Afterglow was a hell of a natural high, any sentient sexually representative race can tell you this. Sprawled out on sheets needing a wash was King, a little sore and sticky holding close to their chest a white Alicorn who's rump held a glorious golden image of the sun. They remembered when she used to be taller than King, and now the roles were switched, and King and Celestia enjoyed that greatly.

"Hmm, where did you learn that trick with your tail?" Celestia asked in an eyes closed murmur. Much like king, she was sore, sticky, and very very happy.

“Uh...I think Eclipsa?” King muttered. “Given she’s a naga...she would know a thing or two about tail tricks.”

"Remind me to give her a sloppy kiss for that then." Celestia cooed, enjoying being the small spoon for a change. "That was round nine… how does Luna do this again?"

“Practice, a strong libido, and having been stuck without having sex for a thousand years.” King shrugged.

"Right…" Celestia said, snuggling more into King's torso. "So, I hear you finally have free time given Luna had Cript, Lord and Brain basically take over all your projects, most of which I hear are now done." She said, opening an eye to look over at King. "How's free time feel?"

“It feels nice...but now I have less things to do…” King sighed out.

"You call nine rounds with me less to do?" Celestia asked in a mocking tone.

“I would never.” King chuckled. “It’s the inbetween when I’m spending time with my lovely wives.” King said honestly. “But I don’t think I asked you this...a long ass time ago, but how does it feel to swing both ways?” King asked, given this was their Celestia and they used to be women only because of her immortality.

"Heh, to be honest I didn't really give it that much thought…" Celestia said, turning to lay on her back, King's arm still wrapped around her lower torso. "I got into mares because after nearly losing track of my grandchildren over the generations… I was afraid. At first it was tricky. Growing up being into males was what every filly was taught, so getting into mares at first proved… challenging. Heh, till I met Dust Top. She was a new maid in the castle, and the first mare I learned I was attracted to. She had these lovely amber eyes, a dark grass green coat and this soft and long sky blue mane.

"Of course, we started off as friends, and over time I began noticing her act around me, telling me she wanted more than a friendship… and so she became my first mare love. It was never made public, but she was from that day forward my personal maid and secret lover. All the way til…" Celestia sighed. "It hurt, when she passed, but she lived a long life and she helped me learn to love, again and again till I met Chrysalis… then you." She looked over at King. "Dust Top showed me life as an immortal is destined to be misery if there is no love, and you showed me even if I have love, if I live and love by fear, I'm just as alone."

King softly nuzzled Celestia. “I’m glad you learned to love again...but it must have been weird to go from men, to women, to both huh?”

"Well, yes and no. Most equestrians are naturally bisexual. Mares especially because of herd marriages and such. It's just what to expect in a world with a 20 to 1 ratio on mares to stallions. Becoming a Herm was more of an adjustment than my sexuality."

“Even though spells like that existed way before this became a thing, and yes...I had to learn that from my Rune…” I sighed out.

"The diamond dogs do make the best adult entertainment and toys. I've purchased several before I joined you and this family."

“Sounds about right.” King nodded. “Only reason why I know more about the diamond dogs business was...because of Derpy…”

"Rune, Lura, Heart recently… have to say, it's a lot like being with you but that tongue~ just wow." Celestia said with a giggle. "So, care for a shower before we make it ten rounds?"

“That would be for the best.” King said simply.

"Good." Celestia said as we got up and headed for the shower. The fourth one today. This bathroom had mostly a giant tub made like a hot spring, and above the water fell like rain from the special shower heads.

In the water I had Celestia help me rub the soap and shampoo deeper in my fur. Downside to being so fluffy. "I find it surprising they make edible, flavored shampoo." Celestia said as she scratched the suds into my fur.

“It’s better than it either tasting like garbage if it gets in your mouth or being toxic if you accidentally ingest it.” King shrugged.

"True, but still. It's all Pinkie and Twin Pie and… most of the other Pinkies use… and they end up eating it after using it. Guess that's what to expect when they make flavors and smells like Cotton Candy, bubblegum, Peppermint and chocolate. Seriously, chocolate!"

“It’s Pinkie...even after all of this.” King chuckled.

"It does make her taste better when eating or blowing her." Celestia added, making King blush slightly. "Though her baking using them makes a less than ideal looking cake…"

“That’s why you don’t use soap for baking.” King said honestly.

"Hasn't stopped her." Celestia said, scratch/rubbing into King's neck. "Feel good?"

“Yes, yes it does.” King sighed out happily, enjoying the neck scratches.

Once every inch of Celestia and King was covered in soap they dove under the water for a moment then got out, shaking excess water and leftover soap from their coats and hair. With that done the two just enjoyed the relaxing warmth of the hotspring like a bathtub. "I heard you spoke with Eclipsa's version of me. How did that go?"

“About as well as one can expect from someone who’s...mentally unstable.” King said simply. “Not the ‘bad’ kind of unstable more...can’t handle how fast things changed kind.”

Celestia nodded. "I see. Poor thing, I hope when she gets better she considers joining the family. I know Star and Eclipsa would welcome her with open arms." Celestia smiles.before sighing. "Onto slightly less good news… Domino got suspended from school."

Domino, King and Celestia's sixth born child. Celestia's mane colors colored their coat and King's coat colors colored their mane. Their fingers ended in claws and their muzzle and teeth formed more to a wolf's features, but their body was built more towards their equine mother. Domino, was also the definition of a problem child.

