Rarity’s Escape in Manehattan

Rarity let out a groan as she slowly rubbed her eyes and threw her pudgy hooves as she woke up under baby blankets. She looked to see that there was a mobile twirling over her head. Photo Finish was in another crib, they must’ve fallen asleep on the ride here.

Rarity looked around: She saw that she and Photo were in a very luscious condo. The room was beautiful with plush red carpeting everywhere, the walls had lovely decorations of various hanging house plants (which made the entire place smell nice). In the center of the room, she saw an adorable little nursery for foals with a ton of cute plush toys strewn about, along with some blocks, and interactive baby toys that blinked out a multitude of colors, and they were all brand new.

Then Rarity heard humming and saw a beautiful white-coated pegasus mare with a light blue mane and tail styled into a curl come flying over. " Hello little ones. Up already?”

The baby earth pony tried to babble angrily.

“Oh hush, you’ll get a diaper change soon enough.” The mare cooed as she then lifted the little filly, who kicked and squirmed, unable to stop as she was placed down onto the changing table. Rarity could only watch with secondhoof embarrassment and wait for the pegasus mare to finish. Afterwards, Rarity had her own diaper changed (she hadn’t even realized she’d wet it, it seemed she was already losing all of her potty training) and then the two were set down for some lunch.

Rarity threw quite a fit during the feeding process, but the pegasus mare seemed to have experience with fussy foals, having no trouble spoon-feeding them despite their protests. She then placed them down in the playpen. “Now, you two play nice. I’ll start writing letters to find out where your parents are. I know all the local nurseries, so I’m sure we can find out where and who you belong to. And if you need anything, just let me know.”

Both foals started to babble frantically, trying to tell this pegasus that they were actually adults, but nothing worked as she smiled at them and then walked off.

Photo Finish plopped down, threw her hooves over her face, and cried. “Tis is no good! We gotta twy to find a way to get hew attention so she can take us to Pwincess Twiwight!”

Rarity looked all around the playpen, then suddenly an idea came into her mind as she said. “I know…how about we make wowds with the baby bwocks?! She’ww have to wecognzie us ten!”

Photo nodded. “Otay, wet’s huwwy befowe she gives us back to ouw actuaw pawents and we have to gwow up aww ovew again!”

So the two foals went to work, scooping up all of the blocks they could find and moving them around until they managed to spell out: “We a4e Rar1ty & Photo Finish, please help!”It was the best they could do with the blocks they had.

When the pegasus mare saw this, she gasped, surprised at seeing them being able to spell out words like that! “Oh my! I would normally just assume you two are really smart for your ages, but I must presume you two must be regressed adults! There’s no way foals your age would know how to spell out so many big words like that.”

The two regressed ponies were a bit stunned that their caretaker was able to figure out their true identities pretty fast, and they babbled excitedly as they pointed at themselves.

The nanny nodded. “Okay, don’t you two worry. I’ll get you to Princess Twilight. I’m sure she is still here. And hopefully, she’ll know how to turn you two back into adults.”

“Yay!” The two foals chimed in unison, overjoyed at their stroke of luck!

Rarity laid back in the playpen, feeling rather delighted and at ease with her prospects. The last thing she wanted was to be given back to her parents and become a “little sister” to Sweetie Belle (to say nothing of orphaning her two adopted foals). “Tat’s a wewief! I tought we wouwd be stuck wike tis fowevew!” She said to Photo afterwards.

“Yeah,” Photo Finish nodded. “Guess tis nanny is smawtew than we tought.” Yet as they were both celebrating, they were suddenly surprised to hear a knock at the door.

The nanny opened the door to reveal a shy white-coated earth pony mare who whispered. “G-good morning. I… heard you found some foals running about. Do you happen to have them still?”

“Yes, but how do you know them?” The pegasus mare questioned her visitor.

“Where are my manners,” The earth pony mare swallowed hard. “I’m Coco Pommel: Their nanny, and they happen to have gone and escaped their nursery. I am trying to get them back to their parents. So please, let me have them.”

The real nanny eyed the earth pony mare with skepticism. Something about the way this mare was talking and acting didn’t seem right. “Sorry, but you must be mistaken. The foals I found are two of those regressed adults I’ve been hearing about. They seem to be unusually intelligent for foals their age.”

“R-really?!” Coco blinked and stepped back, apparently surprised by the news. “You don’t say. I had no idea.”

“Yes,” so again, how would you know about them?” The pegasus nanny inquired of Coco. “Shouldn’t you have realized by now how unlike normal foals they are?”

Coco started to sweat a little and replied. “W-well I…. um, I… am a friend of one of theirs and, um… need to get them to Princess Twilight so she can turn them back into adults.”

“Really? You just said you were going to give them back to their parents.” The nanny retorted with skepticism.

“W-well, I didn’t want to embarrass them, that’s all.” Coco tried to insist as she backed away, appearing to shrink from a possible confrontation.

“Well I’m sorry, but I can’t in good conscience hoof these foals over to you,” The nanny declared. “If you are with Twilight’s friend, you should bring her here. Have a good day,” The nanny then quickly slammed the door in Coco’s face and went back to the foals. “Sorry about that, but it’s clear that mare is up to no good. She has to have known you were regressed adults. I’ll inform Princess Twilight about that mare when I return you two. Oh, and by the way, you call me Nanny Angel Feather. I’m sure you’ve heard of my nephew: The regressed Cannon Feather.”

