Across the group of people that seemed to never take their eyes off him, she led him over to a giant fenced off building within the mall, a large sign on the front, made up of colorful letters spelled out ‘Daycare and Lost Child Center, matching the colors of the plastic fence where he could see little cubs playing on some playground equipment and their caretakers clearly trying to keep them out of harm’s way by chasing them about.  The poor little kit had no idea what he just had gotten himself into, but judging by how the wolfess was leading him, he didn't have much say in the matter at this point.

Walking in over the large brightly colored sign, the wolfess pulled him into the building’s interior, and the poor kit could hardly contain his embarrassment with what he saw. Scattered all about the room were cubs of all different species and sizes, meaning ones that were well older than they should of been. Playing with blocks and dolls, coloring in books and with paints spread across paws before being sprawled across paper and carpet alike. Which was quickly stopped by a vixen that nicely scooped up the ‘little’ dragon responsible, showing off how unbelievingly strong she must be considering he looked like he outweighed her by at least three to one.

The little kit was pulled right past the pair of them and further into the large play area, where he could see what looked like a line of changing tables were set up, and in the midst of changing a fairly frilly looking kitsune was a black and white speckled alicorn. His hands were careful but nervous, holding the vulpine’s many petticoats up and out of the way, exposing what seemed to be a very, very soggy looking diaper as he was observed by a rather tall looking lioness. They both seemed to be dressed in uniform, though from the way the alicorn’s waist was bulging out, he was far from being in charge here. The lioness grinned, posed like the matriarch that she so clearly was as she spoke. Soft, kind, but purposeful.

“Now now, if we ever want to get you to full time caretaker,” she reached her paw down and placed it on the clearly bulging seat of the Alicorn, then gave it a pat, “We’ll have to get you to where you’re not so nervous changing the little ones. At this rate I’m afraid I’ll have to get you onto the table beside this cutie and get you changed as well, lest you make a bad example for her and all the others, hm?” Her ear twitched just then, and not from the crinkling sound that came from the poor boy’s rear, or the soft giggling coming from the kitsune on the changing table. She turned and upon seeing the wolfess she grinned, then it only widened as she noticed just what she was tugging along with her.

The lioness was clearly practiced with her craft, be they 7ft tall dragon or 3ft tall cubs. She knew exactly what she was doing. She carefully lowered herself a bit closer to the poor kit’s height, looking at him right in the eyes, making him try and and avoid doing the same as he hid behind the wolfess’s hip. “And who do we have here. Someone clearly shy, and in the process of ruining my nice clean carpet.” She chuckled into her paw, standing up to her full height she looked to the wolfess and addressed her with a small grin. “Well if it isn’t little Jenny. It figures my best student could never leave a young kit in such a state.”

The wolfess, who up to that point had been perfectly calm and in command seemed to lose a little bit of that when addressed, her ears lowering in an almost submissive fashion. She swallowed before replying, her voice catching for a moment before that confidence seemed to come back. “Mo-Miss Blackwood, it’s..Been a while. So lovely to see you again,” She turns around and grabs the little kit gently by his shoulders, pulling him out from behind her and keeping him in plain view of the rather tall lioness. “I found this little one in the theater, poor thing must have gotten lost from his parents and went into the wrong movie.”

The lioness once more grinned, looking the soggy kit up and down with her deep purple eyes just barely hidden behind long, brown hair that just barely covered the amethyst orbs. She placed her hands back behind her once more, resuming her stance of clear control and power before she spoke. “Well, I can definitely see he is need of our care. New clothes, definitely a change by the looks of him. Might have to have a word with his mother. Far, far too young to be in training pants.” The white apron she had over her uniform flowed as she brought her hand back around, offering it to the little kit with that seemingly genuine smile once more. “Come on, sweetie, we’ll get you cleaned up nice and proper,” she then turned back to the wolfess, Jenny, he now knew her as. “Jenny, sweetie, you remember how to use the intercom. Be a dear for your momma and go and page this little one’s parents, will you?”