“What did they do this time?” King sighed out.

"Chemistry lab explosion. Apparently Domino has an affinity for everything exploding now." Celestia sighed. "And I thought their driving weaponized cars phase was bad…"

“I’ll go talk to them…” King sighed out. “Hopefully it’s not something too bad…”

"You sure about that? Last time you tried talking to them I was picking cactus thorns out your butt for three hours." Celestia reminded. "They hate you."

“And I’m going to figure that out, cause honestly I’m not going to raise a spoiled brat who thinks they can do whatever the hell they want and also hate their family cause ‘reasons’.” King frowned.

Celestia sighed. "Out of all the kids, what went wrong with Domino? They were so shy when they were little."

“And that’s what I’m going to figure out, whether they like it or not.” King huffed.

"Good luck…"

King winced, pulling yet another bouncing bear trap off their tail. Domino had booby trapped the hall leading to their room… part of King was impressed at how many he didn't notice then Activated, the rest was annoyed Domino went to such extremes to avoid them.

“Alright Domino that’s enough!” King barked. “Quit being a piss ant for five minutes and tell me what the hell has gotten into you?”

No answer. Frustrated, King rushed to the door, traps going off harmlessly on them as they kicked it open. Inside the room was… surprisingly well kept, bed made, shelves clean, and Domino, sitting at their computer desk. Large headphones covering their ears blasting music King could only describe as heavy metal if the loudness and lack of understandable vocals was anything to go off. Huffing King walked over their sixth born with Celestia. They were like most in the family, a Herm, with a body was near mirrored Celestia's save for the extra, smaller pair of breasts under their top ones. A dire wolf trate. With the headphones taken they looked up over at King, their light blue eyes meeting King's dark blue. "Get out." They said bluntly.

“Not until you explain yourself.” I frowned. “I don’t care about the school suspension part, Celestia can get on your ass about that.” I started while looking straight into her eyes, my annoyance at all the traps shifting into a tired sadness. “Why do you hate me? What did I do, or didn’t do, that caused you to act like this?”

Domino looked at King for a time. An expression of indifference on their face as they turned to their computer screen. A few clicks and fast types and a status sheet of King long ago appeared. This was back when King first arrived on Equestria. They then split screen it with a status sheet of themselves. "Notice any differences?" Domino asked.

King looked between the two status sheets. There really weren't any differences, save for Domino has more HP than King did back then.

“You have more HP than I had when I was your age?” King asked.

"Yeah… and that's the only difference. Everything stats wise matches with yours to a T and hell I can even summon Nobodies, Nothingness, even your fucking weapons!" Domino demonstrated this by summoning Eternal Flames. Then, lazily tossed it at a nearby dart board. The weapon stuck a point into the wall just below the board and stayed there. "Everyone since my stats sheet went public has been treating me like your second coming. Everyone wants me to be just like you… so Everytime someone says just as much I prove them wrong."

“So that’s why…” King muttered. “Why didn’t you say anything sooner?” King asked bluntly. “If you wanted to be less like me, you would have asked for help.”

"Heh, how? I'm already your child so can't change that, can't change how my abilities develop. All I can do is prove to people that I'm not you. If I have to be a disappointment and a disgrace to the crown then I'm fine with that."

“Well, and hear me out, try not being an asshole for starters.” King started. “Cause even if people might think you’re my ‘Second Coming’, Jesus might be a tad pissed about that, you are you...you didn’t need to change this drastically, and believe me...you’ll never be a disappointment.”

"Try convincing the idiots of the kingdom of that tid bit." She huffed. "I've even considered joining the Sub Humans."

“Now if there’s one thing about this kingdom I can barely stand, is how quick they are to believe the wrong thing and act like it’s fact…” King sighed out. “I would love to tell people things straight up, but I’m not allowed to.”

"Sub Humans it is."

“No.” King stated bluntly. “You are not going there, I’ll figure something out…”

"You act like they're evil. Their job is bad guys, not stereotypical evil." Domino huffed. "If anything they give a lot of the hero's running about and even some of the family a challenge."

“There has to be some other way. Plus...again, why didn’t you tell me this sooner? Why didn’t you tell anyone sooner?” King asked bluntly. “You do know there are stat changes, and other things you can do to replace the weapons and not be seen as me back then.”

"How many projects were you working on all at once until recently? Stat changes are hard to come by, even for royals, and I've tried… they keep coming back."

“Shouldn’t be that difficult to find…” King muttered. “But remember, I didn’t ask for help until I had Luna literally get Lord, Cript and Brain to help me because they owed her.”

"And you didn't ask for any because?" They asked King with a raised brow, and an Expression that clearly said 'explain your lack of the simple idea' to King.

“Short answer is, I’m an idiot who thinks they need to do everything by themselves, the long answer…” King sighed out. “I’ve...always been scared that if I brought anyone else into what I was doing, that they might get hurt or worse...cause when you’ve grown up thinking you’re own actions got your parent’s killed, only for that to be proven wrong like...three times over, you get a little....distant with those that you care for…” The den mother explained. “It’s not something I’m proud of, it’s something I’m fixing, or at least trying to fix, and thankfully...I have a family that’s willing to bear with me.”

"Heh, or force the help on you." Domino laughed. "But… I still think I might join them. I'm good at pissing people off, can still visit, and hey, maybe someday I'll see you on the job and kick your tail between your legs."

“You wish Domino.” I said while gently patting her head. “But...are you sure about this?”

