Tale #5: Poopy's Playtime

Tale #5: Poopy's Playtime (Content Tags: Slice-of-life, brothers, pantspooping accident, bedwetting, diapers, humiliation, low-key) "Oh, you all excited to play 'Poopy’s Playtime’ again? You think you're ready this time?" The older boy venomously mocked. Casper's eyes fell to the floor, his pale face growing pink at the intentional malapropism from his older brother. It was hardly the first time he'd heard that one specifically from the teenager. "Y-Yeah, I am..." The younger boy murmured meekly, holding a stuffed version of Huggy-Wuggy: a fuzzy, blue monster from the game. "Oh? Because you got Huggy? Or because mom put your ass back in Huggies? I guess we won't have to worry about the carpet at least, right?" Adrian was a jerk, but he wasn't necessarily wrong with what he was saying. For as much as Casper was infatuated by the game, or at least the idea of it, his delicate constitution had made playing it a difficult task. His brother wasn't making things up, the last time Casper had tried to play the game, it'd ended poorly for his underpants. It'd also ended poorly for his bedsheets for the next few weeks after. He had been tormented by nightmares of the game, of the many rows of teeth coming to chew him up. There was a certain irony to it, to wake up soggy from a Poppy-induced nightmare, with a toy from the game clutched between his arms. Adrian hadn't let him forget it, and while that had been humiliating, Casper couldn't exactly deny that his own tolerance for horror was lacking, even for his age group. He'd always been a bit of a scaredy cat, a crybaby, a shaking leaf, and it wasn't as though Poppy's Playtime had been the first thing to cause such a visceral reaction from him. But in the past, it had only ever gone as far as his bladder failing him; usually wet sheets, rarely wet pants, and occasionally just a small damp spot in his briefs. Pooping himself from fear? That hadn't happened since he was around five. Well, until recently, of course. What a miserable evening that had been! He'd finally convinced his parents to buy the game for him, and he'd bargained with Adrian to borrow his gaming headphones to play it with. He'd gotten himself some snacks, a soda, and he was comfortably in his pajamas already. There had been one rule, due to the rating of the game, and that was the condition that someone had to be there with him. His parents had gone out for a movie, leaving Adrian in charge, and so thst was who the task would fall to. The teenager would begrudgingly agree to be in the living room with the brat, but he'd planned to be doing his own thing. Everything appeared to have shaken into place, right? He had the game, he a chaperon, he was ready to join his peers at school in being brave! He never made it past the first chapter. As early as the beginning of the game, where only the environment was creepy, the boy was getting tense. His throat felt dry, his muscles felt stiff, and his heartbeat was pounding faster and faster. The grinding of his teeth, and the sweat on his brow, should have been clear indicators to his 'babysitter' that this would end very poorly, but Adrian was otherwise preoccupied with his phone. The tension would continue to rise, up until the point where the monstrous Huggy-Wuggy began to slowly plod after him in chase. Casper was almost frozen in fear from there grand size of the thing, but he managed to overcome the paralysis with what little courage he had. Into the duct-work he went! As fast as his character could trot, the echoing footsteps right in Casper's ear. He kept going and going, naively thinking that he was safe in the ducts; the creature was immense, and the path was so small, so surely it couldn't get to him in there? He paused for just a moment, stricken by indecision on which direction to go, now feeling lost in the maze-like ventilation shafts. That moment was all that Huggy-Wuggy needed to catch him, from seemingly out of nowhere too. It happened quickly: one moment he saw the creature rapidly crawling toward him, and the next, it was popping onto the screen with a gaping maw that was absolutely packed with razor-sharp teeth. Casper shrieked, his high-pitched wail easily mistaken for a little girl in peril, and the controller flung out of his hands. The white-haired boy was so very gripped by icy terror, that he was completely unaware of anything else that was happening in that moment. More precisely, he was unaware of the horrible potty accident that coincided with his banshee-like cry. The fear-center of his brain, or perhaps the 'fight-or-flight' reaction, had betrayed him like this before, in terms of allowing him the wherewithal to understand what was happening downstairs. Whenever the fear was at its most sudden, is when his bladder had cut loose without any sort of warning sign, meaning he wasn't aware of the piddling until after he had already calmed down. When it had come to fear with more build-up, he'd been able to feel it happening; the pressure would rise, and then it would release without much control, but he would be able to actually feel the warmth soaking the front of his pants and trailing down to puddle on the ground beneath him. Was that more dignified? Not really, but it at least meant the shame wouldn't come later as an unwelcome surprise. This time though, on this specific jump-scare, the unwelcome surprise had been more unwelcome and more of a surprise than usual. So, outside