Starlight Glimmer's Time Travel Mishap

by Foal Star

Rating: everyone
Tags: Comedy, Starlight Glimmer, Main 6, Slice of Life, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Alternate Universe
Length: 37928

Starlight Glimmer's plan to go back in time had backfired, and she turned herself into a foal and went back further than she intended. Now she has to find a way to return to her own time and into her adult body.

This story is an alternate turn of events in the episodes Cutie Re-mark Parts 1 and 2

Starlight Glimmer's plan was to get revenge on the mane six by going back in time to stop Rainbow Dash from performing her Rainboom as a filly. This would cause a ripple effect and prevent the mane six from ever becoming friends, which meant they would never have ruined her plans for "Our Town." But when Starlight performed her time spell, she somehow screwed it up, not only turning herself into a foal but had gone further back in time than she intended. Now as a foal, she will need help from the baby versions of the mane six to help her fix her mistakes and get back to the future.

Editor Superpinkbrony12

Cover artist Pridark

Published 2023-03-23 02:10:00 UTC
Last updated 2024-03-20 05:17:50 UTC

Chapter one: The Time Travel Screw Up

Starlight woke up, blinking and wondering where she was and how she got there. She rubbed her head. Feeling a numbing headache, she slowly got up on all fours and saw that she was standing on a bed of clouds. She bounced up and down on the foam like clouds; the cloud-walking spell she’d placed on herself was holding up. Now she needed to find out where Rainbow Dash was and prevent her from performing her Sonic Rainboom.

But then Starlight noticed the school foals zipping around. She noticed they were a bit bigger than her. That was no big deal, she could still mess Rainbow Dash up, and her revenge will be complete. But as she was going to trot over to find the filly, she fell face-first into the clouds beneath her. She spat out the clouds in her mouth, and that was when she started to notice that her legs were stubby and she was having trouble walking. Starlight then stuck a hoof in her mouth and felt around, and realized that she didn’t have any teeth! The filly then plopped her flank onto the clouds with a loud poof! The realization hit her: She wasn’t a school foal; she was a baby!

The realization made Starlight start to wail! That was when everypony turned towards her as a mare started to slowly come over. Starlight stopped crying and gasped upon seeing a mare that looked much like Rainbow Dash. But she had a bright orange mane and auburn-colored eyes.

“Oh, you poor thing, where did you come from?” The mare cooed. She then picked the foal up and nuzzled her, making the filly giggle and squirm. The older mare looked around rather confused. “How did you get up here? Heck, how are you standing on clouds?”

Starlight cheeks flushed pink; all of this would seem odd. A foal shouldn’t know the cloud-walking spell; it was rather complex.

“Oh well, it doesn’t matter,” The mare cooed. “I took today off work so I could check out the flight school for my own filly. So lucky for you, I'll be able to care for you today.” She then picked Starlight and plopped her onto the mare’s back. All the filly could do was lay there and hope that she would be at her destination as soon as possible.

It wasn’t long until the two arrived at a quaint home, and the pegasus entered. She turned to see a rather bulky stallion with golden eyes and a short-cut rainbow mane. Starlight didn’t know the pony but could only assume it was her husband. And there was a highchair was a chubby foal with a wispy rainbow mane and tail!

The filly gasped upon recognizing the foal was baby Rainbow Dash! Starlight didn’t want to believe it, but she had indeed not only somehow turned herself into an infant but had gone further back in time than she intended!

The stallion looked over and exclaimed. “Oh, hello, honey. I didn’t expect you to be back here so soon.”

The mare threw up a smile. “Oh, well, my trip to the flight school was cut short as I was watching the foals do their flying practice. And I found this adorable little foal.” She then lifted the infant up as the stallion’s mouth dropped open!

“Woah! A unicorn foal! What is she doing here?!”

“I have no idea,” The mare confessed. “I can only assume she’s someone’s foal down in Ponyville. But she must have quite the magical talent to stay on the clouds all by herself.”

The stallion laughed as he scooped some more mashed yams and began to shove the orange goop into his daughter’s mouth while he said. “I bet her parents put a cloud-walking spell on her since this might not be the first time she’s done this. If she’s anything like our little Rainbow, she probably slips out all the time.”

As the stallion continued feeding his foal, the mare laid Starlight down on a soft pad nearby and then removed a plastic square from a bag. Starlight recognized the object as a diaper, and she wasn’t going to be humiliated in such a manner. The little filly got up and tried to run away, but her new chubby legs and the rather lumpy cloud floor made her trot rather awkward. She stumbled over her hooves and tumbled, doing a somersault until she was on her back.

The older ponies just laughed as the pegasus mare took the filly back to the changing pad, started to powder her flank, and hummed a tune as she went about strapping a diaper firmly around the filly’s waist.

Starlight was then placed into a highchair far across from Rainbow Dash (who was giving her guest a suspicious look).

Rainbow’s father then got in front of Starlight, tied a bib around the filly’s neck, and cooed. “Oh, don’t worry, little one. The mare that strapped you up in a comfy diaper was my wife, Windy Whistles. As for myself, my name is Bow Hothoof.”

Starlight groaned as she hid her face behind her hooves, seemingly unable to take being talked down to like a baby.

“Oh, she seems to be shy.” Windy cooed, suspecting nothing.

“Well, she doesn’t know us yet. Just give her time to warm up to us,” Bow responded as he took out a fresh jar of baby food and continued. “For now, we should try finding the foal’s parents. They’re probably worried sick about her.” He then started to shove mashed yams into Starlight’s mouth, who begrudgingly chomped down and ate the orange goop.

“Well, we should take care of the little one, of course,” Windy proposed. “But I think we should also take a picture of her and put up flyers around Ponyville and maybe even Canterlot just to be safe.”

“Good idea, honey. I'm sure we’ll find the baby’s parents soon enough.” Bow responded before shoving another spoonful of goop into Starlight’s mouth.

“Until then, do you think we should call her something other than just the baby?” Windy asked.

“She might have a name; wouldn’t it be rude to call her something else?” Bow asked as he placed a bottle of milk into the filly’s hooves. Starlight, at this point, had resigned to being a foal and started to suckle on her bottle. The little foal noticed how warm and creamy the milk was as it went down her throat.

“Seems the little one has taken a liking to your milk!” Bow observed as he looked at Windy.

“Of course she does!” Windy cooed. “Rainbow Dash loves my milk; we both know how picky she is!”

Starlight’s eyes went wide in realization! She wanted to spit it out, but it was just too good! So the filly reluctantly continued to suckle on the amber nipple attached to her bottle until she was sucking on nothing but air. After she finished her mouth, the filly’s mouth was wiped once more as Bow took out a camera and exclaimed. “Say cheese!”

Starlight looked up at the camera with a look of confusion. Then there was a flash!

Bow soon took the photo and showed it to Starlight. “Aw, look how cute you are!”

Starlight blushed and threw her hooves over her eyes once more upon seeing herself in the picture: A chubby, pink-coated foal with a purple and pink striped mane tied in ponytails (just like how they were when she was a filly), not including with a thick diaper between her thighs. That photo was the final nail in the coffin. She’d screwed up her time spell and wasn't hallucinating. Afterward, her diaper was checked with a hoof. “Well, it seems she's clean; how about Rainbow?”

Windy checked her daughter. “She’s clean too; why don’t the two play and get to know each other?”

“Great idea!” Bow encouraged. “And while they’re playing, we can make flyers! I’m sure our little Dashie will love having a playmate.”

“Wonderful idea, honey! I believe I have a copy machine somewhere, right?” Windy questioned. “I had to have one installed in case of emergencies.”

The two foals were escorted into Rainbow’s nursery, which was covered in toys (mostly Wonderbolt plushies), with her crib having blue bars with a Wonderbolt-styled baby blanket. There was also a changing table with a blue foam top. The walls were decorated the same color as the sky: A bright blue hue with fluffy white clouds. Baby pictures of Rainbow Dash were plastered all over the walls.

Bow plopped baby Starlight and Rainbow Dash in a playpen in the filly’s nursery as he looked over at Rainbow Dash. “Now, Dashie, play nice. This filly might be here for a few days while we look for her mommy and daddy, so get used to sharing your toys.”

Rainbow just pouted, eyeing the filly as the parents left. “Who are ya?” She asked the mysterious foal.

Starlight sighed, seeing that, at this point, she could at least talk to Rainbow Dash in foal babble. “Hewwo, my name is Stawwight.”

“Straight, huh? So how did ya get up here?” Rainbow questioned. “I neva seen a unicown before. Mommy and Daddy say earth ponies and unicorns can’t walk on clouds as we can.”

Starlight paused; she wasn’t sure what she should say first. “Well, I assume ya name is Rainbow Dash wight?”

“Yup, tats me my name, Rainbow Dashie!” The little filly proudly chirped. She then pointed a hoof at the unicorn and asked. “Now, how did ya get up here?”

“Well, tats a wong story…but seeing tat ya parents can’t understand me, I've at least tell ya ta truth,” Starlight replied Ya see, I actually a big pony.”

Rainbow's eyes widened as she softly whispered. ” Really?!”

“Yeah, really, I was a big pony from ta future, and I was trying out a time spell,” Starlight then placed her hooves over her eyes. “But I messed up! Not onwy did I tuwn myself into a baby, I now, way back in time!”

Rainbow paused for a moment, then suddenly burst into laughter. “Tat’s so silly! Ya some gweat magical unicorn?! And instead of returning in time, you turn yaself into a baby?!”

“Not silly!” Starlight pouted. “I tellin’ ta truth!”

Rainbow Dash got up and wiped the tears from her eyes as she asked.“Oh yeah? If ya big pony, why ya wear diapees? Mommy and Daddy dun need diapees, tey big ponies!”

Starlight scrunched the padding between her legs. “Weww, I am a baby now. I didn’t need diapees when I a gown up!”

Rainbow Dash scoffed. “Whateva, I dun care if ya lying or not! I not gonna share my toys with ya! Tey mine!”

“So what?! I dun wanna pway with your stupid toys! I wanna get home!” Starlight snapped. “And ta quicker tat happens, ta quicker I weave ya, and ya dun have to deal with me again!”

Rainbow paused, seeming to realize that maybe the little filly wasn’t lying or playing a game. “Otay, fine, I’ww help ya get back ta ya time. But first, ya need to learn how ta walk.”

Starlight gave a sigh of relief. “Otay, I agwee,” She paused, looking over Rainbow Dash, wondering exactly how old she was. “Um, how owd awe ya anyways?”

Rainbow paused and stuck a hoof into her mouth, contemplating. “Weww, I had my fiwst biwthday pawty wike a few weeks ago. I tink I’m one yeaw owd. At least, tat's what Mommy and Daddy say. They also say I gonna get a big suwpise on my next biwthday, something tat helps me be mowe wike tem and be a big pony.”

Starlight admitted another sigh of relief. “Otay, so ya know how to walk?”

Rainbow threw her stubby hooves over her chest and scoffed. “Yeah, I not onwy know how to walk, I can fly! See, watch!” The little filly flapped her tiny wings and was able to hover above the ground for a few seconds before plopping onto the ground with a poof as her pampered butt hit the clouds below.

Starlight rolled her eyes. “There’s no need ta show off! Does it wook like I have wings?”

The baby pegasus flared her wings and pointed at them, and said. “Just saying, I bettew ten ya!”

“Ugh! Ok, ya can fly! Just teach me to walk!” Starlight bitterly demanded.

Rainbow Dash nodded as she slowly stood up on her chubby hooves. “Otay, I teach ya. Ya dun gotta be such a whiner,” The baby pegasus then assisted Starlight in getting onto her hooves and instructed. “Otay, when I was wearning ta walk, Mommy and Daddy taught me ta shift my weight. Ya gotta walk with ta clouds and not against tem.”

Starlight gave a nod and then started to toddle across the clouds. She was having an easier time getting used to the clouds than solid ground, but it was still wobbly and felt awkward with her stubby hooves. “Tis so hard! How ya pegasus do tis aww day?!”

“We get used ta it,” Rainbow Dash blushed. “Awso, ya wearing Cloudies diapees. Tey much better ten normal diapees but tey make it harder ta walk.”

“Why can’t I get put in ya diapees ten?!” Starlight shouted.

Rainbow shrugged. “Mommy and Daddy buy tat stuff, not me.”

Starlight sighed and decided to just focus on getting used to her new body. If she wanted to have any chance of returning to normal and returning to the future, she would need to learn to walk first.

An hour went by, and Starlight was finally getting the hang of walking as she was now giggling, toddling around the edge of the bright blue fence that made up the playpen.

Rainbow Dash sat back, clapping her hooves and shouting! “Ya can do it! See, it not tat hard!”

Starlight giggled as she trotted around the playpen before she heard a photo snap and saw Rainbow Dash’s parents standing over them with smiles and whispering. “Rainbow is teaching her how to walk; isn’t that just precious?”

Bow walked over and lifted his daughter, making her giggle and squeal in delight as he cooed, “Yes, it is! Our little Dashie is a natural teacher! She’ll be teaching pegasi how to fly in no time!”

Starlight groaned as Windy picked her up and squeaked in surprise as she felt the mare’s hoof check her diaper, which made squishingnoises. The little unicorn’s cheeks flushed red, seeing her diaper was now sodden. The worst part was she hadn’t even noticed she’d been peeing herself. That meant her bodily functions were also reduced to that of a foal’s!

Rainbow’s parents then set Starlight and their daughter down on the changing table. There, the two foals had their diapers changed.

Starlight didn’t bother fighting or fussing. She did squirm a bit when the wipes hit her bottom, but she felt much better when a fresh diaper was strapped snuggly around her waist. Windy and Bow then tucked the two into the crib for a nap. Starlight wanted to protest as she wasn’t tired, but a pacifier was plopped into her mouth before she could say anything. She wanted to cry and spit the object out, but her foalish instincts instead had her suckle on the rubber nipple, which sent a soothing sensation throughout her body.

It wasn’t long until the pair of foals continued to suckle away on their pacifiers together, making adorable suckling noises as they did so.

Windy then turned on a spinning mobile overhead with clouds and lightning bolts attached to the toy above. Music gently played out as she then turned towards her charges and whispered. “Now get some sleep, sweeties,” She kissed Rainbow on the forehead. “Best napper ever,” She whispered, then turned to the unicorn and whispered, “I thought things over and thought of a name until we find your parents.

Bow and Windy looked at each other, then shouted in unison, “Rainbow Bright!”

Starlight whined, seeing it was such a silly (and embarrassing) name. The older ponies both gave sheepish grins seeing the foal’s reaction, and Windy cooed in response, “I know it's not your real name. We thought to name you something until we found your parents and learned who you really are.”

“Yeah, it’s no big deal,” Bow insisted. “Besides, if it turns out you're an orphan, we might adopt you.” He nuzzled Starlight's belly with a wing. The filly couldn’t help herself as she kicked and giggled as she was tickled by the stallion. After the tickle session was over, the filly couldn’t help but be amazed at the two, seeing them willing to adopt her without any hesitation.

The two pegasi then slowly trotted out of the nursery, keeping the door ajar just in case the foal cried out for something.

The moment they left, Rainbow giggled. “Tey named ya Rainbow Bright?! Tat's so silly!”

“Not wike I can tell tem tat not my name!” Starlight whined through her pacifier and then threw the blanket over her face as she wanted to sleep. The little unicorn closed her eyes, hoping that maybe this could be some crazy dream and that when she woke up, she would be back at the hotel she’d been staying at in Ponyville. But she knew deep down that wasn’t the truth.

At this point, Starlight didn’t even care about getting revenge on Twilight and her friends, seeing she couldn’t do much to end their friendship with them as babies, knowing that most ponies can’t remember things until they're about three. So, for now, her goal would somehow grow back up into an adult. Then she’d go forward a few years into the future and stop Rainbow Dash from performing her Sonic Rainboom. She just had to be patient and endure some humiliation, and hopefully, the flyers Bow and Windy were creating won’t reach her real parents.

Chapter Two: Time Travel Daycare

A month passed, and Starlight Glimmer found herself still in the grasp of Windy Whistles and Bow Hothoof. She had more or less gotten used to being treated as a foal and what that involved: Diaper changes, playing with toys, and drinking milk and formula. The only good thing that had happened was she was staying in their house almost all the time as Bow and Windy decided to keep her there for safety while they went out to search for her parents. But it also limited her chance of being exposed as an adult in a foal body.

So with nothing else to do, Starlight primarily worked on her magic and walking. The filly eventually improved at walking, but her magic was still relatively weak. She could only levitate toys up above her head for a few seconds. She was constantly trying to push herself but was limited to the stamina within her foalish body.

So, for now, there wasn't much Starlight could do but go through the motions. Despite her misgivings, she didn't mind the relaxing treatment of being pampered and coddled while every need was met. It was rather relaxing.

It was now around dinner time, and Starlight was sitting across from Rainbow Dash. The two were being fed mashed yams while chugging down formula-filled bottles. That was when Starlight's horn began to glow rather suddenly, and she sent out a blast causing the yams to erupt and the mush to splatter all over the kitchen! Bow and Windy were somewhat surprised at this; they looked at each other covered in orange goop.

Bow Hothoof blinked. "Dang, this little one has a lot of magical talent, doesn't she?"

Windy laughed, then picked up the foal and squealed. "Oh yes! She's the best little messy magic user!" She then tickled Starlight with a wing making her kick and giggle uncontrollably.

Bow then began to clean up the mess as Windy took the two "Rainbows" to the changing table in their nursery. There she cleaned them up and then set them down in a playpen.

Looking slightly jealous, Rainbow Dash snapped. "How ya do tat?!"

Starlight blushed. "I dun know, I just sneezed, and ten my horn lit up! Ten boom!" The little filly threw her hooves up and shouted. "Giant explosion!"

"Yeah, I see tat, but I thought ya dun know how ta use magic?" Rainbow asked in a suspicious tone.

Starlight sighed as she put a hoof to her face. "Look, ya dun know how to fly that well, right?"

"I can fly!" Rainbow snapped, and she tried to hover, only to land on her padded bottom.

"See!” Starlight pointed out. “Ya can fly, kind of wike how I can use magic a little. We babies, we need ta train!"

"Oh, wike a choo choo train?" Rainbow asked.

Starlight groaned and put a hoof to her face. "No, not wike a choo-choo train!"She then levitated a little wooden block near her, and Rainbow Dash watched in awe. "Oh, I see. It wike how I try fwying but keep fawwing?"

"Yeah, wike tat. It gonna take time, but ta more ya do tat ta better ya are!" Starlight explained.

"Oh, otay. But I learn at my daycare, and they only teach flying." Rainbow explained.

Starlight sighed. "Yeah, there are daycares that teach baby unicorns how to control their magic surges, but I doubt there's one here in Cloudsdale."

Just then, Bow and Windy popped in and shouted together! "Oh, Rainbow Bright, look what we got!"

Starlight turned to the two grown-ups and saw they had an application form she couldn't read (the letters looked like gibberish).

Bow and Windy happily proclaimed! "We got you signed up for magic daycare in Canterlot!"

Starlight's eyes went wide! "What?! How?! Why?!"

"Aww, she's speechless. How cute!" Windy giggled as she nuzzled the unicorn foal.

Bow smirked. “Well, seeing as your magic surges are getting more frequent, it's about time you learn how to control them. Also, since we haven't been able to find your parents, we’re your guardians."

"That's right! You're basically our daughter at this point, a baby sister for our little Dashie!" Windy cooed as she nuzzled Starlight.

Starlight rubbed her cheek, embarrassed and surprised by how much Bow and Windy had done to make her time here in Cloudsdale so enjoyable and how they’d been treating her just as well as their own daughter. It was beginning to make her feel guilty. For now, her goal still remained to return to her original time as an adult, after which she would reconsider her plans.

The following morning, Windy Whistles decided to take Starlight Glimmer to a daycare in Canterlot specifically for magically gifted unicorns. Meanwhile, Bow took Rainbow Dash to her daycare in Cloudsdale. The flight to Canterlot with Windy was quite fun. Starlight was strapped to the side of Windy Whistles as she threw back her head and let the wind carry her wispy mane over her face. They eventually came to the cobblestone streets of Canterlot. And among the relatively rich and lavish-looking manors, they came upon a rather rustic-looking blue brick building with a sandpit and a playground outside of it with a sign overhead that read in pink pastel letters "Rebecca Pie's Magic Daycare"

Starlight was now getting squeamish, knowing she would have to deal with dozens of foals. She’d already had trouble coping with baby Rainbow Dash and hoped no foals would remember her (wanting to ensure the timeline was manageable).

Windy Whistles then flew through the front wooden doors and came into a rather spacious room that was covered in stars and magic bursts. Starlight had to throw her hooves over her ears as the sound of babies crying and giggling bounced off the walls. Windy approached the front counter, where a unicorn mare was standing behind it. The mare was plump with a dull pink coat sporting a set of thick round glasses on her nose, a curly mane and tail coming from her flank, and a stubby horn poking out from her forehead.

The mare looked up, smiled upon seeing a pegasus, and cried! "Oh my, do I spy another unicorn born into a family of pegasi?!"

Windy couldn't help but laugh as she shook her head. "No," And then she replied, "sorry, but she isn't mine. I came here before, remember?"

The unicorn mare tapped a hoof to her chin and then exclaimed! "Oh yes, you’re the pegasus who found an orphaned unicorn foal! You came by hoping to see if any of my patrons were related to your lost little one, correct?"

"Yes, that is correct," Windy responded with a smile. "We never found her parents. At this point, little Rainbow Bright here is a member of our family. We already filed for guardianship and were approved. We'll still be on the lookout for her parents, but until then, she's technically my new daughter."

"I see," The mare blushed. "Well, believe it or not, another unicorn mysteriously appeared here just recently."

"Really?" Windy asked, and Starlight now had her ears perked up as she listened closely.

"Yes indeed, a patron of mine, Twilight Velvet, had a daughter not so long ago,” The unicorn mare explained. “And then, almost from out of nowhere, she has an identical twin!"

Windy looked surprised by what the mare said and whispered. "A twin sister?"

"Yes,” The unicorn mare nodded. “I found it odd that this new foal came seemingly out of nowhere like yours. It made me wonder if they could be related?"

The two older mares looked downward at Starlight, who just gave them a blank stare trying to look clueless like a foal should. But deep down, Starlight was freaking out. Had Twilight figured out what she was up to and come after her through time? How did she even know Starlight had gone back in time? All of these questions ate at Starlight Glimmer's mind as she was eventually taken through the nursery of unicorns practicing using their little magic, levitating toys here and there, and some teleported about.

Seeing the baby unicorns messing with their magic was rather funny and cute. It also gave Starlight a pang in her chest, remembering how Sunburst learning his talents is what had caused her to lose her friend. The baby unicorn eventually came upon two identical-looking baby unicorns with black and reddish violet wisps of mane and tail flowing from their chubby, light purple coated forms. One was using the wooden blocks and trying to spell words with them; the other was putting them into her mouth and making gurgling noises.

"The one eating the blocks is Twilight Velvet's daughter," The caretaker explained to Windy as she took the book out and plopped a pacifier into the other unicorn’s mouth. She then came to the identical-looking foal who was putting the blocks together and said. "This little smarty pants here is the ‘twin’ Twilight Velvet says she found."

The new foal looked up and babbled angrily as she pointed at the blocks. The adults dawwed as Starlight giggled, seeing the other Twilight was trying to spell her name, but due to missing blocks, it looked like: "My name iz Tw1l8 sparkle & I a n0t a 8a8y."

"Such a cutie, trying to spell already. She’s a little prodigy for sure." Rebecca snickered as she bent down and checked Twilight's diaper, making the filly fuss about even more.

Starlight couldn't help but smirk seeing her nemesis being treated like a helpless foal. But then she felt a hoof investigate her diaper, giving it a few pats and making Starlight whine.

"Oh, you only peed a little. I’ll change you later," Rebecca cooed as she kissed Starlight on the head. Starlight just threw her hooves across her chest and grumbled under her breath. "We'll leave Rainbow Bright to get to know them,” Rebecca then told Windy. “Why don't we get you signed in, and I'll fetch Twilight Velvet and see if we can find any clues as to where these two came from?"

"Oh yes, they do seem quite similar. It's strange they just turned out of the blue." Windy commented as she then followed the caretaker back to the front counter.

Now alone, Starlight turned to face the much smarter Twilight and asked, "So…ya, Twilight Sparkle, right?"

Before the foal Starlight had talked to could say anything, the other foal pointed a hoof to her and cried, "Nah uh, I Twily Sparkle! She Midnight Sparkle!"

Starlight couldn't help but snicker as Twilight rolled her eyes, "Yeah, tats why I called now! But I am Twily; I just got turned back to a foal because I messed up a time spell."

