The inside of the diaper pail was, unsurprisingly, not a pleasant sight to behold. Rainbow Dash could hardly make things out in the dark plastic chamber, but she was made very aware of the other diapers that pressed into her rolled up diaper body. She was just thankful that her sense of smell and taste were gone save for the ironic and ever present smell of baby powder.

“Let me out!” Dash exclaimed with whatever voice she thought she had.

“Dash? Is that you?” A voice came out of the darkness, a familiar one.

“Applejack?!” Dash exclaimed.

“Rainbow Dash!” a third voice chimed in.

“Twilight! You’re here too?”

“We’re all here,” Pinkie Pie’s voice added.

“Where exactly is here?” Dash said as she tried to look around with what little of a vantage point she had from the rolled up front panel of the diaper. “And why can’t I see you guys?”

“Well...technically, we’re not here,” Twilight answered, finding it difficult to explain.

“Huh?”

“I mean we’re here, but we’re not us here,” Twilight changed up her approach, “look, Rainbow Dash, we’re still in the diaper pail. We’re still diapers.”

“Ugh, don’t remind me,” Rarity’s voice could now be heard saying with great disgust. Dash could hear the wooziness in the unicorn’s voice.

“But we’re in such close proximity of each other that we’re able to communicate,” Twilight continued.

“So what’er we gonna do!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed, “Discord’s still out there and if we don’t do anything he’s gonna turn everyone into diapers!”

“We might be onto something, with you here our chances just improved.”

“Improved?”

Twilight sighed, “I’m not gonna lie to you, Dash, some of us have been here for...quite some time.”

“...so?” Dash replied. She couldn’t quite get why knowing how long they had been diapers would help.

“So, eventually Discord’s gonna have to throw us out,” Twilight continued, “the enchantment in the pail keeps us in these forms, me and Rarity picked up on that. So when Discord throws us out, we’ll revert to our old selves.

“Then we strike!” Applejack exclaimed with an angry bark.

“Make him taste a bit of his own medicine!” Rarity added with a shout.

“When we return to normal, we need to figure out how to help cure Fluttershy.” Twilight consoled her riled up friends, “she must have been like this for a couple weeks now. We need to help her before anything permanent sets in.”

“THEN we get Discord!” Rarity injected with added furosity, “I’ve been in here for days! It is time HE gets a taste of what it’s like to be like this!”

“Yeah!” Applejack added.

Despite Twilight’s attempts to keep the others calm, the diaper ponies grew restless in their plastic prison. Even Rainbow Dash was starting to feel a swell in her chest. Had it just been her she would have surely submitted to her fate eventually and sat in silence, but the determination of her friends filled her with energy. When the time was right, she was ready to strike!

Throughout the day, the enchanted diaper pail continued to fill up with ponies newly transformed into diapers. Each of them came balled up in a tight, squishy ball and each of them showed equal distaste towards their new forms. Every new arrival was brought up to speed on their situation and the group’s plans for escape. With every new pony added to the pile, the group became more and more volatile. The new ponies brought with them stories of the games Discord played with them and how each one was forced into diaperhood and subjected to the unnerving sensation of being peed into. Before long, the entire diaper pail was riled up and ready to push when the opportunity showed itself and Twilight, despite her best attempts to diffuse the situation, could only make quiet pacifist suggestions.

It wasn’t until hours later that Discord returned home with Fluttershy in tow. It was about late afternoon by the time he rolled in through the front door with a casual bounce in his step. Fluttershy babbled happily in her seat, giggling up a storm and gumming at her Spike plushie that had become wet and slick with slobber.

Discord was immediately met at the door by a wall of stink that hit his vulnerable nose hard. Even spending a lovely day with his little yellow stinker, the terrible stench of Fluttershy’s living room was overpowering. A quick scan of the room later and he was quick to pinpoint the source. It was the enchanted diaper pail that the two had been so festively filling today.

“Well I guess it needed to be taken care of sooner or later,” the dragonequs casually sighed as he snapped his fingers.

Taking a life of its own, the diaper pail became animated and opened it’s plastic lid like a hinged maw. The overpowering stench of a dozen diapers poured out of its open mouth, quickly filling the room with its odor. Its plastic lined inerds tied itself into a knot before the entire bag of old diapers floated out of it.

