Author's Notes:

Just to prove that I'm not dead, here's another chapter!

It's a cute little chapter involving babies, pixies, a little bit of magic, and cute little Baby Midnight Sparkle.

See ya in the next chapter!

Twilight still wailed as Sunset and the pixiefied Shadowbolts flew up to her. She moaned and groaned as the smell emanating from her diaper began to grow more and more pungent with each passing second.

"Ssh..." Sunset flew over to Twilight and rubbed her face delicately. "Mama's here, Twilight. No need to cry anymore."

Twilight sniffled as Sunset rubbed her miniscule hand across her face. She opened her teary eyes and looked down at her. She reached out for her and delicately grabbed her, petting her gently and pulling her into a tight hug. Twilight babbled and gurgled contently as she pressed Sunset against her body.

"Nngh... Okay, sweetie. That's enough," Sunset squeaked as she flew out of Twilight's hands. "Mama needs to give you a quick change. We don't want you to be stuck in a smelly diaper for too long." She flew down to the other Shadowbolts. "Girls, can you help me out here?"

"This is the last thing I wanted to do today." Sugarcoat deadpanned as she took Twilight's tiny clothes off and started to rip open the straps on her diapers. "The worst part of taking care of a baby just got even harder..."

"Oh, get over it, Sugarcoat." Indigo Zap opened the back of the diaper up and watched the other Shadowbolts helping her out. "Plus, it's not that hard."

"Yeah! I mean, we're super-duper itty-bitty now, but we have magical powers too!" Lemon giddily performed some backwards loops and lit up her hands. "I just wish we could keep 'em when Twilight turns us back. It'd be great to fly through the city like that."

"Lighten up, girl. I'm sure that she'll give us those superpowers some other day," said Indigo. "Alright. Now... how do we lift Twilight from here" —she pointed to the changing table, which seemed like a massive mountain in the distance— "to there?"

"We can all just carry her. How hard can it be to lift a baby?" Sour Sweet flapped down to Twilight's body and tried lifting her up from the tummy. She strained and struggled as she tried to lift Twilight up into the air, to which the baby just giggled and flailed her arms. "Okay..." Sour breathed heavily. "Apparently, it's very hard to lift a baby."

"You're doing it wrong, Sour Sweet." Sunny Flare flapped over. "Surely, the trick is to" —she tried lifting Twilight up as well, but with almost no change— "Work... together on... this! C'mon, girls! Give me... a little help here!"

The other girls coiled their hands around Twilight's little waist and tried lifting her up into the air. They all strained and struggled. It was as if they were lifting a massive steel ball that had fallen from a water tower out of harm's way. But eventually, they did manage to haul Twilight into the air and carry her over to the table.

"Gah! I don't think I've ever lifted something that hard in my entire life! And she's just a baby!" Sunny Flare gasped for breath and thrust her hand up to Twilight's face, prompting more laughter from the magic-infused infant.

"Just take a deep breath, Sunny. She's not that hard to deal with." Sunset Shimmer gently pushed Twilight down onto her back. "It's just the fact that her magic can get a little bit crazy cuckoo sometimes. Other than that, she's jut as easy to deal with as any other baby." She leapt off of the edge and pulled the draws open. "Lots of hugs, kisses, playtime, and mother-daughter time are just the thing to curb her little outbursts."

"Either that or your own magical powers." Sugarcoat smirked a little.

"Alright. Now... This might be a challenge." Sunset set the diaper down and saw Twilight still laden out on her back. "Girls. Can you lift her up without me? I kinda need to get this under her."

"Are you kidding me?!" Indigo slapped her forehead. "We JUST got her up here! Can't we just put the diaper on her right now?"

"Indigo, any and almost all mothers KNOW that the diaper has to be slid underneath the baby's butt." Sugarcoat groaned and got into position, sliding her hands underneath Twilight's back. "Now assume the position already, will ya?"