Once more Jenny’s ears lowered back, and she slowly nodded, mumbling under her breath though the lioness and the fox kit were close enough they could hear her. “Yes Mommy..” and she had already let go of the little kit and was making her way towards the front counter, stopped along the way by some other furs in uniform that seemed to know her.

Without waiting for his response, the lioness gently took the fox by his hand and led him over to the changing tables much like the wolfess had done with him before. Done with purpose, but with a gentleness to her movements that spoke for not looking to hurt him, just getting him where he truly needed to be.

When they reached the tables, the Lioness once more got on one knee and unsnapped and unbuckled the various attachments to the kit’s shortalls, popping the buttons on his snap crotch without care for clearly how soaked through they were. She looked up at him and smiled reassuringly once more. “Can you tell me your name, little one?” The fox kit lowered his ears much like Jenny did before, gently clamping his lips around the pacifier in his muzzle as he slowly shook his head. “Aww, no? That’s ok, I didn’t think you were old enough to talk anyways.”

She continued pulling at the various buttons and snaps until the thing was completely loose, gently sliding her hands under his arms she directed him to raise them, then booped his nose much like his mommy did before and pulled the sodden thing up over his head and laid them to the side. Looking down at his shirt she tsk’d, then removed that too since the bottom of that had actually gotten wet as well. “You sure did a number on your outfit, little kit. I’m not sure if we can even wash the stains out of these at this point.” The fox began to sniffle once more, small tears forming in the corners of his eyes, now left standing in the middle of the room in nothing but his soaked through training pants and light up shoes.

The ‘little’ kitsune from before was clearly starting to get curious as to what was going on, especially since the alicorn hadn’t actually continued with the rest of her change while waiting for the observation to continue. “Auntie B, what’s wrong with him?” She asked, her dress still being up over her tummy, having to move her head to the side to see past it’s many frilled layers. The lioness chuckled and turned, reaching a hand up to caress the kitsune’s cheek. “He’s much younger than you, sweetie. He’s not used to being changed out in the open like this.” 

The kitsune giggled and cooed, acting what seemed maybe a third of her age for a moment, before she too smiled and her age seemed to return. “Poor thing, I was nervous my first couple of times as well. Letting everyone see the real you, but then I just put in my pacifier and pretended I couldn’t understand them, then everything seemed to get a lot easier.” She then turned to the lioness and giggled, pointing to the still awaiting alicorn. “Maybe you should try that with him, Auntie.”

The bespeckled horse puffed a burst of air through both nostrils, but lost the demeanor when he heard the lioness chuckling along. He too adopted those partially splayed ears and started calming down. “M-momma, should I continue now?” He asked softly, just like a nervous child. With a single movement the lioness had scooped up the little kit and was turning, laying him out on the table just beside the little kitsune’s. “Yes, Dear, you may. Just watch and copy momma, and maybe we’ll get you past your nerves, hm?”

The alicorn just slowly nodded and turned back to the little kitsune, looking down into her nearly silver eyes. He was lost in them for a moment, almost mesmerized as what seemed to be storm clouds seemed to form within them, the image of lightning striking over water briefly flashed before him before he shook his head to clear it. The kitsune was giggling a little, reaching a hand up to brush the pink hair out of her face before that same hand laid over his. “You’ll be fine, I’m a good first start for someone inexperienced. Just be gentle, I’m a delicate little girl.” She grinned and swished all nine of her tails, each little black tip seeming to blur together and form a solid line.

The alicorn gave a small chuckle and nodded, squeezing the kitsune’s hand for a second before he turned to look in on the lioness and the little kit, seeing that she was in the process of rubbing his tummy and calming him down. Seemingly he had gotten a lot more fussy and upset when actually placed on the table, and was holding his training pants by the hips so she couldn’t pull them off.