his knowledge, as the adrenaline response spiked to its highest, his body sent the evacuation order to a different place than usual. Being terrified only took a handful of seconds, but the brain worked so fast with its pulses, that it may as well been a war-room full of generals who had been plotting the course of how to suitably react. The moment that the screech started, the pantload was firing into the backside of his Minecraft-printed briefs; it was a real mortar shell of a turd, surging out seemingly firm, but blowing apart into a big sticky pile upon impact with the cotton of his underwear. He'd been sitting flat on his butt, with his knees pulled up to his chest, and the controller shakily in front of them, which had ensured that the spread of the salvo would be at its worst. It took less than five seconds altogether: for him to cry out in terror, fling the controller into the air, and involuntarily soil himself like an infant. Five seconds to ruin not only his undies, or his pajama pants, but his credibility as being anything approaching brave. Five seconds to inevitably get put back into diapers for his own good, thereby critically wounding his self-esteem worse than it had already been at that point in his young life. And after those five seconds? In the immediate aftermath? He was too shaken up to notice the poo in his pants yet, and he was too shocked to get up from the floor. Adrian on the other hand, had himself been caught off-guard by his brother's outburst, which could only be described as the sound of a chihuahua being mauled by a tiger, and his first reaction had been annoyance. Stomping over with a scowl, to rip the headphones off his baby brother's head, his ire quickly transformed into cruel amusement, whenever he saw how freaked out Casper looked. Casper didn't just look like he'd seen a ghost, he looked like he'd seen the ghosts of all the most gruesome serial killers throughout history. "Having fun with your game, Caspie?" He would taunt, his voice cooing and his question clearly as loaded as the boy's briefs. Of course the terror-stricken boy wouldn't respond, not at first, not with his throat choked by the aftershock of fear. His silence wouldn't stop Adrian from continuing though, the teenager's hands resting on his brother's shoulders. "Do we need to do a tinkle check, huh? Did little Caspie make a pee-pee?" Adrian smirked, obviously referring to Casper's sordid and soggy history of getting majorly spooked. "N-n-no..." He would quietly whimper in protest, just barely pulling himself together enough to deny it. "Uh-huh, well, it doesn't look like you made a puddle in your PJs--" Adrian's sentence grinded to a swift halt as his nose wrinkled up, the older boy catching a whiff of something ripe. "--Dude, did you crap your pants?" The question, for as much mirth was behind it, had an equal portion of skepticism, as if Adrian didn't believe such a thing could be true. Similarly, Casper didn't think it could be true either, but before doing any proper investigation, he squeaked out an indignant "No!" The adrenaline was wearing off though, and that meant Casper's body would no longer shield his waking mind from the bitter truth of what had transpired underneath him. First came the same sniff at a pungent stench that his brother had been slapped by, the fetid fumes freely flowing up from the non-protective underpants that he'd so shamefully befouled. Earthy, ripe, undeniably poopy. That wasn’t the malodorous mayhem of a mere fart, that could be no feat attributed to flatulence; it was too rich, too potent, and with longevity that could only be indicative of something material. A toot was ephemeral and dispersed into the wind in short order, but a turd was a constant source of miasma, its largess all too willing to produce plume after plume of toxicity into the air. And where there was smoke, there was fire. As soon as the scent had time to rest in Casper's nostrils, to be properly categorized for the biohazard it presented, the rest would fall into place. There was a burning pyre beneath his buttcheeks; a semi-solid cushion of something gritty and unfamiliar, that was pancaked under the chubby heft of his formerly clean bottom. The slightest squirm was a squishy confession to himself of what it was, or rather, of the only possible thing it could be. Unless his underpants had picked this specific moment to magically manifest a warmed mudpie into itself, then the icky, sticky sting of truth could be nothing else. It was poo. It was poo in his pants. His underpants, with their fun prints, had been reduced to little more functionality than a toddler's diaper, even more-so than usual. Casper obviously didn't want to believe that, nor did he want to admit it, but there existed no other believable explanation. Adrian wouldn't be buying any nonsense on the matter either. "Dude, you totally crapped your pants! Fudged 'em like a frickin' baby!" The teen sneered, keeping just barely enough of his composure to continue avoiding any real swears. "I did not! Shut up! G-go away!" Casper would stutter and whine, his cadence betraying his embarrassment immediately. It was a poor attempt at a lie, fitting for the immaturity of the act in question. "Then stand up and prove it, pipsqueak. Sure stinks like you dropped a big load in your jammies; I'm not surprised, since you screamed like a little baby." Casper wouldn't stand though, he couldn't, not whenever he knew