Discord's School for Padded Princesses

“Radiation? No, that’s too grim. Quantum mechanics? Even I don’t understand that!” Discord pondered, tapping his chin as he flipped through more of the book. “Oh, I know! How about home economics?” He said. Twilight bit down on her pacifier, trying her best to bite back a retort. How in Equestria was that science?

Discord put the book down, snapping his claws as a small kitchen appeared at the front of the classroom and a frilly pink apron was draped over Discord as well. “Something simple, I think. Everypony knows princesses love cake, if Celestia is anything to go by,” Nightmare Moon snickered at Discord’s jab “So knowing how to make some for yourselves should be something every princess knows.” Discord walked over to the fridge, pulling out several ingredients, while his tail flipped open a cupboard to pull out a bowl and mixer. “Now, please watch carefully, as I’m only going to do this once.” Discord said. “Firstyou’llwanttograbthebutterandtheflourmixingthemuplikeso…” Discord began to spout off words at break-neck pace, zipping back and forth around the kitchen as he prepared the cake.

Trixie tried to follow Discord’s instructions, but he was moving far, far too fast for anypony to be able to follow what he was doing. He began to whip up the batter, humming a song that Twilight thought she heard Pinkie singing at one point or another.

After less than twenty seconds, Discord put the cake in the fridge. It hummed to itself, and then the draconequus opened the toaster and took the cake out again.

“And voila!” he said, placing a perfectly cooked wedding cake four stories high – though the third layer appeared to be made out of solid chocolate, and the figures on the top consisted of a familiar group of diapered-up ponies (and one griffon and one dragon).

“Easy as cake, and a piece of pie,” he declared. “Now, who thinks they can do the same?”

Twilight's hoof went up, as did all the others, and she did a double-take.

“Everyone, wonderful!” Discord applauded, and his tail cracked down on the floor. All of their desks walked over to the side of the room, and then a collection of kitchens appeared out of the ground around each student.

“It's important for a Princess to understand every aspect of her staff's work!” Discord explained. “And to be able to tell a great cake from a good one by the taste alone – so, get to work!”

Twilight looked around for a recipe, and saw nothing. There was a fridge with nothing in, but the oven appeared to be full of ingredients so that at least wasn't a problem – but she had no idea where to start with baking a cake, let alone how to do a good one.

That didn't seem to be stopping some of the others, though, and Cadence was already starting to put eggs and flour in a bowl. Twilight thought about copying her – she was sure Cadence wouldn't mind – but then an egg hit her in the flank, bouncing off her plush suit.

Looking to either side of herself, Twilight groaned. Nightmare and Day Breaker were either side of her, and were already starting to use the ingredients as weapons rather than as actual ingredients.

Twilight began to get to work, trying her best to ignore Daybreak and Nightmare’s squabbling as she cooked. If Twilight thought she was having trouble, though, it was nothing compared to what Starlight was trying to deal with. Her massively overinflated padding kept her hind hooves well off of the floor, meaning she had to lean down against her diaper to try and pull one of the cupboards open in search of a bowl. The door could only open so far, however, before it encountered the wall of fluff that was Starlight’s cosmic padding.

Shining was attempting to follow Cadence’s actions as well, though Discord didn’t seem to care how he was blatantly cheating. Stirring in the sugar just like Cadence, she eventually spotted him watching her and stuck out her tongue playfully before poking his diaper with the end of her spoon. “Come on, Shiny, you can do this by yourself! You’re a big pony!” She teased. Shining blushed, returning to his own cake.

Meanwhile, Ember was continuing to search the cupboards, confused as to why she was missing so many key ingredients. “Where the heck are the emeralds? The rubies? There’s gotta at least be some cheap quartz in here!” She grumbled, bending over and exposing her thickly padded rear as she struggled to locate her favorite gems.

“Do I hear a princess in need of some shiny jewels?” Discord asked, leaning out of the cutlery drawer to inspect how Ember was doing.

“I'm not a princess,” Ember retaliated. “And yeah, how am I supposed to bake a cake without any crystals at all?”

“But you do have crystals,” Discord told her, reaching into his sleeve and producing a bag of sugar. “Sugar crystals, look!”

“Those aren't proper gemstones,” Ember said, sitting down on a stool and making her padding shift – forcing it out until it overhung the edges of the stool. “You know, rocks.”

Discord simply produced a salt-shaker.

“Oh, whatever,” Ember muttered. “I'm not making a cake unless I've got the right ingredients to make a cake for a dragon.”

“My, my!” Discord chuckled. “It seems we have a proper, princessly, prissy tantrum! Now that deserves rewarding!”

Ember blinked. “Wait, what?”

Before she could react, a sack of assorted gemstones landed next to her. Some of them bounced out, revealing they were made of plush, but the one which landed in Ember's mouth still tasted just like a real topaz.

Whatever their texture, Ember didn’t care much as she began to stir in the gemstones. Discord walked along, watching as the others continued to mix their cakes. Trixie was finishing pouring the mixture into a baking tin, popping open the oven to stick the batter in, only to remember who she was dealing with and go to the fridge instead. Twilight was attempting to pour out her cake batter, letting out a yelp and ducking as an entire cupcake tin went whizzing past her. Nightmare retaliated by tossing a few globs of batter towards Daybreak with her magic. The sweet batter flew into her mouth and down Celestia’s throat, making her belly bulge out just a bit in the plush suit’s fluff.

