What if Twilight Sparkle shrunk down to Vanilla's size and they did stuff...... it was cool
Vanilla Beam has lived with the Mane 6 since being shrunk. But one day, Twilight Sparkle shrinks herself and ends up getting stuck. She and Vanilla are now at the mercy of all the "giants" of Equestria.
It was just like any other day at the library. Everything was in order, the skies were clear, and no disaster had happened in Ponyville for a while. Twilight Sparkle was sitting in the library just making up charts and lists and all of the things that she deemed organized. She would have Spike to help her, but he decided to go migrating with the dragons this year. Luckily for him, Twilight matched him up with a very nice female dragon, that is sure to look after him.
But for Twilight, she didn't worry about how she was doing in her work. She never really needed an assistant, though she'll never tell Spike that. She always had Spike around because she took care of him since day one, and that she always enjoyed having a little friend to keep her company. Now with Spike gone, things were just too quiet, even for a library. So all Twilight did was read her books, that she's re-read hundreds of times.
But there would be some form of noise soon enough. As Twilight was in her sixth chapter of the book, she heard a faint squeaking noise. She looked up, and looked around. No one was in the library. So she thought nothing of it, and went back to her novel. As she read, she heard the squeaking again. A little annoyed now, she looked around again. No one. She rolled her eyes and looked to the floor. When she did, she saw the cause of the squeaking.
It was her good friend Vanilla Beam. Now Vanilla, was about the size of an itty bitty bug. But it wasn't his fault. In fact, I think there is a story about him somewhere, I don't know. Anyway, Vanilla and Twilight were very close with each other, when ever Twilight would visit him, he'd always leap onto her, almost reaching her knee. And Twilight enjoyed him too. He was almost like her tiny shadow, though hers engulfed him.
"Hey there Vanilla." Twilight said with a smile. She extended her hoof for him to climb up onto. He in turn, would leap onto her hoof, and she would bring it up to her face.
"Hi Twilight." he said in return. "What are you reading this time?"
"Oh, I got bored, and decided to read a Daring Do novel."
"Oh cool." said Vanilla. "I love it when you read Daring Do to me. I always love how she can put her life in the middle of danger, and barely break a sweat. I wish I could go on adventures like that."
"But you do it all the time Vanilla." said Twilight. "You're the size of a teeny little jellybean. You're able to have adventure after adventure everyday. I'm the one who is dying to go on an adventure at least once."
"Really?" asked Vanilla. "I thought you loved nothing more than to read your books, and study and stuff." Twilight giggled at that statement, because it was true.
"Yes I do. But that doesn't mean I can't be adventurous every once in a while." she said. Vanilla nodded and stretched his nose out. Twilight smiled, and nuzzled him, pushing him on her hoof and nose. While doing this, Twilight gained an idea. "Hey! I got an idea!" she said. "I learned some size spells recently. I'll have a little adventure with you."
"You sure you want to?" he asked. "I mean, it can be fun at first, but it gets pretty dangerous. Everything wants to crush, squish, or eat you."
"Oh I'll be fine. What's the worst that could happen? If I get in too much danger, I'll go back to normal size."
"I guess you have a point." he said. "Alright, I'll meet you down here." With that said, Twilight gently lowered Vanilla to the floor, and stepped a couple hooves back. Vanilla sat down (or was made to sit from the tremors) and watched Twilight do her magic. Twilight closed her eyes and concentrated. Her horn began to glow, and sparks flew out of it. Her body began to glow as well. And then, her body began to shrink. It got smaller and smaller and smaller, until finally, she was Vanilla's size. Twilight ran up to him and gave him a big hug.
"It's the first time I've ever gotten to hug you like this." she said in excitement.
"I really really love your giant hugs. But it does feel nice to wrap my arms around somepony again." he said. They both shared a long hug, as Twilight looked around. She was in awe at how much bigger the library looked at their size. She seemed a little intimidated at first, then saw that it would be like heaven if she was in a library this big.
"Wow." she said. "I never knew how big your world is."
"You think this is big, wait til you see one of our friends from this size." said Vanilla.
"Oh my goodness!" she said in realization. "I should tell my friends about me being shrunk first. I don't want to have them accidently squish us you know."
Vanilla agreed to that decision, and stood back again to give Twilight some room. Twilight closed her eyes and concentrated. Her horn began to glow, but there were no sparks this time. She kept trying and trying, but nothing was happening. Vanilla had a worried look.
"Oh no." she said. "I used a lot of magic in that size spell. I can't.... seem to get back to normal."
"Y-You mean, you can't use your magic anymore?" asked a worried Vanilla.
"Oh no no no no, it just means it needs to recharge." she said. "I'll get back to normal, but it'll take a while."
"Well, if you want to, lets go outside and look at the world outside." said Vanilla. Twilight nodded and followed him outside. As they walked out, they were nearly blinded by the sun. It looked even brighter at their size. But their eyes adjusted to the sun, and saw that the grass itself were like trees, and the trees were like the size of castles. They trotted out to the road, and saw an amazing site. All of the ponies who were in the distance looked HUGE. They could even hear the thunder coming from their hooves.
"They're so big." said Twilight. "I never knew I was THAT huge to you Vanilla. It must be very scary to see me all the time at that size."
"Not at all Twilight." he said. "You are very nice Twilight. I'd never be afraid of you." Just then, the ground began to quake, and the two tiny ponies saw a very large shadow loom over them. They looked back, and saw two giantess's of who they knew of very well.
Twilight and Vanilla looked up with amazement at their new surroundings. Everything seemed to tower over them, even the grass. Vanilla was use to this angle, being he has been small for a while, but this was new for Twilight. She couldn't believe how colossal everything felt.
And things only got worse when the tremors began to shake their world. They looked around and saw an almost relieving, yet horrific sight. She saw two of her best friends stomping toward them. Applejack and Rainbow Dash. Twilight and Vanilla watched them drawing closer with every booming step. They seemed to be having a conversation with each other.
"Nah, Daring Do would never be that dumb to step onto a mine field without checking all of the spots where it's safe." said Rainbow Dash.
"But come one Dash, ya'll can't always know whenever there's a trap set and where it's gonna go off. That's like having a sixth sense." said Applejack.
"I don't even know why they always argue like this Twi." said Vanilla. "I hear them talk about the book all the time, and no one really ever wins unless they read th-..."
"MOVE!" yelled Twilight. Just as she did, the gargantuan hoof of Applejack was soon hovering above them and ready to crush them. Twilight then shoved Vanilla quickly out of landing range, and they both managed to avoid her hoof. The ground shook violently being that they were so close to her hoof.
"Whew! Thanks Twilight, I owe you one." said Vanilla. "Although, I could've moved myself." Twilight then let out a chuckle.
"Oh come on, you'd never get anywhere without your big sister." she said. Being they were such close friends, they considered themselves brother and sister-like friends.
"Well, you have no experience down here, so as far as I know, I'm the big brother now." Vanilla said.
While they were chatting below, Applejack and Rainbow Dash continued disputing above. Dash was getting a little agitated by Applejack berating Dash's favorite novel heroin.
"But Daring Do can do anything. She's awesome." said Dash. She stomped the ground in frustration, pushing our tiny duo back in the impact.
"Wow, Dash is getting mad." said Vanilla.
"I don't think that makes it any better for us if she's mad." said Twilight. "In fact, this is really bad."
"Oh come on, you know it's just Rainbow Dash, we all love her right?"
"Yeah, but you've never been around her when she's mad." said Twilight. "Whenever she gets mad, she takes out her frustration on bugs, to avoid messing with ponies. I never really minded it before, but now that I'm in their position, I'm worried now."
They both looked up at the rainbow giant, with an agitated look on her face. She then took one look at the ground, and looked directly at them. She still had that aggravated look on her face, but her eyes told a different story. She knew we were bugs, and that she knew she had to calm down for Applejack.
"AJ, you mind if I mess with the bugs for a bit." Dash asked.
"Alright. Ah understand ya'll need ta cool down. Ah'll leave ya be fer a second." Applejack replied. This turned Twilight pale, and Vanilla........... well, he was shaking. A smile then grew on the face of Rainbow Dash, and she then got to a better stance, almost like a lion ready to pounce on it's prey.
"It's a very bad day for you to be here right now, bugs." boomed the giantess. She then took two large steps forward, making Twilight and Vanilla get a little airborne.
"RAINBOW! IT'S ME! TWILIGHT! HEEY!" Twilight screamed, trying to get Dash's attention. But since it was not in a quiet library, and outside with other noises, she, nor Vanilla could be heard.
"Better start running bugs, cause here I come" boomed Dash, as she was about to take another step. The two micros had no choice but to bolt. Just in time too, for a crater then was made by the giant's hoof where they were just standing.
"DASH!! PLEASE STOP IT!!!" yelled Vanilla. Rainbow just kept stomping forward, letting the sure size of her intimidate them both.
"Fee! Fi! Fo! Fum!" she said with a playful giggle. "Give it up, I'm the fastest giant in all Equestria." This was unfortunately true. And what was making matters worse, she was so close, that the tremors she was making were making the two lose their balance. Until one hoof fall pushed them forward, and onto the ground.
"OOF!" said Vanilla. "You okay Twi?"
"Yes." Twilight replied. She turned on her back, and her eyes lit up in shock. "But not for long." she said. Vanilla turned over, and was met with the sight of Rainbow Dash's hoof right above them, just hovering there. Rainbow was still toying around with them.
"Nowhere for you to run now, bugs." she said in an overconfident voice. "Time to meet your maker." In the background, Applejack just rolled her eyes at this, thinking how pathetic this must be for Dash.
"Vanilla?" asked Twilight.
"Yes?" answered Vanilla.
"Be safe." she said. Vanilla was confused at first, but then Twilight's horn began to glow, as Vanilla's view was whited out, and soon, in a brief flash, he was gone.
Dash then began to slowly lower her hoof, as Twilight shut her eyes and readied herself to be crushed. But then, another spark came from her hoof, as it sent out an electric current to the giant's hoof. To Twilight, it was a lightning bolt, but to Dash...
*zap* "Ouch". yelped Rainbow Dash. "This little bug just shocked me."
"Oh come on Dash, bugs can't do that." said AJ, walking over to her.
"I'm not kidding AJ. It really did shock me." Dash said, moving her hoof, out of the way. "What kind of bug is it?"
Applejack got a closer look at the "bug", making sure to keep a safe distance, so she didn't get shocked either. When Applejack got a good look, she let out a gasp, and took a step back.
"T-Twilight?" she asked.
"Twilight?" Dash chimed in. They both took closer looks, and saw the purple bug, turn into a tiny purple unicorn in their eyes.
"What in the hay is goin on?" said Applejack in disbelief. "How'd ya'll get so tiny Twi?"
"I was practicing a shrinking spell so I could see how the world looks like from Vanilla's perspective. For some reason, now my magic is overused, and needs time to recharge before I can do a spell like that again."
"Wow Twi. Ah can't believe how small ya are." boomed Applejack. "Ya'll er as small as Vanilla. No wonder Rainbow mistook ya as a bug."
With that said, Twilight looked over at giant Rainbow Dash, who was looming over top of her, with the most sorry look on her face. "I can't believe I almost crushed one of my friends." Dash said. You could hear the sorry feeling in her voice. Twilight trotted up to the cyan giant and hugged her hoof.
"It's okay Rainbow. I know you didn't mean it." she said.
