Sunset shut her locker with a shaky hand. It felt like she couldn’t catch her breath. Everything felt tight.

The diaper especially.

She’d fought tooth and nail that night to get it off. To the point where she’d run out to a twenty-four hour convenience store at three a.m. to buy a lighter and torch the damn thing. But nothing, not flames nor knives nor squirrels (don’t ask), managed to get the accursed garment off of her. Nothing had even scratched the delicate plastic.

The only thing she hadn’t done was turn the game back on. Mostly out of fear for what else it could do to her.

Eventually she’d heard birds chirping outside her window, and the morning sun soon followed. And it was Friday, meaning she had to go to school.

Sure she didn’t have to go to Canterlot High. She could’ve stayed home. But, her past self just loved to ruin her life, because she skipped so many times during freshman and sophomore year that she was on some kind of watch list in the system. Unless she had a doctor’s note, she had to come to class or risk suspension.

And since she couldn’t get that poofy cloud off her butt, it was coming to class too.

Sunset tugged at the hem of her skirt. She’d wanted to opt for pants today, less risk of a stray breeze or other nonsense exposing her that way, but she had nothing that could fit overtop the padded monster devouring her hips. She couldn’t even close the zipper on most jeans, let alone button them.

So skirts it was, and because she’d never thought ahead to consider what would happen if she was wearing an unremovable diaper–like a fool–she’d only ever shopped for shorter skirts. Knee length was as low as they went in her closet, and there was no time to run and buy something better.

It at least did it’s job and hid the bulge. But the crinkling sounds and the waddle were up to her to cover up.

Stiff, slow steps were the best she could manage. There was no way to truly get rid of the crinkling noise, but there didn’t need to be. The hallways of Canterlot High were always rancorous, which was exactly what she needed. If she could get to each class before the bell rang, she could sit down under the cover of the noise too. Then she just had to remain perfectly still during lessons.

And it had been working. Even lunch hadn’t been so bad thanks to the background cafeteria noise. She’d been able to chat with the girls–while awkwardly avoiding eye contact with Rainbow Dash–and make it through. There’d been brief, fleeting seconds where she’d been able to forget she was trapped in a diaper.

These past couple thousand seconds hadn’t been some of them though. Because now Sunset needed to use the bathroom.

She brought her legs together, biting her lip to avoid focusing on the ache. This was always going to be a hurdle, she just wished she could deal with it in private. Not in school where hundreds of kids were milling about to hear. To see.

Come on, shut up! She begged her bladder as it begged for release. One more class. Just one more class and she was home free! She’d already made up some excuse–she didn’t even remember what–to the girls so she could skip band practice. All she had to do was get through physics.

“You doing alright?” Rainbow Dash pulled up alongside her, arm leaning against the locker doors.

“Uh–” Sunset was so surprised she nearly let go then and there. Thankfully she caught herself. “Y-Yeah, I’m fine. What maid– MADE! …you think otherwise?”

Rainbow blinked incredulously at her. “Uh… cause you look like you’re about to cry in front of your locker?”

Did she look like she was crying? When Sunset blinked she could feel tears that had welled up. Oh…

The stress was really getting to her, then. The fear, the embarrassment… Even though she was certain no one had noticed her diaper, she’d definitely gotten a few gray hairs today from the worry they might.

“Nah, I’m good.” She wiped her eyes to prove how good she felt. Definitely not covering up anything by doing that.

Rainbow’s brow furrowed, but before she could say more the bell rang. Sunset’s eyes widened in fear upon realizing she didn’t have long before the noisy hallways would descend to silence. She had to reach Ms. Harshwhinny’s class before then.

“Sorry, gotta go!” Sunset spat the words out and ran. Thank goodness she didn’t share this next class with Rainbow, or any of the girls for that matter.

She was forced to squeeze her legs together to avoid a top speed toddle, and it pressed her diaper into her privates when she did. The way the padding grazed her clit made her shoulders tense up. Inadvertently she thought back to the game, and the way her character had looked when she’d been felt up for a diaper change… as though she had enjoyed it.