“Now now little one, we have to get these off you in order to get you cleaned up. You don’t want your Mommy to show up and see you in soaking wet training pants, now do you?” She practically cooed to him, ruffling up the fur under his chin which actually got him to settle down somewhat. He let out a small whimper, but couldn’t deny that the lioness was right. He’d get in much worse trouble if he went back to Mommy, sopping wet as he was and his clothes ruined,rather than just letting the lioness finish and just getting it over with.Splaying his ears once more, he lowered his chin a little and slowly let go of his soggy trainers, finally answering her with a small shake of his head as he let her continue.

“That’s a good little one, now we can get you all cleaned up and proper. Good thing it didn’t spread too far past your tummy, or we might have had to give you a bath first.” she winked and then reached under the table, grabbing a small box of wipes she set them to the side. Now prepared, she started tugging the soggy trainers off the poor kit, the little thing quickly shooting his paws down to cover up his bits. “Tsk, now now sweetie, that’s definitely I haven’t seen before, isn’t that right Willow dear?” She grinned and gave the kitsune a wink, making the little ‘girl’ start to blush and giggle nervously, seemingly not being everything that she seemed at first.

The little kit’s curiosity then got the best of him as well as as he started trying to lean over and see just what the two were talking about, but the lioness took the opportunity to quickly move his hands out of the way, already with wipe at the ready she started to clean up the soggy fox. The cloth material partially warmed to not shock the poor thing as it brushed all over, turning more and more yellow it went as it returned the natural cream shading to the kit’s tummy and not so much the dulled color it was before. “Theeere we are, so much better already isn’t it, sweetie?” She cooed down at him, setting down wipe after wipe after wipe. The kit got more embarrassed with each one as it seemingly took a whole box of the things just to get him clean once more.

He couldn’t deny that it felt good though, almost like a gentle massage or something...Much more sensual than that he wasn’t allowed to think about anymore according to his mommy. She had threatened a chastity cage on a few occasions, but he always managed to talk to her out of it. Or more so make her feel sorry for him since he would usually start to cry. Which he was near the verge of doing once more while laying out on the table, but he was doing his best to remain as ‘big’ as possible, despite the circumstances. 

“Now, since we have you all nice and clean, and I don’t want to risk you leaking again…” She trailed off, disappearing over the edge of the table for a couple of moments before coming back up with her prize. One hand holding what was clearly a bottle of baby powder, and in the other something that just made his heart sink. Clutched between her fingers was clearly a diaper, but not something medical, or even plain or concealable. The thing was nearly five inches thick just folded over, a giant paw patrol logo right on the front, surrounded by blue, black and red colored bones and paw prints. “I thought you might like this one best, hm?” She grinned and laid the very, very crinkly thing down on the table and picked up the bottle of powder.

“Now sweety, I need you to hold still for me, best you can. Can you be a big boy and try and do that, or do I need to make sure you stay still?” She raised a brow at that last part, making sure to get her point across before she saw him nod, which then softened her back to the small grin that seemed to be almost plastered across her face. “Good boy.” She gave him a small pat between his ears, then unscrewed the top of the powder bottle and carefully tipped it up above his crotch, making sure little bits of white were nicely spread out and touching everywhere that she can. 

Once satisfied with her coating, she set the bottle down and carefully placed the flats of her palms on his fur. Resuming eye contact with him when he started to fuss, she began to rub in deftly but slowly, making sure that orange fur was tinted brighter and the cream became almost cloudy to see through. Finished with that part of the job, she turned and slightly dusted off her paws, then grabbed the crinkly diaper and started laying it out on the padded table top. The little fox winced at how loud it was being just from that, and pictured just how much more so it was going to be once it was taped around him.

Taking up the bottle of powder once more she started sprinkling and rubbing into the diaper’s inner material, making sure to look at the kit and smile at him, then turn and look in on the alicorn as he was, slowly, but surely copying just what she was doing with the kitsune. He had even gone one step further and had given her a pacifier and a small stuffed wolf plush to hold onto as he worked. She was a little impressed, but she also knew how much the poor boy wanted to get out of his own diapers. Only when not around her, of course.

