” she started. “Well, I’ll tell you. The kingdom has been taken over by me, the Ever Filly. I have taken Flurry Heart as my hostage, and I will rule the kingdom for… well, forever.”

The ponies grimaced at the thought of an infant ruling over their home. They were quickly corrected by the guards with a quick bop on the head with the enchanted rattles. Some of them cried briefly, while others simply hung their heads apologetically.

“Nopony will be harmed under my rule,” the Ever filly continued.”Instead, you will be given back what was once lost to all of you: the lives of foals living without worry or fear.

“My one and only rule is to follow the nannies I appoint over you and enjoy a life of freedom from the shackles of maturity.” She pointed over to the nannies around her. “You are also probably worrying about your own fillies and colts. They’ll stay with me at the palace, and they have already been moved to a safe room where they will watch over and play with me too.

“As for the rest of you who don’t have foals, you will get to experience life in a whole new perspective…” She hid a wicked grin as Sunburst carried her off inside the castle again, with Cadence and Twilight following her. Her horn began to glow with Twilight’s and Cadence’s as they all cast a spell. “I’ll make sure of it…”

The crystal ponies down below were freaking out and were charging at the foal guard. But their attacks were halted in seconds with a few swings and taps of the rattles, making them cry and stopping their antics.

A powerful wave of energy came from inside the castle, and soon the mares were dressed in giant frilly princess dresses of different colours, with foal bonnets and cut manes and tails. The stallions wore big poofy sailor suits with bright blue diapers and foalish sailor hats instead, with their manes and tails still cut like everyone else. The one thing that they did share in terms of clothing were the pink and white diapers that materialized onto their flanks.

The nannies dispersed across the courtyard and tended to each of their perspective groups, hugging and calming their new foals. The crying and whining subsided as the nannies took their foals, servants, and foal guards assigned under them away throughout the city.