Oh God… Sunset pushed the thought down. She did not feel that way about diapers. It was just an unfortunate consequence of being touched down there.

She was afraid she’d have to boot the game back up at this point. She had a feeling she wouldn’t be able to break the magic’s curse on her if she didn’t. But internally she refused. The consequences could be too great. There had to be some way to get out of this diaper without resorting to that.

—-

“Laminar flow is what happens when water particles move in all parallel lines.” Mrs. Harshwhinny’s dry erase marker squeaked as she filled in a diagram on the board. “Most fluids behave this way under specific circumstances. Meanwhile turbulent flow–” more marker squeaks “--is what happens with water, or any fluid really, moves in chaotic ways. Rushing and dribbling and sloshing all about, like this.”

Sunset was going to bite her lip in two. Fifteen minutes into class and all this talk about flowing water had brought her to the brink. She’d risked bringing her knees together, despite the sound it made, and that still wasn’t enough. Both hands pressed over her skirt, she could tell she was fighting a losing battle.

“All streams of water fall into one of these two camps.” To demonstrate, Mrs. Harshwhinny picked up a glass of water, pouring it into an empty one.

Sunset screamed internally. She couldn’t look away, and the sight of the running water made her body shudder. Violent spasms soon followed.

Her eyes squeezed shut from the strain, but she could hear the pouring, splashing, filling glasses.

Stars have mercy, please stop! She begged.

At this rate she was going to… going to…

Mrs. Harshwhinny set the glass down. Mercy. Sunset relaxed a bit. “That was laminar flow. It’s more readily apparent over short bursts. But over longer distances..” Shepicked the recently filled cup and held it high, before tilting it down to fill the emptied cup.

Sunset tried to bite her tongue in half. She couldn’t clench fast enough this time. A dribble of pee started escaping. And she couldn’t stop it.

Eyes bugging out of her head she jumped up, knocking her chair over. Mrs. Harshwhinny, and the entire class, looked over at her. Watching her. As she pissed herself.

“Sunset, kindly take your seat and—“

“Bathroom!” Sunset yelled, flailing towards the door. “Gottausethebathroom!”

She bolted from the classroom, leaving a dumbfounded teacher in her wake. No classmates had gotten a look at her diaper, but Sunset’s cheeks burned as a few giggles chased her into the hallway. She did come off as pretty ridiculous just then.

Psshh

She could hear her stream now. Laminar flow no more; this was turbulent! Sunset’s only thought was reaching the nearest toilet. She had to get out of this diaper before all her pee was emptied into it.

“Please, please, please,” she whimpered under her breath. Was it to her bladder, asking it to stop the deluge currently happening? Or to the diaper, begging for it to come off this time?

It didn’t matter. When Sunset roundhoused the bathroom stall open and tried to pry the padded prison from her waist, it didn’t let go.

“No!” Sunset begged. “Please, just let go!”

But the diaper remained steadfast. Sunset could only watch as the fluffy crotch stained yellow. Her inner thighs felt the soggy, warm embrace of urine-soaked padding. Eventually she could feel the tap run dry. A few dots of pee piddled into the soaked, now sagging diaper. It settled against her body, as a whiny sob shuffled past her lips.

Sunset was crying. She’d peed her diaper, and now she was crying over it.

She locked the stall door and huddled on top of the toilet to hide her feet. She wanted no one to find her like this, even if it meant squishing her used diaper as she sat on top of it. Wasn’t like it could make her cry more.

Tears streamed down her face, sobs wracked her body. Sunset covered her face with her hands to wail, to cry, and eventually, to sniffle.

The bell came and went. The day was over. But Sunset couldn’t bring herself to leave the stall.

She spent a long time trying to get a grip on herself, struggling to justify what had just happened. That it didn’t mean anything, that she’d been forced to do it, that she was still an adult. Even soaked beyond reason, the diaper still wouldn’t come off, leaving her stuck in her piddled pampers for who knew how long.

Eventually, she came to an inescapable conclusion. The only way as far as she could see to get out of this soggy diaper for good.

