My Little Pony: The Human Chronicles

Episode 19: Creepy Day Care

Inside the Golden Oaks Library, while the sounds of a coming thunderstorm created by the Pegasus ponies, the sounds of somepony grunting and struggling were heard. One would normally think that it was Toby hitting something but instead it was Twilight. Both she and Toby were standing in the middle of the library with a giant red punching bag facing the unicorn. She hit it over and over again with his fore hooves and rear hooves but it didn't move an inch.

"Atta girl Twilight, put your back into it!" Toby urged her. "Come on, this is very important part of your training! So try and hit harder!"

"I am!" Twilight stated, stressed. She hit the bag again but it still didn't move. "I can't even get the bag to move. I don't see how I'm supposed to take on a guy who's twice my size!"

"Twi, getting the upper hand isn't about size. It's about decisiveness and speed. You have to commit. Look, right now you're only putting part of yourself into it. If you want
to effective, you have to put your whole body into it. Okay?" Toby said.

Twilight took a deep breath and sighed. "Ok."

"Good." Toby nodded. Twilight got into a fighting position and resumed hitting the bag. "There you go. Nice! That's the way you do it. At this rate you'll be defending yourself without me or magic Now just channel all your anger into your next jabs."

Twilight then began to get tired out. "Sorry… it's just not easy for me to feel hate and anger like it is for you Toby," she said.

Toby shrugged. "Your right. I mean, what's to be angry about? Hmm?" he said as he got behind the bag and kept it straight. "It's not like you continuously get harassed and beaten up by bad guys every week like a defenceless child."

Twilight then began to hit the bag harder, as Toby managed to hit a nerve.

"It's not like you don't feel helpless when you or someone you care about gets pushed around and there's nothing you can do about it, at all." Toby continued.

As Twilight's anger increased so did her jabs and kicks.

"And I know it doesn't make you mad that every time you're in trouble either me or the others have to save you time and time again." Toby finished with a smug grin. "Talk about being a constant damsel in distress."

After that last remark Twilight bucked the bag with her hind legs so hard it got knocked right over. As Twilight panted exhausted, Toby smiled at her satisfied and proud.

"Better!" Toby said. "Not too shabby, bookworm."

Twilight smiled and blushed at him as he gave her a bottle of water with a straw to drink from in order to get rehydrated.

"Now what's say we…" Toby began before he was interrupted by the sound of somepony knocking on the door, which greatly annoyed him. "Ugh, you've got to be pulling on my leg!"

Toby walked over to the door and opened it and on the other shy was the animal caretaker herself; Fluttershy.

"Oh, hello, hello Twilight." The pegasus smiled, when quickly became a shy look. "Um… am-am interrupting?"

Toby nodded. "A little bit," he said bluntly before Twilight nudged him hard.

"No not at all Fluttershy, come on in!" Twilight told her friend, happily.

"Oh thank you!" Fluttershy said gratefully as she entered the library.

"So what's up?" Toby questioned.

"Oh, well I… I was hoping one of you could help with something…" Fluttershy said.

"What's that?" Twilight asked curiously.

"Well… Mr. and Mrs. Cake are going out for the weekend and they wanted Pinkie to baby sit for them, but because she has a cold and all they asked me to help." Fluttershy explained, as the sound of a lightning bolt was heard outside.

"And you need us… why?" Toby inquired, raising a brow. "You manage to take care of a bunch of animals and you took care of Apple Bloom and her friends… barely. So why do you need our help?"

"Well those two can be a bit of a hoof full…" Twilight pointed out. "Especially since they learned how to talk.

"How so?" Toby questioned.

"Well the first time Pinkie tried to take care of them… well… it was a pretty hard day for her to say the least." Twilight Sparkle replied.

"Hey, if she can take care of it, so can I!" Toby stated determined.

"You?" Twilight and Fluttershy asked in shock.

"Of course! Doing stuff like this is part of my everyday job, remember? 'Nick of Time Odd Jobs', like this!" Toby reminded them.

