Shiny vs Sunny

The next day both Sunburst and Shining Armor were riding down the street in a chariot, sitting side by side with Princess Cadence. The two foals both were nervous and quivered around the ponies walking down the street, giving them smiles or waving at them. Shining Armor was wearing a cute baby blue t-shirt with clouds printed on it and a pair of pull-ups. He put his hooves over them, completely embarrassed by the padding between his legs. Sunburst was wearing a bright blue t-shirt with a smiling sun printed on it, with his pull-up between his legs. He was also squeamish, shifting about in the chariot.

Soon the chariot pulled up in front of a schoolhouse building made up of pink crystal with the words “Crystal Sunny Day Preschool.” written over the big blue front doors.

Cadence clapped her hooves in delight and squealed, “Here we are, your new preschool.” She got out and led the two colts to the front doors, both very nervous about their first day. As they entered the lobby both colts groaned looking around and seeing big baby blue plush carpet and the walls painted with ABCs and numbers.

The preschool teacher was a shy, yellow coated unicorn mare with light blue eyes, a swirling mane of dark purple and pink, thick rimmed glasses and a soft blue skirt with white frills trimmed around the dress. She was behind the counter helping parents sign their foals up, when she looked up and smiled. “Oh, Princess Cadence, I’m so happy to see you!”

She went around the counter as Cadence hugged her and cooed. “Hello, Nursery Rhyme. I’m so happy to see you too!”

Nursery Rhyme blushed, fixing her glasses. “Oh it’s amazing that we have some of your cousins joining us today. But what about Flurry Heart and Fizzlepop?”

Cadence smiled and explained. “They’re still too young for preschool, I’m afraid. I haven’t even started potty training them yet. In fact Rebecca Pie is staying to foalsit the two since she’s the only one who can handle magic surges. Let’s just say there’s been a few issues with them using their magic on purpose,” Then she changed the subject. “Can you explain how preschool works to my cousins? It’s their first day and I think they’re a little nervous.”

Nursery Rhyme smiled and chirped. “Don’t worry, we get that all the time,” She looked down at the little colts and cooed. “Oh, you two must be Sunny Day and Cloudy Day. Delighted to meet you.”

Both colts blushed, too nervous to say anything and they both tried to pull down their t-shirts to cover their pull-ups. Nursery Rhyme blushed as she looked up and asked. “So how far along are they in potty training?”

Cadence blushed and explained. “Oh they both just turned three and graduated from diapers.”

Shining Armor and Sunburst glared at Cadence. The teacher fixed her glasses and giggled. “Oh dear, I think we’ll be seeing a few accidents.”

Shining crossed his hooves and shouted. “Nah uh! We dun have accidents, we both went potty this mownin!”

The teacher giggled and cooed. “Really? Well don’t you worry, I’ve dealt with many accidents as a preschool teacher. No one will judge you if you have one here, a toddler’s bladder and bowels can be unpredictable sometimes,” She then got up and cooed. “Don’t worry, Princess Cadence, I’ll take things from here.”

The two colts both looked at Cadence who smiled and kissed them both on the forehead as she whispered. “Don’t worry, I’ll see you later in the afternoon, alright?”

Both colts gave short nods as the preschool teacher lead the two colts through the front doors to the actual preschool.

Shining and Sunburst both whimpered, looking upon a crowd of toddlers waddling around, stacking blocks and playing tag. Older mares were going around the place picking up toddlers and asking them if they needed to go potty. while others had to lead crying toddlers to the bathroom due to some unfortunate accidents.

Both Shining and Sunburst both blinked with uncertainty as one toddler waddled over. He was a chubby, sparkling dark blue coated unicorn colt, with dark silver eyes and a scruff of silver mane and tail. The colt babbled. “Hey, two othew cowts! My name is Cwstayw Shawd!”

Shining sighed and babbled. “I Cwoudy Day, but caww me Cwoudy.”

The colt was super excited and bounced up and down. “Hey wana pway with me?! I gots foam swords!”

Shining Armor crossed his hooves. “So what?! We just wana weawn to go potty, no pway!”

Sunburst blushed and continued. “But we awe going to be hewe aw day, it’ww be bowin’ just sitting awound.”

The colt babbled. “Wets pway woyaw guawd.” He took out a foam sword and swung it around.

Shining whined. “Tat not how ya do it, Shawd! I was a woyaw guawd, I show you how to be a guawd and used a swowd!” He picked up a foam sword and took up a stance. “This how ya fight!”

The little colt whacked Shining on the head and growled. “My daddy taught me how ta fight! I know how to use a swowd!” Crystal Shard tackled Shining and the two rolled around, whacking each other with the foam swords as Sunburst stood aside and watched, laughing.

Eventually, Shining got on top and shouted. “Ha, I win!”

Crystal Shard got up and growled. “Again! Tis time ya is going down!” The two attacked each other again, while Sunburst turned and saw a dark purple coated earth pony filly with dark red pigtails, she had two cute pink eyes and was reading a book.

