On the outside, Spike watched with his claws in his mouth on the screen, as a blip flashed on the diagram of Cadance’s digestive system, right at the bottom of her stomach.
"Okay you two, hang on!" The Doctor said as he maneuvered the pod to ram through the sphincter separating the stomach and duodenum.
Night Fury held on tightly to Twilight, then looked upward. “Wait, I have to go through one of tho-” he asked as the sphincter enveloped the two of them, leaving them momentarily stopped, then pulled through with a popping noise. “Ugh…this is the worst time to have cat hearing…”
“Now you can complain…” Twilight remarked.
“And I must say…it’s awful…hmm…woah, Twilight, do you see this? This place is huge." Fury said, looking around Cadance's stomach. The large area was filled with acid and bubbles, the pink walls moving slowly as the muscles contracted and expanded. There was then a loud gurgle that caught them off guard.
"And it’s pretty loud in here too…Bagley, the suits are gonna hold up for a while, right?" Fury asked with a whine.
B: Analyzing sensor data… no. The acid is at worst-case predictions. You have about 1.5 to 2 minutes until your bio-suits are compromised, then up to 20 seconds where you will probably be able to survive if you escape. Make haste. Beginning 2 minute doom countdown timer.
"Oh come on!" Fury complained.
"Not now, Fury, we need to get this done quick! Now would be a good time to show off that little trick you were talking about!" Twilight said as she began stirring the acid with the tip of her horn.
Fury nodded and pushed a bit away from her, keeping only one paw gripping her suit, finally ending their minutes-long embrace. He then began to change shape, the suit stretching around him as he became longer, while his legs shrunk inwards. His muzzle changed to a longer shape, teeth protruding from his mouth.
Twilight looked on in horror. “An eel? Yikes!”
“Glad I’m not in there…” said Spike.
“Focus on the mission, you’ve got a minute and some change until we’ll need an emergency teleport!” shouted The Doctor.
Night Fury got to work quickly in his eel form, swimming out away from Twilight and gathering up clusters of bubbles. The magical energy slowly started to crackle as it all coalesced around her stirring, becoming ever more unstable.
B: One minute remaining…
"C'mon, Twilight we've gotta pick up the slack!"
“I’m doing my best…the acid’s starting to eat away at my horn!” Twilight replied.
They kept working with the acid, the magical energy beginning to sink in and swirl.
B: Forty seconds…
"C'mon acid, do something!" Twilight urged, her horn starting to burn.
"This isn't working fast enough, we need to speed this up!" Fury said, gathering more bubbles
"But we're going as fast as we can! What else could we do!?"
“Wait, what about…a base? Couldn’t it make all the acid bubble even harder?” Asked Spike.
B: Thirty seconds. A base could work, and neutralizing the acid would buy you time.
"Yeah, it could, but what bases do we have?" Twilight asked.
“...I never thought to bring any!” The Doctor replied.
"Now what you have, but what we have!" Said Spike. “I can grab some antacids!” He quickly began running out into the hallway.
“Well hurry!” Twilight shouted as she kept stirring, noticing her suit fraying.
Spike continued to run into the halls and near a cabinet. He looked around while no one was looking and took some antacids before running back.
B: Twenty seconds. Princesses, I recommend preparing to emergency teleport despite the risk of severely complicating the unshrinking process…
"Just give us a little time, we can do this! We just have to wait for…" Twilight started as her helmet’s seal started to fail.
"I'm here!" Spike called out as he tossed a few pills to Cadance, who opened her mouth to catch them.
"By the gods, you're a fast kid! Cadance, you know what to do!” Fury remarked.
Cadance eagerly swallowed the antacid pills. "They’re down the hatch…hope it’s in time!"
"We've got incoming!” Fury called out, his tail beginning to expose itself as the pills landed.
B: Ten seconds until risk of death…analyzing reaction results…seven seconds…reaction much lower than expected, estimate ten seconds bought.
"One of the tables is stuck above the acid! I need to get it!" Fury said, swimming over to it and striking at it with his tail.
"No, it's too risky!" The Doctor screamed, clutching at the controls of the pod and pushing the throttle. “If you can’t get it now, just let yourself get pulled out while I make a break for that shore so you can at least be teleported out!”
"I know, and I'm stupid enough to take that risk!" Fury yelled, making one final effort to push the pill in.
Meanwhile, Twilight screamed in agony, no longer stirring as her suit came apart.
B: BEGIN EMERGENCY TELEPORT. SENSORS DETECT TWILIGHT IN SEVERE DISTRESS, LOSING FUR AND CONTROL OF HERSELF, INCLUDING BODILY FUNCTIONS.
“TWILY!” Shining shouted while Spike hyperventilated.
"Rrrrragh!" The pill landed in the acid and sunk in. "Hold your fire!" Fury yelled as he watched the bubbles change into a massive fizz, and heard Twilight’s screaming stop.
"Did it work?" The Doctor asked.
A rumbling immediately started as the magic violently sloshed the acid, and expanded Cadance’s stomach rapidly.
"Woah… I think we're about to find out! Doc, ready the pod! I'll grab Twilight!" Fury shouted as he got her and grabbed onto the edge of the pod.
Twilight groaned as she hung on as well, keeping her mouth and eyes shut. A smart move since, even if most of the acid was gone, she was now completely suitless.
