What is a Tatzlpony?

by Skylight77


Chapter 43: Scream!

Rainbow Dash focused her ears and senses on what was going on right now. She was still gritting her teeth and panting from the heat that this area was expelling. Outside, it felt calm. But inside, she could hear and feel Fluttershy quite clearly.

Fluttershy was crying in a painful sounding way. She must’ve been terrified, and  really wanted to be let out now, while unable to say so herself. Rainbow couldn’t let her out. Not yet. They still needed to get out of here.

“Even if I’m scared… even if I resist… e-even if I… s-scream… don’t worry about me. Just… do what you gotta do…”

The words that Fluttershy said repeated in Rainbow’s mind. Ignore what Fluttershy wanted. Think about what she needed. That was what Fluttershy was telling her.

Rainbow backed herself against the wall, grunting from the pain on her body. She extended her wings and lifted them out of the pool. Bracing herself, she flapped them. Each flap was rather painful on her body. But she pressed on. Harder, and harder. There needed to be enough wind created to cause an upset stomach like this. But nothing was coming up. Nothing.

Rainbow Dash stopped her flaps for the moment with a painful groan. It was no use. She could tell what the problem was just by how her wings felt. Too many of her feathers had fallen off, dissolved by the stomach acid. They couldn’t create wind without those feathers, or even allow her to fly.

“Come ooon…” Rainbow instinctively said. They couldn’t be out of time. Not yet… not while they were so close. She turned around, feeling just how soft her hooves had gotten.

“Stay… awake…” she said, both to herself, and Fluttershy. Just a few more minutes. That’s all she needed. Lifting her hoof out of the pool, she groaned and struck at the walls. Her tail buried herself down in the pool again, piercing at the ground level. As much as she didn’t want to, she needed more energy.

Rainbow struck with her hoof again, aiming at both the wall and the pool at the same time. Her other hoof joined in, striking in the same way. She flapped her wings again, this time using them to splash against the pool.

Finally a response. The bubbles started forming in the pool again. Rainbow continued. For good measure, she even started thrusting her body at the wall, grunting every time she did. It was at this time that the tatzlwurm would start roaring again, negating all of her hard work.

This time, it didn’t. Rainbow kept going. More bubbles formed. Inside, Fluttershy was crying and wailing. Every time Rainbow thrusted herself at the walls, Fluttershy would whine. The bubbles were getting bigger though. She couldn’t stop now. If she stopped, both of them would be doomed. None of their cries of pain was gonna stop her. As cruel as that may have sounded, it would be more cruel to let them down.

With one final thrust, Rainbow screamed in agony as she made impact. That was enough. The bubbles were getting really big now. Panting with grinding teeth, Rainbow looked up towards the esophagus. Some of the bubbles were reaching up to it. Most of them were popping before they got through. But with this many bubbles continuing to pop and release more air, one of them was bound to go through.

With a groan, Rainbow made her way towards the center of the stomach, directly underneath the esophagus. As the bubbles popped, more bubbles formed. And now, the stomach started gurgling. One of the bubbles formed around Rainbow. These ones were much more durable. She could hear the tatzlwurm making a few gagging noises. It was going to release a burp it couldn’t hold back.

This was it. As Rainbow reached the esophagus, she closed her eyes, but kept focused enough to stay awake. Fluttershy’s squirming helped in that regard.

Outside, the tatzlwurm was squirming about underground. Its stomach was proving to be upsetting enough that it couldn’t sleep like this. Due to the lump it could feel in its throat, it felt like it was about to vomit. But due to how upset its stomach felt, it didn’t try holding it back.

After holding its breath, it closed its mouth and let out its small belch. Something came out of that belch. But it was too tired to swallow it back down. Since its stomach started feeling better after that belch, it calmed down and let itself fall back to its slumber, ignoring whatever was in its mouth now.

It was after that bubble popped that Rainbow could feel her surroundings again. Thankfully, that intense heat was no longer present. But when she opened her eyes, she could see that she was still inside the tatzlwurm. The sight made her almost panic, until she noticed the black lines on three different corners of her surroundings. They looked like the tatzlwurm’s tongues.

So… they were still in its mouth. Not ideal, but enough to finish the job. They couldn’t stay here. Even if it was sleeping, if it ever swallowed in its sleep, they would be swallowed all over again. Grunting, Rainbow crawled her way to the entrance of its mouth. Her body was getting covered in saliva, washing away the stomach acid covering her body. At the very least, her body was no longer being dissolved anymore. But it left her wings with so little feathers left that she couldn’t fly right now.

