The white dragoness stood tall over the much younger ones. Starlight and Tempest looked up in fear, trying their best to hide it, but their voices betrayed them.

"You d-don't scare u-us," Starlight stuttered.

"Yeah. We gulp don't kneel to anyone," Tempest said with a shaky voice.

"Really, because it sounds to me that you two are very scared of me right now," Celestia snarled. The duo took a step back as the beast lowered her head to meet them. "Now, I will ask you this only once. Return my subjects and my daughter to normal, or there will be a severe punishment for you,"

The periwinkle dragoness grumbled something before finally saying, "Fine, then..."

"That's what I thought," Celestia said confidently. She then turned her attention to Twilight and her friends. "See, girls? This is how you handle-"

Starlight was quick to betray her word and shot a beam right in the elder's face. Her smile only lasted a few seconds as Celestia grimaced, before smiling a wicked smile of her own. That caused all the young to quiver in fear, including her regressed daughter.

"Still as short witted and short tempered as ever, eh Starlight? Tsk. Really, now? Did you honest believe I wouldn't be prepared for the situation at claw?"

She shot a beam of magic so fast, no one spotted it. Starlight and Tempest closed their eyes, both from the blinding light and also from whatever pain they might have felt. Instead, what happened were that two inhibitor rings were placed on their horns. They tried casting their magic, before the rings siphoned it. That caused Starlight to go into a panic attack.

"MY MAGIC!" she screamed before Tia put a claw to her mouth.

"Shh. There will be much time to think about your actions after I settle you two in your new home,"

The group was back in the library, hoping to come across a reversal spell to turn Sunset back to normal, but nothing came up. A knocking came at the door of the place.

"Now who could that be?" AJ asked.

"I'll check," came Rainbow. She opened the door to see another pink dragoness. This one had horns and wings. Her sparkling tutu and pink frilly diaper were beyond words.

"Cadence?"

"CADENCE?!" Twilight shouting as she teleported of the chair she was in and made her way over to the newcomer. The two embraced each other in a hug before performing their signature dance, With Twilight not even stumbling on the claws part.

"Twilight! How are you?" she asked. The lavender dragoness looked back at her with a low head.

"Not so good, Cadence. Sunset had just been regressed by Starlight and Tempest. Those two are with Celestia right now,"

"Well, I'm sure you can find a way to change her back. If anyone can get us out of a bad spot, it's you,"

"And don't you ever forget that," came a masculine voice.

"BBBFF?!" Twilight asked as she looked behind her sister in-law to see her draconic and diapered brother in goofy looking armor that barely covered his padding.

"The Twilight I know would never give up that easily. How about we take a break and you can play for a while?"

All of the ears in the room(except Twilight's) shot up in excitement.

PLAY!

"But Sunset! She's still regressed. We can't-" she tried to protest.

"Relax, Twi. So what if you didn't get it on the first try. That doesn't mean you can't come back to it later after you've had a little break?" came Cadence.

"She does make a good point. And I should know, darling. I do own multiple stores," Rarity added. "A little downtime to help ease your nerves would most certainly do wonders,"

"Well, if it will help me clear my mind off everything that's happened at this point, then I'll give it a go," came Twilight's response.

Meanwhile, with Celestia.

"You two have been very bad hatchlings. You have disrupted the peace of my fair city, regressed hundreds of dragons, including my daughter, and attempted to do the same to the Elements of Harmony! What do you have to say for yourselves?" she looked down at her prisoners with fire in her eyes.

"We regret nothing," came Tempest.

"You've been looking down on us for far too long," Starlight added. "All we EVER tried to do was make you smile and be proud of us,"

"How could I ever bring myself to be proud of the damage you two have caused?!" the white dragoness roared, pulling a paddle out from a closet. "I will make sure you pay dearly for this,"

Their eyes went wide as the looked at the wooden object, thinking about how much pain they would be in should Tia punish them; and knowing they couldn't overpower her with brute strength alone, they tried to beg. This only served in enraging Celestia all the more.

"You should know by now that no longer works on me. You're only going to make this worse," she said before removing the pampers off the troublemaker duo before bringing the paddle across their rumps. Her massive size meant she only had to apply minimum force, but to them, utter torture. They screamed and cried out in pain as ten paddles were given to them.

"I hope you two learned your lesson," she said sternly. They laid there, crying and unable to speak. "I'll come back for you two later. Think about what you have done...

She left to see what luck the others might have had on reversing the damage those two did.

Something deep within the shadows saw the two get captured and went about freeing them. With a SNAP!, the rings on their horns were broken. Black claws extended to them, carrying them in its arms. A deep and masculine voice said to them.

"What a shame. Still the same Celesia I've known for thousands of moons. We all know you two know you don't deserve to be locked up like this; but don't you worry yourselves, little ones. Daddy's gonna take good care of you, and make sure you are the naughtiest little hatchlings in all the land!" he said, before letting out maniacal laughter and making off to a distant land.

Author's Note

I humbly apologize if this chapter took nearly a year to come out. With the pandemic being something I focus on nowadays, I easily lose motivation to do most of the stuff I love, but I am trying to pull myself together. Here's to hoping I can finish the story.