Chapter 5
Applejack skidded to a halt in front of me and Twilight, a number of Ponies I didn't recognize behind her.
"Alright, what the emergency? Rainbow here flew in like her tail's on fire, talkin about Matthew here dyin and needin the whole apple clan. What's goin on?"
"MATTHEW'S DYING!?" Pinkie screeched, appearing from out of the middle of the group of ponies. Considering I didn't see a single spot of pink in that area before she popped up, I'm not sure what to think of that.
"Girls, relax! Matthew's not dying! He does need our help though. I'm glad you're here Pinkie. Do you think you can whip up some food for Matthew here? He hasn't eaten since dinner yesterday. Some apple goods would probably help as well, Applejack."
Pinkie gasped, "I'll get started right away!" and in a pink blur, Pinkie was gone.
"I can get started on that, but did the whole Apple Family really need to come out here for that?" Applejack questioned.
Twilight shrugged, a motion I wasn't sure would be anatomically possible on horses back home, and said, "Well... not really, but since you all are here... I've heard the Apple Family is the best in Equestria for raising buildings quickly?"
"Darn tootin! We can raise any barn in less than half an hour!" Applejack boasted while several of the Apple family nodded or clapped hooves together.
"Alright, well, do you think you could raise a shelter large enough for Matthew? It's true that he's in danger. Without fur like us, his skin is unprotected and the sun is burning him." Twilight explained.
Applejack turned to me and looked me over. "Well shoot, is that why you're lookin so pink, sugar cube?"
I nodded.
Applejack nodded and tilted her hat, "Good enough for me. Come on Apples! We got a barn to raise! The biggest barn Equestria's ever seen!"
A chorus of 'yee-haws' and other exclamations that made me think I'd stumbled into a rodeo or the set of an old western went up, and I got to watch as the Apple family scattered, and like a well oiled machine started throwing up a large barn, complete with song and dance number. It can't have been five minutes before they finished, and a rather impressive shed done in barn colors stood in front of me. It wasn't very big by my standards, but to them, this must be one of the largest buildings they'd ever thrown up, ever. At the very least it's got enough floor space for me to stretch out, but that's about it.
"Yee haw! Now that's what I like to see, Apples!" Applejack said as the others of the Apple family. I clapped in appreciation, calling out, "Bravo! Encore!" grinning. Applejack blushed and tilted her hat further to hide the red on her cheeks.
"Aw shucks, twernt nothin special..." she said, a small pleased smile on her face regardless.
My eyes bugged in my head, "Are you kidding!? You all just threw up a building in five minutes that would've taken me days to do by myself, and that's only if I even had the resources to do it with, never mind the fact that what I'd pull off would be nowhere near this quality! And heck, back home, even a professional foreman and construction crew that tried to make a building as big as this as it is to you wouldn't be able to pull off what you all did in the time you did it! I am seriously impressed here."
Now the majority of the Apple family was both embarrassed and pleased. "Well, I right thank ya on behalf of the Apple clan for the gratitude you've shown. Now git in there for yall burn up anymore than ya already are!" Applejack said, swinging her hat at me as if to give me a swat to get moving.
"Alright alright. Thank you again." I said, then moved into the shade my new shelter provided and sighed with relief. No A/C, not even a fan, but after sitting out in the sun this whole time, just having proper shade was such a relief. I laid back against the ground and sighed in relief, eyeing my new surroundings.
Twilight followed me in along with Applejack and Rainbow Dash. I guess Applejack sent the rest of the Apples home, though I did still hear some talk from outside. I stretched, then winced as my skin pulled taught, and I sighed, eyeing my pink skin, and remembered from experience that this is only the beginning. It would only get worse and sting like nothing else until it'd all finished peeling off.
Sitting up, I pulled my shirt off and dropped it in the corner, only to hear Rainbow Dash hiss, AJ make an exclamation I didn't make out, and Twilight outride said, "That really doesn't look good..."
I blinked at them, looked at where they were looking, and realized they were noticing the difference between the skin covered by my shirt and the sunburn on my arms, neck, and face. I waved them off, "This is actually not the worst sunburn I've ever had. At least it's still pink."
"How could it possibly get worse than that?" Rainbow asked.
"One time," I answered, "I and a large group of friends got together to float down a river on some inner tubes, er, floatation devices,"
"We know what innertubes are, sugarcube," Applejack said.
I nodded, "Right. Anyway, we decided as an activity to float down the river. I forgot my sunscreen, but I still had a shirt on. Unfortunately I didn't realize how long we'd be floating down the river. It was about midmorning when I got in the river. It was about early evening when I got out. A couple hours after I got home, I was shivering and crying in bed as every single brush of cloth, or twitch of my body, or even a simple brush of air caused every single bit of my angry red sunburnt skin to flare with excruciating pain. I was bed ridden for two days before I could stand to uncover myself."