Sunburst waddled over and introduced himself. “Hewwo, I Sunny Day. I thwee and in potty twaining.”

The filly looked up, blushing as she whispered. “Hi, I Cwystaw Cweaw. I thwee years owd too.”

Sunburst sat down and blushed. “Hey uh, I kind of fowgots how to wead and weawwy want to. Can ya hewp me weawn to wead again, pwease?”

Crystal Clear gave a nod. “Yeah, suwe. Come on, sit down,” Sunburst sat down as the filly babbled. “Tis book is called ‘Cat with a Bat’. It easy to wead, wook. Cat is spewed with K A T.”

Sunburst rubbed his head and asked. “Isn’t cat spewt C E T?”

The filly shook her head. “No, is K A T.”

Sunburst babbled. “Uh, otay I guess that might be it. Wha about bat?”

The filly babbled. “That easy is D A T!”

Sunburst blushed and babbled. “I tink ta not wight, isn’t it BAT?”

“No! Stop it! I know how to wead and I twyin to teach you!” Crystal Clear shouted back.

Sunburst got up and shouted. “Nah uh! Ya getting it wong! I know my ABCs, bu I dun wememba wha comes aftew E.”

Crystal Clear growled, waddled over the board game section, and took out a board game. “Ten we pwayin Scwabble. Winnew teaches ta othew how to wead!”

Sunburst shouted back. “Oh yeah, I ta mastwew at tis game! Ya is going down!”

The filly scoffed. “Yeah wight. I got tenth pwace in ta pweschool spwein bee wast yeaw!”

Soon the two began their cute game of scrabble as they placed little wood tiles and looked down at them. Sunburst took out a D, A, and a T. “There, tat’s how you spell bat!”

The filly stomped her hooves. ”Wew I got a biggew wowd! Doggy!” She placed the tiles down D, O, J, J, I, E. and exclaimed. “There, how’s tat?!”

When Nursery Rhyme came back she saw the adorable scene of Sunburst and Crystal Clear and saw that the board table was a mess. The two foals were arguing over the points they had and who had more. She turned to see Crystal Shard and Shining Armor were sweaty, yet still whacking each other with foam swords. She cooed. “Okay, everyone, who’s ready for snack time?!”

Every toddler squeaked and waddled off, all crawled onto the big plastic bench with animal crackers and sippy cups of juice and they all began to suckle on them.

Sunburst turned and asked. “So who won Sqwiblle? Me ow Cwystaw Cweaw?”

Nursery Rhyme laughed. “Sorry, that’s not how you play Scrabble. But it was quite adorable to see you two trying to learn..”

Crystal Clear crossed her hooves and pouted. “So we both dun know how to wead yet?”

Nursery Rhyme bent down and nuzzled the filly. “It was a valiant effort on both your parts, but we probably need to go over your ABCs first before we can get into spelling.”

Shining looked up and asked. “So who won owa swowd fight?”

The preschool teacher giggled. “Um, well…it looks like you two both won. In a sword fight you go until there’s one pony left standing, and neither of you knocked the other out.”

Crystal Shard sighed. “Ugh, I need to wowk on my swinging.” He continued to munch on his animal crackers and Shining Armor rolled his eyes. “I towd ya, tat’s not how ya swing a swowd!”

“How would you know, Cloudy?” Nursery inquired curiously.

Shining blushed and squeaked, realizing he wasn’t supposed to mention anything he’d done as as an adult. “Oh uh…I was taught by my daddy!” He quickly answered. At least that was half true, he hadn’t always wanted to be a royal guard but his father had let him play fight and taught him proper sword stance.

Crystal Shard jumped up and down. “Me too! My daddy is a woyal guawd and he pwotects Shining Awmow! He so cool!”

Snack time passed uneventfully after that, and then Nursery Rhyme instructed. “Okay, now that we’re all filled up, it’s learning time!” She led them all to a big rug and pulled out a book that contained the entire alphabet as she cooed. ”It’s time for you all to learn your ABCs. Now we’re going to start with the letter A, A is for apple”

The foals chanted back as Sunburst and Shining Armor chimed in. They both blushed, feeling inclined to continue with the foalish lessons.

After a few hours of nursery rhymes and singing their letters and numbers, Nursery Rhyme smiled. “Alright, cuties, that’s enough for now. You can play for thirty minutes, but then it’s nap time.”

The foals groaned but they quickly sped back to the playroom filled with toys, determined to make the most of play time.

Shining and Sunburst found themselves with Crystal Shard and Crystal Clear. Shining pointed at Sunburst and Crystal Clear and shouted. “Ya two awe both weawwy supew wong! Ya dun know how ta wead! C is for CAT, not K!”

Sunburst blushed and scrunched his pull-up. “So what? I fowgots. Ya did too, ya knew fewer tan me!”

“We sowwie,” Clear apologized. “But I weawwy smawt, I weawn my ABCs aweady! I just needed to be weminded of tem.”

Sunburst scoffed and babbled. “Pwove it! If ya ca sing ya ABCs pewfectly, I’ww wet ya weaw my gwasses.”