"It's kinda hard to hear you from down there. Let me give you a lift." Rainbow said as she extended a hoof. Twilight looked at it and realized this was her first time being lifted by a giant pony, let alone one of her friends. Twilight slowly climbed onto the oversized hoof, and without warning, she was lifted up. There was tons of pressure as she was lifted. When Twilight was in front of the billboard-sized faces, she looked around at the view......... it was just as good if she was normal.
"HOW'S THE VIEW TWI?" boomed Applejack. Twilight had to cover her ears to how loud and close her voice was.
"Applejack! Lower your voice." screamed Twilight. AJ quickly covered her mouth. "Sorry" she said.
"Say, were you with Vanilla when I..." Dash tried to say.
"Yes, he was with me." she said. "But before you tried to.... yeah, I teleported him away. I don't know where though."
"Was there anything on your mind before you did? I mean, like were you thinking of one of our friends?" Dash asked.
"Well, I just wanted him to stay safe with one of our friends." Twilight thought on who she thought of at the time. "Wait....... I sent him to Rarity's." she said.
"That's good. Lets go there now and get the little fella and let him know yer fine." said Applejack.
Just then: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!"
There was a scream in the distance. And the other ponies, even the ones in the background were all startled.
"Oh no. That sounded like Rarity." said Applejack.
"We gotta get to Vanilla before Rarity starts trying to stomp out Vanilla. This time I'm not there to help him."
"I'll go to the boutique. You follow me Applejack. You stay with Applejack Twi. I don't want you to get squished by the flight pressure." said Rainbow Dash. She then put Twilight into Applejack's hat, and Dashed off. *bum bum crash*
Vanilla woke up from being teleported. He was definitely not use to the warping. He shook the cobwebs out of his head and got himself affiliated with his surroundings. He was on the cold floor of someone's house. He looked around, and recognized that he was in the Carousel Boutique, and more specifically, in Rarity's room.
"Why did Twilight send me here?" Vanilla asked himself. Then it dawned on him.
"Oh my gosh! Twilight!" he yelled. He broke down when he realized why he was sent here, and he beat the ground and cried, fearing he had lost his friend forever.
Just then, the ground began to shake. He looked up with his teary eyes and saw the gargantuan mass of a white unicorn mare. She stomped into the room, humming a little tune to herself, unknowing of the tiny pony on her floor. Vanilla quickly dodged her hooves before he could've been crushed like last time. He watched Rarity as she worked and sang to herself.
Vanilla still was heartbroken at thinking of loosing Twilight, and continued to cry. Rarity took one look away, and looked in your direction.
And then: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!! she screamed.
Vanilla quickly covered his ringing ears. He almost went fully def after that scream. He could see though, and see that Rarity was stomping hos way, with a disgusted look on her face. She tried stomping away, but Vanilla was use to ponies trying to stomp him, so he was very agile. To an extent though.
"Be gone you vermin." boomed Rarity, just barely heard by Vanilla. With one kick, she knocks him to a wall. He hits it with huge force, and almost knocks him out. When he got up, Rarity's shadow was already looming over him. She was ready to strike him, and he didn't care. He was ready to meet Twilight in the other world.
When all of a sudden, he saw a familiar cyan giant crash into the room, and land next to the white giant.
"No Rarity! Don't do it, it's Vanilla!" Rainbow Dash boomed.
"Vanilla?" Rarity asked. "But how in Equestria would he be able to get here?" She looked closer, and saw the shivering white stallion looking at both of them. "Oh my goodness. It is him. How on Earth did you get here darling?"
"T-Twilight....... s-sent me here." said Vanilla, trying to hold back his tears. But to no avail. "Because SHE squished her without any remorse." he said pointing to Rainbow Dash. He got up and started beating on the mares hoof.
"Why? Why didn't you look closer? Why did you have to pick on bugs? What did we ever do to giants like you? I thought I was your best friend." he said crying his eyes out.
"But Vanilla..." she said, trying to get her word in.
"NO! I don't wanna hear your excuse. I'll never trust you giants again. You killed my best friend. Your best friend. I loved her too much Dash. I........ I........ "
Then, he heard a faint cry in the distance. It was his name. He looked to the side of Dash's hoof, and saw Applejack standing in the doorway, and he could see, in her hat, was Twilight Sparkle, alive and well.
After a bit of time to get every one situated, and Twilight explained to Vanilla how she didn't end up becoming hoof paste, the ponies discussed the staying arrangements for the two shrunken ponies. Within that time, Applejack left the boutique and came back with Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie. Their reactions were....... expected.
Fluttershy stomped up to them, and looked down to them. Even as the size of a giant monster, she was very gentle and sweet as usual.
"Oh my" said Fluttershy. "How on earth did you get so small?"
"It's a long story Fluttershy." said Twilight, still feeling a little baffled at the huge sight before her. Then, there was a huge earthquake that shook the floor (at least for Vanilla and Twi). They saw the source, and it sent a cold chill down Twi's spine.
Pinkie Pie was bouncing toward them, and giggling all the way, until she stopped right in front of them, pushing them back.
"Pinks, please be careful around them." said Rainbow Dash.
"I'm sorry! I can't help it! They look SOOOOOOO cute down there. They're like little itty bitty teeny weeny wittle cutie pies." said Pinkie in one breath. Vanilla was blushing, as he always did whenever he was called cute. Twilight wasn't use to that, and put on a nervous smile. Just then, without warning, Pinkie scooped both of them up, and trapped them in a HUGE hug. Pinkie's hugs were tight already, but this was almost unbearable.
"P-PINKIE!! WE CAN'T BREATHE!!" yelled Twilight. Pinkie heard their little squealing, and being she wasn't so uncontrollable, she let them go. But being she still wasn't too careful, she let them go while they were in the air.
They screamed as they fell, but before they landed on the cold hard floor, the landed on a huge mass of soft, warm fur. They look up, and see the face of Rainbow Dash. Being she was very very fast, just moving a few hooves was simple, and only took a split second.
"Thanks Rainbow" said Twilight. Dash smiled. "No problem little guys." boomed Rainbow, in a sort of calm, yet shaky voice.
Later that day, all of the ponies sat and discussed on who should be the one to take care of the micro munchkins. Being that Spike wouldn't be back from the migration for a while, someone would have to stay at the library with them.
"I can't just stay at the library the whole time, I have to make sure my animals are taken care of too." Fluttershy inquired.
"Ah can't stay either, 'cause their is tons that we need ta do to get ready fer the fall harvest." said Applejack.
"OOO OOO!! Let me do it! I can watch them!!" Pinkie bellowed out. All of the other ponies looked at each other. "Uhh, who else?" AJ chimed in. Pinkie's ears just dropped.
"Well, I see no reason why I couldn't stay at the library and help you two." said Rarity. All of the other ponies seemed to nod and approve that Rarity should be the one to take care of Twilight and Vanilla. Twilight looked at all of her giant friends, and noticed that one of them wasn't really happy........... it was Pinkie. But then, she saw another pony with her ears drooped. Rainbow Dash.
"I think that's a great choice." said Vanilla. "You?"
"I don't know, we never asked Rainbow her take on this." answered Twilight.
"You wouldn't want me to watch you guys." said Rainbow. "For one thing, I've never taken care of anything smaller than tank, i-it never was my thing. Plus...... after what happened today, you know I couldn't be with you anymore while you're tiny." she then turned away and stomped off.
"Well then, lets get ready to go back to the library." said Rarity.
Twilight and Vanilla just watched Rainbow walk away for a bit. Then finally..... "If it's all the same for all of you, I think I want Rainbow to watch us." said Vanilla. "I second that" Twilight added in. Right after they said that, the earth began to shake violently. And as the earth quaked for the tiny ponies, a huge shadow loomed over them. They turned around, looked up, and saw a beaming smile on the gigantic face of Rainbow Dash.
"You really mean that? I can take care of you? You can trust me?" boomed Rainbow.
"Uhh yes." said Twilight. "Yes" said Vanilla "And yes" said both of them.
Dash made no hesitation and scooped the tiny ponies in her hoof. "Don't you worry guys. I promise I'll take very good care of you two. And I want to make it up to you guys too." That last comment almost sounded like she wanted to cry.
"Alrighty then, it's settled. Rainbow Dash will take care of Twi and her friend until they're big again." said Applejack. Rainbow was so happy, she brought the tiny ponies in for a gargantuan nuzzle. Normally, Twilight would resent this, but knowing it was Rainbow, and she really wanted to do it. Vanilla on the other hand, loved these all the time from Twilight, or any of his giant friends.
"So this is what I do to you, huh?" asked Twilight. "Yep." answered Vanilla.
Later that day, all of the ponies began heading home. The last two were Rarity and Dash. Rarity couldn't leave because........ she lived there.
"Let me go to the little fillies room, and then we'll go home." said Dash, as she flew off to the bathroom, leaving them alone with Rarity.
"Are you absolutely sure that you want to be in the care of Rainbow Dash?" asked Rarity.
"Rarity, I'm surprised at you." Vanilla said. "Rainbow is one of our dearest friends, you don't trust her? I mean, she is loyalty around here."
"That is true, but what about earlier?"
"Just trust her, please?" Twi asked. Rarity looked at them both, and smiled and gave a nod. Just then Dash came back in, and scooped them up.
"Ready?" she asked. They nodded, which signaled Rainbow to lift them into her mane. Vanilla knew this feeling a lot, but this feeling was new to Twilight.
"Wow Vanilla." she said. "This feels sooooo nice."
"Now will you let me ride in your mane more often?" Vanilla asked.
She chuckled, and so did Rainbow Dash. "Sure thing Nilla."
"And if she doesn't, I will." Dash added. And then, they were finally off.
Once they arrived at the library, Rainbow Dash flew inside and shut the door, and every nook and cranny so that way no creature could come in and harm the pint-sized ponies. All the while, Twilight and Vanilla were trying hard to both hang on to the giant furry cyan rocket, and make sure not to vomit on her either. They knew if they did, no matter how good of a friend they were, or how small they were, they would be hoof paste.
When Dash finally sealed every hole, and locked every window, Dash landed and looked into the mirror and into her mane, on her tiny riders, who were seeing swirls and birds.
"Heh Heh, sorry about that guys." said Dashie. She then took them out of her mane, and placed them onto Twilight's work desk. Twilight was now use to looking up at her new gigantic friends, and Vanilla had been use to that feeling for years.
"Thank you so much for volunteering to look out for us Rainbow Dash." said Twilight. "It means a lot for you to do this."
"Hey, I'd do anything for you guys. This is probably one of the easiest things I've had to do yet." said Dash with a smirk on her face. The other two ponies just rolled their eyes, thinking 'same old Dashie'.
"I honestly would rather have you to take care of us than Pinkie Pie." said Vanilla. "I mean don't get me wrong, I love the mare to death, and I can depend on her anytime, but Twilight is new to this, and Pinkie MIGHT be a little too extreme for her."
Rainbow boomingly chuckled. "Hahahaha, I know what you mean little guy. But what makes me different from the other guys? I'm not gentle like Applejack or Fluttershy. I'm as far from gentle as anything."
"But you are the element of "Loyalty". You are the best pony we can depend on when it comes to keeping us safe." said Vanilla. Saying this made Dash blush, and turn away. "But what about earlier?" she asked under her breath.