The little grayish-purple-coated unicorn paused, seeing that it was odd that Twilight didn't recognize her. "Um, Twily, how did you get here exactly?"

"Why ya ask?" Twilight asked with a confused look on her face.

Starlight gave an annoyed sigh and then explained, "Well, I messed up on a time spell too, ya see, I was going back in time to…to…" The little filly paused and stuck a hoof into her mouth as she thought about what to say. Eventually, she blurted out. "I was trying out a time spell ta try fix somethin', and instead ended up as a baby in Cwoudsdale."

"How far were ya going back?" Twilight questioned.

Starlight tried to think. "About fifteen years, maybe?"

Twilight blushed. "Well, ya not ta only one, I was trying ta go back in time to tell myself ta stop worrying about fixing a disaster in ta future because I was running myself ragged," She cautiously tapped her diaper and added. "It worked, but ten, I suddenly was sent even further back in time, and my body changed as well." She then hugged her other self and said, "Ta next ting I know, I ended up in my old crib next ta my baby self."

"Yeah, tats what she told me!" The actual baby Twilight laughed as she wrapped her chubby hooves around the time traveler Twilight. "But I bewieve hew, she wike me but smawtew."

Starlight sighed in relief, seeing that the smarter Twilight was indeed one that had not met her yet. But at that moment, Starlight turned to see that not only were Windy and Rebecca coming over, but Twilight Velvet and Princess Celestia were with them.

The alicorn levitated the two foals gently up in her magical aura. She looked over the two, then chuckled. "I think I figured out where your little mystery foals came from."

"You did?!" Windy, Twilight Velvet, and Rebecca exclaimed at once.

"Yes indeed,” Celestia explained. “These two were former adults who happened to be performing rather complicated time spells and got themselves thrown back in time. But it seems that their bodies have reverted as well."

Starlight was now becoming nervous, fearing she was about to be discovered and exposed.
Meanwhile, the time-traveling Twilight was excited as she chanted in her pampers. "Tia is so smart! She figured it out! I'm gonna be a big pony in no time!"

Rebecca Pie placed a hoof over her chest when she saw the time-traveling Twilight bouncing up and down and dawwed. "Aww, she knows you already. It's like when a foal sees their mommy or daddy."

Princess Celestia's cheeks flushed red. "Well, who knows? She could be a student of mine."

Twilight started to shout. "I am ya student! And I'm learning bout friendship!"

Celestia laughed and nuzzled the time-traveling unicorn. "Well, it seems my hunch is correct. Apparently, I can understand you now," She then turned her attention to Starlight. "As for this one, she seems to be rather shy. Did you go back in time to do something naughty, little one?"

Starlight threw her hooves over her eyes as she couldn't help but feel helpless against such a majestic being; who knows what Celestia would do if she found out? She might even leave Starlight like this as punishment!

But luckily for Starlight, Celestia instead turned her attention to the adults. "Well, as you can see, they can understand what I'm saying because their minds are attuned to our adult language. But you can't understand them because they don't know how to talk correctly. But I am certain these two are regressed adults."

Twilight Velvet then suddenly burst into laughter. "Oh my Faust, my daughter from the future turned herself back into a baby!" She then levitated her daughter towards her as she sat on a rocking chair and began to nuzzle her belly with her muzzle. "You're the most adorable time traveler ever! Yes, you are!"

Twilight then began to giggle and squeal uncontrollably.

Meanwhile, Starlight was taken into Windy's hooves as she nuzzled her and whispered, "I have to disagree. I think you're the most adorable time traveler ever."

Celestia suddenly burst out laughing when she got ahold of herself; she said, "We can have a contest for the most adorable time traveler later; for now, I think they should meet somepony very important," She then turned her attention to the adults and asked, "Would you mind if I take these two to my castle? I have somepony who might be able to help them get home."

"Of course!" Twilight Velvet cheered, "But please bring my daughter back if I may ask. I don't mind caring for my daughter from the future for a bit longer."

Princess Celestia couldn't help but chuckle and replied, "Of course, we won't be too long. Your little Twilight will be back in your hooves in no time."

Twilight Velvet bowed once again as Windy had a hoof to her chest and replied, "Oh yes, I'm perfectly fine with that; I'm just relieved to hear that Rainbow Brighy isn't an orphaned foal."

The alicorn princess snickered and replied, "I doubt that's her name, but yes, I am also relieved we don't have a pair of parents searching for their lost foal." The princess then levitated the two foals and plopped them into little foal carriers on either side of her.

The mares gave their goodbyes as Celestia trotted out the daycare doors and gently flew off into the air.

This time the flight was much shorter than the last one, and Starlight soon found herself coming toward the castle. After Celestia went up some steps and down a few winding walls, the princess opened the door to a nursery. It was relatively serene, with the walls painted a dark blue with silvery stars printed on them, and the floor had the same pattern as well, but it was made of foam.

The princess then gently plopped the two foals down, and then they saw a baby colt appear; He had a gray coat and a thick diaper with cute little stars and moons printed on the padding strapped around his waist. The colt had a baby blanket tied around his neck with a rattle in a hoof. He squished a relatively thick diaper between his legs and spoke. "Hewwo, ya two are time travelers, and ya got turned back to foals while doing time spells, wight?"

"Yes…" The baby fillies said in unison as their voices trailed off, being somewhat suspicious of the colt.

The colt continued, "I know how ya two got turned into foals and why ya time spell turned back into babies."

"Why's that!?" Both Starlight and Twilight asked in unison.

The colt held up a hoof. "First, wet me introduce myself. I Starswirl."

Twilight's mouth dropped open, and she babbled. "N…no way! Ya dun mean…!"

"Yeah, my name is Starswirl ta bearded,” The colt confirmed. He then placed his hooves over and mumbled, “Or what Tia calls me: Starswirl ta Padded."

Chapter Three: Science vs Magic

Starlight Glimmer and Twilight both were astonished upon Starswirl revealing himself to them, and Twilight was the first to shout. “No way! Starswiww, ya a baby?!”

The colt’s cheeks flushed pink as he continued to explain. “Weww, not weawwy. I was about fifty when I learned how ta use time magic, and during an expewiment I came hewe. I first taught I went back in time, but when I saw Tia,” He blushed while looking over at her. “I saw hew and tough she immortal, I can tell she alot owda ten when I saw hew.”

Twilight blinked, then asked. “Wait…so tat mean ya was twying ta see ta futuwe?”

Starswirl gave a nod. “Weww, maybe a wittwe, but I was just testing ta speww. I wasn’t twyin’ ta go tis faw!”

The unicorn then put a hoof on her chin and suckled on it. “I was twyin’ ta go in ta past, but I was onwy going back in time thwee days.”

Starlight waited patiently to say anything (as she was a bit confused). “Otay, so tat mean somethin brought us all togetha hewe if we wewe going in ta past or ta future?”

“Exactly!” Starswirl exclaimed as he bounced up and down on his padded bottom. “Yes, I learned tat has ta be ta case. We hewe for a reason, and we need ta find out before oua timeline gets aww messed up!”

Twilight suckled on her hoof some more. “How do we find out what caused us to come here specifically?”

The little colt took out a light bulb pulsing with green-colored energy, a trail leading through the door. “When I woke up and found out where I was, tis was with me. Whateva tis is will lead us to whatvea brought us hewe.”

Twilight gasped. “Oh, tat’s so coow! But why do ya need owa hewp?”

Starswirl explained. “Weww to be faiw, I can’t go out on my own. And if Tia were ta walk around, she'd draw too much attention. We need an adult we can trust tat can get us to tis gween stuff is leadin' us to.”

Starlight still felt guilty, knowing full well she’d gone back in time to stop Twilight from meeting her friends, even as she said. “Yeah, we can’t be messing with time, huh?”

“Tat's right,” Starswirl proudly proclaimed. “We gotta not do too much, or else time will get messy!”

Twilight continued to suckle on her hoof, then took it out of her mouth and said. “Otay, guess we got owa mission, we can pwobabwy ask my mommy or daddy now tat tey know who I am.”

The colt threw his hooves across his chest. “Not tats a bad idea, but I was hoping we’d get a pegasus ta hewp. He or she can fwy over clouds.”

The little pink-coated unicorn groaned, seeing that there was only one obvious choice for the job. “Ugh, fine, guess we can ask Windy Whistles.”

“Who tis Windy Whistles?” Starswirl questioned.

“She’s my mo-I…I mean caretaker,” Starlight explained. “She taking care of me, and weww she a pegasus and she a mommy, so it won’t wook too weiwd with her carrying us bout ta place.”

Starswirl eyed her as he seemed to get suspicious of her. “Twilight said she was just time traveling to stop herself from going cwazy bout a disaster tat never happened. So why did ya use time travel?”

Twilight turned to face Starlight, who was taken aback and stammered. “Um…weww, ya see… I was… just twying ta practice time magic. I wasn’t twying ta do anyting bad!”

“Ya sure? Ya looking wike ya squeamish.” Starswirl questioned.

“Twust me! I just taught I messed up ta spell and ended up as a baby. I didn’t even know I was in ta past until I saw ponies I knew as babies.” Starlight nervously insisted.

“Well, otay, just making sure,” The colt finished. “I feel like that sums up evewyting.”

Princess Celestia then spoke up and smiled. “And I agree that Windy Whistles will be an excellent choice in getting you back to your original timelines.”

Both Twilight and Starlight looked up at the princess and cried out in unison. “Tia can hear us?!”

Starswirl nodded as he showed a little rattle and explained. ”I enchanted tis so tat as wong as we next ta adults, tey can hear us talk in baby babble.”

Starlight was surprised. “Well, tat explains a wot. Ya a genius even when ya was in diapees!”

“Hey, even geniuses wewe babies at one point! I am not wowwied bout my diapees!” Starswirl retorted, then turned around and thrust his padded butt in the air showing off his padding. “See?"

The fillies burst into laughter while Celestia clutched her chest with her hoof. “Oh, stop it; you’re going to give me a heart attack!”

Stasrswil rolled onto his bottom and then asked. “How is tat, Tia?”

Celestia levitated the little colt and booped him on the nose. “By being too adorable, that's how.”

The princess then plopped the colt onto her back as Twilight asked. “Wait, I get why Tia not gonna go out in public following tis trail, but what about having a servant ow a guard go instead?”

Celestia explained, “I did consider that, but I think it would be better to have a regular civilian do this. If a random guard or castle maid were wandering around with foals that aren’t their own, ponies would surely become suspicious. And I think Windy Whistles is perfect. She can babysit you foals, and nopony would think it's out of the ordinary; then she added. “Now, I'm going to have Starswirl turn off his ‘rattle.’ So you’ll not be understood by adults once more. Remember, as adorable as you are; our goal is to get you three back to your original timelines with as little altering as possible. So don’t use ‘We don't want to alter things too much’ or try to do anything you’re not supposed to do. Understand?”

“Yes, Auntie Tia!” All three foals chimed.

Starswirl then turned off the enchantment, and Celestia flew back from the castle and towards the magic daycare.

After Princess Celestia returned to the daycare, she explained to Windy Whistles and Twilight Velvet in secret everything she learned about the three foals and how they need to return to their timelines. The two seemed to be pretty much on board, Windy flying up and clapping her hooves in glee! “Oh yes! This is going to be so much fun! Sounds like we’re going on a quest!”

Twilight Velvet, however, looked disappointed. “Oh, do they really need to go now?”

Princess Celestia gave a sigh. “Sadly, yes. Starswirl has already been here for a month, and I assume these two have also been here that long. Time could already have been irreversibly altered just by these foals already being here for too long.”

Twilight Velvet asked. “But…would it be ok if we had a foal sleepover? I'm sure one more night wouldn’t hurt.”

Princess Celestia looked down at the three adorable foals giving her puppy dog eyes. It didn't take much for her to give in to their adorableness, then she sighed. “Alright, one more night, but that’s it. I still have some unattended duties to perform, so I'll leave these three in your care. Just be careful, keep an eye on them, and make sure they don’t do anything that could further alter the timeline,” She then hoisted baby Starswirl and Twilight to Twilight Velvet and Starlight back to Windy Whistles. “I'll leave you two to get these foals home.”

“Yes, princess.” Both mares responded with a bow. Princess Celestia also bowed her head, then flew off into the air as she headed back to her castle.

The foals were brought to Twilight’s old house, and Starlight was plopped in a playpen with two Twilights, the “smart” Twilight who was talking to Starswirl, asking him about magic and going over everything he’s ever written. Starswirl seemed to be trying to answer her questions, but it was clear he couldn’t keep up with the overly excited filly. Meanwhile, “Baby” Twilight was napping in a corner, hugging a rag doll to her chest.

Starlight looked away, seeing that maybe tomorrow she’d be back as an adult years from now, realizing that she was feeling guilty and scared that if they found out why she went back in time, they could leave her like this. She just had to keep quiet and try to keep to her lie.

“So, what time spell were ya using?” Starswirl asked.

Starlight looked up quickly and said, “Oh, um… just uh…ya know ta one scroll ya have? I uh…got ta ok fwom Tia to twy it out, and tat’s how I ended up here.”

“Hmm, that's a complicated spell,” Starswirl pondered. “How did you do it?”

“Well, ya know, I learn a wot bout magic fwom Tia, and she wanted ta see if it can wowk.” Starlight quickly lied.

Twilight scratched her head. “Wow, ya must be pretty powerful! Did we meet in Tia’s school? When did ya graduate?”

Starlight gulped and then started to scratch her mane as she continued to lie. “Uh yeah, ya wouldn’t know me, I gwaduate bout a year after ya left Canterwot.”

“Oh, otay. Well, I glad ta meet a fellow student.” Twilight chirped as she held out a hoof. Starlight hesitantly took out a hoof and shook it. Then the two heard knocks at the door, and the moms opened it, revealing a night blue-coated stallion escorting a young white-colored colt and chatting to a massive pegasus (who Starlight recognized as Bow Hothoof) with baby Rainbow Dash on his back.

“Smart” Twilight started to get rather nervous and whispered. "Hey Starwight, tats my daddy Night Wight, and big bruda Shiny. Pwease keep me being a big pony from ta future secret... specially from Shiny. If he find out I went back in time as a baby, he gonna neva let me forget it. He already tease me enough just ‘cause I swept with a doll untie I weft Canterwot."

"Otay, I promise," Starlight whispered with a snicker wishing she had a camera to take a picture of Twilight in this state.

Bow Hothoof then dropped Rainbow Dash off in the pen with a smirk and gave her a kiss on the cheek. "Now play nice, little Dashie. I know they’re unicorns, but I'm sure you can make friends with at least one of them."

Rainbow just eyed the foals as Shining Armor peered at them. “Mom, where did all these babies come from?! You checked them to see if they were changelings, right Mama?! Cadence says changelings can be anypony, and they not very nice.”

“Of course, I checked them, Shiny. They’re fine; as I said, this other ‘Twilight’ is a lost foal that looks much like your baby sister. Luckily for us, we found out where her parents are, and we’ll be taking her back to them first thing tomorrow.” Twilight Velvet explained.

“Oh, that’s good,” Shining responded with a blush before looking down at “Smart” Twilight and whispering. “Sorry, I thought you were a changeling. I promise not to make that mistake again.”

“Smart” Twilight just threw a hoof over her face and blushed.

“See, we’re all good? Windy Whistles is fostering these little cuties, and we found out they come from the same place, so we’ll be leaving tomorrow to take them back home,” Twilight Velvet explained as she ruffled the pink unicorn’s mane. “And she also brought her own daughter to hang out as well.”

Shining eyed them and mumbled. “Why do they all have to be babies, though? They don’t have any older brothers or sisters, do they?”

Rainbow Dash scoffed while Starlight shook her head.

“I'm sorry, sweetheart,” Twilight Velvet apologized. “But if you don’t wanna stay with the babies, I'm sure Fancy Pants’ mom would be ok if you come over for a sleepover”

“Really?!” Shining squealed in delight. “I gotta go pack my stuff!” He then ran down the hall as Rainbow glared over the unicorns. “Can’t believe I have ta play with a bunch of unicorns.”

Twilight got ecstatic, bouncing on her padded bottom, toddled over, then threw her hooves around the pegasus as she squealed! “Dashie!”

“Hey, who ta heck are ya?!” Rainbow whined as she pushed the unicorn off.

Twilight tumbled over and then giggled. “Sowie, I got excited. I Twilly.”

“Ya ta smarty pants Twily! I baby Twily!” Baby Twilight chirped as she rolled on her back.

Smart Twilight couldn’t help but giggle. “Yeah, guess ya can say tat.”

“Whateva!” Rainbow snorted and pouted. “Dun care if ya smart or dumb, I dun wanna be any of ya friends!”

“Well, guess tat makes two of us,” Starswirl grumbled.

“Ugh, come on, Dashie, stop being such a meanie!” Starlight whispered as she threw out a hoof and continued. “Tey aww gonna help me get back ta being a big pony!”

Rainbow paused, taken aback by the news. “Tats… good…tat mean ya gonna be able ta be a big pony and do big pony things, right?”

Starlight nodded. “Tats wight, but tat won’t be until later. And ya can’t tell anypony but us about it, speciawwy not ta gwown-ups,” Then she proposed. “Bu fow now, why dun we pway a game?”

“Like what?” Rainbow questioned.

“Hide and seek tag!” Starlight declared.

Rainbow laughed and boasted! “Yeah, I ta best at tat! And I gonna go fiwst!”

Starswirl turned his attention to the fillies and asked. "Um, how ya pway hide and go seek tag?"

Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes. "Ya neva play hide and seek tag before?"

"Weww, unlike ya, I was busy studyin’ magic!” Starswirl proclaimed with a humph. “I not wike ya dumb babies!”

“Guess we’ll see who ta dumb baby is soon enough,” Rainbow growled. “Uh…um? What ya name?”

Starswirl rolled his eyes and snapped. “Stawswiww ta Beawded!”

“Uh…ya dun got a beawd.” Rainbow pointed out.

Starswirl brushed his chin with a hoof and then snapped. “I will have a beard soon, but I a baby wight now!”

“So…why dun tey call ya Starswirl ta Padded?” Rainbow Dash teased. “Wook, how big ya diapees awe!”

This got a laugh from the other foals as the little colt covered his thick padding and stayed silent.

“Smart” Twilight then, with a blush, raised a hoof and admitted. "Um, I dun know how to play either."

Rainbow Dash groaned again. "It's easy," She flew over to some blocks and stacked them up. "This is ta base, we play wike hide and seek. Ya go hide and I count down from ten. When I weach zewo, ya gotta twy to get to ta base while I chase ya. If I tag aww of ya, ya lose. But if one of ya get to ta base ya win, get it?'

Every foal nodded, then “Baby” Twilight raised a hoof and asked. "Um, Dashie? Gotta ask. Do ya know how ta count?"

Rainbow Dash shook her head. "Sowwie no, Mws. Stomwy Cwouds counts fow us at daycawe."

Starswirl raised a hoof and exclaimed. "Weww, unlike ya babies, I can stiww count! So tat means I can be it!"

"Otay!" Everypony chimed as all the foals then ran off to hide. Meanwhile, Starswirl went to the corner of the playpen and started her countdown. "Ten… nine… eight…" The colt continued as countdown Starlight and the other foals all ran about hiding under plushies or piles of blocks.

Starlight decided to hide under a pile of plushies and waited quietly.

When Starswirl finished counting, he started to go about through the playpen, looking for foals. Rainbow Dash suddenly burst up from a pile of blocks and flew toward the base. But as she slammed into the base, Starswirl smirked, then gasped upon seeing another baby! He teleported up to block her; she landed on the ground with her padded bottom. With a cloud of foal powder, baby Starswirl totted up and booped her on the nose. "Got ya!"

"No faiw, ya using magic!" “Smart” Twilight grumbled.

Starswirl huffed. "Yeah, I using magic, so what?"

"Tat’s against ta wuwes!" Twilight insisted.

Starswirl shook his head. "Nah, uh! Ya neva said anyting ‘bout not using magic!"

As the two argued two, “Baby,” Twilight snuck on by, giggling as she ran towards the base. But Starswirl teleported in front of her and tagged her out.

Starlight groaned; she was the last one who hadn’t been captured yet. She charged forward, trotting as fast as her little legs could carry her! But soon, clones of Starswirl came at her from all directions. Starlight saw the only chance she had was if she could somehow teleport herself to the base. So the little filly squinted her eyes and lit her horn, concentrating with all her might!

With a loud “ZAP!”Starlight sent herself teleporting across the room and slamming into the tower of baby blocks. The filly then got up with a giggle, clapping her hooves together, and cheered! “Yay, I did it! I won ta game!”

The other fillies giggled and cheered! “Yay Stawlight!”

Rainbow Dash flew over and hugged her tightly, and squealed. “Yay, my sissy did it! She won ta game!”

“Sissy?” Starlight responded, being rather astonished by Rainbow Dash calling her a sister. She hugged Rainbow back and nuzzled the little filly. She couldn’t help but feel even more guilty about her original intentions to destroy her friendship with Twilight in the future. What’s even worse is that they might be going back to their original timelines tomorrow.

“Alright, cuties, it’s time to eat!” Windy chimed as she then fluttered over, scooped the foals into her hooves, and carried them away in the air. They were taken to the kitchen where Twilight Velvet had already set up a few highchairs, and she and Windy went about strapping each baby in, attaching a food tray to their seats.

Starlight kicked about in her padding as she was fed baby food by Windy Whistles while her husband fed Rainbow Dash. Night Light helped feed Starswirl as Twilight Velvet focused on the two baby Twilights. They went about chomping away at the baby food of mixed yams and peas.

The parents chatted away about typical stuff, like their days and the pros and cons of living in Canterlot or Cloudesdale; it was all rather boring as Starlight focused all her energy and gulped down each delicious bite of her baby food, enjoying being spoon-fed probably for the last time. Then after Starlight’s mouth was wiped, Windy went and plopped a bottle filled with her milk right into Starlight’s mouth; she drank down every last bit of Windy’s milk and enjoyed nearly every second of it. Then, she was given a pacifier when the bottle was plucked from her mouth.

Afterward, the five foals were taken to Twilight’s nursery, which was rather adorable. The walls were covered in beautiful stars, and a sparkling carpet was laid out on the ground. The room was furnished with two cribs set up and covered in foal toys, foam blocks, plush animals, and a few pop-up books were strewn about. Twilight Velvet tucked the two Twilights into one of the cribs and then stammered. “Sorry, I didn’t mean to leave the room in such a mess. I’ve just been busy with all of these babies.”

Windy laughed. “Oh, don’t worry! Trust me; you should see Rainbow Dash’s room after she goes through a rough play session.”

Twilight Velvet snickered. “Awww, your Rainbow sounds a lot like our Shining; he makes such a mess when he plays knights and dragons with his friends. And he’s always a knight; he never wants to be the dragon.”

Bow gave a hearty laugh. “Yeah, that’s our Rainbow! Brave and fearless! I bet she would love playing with your son. Though she seemed to get actually quite well with your Twilight.”

“Which one?” Twilight Velvet teased as she hoofed each of her daughters a Smarty Pants doll.

Meanwhile, Starswirl, Rainbow Dash, and Starlight were all tucked under the same crib as well by Night Light, who whispered, “This was Shining’s crib; lucky for you, we never got rid of it. My wife insisted on holding onto everything Shining had as a foal when she learned she was pregnant with our Twilight.” He then turned on the mobile covered in little swords, shields, and tiny dragons dancing above their heads.

The adults then slowly left the room, leaving the door slightly ajar.

As the lights went off, the room glowed with the little stars, moons, and magical light covering the ceiling and walls. Despite the room being rather peaceful, Starlight was too excited and happy, which she shouldn’t be feeling concerning the situation, but she was indeed loving the fact she was a baby.

However, the silence was broken when Rainbow Dash started to cry. It was a soft whimper, and Starlight maneuvered herself to face Rainbow and asked. “Hey, what’s wrong?”

“Noting.” Rainbow snapped and turned away.

She blinked, rather surprised, but it didn’t take long for her to realize this might be the last night they would be together. “Wainbow…I know ya sad I weaving, but ya knew tis was gonna happen eventually, wight?”

Rainbow sat up and snapped. “Well, if ya wanna be a big pony again, tat’s fine! Dun want ya awound anyways!”

Starlight paused, seeing there was no consoling Rainbow; it reminded her of what happened when she’d lost Starburst. Still, she crawled over to the pegasus and hugged her. “Wisten, Wainbow, I maybe shouldn’t be doing tis, but… see tat baby unicorn over thewe?” Rainbow turned to see the actual Twilight sleeping in a crib across from them, along with “Baby” Twilight, who was still awake, kicking about and cooing.

“Tat fiwwy is gonna be ya best friend in ta futuwe,” Starlight insisted. “So when we weave tomorrow, ya stay here, play with Baby Twily, and be her fwiend.”