All three ponies were looking at me with varying degrees of sympathy and/or horror.
"I'm sorry I asked," Rainbow muttered.
"I'm sorry you asked too," Applejack said, but without any heat.
"I think we should bring in somepony to take a look at him. A healer would have some experience with burn injuries, since that's covered in the medical textbooks I read so I know someone from the hospital here would have learned about them while getting their license." Twilight said.
"If you've read them, why can't you do it?" Rainbow asked.
"Because I'm not certified and while I've read the books, I didn't take the classes, so anything I could do would not only be illegal, but I'd also be subjecting him to my inexperience with attempting to heal anypony, let alone a human!" Twilight answered.
"Alright alright! I'll just go get Nurse Redheart then." Rainbow Dash said before taking off.
Almost immediately after Rainbow left, Pinkie's chipper voice called out, "Who wants breakfast!"
Pinkie then ran in, pulling a cart covered in pastries, the largest of which looked like a mini muffin sitting in the center of the cart. "Or would it be lunch?" Pinkie mused to herself. She looked skyward as if she could see the sun. "Oh no! Maybe I should have stopped at the Hayburger to get some lunch food!"
Before she could take off again dragging the cart with her, a purple violet glow surrounded Pinkie, the color of which matched the same glow coming from Twilight's horn which appeared all of a sudden. The glow lifted Pinkie slightly in the air. "Pinkie! It doesn't matter! In this case, food is food, and our guest needs some."
I nodded, my stomach growling again, "We can just call it brunch. Besides, breakfast food is good just about any time of the day."
Pinkie giggle snorted from her limp position at the sound from my stomach, "Okie dokie lokie! Your stomach sounds like a bear! We should probably feed him before he tears out of you to get the food itself."
I gaped at the surprisingly disturbing imagery that prompted, then cleared my throat, "Quite." and reached for the muffin sitting on top of the lot. I popped it into my mouth and grinned at the explosion of berry flavor. It eased my stomach a little, and I started picking up more of the tiny pastries and putting them in my mouth, though they were a bit on the large side when compared to the ponies themselves.
While I ate, I saw Twilight step over to the side and whisper with Applejack. Whatever was said caused Applejack to look over at me with a startled look before Twilight's whispering drew her head back down. I wonder what that was about, but I was too busy trying to appease my hunger to pay attention.
Soon, Pinkie's cart was empty, and Pinkie started handing me more from behind her mane. Her 'storage space' I guess, going off what Twilight said earlier. Tiny cupcake after tiny cupcake went in my mouth, not even large enough to need chewing before I swallowed.
"Um, girls? You should probably get some more food here, I'm actually starting to run out..." Pinkie stage whispered to the others, a look of concern on her face.
At that, I slowed down, and looked down at the cupcake in my hand, embarrassed, then slowly handed it back to Pinkie. "I'm sorry... I didn't mean to eat so much..." My statement was punctuated by my stomach growling again, though slightly softer this time, and for once I'm glad I'm sunburned because I think I might have actually blushed for the first time in my life as I looked down further.
Pinkie narrowed her eyes at me, pushing my hand back towards me with surprising strength, "Hmmm... did you get possessed by Fluttershy while we weren't looking?" she gasped, "Is that even possible!? Oh no! What if someone is possessing me!? What if I'm not me! But if I'm not me, who am I? But wait, if I'm not me, does that mean me is somewhere else, or is me here, or-"
Applejack interrupted her by stuffing an apple in her mouth. "None of that now," Applejack somehow addressed to both her and me at the same time. She then looked directly at me, "Look, you're a big fella. You're obviously gonna need more food than we do. No shame in that."
Twilight nodded, stepping forward, "Applejack's right. Proportionately, that cart can't have equaled much beyond a single muffin for someone your size. How about you draw on the ground the size of a plate of food you're used to, and we can then match it?"
I nodded and hesitantly started drawing a plate on the ground, before pausing, then making it a bit smaller than normal. Applejack narrowed her eyes while she watched and whacked my hand with her hat. It didn't hurt, but it did cause me to jerk back, startled.
"None of that now. I ain't the Element of Honesty for nothin'. Draw a proper sized plate, sugarcube." Applejack said.
"But, if you guys keep trying to feed me the amount I'm used to eating, there's going to be a food shortage!" I said, worried.
Applejack waved me off, "Yeah, maybe things'll be a bit tight at first, but we'll recover, sure enough. Ponyville can weather anything we set our minds too."