"But have you… ever actually… babysat a baby before?" Twilight Sparkle asked him nervously.

"No." Toby answered quickly and bluntly. "But I'm willing to give it a try. It's either that or listening to Spike go on and on about his crush on Rarity, besides Twilight's still got some training AND studying to do."

"Well, ok… I guess it's you and men then." Fluttershy smiled.

"Sounds great. Let's do this thing." Toby nodded, as both he and Fluttershy headed out the door. Twilight waved at them as they left.

"Good luck you guys!" Twilight called out.

"Thank you!" Fluttershy called back.

"I don't really need luck… but thanks!" Toby added.

Twilight sighed deeply when back into the Library where she began to quietly read a book, seemingly by her lonesome but unknown to her while she was reading her horn started to glow an eerily yellowish-green color. The same color it was when she accidently sent herself, Toby and the others into Pinkie Pie's body. As it glowed, a shadow instantly took the shape of a similar Draconequus creature which laughed an evil laugh before slithering off. Twilight turned around thinking that she had heard something but when she saw that it was nothing she resumed reading her book. But her horn continued to glow that odd color.

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Meanwhile, Toby and Fluttershy were nearly at Fluttershy's cottage, where the Cakes and the Twins were.

"So… why are they at your place again?" Toby inquired.

"Oh, well with Pinkie Pie having a dreadful cold and everything the Cakes wanted me to take care of them at my cottage so that they wouldn't catch it." Fluttershy replied.

"Good idea, baby's are very vulnerable to colds and all that stuff, what with their immune system being underdeveloped and everything." Toby nodded.

Fluttershy looked impressed by Toby's level of understanding a baby's immune system. "How do you know that?" she asked.

"They teach you a lot at high school." Toby shrugged.

"Ooh, which class?" Fluttershy enquired.

"Family Studies, they teach you about babies and stuff… plus a bunch of other things I can't tell you." Toby admitted, blushing a bit.

"Well with your in depth knowledge of babies then I'm sure the two of us can handle Pound and Pumpkin Cake no problem!" Fluttershy smiled.

"Maybe… although I was failing family studies before I left…" Toby confessed, embarrassed as he walked off ahead, Fluttershy looked at him concerned.

"Um… Toby? How does somepony… fail family studies…?" Fluttershy asked nervously.

"Don't ask…" Toby stated, not wanting to talk about it. "Anyways, we're here."

Fluttershy looked up ahead and saw that they were indeed at her little cottage near the forest.

"Oh your right, let's go inside and send Mr. and Mrs. Cake on their way," she told him as she proceed ahead. Fluttershy jumped when a bolt of lightning struck nearby. "And quickly!"

"So… these babies really gave Pinkie a hard day the first time she babysat?" Toby questioned, trying to get his facts straight as he got closer to the door. Not noticing or even acknowledging the noises that were coming from the cottage.

Fluttershy nodded. "Uh-huh. I heard they actually made her cry!"

"Oh, don't worry Flutters, how big a hoof full can they be?" Toby inquired confidently before suddenly a box full of toys, followed by Fluttershy's pet bunny Angel came crashing through the window, shattering it, and landing nearby them in a heap. Fluttershy had jumped into Toby's arms at that point, clearly frightened.

"I gotta quit saying stuff like that…" Toby muttered.

After putting Fluttershy down Toby kicked open the front door of her cottage and entered.

"Alright what's… wah!" Toby screamed as a kitchen sink magically flew over his and Fluttershy's heads and landed nearby. "Who throws a sink!? Better question; who carries a sink for the purpose of throwing!?"

Toby and Fluttershy then notice Mr. and Mrs. Cake hiding behind Fluttershy's couch, shaking like earthquakes and looking scared out of their wits.

"Mr. and Mrs. Cake?" Fluttershy asked.

"Why are you two hiding behind a couch?" Toby added.

The Cakes poked their heads out from behind their hiding spot and seemed relieved to see them.