"Seriously, once I'm back to normal, you owe me big time, Sunset." Indigo flapped her wings and landed at the other side of Twilight. She put her hands underneath Twilight and began to try and carry her up, with the other Shadowbolts coming to her aid. "One. Two. Three. LIFT!"

"Easy. Easy..." Sunset watched as the Shadowbolts slowly lifted Twilight up. Once she was a few feet above the table, Sunset slid the diaper right where Twilight's bottom was and put the diaper down delicately. "Okay. That's good. You can let her go now."

The Shadowbolts dropped Twilight down and Sunset watched as they were about to start folding up the ends. Just as they were about to meet, Sunset remembered something and quickly broke them apart with some of her new pixie powers.

"Whoa, there, everyone. She needs powder first," said Sunset. "You don't wanna give her a rash, do you?" And she flew down to another drawer.

"Wait, you could've just magically lifted her up all this time?!" Indigo steamed, spewing smoke out of her ears.

"No. Even with this new power, I can't use this power to lift Twilight up myself." Sunset flew into the drawer and came out with the bottle of baby powder. "Plus, we don't even know what this stuff does! Every time magic comes into play, I find it harder and harder to understand! God, I just wish magic came with an instruction manual or something like that!"

"If it did, then things'd be a little bit too boring," said Lemon Zest as she put Twilight down on a newly-powdered diaper. "And besides, Twilight isn't really one to follow the rules. Especially now that she's this cute little bundle of joy."

"Just... not when her magic's going cuckoo, that's all." Sunny Flare rubbed the back of her head.

"We just need to figure out a way to learn Twilight's tells and cut-outs." Sugarcoat held out her hand to conjure up some magic, and easily managed to put the ends of the diaper together and seal it up tight. "If it's true that all the magic disappears when she falls asleep, then we just need to figure out a way to do that and we should be back to normal."

"Thing is, Sugarcoat, Twilight is very excitable." Sunset lifted Twilight up and watched as Lemon Zest and Indigo Zap put her back in her magenta outfit and let her fly off to another part of the nursery. "Whenever she uses her magic or finds a toy she really likes, chances are she'll never wanna stop using it; even when I'm trying to calm her down." She walked over to the edge of the table and watched as Twilight started using her magic to levitate some blocks around her face. "Her magic, coupled with her baby-like instincts and lust for fun and playtime makes it really hard for me to keep her in check; even with the rest of my friends helping me out."

"True, but at the same time, we can all take advantage of that." Sugarcoat put her fingers to her chin and stroked it. "Think about this, girls. Because she's so young, she'll want to play with whatever she can find. As long as we do it right, she won't be much of a hassle."

"Sugarcoat, as good an idea that sounds, Twilight has magic now." Sunny Flare pointed at Twilight, who was firing tiny little beams of black and blue energy at the flying blocks, causing them to quickly transform into a blanket, a rattle, and a teddy bear. "If she's excited, then her magic could spike and everything could just go out of control again."

"Don't forget about all of these little squirts." Sour Sweet fluttered down to her infantile duplicate and landed delicately on her head. "If Twilight does use magic, then these other us-es could really be in danger. Sure, they're a bunch of hooey created out of thin air as some sick and twisted fantasy of hers, but it definitely won't look good on your resume to know you killed five babies; fake or not."

"But if they were created by Twilight's magic, then all we'd need to do is put her to sleep and they'd just disappear." Sunset flew down to Twilight and flapped up to her face. Her wings tickled Twilight's nose and made her laugh once again, wiggling her arms as she grabbed Sunset and stuffed her in her mouth, with her head sticking out of it. "But knowing her... that's gonna be a bit of a problem."

"Ah, lighten up, Sunset. All you need is a bit of TLP!" Lemon leapt off of the table and picked up a little bear and brought it up to Twilight's face. "Tubular Lemon Zest Playtime!"

Silence fell across the room as Sunset and the other Shadowbolts just gave Lemon Zest blank stares. Some of them cocked their brows while others turned their heads.

