Back To The Basics

By

Sparknanator

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It had been near two weeks since Twilight's friends sent a letter to her mother, explaining the situation. They had all been taking turns looking after the lavender foal, everypony except Rainbow Dash, she would either have something to do or say she was too cool to watch after a foal though in all reality everypony else knew she was scared she might do something wrong. Rarity had volunteered to watch after Twilight this day, much to Twilight's dismay, anytime she tried to say something the only thing that would come out would be baby gibberish and it was starting to get on her nerves.

The only thing that Twilight hated about being a foal again was the way everypony would coo at her and how some elderly ponies would pinch her cheeks. It angered her a little so she would flail her little hooves and babble at them hoping they got the message. What seemed odd though was the same day Rarity had volunteered to foalsit she had decided to come out with a foal line of clothing. Twilight knew where this was heading and struggled to escape but now her magic was much weaker, like it was when she was a foal, so she could not use it to open doors. Twilight had known from the start that she could not escape and gave in to become Rarity's new model.

Rarity had put her in dress after dress, taking pictures all the while. Twilight was now sitting down pouting while Rarity took one more picture of the sixteenth dress she had been put in that hour"Twilight darling you look just plain adorable." Rarity cooed "Come on give me a little smile." Twilight sat there still pouting, Rarity frowned as she went over to Twilight, who was now trying to take the dress off "No Twilight.” The marshmallow unicorn said, “you want to look good for your surprise visitor."

Twilight cocked her head, Rarity had been speaking of this 'visitor' all day and it was starting to bother Twilight. She had tried mouth writing to ask Rarity who it was but when Twilight tried to mouth write something, all that came out was chicken scratch and it frustrated her to her very core as she cursed, internally of course, at not practicing mouth writing. She had always used magic to write and now it was coming back to haunt her and now, with her younger mind, she would often get flustered, angry, and sometimes it would get to her and she would cry although when Pinkie Pie had dropped Twilight off at Rarity's, she was asleep and Pinkie Pie had given Rarity some tips on how to calm her down when she would get upset, Pinkie had also told Rarity that she was planning a party for when Twilight Velvet came to Ponyville the party was for both of them.

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It was around late afternoon now and Rarity had been using Twilight as her little model all day, it was clear that Twilight was tired as she was now fighting to keep her eyes opened as her little head began lowering before she reeled it back up and yawned loudly. Rarity couldn’t help but D’aw and coo over the tired Twilight. “Who needs a wittle nap?” Rarity said, her baby voice annoying Twilight and she tried to tell her only to be stopped by another yawn, causing Rarity to coo even more before taking Twilight’s dress off and carrying her to a crib. Twilight was struggling in Rarity’s magic until she was placed on the soft mattress in the crib. Her exhaustion caught up with her and she gave in; laying on her side as she fell asleep, babbling something softly.

Rarity smiled as she closed the bedroom door, wondering about how they could help out Twilight's mother in anyway. A few days back when they were discussing it, Applejack had agreed to give Twilight Applebloom's old baby toys, along with trying to sneak Smarty Pants away from Big Mac, and Pinkie Pie had got the cakes to agree to give Twilight's mother Pound and Pumpkin's old bottles and pacifiers, seeing as they no longer needed them. Rarity had decided that she would give her Sweetie Belle's old foal supplies so that way she would have some free space in her basement.

Rarity decided that now was a good time to sit down and relax a little. She looked over at the clock she had, it was getting close to 3pm. She smiled, knowing that would leave them with about 3 hours until Twilight Velvet arrived in Ponyville. The marshmallow mare trotted into her kitchen, levitating a tea kettle, she had filled earlier, onto the stove to make some tea. As she waited for the water to boil, she levitated some of the pictures she had taken of Twilight during their modeling sessions, hoping to find the best one to use for advertising her latest fashion line.

The whole time Rarity was looking through the photos she could not stop giggling "I think Twilight looks cute in this one, yet I am not sure it would be front page worthy." Rarity kept focusing on the pictures, looking at them one by one, picturing it on the front of every fashion magazine. Minutes dragged on as she examined each and every picture. She jumped a little from the whistle of her tea kettle, signaling that the water was boiling. "Oh goodie the tea is done!" Rarity stood up from her sofa, stretching. Using her magic, she brought the prepared tea over along with a cup and saucer. She tipped the kettle and filled the cup before setting both down on her coffee table. "Now the only two problems I can think of with Twilight are that she is not adjusting to her new diet very well and the second one: how will she react when she sees her mother? Rarity pondered taking a sip of her tea "I guess we will cross that bridge when it comes."

"But her mother is coming today." Rarity groaned in frustration, making sure to not wake Twilight "For the love of Celestia why did this have to happen?!" Rarity was taken out of her little state of anger by a knock on the door. Rarity stood up again, trotting over to the front door she regained her composure, smiling as she opened it "Welcome to Carousel Boutique wher-" Rarity was cut off by a pink blur rushing past her "Oh hello Pinkie" Pinkie starts shuffling around nervously "Pinkie darling, what is wrong? Why are you so nervous?"

Pinkie stood there panting "Well Rarity, you see I might have gotten the time wrong for something really super important." Pinkie let out a nervous laugh.