Discord took pause to smirk at the lumpy bag of pink hued plastic. He was able to see each and every diaper through its translucent shell, each one a transformed pony who met the terrible fate of diaperhood. There must have been at least two dozen diaper ponies packed away in the enchanted plastic.

“Who knew such a little pony could go through SO many diapers!” he loudly exclaimed, cooing at the diapered Fluttershy who squirmed and babbled in her stroller seat. “Such a shame to see so many of them go, but perhaps some time in the dumpster will give me time to decide what to do with them next.”

The diaper pail slammed it’s lid mouth shut, reverting back to its inanimate form while the bulging trash bag of diapers floated further away from it. Discord carried it at a distance, letting his magic do most of the heavy lifting. A feet away from the pail and the bag’s contents began to vibrate. After taking a few more steps, the diapers inside then began to morph and move around like animated rubber balls. And a few more steps after that the balled up diapers began to pull at the plastic surrounding them, now growing hoof like appendages as they shifted about. All that pushing and pulling finally caused the bag to rip, pouring the hooved diapers out onto the ground in a messy pile.

Finally free from the bag and the magical energies that bound them, the diapers snapped back to their original pony forms in one giant flash of energy. Where there was once a disorganized pile of old, smelly diapers was now a group of at least a dozen disoriented ponies.

“We’re back!” Applejack exclaimed, looking at her hooves with surprised delight as the rest groaned in confusion.

“We’re not diapers anymore!” Dash added, scanning every inch of her body to make sure that the transformation gave her everything back. Tail, legs, wings, chest, mane, everything was here!

“I think I’m going to be sick...” Rarity was the last to add, leaning against a wall as she attempted to blot out every memory she had of the last few days.

Twilight shared in her friends’ celebrations, letting out a sigh of relief as she looked over her normal body.

“Oh poo,” Discord was heard saying, drawing attention back to him. He held the ripped up remains of the trash bag, inspecting the large rip that ran along the bag’s side with a frown, “looks like I should have double bagged that. They don’t make these things like they used to.”

“You got a lotta nerve turnin’ everypony into diapers,” Big Macintosh snarled with an angry stomp of his hoof. Clearly he didn’t forget about what he saw in the park that afternoon. “It ain’t right!”

Discord crossed his arms and rolled his eyes with a bored and disinterested stare. “Yes and I’m sure you have much more to say, but I’ve had enough of you,” he answered and then snapped his fingers. And with a flash, the red stallion disappeared, teleporting off to...wherever. It didn’t matter to Discord. As long as he was out of his face. “And that goes for the rest of you,” he told the rest of the group, teleporting them out as well save for Twilight and her friends. Unlike the boring townsfolk who served as the perfect diapers for his little ShyShy, Twilight and her do-gooding friends were always a delight to play with.

“Discord!” Twilight exclaimed, scowling at the draconequus as she started marching towards him. “Just what makes you think you can just turn us all into diapers!?”

“How dare ya!” Applejack growls.

“I was merely keeping things entertaining,” Discord so innocently objected, “Fluttershy here certainly had a lot of fun!”

He presented the stroller bound pony who smiled at her friends with a drool covered face. She babbled something in babytalk and gave her Spike plushie a big hug. Judging by the stuffed animal’s blinking glass eyes, it was clear that it was no ordinary toy.

“How dare you poison Fluttershy’s mind just so you can have your fun!” Rarity exclaimed.

“Oh come now, this wasn't ALL my idea! Fluttershy helped plenty and she was never in any real danger,” Discord shrugged off, “all she would have to do is cut down on the baby stuff, then she’d snap right back to her old self.”

There was a pause. Twilight spoke up with a hint of surprise in her voice. “That’s it? She just has to avoid bottles and bibs for a few hours?”

“Eehh, I would say a few days at this point to get her TRULY back to normal,” Discord so passively shrugged, only to turn his attention to Fluttershy, “we’ve been having an awful fun time, haven’t we, little Shyshy?” The diapered pony giggled at his deceptively friendly voice.

“Yeah, well let’s see how much fun you have when YOU’RE the baby!” Dash angrily barked.

“Or when you’re the DIAPER!” Rarity added with an angry stomp to the ground. There was an electric tension in the air. Everyone in the cottage felt it. Everyone except Discord.