Starlight was still struggling to mix her ingredients as she sat atop her thick diaper. She mumbled to herself, trying to hold the bowl in one hoof and mix with the other as Discord walked by. “Ooops!” He said, smacking his tail into Starlight. Starlight squeaked, dropping the bowl onto her padding, which it quickly sank down into. “Oh Starlight, I didn’t know you were planning on making Paddy-Cakes! Well, let me help you, then.” Discord picked up Starlight, who kicked as her padding seemed much softer and doughier. Discord opened the door to the oven, positioning Starlight in front of it. He shoved forward, Starlight squishing into the oven, her padding bulging out of the front. With a few struggles, Discord pushed and pressed on Starlight’s diaper, closing the oven door with a grunt of effort. “Phew! Now, let’s get things nice and toasty…” He clicked one of the knobs on the oven as it began to grow warm and cozy…

“Hey, let me out!” Starlight protested, struggling, but the oven's heat built up around her. Never getting too warm, oddly enough, and always staying so it was comfy instead of painful, but it seemed as though every second made it more cozy and soporific and difficult to resist.

Starlight kicked at the door as best she could, then tried to cast a spell, but her horn just fizzed and made her padding begin to rise – and rise in the sense of baking a cake, swelling up with every second.

She yawned, feeling sleepy all of a sudden, and fought to stay awake…

Gilda pushed her own mixture of dough into the oven, twisting the dial at random, then yelped and jumped back as a burst of flame erupted from the hob on top.

Blushing – both over her squawk and the fact her diaper had now developed a tell-tale sag – Gilda tried the other controls, to see if there was at least one combination which looked right. She quickly discovered that none of the controls was anything like normal, with one of them firing toast out of the extractor fan at high speed and another causing the fridge to dispense a stream of melted butter.

Finally, she hit the top of the oven in irritation – and, much to her surprise, a perfectly-baked and iced cake slid popped out of the toaster.

The sight of it made Gilda sigh, rolling her eyes as she took in the shape (a griffin almost hidden inside her enormous padded diaper) but she decided it was probably the best she was going to get.

As she took it up to the front desk, however, her actual cake stayed in the oven – hissing away under the effect of magical energies, some of them only very distantly related to cooking...

Shining Armor pulled his cake out of the oven, placing it on the counter. Cadence was doing the same, finding some icing to try and add a few decorations to her own cake, that of half of a fat plush couple smooching. Shining tried to mimic Cadence’s work at least partially, to keep his half of the cake symmetrical to hers. It wasn’t long before they and Trixie, whose cake showed a rather fat pony with a cork on her horn, carried their confections to the front of the class as well.

Twilight dodged as more pastry ingredients flew past her, filling the two crinkly sisters across from her. Daybreak had taken to drawing a rather crude representation of Nightmare squished under the white alicorn’s rear on Nightmare’s belly, while Nightmare was attempting to depict her gobbling up Daybreak on the other. Twilight gave a small sigh of relief upon hearing her cake finish, and she hurried to the front of the room along with Ember to place their cakes on the desk.

Meanwhile, Starlight was snoozing happily, suckling on her pacifier as her padding ballooned further, the starry expanse starting to shift to look more like a decorated cake. The oven door strained to hold in her thick diaper, pushing out as her padding grew and grew. Gilda’s oven began to spark and smoke as the magic continued to work, drawing everypony’s attention to it.

“Um… is that bad?” Twilight asked. “Whose is that?”

“Not mine,” Gilda said unconvincingly. “Hey, don't ask me, ask the dweeb who made these ovens!”

With a loud ping, Starlight's oven finished the cooking process. A hatch opened in the ceiling, and Starlight fell out – the impact with the desk waking her up and bouncing the other cakes into the air, but not damaging any of them.

“Starlight?” Twilight asked, seeing what her diaper looked like. “What just happened?”

“I have no idea,” Starlight replied, yawning.

There was a final fizzle from Gilda's oven, and then it exploded in a cloud of icing sugar.

Twilight managed to get one of her wings in place to shield her from the wave of sugar, despite the difficulty of moving her plush-coated appendage, then lowered it to look through the sugary mist to see what had happened.

Something stepped forwards.

“And it looks like Gilda's produced one of the most feared outcomes of a baking session!” Discord exposited, as the silhouette became clearer. “A Tirek-cake!”

He leaned closer to Twilight. “It's full of raisins. Now that's evil.”

Straightening up, he cleared his throat. “Ahem. Now, extra credit for whoever finishes off the confectionary centaur!”

There was a general lack of movement, except for all the padded-up students taking nervous steps backwards – some of them bumping into desks with their diapers.

Trixie and Gilda looked between each other, Starlight rolling back on her padding to try and scoot away from the large Tirek cake. Twilight, on the other hand, licked her lips as she looked up at the cake. Extra credit? For eating cake? With raisins? This was too good to be true! She stepped up to the pastry beast, staring up at it. She gulped a little. As delicious as it sounded, even she wasn’t sure she could eat the cake in its entirety. “Uuh…” She began, wondering if she should say something. Just as she opened her mouth, though, the Tirek Cake jumped up into the air and dove downwards.

Twilight’s mouth was filled with cake, her cheeks ballooning out as the cake forced itself into her. She gave a strong guuuuulp!, her belly distending. The waistband of her diaper stretched to accommodate her bulging gut. Twilight stumbled back, standing on her high hooves to hold her gut with her forehooves in an attempt to stop the growth. It did nothing, however, as the Tirek cake slipped the rest of the way down, causing Twilight to land with a flump! on her now much wider rump. Her diaper crinkled as she let out a loud belch, blushing brightly and covering her mouth. “Excuse me…” She said as she tried to get back to her hooves.

“You're excused!” Discord replied easily. “Now then, let's see who produced the best cake!”

He produced a plate and cake-slicer from nowhere in particular and went down the row, taking a slice apiece from each cake. Then he arranged them together into a single cake, which just so happened to be in the shape of a large, thick diaper.