"Please Rainbow Dash, don't linger on that issue." Twilight stepped in. "We all know it was an accident, and plus you were relieving stress (even though a book shouldn't do that), and you stopped yourself."
"You actually stopped me, but I see what you're saying Twilight." Rainbow said, looking back at them. "Thank you guys for giving me this chance." She then leaned in, catching the tiny ponies off guard. But she overall pressed her heavy, gigantic muzzle on top of them, and rubbed them (to a normal pony, it's a nuzzle). Vanilla went with it because he loved it, Twilight though, was still kind of skeptic about being nuzzled by a giant.
"There's one thing that worries me though." said Twilight, making Dash stop in her nuzzle, but not lifting her muzzle off of them. "With Spike being away on his migration, how am I going to let the princess know about my current situation?"
This caused all of the ponies in the room, all three of them, to lift an eyebrow. Until, Vanilla broke the silence. "Hey, you might not be able to get the attention of Celestia, but I know which princess you can."
"That's right!" said Twilight. "Princess Luna. She comes to all ponies in their dreams at night. I can get in contact with her, and she'll tell Celestia about this, and see if she can help me."
"Well that sounds like a plan. The princess will make you big again, and everything will be hunky dory."
Later that night, everyone was asleep, except for Vanilla. He couldn't sleep, knowing that his best friend Twilight was now his size, and he wanted to stay up and keep watch, just in case something does come in and attempt to harm Twilight. Even if they were in the arms of Rainbow, Vanilla couldn't be too careful. Just then, Twilight woke up with a jolt. This spooked Vanilla.
"You alright Twi'?" he asked.
"Yes. I'm more than alright. We have to wake Dash up so that way she can get inside."
"Who? So who could come in?" he asked once more.
"Princess Luna. I got in contact with her, and I had a tough time explaining my dilemma, because I was normal sized to her in my dreams. So she's coming here to get a better look at the situation. So we have to wake Rainbow up so she can unlock the door."
"Alright, all I can say is it won't be easy." When Vanilla said that, they look at the jumbo sized arms that were pressing them down to the giant pony. After about four minutes of wiggling and squirming, feeling relatively good under the warm fur, they finally released themselves from Dash's grip. After taking a second to catch their breath, the looked up her torso, and both let out a sigh in exhaustion.
About five minutes later, the two tiny ponies finally made it to the giant's maw, and had to cover their ears to the sound of Dash's amplified snoring. Her snoring was loud enough, but now it would nearly pierce their eardrums. So they started screaming to Dash, hoping their tiny voices could penetrate her ears. Nothing seemed to wake her up.
After all of this, and nothing waking her up, there seemed to be a light coming from behind them. As the two ponies turned around, the light just grew brighter, and brighter, and brighter, STILL not waking Dash up. As soon as the light started to dim, they could see who it was that was causing the light. Once the light went away, they knew exactly who it was. The princess of the night, Princess Luna.
"Princess Luna!" Twilight said with glee, as she started running for the princess. "Wait! Twilight! It's too dangerous to just run out there." said Vanilla as he ran after her.
"Twilight Sparkle? Where are you?" the princess asked, unaware that the tiny unicorn was running for her.
And as Twilight was running for the princess, she wasn't thinking about what she was getting herself into. Until Luna began to raise her hoof. Twilight saw this, and froze stiff in place. Luna scared her more than ever now. Dash and her friends scared her with their new size, but Luna was bigger than an average pony, and this really terrified her. And what made it worse, she froze just as Luna was taking a step forward.
"Twilight! MOVE!" yelled Vanilla as he quickly ran to her as fast as he could. Twilight was still standing there frozen with fear, not blinking once. And Luna's hoof was about to descend on top of her and reduce her to a pancake. Without any hesitation, Vanilla rammed his entire body into Twilight and tackled her out of the spot she was in. And in that same spot, Luna's hoof thundered to the wooden floor.
"Wh-What?" Twilight said, looking frantically around. "Vanilla? How did you- " before she could finish, she saw Luna's titanic body looming over them, going toward Rainbow Dash. "Thanks Vanilla. Now lets get the princess's attention." she said. Vanilla nodded and didn't realize he was on top of her. He quickly gets up.
"Hehe, sorry Twi." he said with a blush. She just smirked at him and ran off to the front of Luna, making sure to avoid her hooves each time they stomped down.
"Darn it. She's wearing shoes." Twilight said. "My shock won't work this time."
"Aim for her leg Twi!" Vanilla yelled, trying to catch up.
"But I don't wanna hurt her." Twilight said, sounding a lot like Fluttershy there.
"SHE ALMOST CRUSHED YOU!! JUST DO IT!!" Vanilla yelled like a madman. Twilight nodded and quickly zapped the princess's leg. They looked at Luna's face to see if she would've felt that.
"OUCH!" she boomed. The micro ponies covered their ears. It was like her Royal Canterlot Voice times twenty. "Wait a minute." Her eyes widened, almost in fear. She then quickly sat down, which pretty much felt like Armageddon to Twilight and Vanilla. Luna was quickly scanning her hooves, from what it looked like, to see if she stepped on them.
"PRINCESS LUNA!! DOWN HERE!!!!" Twilight screamed. The giant princess seemed to hear that and started looking all around the room.
"Is that you Twilight Sparkle?" she boomed. Quickly standing up, almost again, stomping on the micro ponies.
"AT YOUR HOOVES YOU KLUTZ!!!!" yelled Vanilla. Twilight looked at him with a sense of annoyance. "Hey, she's nearly squashed us multiple times in only five minutes. I think we've had enough."
Luna finally decided: "Hey, they're ant-sized. Maybe they're still on the floor." So she quickly looked down, and scanned all over, until she saw one purple speck, and one white speck, right at her forehooves. She gasped and quickly jumped back, again, causing massive earthquakes for the two tinies. Twilight was really more annoyed now than scared.
"Twilight Sparkle? Is that you?" she asked as she leaned her head in to see them better.
"Yes!" yelled Twilight. "Thank you for finally seeing us. You gave us quite a ride down here princess."
"When you said you were small. I had no idea you'd be THIS small." The giant's breath nearly blew them off their hooves. It was only semi decent too smelling wise. Had a musk of both mint, and cut lawn.
"Well now that's two of us." said Vanilla. Luna turned her attention to him. "Oh yes. The tiny Vanilla pony. I remember my sister mentioning you before." It was weird to him. How come Vanilla wasn't remembered as well? First everyone forgets about his size when Dash recklessly stomps away at bugs, without checking if it's him, now Celestia doesn't mention him?
"Well Luna, could you please tell your sister about what happened here?!" yelled Twilight. Luna put her eyes back on Twilight. "Yes. Once I inform her of your situation, she should most likely want to see you. So I will bring you to her, if that is fine with you."
"Yes. Thank you so much Luna." said Twilight.
"WHAT WAS THAT? bellowed the giant. The two ponies covered their ears in pain.
"THANK YOU!!!" they both yelled. Luna saw what they were doing, and blushed. "Sorry."
The two tiny ponies rolled their eyes. "Well I must depart for now. Farewell Twilight Sparkle and tiny Vanilla." They waved goodbye. "Doesn't even remember my name." Vanilla said. Twilight shushed him and watched as Luna started fading into light. The two ponies shut their eyes, so they don't get blinded. And eventually, the princess of the night was no longer there.
"Well, I guess we wait until Luna comes back." Twilight said. "So now what do we do until then?"
"Maybe visit Applejack, see what she's up to." Vanilla replied. Twilight smiled. "Good idea." she said.
Just then, they heard a loud snort, almost like a monster about to strike, and it spooked them, when all of a sudden, Rainbow Dash sat up and looked around. She looked and saw them on the floor.
"Hey, why are you guys over there?" she asked.
"Now she wakes up." Twilight says, that makes Vanilla chuckle.
The very next day, once Dash finally woke up, Twilight and Vanilla finally realized something since they'd been shrunken....... they haven't eaten since lunch yesterday. So the only thing they could rely on was for Rainbow Dash to make them breakfast. Twilight was a little hesitant to Rainbow's cooking, since she's never seen her do it before. All Vanilla thought of: "It can't be any worse than Twilight's cooking".
"So I was thinking, since we're going to Applejack's anyway, I think that she wouldn't mind to make you guys breakfast" Hearing this news, made both of them sigh with relief. Dash then extended a hoof, and lifted the two ponies up to her mane, where they hopped off and disappeared out of sight.
"I have to say Dash, your mane smells nice in here." Vanilla said. Dash blushed.
"Th-Thanks I guess." she replied.
"Smooth Vanilla, real smooth." Twilight said with a smirk. Vanilla just rolled his eyes and sat down. Dash let out a chuckle, and then lightly took off. "Okay, hold on guys." Dash said. The others looked at each other with worry, and in a split second: BOOM! they were off in a high velocity. They knew Dash was fast, and knew that if you rode on her, it would make your face stretch. But at a tiny size, it felt 50 times faster than before. Luckily, being they were so small, and so deep in her mane, they were stopped and had something to hold on to.
After only 3 minutes of spaceship-like speeds, they eventually reach Sweet Apple Acres. It looks just as beautiful as ever, and looked to be fully in stock with its inventory. Dash slowly lowered herself to the front door of the barn, and knocked on the door. The one to open the door was Big Macintosh.
"Hey Big Mac. Is Applejack home?" asked Dash.
"Eeyup." replied the stallion.
"Can we come in?" she asked again.
"Eeyup." he answered, again.
Rainbow gladly trotted inside, and went into the kitchen. Applejack just happened to be in there, and looked like she was making pies at the moment.
"Howdy Rainbow Dash." AJ said. "Ah suppose ya got Twilight and Vanilla with ya too?"
Dash nodded, which of course, caused a huge continental shifting for the two ponies in her mane. She then reached her hoof beside her head, and allowed the two ponies to hop aboard. She then extended her hoof out to Applejack, so they can be in her sight.
"Howdy there you two." she said with a big smile. She could notice they were really shaken up from the "calm, lovely" ride there. "So what brings ya'll here?"
"Well, we wanted to know, if you would have us for breakfast?" Twilight asked.
"Why sure. Ah'd love ta have ya'll fer breakfast." AJ replied. Vanilla and Twilight's eyes got wide at that statement. AJ saw that and quickly corrected herself. "A-Ah mean, have ya'll over fer breakfast." she said with a chuckle.
After a couple more minutes, Applejack made some pancakes for her new guests. One pancake was enough for Twilight and Vanilla, and even THAT was too big for them. Rainbow Dash on the other hoof, could eat like 5 cakes. Applejack, could blow them all away with 10 cakes. After everyone's bellies were full, AJ was the first to speak.
"Eh, before ya'll go, could ah speak to Rainbow Dash fer a second?"
"Sure thing. I'll be right back guys" Rainbow said. Then the two giant mares stood up and walked into the living room from what it looked like, leaving the two tiny ponies on the table.
"So when do you think Princess Luna will come back and take us to Celestia?" asked Vanilla.
"She said she would talk to her today." Twilight said. "I'm sure that she'll have an answer by tonight."
"Great........ Twilight?"
"Yes?"
"...... why does no one seem to remember me?"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, Rainbow Dash didn't remember about me being a tiny pony when she almost crushed you, and Luna didn't even remember about me. Has everyone just....... forgotten about me?"