"It's a working acronym, girls. Geez. Try to kick a gal for lightening the mood." She hid behind the teddy bear and used her arms to control its' arms. "Yoohoo! Hello, Twilight!" She tried to put on a deep voice, but her tiny pixie-like body didn't make it convincing. "Do you wanna play with me?"

Twilight, fooled by the bear, squealed and clapped her little hands, giving Sunset the opportunity to fly out and land on Twilight's hair, holding on to her cyan horn.

"Well, Twilight?" Sunset asked, leaning down over her head. "You wanna play with the teddy bear? Does my widdle cutie wanna play with the teddy?" She cooed, making Twilight too as well. "You do? Well, go on then. You'll have lots of fun with Mr..."

"Cuddles McStuffikins the Third. The proud baron of the Kingdom of Huggles and Snuggles," said Lemon in her teddy-bear voice. "What shall we play first? I quite fancy a little gave with some spelling blocks over there." She manipulated the toy to point towards the lettered bricks.

"Alright then! Come on, Twilight! Let's play with Cuddles!" Sunset gently tugged on Twilight's hair and lead her over to the blocks, with Lemon and her teddy following close beside them.

Indigo, Sunny, and Sugarcoat still watched from on the changing table as Sunset and Lemon Zest played with Twilight. They were still lost for words at the sight of two tiny pixies controlling a baby with wings and a glowing mask and horn.

"You, uh, alright there, Sugarcoat?" Indigo turned towards her and crossed her arms. "I don't think you've been this quiet since the Friendship Games..."

"I could say the same thing about you, Indigo," Sugarcoat replied, finally breaking her silence. "You're always going on about hyping everyone up for something or being an obnoxious little pain on the ears, but now you're at a loss..." She knelt down and looked up at Indigo. "Just as I am."

"It's a powerful little thing, isn't it?" Sunny stepped up to her friends and patted them on the shoulders. "To know that you want to say something but can't, out of pressure, confusion, or just awe."

"Yes." Sugarcoat nodded. "Even I, someone so astute and knowledgeable, can get tripped up by such a thing as silence. Though I don't show it facially, I know that, deep down in my heart, that this is something that's shaking me to my very core." She looked down at her feet. "Ever since the Friendship Games, everything we know has been turned on its' head. Fiction and non-fiction are beginning to merge and my perception on reality is beginning to change with it. How long can we live in this little fairytale before the realism we once had begins to disappear once and for all?"

"O...kay?" Indigo just shrugged and held her mouth open at Sugarcoat. "You lost me at 'astute and knowledgeable', Sugarcoat."

Sugarcoat wanted to take offense at Indigo's remark, but after seeing everything about Twilight turning into a magic baby, shooting magic out on a whim, and turning her and the other Shadowbolts into pixies, all she could do was smile and tap her acquaintance's shoulders. "Never change, Indigo."

"Hey, girls! You wanna come help us out a little?" Lemon Zest called over from the blocks, which were now being swarmed by all six of the babies. She herself was trying to take the bear away from Twilight and the baby double of Sugarcoat, who were now fighting over it. "Things're starting to get a little bit cray-cray here!"

"Don't you have magic, Lemon?" Sugarcoat adjusted her glasses as she turned towards the squabbling infants. "Just use it to beguile them and they should stop."

"Y'think I can just make magic happen while my hands are trying to keep Cuddles McStuffikins the Third from being assassinated?!" Lemon struggled against the babies, trying to push the bear up and out of their hands. "Now c'mon! Help a sister out!"

Indigo saw the action and knew that she had to act. Though the mission was a bit weird to her, she knew full well what she had to do. She took a few steps back, limbering up for a run, then darted forward and threw herself off of the changing table, gliding down and landing beneath the bear like a superhero would.

"Don't worry, Lemon. I totally got your back, girl." Indigo rubbed her hands together and caused light-blue auras to form around them. Thrusting them out to both sides, she made a pair of magical hands and used them to tickle the babies' armpits. "Cuddles McStuffikins will live to be cuddled another day, or my name isn't Indigo Zap!"

