Shiny vs Sunny

Cadence was now getting her two little colts ready for the night. She stripped them of their pull-ups and they were now in thick nighttime diapers with moons and stars printed on them to serve as wetness indicators. “Aunt Luna definitely had a big impact on the night time wear market for foals,” She chuckled as she tucked them into their beds making sure they both had their plushies in their hooves. Once done she got up and asked. “Now you two don’t need anything else, right? Neither of you has to go potty?”

“Nah, we good, Cady.” Shining replied.

Sunburst nodded. “Yeah. We just forgot to go potty duwing the playdate. Had too much fun.”

The princess of love smiled, deciding to take them at their word. They had been changed just recently, after all. She tucked them in, and soon Shining and Sunburst were sound asleep with only a pair of nightlights lighting up the room. “Sweet dreams, my little ponies. I’ll be in the nursery with Flurry and Fizzlepop. So come get me if you need anything.” She whispered and left the room.

But not long after his wife had left, Shining stirred under the blankets and whimpered knowing his diaper was soaked. “Mom and Dad said I always had trouble at night, that’s why they double diapered me.” He thought as he poked it and groaned hearing it squelch quite audibly, indicating a good soak. He looked around the room and saw that Sunburst was still asleep, good.

The little colt slowly got up and fell out of the bed and onto the ground on all fours. He slowly tried to waddle across the room to change.

But at that moment, Sunburst happened to wake up. The former crystaller looked down at Shining and as he too crawled out of the bed he whispered to his fellow colt. “Hey, Shiny, wha ya doing? Can’t sweep?”

The little colt squeaked in surprise, plopped onto his soggy diaper and looked around with a pout. “Sunny! Stop it! I was…um…” He trailed off, not wanting to admit he’d wet himself.

Sunburst looked down at the soaked diaper and smirked as he gave it a few pokes. “Looks like ya pee pee in ya diapee, Shining. Didn’t wanna get up fow the potty?”

Shining growled and snapped back. “Stop it, Sunny! Ya pee pee in ya nighttime diapee too!”

Sunburst looked down at his own soggy diaper and blushed, realizing Shining was right. “Yeah. Wooks like we bedwetters again. Can’t bewieve it, I haven’t done tat since I was fouw.”

Shining rolled his eyes. “But we not fouw, Sunbuwst. At weast, ouw bodies awen’t. So, wha do we do? Do we changie ourselves, or go get Cady to changie us?”

Sunburst stood up and proclaimed. “Weww, how about we change ourselves? I wouldn’t want to bother Cady. Especially aftew we told hew we didn’t need the potty.”

Sunburst nodded as Shining went over to the pull-up drawer (which rested at the bottom of the changing table) and pulled out two thick night-time pull-ups. “Got em!” He declared, holding up the undergarments.

“Gweat!” Sunburst declared as he then laid down and gulped. “Uh…you know what ya doing?”

Shining nodded. “Yep, just sway still. I pwomice this’ll be over quick,” Despite having some experience with Flurry Heart, the prince’s clumsy hooves struggled to tape up the pull-up. It ended up lopsided and he smoothed his hoof down, making sure it was snug. “There, wha ya tink? I did good, wight?”

Sunburst waddled around a little as he got used to the thickness of his pull-up. It seemed that it fit well and he blushed. “Wow, ya did a good job. But ya forgot two things: One is baby powder. If I pee again, I gonna get a big wash.”

Shining pouted as he took the powder and dumped a whole bunch of it into Sunburst’s diaper. Sunburst squeaked and started bouncing about. “Hey, stop tat! Is too much!” He shook about making clouds of foal powder as Shining burst into fits of laughter.

The colt with a coat of orange turned and growled, then smirked seeing a thick pink diaper in the diaper bag. He turned to Shining. “Otay. Now is my turn to change ya.”

Shining laid down as Sunburst went about changing Shining’s soggy night-time diaper and powdered Shining’s rump. He then strapped the regressed stallion up in the pink diaper before Shining realized it.

When he did he squeaked. “Hey!” He growled, trying to untape the pink diaper as Sunburst kicked about laughing. Shining unstrapped the diaper and furiously shouted. “Tat’s it! I gonna spankie you, Sunbuwst!” He tackled Sunburst and they both rolled around in a flurry of foal powder. Sunburst broke into laughter as he ran off and Shining waddled behind, shouting! “Ya get back here! Ya getting punished!”