Before Twilight could answer, the table began to shake, saying that someone was coming their way. "Wh-Who's coming?" asked Twilight. There was no shadow, coming from the living room, so it wasn't Rainbow Dash, or Applejack. When all of a sudden, there was a huge shadow that engulfed the two tiny ponies in darkness. They slowly turned around to see what horror would lie just behind them. When they looked up at the giant creature, it spoke to them.
"Awwww~ ya'll look so cute!" the filly boomed with glee. It was Applejack's younger sister, Apple Bloom. But at this point, she was no where near a "little" sister.
"Hello Apple Bloom." said Twilight. "I guess Applejack didn't tell you about me?"
"Nope. And ah cain't believe yer so tiny Twilight." she said, as she reached over to them and scooped them up. The feeling of being lifted to them was very unbalanced. They were also a little fearful. She was in no way a threat to them, being that she was very very sweet, but then again, she's a child, and not very careful.
"Please be very careful with us Apple Bloom." said Vanilla. "We're very fragile at this size." Apple Bloom just boomingly giggled.
"Aw don't worry there. Ah promise ta be careful with ya'll." she said, as she brought them in for a nuzzle. It wasn't a soft nuzzle, but it was very nice of her to show her love toward them. "Who are you by the way lil guy?" Obviously, Applejack never told her about him either.
"I'm Vanilla Beam. Nice to meet you Apple Bloom." She chuckled and nuzzled them again. "Yer so cute." she said, making them both blush.
Just then, they were interrupted by the sound of light sobbing, followed by the sound of the front door slamming. This spooked all three of them. After a minute passed, Applejack trotted back in.
"Hey, where's Rainbow Dash?" Vanilla asked.
"They wanna know where's Rainbow Dash." Apple Bloom said to her sister, so she knew they were talking.
"She.......... just left." Applejack said in a monotone voice.
"What happened AJ?" asked Vanilla. Applejack sighed a little bit, and sat down at the table.
"Well" she said, "ah wanted to talk to Rainbow Dash, and check up on how last night was fer ya guys. When she told me about how she flew ya guys there, that put me a little on edge. Ya two coulda flew off her or worse. And then how the night, when Luna came there, nothin seemed to wake her up. What if a bug came by and thought ya were lunch and went to attack ya?"
"I would've protected Twilight with my life." Vanilla intervened. AJ shot her eyes directly toward him. "No offense to ya lil one, but if a spider came around, and one of ya got hurt, and then the other one, and then eventually.......... "
This kinda brought down Vanilla's ego a bit, and made him feel very helpless. It was the first time in a while, that he felt small and helpless, since by now he could finally defend Twilight and himself from bugs. Heck, he even has a cutie mark of a karate-like throwing star.
Twilight then quickly jumped in "But I do trust Vanilla to protect me."
"Ah understand that, but Rainbow could protect ya even better, and yet she couldn't even wake up while another pony was there, let alone if a bug was there. So, to cut the story short, ah offered to look after ya'll instead of her. She got upset, and left."
Everyone went silent. Then of all the ponies to answer, it would be the smallest pony there.
"Are ya'll CRAZY?!" yelled Apple Bloom. Applejack was a gasped by her sisters reaction, even Twi and Nilla were, but they too agreed with Bloom.
"Why would you say something like that to anyone? Let alone Rainbow Dash, your best friend." said Twilight, waiting for a good reason for AJ to disrespect Dash.
"Ah was only thinkin of yer safety Twilight." she said in a shaky voice, knowing that Twilight was right in some ways.
"So was Rainbow" said Vanilla. Then the room went dead silent for a few minutes. No one could have another thing to say for a long while. Until that tiny voice once again had to break the silence.
"Why don't we just find her and apologize?" Apple Bloom asked. The others looked right at her, as if she was Celestia herself. She seemed to be the only one with logical answers.
"But where would she be?" asked Vanilla. "She would be somewhere else by now."
"Lets check out our friends places first. Lets go to Rarity's first." said Twilight.
"Good idea. You can come if ya want Apple Bloom, in case Sweetie Belle is there." said Applejack. Bloom just brightly smiled, and nodded. Bloom then gave the two tiny ponies to AJ, in which she placed them in the inside of her hat. When AJ put her hat back on, it was like it went from light, to pitch black.
"Ya'll okay in there?" asked AJ.
"Yeah, just very dark in here." replied Twilight. Applejack just gave a little chuckle, and they went on their way. It was a very bumpy ride to say the least. At least when Dash flied, it wasn't bumpy. And at least here, it wasn't like they could just easily fly off of her head. And being they were in an enclosed area, the smell of Applejack's sweaty scalp was getting stronger the longer they traveled.
Luckily, for Nilla and Twi, they arrived at the boutique. AJ knocked, Rarity answered, and let them both in. Luckily for Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle was there, and said that their other close friend Scootaloo would join them later. While the two fillies played, AJ took off her hat and allowed the tiny ponies to climb onto her hoof. After being in the sauna-like mane for a while, they got on with no problem. AJ placed the two on the table, then felt her mane and felt she was sweating, and blushed.
"Hehehe, ah guess ah shoulda left mah hat off, huh?" she said.
"You think?" said Twilight.
"So what brings you all here?" asked Rarity, as it looked like she was making breakfast for everyone, or at least her and Sweetie Belle. She always was a late sleeper, so it made sense that they ate later.
"Well, we wanted to ask ya: Did Rainbow Dash come by here at all today?" asked AJ.
"Why no darling" Rarity replied. "Why would she come by?"
"It's kinda a long story." said AJ.
"Oh, well I have to check on something regarding one of my clients, can you trot and talk?" said Rarity.
"Sure. Ah'm sure they wanna cool off fer a bit. We'll be back guys" AJ said, talking to the tiny ponies. And without another word, the two bigger mares left.
"You think they should've taken us with them?" asked Twilight.
"I don't see why. We should be fine up here." said Vanilla.
"Well I know we're out of harms way on this table" said Twi "but we're alone up here."
"True, but it's not like there's any other predators here". Just when Vanilla said that, they saw a shadow, creeping across the floor. At first they thought it was the crusaders, but there was no quakes made. They were confused until they heard what sounded to be little roars, almost like a lion. Wait, lion? More like a house cat to normal ponies.......... CAT?!
Rounding the corner, was Rarity's cat, Opalescence. They forgot about her, and apparently, so did Rarity. After seeing her, Twi and Nilla had to hide somewhere, and fast. Nilla knew first hoof, that cats and anything that was tiny, not a good mix. They looked for the first place they could hide in, and without thinking , saw a bowl right next to them, and climbed inside. When they landed inside though, they didn't expect it to be filled already. Twilight surfaced and coughed.
"*cough* Why did we go into a bowl *cough* filled already?!" she exclaimed. Vanilla quickly placed a hoof over her mouth and shushed her. They looked up and saw the massive girth of Opal walking over the bowl. Now that she was close, now they could hear each booming step she took. The two ponies hoped to Celestia that they didn't land in her drinking bowl. They looked around and saw strange looking objects just floating in the bowl, and swam close to one of them, hoping it would block Opals view of them. Twilight took one smell of the object, and froze in fear.
"This is a cereal bowl......." she whispered in fear.
As the two tiny ponies floated aimlessly along the large lake of corn puffs, the gigantic feline sniffed around the area, for they knew she could smell them. Every step Opal took sent small ripples, or small waves to our tiny duo. Vanilla had told Twilight many times that a tiny being's worst enemy is a cat, for they ate ANY creature smaller than it.
All of a sudden, Opal seemed to have given up on the search for her meaty lunch, which seemed to relieve the stress of Twi and Nilla. But it was forlorn, for Opal soon turned her attention to the bowl they were floating in, and her eyes told the whole story. She was going to get "some" form of food, even if having to sneak some of the ponies food.
"What ever happens, stay quiet." Vanilla whispered. Twilight nodded, but was so scared out of her skin. She watched in horror as the monster's face leaned in and started lapping up the milky lake, along with some flakes of cereal. Her tongue was like a whale's tail fin slapping against the milk, and scooping up. What made things worse, was that the force of Opal's slurping was changing the tide, and slowly pulling the ponies in closer.
"I'm scared Nilla." whispered Twilight. "Me too....." he replied. When they were just a couple tiny feet away from being slurped, a booming voice broke the mood.
"HEY! Get away from our cereal Opal!" it said. Who ever it was, seemed to scare Opal off, giving the tiny ponies a sigh of relief. At least they weren't going to be cat food. But they soon remembered that the voice said, "our cereal". Soon, the large bowl they were in began to shake around and rock violently. Twi and Nilla were separated by the currents, but not by much, since they WERE in a bowl.
Soon enough, a shadow loomed over the tiny bowl, and for once, it was a horrific, yet hopeful sight. The giant who carried the bowl had a sort of purple mane, and orange coat. It was the pegasus filly, Scootaloo. She seemed to also be carrying the other bowls with her on a tray. You could soon hear a rhythm of booms, followed by a rough rock in the bowl, meaning that she must be trotting as well.
"SCOOTALOO! WE'RE IN THE BOWL!" Twilight screamed. The titan filly didn't even glance downwards. Soon, Scoots would go up the stairs, making the ride even rougher. By now, Vanilla couldn't even see Twilight anymore due to the flakes blocking his view. They didn't block his view of Scootaloo though.
"SCOOTALOO!! DOWN HERE!!!" he yelled. And in return, he got nothing. She looked ahead, and sometimes looked down, so she can make sure she keeps the tray balanced in her hoof. She was young, and not quite experienced with doing stuff like this by herself.
"Hey crusaders! I brought breakfast!" she boomed, as she entered Rarity's bedroom. The others would give a booming "YAAAAY!"
"I wish Rarity would have the time to at least serve us, or at even spend a little time with us." said Sweetie Belle.
"Yeah, mah sister is always busy." Apple Bloom replied. "But when she isn't, we always find something fun to do."
"You girls are lucky to even have sisters." Scootaloo added. This caught the tiny ears of Twilight and Vanilla. "I really wish that Rainbow Dash would notice me a lot more. It's like she never has any time for me, and I have no one to look up to."
"Maybe if ya'll just go ahead and tell her how ya'll feel, maybe she will. It ain't like she's busy like the others." Bloom replied.
"I wish she would hear us. I'd know what to say." Twilight tried to tell Vanilla from across the bowl. All of a sudden, Scootaloo was pulled away from the view of the two, and then was replaced by the gigantic view of the giantess known as Sweetie Belle. This must've been HER cereal bowl.
"I feel bad for them. Opal had to get her germs all in it." Nilla said to Twilight.
"Not funny right now." she replied. They then saw the looming silver saucer hover over the bowl, and soon plunged into the milky waters. It came back up and took some flakes along with it. All that was on it went into Sweetie's mouth. The loud crunching noises that she made as she chewed sent Twilight into a panic.
"GIRLS!! LOOK IN THE BOWL!!! WE'RE IN THE BOWL!!! HEY!!!" she screamed. Once again, the silver saucer went into the bowl, but this time, went straight for Twilight. "NOOO!!" she screamed. But it was too late, for the saucer was directly underneath her, and arose from the murky milky depths of the lake. Twilight looked over the edge of the spoon, and could finally see Vanilla, and saw that he was worried about her, and desperately tried to swim to where she just was. She looked behind her, and saw nothing but a white furry wall that kept going down. But in reality, she was going up to possibly her doom.
She soon came face to lips with the gigantic maw of Sweetie Belle. Twilight was more than intimidated by the sight of the titanic child at this size and angle. While in Sweetie's perspective, she's just holding a spoon full of cereal.