"Yeah. There's rules like any guild and such. Casual damage, buildings and such, keep injuries to a minimum to civilians, avoid casualties, hurt the Heroes. That's a blunt summary."

“Celestia’s gonna have a fit…” King sighed out.

"Yeah… tell mom I love her too." Domino said with a laugh.

“I’m sorry I...didn’t help you sooner Domino…” King sighed out.

"I'll forgive you… if you don't get pissed…" Now Domino looked nervous, and King had only seen them look like that when they were small.

“What did you do?” King asked simply.

"Promise." She said just as simply.

“Fine fine, I promise.” King said with a raised hand. “So...what did you do?”

"I've been dating…" King perked up a bit. "Someone from the dungeon… the Castle Dungeon…" That sent King's gut falling out their body to the floor. The castle dungeon is where they kept the prisoners of war when captured...

“Which...one…” King said slowly.

"...Tanya." Domino replied, looking ready to bolt.

King had to remember bit, but remembered Heart and their Speedster friend managed to find and capture her when dealing with his heartless doppelgangers. That was the happiest day King had had in awhile.

“Which cell are they in?” King asked simply, the fact they didn’t sound cold or angry making Domino more worried.

"You… Don't remember?" Domino asked before shaking her head. "Cell 87. Don't kill her."

“I’m just making sure.” King said. “And don’t worry, I won’t kill them, if I didn’t kill them before because of the shit they forced me through then I won’t kill them just because you want to date them.”

"Am dating… for the last seven months…" Domino added.

“You’re not making this any better for me.” King said carefully.

"This coming from the guy who married the brain damaged lady who before said damage killed both your parents?" Domino asked/stated defensively.

“That was a weird complicated mess.” King stated.

"You could have kept her prisoner, taken the kid when born then either let her blow or kept her locked up?" Domino said with a roll of her eyes. "Don't judge my love life and I won't judge yours."

“I will judge it, especially when these two things are on completely opposite ends of the spectrum...also it wouldn’t have been a ‘kid’ it would have been millions cause I was a part of the family at the time.”

"Then I'll judge you too. So, going to meet her?"

King sighed out and rubbed their temple. “I’m sorry, this is just…” King tried not to be pissed, and Domino knew it. “I’m visiting them right now. I won’t judge you, I’m just...trying not to be outlandishly pissed at you for dating that cunt. And yes, I’m allowed to call them that after they tried to literally make me kill thousands of children.” King frowned. “I don’t care if it’s been over seven months, that’s still a massive dick move.”

"Hey, pissing you and others off is my special talent… if I ever got a cutie mark it would be a pissed off image of your face." Domino said.

Tanya looked different. Older, between their first life's age and their new ones. Somewhere around Domino's age if not a year or two older. She wore a typical orange jumper, her prisoner Id sewn into the back as her hair reached her lower back. Her cell had little personal items. Nothing of much to note. She did not turn to look at King, but gave a half smile. "And what brings my warden’s boss to my cell today?" Tanya asked simply.

“So, little birdy told me you’re dating my daughter.” King started.

"Looks like I owe Domino two hundred rem then." Tanya said, calmly picking up a small nail filer off her table and worked on her nails. "I had given it til next year til you found out."

“If she were to, I don’t know, actually talk to me about things for once…” King sighed out. “Alright, so let me ask you something. Do you actually give a shit about her, or are you just using her to get to me?”

"If I told the truth, would you believe me?" Tanya asked simply, keeping her eyes on her fingernails and the filer. "In your eyes, I'm a heartless cunt. Why would I have room for love? That is your impression of me, right?"

“My daughter’s been dating you for seven months, so she must see something in you right?” King asked simply. “I can push back the parts where you’re a heartless cunt for later, right now I want to know why my daughter has been dating you for seven months.”

Tanya said nothing for a time, simply working on her fingernails. Finally though, she spoke. "Eight, if you include the month we met. My body had just been aged up to where it is now, otherwise I'd be in juvenile detention rather than here. She showed up to piss the guards off and chat with us inmates. She asked what I did to end up here, and I told her. All the gory details."

“Cause that makes sense…” King frowned. “Just be infatuated with a bastard that would sooner order and watch kids get slaughtered for the fuck of it.”

"You think so little of me." Tanya replied, not moving but her eye shifting to look at King. "At the end of the day, I'm a bureaucrat, and a Soldier. The differences I've learned are surprisingly minimal. I was just following orders on that mission, when Izuku died. The goal was simple, test you to see if you snap. You did. I might hate Divine beings, yourself included, but… since then I came to personal realization. You are no Divine being. Admin or whatever you are, you don't demand faith and worship. I realized that is what I hated so much about Being X, and with them gone at Jericho's hand I shifted the hate I still had towards a different target. An error on my part, I'll freely admit."

“I am glad that you figured out your main issue and are planning to fix that, but you and I both know…’under orders’ doesn’t fix the shit people do.” King frowned. “So let me ask, are you going to make my daughter happy, and treat her with love and respect?”

She looked back to her nails, her small smile faded into a small frown. “I am… new to relationships. Domino knows this and has been ungodly patient. I don’t know how to give my heart to her, but I can give her my loyalty and companionship until the day I can learn to give my heart.”

King nodded. “That’s good. At least you’re learning...I don’t have to tell you what I will do to you if you break my daughters heart now do I?”

“Something something wish I was dead, something something, regret being born, twice, something something, eternal pain and suffering. That about right?”