Approving of his abilities so far she finished massaging the powder into the thick diaper and once more dusted off her paws with a little nod, hands on her hips, until she carefully reached down and gripped the fox kit by his ankles. “Wanna help Auntie and lift up for me, hun?” the fox gave a sheepish nod and carefully lifted up his hips as best he could, wincing once more at the resounding crinkles as she slid the thick thing across the table to lay just underneath of him, then just as gently with everything else, she laid him onto the cushion like surface. 

The kit sneezed when a cloud of powder puffed up around him, wiggling his nose and looking like a second was coming when the lioness used her apron to block it and then wipe any spare powder away, and booped his nose once more afterwards. Using both paws she gripped the diaper under him and shifted it a few times, making sure it was perfectly in positioned, and made eye contact with the alicorn so he would know this part was especially important. He gave her a nod and started doing the same, though he gave the kitsune a little tickle to her tummy before finishing his.

She smiled and nodded, turning back to her own charge and doing the same. The best teachers never stopped learning, after all, which was nice since the kit did let out a small giggle from around his pacifier. She grinned at that and continued, reaching down she gripped the front of the crinkly padding and brought it forwards, making sure to keep it evenly lined up and in place just as the bottom was. Smoothing it out she held it in place with one hand, using the other she snugly pulled each of the two large tapes and secured the sides in place, then gave the front a small rub and a gentle pat. With the front all taped up she rolled the kit onto his side and pulled his large fluffy tail through the back and secured the last tape.

“Annnnd, all done. See, not so bad now was it. Such a good little kit for Auntie, yes he was. Here I was thinking you were going to be fussy. All you needed was a little affectionate, huh? Yes you did.” She laughed and tickled his tummy and rubbed it as she spoke, which had the fox giggling and curling inwards, but still blushing at what had just happened. He was after all, just changed by a complete stranger, in the middle of a giant daycare. His thoughts were taken elsewhere however when he was suddenly lifted up, set down onto the floor a few feet down. The little kit barely able to stand, wobbling back and forth, even having to hold onto the lioness’s apron to keep from falling over.

“Aw, poor baby. I didn’t think you were that young, but, luckily for you, Auntie is always prepared.” She smiled and pat his now very thickly padded rear, “Hold onto the table for a moment sweetie, I’ll be right back.,” she then turned to the alicorn and checked on his progress, giving him some rubs to his own crinkly rear in approval as she saw the happy kitsune nicely and even more thickly padded then the kit laying on the table, happily suckling on her own pacifier and playing with the plush wolf still.

She wasn’t gone very long, but long enough so that the kit had a few moments to try and walk, only to stumble and have to hold onto the table once more. The alicorn and the kitsune giggled at his efforts, but otherwise didn’t pay him much attention as she was finally lowered down from her own table onto the ground. The kitsune nuzzled against the alicorn’s legs and took one of his hands in her own, tugging him towards the play area as best she could while still on all fours. Eventually he gave in and chuckled, picking up the big baby girl and carrying off as she wanted.

When the lion finally did come back to him, she wasn’t empty handed, and again what she had brought made the little kit whine. In one of her hand was a similar shirt to the one he had been wearing previously, though it looked a little shorter, and proved to be such when she suddenly tugged it down it over his head. The childish tee just barely touched the top of his thick padding it left it completely exposed and open.

The second thing she’d brought was much worse though. Dragging behind her in her other hand was an oversized, or more accurately, his sized stroller. Light blue and decorated with paw patrol characters in the seat, accented with red for the handles and for the wheels. The seat too, with it’s many straps looked like it could be removed from the rest of the frame and turned into a carseat, only one that was going to fit him. He could barely take his eyes off the thing, let alone really comprehend he was going to be in it when the intercom inside the daycare toned, and then what sounded like a slightly altered version of Jenny’s voice played.

 “Mom-Erm, Miss Blackwood. The little kit’s mother has come to retrieve him. She’s quite...Upset.”