"Oh Fluttershy, it's so good to see you…" Mrs. Cake said with a sigh of relief as she and Mr. Cake came out from behind the couch.

"Yeah, real good…" Mr. Cake added. "Say… why's Toby here?"

"Haven't you heard? I am also… the babysitter." Toby told them, a bolt of lightning flashed as soon as he finished that sentence causing Fluttershy to jump into his arms again. "Ok, this is getting real old… again!"

Fluttershy quickly jumped out his arms. "So um… Mr. and Mrs. Cake? W-Where are Pound Cake and Pumpkin Cake?" she asked.

"Upstairs…" Mrs. Cake replied, shaking.

"Why do you look so scared?" Toby inquired.

"Well… after we brought him here they seemed normal… but a few minutes later… well we don't know what's gotten into them!" Mr. Cake stated. "We've never seen anything like it! They are completely out of control!"

"Out of control?" Fluttershy echoed.

"Yes… it's like they've… changed!" Mrs. Cake exclaimed fearfully.

"So uh… Toby? You really think you handle this? Babysitting I mean?" Mr. Cake asked him.

"Dude, I face monsters every day, this will be a piece of cake." Toby said, confidently before chuckling at what he just said. "Heh, see what I did there?"

Then two creepy voices called out from upstairs, it was Pound Cake and Pumpkin Cake.

"Mommy…"

"Daddy…"

"MOMMY AND DADDY!" The voices shrieked.

"Ok then… forget what I just joked about…" Toby said slowly.

"We just don't know what to do…" Mrs. Cake admitted. "We've tried every trick in the book! See?"

Mrs. Cake held out a book to them with a picture of a goose on them.

"Once a upon a timeout?" Toby read. "Oh come on! Your gonna listen to a goose?"

"No… anyways that's why we called you," Mr. Cake said. "We're hoping either of you two can help them."

Toby, Fluttershy and the Cakes began to proceed up the stairs.

"Well… uh… we'll try I suppose…" Fluttershy said, a bit unsure. "So what have you noticed about them?"

"Well… we're not sure… it's like they are both two separate ponies or something like that…" Mrs. Cake explained.

"Look, what these kids need is some plain old, discipline not some kind of psychological mumbo jumbo." Toby stated firmly.

"Discipline? Really?" Fluttershy asked, surprised and concerned as they approached the door where the strange sounds were coming from; it was Fluttershy's room.

"Hey it may seem harsh but we just gotta go in there, look them in the eye and show them whose…" Toby began as he opened the door but his words failed him when he looked inside. "Oh boy…"

Fluttershy and the Cakes looked inside as well and saw the twins zipping all over the room making strange sounds and growling like feral animals in the wild. They even began floating and flying around slowly and sometimes speedy like.

"Please tell me their you're only kids…" Toby remarked to the Cakes, stunned.

"Oh my…" Fluttershy gasped. "What's wrong with them?"

"We told you; we don't know!" Mrs. Cake said, fearfully.

"And that's why we're hoping one of you two did…" Mr. Cake added.

"Sorry to say we don't, but we will handle it." Toby told them.

"We will?" Fluttershy inquired, surprised and scared.

"Relax. If the situation demands and I'm pretty sure it will sooner or later we'll get the others, ok?" Toby said to Fluttershy, which seemed to calm her down a bit. Toby then turned his attention to the twins. "Alright you two, what's the big idea scaring your parents like this?"

The two kids begin shaking in one spot uncontrollably till suddenly they stopped, with their eyes completely wide open, which disturbed everypony else in the room. They both then leaned back and opened their mouths and suddenly two giant worms with razor sharp teeth crawled out and roared. The Cakes and Fluttershy shriek while Toby just stood there disturbed yet amazed

"Wow! Now those are what I call worms!" Toby quipped. Fluttershy put a hoof to her mouth as she began to look sickly.

"Oh my… Toby I think I am going to puke…" Fluttershy admitted.

"Us too!" The Cakes said, in a sickly tone.