"SWEETIE BELLE!!! PLEASE HEEEEELP!!!" Twilight screamed in tears, hoping her tiny voice can carry to her giant ears.
"THIS BRAND OF CEREAL YOUR SIS BOUGHT IS REALLY GOOD." Sweetie lowly boomed, being she's so big and close to Twi. And then she opened her gaping maw, revealing the saliva coated cavern of her mouth. It let off a large wall of hot air to the tiny unicorn. Vanilla was full of tears, and had to look away.
"I'm sorry Sweetie Belle." Twilight said in regret. She charged up her horn, and let out a good blast of energy toward one of Sweetie's teeth. It hit it's mark, and the titan let out a booming "OUCH!"
"What's wrong Sweetie Belle?" asked Scootaloo.
"Something hurt my tooth." Sweetie replied. While rubbing her tooth with her tongue, she glanced down toward her spoon, and saw a tiny purple speck in her spoon, apart from the yellow corn flakes. This made her jump and drop the spoon, sending Twilight flying off the spoon, and onto the carpet, in front of the towering fillies.
When the whole ordeal was over, and he saw Sweetie Belle drop the spoon, Vanilla used one of the cereal floats as a lift to reach the edge of the bowl, and finally climb out. While he was climbing out, he could hear the fillies talking to each other.
"Ewww, there was a bug in my cereal. And it hurt my tooth." said Sweetie. She was making a chilled motion, as a lady would do if she saw something fowl.
"I think it's still moving." said Scootaloo. "Squish it, now!"
Sweetie nodded, and raised her hoof above Twilight's unconscious body. As she was about to crush the life out of the tiny unicorn, Vanilla quickly rushed to her side, and waved up to the giant filly unicorn, urging her to stop. Scootaloo saw this, and smiled. "Cool, a two for one shot.". Apple Bloom on the other hand, looked at the two bugs, confused about why on was so eager to protect the other, until she remembered earlier, and her eyes grew wide. "SWEETIE! WAIT!" she yelled.
Down below, Twilight slowly woke up, and saw Vanilla by her side, waving off the giant hoof from Sweetie Belle that was about to crush them both. She suddenly had a feeling of both fear, and urge to protect Vanilla. This in turn, sent a surge of magic straight to her horn, and sent a large amount of magic to all three of the fillies. The fillies were surprised when they saw themselves surrounded by an aura of magic, and two of them didn't know why.
"Sweetie, what are you doing?" said Scootaloo.
"I-I'm not doing this." Sweetie replied.
"Ah know who is." Apple Bloom softly added.
All of a sudden, the room was suddenly illuminated by a bright light. It grew brighter and brighter until everything went black. Vanilla was the first to regain his eyesight again, and everything was normal, except for one question: 'Where were the girls?' He looked around. "Oh I hope Twilight didn't......." He stopped, and looked down. At his hooves were three little fillies, lying unconsious. The crusaders. Vanilla first sighed in relief, glad that they weren't disintegrated. But now they had a bigger problem, now THEY were shrunk.
Twilight slowly stood up, holding her head. "W-What happened?" she asked, still woozy and light-headed. Vanilla ran up to her, and was like a crutch. "Okay, Twilight, I got some good news, and some bad news." he said. Twilight looked at Vanilla with fear. "The girls! What happened to the girls?!" she yelled. Vanilla rubbed his ear, and explained. "Well, the good news is you didn't kill them.". She gave a big sigh in relief. "Okay. Now what's the bad news?" she asked. "Well........ " Vanilla stopped, and just pointed to the fillies a few feet away, lying on the floor, slowly waking up. "Oh my goodness!" she exclaimed.
As the fillies woke up, they still had to adjust their hearing. They could barely make out the blurred sound of arguing. When they fully regained consciousness, they saw Twilight Sparkle, and quickly ran up to her and hugged her. "TWILIGHT!!" They all yelled with glee. "Ya'll got big again!" Apple Bloom said. The other fillies looked at her confused. "Well, she was shrunk early this mornin'. And we brought her and Vanilla Beam here, and ah guess they got in yer cereal Sweetie." she said with a blush.
Soon Sweetie and Scoots blushed, and bowed their heads. "Sorry about that" they both said. "Oh it's okay, it could've happened to anypony, believe me." Twilight said with a nervous smile. "But we're so glad ya'll got big again." Bloom said. Then she looked up to the other stallion. "Wow Vanilla, ya'll got big too? Awesome! Yer really tall." she said with a really cute head tilt. All Vanilla could do was give a nervous smile and laugh.
"We better go tell our sisters." Sweetie said. "And you can tell Rainbow Dash, Scootaloo......... Scootaloo?" She was confused. Scootaloo had wide eyes, and her jaw was dropped. This confused the fillies, but the adults knew why she had her jaw dropped. Soon the other fillies looked behind the adults, and saw the huge stadium-sized bowl of cereal, and ironically, Sweetie Belle's bowl. Soon all of their tiny mouth's dropped. They slowly panned around their room, and soon saw it was the size of manehatten.
"T-Twilight... what happened to us?" asked Sweetie Belle. You could tell she was a little scared. The fillies then began to trot around. Twilight was embarrassed, because she herself didn't even fully know what happened. "Well, when you went to squish us, my magic suddenly recharged and I uh, ended up shrinking you three, I guess out of protection." Twilight said in an nervous tone.
"This is............ SO AWESOME!!!" Scootaloo exclaimed. "Look at how big everything is!"
"This opens up a whole line of crusading possibilities." Sweetie Belle said, then their eyes lit up. "Cool! It's one of Rarity's slippers." she said, as she ran to it. The others looked confused, as Sweetie climbed into the sole of the extremely fuzzy hoofwear. "It's so soft and bouncy!" she exclaimed as she began to bounce in the slipper. The other fillies immediately burst with glee, and quickly joined her side and bounced with her. Twilight and Vanilla sat there and smiled, loving the fun the tiny fillies were having.
"Now, how do we explain this to their sisters?" Vanilla asked. Twilight shook her head, and looked at him. "I know that they won't be the happiest bunch. But maybe we can finally get Rainbow Dash to finally come back so we can talk to her." she said.
"Well, first we gotta make sure we can get the others attention first." he added.
As soon as he said that, there was a slight boom, in the background. Then another, and another. And each one got louder, and louder. It even shook the floor. The other fillies were already bouncing, so they didn't notice at first. "Someone's coming" said Vanilla.
"OH GIRLS. IS TWILIGHT AND VANILLA IN THERE WITH YOU?" exclaimed the booming voice. The fillies covered their ears to how loud it was. "W-Was that......... Rarity?" Sweetie asked. Soon enough, the door creaked open, and there stood the gargantuan mass of the fabulous unicorn, blissfully unaware, of the now 5 tiny ponies on the floor.
"Sweetie Belle? Apple Bloom? Scootaloo?" the unicorn asked as she stepped in to the seemingly empty room. "Are you fillies in here girls?" she asked, looking around. Unknowing to her, the room wasn't empty. All she had to do, was look down. For the tiny ponies on the floor were screaming up to the Equestrian giant before them, just stomping by and quaking the earth.
"RARITY!! WE'RE DOWN HERE!!! CAN'T YOU HEAR ME!?!" screamed her little sister Sweetie Belle. By now, "little" was a perfect word to describe her, and the other fillies now. They all were screaming up to her, while Twilight and Vanilla kept standing watch, making sure the fillies don't move in her path.
*BOOM!* *BOOM!* *BOOM!* *BOOM!* I guess they went out to play. And I guess took the others with them. Oh I DO hope they're careful with the fragile darlings. *BOOM!* *BOOM!* *BOOM!*. Rarity's constant walking made it very hard for the fillies to stay standing.
"Geez! Can she walk any more heavier?" Scootaloo said. "Or talk any louder?" Apple Bloom added, covering her ears. "Well this is how all you giants are." Vanilla answered. "She's talking and walking as she normally would. We're all just teeny tiny now. You fillies were no different than Rarazilla here." Him pointing this out made the crusaders blush, thinking about how monstrous they must have seemed before they got shrunk. Sweetie Belle especially, since she had the two tiny ponies in her cereal bowl, AND almost ate them too.
Just then, she looked up, and saw her BIG sister looming right above her. Casting a shadow that looked to stretch miles over her. She was looking around from side to side, but not down. "Oh please Rarity, just look down. I'm right in front of you. Please." begged Sweetie Bell. Suddenly, as if her sister actually heard her, she tilted her head down, and scanned the floor. "YES! OVER HERE! HELP US!!" she screamed.
"Ahhh~ There you are. I've been looking high and low for you~" she boomed. "FINALLY!!" Sweetie squeed in delight. She then turned to the others under the bed. "Hey guys! She found me! We're saved!" she beamed. She turned and looked up to her sister, and her expression did a 180. Her sister had her hoof lifted in the air, and then she boomed, "How did you get into Sweetie's room? Oh well, back where you belong my little hoof comforter". Her hoof began to descend, obviously wanting to wear her own slipper, and unaware to her, her own sister.
"RARITY!!! NOOOOOO!!!" Sweetie screamed in terror. She couldn't catch her sister's attention, and all she could do was brace for impact. That was, until Vanilla quickly rushed to her aid. "I got ya" he said, throwing her onto his back, and ran as quick as his legs could carry them. And just in time. For her hoof had plummeted into the soft sole of her hoof accessory.
"*pant* *pant* *pant* You alright Sweetie?" Vanilla asked, trying to catch his breath. Sweetie was almost on the verge of tears by now. "S-She almost crushed me..... and she didn't even know it." she shakingly said. Her face was still in terror. "I wanna be normal again." she pleaded. "Twilight, please fix us!" she said. Twilight could only bow her head in guilt.
"I...... I wish I could. I don't even know how to fix myself." Twilight replied. You could hear just how sorry she was, now putting the lives of the fillies at stake. "But I promise we will find a way to get their attention, and get you back to normal." she stated. The fillies then surrounded her in a big hug. Twilight looked to Vanilla in a very sad look. He gave her a nod back, knowing she never let anyone down before, and knew she wouldn't now.
Just then, they all looked back up at the giant unicorn, who just had her hoof with the slipper up, examining it. "Well, I think this slipper is last season anyway. Sweetie Belle can have them all." she boomed. She then levitated it off her hoof, and placed it back on the floor, and her now empty hoof slammed down next to it with a big *BOOOOOM*. The other ponies all fell over from the impact. "Oh well, time to go to Sugar Cube Corner to meet the others. Maybe the fillies will go there later." she said with a smile.
"We'll have a better chance at getting noticed over there, than just staying in this room." Vanilla said. The others agreed and nodded. "That's a good plan and all, but how do we get there?" Apple Bloom asked. "It's not like we can just go up and walk there. It'll take decades before we even get outside the boutique."
Just then, Scootaloo spotted something. "Hey look" she said. "Her tail is pretty low. Lets climb on it and hitch a ride." The others loved that idea, and made a dash for her tail. "Hurry! She's about to walk away!" Sweetie Belle stated. She was right. Rarity began to lift up her hooves one by one, and slammed them down. As her tail passed by, it lightly swung in the air. They each made a leap for it. And each one made their targets. They wrapped themselves with the hair strands, though here they looked more like purple cords. Once safely fastened, they could finally enjoy the ride.