“Not if ya can’t catch me!” Sunburst taunted as he stuck out his tongue.

They chased each other through the halls for a bit, running past room after room.

“Sunbuwst, if ya dun stop, yas getting faw wose than a spankie!” Shining threatened.

But Sunburst only replied. “Ya not gonna spankie me, ya too soft! I seen Fwurry walk aww over ya!”

“I do not! I gwounded hew when she got into the chocolate pudding!” Shining snorted.

“Cause you weren’t watching hew!” Sunburst giggled in delight. “My momma nevew made tat mistake! She nevew wet me get away with anyting!”

Just then, who should stumble out into the hallway but Cadence with her mane all frazzled? Despite her noticeably sleepy state, she still gave an angry stare as she demanded. “What are you two doing up this late? You’re supposed to be asleep.”

Both colts stopped and whimpered, too scared to say a word.

The princess of love just sighed as she lifted both colts with her magic and scolded them. “You two are going to wake up the little fillies. I told you to come get me if you needed something.”

Both colts whined, each trying to say whose fault it really was. But Cadence just scooped both up and quickly poofed two pink diapers around their rumps with magic locks on the tapes. “There, now no messing with your diapers until morning, or you’ll be wearing them to preschool.”

“But what if we do need to go potty duwing the night?” Shining asked Cadence.

The princess of love sighed and replied. “Come and get me, I’ll help you get the diapers off. If you try to mess with them at all, you’ll just make them puff up like balloons.” She then carried them back to their bedroom, plopped them into their beds, and tucked them under the sheets for the second time that night.

The colts both groaned but didn’t say a word in protest, for they did not want to endure such an embarrassing punishment.

A tired and exhausted Cadence just shut off the lights and slowly closed the door. “Four little foals are such a hoofful. I think I may need to call for backup. I wonder if Twily would love to help foalsit her ‘little’ brother?” She thought, as she went back to the nursery to check on her two little fillies. Hopefully they hadn’t woken up and wandered off again, last time they’d flooded the bathroom with bubbles.

When the lights shut off and the two little colts now alone, Sunburst whispered to Shining. “So…uh sowwy abowt tat. I didn’t mean to get you in trouble with ya wife.”

Shining just sighed. “Is otay. But now we pwobably going to pee-pee our diapees and we’ll be changed tomorrow. Let’s just go night nights.” As they both drifted off, Shining hugged his plushie Brutus Force.

The next morning, Cadence came into the nursery and cheerfully cooed. “Good morning, little ones!” Both colts slowly crawled out of bed, but squeaked upon seeing Flurry Heart and Fizzlepop on the carpeted floor. “Hope you don’t mind, I wanted to make sure all my foals stay close to me at all times,” She explained, then took both colts into her magic and checked their diapers. When she got to Sunburst she cooed. “So, Sunburst, I noticed you used the potty last night.”

Sunburst blushed and nodded. “Yeah, I did. Before... uh I and Shiny got into a fight.” He decided to leave out the part about the change from before Cadence had woken up.

Cadence changed Sunburst out of his pink diaper and into a pair pull-ups and a cute t shirt with a smiling sun printed on it. But then she took Shining and placed him into a thick diaper with little shields printed on it.

The regressed prince pouted and whined. “Why do I gots to be in a diapee? Tats not fair!”

Cadence (who was checking the seams of the diaper to make sure it was snug) explained. “Well, today your caretaker is taking you all on a field trip and I would rather you be protected. Since Sunburst was able to use the potty last night, I’m more confident he knows when he has to go. You seem to be a bit of a slow learner, so I don’t want to risk you leaving puddles. If you’re good about using the potty though, we can see about putting you into pull-ups later.”

They were then placed back on the ground as Cadence walked over to the calendar, placed a sunshine sticker on it, and smiled as she explained. “Sunburst, you’re doing very well, only a few stormy clouds. I think you’re ready to age up a little,” The alicorn levitated over the potion, gave him a drop of it, and watched as he started to grow a little (roughly six months).