The worms came towards them but Toby just swiped both the worms with the edge of his hand like it was a blade and cut them in half. They both disappeared quickly after word. As did the twins, whose many of disappearing was similar to Discord's.

"Ah! They got away!" Toby cried.

"W-Where'd they go?" Fluttershy whimpered.

"Well I suspect that they are still in this cottage… somewhere." Toby mused. "Flutters, let's split up and find them. If either of them tries to scare you or eat you just call me or use that freaky stare of yours. Can you do that?"

"Um… uh…" Fluttershy muttered, she looked up at Toby's face and her confidence began to grow. "I… I can try…"

"That's all I ask." Toby smiled, before turning to the cakes. "Cupcake and Carrot Cake, stay here where it's safe and call for us in case they come back here. Got it?

"Don't worry!" Mr. Cake told him.

"We will dear!" Mrs. Cake added, as both Toby and Fluttershy dash out of the bedroom and began to search around the cottage for the missing and somewhat disturbing pony twins.

On Toby's end of the house he slowly crept down the hall with both his eyes wide open and on red alert for the strange duo. He managed to find a flashlight while he was searching around and waved it around every object in front of him with a nervous look on his face.

"Here twins…" Toby called out quietly, as if he was trying to call for a dog or two. "Here, twins, twins, twins… where are you?"

A noise behind him made him jump and spin around but then he saw that it was just the curtains flattering fast because of the open breeze.

"Pull yourself together Toe, it's just the wind…" he told himself, and immediately felt stupid for doing so. "Ok then… so I'll just keep talking to myself out here because that always makes sense…"

Toby then heard a little giggle and a scurrying noise coming from the ceiling and both side of the walls, he obviously looked very.

"Ok NOW I'm officially freaked…" The red head admitted, as the skittering noises around him continued.

Meanwhile, Fluttershy was doing just as well as Toby was at finding the troublesome twins, maybe even worse. She slowly walked down the hallway cautiously, taking it one step at a time as she looked around for the twins.

"Pound Cake? Pumpkin Cake? I know your too young for pranks… but please let this be a joke!" Fluttershy whispered and practically begged out loud. Then the scurrying sounds that Toby heard began to occur all around Fluttershy as well, she yelped and tried to rush the other way but a wall suddenly popped up in front of her from out of nowhere, causing her to become trapped.

Sweat dripped from Fluttershy's face as the scurrying and evil giggling began to occur all around her. Because she had absolutely no way out she began to curl up into a ball and shake like an earthquake.

"Toby… help… me!" Fluttershy whimpered.

But Toby was too far away to hear her, in fact he was completely lost as the hallways were slowly beginning to shift, morph and extend themselves. It was if the whole cottage had became a whacky fun-house.

"Man… this is like being in that Limbo Dimension all over again." The red head remarked to himself. "Once again I don't know which way is up OR down!"

Toby then heard a loud giggling noise coming from the closet at the end of the hallway.

"Aha! I got you!" he declared, as he began to run towards the closet but the more he ran the more the closet door seemed to be getting further and further away. "What the hay?"

Toby ran and ran as fast as he possible could to get to the still moving door but the more he ran and the more the door seemed to be getting away from him. Eventually it stopped moving and Toby ended up slamming cheek first into the door. He quickly brushed himself off and opened the door and sure enough Pound Cake was one the other end of it.

"Hi!" The little colt squeaked.

"Aha-again! Now I got you!" Toby proclaimed as he bent down and picked Pound Cake up as he straightened up. "Well that wasn't so hard."

Pound Cake then whacks him in the side of the face with his right forehoof. "Ow," the teen grunted. Pound Cake continued to whack the right and left side of his face repeatedly until Toby finally used his magic to hold both his fore hooves in the air. "Aha-for the third time! Well I got your hooves now little man, whatcha gonna do about it?"

Pound Cake responded by kicking him in the face with one of his hind legs. Toby turned and spat out a tooth before turning to Pound Cake with an angry look, who smiled at him sheepishly.