The filly clapped her hooves in delight. “Deaw! I wuv tose gwasses!”

Sunburst scoffed and grumbled. “Good wuck, ya’ww need it.”

Clear growled, getting uo as she started to shout. “A! B! C! D! E! F! G!” All the foals around her turned their attention towards the filly.. She continued, “H! I J! K! L! M! N! O! P!” Soon every foal started to chime into the song. “Q! R! S! T! U! V! W! X! Y!...” Then Clear trailed off and rubbed a hoof to her face. “Um…uh…it’s uh…” Then she beamed a smile and shouted. “Z! Z is ta wast lettew!”

Every foal clapped and cheered as Sunburst’s face went white and he babbled, “B..but how?”

Crystal Clear just smiled and took the glasses off his face. “Towd ya I know my ABCS, tey mine now!” She placed them on and cooed. “Wow! Tese awe so coow! Am I gonna get smawtew now?!”

Nursery Rhyme burst into laughter. “Oh, that’s so cute! So nice to see you know how to share, Sunny Day. And I’m glad to see my foals are learning,” Then she cleared her throat. “Now we have to get ready for nap time. So if you need to go potty first, let me know.”

Every foal groaned in disappointment at the fact that play time was over, and many of them began to waddle to the sleeping mats with little foal blankets and plushies. They were all placed under the covers and were tucked in.

But Shining turned to Sunburst and whispered. “Wait...Sunbuwst, we showd go potty fiwst! I dun wana pee pee duwing my nappy.”

Sunburst gave a nod. “Yeah, I was tinking the same ting.”

Their new friends raised their hooves, asking to go potty as well. Both colts sighed and reluctantly they both raised a hoof and waited to be escorted to the bathroom. Quite a few colts and fillies were already in line.

At last Shining and Sunburst were taken into the bathroom and placed in separate stalls. “Dun faww in,” They heard Crystal Shard whisper from another stall as they were seated on the toilets in the stalls. “What goes into tese potties nevew comes out!”

“I heawd a wumow tat somepony went down ta howe once, and tey nevew found him again!” Crystal Clear chimed in.

Shining and Sunburst gulped a bit. They doubted that was true but even so they didn’t like how big the toilets were compared to them. And what would happen if they did fall in? Where would they go?

Still, they were able to concentrate and do their business. Afterwards they were helped down and wiped, then they had to wash their hooves.

After going potty, all four of the toddlers were placed under their sheets with plush animal,s the room was now complete dark now with only a few glowing nightlights lining the walls.

Crystal Shard whispered. “Hey, Cwoudy, ya wook awot wike Shiny Awmow. Awe ya weawted to him?”

Shining blushed and whispered. ”Uh… y-yeah, I am. I his cousin. Tey say I wook just wike him.”

The colt whispered back. “Wee, I wants to be wike him when I gwow up. I wana be Captain of ta Woayw Guawd and svae a pwincess! Can ya ask him how ya do tat?”

Shining blushed, feeling warm and fuzzy inside at how he’d influenced this little colt. So he turned and babbled. ”I pwomice. And if ya want I’m suwe he can teach ya how to fight.”

Shard giggled. “Yeah, I know I need pwactice. Anyways, tanks, Cwoudy, ya a good fwiend.”

Shining hugged his pull-up and whispered. “Yeah, tis is fun…I…I…actuawwy wike pweschool and being in potty twaining.”

Sunburst, meanwhile looked around at the filly and babbled. “Ya did well, ya actuawwy know ya ABCs.”

Crystal Clear gave an apologetic look to her new friend and whispered. “Yeah, but while we wewe weading ya was wight on some of ta wowds. I sowie fow being stubbown.”

Sunburst babbled. “It’s otay, ya young and weading is hawd, in fact ya weawwy awe smawt fow twying to wead books at onwy thwee!”

The filly blushed and nuzzled Sunburst. “Tank you, Sunny, ya my bestest fwiend.”

Sunburst blushed and hugged her back and giggled. “Ya kind of wemind me of my othew fwiend…”

The filly got up with a jealous glare and asked. “Who? Who’s tis othew fwiend?”

Sunburst blushed and smirked. “Sowwie, but tats a secwet.”

A few hours later Princess Cadence came to the preschool to pick up Shining and Sunburst. She peeked into the playroom and gasped upon seeing Shining and Sunburst playing scribble together, mostly just slamming tiles down and spelling out words in gibberish. She dawwed, came over to them and whispered. “Hey cuties, it’s time to go home.”

Both colts groaned and Shining looked up. “We wewe having so much fun tough!”

Sunburst nodded, getting up. “Yeah, we made new fwiends and we went potty! We awso had naps and weawned ta awphabet.”

Cadence’s heart skipped a beat and she hugged them. “Oh, that’s adorable!” Then she noticed the two other foals besides them. “Maybe we can have your new friends come to the palace for a playdate.”

All the foals jumped up and down shouting. “Yeah, tat sounds wike fun!”

Cadence nodded. “Alright then, come on you two.” And they all set off for the castle.