"WEEEEEEE!" yelled the crusaders. Obviously, their time of terror turned into a time of fun in no time at all. Twi and Vanilla both rolled their eyes and smiled. And as the tail swung as she trotted, Twilight leaned over to Vanilla, and leaned against him.
"What's this about?" he asked.
"Being small is exhausting." she said in a very tired voice. Vanilla smiled, and patted her head. "You're such a newbie." he said with a chuckle. She just shook it off.
"Thank you for being here for me." she said. "Anything for my friends." he replied.
Being that the gang of tinies were...... so tiny, time seemed to go a lot slower. Normal steps from the giant equines took about maybe three seconds to lift and stomp down, rather than at most one second. It was the same story when it came to Rarity. It would normally take about say...... ten minutes to get from The Carousel Boutique to Sugar Cube Corner by hoof, but from the little ponies point of view, it probably was going to take a half an hour. Luckily, the ride wasn't that rough, aside from climbing down the stairs of the Boutique, that was a wild ride to say the least.
Riding in Rarity's tail was actually quite relaxing. The curliness of her tail made it very easy to just sit in it, and not having to worry about falling to your imminent and immediate doom. Rarity didn't seem to be in a rush, so she had no need to run, and risk having one of the fillies loose their grip and be flung off to their deaths. Not to mention, her gentle and elegant trotting lightly swung her tail to and fro. And being that she bathed like twice a day, her tail had the most delightful fragrance to ever grace your nostrils, opposed to though, the layers of perfume that she applied to the front of her that would set your nose a blaze even when you're not the size of an ant.
The ride was so relaxing and calm, all three of the small fillies felt the need to take a nap after all that they went through in such a short amount of time. Sweetie Belle was tense the least out of the three. Yes she almost was crushed by the same house sized hoof that rubbed her and calmed her whenever she was scared or sad, but Rarity was still her sister, and she knew she still loved her "little" sister. Sweetie Belle felt more secure than ever as she laid in the thorns and vines and soft bristles of her "BIG" sisters tail like a blanket.
Twilight Sparkle and Vanilla Beam just sat next to each other and watched the fillies sleep, making sure they were safe. This would be an everyday sight for Vanilla, but this was a whole new perspective for the unicorn in training. She looked up and around at the purple cocoon-like structure, made of the same soft cords that make up the tail on her very own flank. And accompanied with this sight, the sounds of Rarity stomping like a giant on the outside made Twilight's nerves stand on edge. Vanilla could see she was a little scared, and eased himself over toward her to comfort her. Twilight was a little jumpy at first, but quickly calmed down to see it was only her best friend coming to caress her.
"I never thought that riding in your best friend's tail would be so........ intimidating, yet relaxing." said Twilight, looking all around again.
"Yeah, but once you're as small as I am, and as long as I've been, you eventually get use to it with any situation. Whether rough, or easy, the rides all feel the same to me." Vanilla said. Twilight had that thought of being tiny forever, but those thoughts erased from her mind when she remembered that she would eventually get big again. She then began conversing with Vanilla again.
"How did it feel when you were first shrunk?" she asked. "Y-You don't have to answer that if you don't feel like it.".
Vanilla just shrugged. "Eh, I don't mind telling. I'd rather have people know and understand than put a mask of bravery when that's not me." he said. "When Hexel first shrank me and threw me out into the new world of giants, I was pretty freaked out. No one seemed to notice me, no matter how loud I screamed, no one's ears seemed to pick me up from all the way down here. And even if the giants did see me, they would look at me as some weird looking white ant, and then proceed to grab the nearest pesticide and try to spray me dead, or do it the old fashion way and just stomp stomp stomp." Twilight could tell that Vanilla was getting a little uncomfortable retelling the story of his past, but he pressed on.
"It wasn't just the giants I had to worry about. I also had to deal with: rushing rivers created by watering cans, the bombs of rain drops, giant carnivorous bugs, and lawn mowers....... " Vanilla was shuddering at those two words, as they were the worst things he could ever remember from his first days of being shrunk. "But the worst thing I had to deal with when I was first shrunk.............. was the feeling of loneliness." he said, with a growing sadness that started to show. "Ever since my parents died, I always had to deal with the feeling of being alone. But when I was shrunk, that feeling grew as big as the world itself. To scream for someone to just look down, and help me, and to not have any kind of response, it was just.......... horrible." She could hear the shakiness of his voice, and she sat closer to him, and wrapped a forearm around him.
"But the day when Fluttershy found me on the ground, I had to be the luckiest young stallion in the world, because I don't know how much farther I could've gone on before I would've given up and just let a pony passing by just squish me." he said. "Oh come on now." said Twilight, trying to reassure Vanilla of those negative thoughts. "I really mean it Twilight. I was so down on my luck, but Fluttershy found me and took me in, and then you all joined in and gave me a new family. And YOU Twilight, you became the best friend that I never could've dreamed of having. And that's why it's my job to protect you and the little ones, I never thought I would ever have this opportunity to thank you for giving me everything I needed to be happy again."
Twilight warmly smiled and gave Vanilla a sweet, tender hug, which Vanilla graciously returned back to her. "I'm glad that you have been my closest friend for so long, and I love you so much." he said to her. Those words made Twilight blush brightly, though she knew what he meant. "I love you too Vanilla, I always have, and will." she replied as they released the hug. "I just wished everyone had a better memory of me like you do." Vanilla said. "Everyone seems to have forgotten that I even existed, unless I am reminded to them. Even Princess Luna almost forgot I existed. How can a princess even forget the only pony the size of an ant?" he said, almost in a depressing manor. Twilight just rubbed his back.
"Oh you just need to get closer to the girls like you are with me. And as for Luna, I'm sure even though she comes into everypony's dreams, I'm sure she's seen you lots of times, but just forgot you were tiny. It happens sometimes." Twilight spoke with understanding, but knew that it was probably just a misunderstanding that they were sometimes forgetful of her tiny best friend.
"But lets not dwindle on that subject Vanilla, I think we're almost at Sugar Cube Corner." she said as she poked her head out of the wall of purple cords. She could see past the wall of white fur that was Rarity's belly, and see the gingerbread made store just standing there, like a castle for giants itself drawing near.
"Alright, I guess we should wake the fillies up now." said Vanilla as he made his way toward the crusaders.
After what seemed like an hour, when normally it takes about five minutes to get to Sugarcube Corner from the Boutique, Rarity finally arrived to the sweet style bakery with the teeny tiny stowaways. As said before, the bakery to the tiny ponies no appeared to be like a huge fortress. It was even bigger than Canterlot Castle to them. I wonder how big the actual castle appears to them now. The giant unicorn then entered the establishment, and immediately upon entering, the ponies were hit with a HUGE wall of an aroma that smelled quite familiar. The smell of the pastries already presented in the front counter, though always a pleasure to smell when visiting SCC, smelt so enticing when the size of an ant.
The fillies mouths began to drool over the aromas of the cakes, cupcakes, and pies. Even Vanilla, though trying to stay focused for the group, couldn't help but get caught in the spell of the chocolate/vanilla swirl cakes. Of course, having to play the ring leader, Twilight snapped Vanilla out of his trance.
"Come on you big lug." she said with a smirk. She meant well, and wasn't trying to spoil the moment, but she knew they had more important things to do. Vanilla shook himself awake once more, regaining his concentration.
"Right right, I'm back." he said. "Now, first of all, we gotta wait until Rarity stops so we can exit her tail safely and not worry about becoming a smudge on her overly polished hooves". He waited for the right time for Rarity to stop stomping along. He peeked out and saw that she wasn't alone.
Sitting at one of the tables were Applejack and Fluttershy. Rarity seemed to be heading that way. This was a better omen, because at least the more of their friends that were there, the more of a chance to be discovered, and not squished. But then the giants began to speak, causing the tinies to covering their ears.
"Howdy Rarity. 'Bout time ya showed up." Applejack boomed. She must've been waiting for Rarity to arrive for a while now, for she sounded a little impatient, though not angry.
"Oh I do apologize Applejack, but I had a few more adjustments to my latest work before I could join you." Rarity replied.
"Well, ya'll can just sit and make yerself comfy." said AJ. "Pinkie Pie's making us some snacks while we sit and chat about how we can help Twilight." Fluttershy said.
"Don't mind if I do." Rarity said, as she pulled out a chair, and sat down. The whole simple motion swung the tinies all around, making every one of them dizzy.
"Geez Rarity. You think you can plant your butt down any rougher?" Sweetie Belle said, her eyes still googled.
"A-Alright gang." Vanilla said, as he shook himself again back to normal. "Now that our ride has "parked", we can now dismount the Rarity. Now since her tail is weirdly shaped, we can just slide right off it". He then sat onto one of the rope-like strands of her tail. "Everypony ready?" he asked. Everyone gave a nod as each of them did the same thing.
"Alright everyone, see you at the bottom." Vanilla said, as he then pushed himself forward, and off he went. The soft, twisting form of Rarity's tail, created the perfect slide for an ant sized being. Even though she probably wouldn't really appreciate her tail being used as a toy, she didn't even notice, so no harm no foul. Vanilla then landed onto the cold wooden floor, making sure not to fall within the caverns of the cracks in the floorboard. He then looked back up. Rarity looked absolutely humongous, and sitting in the chair made her even bigger. She and the orange giantess were still conversing as normal, like she didn't feel a thing.
Meanwhile, in the confines of the purple ropes, Twilight was preparing the crusaders for their trips down. They all gave the confirmation that they were ready, and one by one, they each slid down her tail. You could hear the overjoyed "weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"'s coming from the fillies. Vanilla smiled, glad that the crusaders were finding some kind of fun with their new world. One by one, each of the giggling fillies reached the bottom of the tail. Sweetie Belle seemed to be the most ecstatic.
"That was the most fun I've ever had with my big sister!" she beamed. Vanilla just smiled down to her and messed up her mane playfully. There was only one pony left, and surprisingly, she went down the tail with a great big "WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!". Twilight then landed very sloppily at the bottom, tumbling to the floor. The girls just giggled at the silly antics of Twilight. Vanilla smirked and helped her to her hooves.
"Sounded like you had a great ride, huh?" Vanilla asked, very slyly. Twilight just blushed and nudged his shoulder with her hoof. They all shared a little giggle.
This lasted until the giants above started to giggle as well, causing the tinies to again cringe and cover their ears. This made them remember that they weren't out of the woods yet. They still needed to get one of their giant friends to see them. As the two adults tried to decide to which of the giants to lean toward who won't stomp on them out of pure instinct, the children once again were easily distracted. They soon caught the strongest aroma coming straight from the kitchen.
"mmmmmmm~ caramel." said Scootaloo. "You all thinking what I'm thinking?" she said quietly. The other fillies nodded their heads, and decided to head toward the kitchen, which luckily for them, was right next to where their giant sisters were sitting. As they passed by, Apple Bloom looked up and saw the towering behemoth that she calls her "big" sister. She thought that this was karma for the way she acted toward Applejack during the poison joke incident. Her booming voice and towering figure intimidated the little filly, and one stomp of her massive hoof sent the tiny filly scattering into the kitchen even faster.
Meanwhile, Vanilla and Twilight were still pondering which of the giants to gain the attention of.
"Well, Applejack is one of the most dependable of ponies, and she seems to be the only one who is focused on keeping us safe." Vanilla stated.