She would have to play the game again.

——

Sunset made it home, neither her eyes nor her diaper dry. She slammed the door shut behind her, almost sinking to the ground. Only the threat of how it would feel kept her from doing so.

Waddling home in a pee-filled diaper had felt like forever. It was her own fault for missing the bus but there was no way she was getting into a crowded, yellow vehicle with her crowded, yellow diaper. So walking, toddling really, was her only option. She’d been forced to endure the squishes and crinkles that came with it.

“I hate you,” she mumbled at the cursed, infantile garment. It squished in response as she moved forward.

If anything, anything, good could be said about today, it was that she’d gained the resolve to play that video game again. At this point, it was clear she’d have to if she wanted to get out of this diaper. Most likely she’d have to beat the game in order to free herself from its curse. But Sunset desperately hoped she’d merely have to unequip her character’s diaper or something like that first.

She knew it wouldn’t be that easy, but she had to hope.

Fighting exhaustion, she trudged to her bedroom, and the X-station within. Considering her lack of sleep, she really shouldn’t be doing this now. But there was no way she was going to take a nap in a wet diaper. Aside from that fact that she doubted she could get ten winks with this thing on, let alone forty, just the thought of sleeping with this thing on made her feel like a baby. And given she was in piddled pampers, that was not a feeling she had in short supply. Nor was she a fan of it.

squish squish squish

Finally in front of her console, Sunset found herself hesitating. After all, she didn’t want her situation to get any worse. But she also knew it wasn’t going to get any better if she didn’t do something. She didn’t want her whole weekend to be spent in a wet diaper. Not to mention if she needed to use it again…

Sunset shook her head, putting that thought out of her mind. All she had to do was play a game. It was just a game. It’s not like it was going to hurt her or anything.

“Alright, you…” she said, booting up the console. The start screen for Pampered Princess greeted her yet again and she clicked continue.

Last night’s screen came up, complete with Rainbow the maid’s same dialogue box from earlier. “Now hurry and get dressed. Your mother has requested to see you in the throne room first thing today.”

“Yeah, as if.” Sunset said. The in-game mother could wait. She was going to figure out how to get her character undressed now.

When she clicked past the dialogue box, Sunset got her first glimpse of movement for the game. She could make her princess self walk around, jiggling animation making it more off-putting then it should have been. No camera control, so it seemed like that was doomed to be fixed. She even found the jump button, and hopped a few times.

“Okay.” She waddled her princess over to the closet, which got a soft yellow highlight as she approached. Following the button commands she opened it and a menu came up. A simple, no-frills list of the closet contents, which was just a bunch of “Princess Outfit”s with varying colors next to each option. They were probably all just palate swapped versions of the same thing; the illusion of choice.

She went with the seafoam green variant. The menu disappeared and she got an alert telling her to open her inventory. Following the button prompts, Sunset was greeted with her first hope to get free. A character outfit menu showed up, showing off her digital self’s full nearly-nude glory. A number of equip slots made themselves known. Head, Mouth, Body, Hands, Feet. But the one Sunset was most interested in–and most relieved to see–was the one at her character’s hips: Diaper.

Ignoring the on screen directions, she tapped the unequip button over the diaper slot. She wasn’t sure what she expected. Maybe the soggy padding around her pelvis would vanish? (Hopefully taking her pissy shame along with it). Or at the very least it would let her pull the diaper off herself. Instead, she got neither of those things, as a little prompt appeared in the top corner of the screen.

You can’t unequip your diaper.

Sunset’s heart sank. “You’re kidding me!” she yelled at the screen. Her controller nearly flew into the screen. The only thing holding Sunset back was the desperation to get out of this wet diaper, which would only be made more difficult if her TV was broken.

“You knew this was a possibility,” Sunset whispered under her breath. Had to manage those expectations. “You always knew.”

Maybe she’d get the ability to unequip her diaper some other time. Or maybe she really would have to beat the game in order to finally take this stupid thing off. One thing was for sure; what she’d been hoping for was too easy to be true.