his brother's acidic words to be true. It was hard enough to be the baby of the family without that distinction being outed as literal; it was bad enough that he already had a reputation for hosing his trousers, so he wasn't ready to add deuce-dropping to the official list too. "...N-no. Go away..." The white-haired boy was quieter now, his meek murmur all but confessing to the crime, which said nothing about the traitorous way his face was becoming beet-red. "Nah, I don't think so. I'm supposed to be babysitting you, remember? That means checking the baby if he has stinkypants." Adrian mocked. The teen no longer bothered giving his brother a choice, and because of their huge size disparity, he didn't have to! Without further warning, he slipped his hands underneath Casper's armpits and lifted the younger boy up from floor, even as the whiny boy's legs kicked like a rabbit and his feet dangled above the ground like he was caught in a trap. "Stop! Put me down! I'll tell mom and dad on you!" He whimpered, such hollow threats the death-throes of a brat who knew the jig was up, but who couldn't face the facts. "Oh, really? I think I'll have something better that they'll want to hear. Now stay still, pipsqueak; let's take a look at those dumb little undies of yours." Adrian smirked, slipping an arm across the younger boy's midsection instead, like the bar of a rollercoaster, to free up the other for a more important task. With Casper bent forward over Adrian's forearm, as if he was stuck halfway over the high-beam of a gymnast, his brother took the opportunity to hook a finger into his waistband. One little tug, and the secret would no longer be buried; as the pajama pants stretched out, the stench grew, and Adrian could perfectly spy the source of the offending odor. The fun Minecraft prints had seen better days; they were no stranger to the brown stains of inconsiderate skidmarks, but they had never had to know the horrors of full-on fecal warfare. The blocks that were supposed to be completed consistent in their scale, were warped into uneven shapes from the bulging of the cotton; there was no need to pull back the next waistband, not whenever all the evidence was so thoroughly depicted on this tapestry of shame. "Oh, gross! You PACKED these things, bro! What, was pissing yourself getting old?" There was no real response, because there was no real discussion to be had. The closest thing to a rebuttal was the sniffling sobs of a boy whose pride had been critically wounded by his own blade. No defense, just tears and snot. To Adrian's credit, the little he deserved, he didn't push all that much further. There was no fun in mocking someone who was already at their lowest, not when it was something to be saved for later. Instead, the teenager put his brother back down onto the ground and shook his head, telling him to go get himself cleaned up in the bathroom. Later that evening, the tale would he recounted to their parents, with Adrian of course leaving out the parts that made him look unsympathetic to Casper's plight. The poopy undies were prime evidence, a stern discussion was held, and the game was temporarily taken away. That night, and many more after, he would wet the bed in his sleep. The nocturnal incidents would go on longer than usual, and once his mother grew tired of washing sheets, the diapers would finally make their appearance. Which led everything to this point. He'd been padded overnight for a week or so now, much to his embarrassment, and the nightmares may have slowed down, but they hadn't subsided completely. His friends at school had been excitedly discussing the new chapter of Poppy to release, and Casper had felt completely left out of the loop. It was for that reason that he had begged to be allowed to play again, with promises that he would now be able to handle it. His parents had hardly been convinced of his arguments, but they also became worn down by his incessant whining to the contrary. So finally, once he had broken them down enough, they would finally agree to let him play again, but there would be stipulations in place: The first was that Adrian would not only be present, but he would be at the helm of the controller. In that way, Casper wasn't technically going to play it himself, but would instead be watching. Casper begrudgingly deemed this acceptable, since it would still allow him to participate in discussions with his classmates about it, and secretly he was glad that he wouldn't have to be in control himself. The second stipulation was a harder sell, but it was firmly nonnegotiable: Casper would wear one of his diapers while watching the game being played. That way, no potential accident would cause another icky mess in his clothes or on the floor. It took Casper some time to be comfortable with the idea, but he managed to convince himself that it would just be like getting dressed for bed early. With these two conditions met, there was also a warning put in place, which existed as a means to dissuade Casper from wanting to play in the first place: another potty accident would mean that his underwear would be going away entirely for a little while, until he could be fully trusted not to have any issues. With all this in place, it was finally time for Casper to return to the terrifying world he'd had to leave. The only question that remained was: would he be able to handle it this time? Or was he about to be a diaper-baby around the clock?