Twilight nodded, "Applejack is right. While I may not have been here long, I've read up on the town's history and current economics. We can handle an increase in food demand in the short term until we get a larger supply imported. It'll increase food costs, but not only can we handle it, you simply being here, and the Princess giving us royal backing means any costs accrued taking care of you while you're here will be covered by the crown, and Equestria as a whole is almost filthy rich. You can dig just about anywhere and you'll find precious gem stones worth trading."
I frowned, even as I went ahead and drew a proper sized plate on the ground. "But wouldn't the abundance of gems mean that their value would go down, considering just about anyone can dig them up?"
"They're not our only export," Twilight answered, "And normally you'd be right, if not for the fact that we're the world's main supplier of gem stones, and seeing as the Dragons consider them a delicacy and are willing to pay large amounts of gold from their hordes from them, and gold is good just about anywhere..."
I nodded, "That makes sense. Probably a lot more to it than that though, I'm guessing?"
Twilight nodded, "Those are just the main highlights. And that's not even accounting for the revenue brought in by Cloudsdale for maintaining the weather worldwide. Griffons can manage their weather somewhat, but our techniques are not only unique, but thanks to our cutie marks and special talents, most of us ponies can do things that nothing else can."
"Wow. Ponies certainly have their place certainly carved out for themselves." I said, wide eyed.
"It also helps that, while she doesn't flaunt her power and would never use it against anyone, Princess Celestia does control the Sun and the Moon and their movements in the sky. Although now that Princess Luna is back, that might change so she's controlling the moon soon." Twilight said thoughtfully.
For my part, my brain was stuck on something she said earlier. "Princess Celestia... controls the sun."
Twilight nodded, "And has for over a millennia."
"And the moon."
"Uh huh!" Pinkie Pie replied.
"Only her sister can control the moon now, most likely."
"Eeyup." Applejack said.
"So... you're telling me, that not only did I just meet a magical, multicolored, flying, pony princess, I met a magical, multicolored, flying, pony princess who just so happens to pretty much be this world's Goddess!?"
"Um... yes? I mean, what's a Goddess?" Twilight asked.
I set my face in my palms. "A Goddess, or God, otherwise known as a deity-"
"Oh! Yes, Princess Celestia is our deity. She likes to play it down and just act as our Princess, but the fact that she's part of our pantheon has never really strayed very far from pony's minds." Twilight answered, Applejack and Pinkie nodding along.
I simply groaned and laid back, my head thumping against the hard dirt floor. "Lovely," I muttered. "Here's hoping she doesn't cast me into the sun if I accidently piss her off then."
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Oh, neat, I wasn't expecting this to ever come back again. Must have been on my watch list for almost a year now.
I take it someone's not fond of sushi.
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Actually, I absolutely love sushi. I even love sashimi. Thing is, sushi is chemically cooked, but more importantly, it didn't just come out of the ocean all slimy and whatnot, but even MORE importantly, it's not alive. Sashimi is the stuff that's purely raw fish, but even that is cut and cleaned and prepared and not wriggling and alive.
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Can't say I've ever had cooked sushi, chemically or otherwise, but eh, I've seen people eat worse either way.
I just said someone, I didn't say who I was talking about.
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All sushi is chemically cooked. If it's completely raw, it's not sushi. It's sashimi.
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My local sushi place seems to disagree, but it's really not something I would want to have an argument about. In any case, it was just meant to be a little joke, because the character seemed to feel so strongly about it. Don't mind me.
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Yeah, I get what you mean. Sorry about that.
As for the joke, I did get a laugh out of it, so there is that too. :)
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Glad to hear it.
Yay, this story is still going.
I was afraid it would never update.
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Yeah our 'Gulliver' seems to be a bit of a pansy.
Glad he manned up a bit when he was gobbling down Pinkie's stash.
He can't feel ok receiving this hospitality with no effort though.
### "....I need to work for these favours!"
### "Mmmm those cupcakes were good! But I need to take a shit now."
### "Um, maybe I could be a Deep Sea Diver.... One less thing to worry about you know?"
6576768 XD Wow I didn't even think of that. Good thing my character has a giant forest that no one likes! XD
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That forest is about to be turned into a pretty shitty place.Poor Zecora.
Nice! I hope you the next update comes this year though.... Lol, had to go back and reread the first chapters to remember the story. Curious to see where you take it. Looking forward to the next chapter.
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Wow. I'm kind of shocked you caught that. I certainly didn't considering it was hard for me to actually see past the giant clusterbuck of no spaces or punctuation for an entire run on sentence. Nice catch!
