As Twilight raced through a veil of clouds, she quickly saw some clearings in the Everfree Forest below her. Most of those clearings had nothing in the grassy parts so she ignored those ones. Twilight quickly saw a much darker muddier clearing below and quickly identifed that one belonging to Zecora. She made her descent towards the hut and gently knocked on the door once she got to the house.

"A visitor i sense is at the door, coming in is the action that i implore." Zecora said as the door opened by itself.

"Zecora, i know this is a little bit sudden. But i need a quick favor" Twilight said once she shut the door behind her, "The Wonderbolts enlisted me to ask you to help me find a cure for Spitfire, Soarin and Fleetfoot."

"What troubles have they come across? Broken bones? Sickness? Forgetting to floss?" Zecora made the last line sound like a joke as she got to work on the cauldron in front of her.

"Age-Regression." Twilight flatly and calmly said.

"Age-Regression? The big restart? Such a cure is not made in this part." Zecora said as she stopped stirring her latest brew and came closer to Twilight, "Most AR curses are irreversible, do tell, what made this accident possible?"

"The three of them were working on a little trick called the Triad Drive." Twilight said as she levitated the papers into Zecora's hooves, "I was surprised to see these results as well and i wondered to myself, since i can't create a spell strong enough, the Wonderbolts claimed that one of your potions could cure this little disaster."

Zecora carefully studied the papers and the wavelengths closely, making sure to check back more than once to verify. she eventually hoofed the papers back to Twilight and gave her the truth, "Twilight, i must share some sadness. A potion cannot be made, Your Highness. These three pegasi's wills were too strong and has sent them back to the age where they will belong."

"I was afraid of that." Twilight calmly said as she took back the papers and put them back in her saddlebag, "Looks like i'm gonna have to break the truth to everypony. Starting with the Wonderbolts."

"Before you go i must ask, is Rainbow Dash faring well in her task?" Zecora asked as if she knew about Rainbow Dash looking after the three foals.

"How did you know about that part?" Twilight asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Here, in Ponyville news is swift, spreading like wildfire as the voices drift."

"Well in that case, Rainbow Dash is doing a very good job in raising them all. She's making sure to give them breast milk and is keeping a very close eye on them all."

"The two most important steps for foalsitting, but is she aware that a cure we can't bring?"

"I gave her a quick heads up during my last visit at her house, she should take the news quite fine and with no hard feelings whatsoever."

"That's good to hear, Princess Twilight, now i wish you a safe and bountiful flight." Zecora said as Twilight took to the skies and was headed back towards Cloudsdale to tell Misty Fly, Lightning Streak and High Winds about this little irreversible accident.

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As Twilight neared the front doors to the HQ, she remembered the pendant that the Wonderbolts gave her and wrapped it around her neck. The guard quickly verified her pendant and moved swiftly aside to let Twilight in again. Once she got inside again the doors slammed shut again by themselves. Twilight shrugged the noise off and made her way back up the stairs to the leader's audience chamber.

She was met with Misty Fly, Lightning Streak and high Winds once the door was shut again. The three pegasi waited until Twilight was at the end of the red carpet leading to the throne-like chairs before speaking to her.

"Welcome back, Your Highness." High Winds said as soon as Twilight was within speaking distance of them all, "I trust you have the results on your little task?"

"I went to see Zecora..." Twilight started before stopping a little.

"Yes, yes. Go on, is there a potion cure for our captains?" Lightning Streak asked.

"I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry." Twilight hung her head as she spilled the beans, "Zecora confirmed that there's no potion cure either. I'm sorry, you've lost your captains forever."

The three pegasi's hearts sank in sadness once they heard Twilight's confession. Misty Fly reached over to a little microphone on the wall and cleared her throat before speaking into it.

"Attention, all Wonderbolts." She started before turning into a mournful state, "Twilight has returned with some heartbreaking facts."

"There is no potion or spell cure for the Triad Drive." Lightning Streak picked up.

"Spitfire, Soarin and Fleetfoot are out of commision and are no longer in any fit state to be Wonderbolts anymore." High Winds finished, "We shall hold the discharge and memorial ceremony tomorrow. As of now, your new captains are Misty Fly, Lightning Streak and me, High Winds. That is all."

"What's with the microphone anyways?" Twilight asked once High Winds put it back onto a little perch behind the chairs.

"It relays announcements to all the Wonderbolts in the HQ and even to some Wonderbolts on faraway trips." Lightning Streak explained, "Just in case we need to tell ALL the Wonderbolts about any news or announcements."

"So how do you think they'll take it?" Twilight pondered, she didn't even know where to begin when the other Wonderbolts reacted.

"I think they'll feel a little torn up for a few months. Other than that, they should take it fine." Misty Fly responded.

"There's only one more pony you should tell now. High Winds said, "Rainbow Dash needs to know the truth now, that way it will all be exposed and it won't be a shocking surprise anymore."

"Are you sure that's a good idea? I mean she knows that they've been age-regressed, but she doesn't know that a cure can't be made." Twilight told them.