“How ya know?” Rainbow questioned.

Starlight just whispered. “member, I fwom ta future, trust me on tis.”

“B…but she, not ya tough? I dun want her ta be my friend! I want ya!” Rainbow whined and hugged her. Starlight hugged Rainbow Dash back and gave her a pat on the back, “Well, I not leaving til mornin', so why dun we sleep togetha?”

They then dug under the covers, and Rainbow continued to whimper slightly, but she calmed down feeling Starlight next to her. Maybe instead of destroying Twilight's future friendship, Starlight had just sped it up.

The next morning came before long, and after some diaper changes and a breakfast of baby oatmeal and hot milk, three baby unicorns were strapped to Windy Whistles’ side: Twilight and Starlight on her left side and Starswirl on her right.

“It looks like you're a mother of five!” Twilight Velvet joked.

Windy strutted about with a smirk. “Oh, I think I’d still look pretty good even after having five children. But just having my little Dashie is enough; I couldn’t keep up with five foals if they were all as energetic as Dashie, they’d run me ragged.”

Twilight Velvet giggled, then looked over at her daughter playing with Rainbow Dash as she asked. “So, you don’t mind me watching little Dashie while you get these cuties home?”

“Of course not! Rainbow is amazing. Normally, she doesn't warm up to foals that well but look at them,” The pegasus pointed towards baby Twilight and Rainbow Dash in the playpen, running about and laughing as they chased each other.

Starlight had a smile on her face. Seeing her pep talk to Rainbow last night had worked.

Meanwhile, “smart” Twilight was giggling with glee. “Wow! This is so cool! I was friends with Dashie as a baby!”

“Yeah,” Starlight nodded. “Hopefwy she members tis, and ya be friends sooner!”

“I’m sure we will!” Twilight laughed.

Then, it wasn’t long until Windy Whistles flew through the skies, following the trail.

Windy continued to fly for an hour or so, but eventually, she landed right smack in the middle of Ponyville. Twilight was ecstatic seeing it in the past as soon as the mare landed.

From Starlight’s perspective, not much looked that different, but Twilight was surprised to see a pink-coated filly ditching school with some friends while she noticed a massive, pudgy baby pegasus colt was squalling as a bottle of milk was forced into his mouth.

Windy continued to trot along and eventually came to a normal-looking house with a trail of energy leading right to it. It seemed that there was nothing special about it except for the fact that there was a ton of junk scattered about the front lawn. The older pegasus then slowly knocked on the door, being rather cautious.

The door opened, and a brown-coated female earth pony with golden eyes hidden behind a pair of thick spectacles appeared. She then eyed the pegasus and asked. “Who are you?”

“My name is Windy Whistles, and uh…” Windy looked around, making sure nopony else was present beside her and the earth pony, then she bent forward and whispered. “Did you happen to find a baby who time-traveled from the future?"

The earth pony mare gasped! “Yes, I have!” She then quickly adjusted a green bow tie around her neck. “Sorry, I forgot my manners,” She then stuck out a hoof. “My name is Dr. Elizabeth Whooves. And you are…?”

“Name’s Windy Whistles, but just call me Windy,” The pegasus chimed as she shook the other mare’s hoof, then added. “Elizabeth? That’s an odd name.”

“I do apologize, but I am from Trottingham. We have some rather peculiar naming conventions there.” Elizabeth blushed

Windy waved a hoof. “Who cares? Anyways, I believe your adorable time traveler may be missing something?” The pegasus asked as she took out the green bulb. “Do you know where this comes from?”

“Oh, my Celestia!” Elizabeth exclaimed. “I can’t believe you found it!”

“Found what? I actually have no idea what this is.” Windy commented.

“Follow me!” The earth pony mare exclaimed and looked around, then waved a hoof. Windy followed her inside and downstairs to a basement. There was a weird booth of some kind with parts and gears scattered about.

And there, in a playpen, looking over some blueprints, was a brown-coated stallion in a pudgy diaper. He turned around with a weird pacifier around his neck. It was a chrome color, with the bulb looking like it was glowing. Upon seeing the mares, he plopped the pacifier out of his mouth. “Mommy, you found tem?!”

“Yes, I believe all the time travelers are here!” Elizabeth squealed in delight as she came over to her son, hoofed him the green bulb, and continued. “I also believe this is the last part of your time machine!”

The little colt took the part and squealed, bouncing up and down in his diaper! “Yay! Tat means we can all go home!”

Starswirl eyed the colt and then, without thinking, turned his enchanted rattle on and asked. “Who are ya?! And how ya talking wike tat without magic?”

The colt eyed the baby unicorn. “I am Docta Whooves! And you are?”

The baby unicorn crossed his hooves across his cheek and snapped. “Starswirl ta Beawded.”

There was a pause as Windy and Elizabeth plopped the rest of the foals around the baby earth pony, and Elizabeth cooed. “Oh calm down, you two, no need to fight.”

“Wight, sowie, Mama,” Dr. Whooves replied as he adjusted his diaper, then faced the baby unicorn colt and continued, “Weww, Stawswiww, I learn tat baby babble is just a different language we somehow know as foals. I used an algorithm to locate ta words and translate tem ta owa common language. And thus, with science, I learn how ta turn baby babble into something anypony can understand!”

Starswirl rolled his eyes. “Well, my magic can do tat in wike half ta time, and how ta heck did ya even go back in time?”

“Simple,” Doctor Hooves explained. “Tis is what I used! But fiwst, befowe we go, can I ask fow yowr names?”

“Twily!” Twilight chirped. “I've seen ya around before, I didn't know ya was so smart!”

Dr. Whooves’ cheeks flushed pink as he placed a hoof over his face. “Tanks, Twiwiy, I didn’t know ya wiked science too.”

“Wike science? I wuv science!” Twilight happily exclaimed! “Tats my favorite subject, just unda magic!”

“Tats cool! We should talk more often when we become big ponies again!” The colt cheered. He then turned his attention to the pink-coated unicorn, who was a bit more hesitant as she whispered. “Name is Stawwight Gwimma. We haven’t met in ta future.”

“Ah, I see,” Doctor Whooves nodded. “Weww, ta more witnesses thewe awe to my time travel, ta bettew!”

Starswirl rolled his eyes. “Ya not time travelin', ya just gettin’ lucky with style.”

“Nah, uh! My time machine worked perfectly! Some magic mess it up, and it cwash, and is why I also a baby!” Dr. Whooves snapped back. He then toddled to his mom, who gracefully plopped him up onto her back. Then he adorably stood up on his hind legs, with the colt having a bit of trouble maintaining his balance, but he then slowly screwed the lightbulb in firmly overhead.

The machine slowly came to life as the bulbs flickered on and off. Then, just as it seemed it was going to work, the light in the bulbs faded. Dr. Whooves groaned as he plopped his padded bottom onto his mother’s back, threw his hooves over his face, and cried. “Ah, no! What is going on?! Evwyting should be working now!”

Starswirl threw his hooves over his chest and replied with a smirk. “See?! Towd ya!”

Dr. Whooves reared back his head and shouted. “Weww, ya also in diapees, so I not ta only one who screwed up time travel!”

“Well, at least I not using some dumb machine!” Starswirl insisted. “I use magic, which is betta!”

“Na uh, science is better!” Dr. Whooves argued back, and he and Starswirl started arguing back and forth:

“Magic!”

“Science!”

“Magic!”

“Science!”

“Cowts, stop!” Twilight snapped at the two colts, who both turned to her. “Wook, I dun know bout you, but is obvious we got ta use both science and magic ta get us back ta our nowmaw timelines!”

“But how do we do tat?” Dr. Whooves asked as he threw his hooves in the air.

Twilight slowly turned and saw six dots in a circle beeping on a screen. “I stawting ta tink tat fate brought us here, and tat we can’t go home until we unite ta Elements of Harmony to power tis time machine!”

Starswirl laughed! “Tat’s easy! We get Pwincess Tia ta power it, plain and simple.”

The smart unicorn filly just shook her head. “Pwincess Tia can’t use ta Elements anymowe, tey dun work for her. We need somethin’ ewse…I tink we need my friends.” She then looked right at Starlight.

Starlight blinked, surprised that Twilight was staring at her, and then asked. “Wait, what do ya want me ta do?”

“Ya gonna be ta one who gonna get my friends togetha,” Twilight insisted.

Chapter Four: Ponyville Nursery

The following morning, the older mares Elizabeth Hooves and Windy Whistles were feeding their foals oatmeal with the colts on one side and the fillies on the other. Starlight was enjoying her breakfast, chewing away rather happily. Meanwhile, Windy turned towards Elizabeth and asked. "So, where's your family? You live here by yourself?"

The earth pony mare waved a hoof and said, "Oh no, I live in Trottingham with my husband, Alfred. He's caring for my son while I came to Ponyville to help my other son."

She then spoon-fed a glop of oatmeal and plopped it into her son's mouth before adding. "You know, the one who didn't turn himself into a baby."

Windy threw her hooves over her face and then dawwed, "Awww, so you had to care for your adult son when he was a baby! That is so adorable!"

"Well, now that we know how to return these cuties to their original timelines," Elizabeth questioned. "How are we going to find Twilight's friends?"

They all turned their attention to the violet-colored foal, who was busy chugging away on her bottle, making adorable gurgling noises as she did so. Starlight started to wave her hooves and shout. "Hey, Twilight! Hello?!"

"Oh, sorry," The violet foal squeaked as she dropped her bottle and gave a burp, puking out some spit. Windy quickly wiped her face as Twilight turned to face Starswirl, who then asked. "Is your baby tawking speww on?"

Starswirl (who was also busy sucking down a bottle of milk before he removed it with a pop) said. "Sowie. Yeah, it is on! Just explain what we gonna do next!"

The little unicorn cleared her throat. "Weww…if I know anything about my friends, Appwejack and Wawity were born and raised hewe. So next, we should get them ta be friends with baby me and Wainbow Dashie."

Elizabeth looked from feeding her foals and asked, "Wait, Applejack and Rarity?"

The baby unicorn looked up at the earth pony mare and asked. "Yeah, what bout them?"

"Well, I went to check out the daycare here and heard those names before," Elizabeth explained. "I even became friends with their mothers, believe it or not."

Twilight started to get excited, bouncing on her padded bottom as she cheered, "That's gweat! That means we can get them to be friends with baby me and Dashie!"

Windy smiled and plopped some foal food into Twilight's mouth. "Adorable idea, But how do we do that?"
The violet-coated unicorn gulped and then suckled some of her bottles before saying. "That's easy. Stawwight will be ta one ta bridge tem together."

Starlight was suckling a bottle of milk, and upon hearing what Twilight said, she spat out the contents in surprise! "Me?! Why me?!"

Twilight turned towards Starlight and explained. "Well, I can't because I tink ta more I hang out with baby me and my other friends, I might say stuff they shouldn't know. Ya, dun knows anything, ya can act like another baby and make them friends!"

"What a splendid idea!" Elizabeth chimed as she turned her attention to the light purple-coated unicorn foal. "Starlight will be perfect!"

Starswirl threw his hooves over his chest and snapped, "What about me?!"

Dr. Whooves gave the regressed sorcerer a playful smirk, then scoffed. "Ya super mean. Ya wouwd pwobabwy make tem hate each othew!”

Starswirl turned towards his rival and whined. "Nah, uh! Ya would bore tem ta death 'bout ya dumb science!"

Twilight's cheeks flushed pink. "Noting against ya, Stawswiww, but Stawwight is bettew. I think you and Dr. Whooves should wowk together and ensure the time machine is weady. Besides, I think ya two wouwd go cwazy being in an actual daycawe."

The two colts were still pouting but seemed to agree with Twilight.

Starlight was still trying to decide about brokering the meeting between these foals. Even though she wanted to make up for trying to break Twilight's friendships. "Otay, ya got a point."
"Alright," Windy declared. "I'll get my daughter and have Twilight Velvet bring hers, and we can get four of your friends together!"

"Yeah! That will be amazing!" Twilight cheered!

Starlight bowed her head and continued to suckle on her baby bottle, realizing that this one trip to their daycare could mean the difference between getting back to her timeline as an adult or staying in diapers for Celestia knows how long.

The next day, Windy Whistles and Twilight Velvet pushed their foals in their strollers, heading towards "Ponyville Daycare." It was a small bright blue building and had a sign with letters made out of giant baby blocks.

Starlight looked up, hoping to get the other foals to be friends with Twilight and Rainbow Dash.
They then entered the building, and the filly saw it was a typical but fun-looking daycare, with posters placed everywhere and a massive playroom. There was an area full of cribs with dozens of foals sleeping away and a kitchen full of babies strapped in highchairs and toddlers snacking away.

As they headed to the nursery, the two mares pushed their foals in their strollers. An older-looking pink-coated earth pony smiled as they came in. "Oh, new customers! Welcome to Ponville Daycare! How may I help you?"

Twilight Velvet smiled and waved a hoof, then asked. "Hello, what's your name?"

The stocky, cheerful mare bounced over and exclaimed. "Oh, pardon me. My name is Singalee! I'm head caretaker and owner of Ponyville Nursery."

Windy placed her hooves over her face and exclaimed! "Oh! You sing?!"

"Yes, I do!" Singalee sang as she bounced up and down. She cleared her throat and added, "But singing time is not until after nap time."

Twilight Velvet seemed impressed. "Oh, I see you keep the foals organized."

"Yes, that is true," Singalee happily admitted. "I try to keep the older foals on a schedule. But I let the infants do whatever they wish. We're here to have fun, after all!"

Windy looked rather sheepish. "Well, we aren't from Ponyville, Twilight Velvet is from Canterlot, and I'm from Cloudesdale."

The caretaker clapped her hooves together and chirped, "Oh, lovely! We don't mind foals from out of town. We can handle the paperwork while letting your babies play."

Twilight Velvet smiled as she lifted her daughter towards them with the little filly cooing. "Well, introduce you to my daughter: Twilight Sparkle."

Windy followed suit, lifting her babies and showing off the squirming baby unicorn and pegasus. "These are my daughters: Rainbow Dash and Starlight Glimmer."

Sinaglee gave them both a boop on their noses. "They're all adorable, and I'm happy to have them." She led them to where the other infants were playing.

Starlight looked around, trying to see where Applejack and Rarity were. She soon spotted an orange-coated earth pony foal with a blonde mane playing with hoof paint mashing it onto some construction paper. And she spotted a white-coated unicorn foal putting a doll in a dress. "There they awe!"

Rainbow Dash blinked and scratched the top of her mane. "Who tey?!".

Starlight let out a sigh as she turned towards Rainbow and explained. "Listen, we got seaweed in our plans to go back home. As cwazy as it sounds, ya two gots to become friends with those babies ovew thewe, ow I neva gonna tuwn back into a big pony."

Baby Twilight turned and asked. "Otay…um, guess I'ww twy with ta unicorn fiwwy. What's her name?"

"Wawity," Starlight confirmed.

"Otay. is Wawity," Twilight gulped as she shuffled towards the baby unicorn and waved a hoof. "Hello?"

The chubby white unicorn turned towards Twilight and asked. "Who are you?"

Twilight held out a hoof. "I Twiwight."

The plump white unicorn threw her hooves over her diaper and, with a blush, said. "My name is Wawity. Neva seen ya, where ya fwom?"

Twilight pointed a pudgy hoof to her chest and proclaimed. "I fwom Cantewwot!"

The little white unicorn gave a cute gasp and squealed! "Cantewot! That's so cool; I always wanted ta go thewe!" She then showed her doll. "Do ya know Pwincess Tia?"

Twilight started to get excited! "Weww, not weawwy. But she is cool."

"Gweat!" Rarity exclaimed! "Wanna help me dress hew up?!"

Twilight bounced on her padding and squealed! "Yeah, that sounds like fun! I think she can use a diapee!"

Rarity giggled behind a hoof as she started bouncing up and down on her diapered butt and exclaimed! "Yeah! Dun know why adults dun wears diapers, tey so comfy!"

"Yeah, they awe!" Twilight encouraged. "Let's put a big fluffy one on how to keep hew butt warm!" She waddled over to a chest full of doll clothes and started to go through it. They then started to dress a plush Princess Celestia in a fluffy diaper with a silly yellow dress over her (which did nothing to hide the poofy diaper). Twilight then held the now dressed-up doll and proclaimed proudly! "Thewe! Princess Tia has now protected fwom accidents!"

"Yeah! Now wet's keep dressing hew up! Bet she wouwd wook gweat in puwpwe!" Rarity cheered. The two foals then continued dressing the doll in more outfits.

Meanwhile, Rainbow Dash flew towards Applejack and plopped her padded bottom next to the baby earth pony. The little orange-coated filly then turned around and asked. "Hewwo, ya new?"

"Yeah..I…I know… what's your name?" Rainbow stuttered.

The filly smiled and held out a hoof covered in hoof paint. "I Applejack!"

Rainbow Dash snickered, taking out her own hoof. "Weww, my name is Wainbow Dashie."

The two shook hooves as Applejack asked, "Well, Dashie, I am making a pretty picture about zap apples! Wanna help me?"

Rainbow Dash scratched her mane. "What awe zap apples?"

"Tey special apples tat only appear once a yeaw!" Applejack explained. "But they make ta best jam! And I am twying to make one!" She then slammed her hooves into a jar of blue paint, splattering the goop everywhere! She then looked up, giggling as Rainbow Dash wiped the paint from her face as Applejack apologized. “Sowie, didn' mean ta do tat.”

Rainbow smirked, then slammed her hooves in the paint and got it onto Applejack, who laughed and splattered paint on her. It wasn't long until the two fillies were having a massive hoof paint fight, with a few other babies nearby getting in on the action. Things seemed to be going well, but Starlight was impressed by how these foals had completely different personalities. It would not be easy to mesh, and I wondered how these totally different ponies in Equestria ever became friends in the first place.

"Alright, my cuties! Time to eat!" The foals all turned to Singalee, who started handing out baby bottles and changing diapers in seconds. Starlight squeaked as a bottle of Windy's milk popped into her mouth.

Singles then went and cleaned up Rainbow and Applejack. Meanwhile, Starlight waddled to Rarity, and Twilight then asked. "Hey, um… how ya two doing?"

Rarity bounced up and down and giggled. "Gweat! I made a new fwiend, hew name Twiwy!”
"Yeah, Wawity is so fun!" Twilight insisted. “She wuv Pwincess Tia, and we tink she wouwd wook gweat in a diapee!”

Upon seeing the doll, Starlight couldn't help but burst out laughing as the plush alicorn was dressed in a fluffy purple dress and a couple layers of fluffy diapers, with her hooves, covered purple and yellow striped socks, her mane and tail dressed up in bows. Starlight fell to the ground, laughing uncontrollably as she imagined the real Princess Celestia in the outfit! "Bet she wouwd! She wouwd be ta cutest pwincess eva!"

Rarity nodded. "Yeah, and uh…who awe ya?"

Starlight gulped. "Oh, um…I Stawwight Gwimma."

"Well, nice to meet another unicorn!" Rarity happily exclaimed as she held out a hoof. "Ya fwom Cantewot too?"

"No," Starlight blushed. "I uh fwom a town east of hewe."

Rarity then came over and poked Starlight's diaper. "Oh, awe tose counties?"

"Yeah, my foster mommy gets them for me," Starlight replied. "Why?"

"Well, my mommy gets me fluffy wump diapees I wike tem awot cause they comfy," Rarity pointed out while poking at her own diaper. "But Cwoudies otay."

Twilight waddled over and showed off her padded bottom. "I have counties too! My mommy got some fwom Wainbow Dashie's mommy! Tey so gweat!"

"Yeah," Rarity agreed before nervously adding. "But Cwoudies feel too loose on me. I scared. I gonna weak aww over the place. Awso, I think Fluffy Wumps have bettew designs; they got princess ponies and flowers."

"Yeah, but Cwoudies got all kinds of clouds and rainbows," Twilight argued.

Starlight started to suckle on her bottle (which was filled with Windy's milk) as she felt a little too embarrassed talking about diaper brands. But an idea popped into her head as she suckled down the sweet, tangy milk. "I got a betta idea; why dun we have two owa bottles with those two?" She then pointed a hoof toward Rainbow Dash and Applejack.

"Oh yeah, I would love to show Dashie to Wawity and compare owa Bottoms!" Twilight insisted with a smile.

Rarity looked over, made a bleh sound, and whined. "How!? She and that earth pony got aww messy in hoof paint, dun want ta get messy wike that! I hate to aww messily; tat why I gonna start potty training soon."

Twilight tugged at Rarity's hoof and insisted. "Oh, come on, it'll be fun! Pwomice! Ya, wun, get that messy. Besides, being messy means, ya get to take baths. And baths are fun!"
Rarity reluctantly followed Twilight and Starlight over to Applejack and Rainbow Dash, who turned and said. "Oh, hey, Stawwight! Hey Twiwy!"

"Hey, Dashie!" Twirly squealed, hugging her friend. "Dashie, I want ya ta meet my new fwiend Wawity!"

Rarity eyed the pegasus and grumbled. "Dashie?"

Rainbow Dash snorted. "Is short fow Wainbow Dashie, the most awesome foaw ever!" Then she groaned, looking at Rarity. "Ugh, ya fwiend with hew why, Twiwy? She doesn't wook fun."

"Well, ta onwy weapon I here is because of Twiwy!" Rarity argued. "I dun wike ya, ya too messy!"

Applejack waddled over and held up her hooves. "Hey, keep it easy! We can all be friends, no need ta fight."

Dashie hugged Applejack back and jeered at Rarity. "Weww, I wanna introduce my new fwiend Appwejackie! She not care if she gets messy."

The orange-coated little filly threw herself up on her hind legs. "Hewwo, I'm Appwejackie."

"Hi, Appwejackie, I wike ya diapee!" Twilight giggled as she poked her new friend's padding.
Applejack got a little peeved and swiped at Twilight's hoof. "Yeah, it gweat. Mommy buys me ta best diapees, tey cloth. Tough, I wana to be potty trained, like my big body! He sees being potty-twained as ta best ting ever!"

"Oh, ya gots a big body?!" Twilight exclaimed! "I got a big body too! And he also potty-twained!"

"Oh, my big bwuda is Big Mac," Applejack replied. "What is you big buddha's name?"

"He Shiny Amwow!" Twilight beamed. "He's super cool; maybe they can be friends too!"

Starlight sat back, relieved that the four seemed to be getting along. So at this point, she decided it was time to do an activity together. "See, we can all get together! Why dun we shawe ouw bottwes?”

Twilight blushed as she and Rarity swapped bottles and suckled down the contents a little.
Twilight smacked her lips and then asked. "So, tis is ya mommy's miwk?"

Rarity placed her hooves over her face and squeaked! "Yeah! How ya like it?"

Twilight threw her hooves in the air and squealed. "It's gweat! Tastes like sweet tea and cookies!"

The pudgy white unicorn took her new friend's bottle, gave it a few hearty suckles, then exclaimed. "Oh, wow! Your mommy's miwk tastes like mine!"

Rainbow Dash took Applejack's bottle and gave it a few suckles. Her eyes went wide as she continued to drink, and Applejack whined! "Hey, dun dwink aww of it!"

The baby earth pony pulled the bottle from Rainbow Dash's mouth, who blushed and apologized. "Sowwie, but it tasted weawwy good. It tastes awot wike apples…and pears."

Applejack took her bottle and suckled a little. "Huh, it does taste a wittwe wike peaw. Dun know why. We onwy grow apples," Meanwhile, Applejack took Rainbow Dash's bottle then suckled down the contents. "Wow, tastes like pasta!"

Rainbow Dash burst out laughing as milk squirted out of her nose! "Yeah, my mommy wuvs pasta, and I like it too! Makes me super jumpy and helps me fwy!"

Starlight couldn't help but add. "Yeah, Wainbow Dashise is a gweat foyer! She can fly for five minutes now!"

Rarity threw her pudgy hooves across her chest and scoffed. "Yeah, right!"

"Yeah, huh! Just watch!" Rainbow Dash grunted as she fluttered in the air and held herself above the foals for several minutes before plopping onto her padded bottom as she gasped. "Thewe! See?"

Applejack clapped her hooves. "Wow, that's gweat! Maybe ya mommy's milk can help my apple bucking." She then smacked her back hooves against a tower of blocks, making them fall over.
Everypony clapped as Applejack tried to bow but fell back on her flank.

Starlight saw that their bottles were mostly half full, and another idea came to her as she exclaimed. "Otay got an idea! What if we all had a bottle-chugging contest?"

Rainbow squealed! "Yeah, that sounds like fun!"