“That’s the long and short of it.” King said honestly.

Tanya’s small smile returned as she kept working on her nails. “Til next time then.”

After that King needed a drink, so they went to Jenny’s bar in the castle. The Null Jenny. The bar was… wrong. It was the embodiment of everything looking wrong in a glitchy video game. “Sup.” Null Jenny said to King as they entered.

“This place is giving me a headache from all the glitchiness…” King started. “So...what good booze do you have?”

“No idea.” Null Jenny said as she put a bottle that looked like it was meant for beer, but glowed in black and neon purple missing texture patterns. “But they’re at least still edible.”

“Well...hopefully it won’t try and kill me…” King said while taking the beer and opening it. “Jeez, where did you find this, the Source Engine?”

“Something like that.” Null Jenny said as I took a drink. It was beer, at least. Didn’t taste any different. “So, what brings you here?”

“Oh you know, having to deal with one of my daughters wanting to be a villain and dating an asshole that tried sending child soldiers after me…” King sighed out. “How have you been?”

“Pretty good all things considered.”

“All things considered?” King asked curiously.

“It’s nothing, just been with the Null’s for so long that being here again feels kinda surreal.”

“Sounds about right.” King nodded. “So quickie question...since you're technically ‘outside the system’ as it were, do you know who or what created all of this?” King asked curiously.

“Nope. Nulls didn’t start existing til after the machine was built and even then it was a while til the first Reset happened giving birth to the first Null.”

“Well...that’s not good…” King sighed out .”Is there anything that could lead me to the ‘Creators’ as it were?”

“No real idea.” She sighed. “Even so, it’s not something I’m concerning myself with. I’m more thinking about how to keep this hunk of junk we live in from rebooting again and figuring out how to deal with the Grey Energy.”

“Yeah that’s the main problem…” King sighed out. “Oh uh...question, do you know if Vincent is...well Vincent at the moment? Cause I have this feeling we’re not really dealing with that bastard anymore.”

“It’s the same asshole as far as I can tell from all the times the other Null’s and I waited in the grey while the Reset was happening.”

“But Vincent was killed before by Cript, how is he still alive?” King asked curiously.

“I survived the ending of reality and became a Null and none of the Nulls know how it happens, it just does. Frankly I’ve just accepted there are some things we don’t know still and possibly won’t ever know. Vincent is right up there with who built this hunk of junk we call home and why Cript exists, well, more of a how they exist but eh.”

“Damn…” King sighed out while taking another swing of his beer.

“Yup.” Null Jenny nodded. “Anything else you wanna ask?”

“How is it to be a Null?” King asked curiously. “Not everyday you can just ask that…”

“Well… it feels like I’ve been… misplaced. Like I both belong and don’t at the same time.”

“Sounds about right.” King nodded. “Considering you make sure the glitches don’t get out of control…”

“At the same time being one.” She agreed.

“I understand.” King sighed out. “Just...wish there was something I could do here.”

“Bored?”

“Considering I was forced to have help from a few people...a little yes.” King sighed out. “A lot of my projects are done, a lot of future stuff is being worked on...and I still don’t know what that weird whispering from that Grey Core was, not even Lord or Brain knew.”

"Add that to the mysteries we have no hints about." Null Jenny chuckled, passing King another glitch beer. "How's the timeline jumping going?"

“It’s fine so far, some of them being a tad annoying given that they were ‘what ifs’ in our time line.” King sighed out.

“Any you had to lock up for one reason or another?”

“Well...one of them was me sadly, that took a while...but I suppose that’s what happened when I stopped caring…” King sighed out. “Then a few others were just ‘people need to chill for like, five minutes’...like damn.”

“Anything that was basically the exact opposite of you? Like Evil you or Heart if they were crazy or something like that?”

“I had to lock one Zeke up cause they tried attacking me with some weird notion that I needed to ‘learn to lose’...seriously, poor guy looked like he hadn’t had proper food or sleep in weeks.” King sighed out.

“Huh, so nothing like that reset… good to know.”

“Like what Reset?” King asked curiously.

“Well, think of Resets like Cycles, different each time in some way or another and one Reset, every Cycle that happened was… Nightmarish. Statistically it was bound to happen but to see it happen… was upsetting. Let’s just say that none of the Null’s talk about it.”

“Well...sounds like a good time.” King said. “The only Reset I saw was the one you showed me a while ago.”

“And that’s all you’re gonna be seeing.” She added.

“Really?” King asked curiously. “No Cycles I shouldn’t go to or anything?”

“The Time Walkers keep and guard all the bad Timelines under lock and in terms of Cycles, no this time around they’re all about the same. Nothing too fancy or bold.”

“Sounds about right.” King nodded. “Must be a nightmare to keep those timelines contained huh?”

“Depends on who is in them. How strong they are, ect.”

“Sounds about right.’ King nodded. “Good to know there’s some places I shouldn’t go.”

When King finished up their drinks they headed off, walking around the castle and eventually to the castle gardens. They took a seat on one of the benches and enjoyed the sunlight.

“This is nice…” King said softly, just enjoying the nice sunlight and the animal noises in the garden.

The various smells and sensations calmed the wolf down as they nearly drifted off to sleep then and there. They were awoken by a kiss. Opening their eyes King found themselves looking at Zecora. It had been a while, but they were still making time for one another. “Hello there love.” The Zebra said as she sat next to King. “You have some free time I hear.”

“Yes I do my love.” King said happily. “How are you doing Zecora?”