Indignant fingers tapped a few buttons, and the princess outfit equipped itself to her character. Mercifully, Sunset didn’t find herself suddenly wearing a poofy seafoam dress. Not that it would matter too much right now. It couldn’t be worse than the squishy padding assaulting her privates.

When she closed the menu, another hand hold-y prompt appeared. Following it, Sunset opened her Quest Log. There was plenty of empty space, and even a whole extra page dedicated to side quests. As if, Sunset thought. Though learning how much content there was in this game only made her heart sink. Just how long until she was free?

The only quest so far was the incredibly basic: Go see your mom. Closing down the menu, Sunset found the game left her to her own devices for a change. She could move around on her own, dress stiffly following her movements. It seemed the vast majority of attention had been paid to the jiggle physics, which weren’t slowing down even with her character’s boobs covered. Jumping only made it worse.

You gotta be kidding me. Sunset was happy she didn’t go for the larger size at this point, hard mode be damned. She was pretty sure this game couldn’t be that challenging anyway.

She tried talking to the maid character again, just to see if any important text came up.

“Honestly Princess,” Rainbow said. “You can’t need another change already. Go see the Queen.”

I could, actually, a bitter part of Sunset’s brain thought. She shifted in her cold, damp diaper. It was perpetually uncomfortable, no matter what position she ended up in. She should really stop moving in it too; her face cringed into nothing but wrinkles from the sensation.

After what felt like an eternity, Sunset could finally leave her character's bedroom. She piloted it out into the hallway, eager, if for no other reason than she might be getting closer to getting this diaper off.

The textures and assets in the hallway were no more crude or sparse than that of her bedroom. Even for its stylization, this game was feeling its age. Sunset ignored all of it and just started walking down the hallway. There wasn’t even an objective marker or anything like that, so she really didn’t know where she was supposed to go to see the queen.

At the end of the hallway, a guard stood. He had far more modest clothing than either Sunset or the maid, probably by virtue of being a male character design. Though under his greaves was the tell-tale bulge of a diaper, so even the men in this game hadn’t been spared. She tried talking to him.

“Morning, Princess. Off to see her highness? I know you get lost a bunch, but it’s just down this way.” He pointed to the left. Bit of an obvious guide, but Sunset wasn’t going to complain.

When she reached the end of that hall, coming upon a pair of doors, the screen faded to black and a creaking door opening sound effect played. When it faded back in, a new cutscene had begun. Her character walked forward into what must have been the throne room.

Sitting on a throne, flanked by guards, was the person Sunset assumed was the queen.

She was tall, with pure white skin and flowing hair that sparkled pink. She was the first woman in this game who’s outfit actually reached down to hide her diaper. Though, Sunset could of course tell she was still wearing one. What else could that bulge be beneath her skirt?

Her dialogue box labeled her ‘Queen Majesty.’ She nodded a hello to the player character. “Princess.”

Two dialogue options appeared before Sunset. “Why did you want to see me?” vs. “What’s this all about?” Not much of a choice if you asked her. She selected the first one.

“I’m afraid your aunt has a… problem.” Queen Majesty’s character model put a hand to her head. “It seems she’s misplaced her regalia. Without it she can’t be seen in public, so I’m stuck doing all her work right now, on top of my own. Please help her find it.”

“That’s it?” Sunset’s character stamped her foot. “Mother, I’m far more capable than that. Why not give me some of Auntie’s work?”

Queen Majesty’s character model just stuttered. Sunset assumed that was supposed to be a laugh, given the facial expression she switched to, but this game’s cutscenes were so poorly handled she just couldn’t tell. Standing, the queen came over and patted Sunset’s character on the head. “Oh sweetie, be serious. You’re just a little baby who can’t even change her own diapers. I’d feel much better if you just help your aunt out, okay honey?”

The pet names felt demeaning enough, but the quip about being unable to change her own diapers was like a knife in the stomach. Sunset felt the cold grip of her soiled padding and shuddered. Can this tutorial be over with already?

No. No it could not be.