Rarity seemed the most reluctant and whined. "But if we chug owa miwk, we might spit up, and it'ww get on my diapee."
Twilight poked her friend's padding and giggled. "Ya soggy anyways and gonna get changed. So come on, wet's see who can dwink ta most mommy miwk before ten."

Rarity turned to see the remaining foals waiting for her and sighed. "Fine, but I gonna wose 'cause I dun wike making spit up."

Starlight held up her own bottle. "Awwight, every baby, pick up ya, baba!" Every foal picked up its own bottle and hoisted it to their lips. Starlight then explained. "Otay, hewe ta rules: Ya dwink ya baba until it empty. If ya take ta rubber nipple out of ya mouth, ya worse. If ya spit up, ya worse. Whoeva drinks their baba aww the way twist and doesn't spit up wins."

Rainbow Dash looked up and asked. "what do we win?"

Starlight tapped a hoof to her chin. "How 'bout ya win a dolly I have?!"

"Oh, ya mean ya Wondewbowt plushie?!" Rainbow excitedly asked as her eyes lit up!
Starlight slowly nodded. "Yeah!"

"Otay, weww, I gonna win, ten!" Rainbow squealed before picking up her bottle.

"Awwight," Starlight instructed. "On a count of thwee, ya dwink! One, two, thwee, dwink!"
All three foals started chugging on their bottles of milk immediately afterward. Rarity was the first to lose, pulling her bottle out and giving a small burp as a bit of spit-up came out. Twilight stopped midway as she spat up her milk. Starlight herself couldn't help but burst into laughter with milk squirting from her nose.

So it was down to Applejack and Rainbow Dash, who glared at each other as they chugged their bottles. The other babies watched intently, wondering who would win, but as the two finished, they both slammed their bottles down. But then Applejack gave a hiccup and spat up some milk. Rainbow Dash flew up, squealing! "Yeah! I won! I ta best bottwe chugga eva!"

Starlight nodded. "Guess ya win; I'we give ya my plushie when we get back ta ya nursery."

Rainbow Dash shook her head, held up a plush pegasus, and gave it to her. "Nah, ya keep it. Maybe when ya a big pony, ya wun forget me."

Starlight had tears come in her eyes and wiped them away. "Tanks, Dashie. I've neva forget you."

Rarity was wiping her face with a handkerchief as she asked. "Otay, we did ta gwoss game now. I wanted to build a castle for my plushie Princess Tia. So do you aww wanna help me?"

"Yeah, that sounds like fun!" Applejack cheered as she rushed off to grab blocks.

Rainbow Dash gasped! "Oh, we can make flags with ta hoof paint!"

"That sounds like a gweat idea!" Applejack chimed back.

Meanwhile, Twilight waddled over to Rarity and asked. "Why dun we go find plushies and dress them up in diapees and dresses? A castle needs ponies and otha stuff wike guards and maids."

"Sounds good. Make sure they got diapees! And pretty dresses!" Rarity chirped as she and Twilight waddled off.

Starlight sat back and relaxed before giving a loud belch as she spat up some more.
The foals spent the rest of the afternoon building a castle of giant, multicolored foam blocks, stacking them about. Starlight saw Rainbow Dash hosting her hoof paintings on top of some towers. Meanwhile, Applejack placed plush animals around the castle's exterior. And Twilight and Rarity created a throne of plush animals and a throne for the padded plush Celestia.
Starlight sat back, suckling Windy's milk from a bottle as she admired the castle made of foam blocks. She was surprised at how fast these foals could build this castle and how quickly they became friends.

"Oh my gosh, this is so imaginative!" The foals all turned to Singalee, skipping over as she took pictures of their creation. "I can't wait to show your parents this. But for now, it's nap time!" She then started scooping the babies and checking their diapers as she giggled. "Well, before that diaper changes!"

Singalee bounced to the diaper changing area and, within a few minutes, wiped the foal's bottoms, strapping them up in fresh padding. She then plopped pacifiers in their mouths and settled Starlight and her friends in separate cribs among the dozens of other foals.

The lights in the building began to dim as the sounds of muffled crying and suckling on pacifiers or bottles filled the air. Starlight wasn't annoyed, sighing relief and kicking about in her new padding. She suckled away on her own pacifier, feeling proud of herself for accomplishing her mission as she felt sleep take over. Starlight hugged her Wonderbolt plush tightly and felt her diaper grow warm. She couldn't help but feel relaxed and happy; she'd gotten to experience being a foal and had made many new friends.

Chapter Five: A Meeting of Moms

A few hours later, Windy Whistles and Twilight Velvet came back to the daycare after having lunch together, laughing and talking about their foals. Then the two came upon two other mares who were picking up their foals. One was a peach-colored earth pony with a curly orange mane and bright green eyes. The other was a pudgy pink-coated unicorn with a mass of purple mane on her head, her eyes a shade of blue.

The earth pony was the first to notice them as she turned to see them come in and exclaimed, "Oh, hello! Are you two new to Ponyville?"

Windy put a hoof on her chest. "Oh no, I'm just visiting. I live in Cloudsdale." She then noticed Applejack sleeping on the earth pony mare’s back, suckling on her hoof. Then saw that Rarity was on the unicorn's back, meaning they were most likely the mothers of their respective foals. "I see you have a lovely baby daughter; what's her name?"

The earth pony turned her head and kissed her daughter, then said. "Her name is Applejack, my second foal. Seein’ as my husband and I were only children, we felt our first foal could use a playmate," She turned to face Windy and continued. "My name is Buttercup."

The pink-coated unicorn threw up her hooves and exclaimed. "And I'm Cookie Crumbles. I see you’ve met my daughter, Rarity."

The pegasus shook the unicorn's hoof and squeaked, seeing her shake her hoof pretty hard, "Well, Cookie Crumbles, it's a pleasure to meet you. My name is Windy Whistles, but you can just call me Windy. I’m the mother of Rainbow Dash, or my little Dashie as I like to call her," She hugged her shy friend and then said, "And this here is Twilight Velvet. She actually named her daughter after herself, except her daughter is named Twilight Sparkle."

The gray-coated unicorn held out a hoof and shook Cookie's hoof as well. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Cookie Crumbles. And you too, Buttercup."

Windy looked around the nursery to see most of the foals were playing, but found it odd to see Applejack and Rarity completely zonked out. "It seems that our little foals have been quite rambunctious today."

"Oh yes, they were! It took them forever to finally settle down for a nap!" Singalee exclaimed as she came over with a sleeping Rainbow Dash, Starlight, and Twilight all on her back. The caretaker then hoofed the foals to their respective mothers (with Starlight being hoofed off to Windy).

As Windy placed two of the foals onto her back, she said. "Well, that's great to hear. I'm surprised Rainbow Dash is getting along with so many foals. She doesn't warm up to other babies that often. She’s really shy around strangers, which is funny because once she warms up, there’s no stopping her from talking and flying," She cooed. “But I wouldn’t have her any other way. That’s what makes her the best foal ever!”

Buttercup took something from her mane. "Well, it seems your little Rainbow Dash and my little Applejack got along quite well. If I didn’t know better, I’d swear it was like they knew each other before." She then hoofed them a picture with some messy hoof prints splattered all over it that had been the work of the two tomcoltish little fillies.

Windy couldn't help but put a hoof to her chest and daw at the painting as Buttercup did the same. "Well, seeing as I live quite a ways from Cloudesdale, why don't you keep this one? I’ve already got plenty of hoof paintin’’s back home from Applejack and my other foal: Big Macintosh."

“Fine by me! We already have a ton of hoof paintings from our little Dashie! But I would love to frame this one someday!"

"Oh, why so?" Buttercup questioned.

Windy brushed some of her mane, feeling embarrassed to reveal this. Still, seeing she was among other mothers, she couldn't help but confess her reasoning. "I'm planning to keep a trophy for every first thing Rainbow Dash does: Her first words, her first steps, her first tooth, you name it. When she gets older, I would love to show her all the special little things she's done over the years, that way she never forgets how awesome she is! She’s the only foal I’ll ever be able to have," She blushed. “Since I obviously can’t keep her in diapers forever, preserving the memories of when she was little is the next best thing.”

Buttercup brought a hoof to her face and giggled. "Won't that be rather embarrassing when she's older? I mean, are you gonna keep her first potty chair, her first bib, or the saddlebag from her first day of school?"

Windy blushed and snorted."Maybe not things like that; they’d be pretty hard to preserve. Pictures will have to do. But I think it would be a great way to always remind me of how special she is. She’s gonna grow up so fast; I just know it."

Cookie Crumbles burst out laughing! “Oh, I should do the same for little Rarity here! She's so creative! In fact, she loves to draw me pictures with crayons. She’s such a little artist." The mare then showed off a mass of purple scribbles making the other mares dawn.

It wasn't long until every mare nearby was showing off their foals' "creative" artworks. They were so engrossed in the conversation that it wasn’t until Windy looked up at a clock nearby, saw that they'd been chatting for nearly an hour, and suggested. "Well, we could chat here all day about our adorable foals. But why don't we go somewhere and relax while our babies are napping? Celestia knows we probably all need a break."

Cookie Crumbles gave a long relaxing sigh and said, "Yes, that sounds lovely. Lucky for you, Ponyville has an amazing spa! We can go freshen up there while our foals are napping!"

Twilight Velvet added. "Yes, that sounds great, but who would be watching the foals? I don’t want anything to happen to my little Twilight Sparkle."

Buttercup lifted her head up and suggested. "Oh, my husband is picking up our son from school. We can ask him to watch the foals while we girls have a spa date!"

"That sounds like a plan. Are you sure your husband won't mind?" Windy asked with a worried look on her face. “I know my husband would be overwhelmed having to handle a lot of foals. Celestia knows little Dashie is sometimes too much even for me; she once even managed to tie me up when I was trying to chase after her.”

"Bright Mac will be fine; he knows his way around foals. He comes from a big family. Plus, sometimes he can be quite a foal himself,” Buttercup teased. “Come on now, let's get a move on! We ain’t got all day." Buttercup insisted. She then led the way with the group of mares and their sleeping infants on their backs.

It was a nice trot for the group of mothers as Buttercup led them through Ponyville, occasionally pointing out places of interest such as the local sweetshop Sugarcube Corner or the Golden Oak Library, a library literally built into an old oak tree which Windy found quite impressive.

Eventually, they all came to a massive apple orchard with a farmhouse and an adjacent barn at one end of it. Windy was hit with the smells of apples wafting from the apple trees as they headed into the farmhouse. Within the living room, a bulky (and fairly large) red-coated colt with a blonde mane and green eyes popped out with a smile and chirped, "Hey, Ma!"

"Hello, Little Mac!" The mare scooped the toddler foal into her hooves and held him close to her chest. The colt fought back, whining, "Ma, I told you I’m Big Mac now! I’m just like Pa!"

Buttercup rifled through her son's mane and cooed. "You will always be my Little Mac, whether you like it or not. Besides, you know we talked about this: You’re only young one; you don’t wanna be growin’ up too fast and missin’ out on all the fun things you can only do as a foal."

Windy watched the scene play out, and she couldn't help but place a hoof over her chest and daww. "Awww, so this is Applejack's older brother?"

Buttercup rifled her son's mane and added. "Yeah, he's my little Macintosh and takes after his father. I thought Little Mac would be a fitting name, but he insists on bein’ called Big Mac. We only just finally got him fully potty trained a little while ago, not that we minded."

"Oh, that's adorable!" Cookie Crumbles cooed. “Pretty soon, I know my little Rarity will want to start potty training. She absolutely hates using her diapers, even when she can’t help it.”

The little colt pouted and stomped his pudgy hooves and whined. "Nah, uh! I'm not adorable, I Big Mac! Stop makin’ fun of me!"

Just then, a massive, broad-chested yellow-coated stallion with a bright red mane trotted into the living room. He smiled at his wife and asked. "Buttercup, what's goin’ on? Who are these ponies? I thought you were just pickin’ up Applejack, not bringin’ back an entire daycare!"

The mare looked lovingly at her husband and explained. "Oh, these are some other mares I met at the daycare, Bright Mac," She nuzzled her husband's nuzzle, kissed him and said, "They have foals of their own. And lucky for us, they’re all tuckered out from playing all day. It seems like they really had fun together, I think they might have become friends."

"Well, that's good to hear," Bright Mac sighed in relief. “Just keepin’ an eye on Little Mac and Applejack is exhaustin’ enough.”

Buttercup looked a little guilty and continued. "Well, the girls and I want to go have a spa date if that's ok with you. And we were hopin’ you’d maybe look after the foals for us."

Bright Mac started looking frazzled, then stammered, "....Mm, I um…I don't think I'm well equipped to handle five foals all by myself. And I don’t think Little Mac’s gonna be much help; he’s only a toddler, after all. Just ‘cause he’s not in diapers anymore doesn’t mean he doesn’t still need tendin’ to from time to time."

Buttercup waved a hoof. "From what we were told at the daycare, they played all day and just started their naps, so I'm sure they'll be mostly asleep while we're gone. Besides, we won’t be gone that long, really. Just ensure their diapers are clean, and give them a milk bottle if they get fussy. I left plenty in the fridge this mornin’; it should be just what they need for nutrition."

Bright Mac seemed to relax, then said. "Don't worry, I've taken care of Little Mac… I mean Big Mac and Applejack before. You go on and have fun." He quickly corrected himself when he saw the look his son had given him.

"Thank you, I'll pay you back later! Just name your price!" Buttercup whispered as she kissed Bright Mac, and then she and the other mares took their foals upstairs. They then separated the babies into two spare cribs, with Twilight, Starlight, and Rarity in one and Applejack and Rainbow Dash in the other.

Big Mac then hopped over to get a better look at the sleeping babies. "Wow, they're so cute! What’re their names?"

Windy showed off her babies and pointed them out, "The pegasus is Rainbow Dash, and this little pink unicorn is Starlight Glimmer. Apparently, little Starlight got separated from her parents, so my husband and I are taking care of her until we can reunite her with her family."

Twilight Velvet nudged her daughter and said. "And this little unicorn is Twilight. Twilight Sparkle named her after myself," She then giggled. “It’s funny; you remind me a lot of my other foal. His name is Shining Armor, and like you, he tries to act older than he really is. I haven’t even gotten him fully potty trained yet; he’s still having some problems because I gave birth to him sooner than I expected,” A smile formed on her face. “But I’m sure he’ll be just as good a big brother to Twilight as I’m sure you are to Applejack.”

Big Mac was wide-eyed as he asked. "Wow! So they're Applejack's friends now? My sister has friends?"

Windy paused and then said. "Yes, I believe so. The caretaker told us they were inseparable."

Twilight Velvet then suggested. “Would you like to meet my little Shining Armor? I think he’d love to have a playmate his own age for once.”

Buttercup looked at Twilight Velvet and asked. "What if we set up playdates here after daycare? Would that be ok?”

"Of course,” Twilight Velvet proposed. “I'll talk to my husband about seeing when we can bring Shining over. Maybe he’ll pick up a few things about how to use the potty from Big Mac."

The little colt started to bounce up and down in excitement, then his mother nuzzled him and said. "Alright, we're goin’ to go out for a bit, but we’ll be back. You go help Daddy with the chores, ok? You also better be on your best behavior while I'm gone. Don’t give your daddy a hard time while he’s takin’ care of the foals. If he asks you to help him out, you gotta do your best to help, okay?"

"Ok, Mama, I'll be good!" Big Mac chimed back.

Buttercup then kissed her colt on the forehead and watched him run downstairs and towards the apple orchard outside. Once Big Mac was gone, the mares all trotted off to the spa.

An hour after they had left Sweet Apple Acres, Windy and the mothers were relaxing in a massive hot tub with green mud masks on. Windy felt relieved, having had a chance to preen and have her hooves manicured, something she’d never been able to find the time for caring for Rainbow Dash up to this point. She almost wondered if a few gray hairs would start forming in her rainbow mane due to how exhausting caring for Rainbow was.

Now Windy was relaxing, soaking up the steamy water filled with calming bath salts. After an hour of near silence, Windy started to talk with the other mares as Buttercup asked. "So, Windy tell me, where did you come from?"

"Oh, isn't it obvious? I'm from Cloudsdale," Windy boasted. “For me, it’s the only place to be!”

"Oh, and what brought you to Ponyville?" Buttercup asked. “We don’t tend to get a lot of pegasi, aside from those who work on our weather team.”

Windy gulped and paused for a second, knowing she couldn't reveal everything about how she was trying to help a bunch of time travelers. "Well, I, um…came to visit a friend Eliabzeth Whooves and she was the one who told me about the nursery here."

Cookie gasped! "Oh, I know her! She's a friend of mine as well. She moved here about a month ago. She had a baby colt, correct?"

Windy gave a curt nod. "Yes, she does. He's quite a genius for his age, and he’s not even out of diapers yet.."

Twilight Velvet rolled her eyes and scoffed. "My daughter is way smarter than him. She probably already knows her letters and numbers. She probably won’t even need to go into kindergarten; she’ll be old enough for grade school as soon as she’s out of diapers; that’s how smart she is!"

Windy could help but laugh at Twilight Velvet getting jealous over her daughter and exclaimed, "Oh, don't get jealous; we all think our babies are the best!"

Cookie casually threw a hoof as she replied, "I'm not jealous. My little Rarity is perfect the way she is. She’s always really good at letting me know whenever she needs anything, the only time she ever makes a fuss is when I have to change her diapers," She then let out a relaxing sigh. "Whether our babies are perfect or not, you have to admit It's nice to relax and not worry about them. Being a mother is exhausting. It feels like I’ve aged almost a hundred years!"

Buttercup then placed a hoof over face with a guilty expression. "Oh yes, you're right. I just hope my husband can handle things. Leaving him with five babies might've been a bad idea now that I think about it."

Twilight Velvet came closer to Buttercup and tried to reassure her. "Oh, I'm sure he's fine. If he's anything like my hubby Night Light, he's taking fatherhood well. Night Light is the best husband I could’ve asked for; he’s so organized."

Buttercup turned her attention toward Twilight Velvet and asked. "You mentioned you have a son as well? Tell us more about him."

"Ah yes, my little Shining Armor,” Twilight Velvet cooed. “He's quite the rambunctious colt. He loves to play games involving him saving a princess from a dragon. Even though he's not yet in kindergarten, he seems to have a knack for helping other foals even if he gets in trouble."

"Wow!” Buttercup exclaimed. “My Little Mac is going to be in kindergarten soon! I just know he’ll do well."

"That's wonderful!" Twilight Velvet chirped. “Hopefully, in another year or so, Shining will be ready for kindergarten too.”

Cookie then turned to Twilight Velvet and asked. "So, where are you from again?"

"Canterlot," Twilight Velvet explained. “Have you been there? It’s a truly lovely place any time of year. We even use magic to change the seasons; there’s no hassle, and seasons don’t overstay their welcome.”

"You don't say! My grandmother is from Canterlot!” Cookie Crumbled pointed out. “She moved to Ponyville years ago after she retired from working in a boutique. I think she’s who my little Rarity inherited her fashion sense from,” She giggled and then asked. “I've never visited the city myself. How is it?"

The other unicorn sipped beneath the water a little, seeming to be a bit shy. "Oh, it's not all that special, full of stuffy ponies who think they're better than everypony else. But it is quiet up there, so there aren’t that many distractions. Now if only I could find a foalsitter who wasn’t so full of themselves. It would give me more time to work on my novels.".

"Oh, what do you write?" Cookie Crumbles asked. “Perhaps I’ve read some of them?”

Velvet blushed. "Romance novels, mostly. But I have started dipping my hooves into children’s fantasy because of Shining and Twilight. I even won the Daring Do Award for excellence in children’s fiction not too long ago."

Buttercup was now interested as she approached the unicorn., "Oh, you must recommend some of your stories. Maybe they’ll help my son get more into readin’."

"Of course, I'll be sure you'll enjoy my latest book,” Velvet commented. “It's about a mare from a rich family, stuck on a cruise ship with a poor stallion. But the boat gets struck by an iceberg and now the ship is slowly sinking into the sea."

Cookie clapped her hooves over her mouth and cried, "Oh my! Sounds romantic and thrilling!"

"Yes, it was recently published, and it seems to be doing pretty well." Velvet commented

Windy couldn't help but giggle at seeing how the other mares were gushing over Twilight Velvet's new book: It seemed she had laid the seeds of their friendship that would help get Starlight and her friends home. "I don't mean to interrupt, but seeing how we all have foals, I thought we could have them have a big playdate."

Cookie got excited and squealed. "Like a giant party?!"

"Yes, a giant party,” Windy proposed. “I might have to invite a few others if that's ok? And I think the best place to host it at is Buttercup's house: Sweet Apple Acres.”

"Yes, that sounds lovely!” Twilight Velvet suggested. “Let's schedule a date when my husband and I aren't busy. Maybe I’ll even be able to bring Shining along so he and Big Mac can play together."

Windy was thrilled to see all of the mares were excited as her, and for the rest of the afternoon, the mares chatted and discussed the details of the party.

After the spa trip, Windy returned to Elizabeth Hooves's home with Starlight in tow. She had Twilight Velvet keep the real baby Twilight and her daughter at Sweet Apple Acres. She didn't feel that keeping the actual foals and time travelers separate was the best course of action.

That evening as the mares had their foals all around a table, being spoon-fed foal food for dinner as they talked, Windy explained, "So, this Friday evening, we're having a massive party for all the foals. And I bet if we can get all of Twilight's friends to come to this party, I assume it will help get all the time travelers back home."

Starswirl then cleared his throat, and everypony turned their attention to the baby colt who said. "Yes, I tink with ta pwans in pwace, ta time machine is weady. We ampwified it to utiwize ta magic fwom ta ewements of hawmony to give it enough enewgy to send us back home."

"Yeah, guess science and magic can work together." Dr. Whooves admitted with a cute pout.

Twilight sighed in relief. "Bout time you two stopped fighting. It was dwiving me cwazy," She then placed her hooves onto her food tray. "But we stiww need to find two mowe of my fwiends: Pinkie Pie and Fwuttewshy. Also, we gotta get ta ewements of hawmony, then put them back."

Starlight was sucking on a bottle as she listened and popped it out to say. "Otay, so we should split up and get everything ready before ta meetup, wight?”

Twilight nodded. "Yeah. And whiwe ya was aww doing youw own ting, I spent my time making these," She took out six rattles. They each had a different color and symbol: "Ya see when my baby sewf and her friends twuwy become fwiends, tey wiww need ta ewements of hawmony next to them. But we dun want ta foaws to know bout them yet or twy to eat tem, seeing that tey awe babies. So when we get ta ewements, we'ww put them into ta wattwes, then tat enewgy wiww be magicawwy winked to ta time machine."

Windy was blown away by this ingenious idea as she whispered. "Did you think of all that yourselves?"

Twilight started to get excited, bouncing up and down as she continued. "Yeah! So Dw. Whooves, Stawsiww, and I wiww get ta ewements, while Stawwight and Windy should go get ta west of my friends! We'll be back to owa owiginaw timewines in no time!"

Windy was impressed by the plan and couldn't help but compliment the little filly wiping her mouth and ruffling her mane. "Wow, Twilight Velvet wasn't kidding! Her daughter is smart! Such a smarty pants you are!"

"Stop it! Ya gonna make me pee!" Twilight giggled as she kicked about in her diaper.

Windy smirked, giving the padding a few pats. "I think it's already too late for that!" She then started to tickle the filly with the tips of her wings until there was a hiss. After changing the filly's diaper, Windy added, "Actually, lucky for you, I know Fluttershy's mother, Vaporous. She and her husband work at the weather factory. Her daughter Fluttershy goes to the same daycare I take Rainbow Dash to. But then that leaves Pinkie Pie. Where is she right now?"

Twilight turned to face the pegasus and instructed. "She's aww ta way at a wock farm in ta south. I'll give ya an addwess fwom what I wemembew, but she shouwd be easy to get to come over. Pinkie Pie wouwd nevew miss a pawty, no mattew wha. But hew pawents awe anothew issue. Tey wiww be hawd to convince to wet their baby go to a party with a gwoup of ponies tey neva met before."

Windy shrugged as she plopped a bottle into Twilight's mouth and let the filly suckle down the contents. "I'm sure we can convince Pinkie Pie's parents to join the playdate, so there's no need to worry. Just focus on getting the Elements of Harmony…though I'm not really sure sending a group of foals into the Everfree Forest is a good idea."

Elizabeth was midway spoon-feeding her son when she scoffed. "There's just timberwolves. We can take care of them. I'll keep these foals safe."

"Yeah, I gots a few twicks up my diapee fow tose timbewwowves!" Starswirl chirped, then the tired-looking colt let out a yawn.

Starlight yawned too, and stretched her stubby limbs. "Weww, I had a wong day. Why dun we do aww tat tomorwow? I tink we gots a good pwan."

