Princess Pamper Precedent

"Yes, a magical accident." Slushy giggled slightly before continuing. "I know you're so used to them that they may as well be normal, but for everypony else, they are decidedly quite magical."

Celestia didn't entirely know what to do with this information. Obviously Slushy was acting like it was entirely normal, so could she question it without that seeming off?

"Right, yes. I suppose I just didn't think much of that one in particular." Celestia replied, to which Slushy nodded her head.

"Indeed, the smelly gas isn't the biggest deal, you just don't want to be at ground zero when it happens. Thank goodness it wasn't one of the windy ones, we need a lot more pegasi for those!" Slushy added.

Celestia only found her concern and curiosity pushed even farther. What was a 'windy' one? Context alone suggested that instead of a visible cloud of noxious fumes, she would have instead released a possible gust of flatulence, and that thought alone was enough to make her happy it had been the large plume of visible stench instead. Shaking her head though, she couldn't let herself be distracted, Discord didn't exist as more than a fairy tale? That couldn't be true, while most ponies wouldn't keep up with such history, for Slushy to be her personal attendant and think Discord was nothing but myth, clearly something had happened.

"Slushy, let us return to the library." Celestia said as she trotted back towards the castle.

"Alright Princess, though, do you want to get changed first. While it isn't unbearable, your hindquarters are quite odorous." Slushy told her.

Celestia paused to sniff the air, she could make it out, the remaining stench of her prior flatulence. She had simply assumed that it was hanging in the air still, but as she looked back at her diaper, which had some green staining now, she realized that the stench was more than likely infused into the diaper, additionally, reflecting on the state of her diaper told her it felt even more wet than she recalled, worrying her that during that magical accident, she had peed as well.

"No, it can wait." Celestia told Slushy as she then kept moving, Slushy coming up alongside the Princess.

As much as she wanted to get out of the diaper, this research was more important, additionally, and she was loathe to admit this, the diaper didn't feel awful, sure the smell was more objectionable now, but she didn't feel as disgusted as she probably should have been with the wet garment, probably due whatever spell had happened, not to mention she was sure Slushy would force her to be changed if the mare thought she desperately needed it.

Returning to the library, the snack cart was gone now, but Celestia returned to her books, putting them away and getting new ones, now not caring if her selection seemed suspect as she looked for history books. If Discord was well and truly, a myth, then there would be no mention of him pertaining to practical history, additionally she could take the time to check up on key past dates to see if anything else had been changed. It didn't take her long to find a lack of Discord being mentioned anywhere, the only mentions she could find were of an old religious organization that apparently worshiped Discord, but did so without any proof of his actual existence and it died out some time ago, but there was the interesting part, this religion died out about the same time Discord was originally turned to stone. A potential lead or just a coincidence?

Celestia kept reading through the books, all the while Slushy helped just as she had before, saying nothing about what the Princess was choosing to read. Celestia began to think more on the possibility of it being manipulation of time, since that would have changed things without ponies having been put into a state of needing to be aware of things going on, of things being too off of what they were supposed to be. Meaning she likely didn't have to worry about Slushy, this mare wasn't part of some plot against her, or a brainwashed pawn in somepony's schemes. No, it was likely Slushy had always lived this life and nothing seemed out of the usual.

As Celestia got new books to look at, she noticed that the period of history where Discord would have been causing havoc, had been documented, not a lot, as back then it would have been governed by the three tribes, but there were documents, which likely meant Discord hadn't been there at all. Celestia began to wrack her brain with how that could happen, who would be powerful enough to go back in time and remove Discord from the equation? Obviously there was only one answer, Twilight and her friends. Which made no sense, because Discord was reformed, did Discord do something so vile that Twilight and co had to go back to when Discord had first began his reign of chaos in order to stop him from ever possibly doing whatever this 'thing' was? Regardless of the how, and the why, nothing relating to Discord being gone explained why the Tartarus she wore and used diapers like it was completely normal!

Celestia needed different books, newer ones, history books. Normally she didn't read her own history, she knew herself after all, but history had clearly changed. So she returned her current pile of books and went looking for a modern history book, it didn't take her long to find one either.

"Feeling nostalgic Princess?" Slushy commented as she helped with the current book.

"Oh, just wanting to see how they write me, want to make sure they got my charm down." Celestia replied.

Slushy chuckled a little and helped the Princess with the book. Celestia went back ten years, she was wearing a diaper then. Twenty, diapered. Fifty, diapered. Eventually Celestia had to give up on this book in particular, because it was too recent. Book exchanged for a slightly less recent history, and Celestia decided to hone in on one date in particular. One she knew would have lasting consequences if something happened. The day she banished her sister to the moon.

The details were all there, everything was just like before, except there were no diapers. Luna wasn't wearing one, and she wasn't either. Perhaps this was too far back after all, but Celestia kept reading, she needed to be sure, she'd spent several hours combing through books at this point, it was likely close to lunch time seeing as she could feel the slight sensation of hunger at the moment. Just as she was beginning to think nothing would show up to give her a clue, she found it in a section of the aftermath.