Not to long after, Pound Cake was then tossed onto Fluttershy's bed, Mr. and Mrs. Cake looked closely and saw that he was wrapped up in a little diaper ball, two on his upper body and two on his lower body, which cushioned the toss.

"And I hope you get diaper rash you little freak!" Toby called out, clearly upset. He then poked his head inside and turned to the Cakes. He spoke to them with a more calm tone. "Hey, where's Fluttershy?"

"We don't know…" Mrs. Cake shook her head.

"We thought she was with you." Mr. Cake said.

"So where could she be?" Toby wondered.

"Well we did hear loud whimpering sounds nearby…" Mrs. Cake admitted.

"Already there!" Toby declared as he zoomed off. The Cakes resumed waiting once more, they both heard various sounds coming from all around them once again, although these sounds sounded more like sounds of a struggle, not to mention crying, shouting and grunting.

When they finally stopped, Pumpkin Cake was tossed onto the bed, wrapped up in the same manner as Pound Cake then Toby came in as well rolling in Fluttershy who was curled up into a little yellow ball.

"Flutters? Can you hear me?" Toby asked her, concerned. "It's over now, you get out of the armadillo pose."

Fluttershy looked around a little bit to make sure she was safe and sighed deeply as she got back up.

"Thank you." Toby said gratefully, then he turned to the twins and to his shock they had both laying on the bed giggling and had just gotten out of the little diaper balls he put them in. "Gah! How did… uh… how did…?"

The twins then sat up and suddenly their heads started spinning around and around, freaking out Fluttershy and their parents.

"Ok… now I know that's not right!" Toby stated, he turned to the Cakes. "You didn't bother to mention that they both have freaky tilt-a-whirl heads!?"

The cakes just shrugged while Toby grabbed both of their heads and kept them still.

"When you wish…" Pound Cake began

"Upon a star…" Pumpkin Cake continued.

"You get lots of stuff!" The twins finished.

"Right… well I wish that you two would quit acting whacky and go to sleep while I raid the fridge." Toby told them.

"Ok!" They both said before a combination of Pound Cake's hooves and Pumpkin Cakes magic sent Toby flying into the door, slamming it shut, before they both suddenly pass out.

Fluttershy looked over Toby. "Toby? Are… you ok?" she asked concerned. Toby groaned as he got back up.

"You see? That was easy…" Toby told them, he turned to the Cakes. "Like my Dad always said, when it comes to good parenting you got to be fair yet firm…"

As Toby spoke the twins then begin to rise motionless off the bed, catching the attention of Fluttershy and the Cakes.

"Just show them that you mean business…" Toby began before he saw the frightened looks on the their faces. It didn't take long for Toby to realize what they were so freaked out over. He spoke with a deadpan tone next. "And there out of bed again aren't they?"

Toby turned around and was surprised to the twins floating, but even more surprised when he saw that Pound Cake wasn't using his wings and Pumpkin Cake wasn't using her magic. They were floating all on their own.

"What the heck?" Toby spoke out loud. "Man, sometimes I hate magic…"

Toby then used his own magic to plant the twins firmly on the bed. He then looked them both in the eye.

"Ok, what's going on with you two!?" he demanded.

"A Voice." They responded.

"A Voice?" Toby echoed, surprised.

"Yeah, inside our heads…" Pumpkin Pie said.

"Telling us what to do…" Pound Cake added, as his eyes spin.

"You hear a voice… inside our heads?" Toby questioned, as he tried to grasp it. This statement makes Fluttershy approach them as well.

"Yeah! He's funny!" Pumpkin Cake nodded.

"He?" Toby repeated, surprised.

"Well… can you tell us… what kind of things the voice is… telling you both to do?" Fluttershy asked politely.

"Ok!" The twins replied. The twins lowered their heads then as they raise them they have a spooky look on their faces and spoke in a demonic voice. "To kill you!"

Fluttershy yelped and hid behind Toby who looked a wee bit disturbed but otherwise unfazed.

"Kill us huh? Been there, done that…" Toby said.

"A billion times…" Fluttershy added, still hiding behind Toby.