“...how did that work?” Trixie asked, tilting her head. “That doesn't seem to-”

“Discord, remember?” Starlight reminded her.

“Right, of course,” Trixie sighed. “Trixie supposes – I mean, I suppose I should have expected nothing less.”

“Now, you'd all better try your own cakes, to see whether you think you achieved what you were trying to do,” Discord advised. “Remember, a good cake is one which is tasty, tasteful, well-decorated and ideally healthy as well.”

After a pause, he sniggered. “No, I'm joking about that last one. Why bother?”

Ember shrugged, then cut a slice of her own cake.

“Are you sure that's a good idea?” Gilda said. “I mean, not that I care!”

“We have been here for, uh… ages,” Ember said. “I for one am hungry, and this might be our only chance for a while to get some non-infant food.”

“Better eat up!” Discord added, already on his third slice. “After this there's a psychology lesson!”

Everypony gathered around, each taking a slice of cake. Sighs of contentment filled the room, everypony finding the cake to be absolutely delectable. Ember reached for another gem covered portion of the cake, gulping it down as she rubbed her belly. Trixie chewed on her slice, looking down at the cake. “Wait… where’s Starlight’s cake?” She asked. Starlight blushed, stammering as she glanced between her thick diaper and Trixie.

“I… uh… that may not be-eeep!” Starlight yelped, feeling Nightmare bite down on the rump of her padding, giving a few testing chews. She eventually spit out the fluff, spluttering a bit. “Well, it certainly is tasty, but I don’t think I can eat all of this! Perhaps you could fit it in your fat belly, Daybreak.” Nightmare laughed. Daybreak simply stuffed her fifth slice of cake into her, glaring at Nightmare.

Twilight gave a soft “oooff” as she waddled back to her seat, too stuffed with Tirek cake to try and eat anymore of the sweets. It wasn’t long before everypony made their way back to their seats, each sporting a heftier gut than they had at the start of the lesson. Discord puffed the cake tray away, looking down at his textbook once again.

“Now let’s see, where to start… the pony mind is quite a fascinating place you know!”

“Hey!” Gilda protested, then blushed as she realized she'd drawn attention to herself.

“And so is the griffin mind, and the dragon mind,” Discord continued, giving her a smirk. “There are several ways the various races differ in their reactions to stimuli, but there are also areas where they react in very similar ways – so let's look at an example. Can I get a volunteer?”

Gilda's clawed hand went up straight away, and she blinked – surprised that she'd volunteered, as she hadn't been planning on it. Moving a little awkwardly, her diaper seeming larger than ever, she waddled up to the front as Discord snapped on a slide projector.

Leaving it blank, just showing a bright light, he produced a bit on a string.

“All the races have some kind of reaction to shiny objects,” he said, holding it in the light so it sparkled. “Ponies have a subconscious association between sparkles and magic, while dragons want it for their hoards, and griffins just have it as a result of their good eyesight. And because a princess has her regalia, she's surrounded by shiny things as well – that's how others know she's important.”

He moved his paw a little, making it start to swing back and forth. “And, because of that, when something's moving, it's easy to just follow it – to keep watching it as it moves, because it's doing something and it doesn't become boring. You want to follow it, as it swings back and forth...”

Gilda had to admit, the freaky draco-whatever did seem to know his stuff on this topic. Her eyes followed the glittering golden bit, back and forth, and it was just easier to keep looking.

“It's so relaxing, to just watch it move,” Discord went on. “You don't need to think about the stresses of your job, or your situation, because the bit moving back and forth is taking all your attention...”

Gilda’s eyes followed the swinging bit, and as they did, she found herself paying less and less attention to Discord’s lecture. Whatever he was talking about now, it didn’t seem nearly as important as watching the bit swing back and forth. She leaned back, settling herself down a little more in her thick diapers and ruffling her feathers as she forgot about what exactly she had been doing before this anyway. She gave a half-hearted attempt to think back to what she had been doing a few minutes ago, but she could barely remember. Not to mention she had no clue what had happened before she had been in Discord’s school for princesses. Gilda didn’t really care, though, as all she cared about was the bit swaying around and how comfy her padding was.

“And with how alluring these shiny prizes are, you should know how far somepony might be willing to go to get them! Gilda, what would you do for a nice, shiny bit?” Discord asked.

These words somehow managed to slip through the stupor Gilda was in, though not break her out of it. She thought a little, still watching the bit. “Oooh… flood pampers… puffy padding… be lost in fluff…~” She grinned, thinking of embarrassing things she might do for a bit.

“That's right,” Discord agreed, still swinging the bit. “When you want something enough… you'll do anything for it. It takes over your mind, so you can't think about anything else, so everything else you think about is about it as well...”

His voice washed over her. “And, as you think about what you'd do, you find yourself not just thinking about them but imagining them happening… imagining how embarrassed you'd feel...”

Gilda nodded softly, eyes glazed. As she did, her diaper puffed up – swelling visibly, making Gilda wiggle again and causing it to crinkle.

“You'll look more and more like a proper Princess,” he said, as Gilda's diaper reached a size it would be hard to walk with – not from the diaper pushing her legs apart, but from it nearly hitting the ground when she was standing on all fours. Then the material spread out, the outer layer becoming softer and more fluffy, engulfing her from neck to tail in a soft, plush Gryphon suit.

As it completed, a silly, skimpy pink-and-blue dress formed over it.

“That's better,” Discord said. “You can imagine yourself lost in fluff, properly Princess padded, and wearing the right clothes for a Princess… diapered and wearing a dress, of course.”

He paused, still swinging the glittering golden pendulum, then continued. “But there's one more thing you need to do before you earn your bit...”

