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Plot synopsis: Flutterhy invites Rainbow Dash to her home under the pretenses of having some important news to tell her. When Dash arrives, the shy pegasus reveals her desire to become a mother and have a little foal to take care of. Fluttershy then offers her friend a drink of ''gummyade'' and demonstrates the lullaby she sang to the Cutie Mark Crusaders. While listening, Rainbow Dash discovers too late that the drink was drugged, and wakes up some time later strapped to a table in a darkened room decorated up like a nursery, but with all the trappings and toys sized up to adult pony scale. Fluttershy then reappears and informs Dash that ''she will be her new baby''. While Dash struggles against her restraints, Fluttershy calmly gets out four bondage booties decorated to look like baby booties and an adult diaper. She forces the diaper on Dash and unbinds the tomboy from the straps on the table. Upon trying to escape, Dash finds herself inexplicably too weak to fly.

''Part 2'' begins with Fluttershy perfecting a [[Retcon|drug]] called [[Incredibly Lame Pun|foalmula]] which is the drug she actually used to revert Dash's mind back into that of an infant, but the effects aren't permanent...yet. They are now. Meanwhile, Scootaloo begins a search for her mentor and eventually runs afoul of the truth and is subjected to a series of demeaning tasks and tests ripped straight from the [[Saw]] series. {{spoiler|She ends up PERMANENTLY REVERTING THE DASH'S MIND INTO A PERMANENT INFANT in order to save herself from the same fate}}. {{spoiler|Then she finally comes to the final room and has a choice of two drinks to chose from. One drink, the milk in the baby bottle, allows her to keep her mind and she becomes Fluttershy's apprentice. In the other, a glass of water, also permanently regresses her into an infant-like state and she becomes Dash's "sister"}}.

 

The fic has already become the subject of [[MST]] fics and [[Dramatic Reading|dramatic readings]]. You can two watch such readings [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTslJZbIylE here] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwConrQBq_U here].

 

 

Now it has a tumblr, [http://ask-fluttermama.tumblr.com/ Hello my little babies]. Read at your own risk.

* [[Abusive Parents]]: Fluttershy, herself. No surprise. At one point Regressed Dash is left alone and panicked in a small room by herself and just allowed to go into a terrified crying fit while 'Shy has [[Sarcasm Mode|other, more important things]] to do. ''So Dash can just wait for mommy to come make it all better.'' So Yeah...

* [[Adult Child]]: An extreme case. Fluttershy literally regresses her "children's" minds back to infancy with the help of a [[Fantastic Drug]].

* [[Affably Evil]]: Fluttershy still acts '''just''' like her canon self through everything in these fics.

* [[All Take and No Give]]: Taken to psychotic levels.

* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: Foalmula. A chemical that someone unravels the adult mind and sends you back to infancy.

** Crosses into [[Artistic License Chemistry]] and [[Chemistry Can Do Anything]].

* [[Evil Mentor]]: {{spoiler|What Fluttershy becomes to Scootaloo in the "good" ending.}}

* [[Evil Virtues]]: In this case, the rarely used '''Love'''. Fluttershy just ''loves'' her little babies, and would do absolutely ''anything'' to keep them.

* [[A Fate Worse Than Death]]: Some readers have commented they'd rather be [[Cupcakes|cupcaked]].

** To eliborate on that, this means that readers would rather be slowly and sadistically dismembered than have this happen to them!

* [[From Nobody to Nightmare]]: Fluttershy. She goes from the harmless, sweet, shy, caring, and compassionate mare we all know and love to an Age Play-obsessed maniac who has taken up raising adult babies and [[Mind Rape]] as hobbies.

* [[Freak-Out]]: Dash at the end of ''Part One'', after she starts to succumb to the treatment and realizes it. She absolutely breaks down, and well..freaks out.

* [[Government Conspiracy]]: Even the Mayor is in on it.