Sunburst became a little bit taller and the pull-up tightened as he bounced around the place. Shining just pouted and crossed his hooves in jealousy.

Cadence looked over at her jealous husband. “Shiny, don’t be a pouty baby. I know you’re still learning, okay? You’re still doing pretty well all things considered. From what your mom told me, this was normal for when you were potty training.”

“Normal for late blooming preschoolers.” Shining thought, as he just grumbled and walked off. He’d hoped he would be the one to graduate first.

The two foals ate breakfast together, Shining trying not to act too jealous of Sunburst’s aging up. Soon afterward, they were helped into the carriage and rode to the museum.

During the carriage ride, Shining looked at Sunburst and asked him. “Hey, Sunnyburst. You better than me with potty training. Ya alweady got ta first drop of ta potion. Guess ya must be doing someting wight, or maybe I just doing someting wong.”

Sunburst shrugged. “I’m not suwe either way, so faw I just been good at not making pee-pees as much in my diapees. But if ya want I can teach ya a few tips, I stawting to wemember mowe.”

Shining nodded. “Otay, tanks Sunny. I owe ya. In fact,” He took out some candy he’d smuggled by stuffing it into the back of his diaper, offering it to Sunburst. “Hewe. I know tis ain’t much, but I wemember my pawents used to give me sweets if I was good at going potty. Ya pwobaby desweve tem mowe though.”

Sunburst took the unwrapped candy and giggled. “Aww, tanks Shiny. Ya ain’t such a bad pony. I’ww do what I can to hewp ya.”

They then got out their plushies and battled each other for a while. They were having so much fun that they didn’t even notice when they arrived at the museum entrance.

Fortunately, Cadence did. With a smile, both Shining and Sunburst were lifted out of the carriage and plopped down in front of the giant building. It sported columns in front with marble steps leading up to the front entrance.

The foals quickly got into line with the rest of the class, all jumping and shouting with excitement!

Nursery Rhyme turned to the toddlers and cooed. “Okay everyone. Now listen, while we’re here at the museum I need you all to be on your best behavior. So don’t touch anything, okay? Some of this stuff is very delicate, it could break if you touch it and then you’ll be in trouble. Understand?”

The foals all nodded but were anxious to get into the museum and see what was inside. Field trips were always fun.

“Alright, follow me everypony. This museum is quite big and easy to get lost in, so no wandering off.” Nursery Rhyme cautioned. The foals trotted into the museum after the mare, and they were all amazed at the statues and the giant dinosaur skeleton in the middle of the room that greeted. All of them gaping with awes and oohs.

“This is the carefully reconstructed skeleton of a spiney-backed ponasuarus,” Nursery Rhyme explained as she pointed a hoof. “The remains of which were found by a filly not much older than you are now, and in Ponyville of all places I might add,” The foals were quite impressed by the knowledge, and some jumped and down, wanting to touch it. Nursery had to pull them back and scold them. “Ah-ah, no touching that. There’s a children portion later on where you can play and touch things to your heart’s content. You’ll even get the chance to make your own art to take home to your parents, if you behave. Now come along, we have a lot to see. Next is something I think you’ll all be interested in, an ancient crib that was once used by the ruler of Griffonstone to hold his child.”

Nursery Rhyme continued to escort the foals through the museum, showing them sight after sight and priceless object after priceless object. As they were trotting through a gallery of paintings, Shining turned to Crystal Shard, who was waddling along behind him. He was also in a diaper. Shining blushed as he went up to the colt and asked him. “Hey, um Cwystal…can ya hew me with someting? Is kind of impowtant yet embawassing.”

The young colt turned around and asked Shining “Wha ya need hewp with?”

Shining sighed and just pointed to his diaper strapped around his rump. Crystal Shard blushed and whispered. “So ya mommy put ya in a diapee?”

The prince groaned. “W-well kind of. I had too many accidents and she was scared I would pee-pee on ta floor so she put me in it. But I want to pwove her wong, I wana go potty by myselw!”

Crystal Shard lifted his t-shirt showing off his diaper with the blue shields printed on the fabric, and he explained. “Yeah, is the same thing with me. My mommy put my diapee on me because I had a few accidents too, even though I was twying hawd not to.”

Shining Armor blushed. “Guess we got a wot in common. So ya gots to help me go to the potty if I um...need to go.”