"Thank you." Toby nodded.

The twins open their mouths wide again and two large poisonous snakes came slithering out, baring their pointed fangs. Fluttershy shook in fear once more while Toby managed to grab both snakes and tied them both up together like a giant knot.

"Man, what is it with these kids and slithery things?" he wondered as he tossed the tied up snakes out the window. Then before Toby or Fluttershy knew it the Cake twins were running around them in circles giggling their creepy laughter as he they kicked and threw stuff at them as they ran.

"The early bird catches the worm!" Pound and Pumpkin Cake said in unison as both Toby and Fluttershy tried to catch the two of them.

"What's gotten into these kids!?" Toby exclaimed as he tried to catch them while they continued to kick him with their front and rear legs as well as magically throw stuff at the two of them, which Toby knocked back with ease.

"I don't know!" Fluttershy said in fear as she dodged a chest that just flew over her head. "I've never seen little foals act this way before!"

"Jeez, it's like their just playing with us!" Toby griped. "Like this is some kind of sick game!"

Pound Cake then hit his foot causing him to yelp and hop up and down as he held his sore foot. "Any ideas?" he wondered.

Mr. Cake then got out the 'Once upon a time out' book. "Uh… maybe you could sing them a little song?" he offered.

"Oh yes! Those two just love a good lullaby!" Mrs. Cake agreed.

"I'd be ok with that!" Fluttershy smiled, which faded when she was lightly smacked in the face with a bar of soap. Only Toby didn't look that happy about it.

"Do I look like the kind of guy that knows a lullaby!?" he pointed in a loud yet deadpan tone.

"SING!" The twins shouted at him.

A few seconds later both Toby and Fluttershy were holding one of the twins in their arms and rocking them back and forth as they sang.

Lullaby and goodnight
Close your big creepy eyes
If you sleep
Away we'll creep
And out of here alive!

And to their surprise, both the twins had fallen asleep in their arms. Everypony in the bedroom breathed a sigh of relief.

"You know… once you get passed all the creepy giggling and snake obsessions… these two are actually kind of cute…" Toby admitted.

"Yeah, they're just…" Fluttershy began before she and Toby saw that they had both just disappeared from their arms, shocking them.

"Now where did they go?" Toby questioned as he and Fluttershy looked around for the missing twins. They look towards the Cakes, who point upward toward the ceiling. It is then that the two friends saw the twins crawling on the ceiling without the aid of magic or wings.

"A bird in the hoof…" Pound Cake began.

"Is worth two in the…" Pumpkin Cake continued as he and her brother's heads both turned all the way around to look at them.

"Bush!" The twins said in unison as they eyes spun around. Toby looked very stunned and creeped out.

"Now there's something you don't see everyday…" he spoke out loud, before the twins each pounce on their faces making them both scream at the top of their lungs as they ran around in circles, trying to get them off.

"Ahhhh! Get 'em off! Get 'em off!" Toby cried. Both he and Fluttershy ran around in circles screaming their heads off wile all the Cakes could do was sit and watch in complete fear, totally unable to do anything.

"Maybe… now is a good time to… call the others?" Fluttershy wondered, between screams.

"Already on it!" Toby shouted. "Sure hope this works… took me like a month to learn that 'Pony Signal' trick from Twilight…"

Toby charged up his hands with magical energy before shooting a blast of it upward. It burst through the ceiling and explodes in the sky, creating writing the sky that read 'HELP!'. All over town, the rest of the Pony Gang could see the giant message in the sky and looked at it with concerned eyes, wondering why their dear friends could be calling for help and if they were all alright.

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Within a couple of minutes, Twilight, Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Rarity had all arrived at Fluttershy's cottage which now looked like it had been through the worst storm to ever hit Ponyville.

"What the Sam Hill happened here?" Applejack wondered.

"Indeed. When I saw Toby's makeshift message saying that he and Fluttershy needed help I absolutely no idea it would be this bad…" Rarity stated.