Gilda slowly nodded, rocking a little in her swollen padding as she squeezed her legs together. With a hisss she began to flood her padding, feeling them grow warm and damp, starting to swell up once again. Gilda’s eyelids lowered as she grinned widely, still staring at the swinging bit as she tugged at her tutu gently. Her diaper puffed up, rolling Gilda forward onto all fours, though her hind legs could only just reach the ground around her diaper. Discord smiled, dropping the bit for Gilda to grab by the string. “There you are, I say you’ve earned this.”

Gilda let out a quiet chirp as she began to waddle back to her seat, her rear swinging widely from how swollen her diaper had become. Ember watched as Gilda slipped back into her seat, barely able to fit in it with all the poof around her rump. Rather than aversion, though, Ember found herself feeling… jealous. She wished she had such a thick diaper, and a lovely dress to go with it. She realized what she was thinking and shook her head as a blush crossed her face. N-no, she certainly didn’t want that! That’s embarrassing! Gilda looked so… stupid!

But still the gryphon rubbed her butt into the seat, chirping again as she sank into her diaper and relaxed.

“So, that's one way to affect the mind,” Discord said. “But that's just one of the many ways to do it – rather than using simple rhythmic motions, it's also possible to use more complex methods.”

He put a small pile of gold coins on the table. “Who would like to volunteer for a demonstration of one of those?”

Ember's gaze was already fixed on the gold coins, and her clawed hand went up without her really thinking about it.

“Excellent!” Discord said, gesturing towards the front, and Ember waddled a trifle awkwardly up to the front of the class.

“So, um, what's this one about?” Ember asked nervously, her gaze flicking to the coins every few seconds.

“About how you can overload the senses,” Discord explained. “To give them so much to deal with that the mind starts just accepting what it's told without thinking about it.”

He produced a pair of goggles, which had something other than glass in the windows, and the projector started up again by itself – showing a black screen, for now.

“So the rest of the class can follow along, the board will be showing what's on the lenses,” Discord explained, giving her the goggles, and Ember put them on after a little awkward fumbling.

For a few seconds, she could just see black. Then a complex pattern of colours began to appear in front of her eyes, shifting constantly.

The colors swirled and spun, creating a hypnotic dazzle of hues. Though Ember was the one wearing the glasses, everypony found themselves unable to pull their gaze away from the colors up on the screen. “Not unlike the shiny objects, ponies find themselves fascinated by swirling colors due to their association with magic and spells. When presented to them to such a degree, they find themselves fixated on it and will do just about anything that will let them keep staring at the colors.” Discord explained, making sure not to block anypony’s view of the screen as they watched.

“For example, if somepony said to relax,” There was a sigh from everypony in the room as they leaned back in their chairs and sank into their padding, smiling up at the screen. Discord chuckled. “Precisely~. Or, perhaps, puff” Everypony’s padding gave a bwoomp as they all imagined them thicker, warmer, plumper around their waists. Discord giggled again, unable to resist as he watched everypony enjoying their thick, cushy padding.

“Balloooon~” Discord chuckled. Twilight, Trixie, and Starlight’s padding all swelled again, but the others took a deeeeeep breath, their bellies stretching out just like blimps as they squeezed themselves.

“You see, the patterns work by overloading the mind of the pony looking at them,” Discord said, as the colours swirled and flickered. “They make it so that anything else they are told simply goes right through, becoming true.”

He slunk over to Ember. “But when the patterns are right up there next to your face… well, they're much harder to ignore, and much easier to focus on. Isn't that right?”

Ember shifted slightly, nodding slightly, then more enthusiastically as she realized it wouldn't interrupt her happy stare at the colours in their hypnotic dance.

“So if I said… poof,” Discord stressed, then continued. “Everypony reacts, but the Princess wearing the goggles reacts so much more...”

Indeed, Ember's padding was growing rapidly as she wiggled in her seat – happy to just stare at the pretty colours.

“But that's not all,” Discord went on. “Because sometimes, the patterns themselves can have a message – one that only the one wearing the goggles can properly see, one which tells them that they should be warmer, happier, pudgier – more of a hatchling than a sleek dragoness, because it's so much easier to perform your duties when your duties are just to look cute...”

Ember nodded again, her own diaper expanding rapidly and overtaking her body.

It took on almost exactly the same pattern as her own scales, forming a complete suit-like layer, and giving the impression that she was proportioned more like a particularly pudgy Spike than her real form – an impression strengthened a moment later when it formed a second diaper on the outside, as if that was what she was wearing.

Ember rolled around on her rear, kicking her seemingly stubby legs in the crinkly fluff of her diaper as she squeezed her belly. “And, of course, a dragon princess should be well fed at all times.” Discord said, Ember feeling a large plush something drop into her lap. She gave it a squeeze, and though she couldn’t see what it was due to the goggles, she grinned as she felt it was a giant gem. She bit down on it, chewing happily on the puffy fabric as her suit gained a bit more padding to make her appear even pudgier. “That’s not all hypnosis can do, though. Twilight, would you happen to know of anything you could do with a hypnosis spell?” He asked, turning to face her.

Twilight didn’t turn to look at Discord, still staring up at the screen. She was able to concentrate just enough to comprehend his question, however, and began to think. “Uh…. Well, with a want-it need-it spell, you can make somepony fall in love with something, and just have to have it… or more of it…” She shifted in her seat, remembering when she had cast the spell on her old plushie smarty-pants. She smiled a little, imagining having her plushie to snuggle. She’d make a good assistant to a princess such as herself.

“Hey!” Spike said, scrunching his muzzle a bit. He was Twilight’s number one assistant, not some raggedy old plush toy!