* [[Happily Adopted]]: Albeit illegally in every step of the process in Dash's case.

** There's also some contrived nonsense about social expectations, retribution, and penance at the end of ''Part Two'', but the core issue is that Fluttershy wanted a baby, and ''anyone'' will do.

** Summarised:

'''Everyone on Earth''': That's not obvious at all! }}

* [[It's All About Me]]: Fluttershy falls ''hard'' into this. Dash doesn't want to be a baby? Well, who gives a buck what she wants?

** [[Genius Bonus]]: The formula regresses the mind to that of a baby. A baby's mind works fundamentally different from that of an older pony, among other things, memories are stored differently. When growing up, the way memories are stored changes, and those earliest memories are no longer consciously accessible. That's why you don't remember anything about being a baby.

* [[Left for Dead]]: Dash from a psychological standpoint. First by Twilight, Pinkie, Applejack, Rarity, and Zecora. {{spoiler|Later by Scootaloo, who actually set off the gas in her chamber}}.

* [[Love Makes You Crazy]] and [[Love Makes You Evil]]: It certainly had this effect on the shy one.

* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: The [[Ironic Nursery Rhyme]] sang at the end of ''Part Two''. Plays just like a regular rhyme, but put to lyrics like: ''you'll never hurt anyone else now that your mind is gone little Dashie.'' Brr...

* [[Mad Scientist]]: Fluttershy, of all ponies. Using a chemistry set loaned to by Twilight and ingredients she got from Zecora, Fluttershy experimented and created the foalmula.

* [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant]]: As if you didn't know.

* [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]]: Dash could have avoided this whole mess on account of one thing. She was happily napping on a cloud beforehand and only woke herself to go see Fluttershy, ''because she's a good friend''.

* [[Not Himself]]: anyone under the effects of foalmula.

* [[Obliviously Evil]]: Fluttershy doesn't seem to get why anything she does could be considered wrong.

** Dash falls under the effects of [[Instant Sedation]] and wakes up tied to a table.

** Fluttershy calls for Pinke to bring cupcakes in one ending of ''Part Two''.

* [[Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror]]: Despite being a parody, it is ''firmly'' Horror Dominant.

* [[Slipping a Mickey]]: How Dash is taken captive to begin with.

* [[Stockholm Syndrome]]: If there's a better explanation of Scootaloo's behaviour in the "good" ending, we don't want to hear it.

* [[Strapped to An Operating Table]]: Well, to a changing table, but still.

* [[Team Killer]]: Not in a physical sense, but Dash is rendered absolutely incapable of functioning as the Element of Loyalty anymore. So here's hoping Equestria never needs those girls again.

* [[Torture Cellar]]: Done [[Saw]]-style, too!

* [[Troll Fic]]: the author has admitted that ''Pattycakes'' is this, and is quite pleased with the horrified reactions it has gotten.

* [[Undying Loyalty]]: Crosses straight into [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]] for poor Dash.

* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]: A whole ''land'' of happy little babies for Fluttershy to mother!

* [[Vasquez Always Dies]]: It just wouldn't a [[Cupcakes]]-style [[Fanfic]] without this trope in play. In a manner of speaking, Dash ''does'' die. Her mind is permanently destroyed by the end of ''Part Two'', meaning that the Dash that was is no more and never will be again.

* [[Waking Up Elsewhere]]: Dash, who passes out in 'Shy's living room, and wakes up strapped to a changing table.

** {{spoiler|Scootaloo, who is clobbered over the head, and wakes up in a box. On top of a row of shelves. In the basement/dungeon. Yeah.}}

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Implied in both ends of ''Part Two'', that Fluttershy has somehow gotten it into her head that her "children" are better off permanently regressed.

* [[Wham! Line]]: A lot of them, but the first and most important:

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Attempted by both Rainbow Dash and Scootloo. {{spoiler|It doesn't work.}}

* [[When It All Began]]: ''The Stare Master''.

 

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