Rainbow reached the maw of this tatzlwurm and began to gently slip her hooves through its mouth. Her hooves were so soft that it ended up being easier than she was expecting. Though her grip on its body wasn’t quite so easy. She had to use her tail for extra balance. But poking her tail against its scales was risky, for if she was too harsh, it would wake up.

Rainbow climbed the outside of its mouth, grunting with every step. Her eyes could barely stay open enough to focus on what she was grabbing on. Thankfully the scales on this worm’s dark blue body made it easy enough to do without her slipping off.

Rainbow managed to reach the flat surface of its body. With her eyes squeezed, she released an extended pant. Taking a deep breath, she released another one. One more time, she inhaled and exhaled harshly. Her body was absolutely ringing out for comfort. She might’ve overdid it a little, but hopefully it was worth it. She opened her eyes.

The outside world was nothing but dirt. How far were they underground? It didn’t matter right now. Her body was in no condition to start digging. In fact, with how soft her hooves felt, that might’ve been impossible right now. She would have to wait for them to dry up before she could.

Rainbow had to brace her head with a grunt for a moment. The pain on her forehead was still quite unbearable. There were still more pressing matters though. What about Fluttershy? How was she doing? Letting herself focus on the movements in her stomach, it felt like Fluttershy managed to stay awake in that whole process. She was subtly shivering, and it sounded like she was trying to keep her moans of fear inside. But it also sounded like there was a lot of pressure from holding back those moans. Any moment it felt like she would burst if she stayed inside Rainbow any longer.

Rainbow took a deep breath, then she started gagging out a few times. After her last breath, she reached down her throat with her tongues. It wasn't quite as difficult to do this time, but when they managed to reach her stomach, Fluttershy muffled a scream and squirmed violently. She was absolutely terrified when those tongues started coiling around her without warning.

Rainbow had to forcefully restrain Fluttershy's limbs from flailing with her tongues. Fluttershy continued to resist, but if she was gonna get out of Rainbow, she had to be restrained. After locking up Fluttershy's limbs together and covering her mouth to halt her screaming, Rainbow started pulling her out. The lump from the outside of Rainbow's belly began shrinking fast. Another lump formed in her throat, a large one. When it reached her head, Rainbow opened her mouth wide and dragged Fluttershy out of it.

Wrapped around coils and saliva, Fluttershy was forced out of Rainbow's mouth with a harsh yelp. Fluttershy was gasping her breath, while at the same time, shivering and whimpering. Rainbow was just bracing her stomach while also taking a few gasps of breath. Her stomach wasn't in pain, but even after releasing Fluttershy, it still felt like somepony was beating the insides of her stomach. It was a good thing her stomach could somehow handle all that abuse.

After being able to settle herself from all that struggling, Rainbow took a look at Fluttershy and examined her condition. It looked like being concealed in Rainbow's stomach protected Fluttershy from further damage from the stomach acid. She lost a few feathers, but not nearly as much as Rainbow did. Her hooves didn't look quite as soggy either. The only real worrying damage was the scrapes on her coat which she probably got from the battle with this tatzlwurm.

All in all, Fluttershy looked okay. Maybe she'd be a little sore, but okay nonetheless. But when Rainbow moved closer to Fluttershy, Fluttershy's eyes snapped open and her head snapped towards Rainbow in horror.

"NOOO!!!" The outburst startled Rainbow. "L-Leave me alone!" She hastily crawled backwards on her back, shivering very harshily in fear. Rainbow was looking towards her with teeth gritting in concern. Fluttershy's mouth was held open, excelling loud whimpers expressed as if she was staring at a horrifying monster. But her eyes weren't focused on the tatzlwurm. They were focused on Rainbow Dash.

Rainbow's heart practically stopped. She couldn't believe it. Fluttershy was absolutely terrified of her. When she tried to reach out for her, Fluttershy's only response was, "Ah-h-h!" while covering her face with a hoof and backing away some more.

And then, things only got worse from there. Rainbow looked behind her. The tatzlwurm started emitting a silent and low growl. Its body started moving a little.

"Go away-y! Ah-h-h!" Fluttershy yelled again. Rainbow looked back to Fluttershy in fear. That yell caused the tatzlwurm's growl to grow a little louder. This was really bad. If Fluttershy kept panicking like this, she was gonna wake the tatzlwurm up and get them both eaten all over again. She had to get Fluttershy to stop. But how?