The colt nodded, before he blushed and admitted. “Well, taking diapees off is easy. The hawd part is putting them back on aftew ya go. I once had a oopsie and tried changing myself, but I ended up putting the diapee on backwards.”

Sunburst (who had been waddling by and overheard the conversation) chimed in. “Don’t worry, I’ll be there to help. I can change diapees.”

Some of the colts and fillies eyed Sunburst and all asked in unison. “Ya know how to change diapees?”

Sunburst proudly rose up and proclaimed. “Yeah I can change diapees! I do it with Princess Fwurry Heawt all the time! Is easy!”

Crystal Clear scampered over and tackled the colt. “Oh, you so cool! Is thewe anyting ya can’t do?!”

Shining looked down, grumbling upon seeing how Sunburst was getting all the attention again. It was so unfair.

As they continued through the gallery portion of the museum and admiring the art work. The foals enjoying pointing things out.

Suddenly, Shining spotted a painting of him throwing Cadence at what appeared to be a dark, ominous cloud.

Crystal Shard waddled up to it and pointed. “Tat’s Shining Awmor defeating the monster Sombwa! Isn’t he so cool?!”

Shining Armor blushed a little. “Y-yeah, he weally is. But uh...this painting wooks a wittwe too unwealistic. I… heawd it was a wot different in weal life.” He quickly corrected himself before he could say something that might give away his identity.

Sunburst. meanwhile, was admiring a painting of the Crystal Empire and. “So many colors!”

Crystal Shard nodded and explained. “Yeah, it’s my favowite painting. My mommy told me it was made by a famous painter before, well…the dark times…”

Sunburst then asked the filly. “So, your parents had you after Sombra was defeated, right?”

Crystal Clear nodded. “Yeah, I was born only a few months after the big meanie Somby was defeated. I heaw he was a weaw poopie head too!”

“Alright, children, that’s quite enough of that,” Nursery Rhyme spoke up. “Sombra is gone, and we can all be thankful that he was defeated by Princess Cadence and Prince Shining Armor. Let us try to focus on the cheerful memories and let go of the bad ones.”

The young foals obliged, and as they continued onward many of the adult ponies visiting the museum that day were amazed at the parade of crinkling foals waddling along. Nursery couldn’t help but feel a little embarrassed at the attention she got. This museum was primarily for elementary aged children, but she believed it was never too early to instill in little ones a sense of appreciation for art and beauty.

Still, they continued their way towards the foal part of the museum undeterred. And it was here that the foals gaped in amazement at all the fun looking sculptures! They went about the place, admiring the art work. And some lined up at a canvas to take their turns hoof painting or drawing with crayon.

As all the foals bounced about and Nursery Rhyme occupied herself with keeping the ones with paint from running off, Shining groaned and pressed his hooves to his diaper. He began to feel the urge to go pee, but as he looked around the nearest bathroom was nowhere to be found. Not wanting to go in his diaper though, his only instinct was to come over to his friend Crystal Shard and whimper. “Uh, I gots to go pee-pee. Ya gotta take me to the potty.”

The little colt turned around and gave a nod. “Otay, come on. I saw some potties down the haww fwom hewe, but tey wooked kind of big.”

“Dun cawe, not gonna pee-pee my diapee!” Shining groaned as he accepted Crystal Shard’s hoof. With Nursery Rhyme busy chasing after a foal with paint still on her hooves, she didn’t notice them slipping away.

Crystal Shard led Shining towards the back of the hall to the bathroom, going off to the left side that read “Stallion’s Room”.

Peering into the room, they found several stalls which were all opened. Trotting into the nearest open one, the two little colts gulped as they looked up at the great white bowl shaped monstrosity that greeted them. Crystal Shard shivered. “Tat’s one big potty! Wooks wike a monstew!”

“Is not a monster! Is a toiwet! Gwown-ups use it!” Shining explained as he groaned, the urge to pee growing stronger by the moment. “Just hewp me get my diapee off, okay?!”

“Just dun wet it eat ya! It twied to eat me once!” Crystal Shard shuddered.

Shining didn’t listen, he was too busy fumbling with the tabs on his diaper. His hooves kept slipping whenever he tried to grab at them. “Darn it! Why they gotta be so sticky?!” He complained!