"Which is why you'll have to break the news to her a gently as you can, hopefully that way she'll learn to love our former captains with all her heart and someday, raise them to be true Wonderbolts again." Lightning Streak said as the door opened again.

"Alright then." Twilight said as she came closer and closer to the doors leading out, "I'll make sure she knows about this in full detail."

"Oh and, Twilight?" Misty stopped her momentarily, "Give my best to Rainbow Dash, will ya?"

"I will." And with those words, Twilight left the meeting hall and dashed off towards Dash's house. It was heading a little to the south away from Twilight's direction so she had to keep up with it a little through the windy breeze.

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"Hehe, tag, Soawin, you'we it!" Spitfire said as there was a little chase ensuing in Dash's nursery. Spitfire and Fleetfoot were now trying their best to avoid the tagging hooves of Soarin. Fleetfoot nimbly leapt over some foalish roadblocks to get away from Soarin a few times whilst Spitfire decided to stay out of the thick of things and quickly hide somewhere where Soarin would never find/tag her.

"Gotcha, Spitfiwe!" Soarin said as he exposed her location and swiftly and gently tagged her.

"Aw, howsefeathews."

Rainbow Dash was about to say something when she heard another knock on her door. She shut the gate behind her and let the foals continue their little chase whilst she went downstairs and answered the door.

"Hello, Rainbow." Twilight said as she shut the doors behind her as she stepped into Rainbow Dash's house.

"Hey, Twilight. What brings you here?" Rainbow Dash decided to ask, she wasn't expecting Twilight for months now.

"I went to see the Wonderbolts about Spitfire, Soarin and Fleetfoot." She began before being cut off by Dash.

"Yeah, what did they say?" She asked with a little excitement.

"They asked me to find out if a potion could be made, so i went to see Zecora. She came to a quick conclusion that no potion could cure this ailment either. So i broke the news to the Wonderbolts who then asked me to break the news to you."

"I'm a little confused here. ENGLISH please, Twi."

"Spitfire, Soarin and Fleetfoot are yours to keep, there's no spell or potion that can fix this. You have them as your kids forever."

"Whoa, so Zecora wasn't any help at all?"

"I'm afraid not."

"So they can actually live with me?" Rainbow said as she made her awesome pucker face once more.

"That's right. Congratulations, Rainbow Dash."

"Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygoshohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh!!!" Dash was flapping her wings an awful lot once she heard Twilight's words.

"Dash, Tomorrow, i could fill out the adoption papers for you, that way you can really take them in as your foals."

"Thanks, Twilight. I'd appreciate that a lot."

"You should see how they're all doing now." Twilight started heading out towards the door again, "I'm sure they could use some more motherly guidance right about now."

Twilight took flight once more and made the arduous trip back towards Ponyville again, this time waving goodbye to Rainbow Dash before regaining her composure and flying back out again. Once Twilight was out of her sight, Rainbow Dash headed back upstairs where the three foals were trying to reach a cookie jar that Rainbow Dash had put next to her bed for safekeeping.

"Uh, kids?" Dash said, grabbing the foals' attention and causing them to fall down into one big pile, "Do ya mind telling me what you're doing reaching for those cookies?"

"We wanted to twy some gwown pony food wike cookies." Spitfire explained shortly and sweetly as she gestured her tummy rumbling and pointing towards the cookie jar.

"Listen, i know cookies sounds inviting to you all right now, but it would make you all sick if you tried eating one. And either way, you wouldn't be able to eat one anyways, they're too big for your foal mouths.

"Awww." The three foals said as they lowered their heads in defeat.

"Don't worry, i've got some food that you can eat, without getting sick off it." Rainbow Dash took two more of her pills, and laid the foals on her bed before lying down herself.

"Oh yeah, we get noting but nice bweast miwk fwom Mama." Fleetfoot said as the three foals came closer and began to nurse. They were once more wrapped up by Rainbow Dash's wings and were enjoying every trickle of breast milk that went into their stomachs.

Rainbow Dash then burped her three foals before blowing some raspberries onto their stomachs. They enjoyed the raspberries a lot and could not help but giggle all the while every time Rainbow Dash distributed another raspberry.

"Tanks, Mama." Soarin said once they were put onto the padded floor again.

"No problem, Soarin. Glad i could help." Rainbow Dash then got a comfortable spot on her bed as she watched her three foals playing sweetly in her nursery/room.

"Two more days and then they'll be ready to take the next steps back into foaldom." Rainbow Dash said as she opened another draw underneath the one where she kept the pills. It contained three pacifiers, she was going to save them until a later date and then give them to her foals as a surprise, "They'll soon enter the sucking phase of foaldom soon enough, and when they do, i'll be one step ahead of them."

Author's Notes:

End Of Part 7

Do you think i was a good Zecora? Even though her appearance was short this time? So, there's no cure, and Dashie now knows they'll enter the sucking phase of foaldom in due time, prepare for more cuteness and foalish activities next time on "Junior" Wonderbolts. Also, i may or may not do the tribute, but it will depend on what you guys think.

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