Unable to hear her draconic companion's words, Twilight continued to wonder about Smarty Pants. Of course, her old toy was too small now to really be good for a snuggle, so it would need to be larger… and it would only be right if it was puffier…

Her horn glowed as she thought about it, and then imagined casting the Want-It-Need-It spell. But the focus she had on the hypnotic screen before her twisted her magic, making her put together a combination of spells and get them all mixed up and swirled around, so by the time the magic left her horn it was anyone's guess what she'd done.

Then Twilight felt herself picked up, a pair of soft hooves around her barrel and squishing into her alicorn-suit, and turned around – breaking her line of sight with the screen, and making her able to focus again.

“Wha-huh?” she asked, blinking, then realized that what had picked her up was a giant plushy version of her old toy Smarty Pants!

Smarty Pants' button eyes had little pink hearts in them, and she gave Twilight a nuzzle before hugging her close with both soft, plushy forelegs. The faux-pony sat down in Twilight's desk, which grew in size to accommodate her, and began sitting as if she were the pony being given the lesson.

“Well, that's a good start!” Discord announced, turning off the shimmering screen and breaking the entrancing, hypnotic spell it had been casting. “Now, it's time for a field trip!”

He looked out of the book pages at Spike. “Turn to pages sixteen and seventeen. Do not look at pages fourteen to fifteen unless you're wearing a – well, never mind, look if you want.”

Spike frowned, not sure what that meant, then felt something soft around his waist.

A glance down confirmed his fears – he was wearing one of the same soft, thick diapers as all Discord's 'school students'!

As he tried to get it off, the comic book fell to the floor – flicking through several pages at once. One of the double-page spreads seemed to be a magic eye picture, but it was moving, and it drew Spike's attention like a magnet before the next page fell over it and cut off his sightline.

“...huh?” he asked, wondering faintly why he felt like sending off an application form to some school, then picked up the comic again and checked he was on pages sixteen and seventeen.

Discord had removed the goggles from Ember, and the show of swirling colors had come to an end. Now everypony was gathering near the door, all standing in an orderly line. All except for Daybreak and Nightmare, who were attempting to shove the other to the back of the line, only to end up squabbling at the rear together. Discord clapped his hands, everypony’s chatter coming to a stop as they looked up at Discord. “Now, does everypony have their lunches? A change of padding?” He asked. Everypony nodded, each carrying saddlebags stuffed full of overly thick diapers and snacks fit for a foal. “Wonderful!” Discord opened the door and everypony began to file out. Rather than stepping out into the hallway of a school, however, everypony suddenly found themselves at a small water park. Fountains sprayed water up in the air as slides spun around in all directions. At the peak of the wet playset stood a giant bucket. A bell rang and it began to sloooowly tip forward, letting out a torrent of water down into a shallow pool below.

“Alright, everypony, have fun!” Discord said, letting the ponies loose. At first, nopony was sure of what to do, but eventually Trixie took a tentative step forward, looking up at one of the large slides. She began to hurry towards it, and it wasn’t long before the others broke off to find their favorite thing to do. Nightmare wasted no time in flapping up to a small mounted gun that was squirting water. She took a hold of the handles and spun it about, trying to spray Daybreak down. The white alicorn dodged one of the jets of water, sticking her tongue out as she spotted a collection of water balloons nearby and making her way towards them.

Starlight had wandered over to a small pool where several holes lay in the bottom of the shallow water. She leaned over one, peaking into it, only to receive a spurt of water into her face. Spluttering, she stumbled backwards in her overly thick padding, only to flop down a moment later. She wiped her face dry, looking around to see where she hand landed, only to feel something spray up into her padding. She blushed at the sensation, trying to waddle away, but only succeeding in rolling forward as the water continued to spray her pampers.

The magically-enchanted diaper absorbed the water easily, swelling up only slightly by comparison to the amount of water going into it. It did become slick, though, so that whenever Starlight tried to get up the bulky diaper ended up being used as a support and promptly giving way again.

So much water was going into her thirsty padding, in fact, that the pool itself was starting to dry out. The sprayers were replenishing it every time they fired – unless they hit her diaper – but even despite that Starlight's magic diapers were becoming more and more saturated.

As Starlight struggled, Twilight was having her own odd experience. The giant plush carrying her around had put her in a set of floaties, and was going around in circles on a big tube-shaped float on the lazy river.

The rocking of the float was making her feel sleepy, and her alicorn sleeper seemed to be water-resistant – so she was just feeling wonderfully warm and peaceful, disconnected from what was going on as she slipped towards sleep in Smarty Pants' hooves.

“Race you to the bottom!” Shining called, waddling up to the top of one of the big water rides. This was one of the ones which was actually several little slides joined together by pools of water, and Cadence was coming up just behind him with her own diaper making her waddle as well.

“Ah ah ah...” Discord chided them, waving a claw as he materialized. “Remember, the rapids are for experienced swimmers! I think you'd better wear some proper flotation gear, if you're going to go down them...”

With a snap of his claw, Shining Armor and Cadence found themselves sporting bright orange padding, along with overly inflated water-wings on each of their legs, as well as a puffy life vest. And just for good measure, a life preserver had appeared around their waists like a skirt. “There we are, that should do it!” Discord said, looking proudly down at the two ponies. They looked at each other awkwardly, unsure if they wanted to go down the slides now they were this padded up. They weren’t given a choice, however, when Discord gave each of them a slap on the rump, sending them down their perspective slides.

As Cadence and Shining slid down, neither of them noticed that Discord still held two rings in his hands, a thin string running between them and the back of the padding belonging to the now slip-sliding ponies. He tapped his hoof, glancing down at a stopwatch clutched in his beard. Seeming satisfied, he let go of the strings as they began to whir back towards both ponies’ rumps.