"Me neither and from the size of it… it looks like he was a big hurry to make it." Twilight deduced, which means the situation must be pretty dire!"

"So what are we waiting for!?" Rainbow Dash questioned impatiently. "Let's get in there!"

Rainbow flew over and knocked down the front doors right away. The others rush inside also and to their shock they see Toby, Fluttershy and the Cakes all tied up together whilst sitting on four chairs in the middle of a messed up room. Only the Cakes were gagged.

"Uh… why are Toby, Fluttershy and the cakes tied up?" Rainbow Dash asked out loud.

"And why are the cakes gagged?" Twilight added.

"What happened here?" Rarity questioned.

"And who did this to y'all?" Applejack asked.

"The cakes psycho children did this!" Toby exclaimed.

The twins?" Twilight asked, surprised.

Fluttershy nodded. "Yeah, they might have gone…"

"Berserk! That's what happened to them!" Toby cut in. "They're animals! WILD ANIMALS!"

The others exchanged glances then looked at their friends like they had completely lost their minds.

"Really? Two babies are giving you a hard time?" Rainbow Dash stated, incredulously.

"Oh, you don't understand, something has changed them!" Fluttershy proclaimed.

"And I told you, they're not babies; their ANIMALS!" Toby exclaimed. "Now enough with the chit-chat, these ropes are cutting off the blood circulation to my hands!"

"Gotcha, sorry!" Applejack said as he used her teeth to tear away the ropes that were keeping the four of them restrained. Toby sighed after the ropes fell off of him.

"Man… I hate being restrained…" he muttered, a bit bitterly and tired.

"Thank you girls…" Fluttershy smiled to the others, relieved to be out the twins little trap.

"Any time darling." Rarity assured her.

"So… where are the twins now?" Twilight Sparkle asked, raising a brow.

"I… I don't know…!" Fluttershy realized.

Mr. and Mrs. Cakes removed their gags. Mrs. Cake spoke first.

"After Toby sent his message they both knocked us out," she told them.

"And the next thing we know, we're all tied up together." Mr. Cake finished. "We don't know where they are."

"We just want our kids back!" Mrs. Cake cried, tears streaming from her face. Mr. Cake comforted her.

Twilight put a hoof on her shoulder. "Don't worry Mr and Mrs. Cake, we'll help your kids anyway we can," she assured them. The others all nod in agreement.

"Oh, thank you girls." Mr. Cake smiled. Toby cleared his throat loudly. "…And Toby."

"Thank you." Toby said, gratefully. "Now where could they have…"

Just then, an eerily giggling echoed the cottage and caught their attention as the whole cottage began to shake a bit.

"Never mind…" Toby said slowly. "They're still in the cottage…"

Everypony then huddled near Toby, aside from Rainbow who stood ready to fight.

"Toby, can't you fight them off or something?" Rainbow asked. "I mean you are Ponyville's resident monster stomper!"

"They are not monsters!" Fluttershy proclaimed. "They're just possessed by something…"

"Exactly, plus I can't fight them! They're babies!" Toby pointed out. "You want to fight little kids so badly? Be my guest."

Rainbow grunted and scrapes her hoof across the wooden floor twice, ready to charge and attack but then she saw the sad looks on the Cakes faces and stopped. Her ears lowered, defeated.

"Dang it… fine," she said. "Any other ideas?"

"Well I think I know a spell that can fix them…" Twilight suggested.

"That could work!" Mr. Cake smiled, Mrs. Cake nodded in agreement.

"Twilight, no. You know what could happen if you use your magic." Toby reminded her.

"I know but I also know what will happen if I don't." Twilight stated. "Hey, don't worry I'm just gonna try and channel all my positive energy into his magic blast, just like how showed me how to channel my anger."

"That could work!" Toby realized. "But only if we all do it together with Rarity."

"Well… I'll try." Rarity said, putting on a determined look on her face.

"As for the rest of you; share your positive energy with us!" Toby told them. "Think happy thoughts!"