Crystal Shard just smiled. “Is otay, I’ll hewp ya! I been pwacticing magic!” The little colt strained as he lit up his horn, surrounding Shining in faint blue sparks. He helped take the diaper off and set it carefully aside for later. Floating Shining over, he plopped him onto seat of the big potty.

The seat of the toilet was quite slippery, Shining didn’t dare to look down. “There’s no such thing as a pony eating toilet monster! Right?!” He told himself in his mind. Crystal Shard must’ve just been teasing him or trying to scare him. Even as a little colt, the prince had grown up with a sense of what could go down the toilet, and what couldn’t. He’d even tested it himself the first time he’d been left alone with the toilet.

The regressed prince shut his eyes and focused, soon hearing a loud tinkling sound. “Yeah, I did it!” He cheered! “See, Crystal Shard? The big potty’s not a monster!”

“But whewe’s that noise it awways makes?” Crystal Shard wondered as he lifted himself onto the toilet, nervously looking down at the bowl.

Shining just grinned. “See tat silver tingy ovew thewe?” He gestured to the handle. Crystal Shard nodded. “Weww, tat’s what makes the noise. When ya done using the toiwet, ya fwush by pushing it down.”

“Ya mean, wike this?” Crystal Shard asked as he surrounded the handle with his magic, pressing it down.

On cue, the toilet roared to life with an audible flush. But as Shining moved to get down, he slipped on the seat and fell in! “Hewp! I being fwushed!” He screamed, struggling to keep his head above the spinning waters!

“Cwoudy! I’ww save ya!” Crystal Shard declared as he rolled down some toilet paper! “Gwab the wope, quicky! I’ww puww ya out!”

Shining did so, grasping the toilet paper just as he felt the waters in the bowl start to recede and take him with them! “Huwwy!”

The little colt yanked on the toilet paper with his magic, helping the regressed prince out! He landed on the floor with an audible plop, shaking off the toilet water and showering Crystal Shard with it.

“Hey! Wha was tat fow?!” Crystal Shard demanded.

“Sowwy! But toiwet water is yucky!” Shining apologized. “At weast now ya now to be carefuw awound big potties.”

But Crystal Shard was smiling. “Wooked kind of wike a watew swide!” He eagerly commented! “Can we do it again?! I wanna see whew it wets out!”

“Trust me, no you don’t.” The prince thought to himself with a shake of his head.

Just then, a very anxious Nursery Rhyme burst into the room! “Finally! I’ve been looking all over for you two naughty colts! What was all that commotion just then?!” She looked down at the soggy colts as they both whimpered. They knew now that they were in a lot of trouble.

A few hours later, the whole class was back out in front of the museum. Cadence was hugging Shining in front of her as he shivered and whimpered as he looked down at his hooves, getting ready to be scolded at. Not only had he wandered off but he’d also taken off his diaper, not to mention the close call with the toilet.

But Cadence just hugged him. “I’m just glad you’re okay, Cloudy. I was so worried about you! But I’m proud to hear that you went potty all by yourself, and in doing so helped another little colt overcome his fear of it..”

Shining beamed a smile of pride. “Tanks.”

Cadence cooed. “And for that, I think you deserve something extra special,” She dropped a little bit of liquid into his mouth, and he felt himself age a little. Now he was like Sunburst, six months older. He had less foal fat, but still looked chubby and cute. He bounced up and down with a smile, just as Cadence checked Sunburst’s pull-up. “Oh dear, a small accident. And so soon after graduating to pull-ups.”

Nursery Rhyme blushed. “I’m sorry, I should’ve planned better. There aren’t many bathrooms in this the museum. And with all the excitement I’m sure many off the foals forgot to use the bathroom, aside from our two very eager little rugrats of course.”

Sunburst just pouted and glared at Shining getting all the attention, while Crystal Clear hugged him and cooed. “Oh don’t worry, you’ww be potty trained befowe ya fwiend, I know it.”

Sunburst just grumbled. “Yeah, I know. But tis is taking fowever…” Then he stared at the bottle that Cadence had stowed in her bag as he smirked. “In fact I gots an idea to get potty trained faster than him. And if it works, he’ll know his place once again.”