“Ladies! Let’s keep civil about this,” Discord chuckled, waving his paws so passively in front of him, “we wouldn’t want to do anything irrational.”

“Irrational?!” Rarity stepped forward with a scowl. After spending days surrounded by filth, the white unicorn took the greatest offense to how nonchalant Discord could be about all this. He committed her and her friend to a diaper pail prison and he dared use words like “irrational” and “civil”?! Suffice to say, it only enraged Rarity, causing the dainty pony to become red in the face as her horn sparked with angry sparks. “You...! You...brute!”

With a whip of her head, Rarity summoned a torrent of a spell that surged with a bright blue light. A bolt of energy crackled loudly from her horn and shot straight into Discord’s body. Blinded by such fury, it was tough for her to say exactly what spell she threw in Discord’s direction. All that mattered was that she summoned something to get back at Discord for putting her friends through such horror.

The buzzing of undefined, raw magicks was absorbed into Discord’s chest, leaving him with a residual, strange tingling feeling in his fur. The circle of ponies watched warily as in those brief moments the cottage around them seemed to groan and bend inwards. The tingling in Discord quickly turned into a tugging sensation that tightened every muscle in his body. The sensation caused him to momentarily land on the ground to take stock. Even he was curious to see what this spell was going to do.

The magical light reemerged shortly after with a cracking pop, ammassing into a shimmering, glowing orb of energy that sparked on the floor beneath it. A low rumbling sounded through the cottage as the air itself felt dry and charged. Within seconds, the orb wholy enveloped Discord until only his silhouette could be faintly seen among its blue light. The ground quakes intensified as unstable magical energies sparked and danced around the room. Unrestrained unicorn magic mingled with his own chaotic magicks while the house around them shook even more with each passing second.

The group of spectators backed away from the growing storm. First by cautious inches, then by bounding leaps as everyone around the torrent dove for cover behind the couch. Fluttershy, idly cuddling her Spike plushie, had to have her stroller magically pulled from the spectacle before everyone braced behind the furnishing for whatever was to happen next.

Then in a bright, sparky flash, Discord’s silhouette shrunk down to a simple circle. Bolts of multicolored light shot off from the orb’s center as the mixed magicks coiled around one another, desperately looking for some sort of stability. And in one final flash, the ball of light transformed into a single, neatly folded diaper roughly the size of a pony. The massive diaper floated there for a moment as it’s form shifted and morphed like lightning filled clay. After a brief pause, the natural laws of gravity returned to normal and the diaper dropped out of the air, plummeting towards the ground where it shattered like lightning filled glass.

The arcane shrapnel was sent flying in all directions. The shards plinked against the furniture around the room with harmless pops, disappearing into innoxious glitter when they did. Whenever a shard hit one of the ponies, however, it materialized as a diaper - this time the perfect size for a pony - before taping itself snuggly around its victim.

It was only then that the rumbling stopped and the unstable magicks began to settle. The eerie darkening around the cottage began to lift after that as if the world itself finally allowed itself a sigh of relief. With the tension uncoiling itself came subtle shockwaves across the thaumic spectrum. With Discord now committed to his new fate, his magical grip on Ponyville began to weaken. Spells he cast and curses he gave during these last few days were undone like an unraveling quilt.

All over town remnants of Discord's games began to fade and things reverted back to normal. Conjured up baby toys disappeared with a flash, transformed ponies returned to normal with only lingering memories of the twisted games they were forced to play out for his amusement. Even the magic in the air seemed to calm itself as the spellwork on everything gradually faded and disappeared. It was almost as if the very fabric of reality was changing to accommodate the shift in power within the area. In just a few moments, the magic that Discord used to dominate Ponyville was gone, leaving behind only the mundane items of everyday life.

Meanwhile, back at Fluttershy's cottage, Twilight and her friends now found themselves wearing diapers, much to their surprise. The diapers’ design was an amalgam of color, mixing all the various parts of Discord’s body into one strange, paint swirl of a pattern. The thickness of the new diapers rivaled that of an ordinary pillow and looked incredibly absorbent.