"Yes, but Applejack can be just as careless around bugs as anyone outside." Twilight retorted. "But Fluttershy is the most gentle around any type of creature. That includes miniscule bugs that can be as small as fleas". Vanilla had to admit, Fluttershy WAS the one who found him after he shrank. So she would be their best bet.
"Okay girls, we're going to Fluttershy's." Twilight said. ".......... girls?" They both turned to find the girls gone, then looked around, and saw them no where in sight. Then Vanilla caught the scent of the sweet caramel coming from the kitchen. They instantly got the idea to run into the giant doorway, and once inside, they were relieved to see the crusaders safe and sound. But then that all changed, when they saw a house-sized hoof lifting over them. They seemed frozen in fear, and needed to move.
"GIRLS! RUN!" Vanilla screamed as he ran after them. They all shook themselves awake, and scattered all over the floor. Luckily, as the hoof made a deafening BOOM! there was no one underneath. Twilight gazed up in horror, for the owner of the hoof, belonged to Pinkzilla, or normally, Pinkie Pie.
"LA LA LAA LALA LALAAAA" the pink giant boomed, as she danced and pranced around the kitchen, preparing her snack for her friends outside, while unaware that she was causing absolute chaos for her other friends on the floor. Everywhere where the tiny ponies tried to run, the giggling giantess seemed to block their path with the simple stomp of her hoof. The crusaders were screaming for dear life that the ecstatic pink pony would stop and notice them on the floor, but to no avail. Pinkie's singing and dancing seemed to be the only things on her mind aside from making her treat and breathing. As she was passing by, Scootaloo was blown to Twilight from the impact of the BOOM of Pinkie's hoof.
"Are you alright?" Twilight asked Scoot, very concerned of her safety. Scootaloo just nodded to Twilight, she could barely get a word out, she had so much fear in her eyes. Twilight looked up and saw Vanilla had grabbed the other fillies and put them on his back. He gave a nod to Twilight, ensuring they were okay. Twilight let out a sigh of relief, glad that everyone was safe........... for now.
"LOOK OUT!" screamed Vanilla. Twilight looked and saw her world was being shrouded in shadow. Twilight looked up and saw a giant blanket being dropped on top of both her and Scootaloo. Vanilla quickly ran to save his best friend and the little one when another pink hoof BOOMED in front of him, followed by a booming voice.
"Oh clumsy me~ hehehehehe." Pinkzilla chimed as she reached for the blanket, which to her, was probably a cleaning cloth. She scooped everything up, and that even meant the tiny unicorn and tinier pegasus. Vanilla could hear their muffled screams within the cloth prison. He quickly ran after them, hoping they wouldn't fall. A fall from that kind of height was definitely fatal.
As Pinkie trotted around with the cloth, she used it to rub the edges of the bowl she was using to make caramel. Unfortunately, upon doing so the little ponies were released into the gigantic, thick lake of corn syrup, sugar and water. But look on the bright side, now Scootaloo finally got her caramel treat. As they thrashed around in the sticky substance, Scootaloo began getting hysterical.
"Twilight! I'm so sorry! You wouldn't be in here if I didn't wander away from you! And now we're gonna die!" she yelled, gasping for air, and on the verge of tears. Twilight just swam over to her.
"It's alright Scootaloo. I know you didn't mean it. And we're not going to die. We're going to get out of here and-" she then let out a horrific gasp as a giant, red object seemed to be coming down from the heavens, and doing a nose dive into the ocean of caramel. The other tinies on the floor could see what Pinkzilla was putting into the bowl.
"She's makin' caramel apples!" Apple Bloom shouted. "She's gonna trap the others on one of the apples and eat em up!" Vanilla looked around for something to help his friends in the bowl. His eyes then met something very.......... very puzzling, but it was just the solution he needed.
"There! See that?" he said. "It's a string, and it goes right up to Pinkie's head." The crusaders all saw it and looked at in confusion.
"Why would Pinkie Pie have a string tied onto her head that reaches all the way to the floor?" asked Sweetie Belle.
"I don't know, but it's our only way to help Twilight and Scootaloo. Come on!" and with that he ran as fast as his legs could carry him, with Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle bouncing all the way on his back. They all looked up at the gigantic form of Pinkie Pie's fur filled belly. It loomed over the tinies like the whole city of Cloudsdale. The fillies were in awe looking up to it, while Vanilla focused on getting to the rope to reach the giant's ear.
Meanwhile, Pinkie Pie finished coating all the apples in a thick coat of caramel, and one of them, contained two stowaways: Twilight Sparkle and Scootaloo. She placed an apple on each plate, and there were four plates in total. She then happily placed each plate on a tray, and proceeded to carry the tray to the dining area. Vanilla mustered just enough strength to run and leap for life, and gripped the rope just in time before the giantess began stomping along.
BOOOOOOOM BOOOOOOOOM BOOOOOOOM BOOOOOOOOM
While Vanilla began ascending the rope, Scootaloo was having a severe panic attack, all covered in layers of sticky caramel, and stuck onto a giant red fruit, about to be eaten and swallowed alive by some unsuspecting giantess.
"We're gonna be eaten alive! And it's my fault!" Scootaloo cried. Twilight did her best to reassure the young filly, and telling her that she wasn't going to die, that they were going to get out of this alive. But deep inside, even Twilight knew that she was running out of options and her appending doom was approaching. All of a sudden, the plate was lifted up by Pinkie, and set before one of the titans on the table they walked away from earlier.
"MMMMM MMMMMMM~!, ya'll really out did yerself, Pinkie Pie" the booming giantess said. The tinies skin turned pale as they looked to see the huge, hungry eyes of their close friend.
"T-Twilight, what are we gonna do?" said Scootaloo, who was just hyperventilating, being she was too stuck to tremble.
"We'll figure something out." Twilight replied. "Vanilla and the others are still down there. I'm sure they can help us, and I'm sure that if we try hard enough, we can get Applejack's attention." As she said that, the fillies started to feel the whole apple they were on just start to ascend into the air with great force. They knew that Applejack was the one who was lifting it in the air, and odds were not just to hold it up for the heck of it.
".......... I hope." Twilight thought, starting to get scared herself.
Meanwhile, Vanilla and the other crusaders were halfway up the string. They were so close to Pinkie's chest they could hear her heart booming. It moved in a simple rhythmic pattern, but it was nothing like the hearts of the tinies trying to save their friends stuck on the caramel apple. As they climbed, they could see in the blurred distance that Applejack was now ready to feast on the apple and unaware to her, her own friends.
"Okay girls, I'm gonna have to pick up the pace. Hold on tight!" Vanilla ordered, and the fillies obliged, nearly chocking him. "Good girls." he said in a strained voice. Vanilla focused on the cave at the top of the rope, that cutely twitched for some reason, sending shock waves down to the tinies trying to climb up safely. But Vanilla didn't care. He simply climbed like a mad stallion. He wanted his best friend safe, and he wouldn't stop until she was.
On the apple however, all Twilight could do was keep Scootaloo from having a heart attack, though they both were seeing the same scary sight. All that was in their sight was the face of their best friend, Applejack, who was busy talking to Fluttershy and Rarity, of course her voice like a booming hurricane as close and big her mouth was. They could even feel the gusts of wind as she spoke.
"APPLEJACK! WE'RE DOWN HERE! HELP US!" they screamed, hoping their cries weren't falling on deaf ears. Unfortunately they were. AJ didn't even flinch when they called her. But what she did do made them even more nervous. The giantess brought her muzzle closer, it sounding like a titanic object falling to the planet. It stopped mere inches from the ponies. They looked at it with wide eyes, not knowing what she was about to do, until....
WHOOOOOOOSH WHOOOOOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH
The winds were fierce, almost pulling Twi and Scoot from their prison, but not enough. Applejack seemed to be sniffing at the sweet caramel on the apple.
'Vanilla would've probably enjoyed this.' Twilight thought. Rainbow Dash usually teases him with sniffing, but unlike it being horrific as it is to them right now, it would just tickle Vanilla ferociously. But Twilight and especially Scootaloo weren't enjoying it that much.
WHOOOOSH "TWILIGHT! WHAT ARE" WHOOOOOSH "WE GONNA DO?!" WHOOSH
"JUST STAY CALM!" she replied, hoping that Applejack smells something rotten.
"Mmmmmmm~ this smells delicious." the monster Jack boomed. "Time ta dig in."
"NO! APPLEJACK! PLEASE! I DON'T WANNA BE EATEN!" Scootaloo screamed. Even now, Twilight was fearing the worst.
As Applejack was speaking of eating the caramel prison, Vanilla had finally reached the end of the rope. To all of their surprise, the string was actually tied to Pinkie's left ear. Of course there was no time for questioning, that can come later. Right now, they had to save their friends from AJ's gullet.
"Pinkie! You gotta stop Applejack! Twilight and Scootaloo are on the apple!" Vanilla yelled, hoping Pinkie would hear him. As the crusaders stood by him, they were just amazed at the pink forest of vines that completely surrounded them. Plus, the smell was actually very sweet, like an over dose of shampoo. They almost felt relaxed as they looked around, but they suddenly felt a gust of wind. They looked to see Pinkie's towering ear was twitching and flicking, again very cutely. But soon enough, a shadow started to loom over the tinies. They turned and saw that a huge, moon-sized object was descending toward their bodies. Closer examination saw that it was actually her hoof, coming in to scratch her head.
"Quick! In her ear!" Vanilla exclaimed. The fillies nodded and quickly ran into her cave of an ear, Vanilla not far behind. Outside, her hoof impacted with the pink earth around them, and began rubbing all around, seemingly searching for whatever was causing the "itch".
"Hmmmm, I wonder where that squeaking came from." she boomed to herself, echoing within the cave.
"What was that?" Rarity asked, already eaten half of her apple.
"Oh, must be nothing." Pinkie replied. "Go on and eat it up, Applejack before the bugs get stuck to it."
"Oh gee, thanks a lot Pinkie." Twilight said with sarcasm. But no time for that kind of joking around, because Scootaloo started screaming like crazy. When Twilight saw what the filly saw, Twilight let out a scream as well. Applejack slowly leaded her maw in once again, but this time her mouth was opened wide. It was the biggest cave they had ever seen.
Good news was, Applejack was not aiming her mouth to the tinies stuck to the apple, but that's where the bad news comes in. It was right next to where they were. As her mouth leaned in, she took a huge chunk of the apple, like a giant jaw tearing off a side of the earth.
CRRRRRUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNCH
The sheer sound of her tearing into the apple was a horrendous sound to Twilight, who by now couldn't believe her own best friend could cause so much destruction and chaos to such a tiny scale. She was finally too scared for words now, unlike Scootaloo. She on the other hoof had started crying uncontrollably. She could never imagine her best friends "big" sister doing something so horrifying and to do it with an unknowing smile. All she could do was call out to the only one she could look up to.
"RAINBOW DASH! HELP ME! RAINBOW DASH! DON'T LET HER EAT ME!!" she cried, hoping in some way she would burst in at last minute and save her, but of course that didn't happen, as the watched Applezilla chewing away at the chunk of apple that she tore off. After a while of chewing, there was soon a sinister sound of a gulp. As soon as the apple was torn off, just as fast it was heading to Applejack's stomach to be digested. She then licked her lips, satisfied with the taste, and prepared to get another mouthful.
Meanwhile, Vanilla, Apple Bloom, and Sweetie Belle were huddled within the cavern of Pinkie Pie's ear, blocked by her hoof digging into her ear. While they were scared of being crushed by Pinkie, they soon heard outside a crunching noise, and Vanilla's gut soon churned, remembering that right now isn't the time to be afraid. So seeing that he was closer to her ear more than ever, Vanilla had to let it out.