Instead, Sunset’s character pouted. “But I can do more. I bet I could even find a way to lift The Curse if you just–”

Queen Majesty did her weird, stuttery laugh again. “My, you sure are cranky today. Don’t tell me your diaper is full already.”

“Of course it’s n—“ Sunset’s character wasn’t allowed to finish. Queen Majesty slinked around her, lifting her skirt to expose the fluffy padding underneath. The camera made sure to give Sunset a good view as the queen slapped the rear of the diaper with her hand and squeezed.

“M-Mother!” Her character’s face flushed.

“You’ve gotta be kidding me,” Sunset grumbled. These characters were mother and daughter for pity’s sake! If she wasn’t held hostage she’d shut the game off right now.

What kind of pervert even— she stopped herself and took a breath. If she got mad at every little fetish thing she’d never finish this game. Her piddled-in pampers compelled her forward.

“Seems you’re all clean. Good girl.” Queen Majesty gave her daughter a pat on the head. “Now please, just help your aunt.”

The game finally gave Sunset control again as the cutscene ended. She wasn’t kicked out of the throne room, so she walked around for a bit. Her Quest Log blinked, telling her to go see her aunt. The throne room had basically nothing to do in it as a way of encouraging that. Though there was another dialogue prompt with Queen Majesty.

“Get going, Princess. You don’t want me to have to spank you, now do you?”

There wasn’t a doubt in Sunset’s mind that there would be a secret spanking cutscene if she talked to the queen enough times. But she wasn’t going to test that theory.

Not even bothering with flavor text from the guards, she left the throne room to rush through the rest of the tutorial. The only thing sticking in her mind was references to ‘The Curse’. Whatever that was. Had she listened to the opening narration, she’d probably know. But it wasn’t hard to guess that it referred to the ‘Cozy Curse’ of the game’s title.

In regards to this aunt character, Sunset had no idea where to go. There weren’t any objective markers, so she was just left to wander. Wasting time was not preferable right now, however.

She ended up speaking to a few NPCs just hoping for a clue. The level design wasn’t exactly guiding her; it was more of a maze than Canterlot Castle!

Finally she spoke to the right guard and found the room for her character’s aunt. Trial and error would have eventually led her here. It was the only door with a knocking prompt instead of an open one.

“GO AWAY!” The text box screamed at her when she knocked. All question marks again.

“Auntie, it’s me.”

Sunset button-mashed her way through a few more dialogue boxes until the door finally opened. She got her first look at who the game dubbed “Aunt Lulu”. A tall woman with dark blue skin and sparkly, light blue hair.

This gave her pause. She hadn’t really considered the similarities before, but now they were starting to add up. Two royals who happened to be sisters? One blue and one white?

She glared at her X-station. Or more specifically, the game she knew was inside it. Maybe ‘Rainbow the Maid’ could be written off as a coincidence, but this was definitely a weird one. She hated that she was making a connection between these characters and the Princesses of Equestria too. Now she only saw Luna when she looked at Lulu.

By Starswirl’s beard, even their names are similar.

But a squish from her diaper reminded her why she was doing this. Sunset paid attention and hoped this tutorial-izing was almost over.

“Princess, it is good you are here,” Lulu said. “My regalia–”

“Mother already told me. You misplaced it?”

“Huff! Majesty would think that.” Lulu’s character crossed her arms, taking on an adorably pouty face. Between that and her tutu-like dress that showed off her diaper, she almost looked cute. “I misplaced nothing. It was stolen from me by a pack of slimes.”

“Eww,” said Sunset’s character.

“Indeed. Now you know why I have been reticent to simply retrieve it myself.” Lulu replied. “I was just relaxing on my terrace when they leapt out and took them from my body. They should still be in the garden. Come with me outside.”

The screen faded to black, coming back in on a scene near a series of rose hedges. Purple, gelatinous blobs bounced up and down, carrying a silver tiara and cuffs. Lulu and Sunset’s character walked in.