Spike had snapped out of his stuffed animal form and now laid in a daze on the floor in front of Fluttershy’s stroller. Strings of pegasus slobber still oozed down his ears as he rubbed his tired eyes. Memories of his past life as a toy were still fresh in his mind, but the dragon thought it best to not think about it. The sooner he blocked out the images of being squeezed and drooled on by one of his friends the better. Mercifully, at least from his perspective, he was spared the embarrassment of wearing a diaper himself.

“Good job, Rarity,” Rainbow Dash grumbled, scowling at the diaper around her waist.

“A-A minor fluke,” Rarity answered, “I don’t normally do that sort of spell.”

“Seems like Discord was too much for one diaper to handle,” Twilight was quick to deduce, inspecting her own Discord diaper, “and once his power was spread out over a number of diapers, the diapers needed a host to tape onto.”

“So...like a curse?” Dash scowled.

“No, not like a curse. If you want the diaper off all you gotta do is-” Twilight’s words cut short as she tried, and failed, to pull her diaper off. No matter how hard she tried, the diaper remained firmly in place. Neither the tapes nor the diaper itself would budge an inch.

“Oh you’ve GOT to be kidding me!” Dash exclaimed, grabbing at her own diaper only to fail taking it off as well. “We’re stuck in diapers?!”

"Not permanently!" Twilight exclaimed with a wave of her hoof, "these diapers are merely residual magicks from Discord so they must require some kind of catalyst to become unbound to the wearer." She racked her brain and tapped her chin. "So there's gotta be some...thing that'll release us."

The group looked at each other and then their diapers. Each one had their own approach to the mystery.

Twilight almost delighted at the challenge, always loving a good problem that needed to be solved. She approached it with a scientific methodology, even going as far as to keeping notes. She tried pulling the diaper off with varying degrees of levitation magic. She tried casting a counter spell, causing nothing but a headache after the resulting back flash. She even tried one or two binding spells she knew, hoping that maybe the diaper could be removed if they were bound to something else like the floor or a piece of furniture. Sadly, none of it worked.

Rarity turned to magic as well, but approached it cautiously. She didn't want to make the problem worse with more careless spell casting. Afterall, as the old saying goes, "once hexxed, twice shy". As a last-ditch attempt, she tried cutting the diaper off, breaking some good pairs of scissors in the process.

Applejack and Rainbow Dash opted for a more direct approach. They spent their time tugging and pulling at their own diapers, grabbing for whatever foothold they could get a grip on. However, no matter how much they pulled or yanked or grabbed, their diapers remained firmly in place and seemingly unphased by the two ponies’ attempts.

Pinkie meanwhile was taking it all in stride. While all her friends toiled around and tugged at their diapers, the pink pony bounced around the room like it was all a game. It was kind of fun bouncing around in a diaper. The extra cushion was comfy to sit on and bounce around on. Plus, the new found freedom - after spending who knows how long trapped in a diaper pail - was a reward all its own.

Fluttershy took this time to focus on clearing her head. What she felt could be best described as "awakeness". After spending so long as Discord's partly willing plaything, the meek pegasus found herself with a growing sense of self awareness. Her mind became clearer than ever before. Memories of the games she played with Discord and publicly soiling herself came flooding back. She felt awfully ashamed about it all and tried her best to help her friends any way she could.

She bobbed in and out of coheritness like a ship at sea. At times she felt like her old self, but at others she began wetting herself, craving a pacifier, and using words like "baba" and "potty". When she wasn’t trying to care for her friends, she spent her time fighting off headaches and constantly checked to see if she was accidentally drooling. She was so busy with this personal struggle between being helpful and stopping herself from completely regressing again, that she failed to notice the tail tape of her diaper was starting to loosen from all the activity. It wasn’t until Pinkie Pie, amidst her happy pronking around the room, noticed and called attention to it.

"Uhm girls?” Pinkie Pie called out as the group turned their attention to Fluttershy. The pink mare called attention to the loose tape as she reached for Fluttershy’s front tapes which came off without a single bit of resistance. "I think the diapers gotta be used before they come off,” she concluded.

Author's Note

Well this chapters been a long time coming. Like a lot of my projects I added little bit after little bit to this until suddenly I had a finished chapter on my hands. It would seem my muse plans on getting this story out of hiatus and finished afterall!

Fun fact, in an early draft of this story, it was Twilight who was going to cast the transformation spell on Discord. It would have developed the same way, but I figured she would have a more leveled head after trying to keep her angry friends under control.