The lioness with another clearly practiced, fluid movement scooped up the little kit and dropped him into the stroller. She held a finger to the end of his pacifier when he tried to protest, only to finish strapping the lap belt over the top of him, then the one across his waist. His thick diaper was pushed into, and up, almost being framed by the surrounding straps as the lioness walked around and took hold of the handles, turning the large stroller and stopping to push a button on the wall, seemingly replying back to Jenny. “Tell her we’re heading up to the front desk, won’t be a moment.”

Starting to roll off with the stroller, she stopped as he past a small shelf with which seemed to be colored mittens were stacked in different sizes and by color. Grabbing a light blue pair, she slipped them onto the kits hands, then grabbed a matching foot pair for his feet and nodded. “That’s to make sure you stay safe on the ride home...And just because you look adorable.” She winked, then took up the stroller once more.
The made their way across the large open play area, still cubs off all sizes seemed more occupied with playing, eating, or being changed by their various caretakers to really pay attention to what was going on with him, but he did catch sight of the little kitsune currently laying in the lap of the alicorn. She was suckling on what seemed to be a bottle filled with apple juice, eyes barely open but enough so that she very sleepily waved to the kit before he was out of sight, up into the reception area, where a very, very flustered looking Mommy shep was waiting for him.

Upon the door being opened, Mommy turned and sounding angry at first, then it turned to to relief. “Where have you been, I was worried sick. I...Oh sweetie, Mommy’s just glad to see that you’re ok. Where were you, we looked all over?”

Jenny chimed in, gently touching mommy shep by the shoulder to get her attention. “I found him in the new slasher movie, Miss. He was..Well, he was sopping wet and crying so loudly that I couldn’t help but feel sorry for him. I used to work here, and know Miss B very well. I hope you don’t mind.”

Mommy slowly shook her head and took the girl’s hand in one of her own. “No, no I’m not upset. Thank you so much for taking care of him, he can be such a handful, I hope he didn’t cause too much trouble for you. Either of you.”

“Not a trouble at all,” The lioness spoke up, pushing the stroller into the room further, shutting the door behind her and silencing the sounds of playing from all the other cubs on the inside. “I’m sorry to say that we couldn’t save his outfit, but it’s in a bag in the bottom of the stroller if you want to try. He’s much, much too young for training pants, so I also threw in a couple of spare diapers. He’ll probably need a change by the time you get home if this was any indication. I hope you don’t mind us taking the initiative.”

Mommy shep for the first time really looked over her little kit, taking in each detail about his new appearance, from the thick diaper clearly secured, to the mitts now over his paws. She couldn’t help but crack into grin of her own, then turn back to the lioness. “Not at all. I should of known better that he was too young for the movie, but his big cousin wanted him to come see it with her, so I thought we could try it. We’ll be staying at home more often from now on.”

She took hold of the stroller handle as the lioness offered it, then checked the bottom for the mentioned items and grinned once more. “I can’t thank you two enough for taking care of him, I was so worried, and you two have been so kind.”

“Think nothing of it.” Both Jenny and the lioness said at the same time, earning chuckles from them both before Miss blackwood spoke. “I was more than happy to do it, he’s such a  little cutie that it was a pleasure. Feel free to bring him by anytime, I’ll look after him personally.” She grinned, all the while Jenny had grabbed a sticky note from the reception desk and scribbled on it, handing the paper to Mommy shep after the lioness finished.

“Here’s my number..Encase you ever need a babysitter, I’m kind of attached to the little cutie. If you want, that is.” Momma shep grinned and took the paper, placing it in her purse she nodded, then looked over the top of the stroller to a very red faced little kit, and back up to the pair. “Oh he will be seeing quite a bit of the both of you, I have to work after all, and it’ll be perfect for me being able to spend time with my sister as well. Thank you again, both of you so much.”

Folding over the top of the stroller, Mommy turned and waved to the both of them, then took his wrist and waved the mitted thing to them as well before they started wheeling their way towards the door, speaking up maybe a bit too loudly for anyone to hear. “Come along, sweetheart...Mommy has a lot of ordering and redecorating to do.”