“Even if I’m scared… even if I resist… e-even if I… s-scream… don’t worry about me. Just… do what you gotta do…”

Rainbow's breath got heavy as those words repeated in her mind once again. Fluttershy knew she would be scared. And now, she was beyond scared, practically blinded by her fear. But if Rainbow didn't do something, then all that was for nothing. She had to do something.

She had to silence Fluttershy, even if it would terrify her more than it already has.

Without warning, Rainbow lunged herself towards Fluttershy. It caused Fluttershy to scream and then yelp when Rainbow landed on top of her, preventing her from being able to move away any further. Fluttershy turned her head away and covered her face in her hooves. Rainbow first tried to calm her whimpering in a gentle approach. Despite Fluttershy covering her face, Rainbow tried licking across her face with her knotted tongue. Of course, she only succeeded in licking Fluttershy’s hooves, but maybe it would be a start.

It wasn’t. Despite the licks, Fluttershy was only getting more scared. Rainbow had to deepen her approach. With her other two tongues, she forcefully removed Fluttershy’s hooves from covering her face. There was strong resistance, but Fluttershy could not prevent her hooves from being restrained and forced flat on the surface she was laying on. She squeezed her eyes shut and screamed as her face started getting licked by a long black tongue. Tears were being dripped from her eyes in response. Not even the movement from the surface she was laying on, nor the low growl was snapping her out of this uncontrollable fear.

Rainbow was at her limit with options. That tatzlwurm would wake up at any second if Fluttershy wasn’t silenced right now. Without thinking, she did the only option she had left. Using her hooves to restrain Fluttershy instead, she moved her two tongues to twist Fluttershy’s face towards her.

Then, while Fluttershy was still screaming, Rainbow sent her knotted tongue inside Fluttershy’s mouth. Fluttershy’s eyes went wide open in response, and her screaming became muffled. The tongue went straight down her throat, going as far down towards her stomach area so that the knotted portion of the tongue could be positioned within the throat walls.

Despite the clogged position, Fluttershy’s screams were still coming out, but more silent now. Her eyes were shrunk to pea-size, finding it difficult to breathe. Stronger resistances were coming from Fluttershy. Rainbow was using her front hooves to restrain Fluttershy’s forehooves and her back legs to restrain Fluttershy’s hind legs. If she had to, she would’ve even had her wings join in, but Fluttershy’s were locked up to her sides due to the fear alone.

Rainbow could see the fear in Fluttershy’s eyes. As difficult as it was to bear seeing that fear, she had to silence Fluttershy just a little more. It was for the safety of both of them. The words Fluttershy said continued to repeat in Rainbow’s mind, and that’s what kept her going. Through those eyes, she could see a Fluttershy who was constantly afraid of being out of her element. But after being successful, Fluttershy’s fear would be replaced with a boundless amount of happiness. Right now, all there was was fear and resistance, but the memories kept flooding her mind.

With one more tongue, Rainbow reached it inside Fluttershy’s mouth and grabbed Fluttershy’s tongue. She pulled it out further, making Fluttershy’s eyes somehow shrink further and allowing her knotted tongue with more room to work. By scrunching her knotted tongue, she expanded the knot on it to clog up just a little more space within Fluttershy’s windpipe, without preventing all of Fluttershy’s ability to breathe.

Fluttershy’s whimpers were now reduced to just mere whispers. All she could do now was breathe silently and carefully. She no longer found the strength to resist anymore. And now, her eyes were starting to droop.

It was a similar case for Rainbow Dash. She was losing the strength to restrain Fluttershy and her ability to stay awake. The after effects of her power were starting to take its toll. Thankfully, it seemed that the tatzlwurm had also calmed down from all the noise and was now sleeping peacefully. They would soon enter that stage as well.

Fluttershy was the first one. Soon after, Rainbow’s body fell on top of Fluttershy’s as she too entered her slumber. Her lips fell wrapped in Fluttershy’s while her knotted tongue slid further down Fluttershy’s throat, removing her knot’s clog from Fluttershy’s windpipe. The other two tongues had retracted back to her mouth. She didn’t have time to think about what would happen once they wake up. What would happen if the tatzlwurm was the first to wake up? Would all their efforts be for nothing?

Only time would tell now.