“Grand as I can be. Learning every kind of brew has been quite the fun thing to do.” She laughed. “I’m even rhyming again.”

“That’s nice.” King said warmly as they nuzzled the Zebra affectionately.

“I have a few for you, ranging from fighting to fun times.”

“That’s cool.” King said honestly. “Hopefully there aren’t any side effects to them.”

She smiled, placing her bags down and sifting around inside before pulling out a small green vial with a leaf on it. The vial was no bigger than a tea cup. “This brew is called Natures Birth. While not to drink, it converts the deadest of areas into a lush green land ripe with plantlife.”

“That sounds great.” I said happily.

She handed King the potion then reached back into her back and took out another.

This bottle was large, about the size of a wine bottle and glowed with a white light. “This one I brew myself. Experimental and works well in small scales. I call it, Reclamation.”

“Reclamation?” King asked curiously. “What’s it do?”

"In tests, it purges void from objects, it's mostly Nothingness."

“That’s pretty cool.” King said honestly. “Must have been a pain to make that.”

"Actually no. The tricky part was getting Nothingness in liquid form." Zecora said, handing me the potion and pulling out another potion. The bottle was the size of a shot glass and glowed a neon pink. "This is based off those Conduits, Like Delson and Lovely."

“Oh yeah, I remember when Lovely kind of...accidentally drank one of these things and Joy was worried about her.” King said honestly.

"It basically does the same thing rather than a syringe injection." She handed it to King and pulled out another. This was shaped like a heart. "Need I explain?" She asked, shaking it slightly.

“Love potion?” King asked curiously.

Zecora nodded. "Based on that Keyblade you and Jericho made."

“Love Struck yeah.” King nodded. “That’s good to know.”

She grabbed another. This was a small pitch black bottle that smelled like… void? "Something for Coco. Given void is tied to her and in the realm it is hard to find. Safe as long as it is kept contained."

“That’s really cool.” King said, so glad to see all of Zecora’s hard work turning out wonderfully.

"It has been quite fun learning so many new things. But learning can wait for a while, I've been wanting to enjoy some relaxation for a long time."

King gently wrapped an arm around Zecora and pulled her close. “And I’m ready to spend time with my lovely Zebra as well.”

She smiled, giving King a kiss on the cheek as she cuddled up to them.

King had to admit, all in all the day was going on well. “Well...at least today’s going well.” King said happily.

As they walked along the halls yet again they entered one of the one on one rooms. Inside they fell to the bed next to Heart and Eclipsa, who were laid on the bed, tails wrapped tightly around one another with Eclipsa watching TV and Heart playing Skyrim on the switch.

“Hello there.” King said to Heart and Eclipsa warmly.

"Hey." Heart said.

"Hi King." Eclipsa said, giving the wolf a kiss on the nose. "How was your day?"

“I mean...besides being a tad pissed at Domino for dating Tanya as well as Domino finally, finally talking to me about her grievances...and she wanted to be different than me to begin with.”

"Oh, you finally found out she was dating her?" Heart asked.

“Cause not only did everyone else know about it besides me and my Celestia, but she didn’t even fucking bother to tell me!” King said while throwing their hands up in the air. “For someone not wanting to be like me, they certainly got my ‘don’t ask for help’ stubbornness. And now she wants to join the Sub Humans cause why not!?”

"That's ironic." Eclipsa said. "And what's wrong with the Subs?"

“Besides me barely knowing what the hell they are?” King brought up. “People forget, even though I try to know everything I don’t know everything.” King said while shoving their face in a pillow and groaning loudly.

"It's basically how video game bad guys in Wreck It Ralph work." Heart said. "it's just a job, no real malice or ill intent, just the job and after hours stuff."

“Well the only reason she wants to is because she doesn’t want to be seen as my ‘Second Coming’, and we all know I can’t say anything cause either they’ll completely ignore me or everyone will tell me ‘don’t say anything’.” King groaned.

"Eh." Heart shrugged. "Makes you miss the simple days huh?"

King lifted their head out of their pillow and gave Heart a deadpanned look. “When has shit ever been simple?”

"Well, raising Heart on Dire Equis was mostly simple." Eclipsa pointed out.

"Which reminds me, you two ever gonna try that out?" Heart asked.

“Try what out?” King asked curiously.

"Living a second childhood. Basically as you. You two did that for me, you two ever gonna try it out?"

"It would be interesting." Eclipsa pondered. "I've already lived two since I was reincarnated, but living one without the adult mind mentality will probably be more fun."

“I...don’t want to make another mistake…” King said sadly.

King flinched as a hand lightly whacked their head. "You think too much." Heart sighed. "And worry."

“I’m sorry I had to have my childhood explained to me like four different times.” King huffed.

"It might help you relax." Eclipsa said.

"Have fun memories." Heart added.

“It won’t change much.” King sighed out. “Even after so many breakthroughs in my life…”

"Don't make us baby you here and now." Eclipsa warned, though her tone and smile said she'd be more than pleased to do so.

“You wouldn’t.” King said, preparing themselves against what they might do.

"She would…" Heart looked up from their game. "And did…"

At that King made two major realizations. First, Eclipsa and Heart were much, much larger… and they could not move properly. Nor speak.

”Rude.” King thought to themselves.

Eclipsa simply scooped up the puppy, and held them comfortably between their arms. "You need to relax, and If Den has told me anything it's that this typically does it for you." Eclipsa mused, giving King's tiny head a scratch.