'Ponies across Equestria were in a state of panic and worry. One Princess had attempted to betray them, what if the other did as well? The Royal Ring was a project spearheaded by an anonymous pony, nopony wanted to claim the idea as their own, it is very likely it was thought of by a group of ponies who did not wish to out themselves as a single group looking to take power from the Princess. The Royal Ring is an artifact that was forged specifically to stop Princess Celestia from being able to use most of her magic, only being able to use it to move the sun and moon. Celestia was too heartbroken over her sister and did not fight this, allowing the Royal Ring to be put on.'

Celestia had finally found out why she had this accursed ring on her horn. She kept reading, needing to know why

'A lot of ponies wondered why the Princess was still allowed to move the sun and the moon, and aside from the lack of unicorns trained to be able to do such a thing at the time, they needed the Princess as a deterrent, after Luna's betrayal, a lot of other countries were angry with Equestria, if a spy came in and saw that Celestia had been made powerless, there would be an army knocking on their doors, of course many were quick to point out that the ring could be removed by the Captain of the Royal Guard in case they needed the Princesses power for war.'

Celestia's eyes widened on reading that last sentence. Shining Armor had the power to remove her ring? Or, wait, could it still be Shining Armor in this timeline? After all if he was still married to Cadance, and all alicorns wore a ring on their horn, that would likely be a huge conflict of interest, so perhaps he wasn't the Captain anymore, or the two weren't married. Celestia would have to find this out later, but for now more reading.

'Though ponies were worried about being able to get Celestia to put the ring back on should they ever need her to take it off. It was decided that they would deal with that when the time arose and simply hope that they did not have to do so.'

Celestia continued reading through that section, but there was still no mention of her wearing diapers, or why she needed them in it. Frustrated, she turned to Slushy, perhaps she could simply ask, after all, Celestia was quite convinced that the timeline had been altered, there was no spell over everypony making them think this way, though that didn't explain why she couldn't remember any of this history, or why things felt so, familiar to her in some ways. Perhaps somepony had cast a spell, but only on herself.

"Slushy. Do you know when I began wearing diapers?" Celestia asked.

"Oh, quizzing me Princess? Well you won't catch me slacking, each of your attendants is given a history lesson to know what to expect when caring for you, and that includes when you began wearing diapers, which was six months after the Royal Ring was put on your horn, and before you ask, yes, that is the most precise date we have recorded and you have never given us a more concrete one either." Slushy reported, she had set the book down as well.

Celestia smiled while mentally kicking herself, she should have just asked Slushy from the beginning, but she was far too paranoid before.

"Good, and do you know why I began wearing diapers that day?" Celestia said, now her voice was less questioning and more playful, letting Slushy think she was just testing the mare instead of legitimately asking.

"Of course, that's the day you had your first magical accident, and everypony learned that because of the Royal Ring, all that magic built up inside of you until your body couldn't take it anymore and had to be released another way. That was the day of the Great Hurricane that tore the rest of the old castle apart." Slushy told her.

Great Hurricane? Celestia would have to ask about that later, but for now she had a goal, find out who was Captain of the Royal Guard still and figure out how to get them to take this ring off. If it were Shining Armor, and he was still, well, himself, it shouldn't be that difficult of a task.

"Alright Princess, you seem to be done reading and it's time for lunch." Slushy said as she began putting books away. "Then you have your court after lunch." Slushy added.

"Yes, very well." Celestia sighed.

Even if she knew what she needed to do, she couldn't just rush this. If she did, ponies might think her crazy and do something crazy in return, after all there was no harm so far. Sure she was quite embarrassed, but nothing 'bad' had happened yet to her knowledge. Hopefully it stayed that way.

"But first we'll change your diaper." Slushy added as she took Celestia back to her bedroom.

Celestia didn't complain, they went back to her room and she stood in place like before. Slushy began using her magic, levitating wipes, and cleaning her up. Celestia decided to let her mind wander for the time being, she needed to contact several ponies and figure out what to do going forwards, tomorrow she could very well get things underway to returning things to normal. Her biggest problem had been that she needed somepony powerful enough to work the magic for them to go back and stop whomever caused all of this, whoever forwarded the 'ring' idea in the past was likely their culprit.

"Whoops!" Slushy suddenly exclaimed at the same time a wet spattering hit the floor.

Celestia's mind was brought back to where she was as she felt tiny drops of liquid hitting her hind hooves. She didn't. Turning her head and looking behind herself, she saw a small puddle of yellow liquid on the floor behind her with Slushy already cleaning it up.

"Sprung a bit of a leak Princess~" Slushy seemed to coo a bit as Celestia felt her face grow flush.

Even after experiencing a messy diaper, she still found new ways to embarrass herself. She hadn't even felt herself peeing! Though that tracked, she hadn't felt it several times already, and she'd been distracted and.. Ugh. She didn't want to have to focus on not peeing on the floor for the few moments she wasn't wearing a diaper! Despite piddling on the floor, Slushy didn't complain and had it cleaned up in mere moments, after which Celestia smelt the foal powder and had a new diaper on as well, she also felt Slushy wipe her hind legs.

"Lunch?" Celestia asked as she saw Slushy levitate a diaper stained yellow and green over the changing pail.

"Lunch." Slushy said, dropping the diaper into the pail and leading the Princess out of the room.