Windy flew over, wiped the baby unicorn's face, and said. " Yes, let's get your foals to sleep and into fresh diapers, then it's off to get back to your original timelines!"

The foals all cheered, except Starlight who looked sheepish as Windy gave Starlight a bottle of her milk. And it was only a short time until all four babies were guzzling down bottles of mare milk. They were then given diaper changes and were carried upstairs into an improvised nursery, where the foals were all tucked into Dr. Whooves' crib.

Windy stayed behind as Elizabeth went downstairs to clean up and keep an eye on the foals as they slept. Despite knowing Starlight wasn't her daughter, she couldn't feel connected to her now, seeing how much she cared for her. Maybe one day she would meet Starlight's mom, and they could share their adorable stories about the cute little pink baby unicorn. But for now, she'd relish every moment she could with her foster daughter.

Chapter Six: Starlight vs Twilight

The next day came rather quickly, and early that morning, Starlight was strapped to Windy's side and flown across the clouds. They came to a lovely home in the clouds with a beautiful garden outside and small clouds hovering over the flowers, constantly watering them. Starlight was somewhat amazed by everything she saw as the mare crossed the front door and knocked on it.

Windy was greeted by a dark yellow coated pegasus mare with a dark red mane, magenta-colored eyes, and sporting a pair of thick-rimmed green glasses. The mare meekly opened the door. "Oh, hello. I wasn't expecting company."

Rainbow Dash's mom gently waved a hoof back with a cheerful smile, then said. "Sorry to intrude, but we've met before. My name is Windy."

The other pegasus mare’s eyes widened and then she cried! "Oh yes, you're Rainbow Dash's mom, right?"

Windy pointed a hoof at her chest. "Yes, that's me!"

The dark yellow coated pegasus mare flew over with a smile and shook her hoof. "Well, Windy, my name is Posey Shy, but please just call me Posey. Now come on in. I was just making some tea," She then led Windy into her house with Starlight bouncing along. As they entered a quaint living room, Posey continued to explain. "My husband is still at the weather factory right now. And Zephyr, my son, is at a daycare nearby. Since we’re going to start potty training Fluttershy soon, we don’t want him to get jealous or feel like we’re neglecting him. So it’s easier to have other ponies watch over him."

"Seems like us moms can have some time to ourselves." Windy chirped as she followed Posey to the kitchen; the two sat across each other and sipped their tea.

Posey then bent her head down and asked. "It seems so. What brought you over today?"

"Well, I thought we could have a playdate,” Windy explained. “But not with Rainbow Dash. In fact, I actually brought another foal by, and it’s very important that she meets with you," She took out the baby unicorn from the foal carrier and introduced her. "This is Starlight Glimmer."

The foal kicked about, her face turning red as the pegasus hugged her close and dawwed, "Oh, she's adorable! You adopted another foal, Windy?"

Windy seemed to be a bit worried as she replied. "Well, until I can find her mother."

"Oh, she's lost?! Oh dear." Posey exclaimed with noticeable worry!

Starlight looked up to Windy, wondering if she'd expose the truth about her and why she was here.

"Well, yes,” Windy continued. “But we’re close to finding her. In the meantime, I think a foal playdate with some other babies would be good for her, and I was hoping to invite your baby, Fluttershy. I know she and Rainbow Dash get along nicely."

"Well, I would be okay with…but Fluttershy is quite shy, and… well…" Posey looked all around and then said. “You don't need to lie. I also found a lost foal."

"Really?!" Windy exclaimed in disbelief as her wings unfolded to either side of her!

"Yes, but be prepared, because she's unlike anything you've seen,” Posey cautioned. “But I love her regardless."

Starlight gulped, wondering who this lost foal was and why they were here. She doubted it was Pinkie Pie (which would make Starlight’s task of uniting the rest of Twilight’s friends as foals easier).

Everypony then went to Fluttershy's nursery with Posey leading the way. It looked adorable, with the walls painted to look like a sunlit meadow covered in flowers and bunnies. The carpet was plush green, with a pink crib and diaper-changing table in the back of the room.

Starlight was plopped onto the ground and squeaked upon seeing a butter yellow coated baby pegasus playing with blocks, alongside a familiar-looking light purple coated foal with a dark purple and pink striped mane. The little filly eyed them as Starlight was plopped near the other babies, seeing it was another Twilight Sparkle! But seeing as this one was an alicorn and giving her a cold stare, Starlight figured this one had to be the one she’d gone back in time with!

Starlight looked agape with her mouth as Posey continued. "There was also this weird egg. Never seen anything like it."

"An egg? How odd,” Windy remarked. “Did you tell anypony else about this by any chance?"

"Well, I did tell Princess Celestia,” Posey sheepishly confessed. “And she's informed me to keep this foal under my protection and a secret from other ponies until she can inquire about the situation. In fact, she told me in advance you might come by."

"And what did you name the filly?" Windy inquired.

Posey flashed a polite smile, "Well, I was recently told her name was Twilight Sparkle, but I like calling her Poofy Shy. It just feels right."

Twilight instinctively threw her wings over her face as this got a laugh out of Starlight, who giggled behind her hooves.

Windy was rather surprised as she had now seen two other baby versions of this pony, and asked. "Oh, why's that?"

Posey threw her hooves in the air and explained, "Because she magically poofs everywhere! She's such a little troublemaker, constantly trying to escape. But she's such great friends with Fluttershy, they're practically sisters."

"Well, why don't we let the foals play together? And we can talk about the situation we’re in,” Windy suggested “…there's much to catch you up on."

"Of course! In fact, we should talk about Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash having a playdate together!" Posey chirped! “They get along so well.”

As Windy took Posey away and closed the door behind them, Starlight instantly gulped, fearing what Twilight would say. She reluctantly held her hooves up and explained, "Twily, don’t be mad, I can explain!"

But the alicorn flew upwards, lighting up her horn and sending a blast of magic at Starlight, slamming into Starlight’s chest and knocking the unicorn foal into a pile of plushies.

Fluttershy gasped and cried! "Twily, why ya attacking ta other baby?"

"She not a baby!” The alicorn Twilight huffed. “She an aduwt who got tuwned into a baby, and she ta reason why I here and Spike is back in an egg!"

Starlight got up from the plushies, wiped some stuffing off her face, and then shouted. "Stop, Twily, ya gots to listen to me! Pwease!"

Twilight refused to do so, instead trying to cage Straight in a magic bubble.

But Starlight squinted, used whatever stamina she had to teleport, and ended up in the crib. She then brought a plush bunny near her, protecting herself from another blast of magic. She then sent her own shot of magic, knocking Twilight out of the sky as she teleported on top of her.

The baby alicorn replied by teleporting Starlight into the diaper changing cabinet, which exploded with foal powder, covering the two in the powdery substance along with a portion of the nursery. With the powder in the air causing them to constantly sneeze, and with their uncontrolled bursts of magic, they teleport all over the room as they blasted each other with beams of magic.

It didn't take long for the two foals to be tired from their fight; they were now in the playpen, with Fluttershy sitting back with tears, crying a little.

Twilight flew down and then pinned Starlight to the ground as she took out a feather from her wing and growled, "Finally! Now ya gonna talk! Why ya bring us tis far in ta past. Stawwight?!"

The pink-coated unicorn then sneezed and whined. "I didn't! In fact, ya not ta only one twapped hewe!"

"Oh ya?!” Twilight rolled her eyes. “Who else is twapped in time as babies?"

Starlight had to think for a second as she listed off the names. "Well, there's Stawswirl, Dr. Whooves, and there's even yaself!"

Twilight then took her feather and started tickling Starlight's belly, making her kick and giggle uncontrollably. "Why ya tickling me?!"

Twilight smirked. "Gonna make ya pee pee ya diapee unless ya tell me ta truth!"

The unicorn rolled her eyes. "I am! I not lying! Tat’s all who awe twapped with me!"

"Otay, so ya telling me ta greatest sorcerer in Equestria turned himself into a baby?!" Twilight rolled her eyes in disbelief.

"Yes!" Starlight cried out.

"Sounds wike a lie to me!" Twilight tickled her more as Starlight squeaked, feeling some pee hit her diaper. This continued until it was soaked, and she then whined. "How am I gonna make ya believe me if ya keep doing tat?! Now I need a diapee change!"

Twilight paused, then shrugged. "I dun know. Ya an aduwt, so peeing ya diapee is embarrassing fow ya."

Starlight rolled her eyes as she got up. "I've done tat wike a thousand times since being stuck wike tis, pwus going number two! Ya tink I scared of a wittle pee pee?"

The baby alicorn thought about this briefly, then slammed a hoof into her. "Now tat ya mention it, yeah. And is not wike I can make go poo poo," She then looked up and asked. "Why did it take you so long to find us hewe? What have ya been doin’?"

The light purple coated unicorn poked her hoof into her belly and cried. "I a baby now! And I being babied by one of ya fwiends moms! I can't just waddle about by mysewf! I’ve been twying to fix things."

Twilight stopped, then helped Starlight up. "Otay. Sorry bout making ya go pee pee in ya diapee. I just want to get back to being a big pony and get Spike out of his egg." She then pointed to a massive purple egg with green spots in a nest surrounded by two plush geese.

Fluttershy waddled over, sniffling, and explained. "Yeah, ta mama goose is protecting Spikey. He otay."

Starlight looked a bit ashamed as she nevertheless said. "Well, dun worry, we got a plan to help ya and Spike get back to your timeline, and hopefully, you two will be back to how you were befowe we time twaveled. But ta do tat, we need Fwuttershy's help."

"Why? Ya not planning to tell her bout ta futuwe, awe ya?" Twilight questioned. “Ya know what tat couwd do, wight?!”

"Of course I not tewwing hew!” Starlight protested. “We just twying to get ya friends togetha to use the Ewements of Hawmony to make baby Dr. Whooves' time machine work, then we can aww go home!"

"Oooh! Tat;s a cwazy plan." Twilight remarked.

Starlight nodded. "Yeah, and there's awso another you in Ponyville."

Twilight gasped in disbelief! "Wait, does tis othew me have wings?"

"No." Starlight replied.

Twilight's cheeks flushed red, as if she’d remembered something embarrassing., "Oh, I tink I know her…uh…weww. How can I hewp ya aww?"

Starlight then pinned Twilight. "Before tat, ya gettin payback fow what ya made me do!" And she managed to pull a feather off of one of Twilight’s wings. She tickled Twilight's belly, making her kick and giggle. "Stop!"

Twilight tried to teleport away, but Starlight wasn't letting up. They teleported about the nursery until Starlight tackled the baby alicorn, pinned her down, and tickled her belly relentlessly. Twilight started to kick, gurgle and squeak as she peed her diaper, making her cry, "Ugh! Hate when I do tat!"

Starlight let up, then stuck her tongue out and snapped. "Get used to it, baby!"

Twilight looked down at her own soggy padding and grumbled, "I dun tink I eva gonna get used ta being in diapees again. I wish I was at weast potty twained."

Starlight helped Twilight onto her hooves, then whispered. "I do too. But I sowwie for doing tis to ya and Spikey. Twuth is, I was trying to go back to when you were school foals. That way it’d mess with Wainbow Dash and stop hew fwom doing ta Sonic Rainboom tat helped ya six become fwiends. But," She blushed. “It backfiwed.”

Twilight eyed the unicorn. "Is tat because ya was mad we stopped ya from taking ponies cutie marks in ya viwwage?"'

"Yeah, and I'm sowwie,” Starlight sincerely apologized. “Vengeance bwinded me, and I wasn't tinking wight. I twying to make up fow it now."

"Otay, and do ta other time travelers know about what ya was doing?" Twilight inquired.

Starlight shook her head from side to side. "I scared tat if tey find out, tey not gonna be my friends, or tink I just twicking tem."

"Well, as wong as ya pwan to go with me to ta right part of our timeline, I tink we should tell ta other time travelers ta truth. But I sowie fow fightin' ya and making ya pee."

Starlight nodded and hugged the baby alicorn. And Twilight wrapped her wings around Starlight. They stayed like that for a few moments, and then the baby alicorn asked. "So, wanna cwy until we get changed?"

"Is fine, wet ta mommies tawk,” Starlight proposed. “Why dun we play with Fwuttewshy until tey come back?" And the two age-regressed adults then went to play with plush animals with Fluttershy.

Twilight looked towards the pegasus as they played and apologized. "Sowie fow fighting and makin’ ya cwy."

"It's otay,” Fluttershy nodded back. “I just scawed, but I not anymowe. So if ya two awe dun, can we go back to pwaying together?"

Starlight now felt bad about making the pegasus cry. "Hey Fwuttewshy, I sowie too. Twily had evewy wight to attack me….I didn't come back in time with hew fow any good weason."

Fluttershy stuck a hoof in her mouth with a confused look and asked. "Ten why ya did tat? Did ya want to be a baby again?"

Twilight and Starlight looked at each other, and then Twilight replied. "Uh, we can't tell ya, we fwom ta futuwe. We can't tell ya too much ow that might cause pwobwems. But I tink tat Stawwight weawned her wesson."

The baby unicorn gave a few nods, showing off her diaper. "Yeah, I paying fow my actions now."

Fluttershy giggled and clapped her hooves. "Ya two are funny! Ya so wowwied bout diaper changes. Just cwy and ya mommies wiww come by to get ya cweaned.”

"We will, but tey talkin and owa diapees can withstand another soak,” Twilight explained. “So why dun we just pway and wait untiw tey come back?"

The unicorn with a light purple coat was happy to be getting along with the other foals, and she bounced on her padding. "Yeah, wet’s build a castwe fow our pwush animals!"

"Sounds wike a gweat idea!" The pegasus squealed as she clapped her hooves together.

The three foals then started to build little houses of blocks for their plush animals.

An hour later, the two motherly mares came back into the nursery, happy to see the foals all placing their plush toys in houses made of baby blocks. But they also became concerned upon seeing foal powder everywhere and the walls covered in blast marks.

With a sheepish grin, Windy blushed. "Seems like the foals are getting along well."

"Yes, it seems so,” Posey commented. “But it looks like they had a battle too, didn’t they?"

Windy shrugged her shoulders. "They probably just tested their magic. Seems like only a few containers of foal powder were harmed. It reminds me of my little Dashie, she loves to practice her flying everywhere. She’s always making messes and getting into trouble, and I’ll bet it’s the same for these little magic users," Then she sniffed the air and said. "I believe they need diaper changes."

"Yes, let's get that done," Posey agreed. The two mares then went about giving all three foals diaper changes. And Posey was wiping down her daughter, she asked Windy. "So remind me again, this big playdate is set for Friday?"

"Yes, and thank you for coming to help get these little time travelers home." Windy chirped as she wiped down Starlight.

"Alright, but it amazes me that so many adults turned into foals have traveled this far in the past,” Posey commented with concern. “Has Princess Celestia figured out why this happened yet?"

Windy was powdering Starlight's flank and shrugged. "Well, I’m not sure. It's strange but I feel as if my daughter might be in the middle of all of this."

"Interesting theory." Posey mumbled as she started changing Twilight's diaper.

"Well, this all started when Starlight here appeared, and after that, I've been caught up in this age regression time travel spree." Windy explained.

Posey was finishing Twilight's diaper change, then started tickling the filly's belly, making her giggle and coo adorably. "Well, they can all appear on my doorstep if they’d like. Twilight here has been nothing but a bundle of joy."

Rainbow Dash's mom was looking around the nursery and asked. "Is she always this destructive?"

"Trust me, I'm used to it," Posey chirped as she gave Twilight a pat on her padded bottom, then had her spit up. "She always gets gassy after using a lot of magic."

Starlight burst out into a fit of giggles, and Windy herself couldn't help but chuckle under her breath. "Crazy, there's three baby Twilights now."

"Three?!" Posey squealed in excitement, and started bouncing up and down as she cried, "Oh my gosh, can I come to see the other two?!"

Windy was also still surprised by this information and squeaked, "Yes, of course you can, you should come to Ponyville soon!"

Posey paused and tapped a hoof to her chin. "Well, I should talk this over with my husband and make sure we get a sitter for Zephyr."

Fluttershy's mom returned Twilight to Windy. "Hopefully you'll remember me, because I'm never going to forget you," She tickled her belly as she giggled and cooed. Posey then gave Windy the egg wrapped up in a sack and then escorted her out to the front door. "Have a safe flight, and please bring Rainbow Dash next time!"

"I will! I can't wait to see Rainbow Dash make so many new friends. And please come by Ponyville as soon as you can!" Windy chirped as she flew through the skies.

Chapter Seven: Tale of Two Twilights

The following morning came, and once more all the foals were together having breakfast together, along with the new baby alicorn Twilight everypony was gawking at. Meanwhile, the baby alicorn Twilight was still just staring at her unicorn twin chomping away at her baby oatmeal and being spoon fed by Elizabeth Whooves. Overall, this had been quite an embarrassing experience seeing herself as a baby. "So, I'm gonna take a wild guess ya try to go back in time, right?" She asked the unicorn.

The unicorn nodded. "Yeah."

"And it was when you thought something bad was gonna happen?" Twilight questioned.

"Yeah, I should have gone back in time only a week to try to stop something from happening. The last ting I member was sneaking into Canterlot Castle and using a time travel spell cweated by Stawswirl." Unicorn Twilight answered.

The young sorcerer's cheeks flushed pink as he said. "Hey, dun blame me fow ya tuwning back into a baby."

"Of course not! I pwobabwy did ta speww wong or somethin'." Unicorn Twilight squeaked, as she did not mean to insult her idol.

Doctor Whooves nodded, then asked. "Yes, I agree. So ya know owa pwan, wight?"

"Yes, ya gonna use ta ewements of hawmony to get ya time machine to send us to owa wight pawts in the timewine." Unicorn Twilight explained.

The alicorn Twilight nodded along, then as she was getting spoofed some baby oatmeal, she noticed her already soggy diaper and sighed. "Otay, so tat solves tat problem, but there's one ting you aww seem to be fowgetting," They all looked unsure as the alicorn Twilight flailed her wings and patted her diaper. "We babies! How we gonna tuwn back to big ponies?"

They all paused, and then Starswirl cleared his throat. He raised a hoof. "Tat… tat's a good question."

Dr. Whooves raised a hoof next. "Well, I hate to say tis, but I tink getting back ta owa timewines is mowe impowtant than changing back to aduwts. As babies, we awen't causing too many changes in ta timewine."

"Besides diapee changes." Unicorn Twilight blurted out. This got a giggle from the rest of the foals as Dr. Whooves rolled his eyes. "Except fow diapee changes, yes. Weww, as I was saying, we will cause fewer pwoblems for ta timeline wike tis ten as aduwts. We all gots to find ways to turn into big ponies after we aww weturn to owa parts in ta timeline.”

The other babies all seemed to nod along, agreeing silently.

Starswirl was suckling on his hoof with some drool coming down his chin, deep in thought, and said. "As much as I hate to admit it, the smarty pamps is wight. We have maybe altewed ta fate of Equestria already by being hewe. As babies tough, the impact might be limited compared to if we wewe still adults."

The alicorn Twilight couldn't help but blush at seeing one of the smartest and most powerful unicorns reduced to an adorable, babbling foal.

Elizabeth then went about and finished feeding the foals baby oatmeal. Afterward, they were all set in a playpen together. "Now you all play here while I finish packing for the trip into the Everfree Forest."

The foals all replied. "Yes, Elizabeth."

She then bent down to her son and booped his nose. "You don't call me Elizabeth; you call me Mama."

"Yes, Mama." The doctor whined, making the other foals giggle. Then their caretaker trotted off upstairs, and the foals went about the playpen. Starswirl went towards Dr. Whooves, and Starswirl started looking over some plans written in crayon.

Alicorn Twilight then waddled to her counterpart, and they decided to try reading a Daring Do picture book together. They couldn't read the words but enjoyed looking at the pictures. Seeing that Starswirl and Dr Whooves started arguing about science and magic again, the alicorn Twilight thought about Starlight and her involvement in their current predicament. She wondered if she should tell her counterpart about her and whispered. "I gots to ask. Are you aware bout Starwight?"

"What bout her?" Unicorn Twilight asked.

The baby alicorn paused; she wanted to warn her counterpart about Starlight as she didn't fully trust her intentions. "I guess I'ww let hew explain when she gets back fwom Pinkie's rock fawm. But ya gots to be careful bout twusting hew, otay."

"Um, otay, I'ww take ya word seeing ya me…." The unicorn Twilight started to bounce on her diaper and looked nervous as she asked. "But, um, can I ask a question?"

The alicorn Twilight had a feeling her counterpart wanted to know how she ended up as an alicorn, but still sighed and said. "Otay, tat’s fine."

"So I shouwdn't know how ya became a baby awicown?” Unicorn Twilight asked.

The baby alicorn booped herself and then said. "Sowwie, tat spoiwews."

"Wight…but got to ask. Can't ya just give me a hint?" Unicorn Twilight insisted.

"Sowie, but not gonna say anyting about ta futuwe, otay?” Alicorn Twilight pointed out. “Ya seeing me might be messing with a timewine aweady. I dun wanna make it wowse."

"Wight…bu ya gonna hewp find ta ewements tough, wight?" Unicorn Twilight asked again, more uncertain this time.

The alicorn Twilight shrugged. "Seeing Dr. Whooves' time machine, I guess it might be ta onwy way fow us to get home."

"Yeah, tat twue. You tink we have a good plan?" Unicorn Twilight somewhat nervously questioned.

The alicorn Twilight nodded, "It's a good plan, I dun have anyting against tat. It might be owa only chance to get back home."

"Also, I gotta ask, how ya feewing ‘bout being a baby again?" Unicorn Twilight asked her alicorn self.

The little baby's alicorn cheeks flushed pink as she admitted. "I gotta say, is been nice. And I wouldn't mind staying as a foal for a bit longer, even if I gotta go twough potty twaining again."

"Me too! It's been so fun going to daycawe and pwaying with othew babies!" The other Twilight chimed in as she bounced on her padded bottom.

Elizabeth Whooves then trotted back downstairs with a four-seated stroller. "Alright, little ones, it's time to get going!" She declared.

"Yes, Mws. Ewizabeth!" All the foals chimed together.

Elizabeth then strapped the foals into the stroller and secured the buckles with the alicorn Twilight sitting between the other Twilight and Starswirl. As Elizabeth instructed, They were given pacifiers and a plush toy to cuddle with on the journey. "Now, before we go, I want to go over some rules: I know you were all adults before, but remember that you’re foals now, so you have to do as I say." The foals all nodded slowly as she listed her rules, which boiled down to keeping within her sight at all times and remaining in the stroller unless she allowed them to get out.

But the alicorn Twilight was getting rather tired, and her eyes drooped; she then snuggled into her padded seat, and with the gentle rocking of the stroller as it headed through Ponyville, the little filly was rocked to sleep.

As Elizabeth Whooves trotted through the Everfree Forest, pushing her charges through, the howls of timberwolves could be heard from nearly every direction. It was making the foals all tremble in fear. But Elizabeth replied in a hushed tone, "It's ok, they won't hurt you. Not while I'm here." One timberwolf did indeed pop out, but Elizabeth took out a weird contraption on her head. She lit it up and zapped the wolf with a bolt of lightning, and the creature scurried off!

Seeing that Elizabeth could indeed keep the timberwolves away, the foals seemed to relax. But then the mare sniffed the air and took a break for diaper changes and some quick snacking on bottles. As Elizabeth was changing Starswirl's diaper, the baby alicorn Twilight was getting wide-eyed at the baby Starswirl. "I can't believe my eyes! Ya weally baby Starswiwl!"

The colt's cheeks became red (seeing as he was in the middle of a diaper change and everything). "Yeah, and dun teww ponies bout tis, otay?!" He firmly demanded.

Elizabeth chuckled. "Oh, how can we not talk about the adorable Starswirl the Padded?!" She bent down and blew a raspberry into his belly, making the foal kick and giggle delightfully. She then finished wiping him down and strapping him in a fresh diaper, and the colt waddled over, still somewhat embarrassed.

The baby alicorn cleared her throat. "Of cowse I won't teww anypony bout ya being a baby, but I got wots of questions!"

He said Starswirl bounced in his diaper, removing the excess foal powder. "As I towd ta other Twily, I not gonna teww ya anythin'. Ya said it yasewf, we can't be messing with ta timewine."

"But ya can't even tell me bout all ta amazing spells ya cweated?" The alicorn Twilight asked in a hopeful tone.

"Wook, I a baby, I can't even wift baby bwocks with my hown, so I can't weally teach ya anyting wike tis." Starswirl snapped.

"Now Starswirl, stop being so rude," Elizabeth cooed as she trotted over and adjusted his diaper. "Maybe you're just hungry, huh?"