Ember and Gilda had gathered near a large pool, each flopping down in an overly puffy inner tube to drift out into the water. Gilda buried her beak in her chest, sighing happily as Ember playfully splashed her. Gilda let out a giggle, splashing Ember in return. As the two tossed water back and forth, they suddenly found themselves bucked upwards, a large wave tossing their tubes about. They looked over their shoulders to see several more waves forming in the pool, coming quickly closer to the pair. Ember let out a yelp as her tube was lifted high up in the air, water splashing onto her padding and making it puff up just a bit. Gilda attempted to flap her wings and carry herself out of the pool, but her own padding had become so water logged she could barely lift herself off the tube. The two were stuck as the waves grew stronger and higher…

The bit Gilda had earned earlier – on a string around her neck – bounced up as she was tossed by the water, and it caught her eye all of a sudden.

Her mind fogged a little, and she remembered soaking her diaper to earn the bit – so she wet them again, making the padding puff up and expand and lift her a bit higher in the water.

Seeing what had happened, Ember wet herself as well, and her own diaper swelled up – then her padded suit did as well, both of them getting larger and larger as they kept using their diapers over and over.

The swelling of their suits managed to outpace the waterlogging from all the waves, and left them high and not-too-wet – but also almost completely immobile, too large for their tails or wings or paws to do more than splash a little water about relative to the sizes of their huge, trapping plush suits.

Day Breaker hurled a water balloon over the edge of a railing, and it exploded around Nightmare Moon. Water ran down in all directions, and Day Breaker giggled at the sight of her sisterly adversary so suddenly damp.

“You will regret that!” Nightmare Moon swore, and hurled half-a-dozen slightly smaller balloons back up at the other plushy alicorn. Most of them missed, but Day Breaker yelped as one hit her between her wings.

Nightmare laughed, and inside the plush suit Luna laughed as well – the continual exposure to the Nightmare-suit's actions and behaviour rapidly eroding her resistance to just acting like Nightmare had been anyway.

Daybreak glared down at her sister as her plush form bloated up a bit from the water. Nightmare went back to manning the water gun, attempting to spin it around to keep the jet of water aimed at Daybreak. Daybreak spun about in the air, deftly dodging the jets as she dropped down more water balloons. One managed to land directly on top of Nightmare, causing Celestia to let out a laugh of triumph as Daybreak cackled herself.

Trixie, after having gone down one of the shorter slides, found herself sitting near a collection of beach toys. Beachballs, inflatable gators, dragons, ursas, and several more puffy tubes all lay around her. She waddled up to a particularly large beach ball, flopping down onto it and giggling at the soft squeaks that it made. She wiggled her rump, pressing her diaper down into the beachball as she rolled around on top of it. As she did, with another squeak, she suddenly found herself stuck gripping the ball between her hooves and beneath her chin while her padded butt had managed to slip through the middle of one of the tubes. Trixie bounced about feebly in an attempt to free herself, but it was to no avail. Bouncing and rocking about, Trixie squeezed down on the beachball as she tried to push it out of her now pinned legs.

Her bouncing and creaking had attracted Discord’s attention, however, and it wasn’t long before the draconequess popped up beside the stuck unicorn wearing a flat-top cap and a gas-attendant’s uniform. “Oh, a little under-flated are we? Don’t you worry Ms Trixie, we’ll have you blimped up in no time!” He said as he pulled a spool of hose out from a station that popped up next to him. Trixie suckled on her pacifier, shaking her head in protest, but Discord paid her no attention as he hooked up hoses to the tubes, beachballs, and toys all around Trixie. “Have fun!” He laughed before vanishing in a puff of smoke. The stand began to whirr to life, and the steady hiss of air echoed around as everything began to inflate around Trixie…

Shining Armor wobbled ineffectually back and forth as he tried to swim, to direct himself, but the super-thick inflatable diaper cover wrapped around him was too much – he just splashed the water a bit, but when the slide narrowed down a little he promptly got wedged in place.

The water built up behind him, pushing him down a few more inches with a squeeeak and a slide, but then that was it – he was stuck.

“Look out!” Cadence called from behind him, as she slid down the same slide after him, and she bumped into him with a fwoomp! Her momentum shifted the balance, squishing both their diapers in on them and making it so Shining slid down a bit further… and a bit further… until suddenly he was past the bottle-neck and they both went crashing down into the water at the bottom of the slide.

The impact with the water made the orange outer layers of the diapers inflate even more, and though they'd gone well under the water from the drop they just bobbed back to the surface like corks.

Even as they did, though, the current of the next part of the artificial river began to pull on them – making them move towards yet another drop.

The water splashed around them as they were pulled down the next slide, slipping into darkness momentarily as the sides of the slides curled up to form a cover. Were it not for the rush of water and the crinkle-squish of their diapers, it would be impossible for the ponies to tell what was happening to them. Shining jerked a bit to the side, rolling forward onto his belly. Cadence let out a yelp as she felt something push her forward, not able to realize she had been pushed in front of Shining in the slide.

It was now her turn to become lodged in the slide, her legs kicking wildly as the water flowed around her. With a pomf!, Shining received a face full of lifejacket padding fluff. He mpphhed as he kicked and pushed against Cadence’s rear, the water building up again…

“Gah! S-stop this!” Starlight yelled as the water pushed her back to a sitting position. Her diaper had become so swollen and soggy, it now covered almost every one of the small fountains in the shallow pool. She stuck her hooves out, trying to maintain her balance as her diaper swelled out. She could feel the occasional jet of water spray against her diaper, making it grow even bigger. The pressure began to grow as more and more water was unable to escape, blocked by her massive, soaked padding.