“Beginning final unshrinking, just hang on to the back of the pod and protect as much of her as you can!” The Doctor replied as a massive blast pushed everything upward towards Cadance’s throat.
The three of them were propelled upwards through her throat and into her mouth, her teeth, gums, and a blinding light coming into view as the slowly enlarged.
"Out we come!" Fury said.
Cadance winced hard as she felt her bloated belly, leaned forward, and opened her mouth, a massive “BRRRRRUP” expelling the Pod and Night Fury, along with an utter torrent of air and bubbles, while her backside unleashed a short “PRRRRT''. As she kept burping, the force slowed a ton, and Twilight slid mostly out at the end, just dangling by her rear. The bed-turned-cheese’s pillow, which had been right under her tail, then suddenly burst into flames.
“Well…I guess the intestinal disturbance from earlier wanted to burn the cheese for us…” Shining remarked as he doused the fire with a spell. “Twilight, are you okay?”
“Yeah, alicorn, remember…” Twilight said as she tried to pull her rear out of Cadance’s mouth to no avail. "But what about Night Fury? He was in the acid just like me, and swimming through it a lot more!"
Everyone in the room looked to the now unconscious eel who lied burned and battered. His form slowly returning turned back to his feline shape, his paws and smaller muzzle returning.
The Doctor quickly exited the pod and checked on his comrade. “He’s been through worse…but I’ll need to take him to another room for a proper examination and healing. Can you all take things with Cadance… and Twilight, since they seem to be stuck together, from here?”
B: I doubt that'll be necessary, Doctor. According to my sensors, he has only some minor burns from the acid and the bruises coming from the rough landing.
Princess Celestia stepped up and began casting a healing spell on Night Fury. “This should deal with the burns."
B: As to him being unconscious, is there a way to wake him up? Maybe a certain smell or a light sensation that can instantly get a reaction from him?
Cadance tried to say something, but was muffled, only succeeding in making Twilight make very odd faces and noises, then give her a stern look backward.
Twilight then tried again to get out, not being gentle at all, and managed to pull herself all the way out from Cadance with a popping sound, revealing her tail to be entirely missing except the dock, as she flopped forward. “Guess your body just had to digest some part of me to make up for the white blood cell’s failure, huh?”
"Heh, sorry…as I was saying…for Night Fury, I think I have an idea…" Cadance said with a cheeky smile. She walked up to the unconscious feline and plucked a feather from her wing.
"This oughta wake him up." She said, taking his suit off and placing the feather on his belly. "This is payback for my funny bone." She began running the feather’s edges up and down along his belly.
He started to jerk a bit, before suddenly giggling, then sitting up and opening his eyes, making the feather tickle his nose as Cadance was slow to withdraw it. He took a moment, sniffing, then sneezing. "Achoo! Uh…did we get out in one piece?"
Cadance smirked back. “Mostly. Twilight shed a few pounds, and not just because my stomach scared the crap out of her!” she said, chuckling, and pointing to a worried-looking Twilight, who was looking back at her own rear, with a wiggling naked tail dock.
“Hey!” Twilight angrily replied as Fury chuckled.
“Sorry, couldn’t resist, and after all that, I kinda need someone to laugh at to feel less embarrassed myself with what happened today. Oh, and I guess your tail counts as dinner!” Cadance said with another playful giggle, making Twilight groan.
"Well it is pretty funny!" Fury said as he chuckled some more.
“Well then, my work here is done…” The Doctor said as he reshrunk the pod with a remote and began putting it away for storage.
"But why were you tickling me though?" Fury asked.
“Well you tickled me from the inside, and I just didn’t have the time to take a ride on a shrinking submersible to return all of the favor.” Cadance replied with a cheeky grin. "Oh and by the way, I'm still not done."
She then decided to continue her assault with both of her wings placed on Fury's underside.
“Ah! Stop it! Hey!” he said, giggling. “I came here for a…a serious medical task, not playtime!”
“Well I don’t think we’re needed here anymore…and we should probably leave before the hospital staff realize we’re why the whole place smells like lavender.” Luna said, turning to Celestia, who nodded, and they teleported away in unison.
“Heh, get him Cadance!“ Shining said as he joined in the fun, even lightly touching Night Fury’s chest with a hoof, making him giggle more.
Twilight gave Shining a quizzical look.
“What? He kinda… went places in my wife that normally only I should. I’ve gotta support a little revenge on him…husbandly duty.”
B: Cadance’s engagement in tickling Night Fury will help her recovery process by alleviating stress. Please continue to encourage this behavior.
“Well I think I want to get home early and just forget this whole escapade…” said Spike as he hopped up on Twilight’s rump. “Um, maybe if I was a little faster…you’d have your tail…”
Twilight sighed and nuzzled him. “You did fine, Spike…but try to cover it up a little with your own until we’re back home.”
"Can you two stop? I'm losing it here!" Night Fury begged. "My stomach is gonna be swirling too if this keeps up!" He giggled.
“Well then…I can leave Bagley here, but I’ve got to go to a very important meeting!” The Doctor said. “And…he’s most ticklish between the thighs and his crotch.”
B: Affirmative.
“Why did you tell the-em!” cried Night Fury.
B: It will help Cadance’s recovery process if she has a more efficient manner to delight in your condition.
"Curse you, Bagley! I'll get you back for this!" Fury said as he was left behind by The Doctor, nothing but a small memory as he heaved his bag away while Fury endured his tickly revenge.