"Not hungwy!" The colt whined. Still, Dr. Whooves' mother simply took the baby sorcerer and Dr. Whovoes and had them both have bottles placed into their mouths, and it wasn't long until they were suckling away.

Twilight grumbled as the two regressed geniuses suckled on their milk bottles she waddled off, headed to the other Twilight, and asked. "Can ya teww me why Stawswirll is so mean?"

"Well, he is wike ta greatest Sorcewew in Equestria, who now is back in diapees,” Unicorn Twilight answered. “I tink if we wewe in his hooves, we would be gwumpy too."

"Yeah, but how did he even come hewe?” Alicorn Twilight questioned as she scratched her head in contemplation. “It makes sense that I got pulled here, and maybe yasewf. I dun get why Dr. Whooves or Starswiwrl are hewe."

Unicorn Twilight could only shrug her hooves. "We dun know why we aww appeared here at tis time as babies, we stiww figuwing tat out. Tewe’s a wot we dun know about how time wowks."

The alicorn Twilight plopped onto her diaper and sighed, thinking things over again, wondering if she should tell the other Twilight about Starlight. Then she thought about the map and how mysterious it was, seeing that all she and her friends knew about it was that it directed them to where they had to go to solve friendship problems. She then led her twin away from the colts and whispered. "Wisten, I wanted to wait for Stawwight to say tis, but she stiww scawed bout how ya wiww weact ta knowing ta twuth about hew."

Unicorn Twilight blinked, nervously asking. "Scawed of what?"

The baby alicorn then whispered to her other self. "Tat Starwight is ta weason you all here," She then explained everything that happened prior to her coming here. "...Ten next ting I knew, I was waking up in a cwib with baby Fwuttewshy, and I’ve been babied by Fwuttewshy's mom for a month."

The baby unicorn nodded along as she waddled about, racking her brain. "So, wet me get tis straight: Starwight was a bad pony who I gotta deal with ta futuwe, who got mad that I messed with hew plans, and thus wanted to ruin my life. So she went back in time and twied stopping Dashie from perfowming a sonic wainboom when she was a filly. And that wat caused aww tis?"

"Yes.” Alicorn Twilight nodded back, looking rather exhausted.

The unicorn Twilight stopped pacing and asked. "Ten why did she go back ta when we wewe babies? We didn't meet until we wewe aduwts, and Dashie isn't doing wainbooms anytime soon?" She then snickered. "Unwess ya count the ones in hew diapees."

That got a giggle from the unicorn’s counterpart, who then said. "Weww, it seems she messed up and went fuwthew back in time tan she wanted to. I tink ta map bwought us here ta maybe stop tat fwom happening, ow just to teach hew a wesson."

"Still, tat doesn't expwain why we awe hewe as foaws,” Unicorn Twilight groaned and blinked in confusion. “Now why Starswirll or Dr. Whooves awe here. Tey not connected to ta wainboom."

"I tink again tat ta map bwought tem here," Alicorn Twilight pointed out. “Starswill cause is his speww tat caused all tis, and Dr. Whooves cause he and his mommy know about time twavel and how it wowks.”

"Otay, so we should find tat map ten?" Unicorn Twilight asked, trying to figure out what her alicorn self’s plan was.

Alicorn Twilight nodded back. "Yes, we shouwd wook for it. But wet's get ta Ewements of Hawmony fiwst."

"Otay…but one question,” Unicorn Twilight insisted on asking, adopting a sheepish. “Wha's tis map ya tawking about? Is not a nowmaw map, is it?"

Alicorn Twilight was gonna say something, but then Elizabeth came over. "Alright, you two soggy fillies, it's your turn for changes. Can't have you getting rashes, now." She then laid the two little fillies down for diaper changes. The baby alicorn started to feel a bit embarrassed at having her diaper changed next to her counterpart. Still, she held onto her hoof and flashed a smile.

The two Twilight endured the diaper changes together and afterward had two warm bottles of milk plopped into their mouths. As they suckled the contents, the baby unicorn popped the milk bottle out of her mouth and asked again. "So, ya gonna answer my question, other me? Wa’s this map ya keep tawking about?"

The baby alicorn smirked as she popped the bottle out from her mouth, booped her counterpart's nose, and told her. "Sowie, tat’s mowe spoilers. Twust me on it, otay? Is gonna be good."

"Fine!" The other Twilight grumbled, and after finishing their bottles, she and her alicorn counterpart were strapped back into the stroller. The baby alicorn saw the two colts were fast asleep, suckling on their pacifiers. She laid back and relaxed, dozing off as the stroller continued to roll along.

"We're here, little ones!" Elizabeth whispered, and the alicorn Twilight woke to see that the group was approaching the ruins of the old castle deep in the forest.

Starswirl gasped upon seeing the ruins and cried! "Woah! Wha happened to tis castwe?!"

The alicorn Twilight gulped as she realized that Starswirl might have guessed that something had gone wrong with Princess Luna still sealed away on the moon. However, this was information from after his disappearance. So she wasn't sure if he should know and frantically whispered. "Um…I would tell ya. But ya know, ta timewine…"

"-Fine, whatever, let's get ta elements," The colt mumbled as they all continued into the castle ruins. As they did, Starswirl was looking more depressed as he looked around at the state of the castle and whispered, "Something horrible happened, hewe. I just know it."

The Twilights looked nervously at each other as unicorn Twilight whispered. "Can we teww Starswirll tat Pwincess Wuna tuwned into Nightmawe Moon, and tat hew battwe with Cewestia destwoyed the castle?"

"No, we can't. If we do, he gonna twy stopping that from happening, and it could make things worse…” Alicorn Twilight frantically protested, and insisted. “If Pwincess Tia didn't teww him, we shouwdn't either…"

"Ugh, tis sucks!” Unicorn Twilight whined. “Thewe’s so much I not awwoyed to know ow ask about!”

“Tat’s how time twavel works,” Alicorn Twilight replied. “I not gonna wisk any further damage to the timeline until we aww back to nowmaw.”

The foals then approached the old throne room, which was now in a state of decay, to the point where vines had started taking over parts of it. There, they found a glowing table, and surrounding it were six glowing rattles of different colors and with cutie marks on them.

"That's odd," Elizabeth whispered, knowing that the rattles shouldn’t be there.

Hesitantly, all came closer as the baby alicorn leaped up from the stroller and landed on the table. She waddled over and saw several cutie marks over Appleloosa.

"So uh, I know ya didn't want to teww me earwiew, but is ta map ya was talking bout, future me?" The unicorn Twilight asked her alicorn

The baby alicorn Twilight groaned and reluctantly nodded. "Yes," Seeing no reason to keep that information secret anymore in light of what had happened. "Otay, so wet me explain. It works like tis: Ta map is telling us tat we gots to go to Applewoosa."

Elizabeth appeared to still be in a confused state judging by her expression, so she asked. "But what exactly are they going to do? They're just babies. They’re not even out of diapers yet, for Celestia’s sake!" But then she paused and tapped her chin as if a light bulb appeared above her head. "Now that I think about it, what if this map is the reason you're all here as babies?!”

Alicorn Twilight gasped as the realization dawned on her! “It probably brought us all of us here for different weason!"

Starswirl crossed his hooves over his chest and asked. "Otay. But if tat’s ta case, can tis take us back home?"

The alicorn twilight shook her head from side to side. "No, tis will onwy take me, Stawwight, and Spike back."

The two colts gave each other confused looks, then asked at the same time. "Who’s Spike?"

"Oh, he a baby dwagon, but he's back in an egg wight now," Alicorn Twilight explained. The two colts blinked with confused looks still plastered on their faces. The baby alicorn added. "The big purple egg tat Windy wrought over yestewday."

"Oh yeah!" The colts exclaimed in unison of their realization.

Dr. Whooves then paused and asked. "So, where do we go fiwst?"

"Sweet Abble Acwes, of course!” Alicorn Twilight beamed, bouncing on her padding. “We gotta give ta elements to Appwejack's parents to keep safe until we can all go home."

Elizabeth picked up the rattles on the table and placed them into her diaper bag. "Alright then. After we deliver these rattles, we can discuss going to those other parts of Equestria shown on the map."

"Wight, but… I'ww be honest, ta map doesn't tell ya exactly what ya gots to do,” Alicorn Twilight sheepishly pointed out. “But most likely, it'ww be obvious once you're thewe. And it’ww probably be bout fwiendship."

The two colts looked unsure, but the other Twilight nodded along, seeming to agree with what her other self had said so far.

"Ok, then, let's get going. After all, we don't want to be here after dark! We’d never find our way out with how deep we are into the forest! " Elizabeth exclaimed. She then picked up the foals, strapped them back into the stroller, and set off toward Sweet Apple Acres.

It was dusk by the time the group reached Sweet Apple Acres. After a lengthy talk with Twilight Velvet and Pear Butter, Elizabeth Whooves gave them the rattles. She relented to have Twilight Velvet take her "daughters" upstairs to hang out for a bit.

Upon seeing the other two Twilights, the actual baby Twilight was squealing in delight up in Pear Butter's room. Even Twilight Velvet was bouncing in joy by having another regressed adult daughter, being unable to stop babying her "Three Twilights." She was upstairs in Pear Butter's bedroom, hugging them together and blowing raspberries. Pear Butter was with Velvet, looking surprised as she said, "My goodness, so there's three of them?!"

"Yes, can you believe it?!” Twilight Velvet happily cooed. “And one's an alicorn to boot! How did that happen?! Oh, it doesn’t matter! This just means my little Twilight is going to be such a prodigy when she’s older! She’s destined for greatness already, and she’s not even potty trained.”

"I see,” Pear Butter commented. “Though, it actually makes me wonder how bad your daughter is at time travel if she’s ended up back in diapers twice."

This got a laugh from the other mare while the two regressed Twilights both kicked about and whined at the comment.

"Who knows makes me wonder if this isn’t the first time they tried and ended up in diapers,” Velvet cooed further before saying. “Can I ask you to take a picture of the four of us for me?"

"Of course!" Pear Butter smiled. She quickly got out a camera and snapped photos with the two embarrassed, regressed adults (and the baby being super happy). "It looks like you have triplets." She commented afterwards.

"Thank Celestia, that's not the case,” Velvet chuckled a bit. “Night Light and I are at our limit with just two foals, and they are nearly half a decade apart. How would we ever manage five foals at once?”

"Same with us,” Pear Butter confessed. “My husband and I are thinking of having a third foal someday, but we'll wait until Applejack is older before we commit to that."

"Sounds like you have a plan." Twilight Velvet commented.

Pear Butter waved a hoof. "My husband is the planner. He's already ensured that we have enough bits saved up for three foals, just in case. After all, he comes from a big family himself."

Twilight Velvet then placed her three daughters down near her teats on Pear Butter's bed and threw a blanket over herself for privacy as she nursed them.

Afterward, the two mares then trotted off as the three Twilights played for a few hours, running around playing tag; building a tower of blocks, and reading a picture book together. The true baby version of Twilight eventually ended up napping and suckling on a pacifier with the sun's rays illuminating the homely room.

The alicorn Twilight’s cheeks flushed pink as she admitted to her unicorn self. "We look really cute as a baby."

"Yeah, can't believe that we've ever tat small and cute,” Unicorn Twilight commented and then snickered. “It makes me wish we went further back in time; I would love to see Shiny wike tis." They both burst out laughing, imagining their brother so pudgy and cute.

However, as their laughter died, the alicorn Twilight became rather somber, thinking about what Pear Butter had said. She whispered. “Wisten…we gots to talk bout something serious."

"Yeah, bout what?" Unicorn Twilight asked.

"Tat hot balloon touw Peaw Buttew was talking about earlier,” Alicorn Twilight nervously whispered. “…Tat tour has an accident, and well…tat’s when Abblejack's pawents die."

The unicorn Twilight gasped! "And now owa mommy is planning to go on tat tour! We gots to stop hew!"

"I know…but seeing what ta map showed us, I tink Dw. Whooves can save tem." Alicorn Twilight insisted.

Unicorn Twilight was unsure. "How?" She asked.

"He literally built a time machine!” Alicorn Twilight insisted. “If anypony can stop tat hot air balloon fwom blowing up, is him!"

"With the help of his mom, of course, I doubt he can fix anyting with tose pudgy hooves of his," The baby unicorn said, then paused before asking. "But what if tis mess up ta timeline even more?"

The baby Alicorn looked up at a clock overhead and thought about how she had backtracked nearly the entire day from telling Twilight about Starlight and revealing the cutie map. Maybe she needed to rethink how they are interacting with the past and said, "I think maybe I was wrong this whole time. If I wight now, though, maybe ta map is twying to fix tings in ta past."

"Otay, we tell Dr. Whooves about what we talked about tomorrow mowning." Unicorn Twilight vowed.

Alicorn Twilight nodded and yawned. "Yeah, I guess we could just tawk ‘bout it tomorrow. Fow now, wet's get some sweep. I'm super tired." The two then plopped pacifiers into each other's mouths, and as they suckled gently on the rubber nipples. They snuggled under the pile of foal blankets beside the actual baby Twilight, and the three foals all slept peacefully together.

Chapter Eight: Setting up the Party!

It took all day, but Windy eventually made it to the Pies' home. It was unlike anything Starlight had ever seen, being a literal farm in a somewhat barren wasteland. She couldn't imagine anypony living out here, and she was literally from a town in the middle of nowhere.

Windy flew towards the front door, giving a few knocks, which made Starlight feel squeamish about meeting Pinkie Pie's parents for the first time. The group waited for an answer until the door opened, and an earth pony couple stood there.

The stallion wore a golden brown coat, dark gold eyes, dark gray mutton chops, a hat, and a long black tie. The mare had a light gray jacket with a cloudy gray color, teal-colored eyes, and glasses on a brass chain. Starlight couldn't believe how these two stern, drab ponies were Pinkie Pie's parents.

Windy smiled and waved a hoof. "Hello, um… I'm sorry to bother you."'

The gray-coated mare eyed Windy and asked. "Exactly who are you, and what are you doing here?"

"Um, well, my reason for being here is a long story, but my name is Windy Whistles." Windy began.

"Well, Windy,” Cloudy said with a bow. “My name is Cloudy Quartz, and this here is my husband, Igneous Rock."

"Pleasure." The stallion replied in a monotone voice.

"Well, it's nice to meet you, Cloudy. Igneous,” Windy replied. “May I come in?"

They both whispered to each other, and then Cloudy raised a hoof. "I was about to feed my foals their breakfast; you might as well join us."

"Thank you," Windy sighed as she trotted into their home.

Starlight looked around as she was brought inside. She had thought Pear Butter's home was rustic; This place made that home look like some fancy mansion. What with the Pies having less furniture and everything decorated in drab grays or dark purples? It was like walking backward in time.

The group then entered the dining room and approached a table with bowls of light green soup surrounding a rock in each bowl. Starlight squeaked upon seeing Pinkie's siblings, with a toddler Limestone running around shouting at Maud, who easily avoided her attacks.

"Girls! No roughhousing around the dinner table!" Cloudy sternly berated the two toddlers.

"Yes, Mama." The older gray-coated filly replied in a monotone voice.

"Yes, Mama!" The dark purple-coated filly snapped back, sounding rather unhappy about being told off by her mother. Still, she went onto her chair and begrudgingly drank her soup.

Meanwhile, sitting across from the two toddlers were two babies: One was a lighter gray filly who shared the same coat color as her mom, squeaking upon seeing the newcomers and throwing the bowl of soup over her face to try to hide. The other baby was unlike the rest of her family, a bright pink baby chomping down on a bunch of rocks and giggling happily.

Starlight couldn't help but see how utterly different Pinkie Pie was from the rest of her family. Was she adopted or something? It seemed almost impossible to believe that Pinkie could’ve naturally been born into such a drab and dull family.

"I apologize,” Cloudy said to Windy without changing her tone of voice. “My daughters can be quite rambunctious, especially Pinkie Pie. She especially seems incapable of ever sitting still. I can already anticipate that she will have difficulty toilet training when she’s older."

Windy was looking just as surprised at the baby pink filly chomping away. "They have their teeth already?"

"Yes. My side of the family is known for growing harder teeth than most ponies, which is why we can eat rocks. And rocks are good for the teeth; it helps them grow." The stallion replied in a monotone voice. He then trotted to the head of the table, standing by his wife.

Windy went over and grabbed a bowl of the rock soup as Cloudy asked. "Does your daughter require any sustenance or nourishment?"

"Oh, Starlight?!” Windy blinked and then hastily replied. “No, she's fine. I uh, I just fed her," Starlight sighed in relief, having no intention of eating rocks, as Windy continued. "Actually, this foal isn't my daughter. In fact, she's the reason I came to see you…" She went into a long-winded explanation of Starlight and other adult ponies messing up "time traveling" here, and how they needed Pinkie Pie to be friends with some other foals to get home.

After Windy finished her story, Cloudy adjusted her glasses and said, "Well, that is quite a tale. Do you have any proof?"

Starlight sighed, seeing it was up to her to convince Pinkie's parents that everything Windy had said was true. She put in one of Dr. Whooves’ pacifiers that let her talk and said. "Yeah, tats wight. Evewyting we said was twue," Everyone blinked as Starlight continued. "I weawwy am a time twavewew twying ta get home. And Pinkie Pie might be owa onwy chance to do tat. So pwease wet hew, come with us."

Igneous talked to his wife, and they both nodded. She then turned, "So you wish for us to attend this ‘party’ of foals? We must see the location for these festivities and see if they meet our standards. If we are satisfied, we will allow Pinkie to be at this party."

"Thank you so much!" Windy chimed, feeling somewhat relieved. She then got up and said, "I’ll inform Pear Butter, as she’s the one hosting it.”

“There’s no need to rush, so why don’t you stay the evening? We don’t get much company out here.” Igneous insisted.

“As long as we don’t overstay our welcome,” Windy replied as she sat down and then the mare sat across from the couple as Starlight sat by, suckling on a bottle of milk while hoping she wouldn’t have to eat any of that rock soup. The broth did not look appetizing, and she doubted her teeth could handle crushing up solid rocks.

The following day, back at Sweet Apple Acres, the “regressed adults” were all downstairs. Unicorn Twilight had her attention on Dr. Whooves, who was fixing a toy wagon for Big Mac, as he let it roll about, making sure it worked.

The colt squealed in delight. “Thank you for fixing my toy!”

“No problem.” Dr Whooves chimed, then he saw unicorn Twilight trotting over with a worried look on her face as she asked. "Hey, doctow, can I ask ya to do a favow?"

"Wha is it?" Dr. Whooves asked.

Unicorn Twilight explained. "Listen, awicown Twiwy and I wewe tawkin’ and we both tink ya gots to do someting that might mess up a timewine."

"Wike what?" The time traveling little colt questioned. The idea of intentionally altering a timeline any further was of grave concern to him, enough damage had been done already as far as he was concerned.

"Ya and your mom needs to go to Appwewoosa and make suwe a hot air bawwoon thewe doesn't expwode." Unicorn Twilight told him.

"Oh, I see!” Dr. Whooves nodded, putting a hoof to his chin. “I wemembew ta accident is known as the Whinnybuwg! The foows used hydwogen to wift the balloon instead of hewium! Tat’s not good to use, especiawwy in a pwace as dwy and hot as Appwewoosa!"

Unicorn Twilight nodded. "Wight. Tat means ya and youw mom should twy getting whoevew is making ta pwans to stop! If ya do tis, ya can save wike a wot of wives!"

"Right…but wha about a timewine?" Dr. Whooves questioned with concern.

Unicorn Twilight rolled her eyes. "At tis point, we’ve awweady messed up a timewine! Owa, mommy is tinking of going on tat hot aiw bawwoon wide with Appwejack’s mommy! Besides, ta cutie map wants ya thewe, and tat’s got ta be a weason why it bwought us aww hewe as babies!"

The baby colt nodded along. “Tat actuawwy makes a wot of sense. As I checked over my time machine, I dun see how it couwd have us go back in time as foaws.”

“Does tat mean ya wiww hewp us?” Unicorn Twilight hopefully asked.

“Of couwse!” Dr. Whooves nodded and promised. “I ta onwy hewe who might know how to stop ta accident!”

The baby Twilight hugged him and squealed. "Oh tank you! Ya gonna be a hewo fow tis!" She hugged him. And as they clutched each other, she turned to see that Starswirl was just sitting on his diaper, forehooves over his chest with this cute pouty look on his face.

The doctor blushed, then whispered, "I, uh, shouwd get out of youw way." He then trotted off as Starswirl came towards Twilight, pointed a hoof at her, and snapped, "Otay, teww me ta twuth! What happened to ta owd castew, and why’s Wuna in ta moon!"

Baby Twilight gulped. "Wisten, I ca-"

The regressed colt held up a hoof. "Wook, I know what ya gonna say: We gots to keep ta timewine safe, but ya bweaking ya own wuwes by tewwing Dw. Whooves bout tat accident. At tis point, ta timewine has been pewmanentwy awtewed awweady, so ya might as weww spiww the beans."

The unicorn Twilight relented and explained everything about what happened not long after Starswirl disappeared.

Starswirl was stricken with horror! "Can we stop tat?!" He gasped!

"I…I dun know if ya even shouwd,” Twilight confessed. “But honestwy, I wiww wet ya decide.”

“Wight…otay…Tank you for telling me," Starswirl mumbled as he waddled off.

Just then, the door opened, and Windy came in while panting. "I did it! Pinkie Pie is coming!"

Twilight gave a sigh of relief, maybe they'd all be able to leave and turn back into adults after all.

For some time, Pear Butter and Windy talked about prepping the house for the Pies.

Starlight, meanwhile, was placed down with the other foals, seeing how they all looked worried, Unicorn Twilight looked up and said. "So, Stawwight, um…some tings came up whiwe ya was gone."

"Yeah, like what?" Starlight questioned. “Did I do someting wong?

Unicorn Twilight shook her head from side to side. "Weww, we supew happy you wewe abwe to get Pinkie, but we got to do someting fiwst befowe we go back to owa timewines."

"Wike what?!” Starlight blinked in confusion. “I taught ya wouwd all wana be out of diapees and not have to go thwough potty twaining again."

The unicorn Twilight then added. "We do wanna avoid aww tat, not tat I have a pwobwem with doing potty twaining again ‘cause I know I was twained weaw fast. But when we found ta cutie map, thewe seems to be someting we gotta do to save Appwejack's pawents, and my mommy too."

"Wait…awe tey in twoubwe?" Starlight asked.

"Yes …tey um die in an accident,” Twilight explained. “And I tink we can pwevent it with Dw. Whooves hewp."

"What happened ta pweserving ta timewine?!" Starlight frowned. This whole mess had started thanks to her going back in time to try to get revenge, something that had been made abundantly clear to her multiple times by now. Now she was being told that messing with time was okay?

Twilight explained the reasoning. "At tis point, I tink tat ta cutie map bwought us hewe fow a weason. Why ewse wouwd we aww be hewe as babies?"

Starlight paused. "Ya gots a point…” Then she thought of something. “But if ya found ta cutie map, tat means we can go home togethew and go back to being big ponies togethew."

Twilight nodded. "Wight, but not untiw aftew we get evewyone ewse back to their pawts in ta timewine, and save Applejack's parents."

Starswirl nodded, and so did Dr. Whooves and alicorn Twilight.

"Ok, so wha’s ta pwan?" Starlight asked the others.

"Weww, we got to wet Windy know and have hew take us to Applewoosa as fast as we can,” Unicorn Twilight explained. “But aftew Cwoudy came, we need Windy to ensuwe tey wet Pinkie Pie to come to ta pawty. I member Appwejack tewwing me they awe awmost the opposite of Pinkie Pie.”

Starlight confirmed with a nod. “Yeah, I bet, tey awe kind of odd, tey eat wocks and stuff."

"Tats so weird." Unicorn Twilight commented.

"Yeah, it is,” Starlight commented back. “Weww, we won't be awound when tey bwing Pinkie Pie, so we’d bettew weave."

“That’s right, we should have the actual babies become friends with each other. We’ll go back to Elizabeth’s house and plan from there.” Windy chimed in as she picked up the foals and then flew off.

The next day came with a lot of anticipation with Pear Butter, as she was about to meet this earth pony from some rock farm to help many regressed-time travelers. It was crazy, and she was somehow smack in the middle of all this. She then heard a knock, rushed to the door, and opened it, revealing the middle-aged gray-coated mare. She looked pretty unamused and much like her grandparents: Relatively old-looking and cranky, and she always seemed to be in a sour mood. Still, she cleared her throat, held out her hoof, and said. "Hello, my name is Pear Butter, and I'll be hosting the foal get-together."

"I see. My name is Cloudy Quartz," the mare said, trotting through the home. "Seems simple and plain. I like it."

Pear Butter almost took that as an insult but then shrugged it off. "Yes, we are rather simple. We don't need a lot of flashy things."

