The Padded Shapes of Nightmare

The Padded Shapes of Nightmare
By Scribe Feather

✶✶Chapter Four✶✶

Meanwhile things were at high alert in Twilight’s Castle. Once word got around that the princesses had gone missing, the remaining Elements of Harmony had called an emergency meeting in hopes to find a solution. None of them truly knew how effective they could be without Rarity or Twilight, but the group had to think of something.

Rainbow Dash and Applejack were the first ones to arrive. They charged into the throne room almost simultaneously with Dash opting for an open window as Applejack rushed the main doors.

The throne room was a large rounded room made of the same crystal material that encompassed the entire castle. In the center stood a round golden disk with six crystal chairs spaced evenly around it. Each chair was marked with a cutie mark, corresponding to the pony who sat there. The usual warm glow of the hanging colored lanterns in the center of the room seemed to only amplify the ominous background that loomed just outside the castle.

Pinkie Pie arrived shortly after, hopping up into her crystal throne in a less-than-Pinkie-like fashion. She wasn’t her usual perky self, opting for a more quieter demeanor. She had grown worried about Twilight and Rarity’s disappearance, hardly able to think of much else. It only made things worse that her left ear wouldn’t stop twitching as well, alluding to something terrible.

“So what’s this about?” Rainbow Dash asked, swooping downwards into her own seat, “where could all the princesses disappear off to?”

“Did Twilight say anything to you gals?” Applejack asked the room, only to have the other two shake their heads.

“Nothing. Not even Rarity told us anything,” Dash answered.

Applejack opened her mouth to respond, but was interrupted by the squeaking of metal door hinges. The group turned around to look towards the throne room’s main doors. In peeked the pink haired head of Fluttershy, the quiet and meek one of the party. She hastily rushed into the meeting room with a shy, lowered head. “Sorry I’m late,” she quietly stated, scurrying off to her own chair. The group made their usual greetings to their late arrival, but eventually returned to the task at hand.

“So we gotta get out and look for them!” Rainbow Dash so powerfully declared, “get a search party together or somethin’!”

“Them?” Fluttershy quietly interjected. News about Twilight’s disappearance had reached the yellow pegasus, even though she lived so far in the outskirts of town. However, as far as she knew, Twilight was the only one missing.

Dash blinked for a second or two, “...Twilight and Rarity.”

“But...I was just talking to Rarity,” Fluttershy answered, “she was saying how important it was that we all were in the throne room.”

“What?!” The other three leapt from of their seats as they loudly exclaimed in unison.

Suddenly the group’s hooves began to glow blue, freezing them in place. The blue aura then materialized into magical rings that looped around their hooves, trapping them where they stood like heavy shackles.

“What is this?!” Rainbow Dash growled, forcefully tugging at her hooves without budging an inch.

As if to answer her question, a sinister laugh echoed off of the crystalline walls. Before them materialized a starry fog that quickly morphed into shape. A pair of glowing blue eyes pierced the misty curtain, staring straight through the startled ponies as the evil took shape. The shadows finally took the form of Nightmare Rarity, an ominous sight even with the white diaper taped around her waist.

“Rarity?” Applejack exclaimed in disbelief, “what’s...”

“My dear...friends,” Rarity grinned evilly, “I’m sure you’re all wondering why I’ve brought you here.” With a glow of her horn she summoned a folded diaper bearing Twilight’s cutie mark. “As you can see. Twilight has found herself in quite the predicament,” she floated the padding through the air for emphasis, “out of all the princesses, I think she makes the most perfect diaper.”

“Th-they’ve been turned into diapers?!” Pinkie exclaimed, her voice shaking in absolute shock. Her poofy hair quivered with her disbelief, risking to collapse and lose its natural glow. The others were just as taken aback by the news, but each handled it in their own way.

Seeing Twilight turned into a diaper seemed to only anger Rainbow Dash, causing the blue pegasus to bear her teeth in a gritting growl. If she wasn’t magically bolted to the ground, she might have very likely tried to tackle Rarity, regardless of their preexisting relationship. Might have even swung a few angry punches her way as well!

Fluttershy was paralyzed, not only by her magical restraints, but by her own fear for her life. Her limbs quivered underneath her as her lips trembled. She could hardly form a coherent sentence through it all, managing only some meek whimpers and squeaky gasps.

Applejack remained quiet. Quieter than even Fluttershy. Only her silence was bubbling with fury. A look of determination remained on her face, unwilling to give Rarity the benefit of seeing her crack under her taunts and mockery.

Undeterred by the other ponies, Rarity continued to evilishly pace around the room. She held the Twilight diaper like a theatrical prop, floating it around her as she walked. “oh, but what’s a diaper without a baby?” She tapped her chin as if deep in thought. The four other ponies stood in dread as she reveled in making them wait. “I’m going to be taping Twilight around one of you tonight, but I’ll leave it up to YOU to decide who it’ll be.”

“None of us are gonna do that!” Rainbow Dash angrily snarled, baring her teeth.

Rarity’s head snapped towards the bold pegasus, scowling at her as her horn began to flare up with power. A swift bolt of magic shot from her horn and darted straight into Dash’s chest. In a blink of an eye, Rainbow Dash could feel her bladder suddenly fill up before her body released the whole thing, causing a large yellow puddle to form around her ankles. It all happened so suddenly that she could hardly fathom any of it until she stood wallowing in her own urine.

“I will not have rudeness interrupt our vote!” Rarity sneered. She scowled at the rebellious pegasus for a few more minutes before pausing, taking a breath of air, and melting into that same fiendish smile. “Fine then,” she started again, scanning across her frozen friends, “If no one wants to accept my generous gift, I suppose I’ll just choose for you...”