Rarity's eyes glowed at seeing how smart and capable this nanny was, not to mention how beautiful she was. She made up her mind then and there: “When I get back to being a big pony, I’m going to hire Angel Feather if I can. I most certainly could use a more reliable pair of extra hooves to help with Hoity Toity and Blueblood.”

“Well, we best get going before she shows up with Celesita knows who else?” Angel Feather declared. “Come on.” She then placed the foals into a two seated stroller, gathered a diaper bag filled with foal supplies, and headed out the door of her apartment.

Angel Feather hummed a tune as she pushed the foals through the park, cutting straight through to the other side of the street where the fashion week competition was being hosted.

Rarity laid back, relaxing a bit as she enjoyed just looking around and seeing ponies out and about, enjoying the day. Every now and again, a pony would look over and wave or coo at her or Photo, making her giggle back at them. And even Photo Finish seemed to be enjoying the attention she was getting as a “cute foal”.

Then they suddenly paused, the stroller all but screeching to a halt. Rarity sat up and looked around. What was the reason for the delay? Then she nearly gasped as she saw both Suri and Coco nearby, looking around.

The pegasus nanny, for her part, didn’t recognize the pink-coated, scarf wearing earth pony. But she knew Coco was the one who had lied to her earlier. Thinking quickly, she swung the stroller around and tried to run in a different direction!

Alas, Suri happened to spot Angel Feather with the stroller out of the corner of her eyes and shouted! “Hey, you have my foals! Give them back!” And she and Coco started chasing after the group!

Angel Feather ran as fast as she could on her hooves (she knew the stroller was too heavy to carry through the air, and she wasn’t about to risk dropping one of the foals in mid-air if they rode on her back), but the two earth pony mares were able to catch up to her!

Then Suri took out a bag of some dust! She moved to throw it, but she stumbled over her hooves, and the dust blew over her and Coco as well, leaving them coughing.

Angel Feather laughed, convinced she’d escaped. But then she sneezed out some of the weird dust from her nose, gasping as she felt her body start to tingle! Rarity looked up and groaned, seeing that some of the age regression dust must have gotten onto Nanny Angel Feather. It was only a matter of time until she was back in diapers like Rarity and Photo Finish.

Sure enough, as they continued through the park, it didn’t take long until Angel Feather’s body began to shrink in size. She sat down at a park bench and saw that her clothes no longer fit her. Throwing them aside, Rarity saw the mare was now a lot younger, probably a teenager, as she groaned. “Oh no, it seems that stuff was regression dust. I'm shrinking slowly. Maybe I can make it to Twilight before I'm a baby. She can turn us back to normal, right?”

Rarity and Photo both gave nods as they went around the trees and fields. But as they continued towards a play area, the pegasus mare continued to shrink until she was now no younger than a school foal and could barely push the stroller anymore. However, just when she wanted to stop and rest, she saw two other earth ponies roughly looking like school aged fillies: It was Coco and Suri! They both were obviously affected by their own age regression dust, yet they were still trying to find Rarity and Photo Finish.

“We better go on hoof at this point!” Angel Feather whispered as she then took the foals out of the stroller, herded them into a sandbox, and found some toys for them to play with as she draped her wings over them. “Quick: Pretend we’re just normal foals. Maybe then they’ll miss us.”

Rarity and Photo nodded, and they started playing with the toys, building a sandcastle together. It was rather fun, both of them doing their best to make it look good even though it was difficult to lift the heavy sand filled buckets with their pudgy hooves. As they began to play, their plan seemed to work at first. But Coco and Suri still stomped over as the pink-coated earth pony yelled out in a high pitched voice. "You! You did this to us!”

Angel Feather looked up and shouted! “Me?! You two turned Rarity and Photo Finish into babies, and now we are turning into babies too! This is all your fault! At this rate, we’re all going to end up in diapers!”

Suri paused and stammered, apparently only now considering the dilemma on her hooves. “W-well, yeah! But…um…ugh!” She groaned. “Just let us take them, and we can turn you back into an adult, okay?”

“Really? And if that were the case, why aren’t you turning yourself and your friend here into adults right now?” Angel Feather questioned. “You don’t really want to lose your potty training, do you?”

“Because…because…” Suri stuttered, unable to think of a good counter argument. “Oh, forget it! Coco, get those babies! We can use them as leverage so Princess Twilight will have to change us back too!”

“Um, ok.” Coco hesitantly replied, now a little white coated foal. She started to run towards Rarity, Photo, and Angel. But Angel was two steps ahead, quickly picking up the foals onto her back as she ran across the park, even as her body was beginning to shrink even more.

Rarity wished she could do more to help, but Angel seemed capable of keeping her and Photo safe.

Angel, meanwhile, went onto the playset and used the stairs and other foals to avoid being spotted (and make it more difficult for their pursuers to get to them). She then took the foals up to the top, and the three all slid down a large slide together. Rarity squealed in delight as Photo closed her eyes. They soon popped out of the other side Angel Feather scooped them up and started running towards the streets and to the venue, hoping to find Princess Twilight before she too ended up as a baby.