”Nuu~.” King whined mentally.

Eclipsa did not stop there. Soon the pup sported a small blue bow on their head attached to their right ear, a white and yellow onesie, and was sucking on a neon pink pacifier. "Cute." Heart said, giving King a little belly rub.

King’s tail betrayed him as it was wagging happily. ”Not again…” King mentally grumbled.

Eclipsa held the pup lovingly, cradling King as she rested in a way that let her rock back and forth holding the small pup. She hummed, a rythemless tune that held all the warmth and love only a mother could display. King's infant body began to betray them as they started to slip into slumber.

”Curse you infant body!” King whined as they fell to sleep.

Eclipsa smiled, giving King a kiss as she kept her mothering of the pup going. Soon King fell into a peaceful slumber.

King awoke from… a fairly normal if not weird dream. The only thing they disliked about it was that those Pirates got away with their bagel.

With a yawn the small pup awoke in a crib, covered in a blue blanket with clouds on it and surrounded by plush toys.

”Okay...where am I?” I thought to myself while looking around the room to see where I was specifically.

As far as King could tell, they were in a nursery.

”Well...I’m in the nursery at least.” King thought as they tried to escape their crib to look around, taking one of the plushies out of habit from when he was an infant before.

As King tried to climb over the crib wall they were suddenly yanked up, and held in the fluffy embrace of a Floof Noodle. "Morning sunshine." Heart said, holding the pup to eye level and giving them a smile.

”I didn’t ask for this.” King pouted.

"You never ask for what you need so we took a page out of Luna's book." Heart said, now cradling King. "So the next few Secret Reports chapters are gonna be your Rugrats tier adventures followed by childhood and so forth. Already have the mini realm set up."

”Sounds...fine enough.” King said simply.

Heart gave a nod, sliding a breast out and letting King nurse. As King did so Heart slithered out of the nursery. King took in the house. It was unique, a mix between a tree and a carved out cave where next to the stairs to the second floor were next to what looked like a slide, likely that's easier for Eclipsa and Heart to go up and down. The living room was well furnished with lovely furniture, a massive sofa, a playpen set up between the kitchen and the living room and the scent of bacon and pancakes filled the air.

”This looks nice.” King thought warmly.

Heart detached King from their nipple, burped the small pup then put them in a high chair. There King saw Eclipsa eating some pancakes and Heart soon joining. King hated not having teeth at the moment but was full from the breast milk. Instead they occupied themselves with a few toys that were at their reach. A soft plastic toy car and an airplane plushie.

”Jeez...when was the last time I actually played with any toy’s?” King thought to themselves, trying to remember when they actually did something like this.

Their childhood and Infancy as Kite could count, but that wasn't that long sadly. King mostly just moved the toy car back and forth for a time, trying to mindlessly let their mind act like an infant for the time. Soon Heart and Eclipsa finished their meal and Eclipsa picked King up. "Alright my little pup, Twilight will be here soon for a playdate with you and Monica." King remembered Monica, one of their newest children with Twilight. King was going to have a playtime with their own daughter. "And before that, you need a bath!" Eclipsa finished, giving a playful poke to the pups nose.

”I’m going to have a playdate with my own daughter...as an infant… wonders.” King thought to themselves and how weird that’ll be as they wrinkled their nose at the playful poke.

Eclipsa took King to the bathroom. The tub was gigantic. About a swimming pool size, a small one but still and it made sense. Nagas were large and full Grown King was pretty large too. However there was a smaller baby bath tub set up next to the large adult one and Eclipsa undressed King and placed them inside the tub. Eclipsa made sure the water was warm but not hot before getting the pup wet and once they began using the baby shampoo on them. "Sorry but… I can't understand what you say as an infant King." Eclipsa said as she scrubbed the suds into the pups fur. "I… kinda don't want to. I know it sounds silly or rude but I feel like understanding what your baby is saying takes a lot of the magic out of raising them."

King pouted at hearing that, but nodded in understanding.

"You and I both remember how much fun it was raising Heart. I want to share that with Heart in raising you. And next time, you two can raise me." Eclipsa said, giving a kiss to King's head, a little bit of soap forming a small bubble Stash on her upper lip. "It's a promise."

King nodded with a warm smile.

The bath lasted ten or so minutes and Eclipsa finished drying King off with a fluffy towel and a hair dryer. The heat fluffed the pup into a ball. Eclipsa gave a laugh as she brushed the hair back down and slipped King into a new onesie, this one had a pattern of Nightmare Moon on the moon on it. They also put a new bow on their head, this one a pink flower in design before taking them back to the living room and putting them in the playpen. "Heart left for work, yes they wanted to work here. And like on Equis Prime I have an alchemy lab for my job. I'll check up on you in a bit, so play with your toys for the moment. Let me know if you need anything." Eclipsa said, giving King a kiss before slithering off to a nearby room, the door staying open.

King looked around at their toys, thinking for a moment about how they would want to do things given they only had all their toys here. ”So many toys...so much possibility.”

It was an hour later that Eclipsa left her lab to check on King. What she saw made her smile. King had used the extra large Lego blocks ment for toddlers to make a makeshift race track around the pens walls. King was racing a, and by racing they crawled next to a toy car they pushed every few inches they crawled. Keeping the two 'neck in neck' in the race. The Naga quickly took a few pictures before slithering over to the pup and picking them up. "Such a cutie." She cooed, nuzzling King.