Rarity gave Pinkie Pie a stern look "Pinkie Pie what are you talking about?" Rarity asked in an equally stern tone, one that she normally saved for misbehaving foals, otherwise known as the Cutie Mark Crusaders.

Pinkie Pie gulped "Well remember how I said Twilight's mom would be arriving at around fiveish?" Pinkie asked, Rarity nodded "Well I was wrong. She will be here in one hour."

Rarity took a few deep breaths pupils shrinking "Pinkie Pie, darling. Might I ask you something?" Rarity asked and Pinkie nodded "How in the world of Equestria did you GET THE TIME WRONG!?" Rarity shouted before immediately covering her mouth as she remembers the foal currently sleeping upstairs.

"Well Rarity I don't know. When I went to the train station to check, I found out that she had found a much earlier train and took that one.” Pinkie said "I am so, so, so sorry Rarity!"

Rarity sighed, she could see the tell tail signs that Pinkie was going to cry "It’s alright Pinkie darling." Rarity placed a reassuring hoof on Pinkie's shoulder, “We’ll just have to prepare for her earlier arrival.” Pinkie nodded, smiling at her friend. Rarity offered Pinkie a seat and tea, she accepted it gladly.

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The hour has passed rather quickly Pinkie had already left to retrieve and welcome Twilight's mother from the train station, she left with her pink welcome wagon. Rarity sighed, now was the moment of truth she went upstairs to see that Twilight was still sleeping peacefully and snoring softly. Rarity went over to the sleeping foal and shook her lightly "Twilight. Twilight, wake up darling" Rarity whispered as she kept shaking Twilight "Come on sweetie you need to wake up."

Twilight sat up before looking up at Rarity and rubbing the sleep from her eyes. She blinked again as Rarity came into focus. Seeing Rarity giving her a warm smile she returned it and babbled a good morning. Twilight’s smile left when she remembered she couldn’t speak and facehoofed with her little hoof. When she looked back at Rarity she was sniffing the air, “Twilight dear. Do you smell that?” the larger unicorn asked. Twilight sniffed the air and nodded before realizing what it was and looked at her diaper for confirmation, blushing profusely.

Rarity followed the smell to the red faced foal; Twilight was blushing so much that her lavender coat couldn’t hide it. Rarity recoiled when she realized what it was and covered her nose, tears forming in her eyes from the stench. “How could such a small foal make such a big smell?!” She started fanning the air in front of her face, “I need air!” She galloped out of the room while Twilight’s blush deepened as the foal tried to cover the diaper in shame.

Rarity stood outside taking in a lungful of air as dramatically as Rarity could, “Fresh air!” She looked back into the room, which was now emitting green smog. She took a deep breath and used her magic to bring up a new diaper and the powder Pinkie had left. Rarity gulped before walking back into the room and to Twilight. Rarity cleared a table, setting everything aside neatly, and laid Twilight down. She used her magic to pull the diaper open slowly, as if it was a bomb. Rarity gagged a little as the smell became more intense from the open diaper.

She held the diaper aloft and threw it into the trash with a flick of her magic, being careful to not have it touch her mane. She shivered and shook some of the powder onto Twilight; they both shared a sneeze before Rarity put the new diaper on Twilight. She stepped back to admire her work. Twilight was sitting on the table, looking at her hooves sadly. “Sweet Celestia Twilight!” Rarity said, “How could you make such a mess?!” Twilight began to cry. Her sadness overtook her, she didn’t want to do that but she didn’t have any control over it.

“Why did this happen to me?” Twilight thought as she continued bawling.

Rarity was caught off guard, “Don’t cry Twilight.” Rarity said failing to calm her down, “How about I put a nice dress on you?” She asked desperately, Twilight started crying harder now. Rarity looked around for something to calm her down with, her thoughts were being interrupted by the foal’s cries and she didn’t think before bringing a pacifier over and sticking it in Twilight’s mouth, calming her down instantly as she sucked on the orange pacifier. Strangely it calmed Twilight down, she didn’t argue since she could think clearly again and it wasn’t just thoughts of everything bad that had happened.

Rarity sighed in relief at having that problem dealt with. When Twilight calmed down she spat the pacifier out. Rarity set her down with a few block toys that Rarity had lying around. Twilight was keeping herself amused with stacking the blocks in every way she possibly could. A knock came from the door; Rarity went to answer it with her singsong voice, “Coming.” She opened the door, “Oh, hello darling. Welcome to Carousel Boutique, where all our designs are magnefique!” A voice

answered her, Twilight wasn’t able to hear who it was but she came in soon after Rarity. Twilight crawled to where she could see the door and the pony she saw standing there surprised her and filled her with joy. So much joy that she took off crawling as fast as she could, nopony saw her come up until she was hugging Twilight Velvet’s leg. Both unicorns looked down when they heard babbling. Both cooing when they saw the filly.

Twilight let go when she realized what she had just done and sat on her flank, pouting and scolding herself for letting her emotions carry her away again. Twilight Velvet picked up her new yet old foal with a smile, “Now don’t pout Twilight, what’s wrong?” she asked. Twilight tried to speak and ended up babbling again. The mares D’awwed at the foal Twilight and she sighed, “This is going to annoy me. I just know it.”

Author's Note

Once again I want to thank Mikoyose for being an epic editor he also helped write A LOT of the chapter its self so I hope you all enjoy the chapter