“There they are, those fiends.” Lulu stomped her foot angrily at them, the animation repeating over and over again, making her look exceedingly ridiculous. “Looking at them playing with my regalia like it’s some kind of toy.” She turned to Sunset’s character. “Princess, show them a lesson. You remember how to fight monsters, yes?”

A “Yes/No” prompt came up for Sunset to choose from. She was really just hoping to get through this slog of a tutorial at this point and hit Yes. This was the first battle anyway, surely she could figure it out.

“Hmm, okay then. But it looks like you need a weapon. Here.” Lulu’s model mimed handing something to Sunset’s character, who took it. A little jingle played, and a new text box appeared.

YOU OBTAINED A RATTLE

“Oh joy,” Sunset said out loud. Heaven forbid this game drop the fetish crap for two seconds.

“Now go get them!” Lulu commanded. “I shall support you from the sidelines. I’d rather not touch their gross, gooey bodies.”

Sunset was given control of her character once again. Walking around on the screen, she found herself wondering if this meant combat in this game was going to be real time. But when she approached the slimes a jingle played and the screen flashed white.

When it came back into focus, it revealed Sunset’s character on a battle screen, showing off her health bar as well as the hit points for the three enemy slimes. Each of them had a 3/3 symbol above their heads, while Sunset had 13/13. Her character was also holding the rattle Lulu had apparently given her. It was pale blue with a gold crescent moon on the side. It wasn’t much bigger than a regular rattle for a baby, so Sunset failed to see how this was a weapon.

Easy. She thought to herself. And this was supposedly hard mode? She almost laughed.

Below all the heath bars were her options. FIGHT | ITEMS | ALLIES | RUN. Lulu was also hanging out in the corner of the screen to observe the battle.

Turn-based it is. She never really struggled with this kind of combat, so Sunset was fine with it.

She selected ‘fight’, and only one option came up: Rattle Bash. Choosing it, Sunset was then given the option of hitting one of the opponents. She select the first slime on the list, the one holding her in-game aunt’s tiara, and expected one hit to be all it took.

Her character bounced over and swung the rattle. The slime’s health dropped to 2/3.

Sunset’s heart sank. “Oh come on!”

What happened next felt equally unfair. All three slimes each got a turn to attack her. The first one struck, reducing her health to 11/13.

“I’m weaker than slimes?!” Sunset shouted angrily. That just wasn’t right.

The next slime smacked her, followed by the third. They left her health at 7/13.

“This is garbage!” Sunset whined. If they did six points of damage every turn, she’d only get a few more attacks in. She’d be lucky to take out one of these bastards.

She had to be doing something wrong. Sunset checked her ‘items’ option, but there was nothing in her inventory for combat. She tried ‘run’ hoping that she could just flee the battle and the slimes would disappear on the overworld. But then in the corner Lulu angrily declared, “Hey, you can not turn tail yet! Why about my regalia?”

“Screw you, Lulu!” Sunset shouted. She wasn’t dying for a tiara.

Unfortunately, trying to run counted as her turn. The slimes all attacked again, and soon Sunset had just 1 HP left.

“This is ridiculous,” she groaned. The first fight–the tutorial no less–and she was going to lose. Suddenly the idea of beating the game to escape her wet pampers seemed a lot less plausible. Even if she played all weekend, would it work?

“Seems like you are running low on health. I can assist you!” Corner-Lulu insisted. The ‘Allies’ option glowed on screen.

Sunset figured this might just be scripted, and selected the Allies option. Lulu was the only target, and when selected two options appeared: HEAL | CANCEL. Sunset clicked heal.

Then she watched in abject horror as Lulu’s character model pulled down it’s dress to expose one of her bouncing breasts. Sunset’s character sheepishly approached, before placing her lips to Lulu’s nipple and suckling. Her health bar quickly shot back up to full.

Breastfeeding. You healed by breastfeeding.

Sunset nearly through her controller out the window. Face red she just looked away until the suckling animation finished. She felt dirty just being in the same room as this game.

With her health back, Sunset was able to attack again. That first slime had its health dropped by one more HP thanks a devastating swing from her rattle. This was still going to take forever.