King looked up with a smile. ”This is nice.” King thought to himself warmly.

Eclipsa gave King another feeding, and when that was done burped the pup before taking a sniff at them. "Heh, looks like someone needs a change."

King blushed a bit. An infant's bladder can't hold anything, they learned this as Kite. Eclipsa gave them a fast change and carried them into her alchemy lab. Her lab was different from on Dire Equis, where the furniture and shelving was carved into the tree walls and the floor held a pit where three large black Calderon's sat boiling over open fires and liquids rich in magic brewed. "You like? Zecora is gonna come over in a few days to help out every now and then. We've been helping each other out in learning new brews."

King nodded and yipped in agreement.

"She reminds me a lot of my Zecora. Still can't believe she ended up with Thunderlane. Well, that's life." Eclipsa said with a giggle. "Oh, and Den will also be coming over with some of your siblings. Oh there is so much that will happen in this world, this safe place where we can feel and be normal. Oh I'm gonna hate it when you start preschool and Kindergarten."

”Oh no…” I thought to myself worriedly.

“At least that’s a few years away. Til then I’m gonna spoil you~” She cooed again, giving a scratch to King’s belly. “I just wish Heart didn’t talk me out of having you also be a Floof Noodle. Would have fit more and could raise you more the naga way. Sadly they figured after that whole Restaurant food contest thing that was the last thing you wanted to experience. Oh well, can make you a lot of siblings that can be naga’s for that anyway.”

”Also because I’d rather not get used to another drastic body change.” I mentally added.

As Eclipsa held King, checking various herbs and vials a knock at the door took her attention. Slithering over there and opening it was Twilight. King saw the mare standing at the doorway, wearing a sky blue sundress with small clouds in a polka dot pattern. In her arms was Monica, the small pup had a unicorn horn and pony ears, but more of a wolf's body and coat type, though they had their mothers colors. “Hey Eclipsa.” She saw King and her smile grew. “Hey King.” She said, giving the pup a pat.

As embarrassed as King was, they took a look at the outside, the first time they saw it and realized they were in a neighborhood of sorts, the houses each unique or different from the basic look of earth's houses. It looked… nice, strange yet fitting. “Glad you made it.”

“Monica is one of the youngest and about King’s current age.” Twilight replied with a smile.

The two brought the infants in and placed both in the play pen. Monica immediately began sniffing around the pen. “So, you wanted to show me those new Transmutation Circles to boost my potions?” Eclipsa asked.

“Yes, I believe carving them on or in your caldrens would improve their potency and effect time.” Twilight replied as the two entered Eclipsa’s lab.

King gently crawled over to Monica to tell her hello. “Hello.” King said to Monica in baby speak, cause back when King had to be reborn...twice, once to get his Soul back so he can have his light half, then the other when he used True Nothingness to end a Test Cript gave him, he learned baby’s can speak their own ‘language’ so to speak.

Monica didn’t reply, rather began sniffing King and circling them. Finally the horned pup spoke. “You smell like papa.” She then licked King.

“I mean...uh…” King started nervously, not entirely sure if he should just say ‘yes, but I’m now a pupper’.

King’s thoughts were halted as Monica then tackled King, trying to nip his muzzle and ears. “Gonna beat you.” She said, already pinning them down.

“Oh no you don’t.” King said while fighting back against the pin. “I’m gonna beat you.”

The two pups went at it in a playful tumbling, turning and toothless bites in the fight for victory of the playpen. Sadly, Monica had an advantage… unstable baby unicorn magic. Her horn lit up and King found himself pinned under her, his ear being gummed and soaked in saliva. Finally, Minica gave a long wet lick across King’s face. “I win.” She declared proudly, jumping off the pup.

“No fair.” King frowned. “You cheated.”

“Not my fault you don’t have a horn!” She shot back. “I can do magic. Mama says I’ll be a powerful wizard some day. Can you even do magic?”

“Yes, but not like you.” I pouted. “You have unicorn magic, I don’t, so that’s cheating.”

“What kind of magic can you do?” She asked curiously.

“Well, I can do this.” King started to howl and starting to use Dire Wolf magic.

The magic built up and the energy flowed out with the howl. It was a simple howl spell, but it was weak, still, it was strong enough to knock the pen door open. “Freedom!” Monica declared in baby, and fast waddles out of the pen.

“No, we’re not allowed to leave the pen.” King said while waddling after her.

“Imma gonna find the cookies!” She said, waddling around in the living room aimlessly. “Where’s the cookie’s high up place?”

“I think I know where the cookies are.” King said while leading his daughter to the kitchen.

Entering the kitchen King looked around, seeing the cookie jar atop the counter high above. “I see it!” Monica said. There was a flash and suddenly she was next to it, taking the lid off and taking out four chocolate chips in her mouth. Leaning over the edge Monica dropped them for King below then jumped back into the jar.

King caught all the cookies and started to nom on them happily, kind of wishing they had teeth so they could taste the wonderful chocolate chips.

With the cookies eaten Monica teleported back down to King on the floor. “That was yummy! What else do you have here?”

“A lot of things.” King said while leading them off to other neat things.

King and Monica crawled up the slide next to the stairs, it was safer than going up the stairs and once up King took her into their nursery. Inside monica began tackling the large stuffed animals, toys and such. “Yay! Toys!” King joined in happily, having fun as they two rolled around.

“How did you two…” The infant's fun was halted as Eclipsa spoke from the doorway, she and Twilight looking at them confused.