The cool water was making her feel chilly as it splashed around inside her diaper, sploshing from side to side with every movement she made, and she blushed and tried to squeeze it – not sure herself whether she wanted it to stop moving or to move more.

As the diaper swelled up, thin little streams of water started to trickle out of the waistband as the increasing pressure forced just a little through the thin gap. Then she covered the final nozzle, and the pressure jumped even more.

“N-noooo...” Starlight moaned, knowing that her enchanted diaper had to contain far more water than it looked – and it looked huge, so it was hard to even guess how much high pressure water there was in there.

Then, finally, something gave way.

Starlight went shooting up into the air like a soggy rocket, the fountains erupting again beneath her, and her whine faded away as she shot upwards – until it came back, as she dropped back down again in the main pool with an enormous splash.

Twilight let out a shout as a wave suddenly washed over her and Smarty-Pants, turning the lazy river into wild rapids. Ember and Gilda were washed ashore in their tubes from the wave created by Starlight, the unicorn in question grabbing onto one of their tubes to ride out towards the shallow end as well. It was at this time that the pressure in the slide behind Shining and Cadence also blew out, sending the pair launching through the air. They arced through the sky, heading straight for the playground over which Daybreak and Nightmare were now hovering. The alicorns had just enough time to spot the puffy orange butts flying towards each other before they smacked into them. The four dropped down into the bucket at the top of the playpen.

The bucket began to tip forwards, the water sloshing about inside. Nightmare tried to climb on top of Shining to lift herself out, but Daybreak pounced on top of her, tugging her back down to the bottom. Cadence let out a scream as the water began to pour down the sides and the group was sent flying over the edge.

Below the bucket, Trixie was still trying to free herself from her squeaky bonds when she felt a few trickles of water from above. She glanced up, only to yelp a moment later before four very soggy crinkly butts fell on top of her with a loud squeak!

The amount of water in the bucket was enormous, and it swept the whole group along as it flooded into the water park. No matter where they'd ended up, they were caught up in the raging torrent of water and swirled around, going from pool to pool as each one was added to the massive flood.

By the door, Discord whistled to himself as he read a book about sheep. The sound of the water got closer, and he produced a fishing net with his free hand before holding it sideways to cover the door.

Water slammed into it, and it broke down with a crash. Seven padded ponies, one diapered dragon and one waterlogged griffin were all flushed through, piling up on top of one another in the net, and Discord lifted it up to examine the soggy, squishy pile.

“That looks like the catch of the day!” he said, poking it and producing a series of squishy sounds, and some groans came from the inside of the net. “Good thing none of them are small enough I have to throw them back...”

Taking the water-swollen tail of the Nightmare suit in one hand and the soaking wet mane of the Breaker suit in the other, he twisted the whole group so water poured out onto the ground before letting go and allowing them to bounce back. “Well, time to go back to class! We've got some important activities to do before bed time~”

Discord slung the net over his back, walking out of the pool and back into the classroom. Dropping the net onto the floor, he took a hold of the net, flipping it up to dump all the ponies out. They all tumbled to the floor, their padding and suits now fluffy and warm. “Who’s up for some games?” Discord announced, pulling a stack of board games out of seemingly nowhere. Everypony looked up at him, Twilight noticing that their desks were no longer in the room. On top of that, rather than a traditional school-house room, the classroom was now more designed like a preschool, with a large mat spread out on the floor, and several decorations hanging from the ceiling.

Discord placed the games on the ground, allowing everypony to gather around. Gilda pulled one of the games towards her. “Predict Whom?” She muttered, a little confused. She shrugged, waddling over to one of the sides of the room as Trixie followed after her. Starlight picked up another board game, one that looked like some kind of contraption you build involving mice.

Meanwhile Daybreak and Nightmare were quickly setting up a chessboard, occasionally glancing up at each other to stick out their tongues as they prepared their game. Cadence, Twilight, and Shining waddled off with a game of Scrabble, leaving Ember to wander over to Starlight. Discord decided to join in on their game, coiling up on one side of the board.

“What are the rules for this one?” Ember asked, inspecting one of the pieces – a soft little toy mouse. “I don't think I know many pony games.”

“This one is new to me as well,” Starlight admitted, opening the rules page. “Okay, it's fairly simple… we roll the dice to see how far we move, and we need to collect as much cheese as possible. If we land on one of the spaces that says to add a piece to the thing in the middle of the board, that's what we do, and then at the far end we each need to avoid being caught by… something?”

“That's just right,” Discord agreed, tapping each of their pieces in turn. “But, hmm, this is no good as a game for two such young Princesses! It's not nearly high enough quality!”

His tail flicked across, and things distorted around them.

Suddenly, both found themselves standing on a giant version of the board. Their diapers rustled as they looked around, and Starlight blinked.

“Um… what?”

“Better roll those dice!” Discord said, and a six-sided die about half Starlight's height appeared next to her. “If you want to get the cheese, that is!”

Starlight frowned, then kicked the die. It bounced across the board, then came to a stop, and she hesitantly walked forwards three spaces.

That put her on a cheese space, and she spotted a wedge of swiss cheese that was lying by the square. As she touched it, though, there was a flash, and she was wearing a thin pair of overall pyjamas that made up a kind of mouse costume.

