//------------------------------// // A little problem // Story: Fluttersized // by Barrobroadcaster //------------------------------// Fluttershy thanked the store owner of the shop in Cloudsdale as she exited. She lived near the Everfree Forest and didn't find herself in the sky village very often but there were some things she just couldn't find anywhere else, like the special airbush seeds she just bought. She placed the bag of seeds in her hoof-woven basket and proceeded out into the street of clouds. She trotted merrily to the edge of the street and look over the side. The surface of Equestria stretched out far below her in all directions, the landscape a beautiful tapestry of shapes and colors. Golden fields of grain, rolling hills of green and darker green forests lead up to majestic purple moutains topped with snow as white as the clouds she stood on. In the center of all this far below was the town of Ponyville, the buildings looking like a tiny collection of blocks in the middle of a map of Equestria. Fluttershy kicked off the clouds with her basket full of seeds and headed back home. She soared through the air feeling the sun on her mane, back and wings as she descended. The wind whistled by her ears as Ponyville got closer. As she was flying, she noticed a purple glow of some sort coming from the center of town. The glow grew large and bright and exploded outward. Fluttershy was momentarily blinded by it and more than a little startled. She dropped her basket in midair. "Oh no!" she said out loud as she felt the basket slip off of her hooves. She rubbed her eyes with her free hoof and tried to see where the basket fell. She hovered and looked down at Ponyville. Strange, the buildings looked further away. Had she been knocked back by whatever that flash was? And just what had that purple light been? She flew down to the surface to investigate. As she drew nearer to the surface, the buildings of Ponyville grew larger. But they weren't growing larger fast enough as Fluttershy hit the ground far after the buildings should've appeared normal size to her. She landed in the market place but something was strange about it. All the stalls where vendors sold their items were only about the size of her hooves. The buildings stood only a third as tall as her legs. It was like she was standing in a miniature Ponyville. "What is this?" she asked aloud. "What is what?" a brown-coated older salestallion pulling a cart out of a storefront asked. He yanked the cart past the door's opening and turned to see Fluttershy... or at least one of her now giant legs. He froze at the sight of the huge yellow hoof. He followed it up to the confused face of Fluttershy high above him. Carefully, he reached into the cart and pulled out a pair of glasses. With jittery hooves, he placed them in front of his eyes and viewed the scene before him again. He looked up at the giant pair of eyes above him. "Um, excuse me but do you know what is going-" Fluttershy tried to ask. "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!" the stallion screamed, dropped the cart and galloped off in the direction of the town square. "G-g-giant monster!!!" he shouted down the street. Other ponies began looking out of windows, coming out of doors and turning to see what the stallion was yelling about. "Giant monster?! Oh no! Where?!" Fluttershy asked in a scared tone. She backed away from the store and heard a crunch beneath her back-right hoof. She looked underneath it to see she'd stepped on a stall, crushing it to pieces. "Oh dear, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to-" she turned quickly towards the splinters of wood and canvas under her. She spun around too quickly though and her giant tail swiped across the roof of a building behind her, brushing off the paneling like it was made of paper. She turned her head toward the building and took a step forward, unintentionally stomping a cart full of melons into the ground. The sticky remains of the fruit clung to her hoof. She wiped her hoof on the ground to clean it off. The earth beneath her shook as she brushed the grass. She turned to face the other building and destroyed another stall by accidentally brushing it with the top of her hoof. Ponies exited their homes, stores and buildings and followed the sounds of destruction to the scene in the market place. Dust, dirt and broken pieces of wood filled the air as the giant yellow pegasus whipped back and fourth. Ponies panicked, screamed and ran in the opposite direction. "What's everypony running for? It's not the Morning Middle-of-town Marathon for a few more months!" Pinkie Pie said as she watched the fleeing residents. Pinkie Pie noticed a giant shadow cast on the ground. She followed it up to its source in the market place to see the giant form of Fluttershy smash into a building, destroying it completely. Pinkie's eyes went wide at the sight. "RUN FOR YOUR LIVES EVERYPONY! IT'S FLUTTERZILLA!!" Pinkie screeched and joined the mob of ponies galloping away in terror. Pieces of the building Fluttershy tripped into fell to the ground as she stood up. The market place was in ruins all around her. She turned to see the townsfolk all fleeing from her. "Oh, please don't go! I don't know what's going on! Can somepony please help me?!" she shouted at them as they retreated. But none of them even turned back as they fled out of sight. "Will somepony please tell me what's happening?" Fluttershy asked, her voice now almost a whisper. She felt tears well up in her eyes. Why was Ponyville so little? Or, why was she so big? She thought about trying to fly back to Cloudsdale. Carefully, she extended her wings. She flapped them a couple times, the draft they caused made a few buildings sway and knocked over a couple more stalls. She retracted her wings slowly. Tears began to stream down her face as she felt the utter hopelessness of the situation. What am I going to do, she thought. Twilight! Maybe Twilight knew something about what caused all this. Her home wasn't far from here, if only she could get there without crushing anything or hurting anypony. She carefully stepped through the town and headed towards Twilight's house.