"I see that,” Cloudy replied. “And your foals?" She then trotted towards the playpen, seeing baby Applejack, and then saw a pouty colt. "Oh, you have a colt?"

Pear Butter felt rather proud as she proclaimed. "Yes, he's my son, Little Macintosh! Named him after his father.”

Cloudy then gave a nod. "Well, let's see how they play together."

The mare set Pinkie Pie next to Applejack, who eyed her. Then she also brought out her sister Marble, and Pear was quite surprised, "Oh, I didn't know you were going to bring more foals."

"Well, I felt that it would be better to keep the younger foals together. Igneous can handle their older siblings. Limestone’s a troublemaker, but Maud is very well-behaved and never makes a fuss about anything. Pinkie and Marble seem to take after her more than Pinkie." Cloudy explained.

"Oh, they’re twins?!" Pear Butter blinked in surprise.

Cloudy replied with a simple. "Yes."

"Wow, I did not expect that." Pear Butter commented in amazement.

Pinkie Pie, meanwhile, instantly bounced over to Applejack as Marble reluctantly ran behind a plush bear to hide. Big Mac eyed her and trotted over to her as the two older mares trotted off.

Pinkie Pie bounced over, literally using her diaper to do so. She went right up to the orange-coated foal, booped her nose, and exclaimed. "Hey, ya Abbwejackie, wight?"

"Yeah, tat me," Applejack babbled, waddled over, and asked. "Ya,Pinkie Pie, wight?"

“Yeah, tat’s me!” Pinkie Pie excitedly squealed! “And it's so gweat to finawwy see othew babies tat awen’t my sibwings!”

"Yeah, I have been fwiends with wots of othew babies wecently. But I gwad ya is here,” Applejack replied, and then asked. “Do ya wanna pway?"

"Tat sounds wike so much fun!” The pink-coated foal exclaimed, but then looked rather sad as her coat color seemed too dark. “Ya wucky. I dun gots wots of fwiends. My famiwy wives out in ta middwe of nowhewe.”

Applejack took out a hoof. “Weww, why dun we pway togetha and I can be ya fiwst fwiend?”

Pinkie started to get excited again, then exclaimed! “Otay, what we gonna pway?!”

“I wike to make towews with bwicks, ten buck tem over!” Applejack explained. “I pwacticin’ because I wanna buck appwes wike my mommy and daddy.”

“Oh! Tat sounds fun! I wanna twy!” Pinkie excitedly squealed.

The two foals then went off to build towers together, knocking them down with their hooves (or their padded bottoms). Pinkie Pie, however, soon wanted to see what her sister was up to and was surprised to see that Big Mac was scribbling silently on paper with crayons with Marble by his side.

Applejack then looked over and asked. "Soooo, ya gots a sister?"

Pinkie gave a nod. "Yeah, tat’s my youngew sistew, Mawbe. She onwy a few minutes youngew ten me."

"So she weawwy a twin?" Applejack asked.

"Yeah, but she's supew shy,” Pinkie Pie explained. “So I'm suwpwised she's pwaying with tat cowt. He ya bwuda, wight?"

"Yeah, and he's awso kinda shy, so maybe tey both can be good fwiends." Applejack suggested as she observed the scene.

“Wooks wike it. She dun weawwy pway with me, so it supwise me tat ya bwuda is pwayin’ with hew,” Pinkie pointed out, then squealed! “But tis pwace is so coow! Hopefuwwy, we gets to stay fow awhiwe.”

“Yeah, me too,” Applejack booped Pinkie as she finished stacking the last block on the tower, and then the foals chanted together. “On ta count of thwee…one…two…thwee!” The two then smacked the tower together with their padded bottoms, and it collapsed with a solid thud as the two foals giggled and hugged each other.

After playing together for several hours, Cloudy and Pear Butter came back, and they both gasped upon seeing all four foals all napping together, with Applejack and Pinkie Pie hugging each other tightly while Big Mac held Marble Pie.

Cloudy was utterly surprised as she whispered, "Well, it seems they tuckered themselves out. That’s so remarkable, especially for Pinkie Pie. She hates naps!”

"Indeed they have, even your other little one, Marble, was it?" Pear Butter pointed towards Marble and Little Mac, fast asleep together.

"Yes, it seems your foals are well-behaved, and your home is in proper order, so I came to the conclusion that we will commit to this foal get-together." Cloudy declared.

Pear gave a sigh of relief and whispered. "Thank you. You have no idea how wonderful it is to hear that,” she said. She then continued speaking to Cloudy. “You traveled quite far. Why don't you and your twin foals stay in Ponyville for a while?"

"Yes, that sounds like a good idea,” Cloudy agreed. “Why don’t we have some time to ourselves before they awake? You were telling me a story about how you and Bright Mac met?"

“Well, that is a long story, but I don’t mind telling it. Come, let’s have some lunch,” Pear Butter insisted as she led Cloudy away. “My mother-in-law just baked a fresh apple pie.” The two mares then went off together to the kitchen to continue their chat.

Chapter Nine: Saving Applejack's parents

Windy was exhausted as she slowly flapped towards the small, dusty town of Appleloosa. The town itself was quite small, with not a lot of ponies mainly working on various constructions.

Dr. Whooves was rather amazed to see the beginnings of this town emerging from nothing, and how hard these earth ponies worked and came together was nothing short of astonishing.

The two wondered about, trying to figure out where to go, seeing as the map hadn’t specified where the doctor needed to go to help. As they wandered about the town, they spotted a yellow-coated mare with a flaming red mane come over with a smile, pushing a foal carriage as she waved a hoof. “Hello, welcome to Appleloosa!”

Then, a cute baby colt popped out of the carriage, throwing his hooves in the air as he babbled at them. But Dr. Whooves heard. “Wewcome to Abbwewwoosa!”

The mare dawwed, then bent down and nuzzled her colt. “You’re supposed to be napping, Braeburn.”’

“Oh, he’s adorable!” Windy cooed. “What's his name, again?”

“He’s my little Braeburn,” The earth pony mare replied. “Hard to believe it’s been almost half a year since I gave birth to him.”

“Braeburn, such a lovely name,” Windy ruffled the colt’s mane, making the foal kick and giggle then chirped. “This little colt here is Doctor Whooves.”

The earth pony mare suddenly placed a hoof over her mouth and then let out a burst of laughter. “Doctor? Is the D in his Ph.D. in diaperology?”

The doctor squeaked upon hearing this, seeing how ridiculous his name would sound now that he was a foal.

Windy burst out laughing and quickly corrected. “Good point. Sorry, that’s just a nickname his mom gave him: His real name is Time Turner.”

“I see,” The earth pony mare replied. “Well, he is quite adorable. Are you his aunt?”

Windy shook her head. “No, just his foalsitter for right now. I uh..came here to visit Appleloosa. I heard so much about it, I just had to see it for myself.”

“Well that's great to hear,” The earth pony mare nodded back. “We’re still tryin’ to build our little town here. But my home is always open to visitors. Would you like to see it?”

“That sounds wonderful!” Windy chirped. She then followed the mare to her home as she asked. “Forgive my manners, but what’s your name, miss?”

“Pardon my manners: My name is Apple Tart.” The earth pony mare chirped as she held out a hoof.

The pegasus mare then took the hoof and shook it rather energetically. And as they shook, Windy said. “Apple Tart, what a lovely name. I’m Windy Whistles.”

“Well, Windy Whistles,” Apple Tart replied. “It’s gettin’ late, why don’t we get a move on?!”

The pegasus was rather surprised by this as she flew over and asked. “What do you mean? Where are we going?”

“My home, of course!” Apple Tart eagerly explained with a grin. “You probably don’t have anywhere else to go, right? Especially not with the little one. It’s not like we have a daycare center out here.”

“Oh, of course. Thank you for your hospitality!” Windy flew by Apple Tart as they continued through town to Apple Tart’s house. It was a quaint little cabin on the outskirts of the town. Inside was a little playpen full of wooden blocks, some stuffed animals, and some puzzle blocks. The two colts were then plopped together and started to play.

Then, as the mares were settling in, Braeburn’s father, a rodeo star, trotted into the home smiling, “Oh hello, I didn’t expect to see a pegasus out here.”

“Sorry for the intrusion,” Windy spoke up with a bit of a blush. “I came to visit your town and wasn’t aware it was still under construction.”

“Oh, it’s no problem, sweet pea,” The stallion sweetly replied. “We don’t really get many visitors out here, so we’re always happy to see a new face. I just got back from helpin’ build the rodeo corral. With a little luck, we’ll soon be part of the Equestria Rodeo Circuit,” He then turned to see the two colts in the playpen, the two already working on building a tower together. He dawwed, “Aww, I see little Braeburn has a friend his own age,” He turned to Windy and then asked. “What’s the little colt’s name? Is he yours.”

Windy smiled. “His name is Time Turner, and he isn't mine. I’m just caring for him for a friend for a while. He’s very well behaved, and pretty smart for his age. I wouldn’t be surprised if he graduates from diapers before he turns two.”

“I see,” The stallion replied while adjusting his hat. “Well, if your friend is plannin’ to move here, we could use the company. Celestia knows Braeburn will need friends his age, there aren’t a lot of foals around here, so we usually try to set up playdates with his cousins Applejack and Little Mac in Ponyville. But as you can imagine, it's quite difficult seein’ how far away they live.”

Windy blushed. “Yes, well, I’ll let Time Turner’s mother know about this place and see if she’ll visit from time to time. I don’t want your little one to be lonely. I’m always trying to make sure my foal has lots of playmates her own age. Foals always turn out better when they have friends while still in diapers.”

“I see,” The stallion commented. “Is that what brought you out here, miss?”

“Yes, mainly because she’s so busy in Ponyville, and the train station is still being built, so the only real way to get here was by flying,” Windy explained. “So I came here to scout out the place for her since she’s thinking of moving here.”

“How nice of you!” The stallion sweetly smiled. “Well, you can stay here as long as you want,” He lifted a mug and offered. “Ya want some apple cider?! Made it fresh from the apples in our orchard.”

“Oh that sounds great.” The pegasus mare replied as she licked her lips. She was just as much into cider as Rainbow Dash would be many years later. The grown-ups then began to drink the night away, talking to each other about raising foals.

As the adults went on talking, Dr. Whooves was helping Braeburn build towers of blocks for him to knock down. As they played, the little colt took the opportunity to ask Braeburn some questions. “So uh, Bwaebuwn?”

“Yeah, what is it, Timey?” The little colt questioned.

“My name is Docta Whooves actuawwy.” Dr. Whooves pouted, folding his hooves across his chest.

“Yeah, but my mama called ya a docta of diapees!” Braeburn giggled.

The colt squeaked, remembering what Apple Tart had said, and replied. “Nah uh, not a docta of diapees!”

The orange coated earth pony colt just giggled further and waddled over, then he poked the rather soggy diaper and said. “See? Ya using tem, ya gets an A+!”

“Stop!” The brown-coated colt whined and waddled away as best he could.

“Braeburn, play nice!” His mom scolded from afar.

“Sowie!” Braeburn whimpered, then waddled towards the brown coated colt and apologized. “Sowie, didn’t mean to make ya mad, just pwaying a joke.”

The other colt nodded, then confessed. “Wight. I uh actuawwy used to be a big pony wike ya mommy and daddy, so I not weawwy comfy with being a foaw.”

Braeburn eyed Dr. Whooves. “Huh, ya was a big pony? Ya do big pony things and not weaw diapees?”

“Yeah huh.” Dr. Whooves boasted as he puffed out his chest.

“And how did ya end up tuwning into a baby again?” Braeburn questioned.

The little colt blushed, seeing that there was a lot to explain on how he became a foal and didn’t feel like giving his new friend a long-winded explanation. So he simply said “It's a wong stowie, but wook I not hewe to visit. I came to hewp some ponies.”

Braeburn blinked in surprise. “Hewp ponies?”

“Yeah,” Dr. Whooves slowly nodded. “Ya see, thewe’s ponies hewe making a big bawwoon but tey mess up, and it bwows up wike tis!” He knocked over a tower of blocks, scattering them all across the playpen!

Braeburn still looked rather confused but seemed to grasp what the little doctor was trying to convey. “I see. And ya know how to stop tat?”

Dr. Whooves chirped. “Yeah! So can ya hewp me find ta ponies making ta bawwoon?! I gots to stop tem!”

The other earth pony colt gave a nod as he topped a hoof to his chin. “Thewe’s a mommy and a daddy with two cowts making some giant bawwoon tat ya is tawkin bout. We can go to tem.”

“Weally, can ya take us to tem?!” Dr. Whooves looked up in excitement!

“Yeah! But gotta teww my mommy fiwst.” Braeburn insisted.

Dr. Whooves blushed to see that explaining all of this to Braeburn’s mom would take a lot of convincing, and he didn’t want this young colt to be involved. “Dun wowwy ‘bout tat, just teww me whewe tey awe and I’ww find tem.”

‘“Fine, but I stiww wanna hewp ya.” Braeburn protested with a pout.

Dr. Whooves’ cheeks flushed pink. He was already causing a lot of timeline disruptions as it was, he didn’t want to add even more if he could help it. “Sowwie, but I tink it might be bettew if ya dun come.”

Braeburn shook his head, he would hear nothing of such an argument. “I wana hewp! Tis is my town, and I wanna do whateva it takes to hewp Abbwewoosa!”

Dr. Whooves could see his fellow earth pony colt wasn’t going to back down and seemed intent to help, so he reluctantly whispered. “Fine, but we can’t teww ya mommy. She not gonna wet us go if she knew what we wewe up to.”

“Wight, we gotta be wike supewhewoes, wight!?” Braeburn eagerly asked, bouncing up and down on his padding.

“Wight,” Dr. Whooves nodded and whispered. “We’ww wait untiw ta big ponies faww asweep, ten we go find ta big bawwoon. Okay?”

Braeburn nodded back. “Okay.”

Later that evening after the adults had gone off to bed, Dr. Whooves was hard at work inside Braeburn’s nursery. He was making a makeshift rope out of baby blankets that were all tied together. Once he’d finished, the little colt hopped out of his crib and landed his padded flank onto the plush ground below.

Braeburn looked over with wide-eyed wonder. “Wow! Tat’s so coow!”

“Yeah, took a minute to membew my knots, but it wowks,” Dr. Whooves confessed. “If onwy I was as good at membewing how to go potty wike a gwown-up, ow at weast how to change my own diapee. But my mommy says is bettew I dun know how, tat way ponies dun suspect anyting about me.”

The two colts then waddled across the nursery to the window and peered down. It was a two-story drop. Braeburn nervously whispered as he looked down at the ground. “Ya suwe tis can wowk?”

“I'm sure it wiww!” Dr. Whooves hooked his rope to the side of Bareburn’s crib and then lowered it out the window. The two adventurous little colts then slid down the rope and onto the dirt below. The little doctor then whispered. “Otay, ya know where ta pwace with the bawwoon is, wight?”

The colt then scoffed. “I know tis town wike ta back of my hoof. Come on!”

Braeburn then led his friend along as they waddled towards a massive building: Inside was a truly enormous, bright red colored hot air balloon. It was currently tied with ropes to the ground as two earth ponies: One a tall, nerdy, looking stallion with a set of curly hair, and a mare with thick glasses and mane tied in a bun both appeared to be exhausted. They were going over it and making calculations, mumbling to themselves.

Dr. Whooves turned back towards Bareburn then whispered. “Otay, hewe’s ta pwan. Ya need to make a distwaction so I can swip by tem without being seen.”

“Otay, ten what?” Braeburn asked his companion.

“Well, I gonna do some cowwections on theiw bwuepwints,” Dr. Whooves explained. “Tat way the bawwoon won’t bwow up!”

But Braeburn gulped, looking at the ground. “Um…”

“What?”’ Dr. Whooves hesitantly asked.

Braeburn nervously whispered. “Weww, I made some cowwections to daddy’s wodeo pwans once. But he got mad ‘cause I made squibbwes with cwayons.”

Dr Whooves slammed a hoof into his face and explained. “I not just gonna doodwe on it, I gonna fix tem. Ya see.”

“Ya suwe ya dun want to cowow on tem instead?” Braeburn asked.

“No, I dun just want to cowow on tem, I wan to fix tem!” Dr. Whooves irritably grumbled, and then instructed. “Now ya just go make a distraction wike… wike…” He then pointed to some canisters as an idea came to him. “Buck tose ovew! That’ww distwact tem.”

“Otay, tat’s easy!” Braeburn chuckled to himself. The colt waddled over with a smug look on his face, checking to make sure no one could see him. He then smacked his back hooves into the canisters and caused a racket as they shook, then fell down.

One of the scientists heard what had happened and ran over. Upon seeing Braeburn he shouted. “Hey, what’s going on?!”

“It's a baby colt! Get him!” The other scientist hollered. The two then began to chase Braeburn all about their facility.

Dr. Whooves took advantage of the opportunity to waddle to the work tables. He climbed up, and went about fixing their calculations, writing specifically in large letters: Use helium, not hydrogen! He tried his best to make his hoofwriting legible despite his small stature. After that, he quickly jumped off, hit a canister, and smacked it. The canister flew up into the air as the adults turned towards Dr. Whooves, now chasing him instead. He then led them away, sliding underneath a hole in the hanger. He then met up with Braeburn who gasped. “Ya did it, wight? The bawwoon’s not gonna bwow up now, wight?”

“Yeah,” Dr. Whooves nodded, brimming with confidence. “Wets go home befowe the othew gwown-ups find out we gone..”

The two then waddled across the dirt road to Apple Tart’s home and climbed up the rope made of baby blankets (Dr. Whooves pulling the rope up into the nursery behind him, putting it away). The two colts then plopped into the crib together and giggled as Windy happened to come by to check on them. “What's all this giggling for, you two?”

When the colts didn’t answer, Windy just went through the motions of checking (and changing) their diapers, then plopped two bottles of milk into their mouths as she tucked them into bed with pacifiers in their mouths.

The two little colts were feeling relaxed as they settled into their bundle of foal blankets. The little doctor suckled gently on a pacifier and felt so relaxed. Despite being a baby genius, he was still, at the moment, a foal.

The next morning, Windy spent a whole day exploring the small town of Appleloosa: Going to the salt lick, watching some rodeo practice, and even enjoying a hoe down.

That evening, as Windy was setting off to leave, Dr. Whooves was in the playpen, hugging Braeburn, who whimpered and cried, “Dun go! I gonna miss ya!”

Dr. Whooves let out a sigh. It was always hard to leave a companion behind. “Wisten, Bawebuwn, I gotta go, and ya might not see me again fow a vewy wong time. But I pwomice we gonna be fwiends. Ya was a hewo and hewped save awot of ponies.”

“Tanks. Pwease visit Abbwewoosa again, and… um…” Brarburn then gave Dr. Whooves his teething ring. “Keep tis, otay? So ya dun fowget me.”

“I won’t.” Dr. Whooves promised.

The two colts hugged again, and then Windy started her flight back to Ponyville.

Chapter Ten: The Party

Upon hearing of the success of Dr. Whooves's visit to Appleloosa, the other foals were all now together at Applejack’s home for their big playdate. The time travel device Starswirl and Dr. Whooves had worked on together was now glowing with energy, and Starlight just looked at it with tears in her eyes. For months, she’d been a baby, having seen firsthoof the ponies' lives she planned on ruining at first. To think, now she was the reason they’d become friends (even though they wouldn’t remember much about how she’d done so), and she realized that it was all coming to an end.

Windy came over, took a deep breath, and said. “The foals are all playing together and enjoying each others’ company. It’s almost exhausting having to keep up with them all.”

Dr Whooves looked over with an annoyed look on his face. “Yes, it seems to be wowking. But thewe’s stiww not enough juice. If we wanna weave; this ting needs mowe powew!”

The unicorn Twilight let out a sigh. “Weww, me and my friends are babies. Tey pwaying, but tey pwobabwy not with each othew,” Then she realized. “Tey gots to do stuff togetha, ow theiw fwiendship won’t be enough.”

“Wight, wisten, ya and ta others just stay in ta time machine and get weady to weave.” Alicorn Twilight turned to face Starlight then said, “Wisten we need ya to come and help get ta babies to pway with each othew so tey can become fwiends.”

“Otay.” Starlight whimpered, seeing that a lot was riding on this playdate. She and Alicorn Twilight were then taken by Windy as she flew off towards Sweet Apple Acres.

Upon arriving, Windy Whistles knocked on the door and waited patiently for Pear Butter to open it.

When Pear Butter did so, she saw Windy and happily chirped. “Windy! It's so glad to see you again!”

“You too, Pear,” Windy replied. “How’s my little Dashie doing?”

“Oh, she’s doing great,” Pear Butter smiled. “Come on in! The party’s just getting started.”

Windy was led into the house, and then she placed Starlight and Alicorn Twilight down to let the two trot over. They saw the other babies were all playing alone (except for Fluttershy and Marble).

The pink-coated unicorn was somewhat relieved that the foals were getting along and playing alone, seeing as they’d just met. She then turned to see Alicorn Twilight, giving a loud sigh as she said. “Wisten, we gots to get these babies to pway togetha if we wanna make it back home.”

“Wight, but how do we go about doing tat?” The baby alicorn pondered as she stuck her hoof into her mouth, suckling on it for a moment. Then at last she said. “Wooks wike we need to gathew tem up fiwst, ten I’ww tink of someting tey can pway togethew.”

“Otay.” Starlight did as Alicorn Twilight had asked, going around the playpen, gathering the foals, and then herding them into the middle.

Alicorn Twilight then stood up and cleared her throat to get the babies’ attention. “Awwight, I uh gonna twy ta hewp ya be fwiends, so we aww gonna do an activity one by one. Tat way we aww gets to plwy togetha, otay?”’

“Otay!” All the foals cheered in unison.

Then Starlight waddled over to alicorn Twilight and whispered. “Otay, so what shouwd we pway fiwst?”

Rainbow Dash raised a hoof and shouted. “I wanna do a wace!”

Applejack started bouncing up and down in excitement as she chimed in. “Yeah, a wace! Tat does sound wike fun.”

“Is tat otay with ta rest of ya?” Starlight asked the other foals in a hopeful tone of voice.

“Yeah, tat sounds wike fun!” The other foals all cheered all at once.

Alicorn Twilight and Starlight then cleared the playpen, and the foals all went to the back of the plastic fence. Alicorn Twilight then cleared her throat, explaining the rules of the race. “It simpwe, ya gots to wun fwom one end of the pwaypen and back! Whoeva is ta fiwst to make it back is ta winnew. Otay?”

“Otay!”

The foals all bent their heads as they prepared, then alicorn Twilight trotted over and cleared her throat. “At the count of thwee, ya can start.”

Starlight trotted over near Rainbow Dash and whispered. “I gonna beat ya tis time.”

“Yeah wight,” Rainbow Dash stuck out her tongue, taunting. “Ya gonna be wost in my foaw powdew!”

“One.”

Starlight bent forward as did the baby pegasus, both getting ready.

“Two.”

Applejack then whispered. “I gonna beat ya, Wainbow Dashie. I fastew tan ya.”

“Weew see about tat, Abbwejackie.” Rainbow Dash whispered back.

“Thwee!”

Alicorn Twilight lit up her horn, and a rush of crinkling echoed across the living room as the babies went to the far end of the playpen.

Starlight did her best to keep up, but Applejack and Rainbow Dash were far ahead of her and gaining distance. The unicorn filly pushed harder, gasping for breath as she tried to catch up, but the two fillies had way more energy than her as Starlight made it to the end, and she fell right into Rainbow Dash’s padded bottom.

The little pegasus giggled and pounced on Starlight shouting, “I win again! Tats wike a miwwion to zewo”

“Yeah, ya fastew.” Starlight panted in exhaustion.

Applejack pouted, then whined. “Na uh I won!”

“Nah uh, I was here fiwst!” Rainbow Dash protested.

As the two bickered about who won, Starlight watched as the other racers crossed the finish line with Pinkie Pie bouncing on her diaper, happily taking fourth. Unicorn Twilight waddled along at her own pace alongside Rarity. Then Fluttershy and Marble followed suit as the two little foals were last, plopping onto their diapered flanks as they started to cry.

Reluctantly, Rainbow Dash waddled over to the two. “Stop cwying, I’ww cwoss with ya. Ya stiww has to finish ta wace.” She struggled to get the two shy ones back to their hooves, clumsily waddling with them the whole way to the finish line as the other foals snickered at the display.

When the race was finally over, Alicorn Twilight clapped her hooves, quick to draw attention away from how it had ended. “Weww, tat was a fun fiwst game. Now, what’s ta next activity? Anypony, have any ideas?”

