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Twilight Sparkle has found a spellbook dedicated for transformation spells and is experimenting with some of them in her basement. Everything goes swimmingly until she is surprised by a sudden crash from the library above, causing her to accidentally hit herself with a beam of magic...
...which mercilessly shrinks her down until she is just about two or three inches long.
Now she just has to find a way to return herself back into her original size.
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Looks fun--can't wait to read.
1136072 I hope you like it
1136097 No need to wait, just read!
omg yes
LOVED IT! Good work.
Hey how's this for an alternative name for the chapter "The Incredible Shrinking Twilight"
This is a nice story. However, I'm quite sure it is labeled with the wrong tag. This seems more like a "Slice of Life" story. "Adventure" means she's going to many different places. Here, she basically just sits around and waits in her library. That's Slice of Life. Last time I checked, "sitting around" is the exact opposite of "adventure".
I like how you sent her through Spike's breath. I've only seen that happen in one other story.
Due to my past experiences with these kinds of stories, I partly expected something to happen that would cause Celestia to shrink as well, as sort of a "here we go again" ending.
Thanks to all who liked this story!
1136664 I like it, though that would be a tad inaccurate title as Twilight shrinks all the way in a moment, not gradually over longer time like that title would imply (or at least I would interpret it like that, and that's also what they did in the film that title is reference to).
1136665 I remember seeing some even less adventureish stories with adventure tag, so I decided to add it. I did put also slice-of-life tag, but afaik it got removed in approval for some reason (?), I may just add it back though as I also think this is quite slice-of-life style also. ((Edit: And now, two weeks later after reading some comments around fimfiction and re-checking Adventure definition used here from FAQ, I decided to remove Adventure tag altogether like you suggested. And also Adventure + Slice-of-Life combination is apparently seen as conflicting in any case...))
Could have had an ending like you said, but I wanted to add an ending that wraps the story nicely and doesn't leave open end... Not that that would have been bad either.
I know asking this makes me look like a three year old colt but if she was so small getting most anywhere was difficult...
Where did she go to the bathroom?
1137392 That's a good question actually... didn't think about that.
Let's just say she used some secluded nook in some backroom as her substitute bathroom and cleaned afterwards or something... It's up to you, I don't really know.
1137439 I wanted to ask the same question but I guess it never crossed my mind.
Now write a follow-up where the opposite thing happens. Probably not to Twilight, though. I think Fluttershy would be the best choice.
This reminds me of...
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1137924 Fluttershy grows into enormous proportions (for some unexplained reason), getting stuck in her cottage. Twilight comes to visit her, sees her problem and casts a spell to shrink her back again. The end.
A little more seriously though, I'm not planning on writing any follow-up for this, but I'm not totally against the idea either... just don't expect to see anything on the subject anytime soon. Maybe never. I don't know. I write just for fun, whenever and about whatever subject I feel like writing.
1139056 And now the daily dose of d'aww is received... thank you!
Nice little WAFF adventure, thanks for sharing!
Jolly good story chap! ( im american)
Amusing little story, and the bit about the spiders especially entertained me, for some reason.
You know, the idea of magical potency being directly related to physical size could really be abused when combined with such transformation spells. Seems like, if she wanted to, Twilight could turn herself into a giant, and then be capable of even stronger magic. Then she could do it again and again to keep getting bigger and stronger until she could beat up an Ursa Major with her bare hooves.
1161653 I also though about that issue when I was writing that part about body size affecting magical prowess, but couldn't really come up with better explanation for why she would not be able to just return herself to her original size on spot. So I just shrugged it off and let it be like it is.
Maybe the effect would be logarithmic or such, so the bigger you get, the smaller effect further grow would have. Or maybe there could be some hard limit about how much body size affects magic absorbing.
Or, you know, one could just shrug it off for being a fictional story about fictional magical ponies.
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Or due to being shrunk by a spell she cast made the reduction in power far greater than it would have been (or magical shrinkage in general worsens it).
And similarly magical growth would result in less increase in power than simply being larger naturally.
Just dropping a comment here about changing tags of this story. This had both 'Adventure' and 'Slice of Life' before, but after re-checking Adventure definition used in FAQ and reading some comments around FimFiction, I decided to drop Adventure leaving only Slice of Life. Also, having both of those is apparently conflicting in any case.
Why I did add Adventure tag in the first place then? I used a definition found here, "An unusual or exciting experience". I would say that was quite unusual and exciting experience for Twilight, but since fimfiction uses another definition ("Any story wherein the characters go on a grand journey or an "Adventure," if you will."), I removed the tag.
Sorry for any misunderstandings or inconvenience I have possibly caused.
The are only 2 things cuter than tiny ponies going on an adventure in there own home
1. Cutie Mark Crusaders being... well... Cuties
2. Cutie Mark Crusaders shrinking and going on an adventure
1263908 I'm glad you liked it, also thanks for a fav!
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Finally had time to read this, good story, not as adventurous as the norm in the genera, but quite in line with show standards, that is always a plus.
in dragonshy, a bit in green isn't your color, a Canterlot wedding) specially 
with her stuborness and previous experience.
One thing that could be improved is the reactions of the other mane 6, they tend to take a bit of time to accept Twilight's approach on this type of things (best night ever intro, lesson zero,
Again good fic.
1349233 Thanks for the feedback, glad you liked the story.
I tried to keep the other mane 6 in character, but I'm sure there is still much to improve (me being just a novice author after all). Anyway, I'd think they would be somewhat more accepting to Twilight's ideas after they nearly ruined the Canterlot Wedding by not listening to her... Besides, what else could they have done in this situation? They couldn't just change Twilight back themselves, she was not in any kind of danger, and they knew she would be okay in a day or two anyway. So I thought it would be logical for them to just accept it and move on with their own businesses.