As Indigo tickled baby Sugarcoat and Twilight's armpits, she watched as both of them giggled and tried to swat the hands away giddily, letting go of Cuddles in the process. Lemon then took the time to get him out of harms way by flying him over the room and into the toy box by the wall.

"There you go, Cuddles." Lemon put him into the box and closed it up quickly. "The baroness won't have to worry about you anymore. Now, you should go and get something to eat." And she flew back off to handle the rest of the babies.

As Lemon was about to make it back to Sunset, she ran into her own infantile copy of herself. Both of them looked each other in the eyes and before the fairy one could escape, the giant baby duplicate grabbed her and shook her around like a tiny rattle, making little chuckles as she did so.

"Hold on, Lemon! I'm on my—" Before Indigo could even do anything, her own infant double picked her up and began to suck on her, leaving her legs hanging out of her mouth "—Hey! I'm not a pacifier! I'm you, me!"

"Typical." Sugarcoat groaned and started to use some magical projections of her own. Using her newfound powers, she flew over to the babies and conjured up a projection of a bunny, skipping through the room. She then made another one and had it go wherever the other one didn't. "Come now, children. Let the rabbits distract you..."

At first, the babies didn't notice the rabbits bounding around the place. The first one that did was the baby Sunny, who drooled at the sight of the rabbit and cooed softly, crawling after it. Soon after she began, the infant Lemon Zest let go of her pixie-fied other and went after the rabbit instead, babbling all kinds of incoherent baby talk as she pursued the spectral bunny.

"You know what they say: Chase two rabbits and they'll both escape." She watched as Twilight, Indigo, and Sour followed after the second rabbit while her own baby mirage went after the first one. "Babies are so frail. They get distracted by the most simplest and insignificant things. That's what makes them so easy to control. You just need to know what makes them tick."

Sugarcoat lead her fake rabbits to corral the infant Shadowbolts and Twilight around the room. She watched as Lemon, Sour, Indigo, and Sunset flew away from their month-old titans and flew back onto the sanctuary of the changing table. Once she saw they were back, she lead the rabbits towards each other, causing the babies to all move in together. Then when they were in close proximity, Sugarcoat slapped her hands and the rabbits collided with each other, exploding in a blast of light and twinkling stars which made her audience laugh once again and fall onto their backs.

"And that, my friends, is how you control babies." Sugarcoat turned to Sunset and the other pixies and flew back to their side. She was met with a tiny round of applause from Lemon and Sunset, who were both just as enamored with the act as their children were.

"That... was... amazing!" Lemon flittered on the spot and plastered a grin on her face. "How did you do that, Sugarcoat?"

"I'd like to know too." Sunset took a step forward. "How were you able to just make a pair of rabbits out of thin air and use them to your advantage? I mean, you just got your magic today..."

"What can I say? I'm a fast learner." Sugarcoat smirked.

"A VERY fast learner, might I add." Sunny lifted a finger. "When she was told to research Beethoven for a music class project, she read a book on him and was able to recite it from acknowledgement to bibliography the very next day."

"That's... a little bit disturbing." Sunset's pupils dilated into tiny pinpricks.

"Anyway..." Sour rolled her eyes. "Now that we've got the babies calmed down, we should probably all put 'em to sleep while we can. Strike while the iron's hot, may hay while the sun shines, whatever you wanna call that hokey little saying, just do it now, before they get all hyper again."

"Well. That's where our next problem comes into play." Sunset put her hands together and breathed in. "How are we gonna carry SIX babies from there—" She pointed to the infants and then to the crib where Twilight slept "—to there and tuck them all in comfortably?" She turned to the Shadowbolts. "Any suggestions?"

The Shadowbolts were once again washed over with a wave of silence. They tapped their feet on the table twisted their wrists, tapped their foreheads, and even started pacing back and forth. Not one of them had the answer, though. Sure, they did have their magic, but that only fixed one problem. And they knew that they needed to take care of both problems in one fell swoop.

"I just wish my friends were here right now." Sunset herself groaned as she sat down and folded her legs. "They'd know what to do."