Suddenly, the screen flashed with the phrase SPECIAL ATTACK. All three slimes moved at once. One off screen, and the other two leaping up to grab the wrists of Sunset’s character. They dragged her down to the ground, forcing her padded rear in the air.

Sunset guessed this was some kind of team attack she could expect to see future enemies do. The offscreen slime returned with a paddle it must’ve pulled out of hammer space. It delivered three painful looking whacks to the princess’s backside, all while she squirmed and cried out. She lost nine HP.

“Oh come on!” Sunset was forced to heal again, and then she finally took out the first slime. Six more agonizing turns helped her deal with the other two, but she had to keep spamming heals to stay healthy. She was sure the image of her character suckling on Lulu’s tits was going to wind up burned into her TV screen. It was a small miracle with the battle ended and she got enough XP to gain a level. She got the option to buff her defense, health, and attack stats when she did and Sunset immediately clicked attack. She’d need a lot to be able to take out future enemies if slimes were this hard.

A cutscene played at the end of the battle, with the Princess returning Lulu’s lost regalia to her.

“Oh thank you, Princess. You’ve done your kingdom a great service on this day.”

“I wish I could be doing more.” Sunset’s character bemoaned. “I know there must be a way to break the incontinence curse on Diaperia. But mother won’t let me help!”

“Truely? Well, Majesty has often been blind to your talents.”

“I wish there was a way I could prove to her I could do this. But she’d never let me leave the castle to actually do it.”

“Hmm…” Lulu smiled. “I might be able to help with that.”

Sunset winced as she leaned forward. Wet diaper be damned! It looked like they were almost done with the tutorial.

“What if I provide you with a secret way to sneak out? You could assume the role of an adventurer and solve this curse on your own!” Lulu suggested.

Two options came up. Sunset hardly read them, just picking the option that struck her as the affirmative.

“You’d really do that for me, Auntie?”

“Anything for the hero who recovered my lost regalia. Allow me.”

No animation played, just a fade out to black and then a fade right back in. Lulu and the princess were suddenly standing before a blue and white swirling vortex.

“Here,” Lulu suggested to her. “This portal shall take you to the Town of Beginnings just outside of the castle. It shouldn’t be hard to sneak past the guards from there and set off. Who knows perhaps you’ll make a few allies along the way. Lord knows you need friends.”

“Auntie!” Sunset’s character put her hands to her hips.

“Sorry, but it’s true. So what do you say, are you ready to start your journey?”

YES | NO

“Finally!” Sunset groaned. This tutorial had taken forever. She hoped the rest of the game was a little less hand hold-y. The less time she had to spend on that junk, the better.

She was a little concerned about the difficulty spike awaiting her. She’d barely gotten through the fight with the slimes. But it seemed like this game was also going to just throw allies at her like Lulu suggested. As long as she got a healer (and hopefully a less stupid method of healing) she felt she would be okay.

“All right, let’s do this.” Sunset said, clicking YES.

“I wish you the best, Princess. Don’t worry, I’ll make up some excuse to give you a few days head start. I have a feeling Majesty will want you back once she finds out what we’re up to here.”

Sunset’s character just nodded and approached the portal. The devs couldn’t even be bothered to animate her entering it. Instead, the screen just flashed white.

“Here we go,” Sunset said, a little nervous. She had a feeling this ‘Brutal’ difficulty could live up to its name. But she was determined to escape this soggy diaper.

She waited a few moments for the screen to fade back in, but it was taking a while. Just what exactly was the game loading?

Then, the white light grew in intensity. Sunset had to shield her eyes as it grew almost violent. “Ah!” She didn’t even know her TV could get bright.

Then it started shaking, the room itself not far behind. Sunset tried to put a hand on her bed to steady herself, but it was rumbling like there was an earthquake, during her diaper in to quite the noisemaker.

Squish Squish Squish Squish Squish Squish

“What’s happening?!” She cried out. Was the Equestrian magic doing this?

She didn’t have time to find an answer. All of a sudden the harsh white light engulfed her.

And then everything went black.

Author's Note

No points for guessing where this is going