Thanks for pointing that out though, every bit of advice helps.
1349425 You're welcome.
I should have included in my reply that what I though about was that at least one of the ponies could have an urgency to take TS to Canterlot/Inform the Princess.
Very amazing story
I liked it
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The world will never know.
Really ice story, poor Twilight had her little adventure, and being hit by giant door while size of a mouse ( or even smaller ) sure must hurt, not to mention being crushed by PikiePie hug, but I am sure this experience as well as climbing up on giant stairs lifting many giant books will make Twilight tougher, it actually even sounds like a good exercise, if not for the fact that Twilight can not change herself back to normal without help, she could practice climbing up on her stairs everyday to stay in good shape.
Still your theory about her power limited was weird, I mean, in her normal size Twilight lift Ursa Minor, should not her magical powers by limited to the same level what her size, so even as tiny Unicorn she should still lift thinks bigger then her as in her normal size, and considering that her powers were so limited, lifting giant books had to be a real challenge for Twilight.
2290362 Maybe with some research Twilight would be able to make that transformation spell temporary, so she would transform back after an hour or so. Combined with the stair climbing, that would indeed be quite an efficient exercise.
About the body size affecting magical power and her having slight problems even with simple levitation... Well, I just came up with that as an explanation to why she wouldn't just be able to transform back on the spot. There was a short dicussion about the subject above already, and I think best explanation is that the power reduction was not linearly dependent on the body size (causing her to have less power proportionally to her body size when smaller), or that the magic in the initial shrinking spell reduced her powers more than being smaller naturally would have. In the story I purposefully just skipped any further explanation with a hand wave, just because I didn't think it was really important considering the story itself—important was the fact that she wasn't able to transform herself back.
I'm glad you liked the story anyway!
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Well, you could just go easy way and say that because Twilight size is reduced she is unable to gather enough power to reverse the spell and that there was warning that this spell should be used only in accompany of another Unicorn with enough knowledge and power to cast counter spell.
After all Rarity even with limited knowledge and magic power could not cash it, if in this story Rarity or other Unicorn's in Ponyvile could not cast counter spell while being in normal size, how could Twilight be able to gather enough power while being so tiny, there was no need to make her magically weaker, after all Twilight already was tiny, so her magic was the only thing strong enough to handle her current situation ( when you are smaller then mouse, power to lift thinks 20 times bigger is the only think what can help you survive ), there was no need to weaken her even more.
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Also you can make a sequel with Twilight upgrading shrinking spell so it would work for limited time so she and her friends would use it for exercise.
Or you can make sequel that princess Celestia invite Twilight to canterlot for a test, and this test will be about Celestia using shrinking spell on Twilight and then making Twilight to pass some trials while having size disadvantage ( magic, strength, endurance, lifting Celestia giant hoof with magic, dodge and teleport to not get stomped and squished, you name it ).
2293634 I guess you have a point here. Though I thought that if I hadn't weakened her, she could have still easily teleported herself up the stairs, taking that part away from the story—teleporting smaller objects, like herself at the moment, shouldn't have been too energy consuming had she been proportionally as powerful as when full-sized. But anyway, it is as it is, and I'm going to leave it that way; this is over half a year old story after all, and thus there isn't much point in making major edits into it.
2293674 I don't think that first idea would make an interesting story per se without something else added (okay, I know it is possible to write an interesting story about almost whatever subject with enough creativity...). That second idea sounds quite interesting, but I doubt I'll write any sequel for this story—not anytime soon at least.
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Yea, I also like the second idea better.
Anyway if you decide to write sequel, I hope it will be Celestia shrinking Twilight and then setting some trials for her to pass, I do not know do you would like the idea, but here are trial ideas what Celestia could set up for mini Twilight:
1) Twilight would need to lift Celestia golden horseshoe on her back while lifting Celestia hoof with her telekinesis as strength and magic strength trial.
2) Twilight would need to evade and teleport while Celestia will try to stomp on her ( joke: Luna walk to Celestia while she try to stomp on something, Luna ask what Celestia is doing, Celestia say that she train Twilight, Luna ask where is Twilight, and Celestia say, :" under your hoof " ).
3) Twilight will need to lift shield with her telekinesis to defend again Celestia or Luna attack with mace ( off-course from Twilight perspective it will be lifting giant and super heavy shield to protect herself from being squashed by giant mace, a very extreme weapon training ),
4) Twilight will need to set up a barrier around herself, while Celestia and Luna will play volleyball with Twilight as ball ( joke: after Twilight gets tired, her shield break and Celestia hit her with her hoof sending her into wall, Celestia lose volleyball match again Luna with score 3 to 4 ).
5) Twilight trying to find way out of labyrinth with some small traps for small Unicorn, off-course Celestia will look at it from above to ensure that challenge will not be to big for small her student.
I know that I go a bit hard on Twilight with those ideas, but lets be honest, Celestia used Crystal Empire, Cadance, Shining Armor and Crystal Ponies to serve as test for Twilight, I am sure squashing Twilight miniature form or giving small mare big challenge would be a nice change since it will not require gambling with safely of entire Kingdom.
And also watching how her tiny student struggle to pass her big test or not get squashed by her hoof may be experience Celestia may be interested in after she saw mini Twilight in friendship letter.
sigh very boring fic :/ .....
...Yes it is, Rainbow. That's how she got her cutie mark in the first place!