Starlight tugged on the overalls, trying to remove them, though it was of little use. A small piece of cheese had been placed in the front pocked of her overalls, which Starlight sniffed at a little. As Starlight pulled at her costume, Ember gave the dice a kick, sending it rolling around. She waddled the appropriate number of spaces forward, landing on a fancy looking crank. With a flash of light, a similar style crank appeared on the board beside her, one part of an elaborate looking machine that was in the making…

Twilight rocked around on her padded rump, leaning back into the plush belly of Smarty-Pants. “Oooh, I always loved this game! It’s great for building your vocabulary, you know!” She said excitedly as they set up the board.

“Yes, I remember you wanted to play it almost every night.” Cadence chuckled as she hovered tiles over to everypony. They arranged their tiles, which clacked satisfyingly against the holders. “Alright, Shiny, why don’t you go first.” Cadence suggested.

Shining scratched his chin, looking down at his letters. “FKOOPTY”. His horn glowed as he lifted the letters out to spell “poofy” on the board. Grinning a little, he didn’t notice as his padding puffed up just a bit to match the description he had given.

“Hmmm...” Twilight mused, looking at her own letters. There were a few good words there – faced, defy, edify…

“Aha!” she said, and arranged all seven letters at once. Starting with the P that Shining had left, she added -acified to it, making an eight letter word and using all seven of her letters.

“Showoff,” Cadence said, without much heat, and Twilight beamed.

She took seven new tiles and sat back a bit, glad to have started with such a long word, and suckled on her own pacifier.

Neither of the others noticed the sudden appearance of a large pacifier in Twilight's mouth, too busy with their own letters. Cadence used the Y to make 'soggy', then sighed as she wet her diaper, and then Shining had to build off that so went with 'soft'.

'Thicken' came next, and Twilight's plush alicorn-suit swelled up as she put down the last letter in the word. It felt comfy, and she snuggled into it as Cadence stepped up with 'crinkly'.

As the turn order came around to him again, Shining realized there was a word he could play that would use up all of his own tiles – and connect two of the places they'd put down letters already. Feeling very smug, he put down all his tiles to spell out 'entranced'...

Shining armor settled down into his puffy diaper, grinning a little as his eyes swirled. He wondered why he had ever been put off by Discord’s ideas. Everything so far had been wonderfully cozy and comfy. He couldn’t imagine sitting on the floor without his pillow-like diaper anymore! He smiled, watching as Cadence thought, finding her own thick diaper really quite adorable…

Meanwhile Daybreak and Nightmare were in the middle of their game of chess, Nightmare grumbling as she found one of her Knights cornered by Daybreak’s bishop and pawn. Her hoof hovered over one of her pieces as she contemplated, Daybreak simply leaning back and crossing her legs smugly. “Oh come now, that hardly fun at all!” Discord shouted across the room. Daybreak and Nightmare glanced over to see him snap and fire a bolt of light towards them. Both ponies shielded their eyes, only to blink a moment later and find themselves standing in a massive plush field. Black and white checkers crossed the field just like the board, and several ponies all stood around them. Nightmare’s Knight was now a Shadowbolt cowering as a puffily padded Starswirl and royal guardspony stared him down. “Surrender, sister, you have no chance of winning!” Daybreak shouted from across the field. She stood on top of a thickly padded Tirek, both wearing extravagant crowns.

Nightmare simply laughed, hovering up to land on top of a bounce-house Rook. “Never! You’ll have to pry this kingdom from my puffy hooves!”

“Fine, then!” Daybreak countered. “Star Swirl The Bishop, defeat that Shadowbolt!”

The padded-up Star Swirl raised his head, horn glowing, and fired a spell at the Shadowbolt. His target's diaper swelled up suddenly as the pony soaked it, blushing and shifting awkwardly, and by the time it had finished growing it was a ball of poof that only vaguely had a Shadowbolt sticking out of it.

Star Swirl advanced into the square and gave his foe a telekinetic push, rolling the Shadowbolt to the side, and Daybreak smirked smugly at Nightmare.

Simmering, Nightmare gestured with a crinkly hoof. “It's not over yet! Night Guard, advance!”

The Night Guard she meant stepped forwards, and Daybreak realized too late that there was a Night Guard right at the end of the board – about to step onto the eighth row.

He did so, and Nightmare laughed. “Very good! Now, fall victim to my power!”

Her horn flashed, and the Night Guard's diaper was engulfed by a sinister energy. It spread out along his body and down his legs, turning a deep black except for a few slightly lighter colours, and within a few seconds it was another crinkly Nightmare suit.

“That can't be fair!” Daybreaker protested.

“Oh, but it is!” both Nightmares said in unison. “Still think you can win? I think you'll find I'll be the one taking your kingdom!”

As Daybreak attempted to think of a solution, Trixie and Gilda were busy with their own game. Gilda tapped her beak, staring down at the remaining pictures of ponies on her board. “Are you… white?” Gilda asked.

Trixie shook her head, and Gilda grumbled, clicking down Fleur, DJ-P0N3, and Rarity. Trixie looked down at her comparatively clearer board, grinning widely. “Are you part of the Apple Family?” She asked. Gilda nodded and Trixie knocked down several more pictures until only Big Mac and Braeburn’s pictures were looking up at her.

“This game is soooo unfair if you pick a Stallion…” grumbled Gilda, crossing her arms and pouting. “Ugh… are you from Cloudsdale?” She asked. Once again Trixie shook her head, leaving Gilda clicking down only a few of her pictures once again.

“Are you… Big Mac?” Trixie asked, beaming. Gilda groaned and nodded, forced to reveal her card. “Hooray, Trixie has won!” She laughed. With a pomf Gilda found herself sitting in a thick red sleeper, dressed to look just like the big farmpony she had on her picture.

She grumbled again, looking back to Trixie. “Alright, who were you?”

“I was Trixie!” Trixie laughed, showing her card. Gilda’s beak fell agape as she stared at Trixie’s smug picture.