Everyone nodded and stood in a circle together as the shadows all around them seem to come to life and surround them. Then the twins menacing and evilly giggling shadows stretched out in front of them and started to loom over them.

"Here they come!" Applejack said, fearfully.

Toby, Rarity and Twilight nodded and began to charge up their magic. A large bubble of magic appeared around all seven of them as Fluttershy, The Cakes, Applejack and Rainbow all shared their energy with them. Then just when the shadows were about to envelop them all a large and blinding burst of magic shot out from the bubble and consumes the interior of the cottage. Light also began to shoot out from the open windows and doors.

When the light faded the cottage seemed to return to normal and when everypony finally opened their eyes to see if it was safe they were all relieved when they saw the twins sitting on the floor looking quite absent minded. They then to their parents and smile.

"Momma!" Pound Cake cried.

"Poppa!" Pumpkin Cake added.

The Cakes squeal with joy as they rushed over and embraced their young ones lovingly. The others all watched this lovely family reunion unfold in front of them happily while Toby bent down slightly and wrapped his arms around each of the girls necks as he held them tightly. They all smile at him.

"Oh my little sweet cakes, we're so glad your alright!" Mrs. Cake cried.

"Yeah, we almost thought you were both gone forever!" Mr. Cake added.

"Don't worry Poppa, pain gone, there's no voice in our heads anymore!" Pound Cake informed his two parents.

"Oh, we were so scared! I'm glad it's over!" Pumpkin Cake exclaimed as she wept in her parent's chests, as did Pound Cake.

"There, there, your both alright now." Mrs. Cake said to them comfortingly.

"Yeah, don't you worry, by tomorrow this will seem just like a bad dream." Mr. Cake assured them. He turned to Toby and the others.

"Toby, girls, we can't thank you enough." The baker said, gratefully. "You saved our children."

"No problem." Toby said.

"It was our pleasure Mr. Cake." Twilight added.

"We're just glad they're both back to normal!" Rarity stated.

"Yeah, well… I could have taken on their creepy selves… if I wanted to anyway." Rainbow Dash said, trying to maintain a tough demeanor.

Toby scoffed. "How? By giving them with that scary face of yours? Or is that your usual face?" he questioned, jokingly.

"Yeah, really." Applejack chuckled. Rainbow glared at them angrily. "And that what I more angry then scary…"

"Whatever, after this I have learned something very important." Toby stated.

"What's that, Toby?" Fluttershy inquired.

"That I am never having kids!" Toby exclaimed, a bit worn out. The girls all laughed at this.

"It's too bad Pinkie was too sick to come and help." Fluttershy said.

"Yeah, I'll bet with her positive energy we would have blown back those two evil twins in ten seconds flat!" Rainbow Dash agreed.

"Say is anypony sure she's sick?" Toby wondered. "I mean I know some people will do anything to get out of babysitting… I know I would right now…"

The Cakes turned to them.

"Oh she's sick alright, you should have seen her." Mrs. Cake told them.

"Yeah, she was sneezing so hard I was afraid she's blow the roof off… literally!" Mr. Cake added.

"If that's the case…" Fluttershy began.

"Then we'd better go over and cheer her up!" Twilight finished.

"Sounds good to me!" Toby smiled.

"But… but the germs!" Rarity squealed.

Applejack grabbed her. "Oh come on, you can wear some fancy-schmancy hazmat suit when we get there," she told her. "Now come on."

As Applejack began to drag Rarity out of the cottage, Rainbow zipped by them before they could do anything about it.

"Beat ya there!" she called out.

"Now if I get there first!" Toby called back as he ran after her as well. Twilight, Fluttershy, Applejack and Rarity all chase after them also.

"Oh hey! When should we pay you?" Mr. Cake called out.

"No pay necessary, thanks!" Toby called back, as he continued to run off with the others. "Even if it was babysitting… a hero's work is never done."

Unknown to any of them, as they ran off in the bright moon above a figure that seemed to resemble Discord appeared in the moon and let out an evil chuckle before vanishing in the blink of an eye.