Applejack raised a hoof, declaring. “I wana play buck ta bwocks! We make towews of bwocks and buck tem! Who eva can buck ta most bwocks ovew wins!”

“Otay!” The others all cheered in excitement.

Applejack then brought out a box of wooden blocks. “Ya can use mine, thewe’s wots of tem ‘cause I pway this with my bwothew aww the time,” She told them. “Just make suwe ya put tem back when ya done, ow my mama’s gonna be weaw mad with ya.”

The foals all took turns building up towers one by one until each felt they’d stacked their respective towers as high as they could go and promptly knocked them over! Each foal had a different method of doing so: Rainbow Dash got a good chunk of her blocks with her buck, surprising everypony with how strong she was despite being the youngest in the group. Pinkie Pie tried using her diaper to wack the tower, getting a few blocks to tumble, and making everypony laugh as she toppled over onto her diaper. Marble tried to imitate her sister but wasn’t able to knock over as many blocks. Rarity did a dainty little buck and got a few blocks, almost as few as Marble. Unicorn Twilight also didn’t do too well; her lack of hoof coordination really showed.

Fluttershy, however, was only able to get one block knocked down and started to tear up at the prospect of having finished last again.

Pinkie Pie waddled over, nuzzling Fluttershy to make her feel better. “Hey, is okay. Ya made a weawwy big tower. I couwdn’t buiwd mine as high.”

Meanwhile, Applejack was the last to buck her tower, sending every block flying in the process and leaving the other foals speechless!

“Weww, guess Abbwejackie is ta winnew of tis one.” Starlight proclaimed.

“Yeah! I gonna be bucking abbwes soon too!” Applejack proudly puffed out her chest. “Ten I gonna be just wike Mama and Papa! I'm even gonna find out what they do since they don't need diapers and do it!”

Alicorn Twilight then quickly saw fit to change the subject, not wanting to risk any arguments starting about who was truly the “oldest” or the most likely to start potty training. “Otay, time fow ta next activity. Who’s got an idea?”

Rarity wiped the sweat from her brow and then said. “Dun know ‘bout ta west of you, but I wana do someting mowe cawming and wewaxing. Can we have a tea pawty?”

“Of course! Tat sounds wike fun!” Starlight chimed in, eager for any activity where she wouldn’t lose to physically strong foals like Applejack or Rainbow Dash.

The foals then gathered in a circle with little sippy cups of tea that Pinkie Pie somehow managed to pull out of her mane as Rainbow Dash asked. “Wait, how do we win tis game?”

The fashionista rolled her eyes and scoffed. “Ya dun win at tea pawty. We just dwink tea and wewax.”

“I dun mind tat, but taught tat tese activities needs a winnew.” Rainbow Dash mumbled and grumbled.

Rarity gave her diaper a pat. “Weww, how’s ya diapees?”

The foals all looked at them, and Starlight saw that, surprisingly enough, they were all still dry and clean.

Rainbow Dash quickly got a naughty idea, as she suggested. “How ‘bout whoeva pees thewe diapees woses, and whoeva keeps ya diapee cwean tiww ta end wins.”

“Otay!” The foals all cheered as they immediately agreed to the idea. They then all started to drink their tea, sipping together before Pinkie squeaked as she started to fill her diaper. “Guess I wost awweady!”

One by one, the foals all started peeing, but they continued to chat without a care, which surprised Starlight a little. Then a shade of red grew on her cheeks, and she put a hoof to her face upon remembering that they were actual babies and hadn’t turned back into them as she had.

In the midst of the contest, Applejack looked over and asked. “So uh, Stawwight, ya gonna be weaving tomorrow, wight?”

Starlight paused, then said. “Yeah, tat’s twue. Aftew today, I gonna be going away.”

The little orange coated earth pony filly then ran over, hugged her, and said. “Weww tanks fow coming, and I hope we meet in ta futuwe.”

“Me too, ya been gweat.” Starlight replied with a sweet smile.

Rarity then came over and asked. “So uh, Stawwight, gotta ask, do ya wike dwessies?”

“Weww, not weawwy,” Starlight confessed. “But I wouldn’t mind twying one on.”

“Could I put ya in a dwess?” Rarity all but pleaded.

The other foals giggled, having overheard. And Starlight, seeing that it was her last day as a foal, figured she might as well make the most of it. “Yeah, why not?”

Rarity then took a cute frilly purple dress she’d managed to hold onto and sloppily put it over Starlight’s chubby little body. “My mommy got tis fow me, but I want ya ta have it instead.”

The pink-coated unicorn snickered, then twirled about in it, seeing how great it looked on her. “Tanks, I wuv it!”

“It wooks gweat on ya!” Rarity cheered. “Awso, ta diapee doesn’t show as much, seeing as ya used to be a big pony.”

Starlight then hugged Rarity, and they continued to suckle on their sippy cups of tea. It wasn’t long until they were the last two foals with clean diapers and drinking down another round of tea. Then, suddenly, the pink-coated unicorn foal saw Rarity’s diaper sagging and turning yellow, and she giggled. “I win!”

“Ugh, no faiw!” Rarity whined. “Ya used to be a big pony, so ya can howd it wongew!” She frowned. “I dun wike using my diapee, and tis is why.”

The unicorn Twilight let out an adorable laugh. “Otay, guess is time fow ta next game, aftew a diapee change of couwse.”

After their moms changed their diapers, the foals sat around the dining room table in high chairs. They were spoon-fed mashed apples and yams for lunch alongside baby bottles filled with milk.

After everypony had settled in, Pinkie Pie started to bounce up and down and excitedly declared. “I gots an idea, whoever can eat their foaw food ta fastest wins!”

Starlight giggled, then hesitated. “I dunno. We gonna get aww messy.”

“So what? We babies. Come on, tat sounds wike fun!” Rainbow Dash cheered.

So all the babies started to shove hoofuls of foal food into their mouths, and the mothers all gathered became surprised. They stopped briefly and switched to bottles, and by the end, they turned to see Applejack slamming her bottle down with a burp, and some spit coming out of her mouth.

Applejack then proudly showed off her bowl and bottle and cheered. “I won!”

Pinkie Pie let out a louder burp and whined. “Awww, tat means ya won two times now!”

“I can’t hewp it if I good,” Applejack replied with a smile before she saw her mother come over with a rag to clean her face.

After all the foals were cleaned up, they were placed back into the playpen, and then alicorn Twilight said. “Awwight, time fow ta next activity.”

Baby Twilight raised a hoof rather quickly just as Fluttershy slowly nervously lifted a hoof. Alicorn Twilight squeaked upon seeing this. “How ‘bout Fluttershy goes first since she so shy?”

“Otay.” Baby Twilight reluctantly replied.

The baby pegasus then whispered. “Um, how about, whoever can find my pwush bunny? I wost it…”

The other foals nodded, still eager for anything that could be made into a game. They all went about looking throughout the playpen. They bustled about, looking over blocks and even digging through a small toy box nearby.

Starlight, for her part, pondered where the plushie could be. Then she spotted something out of the corner of her eye. At the other end of the room lay a small bunny plushie. That had to be the one Fluttershy had lost! The pink-coated unicorn filly realized that there was no way she could get to it on her own hooves and thought about using a spell. So Starlight lit up her horn, and then, with all of her might, she teleported outside the playpen, grabbed the plushie, and teleported back into the playpen. She then hoofed it to Fluttershy, who squealed and giggled. “Ya gots ya pwush bunny!”

Fluttershy threw her hooves over Starlight, making everypony cheer.

Applejack then waddled over. “Wooks wike we tiwed since ya won the wace eawiew..”

“Yeah, I wondew what ta next activity shouwd be?” Rainbow Dash asked. “We awweady used ouw diapees, and had bottwes and num-nums.”

Baby Twilight then let out a yawn as she said. “Gots an idea fow ta next activity, and hewe’s ta idea. Tey gonna put us aww down fow a nap soon and wead us a bedtime stowie. Whoevea stays up ta wongest wins.”

The rest of the foals nodded as they started to lay down, looking tired. Starlight also started to feel her eyelids droop and couldn’t help but agree that a bedtime story and a nap were a great idea.

Meanwhile, Windy and the other mares went about changing their foals as Pear couldn’t help but remark. “It seems that this playdate was an amazing idea. I’ve never seen Applejack so happy before in all my life.”

Cloudy Quartz blushed. “I have to admit this was such a good experience for my foals, especially Pinkamina. I think that we should have our foals visit each other often so they can be…friends…”

Posey, sipping a cup of tea, gave a nod and then said. “Yes, I can see that would be wonderful. We can all have the foals play together and share milestones together. Fluttershy especially needs friends.”

Twilight Velvet’s cheeks flushed red as she replied, “Yes, my little Twilight could use friends as well. She only has her brother now, and he’s almost old enough for kindergarten. She needs friends her own age.”

The parents then settled the foals down for a nap, giving them each another bottle as Twilight Velvet started to read to them. Cookie Crumble, meanwhile, took pictures and whispered, “Oh my it seems Rarity gave one of her dresses to Starlight. How cute!”

Windy looked over and dawwed at Starlight, still in her dress, suckling away on her bottle and whispering. “Indeed.”

They watched as the foals went to sleep, even the two Twilights, but then Starlight was the last one to fall asleep and collapse onto her little mat. The mothers just looked over the nine foals, all sleeping together peacefully, finding it so adorable.

Pear whispered to the others, “How about we hang out in the kitchen? I’m sure the little ones will tell us when they wake up.”

“Good idea,” Windy whispered back, and then the mares all trotted quietly out of the living room so as not to wake up the little ones.

When the foals all got up later, alicorn Twilight yawned as she groggily rubbed the sleep out of her eyes. “Do we have any othew activities tat ya want to do?” She asked the other foals.

Starlight had an idea. “Weww, since I won ta wast of the chawwenges, we shouwd do wha I want ta do,” And she proposed. “What if we made a hoof painting togethew?”

“Yeah, tat sounds wike fun!” Baby Twilight chirped. Soon, she and Rainbow Dash were working together, making a picture of themselves: Cute little blobs of pink, white, orange, purple, blue, and yellow with a messy rainbow smeared overhead.

Afterward, Starlight sat back with her hooves and body covered in paint. Even so, she admired the picture as she blushed and said. “T…this is gweat, tank you,” She teared up, and they all hugged each other. Then Starlight gasped upon seeing the rattles around them glow! They shone bright, and then the little filly blinked and whispered to herself. “Wha…wha happened?!”

Alicorn Twilight trotted over, “I tink we did it…tey best fwiends now.”

Starlight watched as the other little fillies went to work on other paintings and nodded. “Yeah, I tink we did it.”

Later, after a bath, Starlight and alicorn Twilight were back in Elizabeth Whooves’ home, and they came down to see that the time machine was gone, along with the other time travelers: Dr. Whooves and Starswirl.

Starlight waddled about and sighed. “Guess it wowked, evewypony’s gone home and back to whewe tey bewong.”

Elizabeth nodded, looking at Starlight and Twilight. “Yes, that just leaves you two and the egg. I think Windy will be the one to take you all home.”

“Yes, but I dun see ta hawm of being with hew for one mowe night.” Alicorn Twilight declared

Starlight gave a nod as she and alicorn Twilight were brought to the playpen, and there alicorn Twilight asked Starlight. “So, we finawwy going home tomowwow. Ya weady?”

“Yeah, I weady,” Starlight nodded. “‘Bout time, weawwy.”

Twilight nodded back. “Yeah, as much fun as being a foaw is, I tiwed of diapees.”

Starlight looked up. “I sowie, tis is aww my fauwt. None of tis wouwd have happened if I hadn’t twied to go back time to stop ya fwom becoming fwiends with ya fwiends..”

“Yeah, none of tis wouwd have happened,” Alicorn Twilight pointed out. “My fwiends wouwdn’t meet each other as babies, but now we gonna be fwiends as foaws. Abbwejackie’s pawents awe now waive. Stawswiww might stop Pwincess Wuna and Cewestia fwom fighting…”

Starlight gulped. “-Yeah,, but ta timewine.”

Twilight shrugged. “Ta timewine is gonne get wewrd when we get back. But I tink is gonna be awwight tanks ta ya.”

“Yeah, who knew a bunch of foaws would change time and histowy?” Starlight giggled

Alicorn Twilight then nuzzled into Starlight’s side as they laid down together, and drifted off to sleep on their last night as babies.

Chapter Eleven: The Better Timeline

Starlight woke up the next morning looking rather confused, but she saw she was in the ruins of the princess’ castle. As she stretched her tiny limbs, she heard. “We’re here.”

Starlight turned to Twilight, who was still fast asleep and suckling on a pacifier. The little pink filly nudged her. “Is time to get up.”

“Otay.” The little filly yawned. They were then taken out of the stroller and placed down to get their diapers changed.

Windy fed them breakfast, giving them two bottles filled with milk. As the two foals chugged down their bottles, she started to tear up. “Oh, I can’t believe today’s the day. I know you must go, but I enjoyed being your mother. I hope you don’t forget about me.” She couldn’t talk to her anymore without Starswirl using power to have them be able to talk so she held up her hooves, and the mare gave Windy a hug. The pegasus gave her padded butt a few pats as the two were placed on the massive map with the egg nestled between the two.

And then, in a blinding light, the three were suddenly gone.

Starlight woke up groggy as she maneuvered and couldn’t feel her diaper. In fact, she got up and looked to see she was back as an adult. Then she saw Twilight Sparkle sitting next to her and Spike standing in the throne room, all groggy as they were getting up.

Spike yawned, stretching his limbs. That was weird. "I had this crazy dream. I was back in an egg.”

Twilight blushed, looking around to make sure she was an adult before she then replied. “That was no dream. You really were in an egg.”

“Seriously?!” Spike blinked in disbelief.

“It's a long story,” Starlight whispered as she slowly got up, rubbing her head. Turning to Twilight, she asked. “Are you feeling alright?”

“Well, yeah! It's just, ugh…” Twilight groaned, rubbing her forehead. " Yeah, everything’s fine. It just feels like something is off.”

They then trotted through the castle, seeing tons of pictures of Twilight and her friends growing up together. They came to a dining room where all of her friends were eating breakfast together.

Applejack was the first to notice them waving a hoof and saying, “Hey Twilight and Starlight, it’s about time you two woke up!”

Both mares blinked as they crossed over and plopped down just as Rainbow Dash flew over and hugged Starlight. “Where the heck have you been?! Pinkie Pie almost had a panic attack looking for you!”

“What are you talking about, Rainbow?!” Starlight blinked in confusion.

Rainbow Dash stepped back, eyeing her friend as she asked. “Did you hit your head on a rock or something?”

“Yeah, Seriously! Where were you?!” The two turned to Pinkie Pie, bouncing over, looking rather peeved as she shouted, “You two are late for the baby friendship celebration breakfast!”

Starlight blushed and scratched her mane. “Yeah, sorry, we uh…”

Twilight quickly added. “We're just dealing with a magic incident that caused us some memory issues…And what did you say, Pinkie?”

The rest of their friends all gave them odd looks as Rainbow Dash shouted. “The baby friendship celebration we’ve had every year since forever! We always start with a big breakfast. You seriously couldn’t have forgotten about it, could you?”

Twilight was looking nervous and was somewhat speechless but Starlight spoke up. “Oh yeah, of course we remembered! We just overslept is all.”

Starlight and Twilight then sat back down as they started eating their pancakes. Starlight groaned as dozens of memories rushed into her mind: She could remember her and Rainbow Dash had become best friends. Even when Sunburst left to learn magic in Canterlot, she’d moved to Ponyville and became best friends with every pony. She remembered her mom and Windy becoming friends, and they would have the two go on playdates all the time. She turned to see that Twilight was rubbing her head and talking to her friends about stuff they did as foals, seeing that she was having new memories.

They then reached the dining table, and Twilight picked up a history book as they shared a massive breakfast of pancakes, tea, and coffee. As she read it her eyes went wide as she shouted, "Wait, Celestia never banished Luna?!”

Pinkie Pie laughed. “What are you talking about!? Everypony knows Starswirl the Padded came back from his time travels as a baby and helped the two reunite as sisters.”

Starlight burst into laughter Twilight’s jaw went slack from disbelief, and cried. “Wait, Starswirl the Padded?! Not Starswirl the Bearded!?”

Pinkie Pie picked out a history book and showed it off with a picture of a pouty. “Yes, it’s common knowledge that after Starswirl came back as a baby, it became his new nickname. Heck he was in diapers for a while due to having bladder issues,” Pinkie Pie chirped excitedly as Twilight just looked shocked. The pink party pony eyed her, then said. “Of all ponies, I never would have guessed you would forget that.”

The alicorn blushed and replied. “I admit the memory issues are still affecting me. Also, did Starswirl really come back as a baby?”

“Yeah, and he came up with an age spell to turn himself back to normal!” Pinkie exclaimed. “He even became obsessed with age spells and learned how to make it easier to do so anypony can turn back into a baby!”

Starlight pondered for a second, then asked. “What about Dr Whooves?”

The mares all looked at each other oddly then Applejack spoke up. “You mean the Doctor Whooves?! The time-traveling hero?!”

“Uh… yeah,” Starlight nervously replied. “What about him?”

“Well he came back from his own time travel adventure and little did we know that he helped fix an issue with a hot air balloon down in Appleloosa, savin’ hundreds of lives,” Applejack explained, before chuckling. “Though when he came back he was a baby, so they made a statue of him in his honor down there. He looks so heckin’ cute.” She showed them a picture seeing a massive stone statue of an adorable earth pony colt, making the two mares giggle.

Twilight then turned the pages of her history book. “Oh so he's back to a stallion…but um…” She showed them a picture of the bashful looking doctor wearing a massive fluffy white diaper.

“Yeah, what's up?” Applejack asked.

“He's in a diaper even as an adult?” Twilight exclaimed. “Shouldn’t he have been potty trained once he went back to being an adult?”

“Oh yeah, didn't I mention?” Applejack blinked. “Starswirl learned that time travel can cause you to have bladder issues. So you have to wear diapers for a bit to keep yourself from havin’ accidents. He’s still workin’ on a way to fix that.”

“You wore them too for a bit, Twilight, don’t you remember? You were in them for so long too.” Pinkie Pie asked with a giggle as the current Twilight’s face turned a beat red.

Starlight snickered. “Awww, that sounds so cute.”

“Yeah uh…well that’s good to know…” Twilight nervously replied, and then hesitantly asked. “Is there a cure now?”

“No, not really. You did so much research, but the only cure was to just repotty training yourself,” Rainbow snickered. “That was so funny, though, your mom still has your potty chart.”

“Rainbow!” Applejack snapped.

“Your memory issues must be serious if you’ve forgotten all of that. Are you sure you don’t need to see a doctor, darlings?” Rarity asked.

“Na..no! Just uh…” Twilight began, then squeaked as there was a small tinkle sound. To her surprise, a fluffy white diaper was suddenly taped around her waist with ease, almost as if by magic.

“Oh stop fussing, I knew you two would eventually return.” Twilight Velvet appeared with a smile as she fixed a diaper around Starlight’s flank as well.

“Oh hello Mrs. Sparkle.” Starlight nervously greeted as she began to blush as well.

“It's good to see you too, Starlight,” Velvet cooed. “Now that you and Twilight have returned from your time traveling adventure, we should discuss some things. And we should definitely get you changed. You wouldn’t want your big day ruined by a diaper rash, now would you?”

“O…okay!” Twilight whined as she and Starlight followed Twilight Velvet from the dining hall.

In a small room nearby the three sat down with both Starlight and Twilight looking rather embarrassed as Twilight Velvet talked. “Now don’t be alarmed. I was told by Princess Celestia to make sure that when you returned to give you assistance and to tell you that everything is fine.”

“What do you mean?” Twilight cried.

“Well you see, first of all due to the nature of time, everything happened as it should from when you both left,” Velvet explained. “First off, as you’ve already learned, Celestia and Luna never fought, Dr. Whooves saved the Apples and dozens of others, and Starlight, you never brainwashed a town and enslaved ponies.”

“Really!?” Starlight blinked as she realized that Twilight Velvet was right. She realized that if she was friends with Rainbow Dash after Starswirl left, she would’ve never felt alone and thus wouldn’t have gone down that dark path.

“Yes indeed, you two still existed, and even when you returned from time, your old and new selves combined, so you’re still you.” Velvet pointed out.

“That's great and all, and I'm glad everything in this timeline is great, but what about this?!” Twilight questioned as she poked her padding. “Please tell me I don’t have to get potty trained for a third time!”

Velvet laughed then said with a wink. “Sorry, Twilight, that's the only hiccup. But don’t worry, it’ll be easy, just need to train your bladder again. It gets easier the more you have to go through it.”

Starlight blushed. “So, what about Twilight and her friends? It seems they’ve been friends since forever.”

“They have, despite living apart, we had playdates monthly and eventually you all moved in together and became inseparable,” Velvet went on. “You even helped save Equestria from Discord and became heroes!”

Twilight sighed. “Glad that didn’t change…though why do we call this day ‘Baby Friendship Celebration’?”

“Well, that’s a surprise,” Velvet explained. “And as your memories return, you’ll know. Now the other parents should be arriving soon.”

As soon as Velvet had said that, the three heard a door open and heard familiar voices echoing through the castle.

Starlight gasped, getting up and waddling as fast as she could, not even caring that she was in a diaper! She ran right to Applejack’s parents, Pear Butter and Bright Mac, and hugged them, “Oh, I'm so happy you're okay!”

Bright Mac looked confused and asked. “What are you talkin’ about? We had dinner just the other day.”

Pear Butter giggled upon seeing Starlight’s diaper. “Oh dear, did you try using time magic?”

“What?! No!” Starlight nervously insisted, and stammered. “I um…well it's a long story.”

Pear Butter waved a hoof. “Oh hush, come here!” She hugged Starlight and said. “It's always great to see you, Starlight.”

“You have no idea how much I needed to hear that!” Starlight cried and hugged both Apple parents close.

“And where’s my hug?” Windy asked as she came over.

Starlight gasped and happily cried! “Windy!”

“And mine too!” Bow Hothoof asked as he popped out, making Starlight hug them both.

Windy smiled, “I see our little Starlight is still in diapers.”

“Yeah, you know, time travel and all that, though I wouldn’t mind being in them for a-” Starlight's face turned bright red as she admitted how much she enjoyed being in diapers.

This made the two laugh, and Windy dawwed, “You can stay in diapers for as long as you like, as far as I'm aware. Now come on! The real celebration is about to begin!”

They were then led to another room which was a massive nursery and Starlight looked confused. “What is all of this?”

Twilight squeaked as she seemed to remember something and cried, “Starlight?! Th…this is the surprise my mom was talking about!”

“What do you mean?” Starlight nervously questioned.

“Every year since we were three, our moms would turn us back into babies for a day!” Twilight realized.

Then suddenly, Twilight Velvet lit up her horn and cast the spell. Starlight along with her six new friends were turned into little foals, and after being padded up by their parents, they started to play together without a care in the world.

Starlight was amazed at being a baby again! She giggled and squealed as Rainbow Dash flew over. “Hey, wanna wace, best fwiend?!”

“Oh heck yeah! Ta wast one to get acwoss ta nuwsewy is a stinky diapee!” Starlight squealed as she ran down the padded floor, giggling happily and wishing she could be a foal for a few more hours.

Later that afternoon, the foals were all tuckered out, sprawled all over the nursery floor with pacifiers in their mouths. The lights were dimmed, and there was a peaceful quiet in their little nursery.

Twilight and Starlight both were napping together as Starlight whispered. “It’s cwazy, but tis timewine is so much bettew than ouw pwevious one.”

“Yeah, but tis wouwdn’t have happened without you.” Twilight whispered back.

Starlight groaned as she mumbled. “You mean, me twying to scwew it up.”

“Weww, yes, but in a sense, you went on youw own jouwney. Weawning about fwiendship.” Twilight explained.

“Yeah, tat's twue, I guess,” Starlight nodded. “But even when we gwow up we gonna be in diapees again.”

Twilight burst into laughter, and then hugged Starlight and said. “Maybe we can stay in diapees fow a wittwe wongew. No need to gwow up so fast.”

Starlight scrunched the padding between her legs and giggled. “Yeah. Next yeaw, we gotta bwing Sunbuwst.”

“Yeah, and Shining.” Twilight declared.

“And Big Mac.” Applejack giggled.

“And my sistaws, tat would be so much fun!” Pinkie chirped.

“What about ta wittwe Doctor Whooves?” Fluttershy suggested.

“I tink ta pwincesses need to be babies fow a bit. Tey wowk so hawd aww ta time.” Rarity added.

Rainbow Dash waddled over to Starlight and hugged her. “I dun cawe who ewse comes as wong as ya do.”

Starlight nodded as she nuzzled into one of her oldest friends, and they drifted off to sleep together.