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That one I should've caught. Unfortunately I've found that as I've gotten faster at typing, my accuracy sometimes slips when I'm trying to type at a speed fast enough to keep up with my speed of thought. It's difficult and sometimes things like that get left in the dust. Thanks for pointing it out to me.
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Unfortunately I have no idea when this will be updated. I have several incomplete stories that I often jump between as I come up with new ideas for them, which is sometimes rare and random. Even this being updated was almost completely on a whim from my brain. It didn't help either that the original chapter 4 I had was kind of awful. It had it's good points, but for the most part, I'm glad I accidentally skipped over it when I did a quick reread over what I had for this story, cause I probably would've gotten just as stuck with it as I had the last time and this update never would have happened.
He should look at Applejack and say,
Its not the food I'm worried about. Whatever goes in, must eventually come out.
Dun dun DUUUN!!!
So...please tell me ponyville has a sink hole, or a bottomless pit? Celestia knows a spell for complete deatomization?
Wait, what about hygiene? Not to mention that he is a man. We produce more odor than woman and children. Not to mention it is more pungent. And let's not forget rashes if he doesn't bathe.
And human males aren't...ahem...retractable. So uh, yeah. Oh god I hope he doesn't have a wet dream.
Hope to see an update soon!
Its an alright story so far, and I do look for more.
Have a couple of small issues, though. Please, never again make Pinkie Pie's speech all one giant string. You can have her excitedly delivering a string of fast paced speech without that nonsense. I don't even know what it said as I just skipped it.
Also, you are way overplaying the sunburn bit. I have friends, who are light skinned and burn extremely easy. Sure, if they went around all day without any sunscreen it would probably end up sucking, might even end up with a really nasty sunburn. But only getting it on their arms, neck, maybe face... would not kill them... not even close. And especially not after only a few hours of morning sunshine.
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Pinkie talking in a big string like that was just a one off joke. I doubt I'd do that again anyway.
As for me overdoing the sunburn thing, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you didn't notice that this character is an SI, and I have a policy against lying. I do burn that bad, that quickly, and I did go through that situation with the three hour float down river. Up until that float, my skin was white enough to almost appear grey. After I healed from that ordeal, my skin had darkened the tiniest bit so now I'm just painfully white, rather than almost grey.
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Lol so many interesting suggestions I get for this story! Dealing with waste seems to be a popular one. XD
Honestly though, part of the reason I haven't updated this story in a while is the fact that the most likely scenario to happen next is something along the lines of using magic in some fashion, in this case I imagined an enchanted amulet worn about the neck, that would allow for my character to be shrunk to a comparatively normal size so long as it's worn (it would also be enchanted not to fall off and could only be removed by himself or medical professionals in an emergency). The problem with that is that it basically removes the point of this whole story, since it's supposed to be an interesting take on the HIE topic. If the 'giant' bit is taken out, then it just becomes my version of nearly every HIE story out there, only mine has a weird super power to go with it.
I've been trying off and on to come up with a believable reason that isn't a complete stretch that would explain why he would have to stay a giant despite anything the ponies could, and should, be able to do to fix this comparatively simple issue. But other than the equivalent of 'because reasons', I haven't thought of anything yet.
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...well, dragons are resistant to magic. And I've seen a few fics that give that to humans too. In a world where magic is real and at such a powerful level (Celestia, Luna, Discord) it's hard to avoid literature pitfalls of the fix it button.
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*nods* literary pitfalls, indeed. Magic immunity is something I considered, except that I already wrote that Twilight was able to scan him for magic and found a little. If he were immune, then that scan would have revealed nothing, nada, bubcus. If he were just highly resistant, he's already dealing with, as you said, beings such as Twilight Sparkle, Princess of Magic *cough* Friendship, Discord Lord of Chaos, Princess of the Day Celestia, Princess of the Night Luna, and Princess of Love Cadence. At least one of those, if not some of them combined, should be able to figure something out.
And if I go the route of null magic (usually via touch), Twilight's scan working is a bit iffy, but maybe potentially possible. The only problem is that it pretty much makes my character untouchable for most of the biggest enemies in MLP. He's already stupidly large to the point that only the Ursa Major might challenge him physically. If all he has to do is grab Discord or Tirek to make them impotent... *shrug* That just leaves the exploration of how he'll react to situations and what is done to help him survive. That can only go so far I think. I don't know. Null touch at least is a route I suppose. I'll think about it.
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You said Twilight found alittle magic in him...
What about a limiter? His body could only react to so much magic (say on the level of a medical scan) before it starts having negative consequences. This will leave out benevolent uses of magic as it risk great pain and/or injury, while still allowing for malevolent uses such as attacks.
He stays a giant and he is not op.
Please update