“Monica must have surged. I really need to get her a suppression bracelet for that.” Twilight sighed, her frown going to a smile. “At least they’re having fun.”

“Yeah, true.” Eclipsa said, growing her own smile. “So cute.”

“Think we can leave them alone?” Twilight asked.

“I just fed King before you arrived, what about Monica?”

“Before we left for here. She should be good for another hour or so.”

“I’m sure they can’t do too much harm here. Plenty of toys and everything is baby proofed.” Eclipsa explained. She then looked at the two. “We’ll be back for you two.” With that, Eclipsa closed the door.

“Yay! More play!” Monica beamed.

“Yay!” King cheered as well, just plain happy.

“Round two!” Monica declared, tackling King yet again. The duel of swats, gumming bites and tumbling returned. An hour of this play wrestling passed before Eclipsa and Twilight came back up to check on the two and feed them. With the feeding done the infants were changed and both put into the crib for a nap, their play and recent feeding making the two sleeping. Eclipsa and Twilight kissed them both and dimmed the lights to let the now sleepy pups rest.

King watched as Monica drifted off instantly into slumber as they were arriving there soon. They smiled as they cuddled a carrot plushie their exact size. ”I’m glad this is happening…” King thought to himself as he drifted off to sleep.

King wasn’t sure how much time had passed, only that Monica was now gone and they were not in their crib, rather in the living room, resting on Heart’s chest. Heart laid across the couch on their back, large headphones on as they listened to some music as the smell of food filled the air. The sunlight out the windows was now soft and the lights were now on to brighten up the room. King gently patted Heart’s chest to get their attention. ”Hello.’ King thought.

“Hm?” Heart said, opening an eye and seeing King awake. They smiled. “Hey there. Have fun?” Heart asked, voice low as if sleepy themselves.

King gently yipped and nuzzled into them.

Heart smiled, giving King a scratch to their back. “Heh, and you didn’t want to do this.” They chuckled. “As far as Eclipsa knows, I ate all those cookies when I got home.” They added.

”I barely get to be happy...and this is innocent and joyful.” King said mentally.

“You’re welcome.” Heart said, closing their eye again as they rested there, scratching King gently for a while. Heart then sighed, holding King as they sat up and began nursing them. Thankfully King did not need to be changed so Heart placed King on their long tail, and moving it so King felt as if they were on an endless slide. King smiled and yipped happy at this.

Eclipsa simply peeked in from the kitchen and took photos.

After Eclipsa and Heart ate, Eclipsa nursed King some more then changed and bathed the pup again King found themselves between the two nagas on the couch with them, the TV on playing Lilo and Stitch as King watched this movie with joy.

”Hooray for one of my favorite children’s films.” King thought happily.

When the movie ended Eclipsa dressed king in a clean onesie, this one matching their fur colors exactly and removed their bow before holding them as the next movie, Aladdin 2, began playing. King watched, sucking on a pacifier the whole time.

”Third Aladdin movie was better than the second.” King thought to himself as they kept watching the movie.

When the movie reached the halfway point Eclipsa pulled King’s pacifier out to let them nurse some more. King did so happily. When it was over she wrapped the pup up in a warm blanket as they kept watching the movie.

When it ended Eclipsa yawned, seeing King still quite awake for the hour. “I got them.” Heart said, taking King from Eclipsa. “You head to bed.”

“You sure?” She asked.

“Yeah, go rest up.” With a nod Eclipsa got up and slithered up the slide leaving King and Heart alone watching the next movie. Despicable Me. “Eclipsa is loving this.” Heart said.

”Yes, yes she is.” King thought to themselves.

“She has total mommy vision on you. If she wasn’t the Admin of Grey she’d be the Admin of Motherhood.” Heart said with a laugh. “She’s gonna take you along for shopping tomorrow by the way.”

”Oh goodie…” King thought. ”Shopping won’t be fun…”

“You’re a baby, you’ll be in a stroller getting pushed around the place the whole time. What’s to complain about?” Heart asked.

”Shopping is boring though.” King whined.

Heart rolled their eyes. “Little baby.” Heart said with a laugh, kissing King’s head. “Monica took a liking to you fast.”

”She cheated.” I pouted.

“She has a horn, that is an advantage. Plus she is also part wolf, so likely when she learns howl magic her horn will boost that. Oh, and just a heads up, Eclipsa and I have a date night planned for next week, so you get a babysitter.”

”Who’s the babysitter?” King asked curiously.

King saw Heart smile, and it worried King. “Domino.”

King blinked...and then howled in panic.

"Hey hey, relax. She just wants to know how you as a pup looks and frankly she thought it would be funny. Besides, Celestia will be overseeing her and making sure she does everything right."

King still didn’t look perfectly okay with this happening.

"If it helps Domino did promise that after this was over she'd go finish school before joining the Subs." Heart added.

King nodded, at least happy she’ll finish things before going off.

Heart gave King a gentle hug. "So, wanna know what job I took?"

King nodded, wanting to know what job they got.

"Police." Heart said with a Chuckle. "Always wanted to be on the other side of the law growing up."

King nodded, understand what they meant and softly nuzzling them.

Heart kissed King's head. The movie finished and Heart slithered up the slide steps and put King in the crib, surrounding them with stuffed animals cloth dolls. "Sleep well King." Heart said, dimming the lights before slithering out and leaving the door open.

King cuddled up to another stuffed plushie and yawned as they drifted off to sleep.