"PINKIIIIIIIIIIE! It's VANIIIILLAAAAAA! LISTEN TO ME!" he screamed.
Again, the cave above them started to flatten itself, meaning her ear was flicking again, knocking the wind out of all three of them.
"Oh~! Hello Vanilla." she boomed. "I'm so glad you found the little string I tied to my ear in case one of you wanted to come up to talk to ol' Jurassic Pink. Hihihihihihi~!" she giggle snorted.
"PINKIE! STOP FOOLIN' AROUND!" yelled Apple Bloom.
"Apple Bloom? You're tiny too?" she asked.
"PINKIE! TWILIGHT AND SCOOTALOO ARE ON APPLEJACK'S APPLE. YOU GOTTA STOP HER!" Vanilla yelled, hoping he wasn't too late.
Twilight and Scootaloo could only sit with tears in their eyes as Applejack's mouth opened once again, but this time directly above their tiny bodies. They could only look inside her cavernous gullet, the walls moist with saliva that shimmered in the reflection of the light on the outside. They could also feel the gale force of wind coming from her body. Her breath was also very humid, and smelt of nothing but apples, with a slight hint of caramel. It didn't make the situation any better for them.
"I'm gonna miss you all, Twilight." Scootaloo cried to Twilight.
"Oh Scootaloo....." Twilight had nothing further to say to the little filly, feeling the end was near.
"APPLEJACK! STOP!"
A booming voice could be heard, and the cave eventually stopped before it could take a bite. All the two could see what her uvula, and many many white stones, odds are, teeth. And right in the floor of the cave, a monster made of muscle and saliva.
"Pinkie, what's wrong?" the farm mare boomed, being very very close to the tiny "flies" trapped on the apple that she was about to ingest. From what Twilight could make out, someone, who sounded like a deeper version of Pinkie Pie, was trying to explain that she and Scootaloo were on the very apple in front of AJ's face. Although it was very clunky and didn't make a lick of sense. Applejack merely rolled her eyes, and moved the apple once more. By this time, Scootaloo was in a sheer state of panic, and needed someone to comfort her badly. And the fact that the moon-sized apple was moving again, it made her whimper even more.
As Twilight could only look to see what was going on, she noticed that the apple wasn't moving inside AJ's mouth anymore, but it was now moving up. She saw AJ's nose pass by, which gave off a slight gust of wind as she was breathing, and then something they were just begging for: her gigantic, emerald eye. Twilight gasped with delight as she saw her reflection inside the black abyss of her pupil. It scanned around on the planet as she searched for whatever it was that Pinkie was rambling on about.
"APPLEJACK! OVER HERE!" Twilight screamed, hoping that would get her attention. And now that AJ was paying full attention, that actually got her pupil to shoot directly in the direction of the minute voice that called onto the farm goddess. Her eye blinked a bit, not believing what it was actually seeing. It was actually big enough to cause a little breeze for the two tinies. Then, the titaness spoke again.
"Well ah'll be! Twilight! And..... is that you, Scootaloo?" she boomed, but not as loud as before now that her mouth wasn't right in front of them. Twilight had never been happier.
"YES! IT'S US! How did Pinkie know we were here?!" she exclaimed, wanting to know how they were saved just in time. Applejack of course had to relay the message back to Pinkie, who bounced over to the apple, and looked at them from higher above.
"OH! I hoofed the apples to you guys until I heard little voices in my head, which were screaming to help you girls before you were eaten by Applejack!" That answer made AJ blush, and turn her eye away from the tiny ponies.
"Heh heh. Yeah uhhh...... sorry bout that." she said, in an embarrassed, yet sorrowful apology. Twilight knew that Applejack truly was sorry. But she couldn't say the same for Scootaloo, who was just in a state of shock and fear, as she was too scared to even comprehend that she was safe. All of a sudden, Twilight and Scoot felt a warm aura surrounding their bodies, and began to tug on them. Twilight could tell from the color of the energy surrounding them it was Rarity's magic pulling them off. With little effort, they were finally freed from their sticky trap, and placed on the table before all of their gigantic friends and family.
Pinkie then leaned her head down, with a large THUD on the table, shaking things up for Twi, as she then saw three creatures climbing out of the ear of the pink mare. As they began running toward her, Twilight saw it was Vanilla and the other crusaders and she instantly ran after them, tears welling in her eyes. When she was close enough, she leaped into Vanilla's forelegs, in a tight hug.
"Thank you so much. You saved us." she said, lightly crying as well into Vanilla. He just rubbed her head, smiling. "Of course. I can't let anything happen to you down here." he replied. Meanwhile, the other crusaders wrapped Scootaloo in a tight hug, not even caring for the fact that she was all sticky from the caramel stuck in her fur. But Scoot, even though she was happy to see her friends, only wanted one thing.
"I want Rainbow Dash. I want Rainbow Dash." she said, in a very scared, and sad manner. She wanted the only thing she saw as family to comfort her. Pinkie heard her little cries, and told Fluttershy to find Dashie, to which she nodded and flew out to look for her.
"Oh dear, ah'm truly sorry. Ah would never do anythin' to hurt ya'll on purpose." said Applejack, as she soon turned and saw the tiny stature of her baby sister, who in turn was looking up to her BIG sister in awe. "Sweet Celestia, Apple Bloom. Ya'll look smaller than an apple seed." boomed the mighty AJ, which to admit, made Apple Bloom uneasy. Especially when she saw her big sis leaning down to nuzzle her, sounding like a meteor plummeting to earth with a rumble.
Sweetie Belle on the other hand had a different experience. She was already airborne, being floated by the aura of her big sister, and pressed up against a huge wall of white fur, which was simply Rarity's cheek. "Oooooh! Just look at you. You're absolutely adorable!" Rarity chirped with glee, unaware at just exactly what she was doing to her puny sister. Sweetie was heavily pressed and rubbed by the furry cheek, intoxicated by the aroma of the perfume that Rarity just happened to be wearing at the time.
"R-Rarity! Stop! You're cr-rushing me!" Sweetie said in a very strained voice. Rarity wouldn't hear of it and continued her constant colossal cuddling.
Twilight and Vanilla just stood there and watched all of this unfold with warm smiles on their faces. Each sister just pressed their muzzles on their mini sisters, and wouldn't let up. Though they still worried about the third filly, for Scootaloo was still very shaken up, and didn't want anyone else to even come near her unless they were Rainbow Dash.
"You girls have to be fixed soon. I don't know how long you all can last down here." Vanilla said to Twilight, not wanting to sound scary, but more informative. Twilight agreed, but didn't know what to do. They still needed to hear back from Princess Luna, and even then, they hoped there would be a solution to reverse the shrinking spell.
Not too long after that, a figure busted through the door, and landed in the shop in mere milliseconds. The tiny ponies on the table wobbled from the impact. They didn't know what happened at first until they heard a familiar voice.
"Where's Scootaloo? Is she alright?" boomed the mighty voice of Rainbow Dash. This made Scoot instantly sprout up and run to the edge of the table, waving her arms like a lunatic.
"RAINBOW DAAASH! OVER HERE!!!!" she screamed at the top of her lungs, as she watched her idol stomping toward the table, each step creating a fiercer quake than before. She soon reached right in front of Scoot, and all she could see was a thick wall of cyan fur. She was instantly intimidated as she watched it slightly rise up and down as the beast breathed, and gave off sounds of light thunder as her heart beat.
When Scootaloo looked up, she saw only the chin of her hero, looking side to side for her little pipsqueak. Then all of a sudden, Rainbow began to roar again.
"SCOOTALOO? WHERE ARE YOU?" she boomed above, making all the tinies cover their ears, especially Scoot. She was so scared, but wanted so bad to be comforted by her giant hero.
"RAINBOW DASH! I'M RIGHT HERE! PLEASE!" she wept. Luckily for her, the other giant mares helped Rainbow look in the right direction, and spot her little squirt. Rainbow leaned her head down, which to Scoot was like the moon itself rumbling down to impact with the planet. When they were at least face to nose with each other, Scoot couldn't hold back anymore, and instantly grabbed onto her face, hugging Dashie like never before.
"Oh Rainbow! I was so scared! I don't wanna be small anymore! I want to stay with you!" she yelled to Dash, bawling by now.
"I know I know. I'm here, squirt. I won't let anything happen to you." Rainbow boomed, though still loud, low enough to not blow out Scoot's ears. With the words she spoke, Dash's lips rubbed across the body of Scootaloo, which in a way, kind of felt nice to the mini pegasus. Dash then focused her eyes on the other mini ponies.
"And I have some great news for you all." she said. "I've found a way to fix you girls."
Rainbow Dash indeed had some great news for everyone. After Applejack had hurt Rainbow Dash's feelings, she ran off and cried at the thought that she was not careful enough with her tiny friends, and was probably not the best pony to be looking out for them. She cried for a long time, and then eventually fell asleep from exhaustion. It was like her to always nap, but this nap was different. In her dreams, she was able to talk with Princess Luna. Being Luna couldn't really leave Canterlot, she knew that Dash would be napping through the day, and that she would be able to communicate with the pegasus that way.
The two talked about what Applejack told her, and Luna reassured her that she might not be the most careful when it comes to handling the tiny ponies, but she was the element of loyalty for a reason. They could trust Dash to not let anything happen to them, and that she will do all that she could in her power to help them. And the reason Luna wanted to talk to Rainbow in the first place was the very thing that Rainbow could help.
After Luna had talked to Twilight and Vanilla, the next morning she consulted her older sister, Princess Celestia. She told her of the situation, and not only did Celestia explain why her magic wasn't working as well as it did before, but she could also restore her to her original size. When Rainbow heard the news, she couldn't wait to wake up and tell the others. She instantly gave Luna a "Pinkie Pie" sized hug that nearly broke her in half. Luna gave off a warm smile, and allowed her to wake up.
When Dash woke up, she instantly went to bolt to get the gang, but just before she could dash off, she nearly crashed into Fluttershy. Before Dash could tell Shy the good news, the yellow pegasus had to tell her some more news. News concerning a little filly who looked up to Rainbow, who was made into a much MUCH littler filly. When Dash heard about it, she bolted straight to Sugar Cube Corner, and found her little buddy, giving her a huge nuzzle and comforting her. And after calming Scootaloo down, she informed the others of the news Luna gave her, to which they were all instantly excited, and by the next day they all boarded the train to Canterlot immediately.
During the trip, all of the girls had separated into different seats. One pair of seats were reserved for the tiny ponies, and on the other seat was Rainbow Dash. She was pretty much now their watchful eye, plus Scootaloo didn't want her to leave their sight, since she was still shaken up from earlier the day before. After they made the arrangements for the train ride, they all spent the night at Pinkie's. Suffice to say, sleeping arrangements for the tinies were very difficult to make. They could've slept on a shelf, far from everyone else and safe, aside a few dust particles. But Vanilla and Scootaloo decided against it, for they wanted to sleep with Rainbow Dash, which of course made the cyan giantess blush. They all agreed, that the other two fillies would sleep with their respective giant sisters, while Scootaloo, Vanilla Beam, and Twilight Sparkle would sleep on the giant cyan mattress. The others slept fine, but Vanilla couldn't. He just sat there and kept watch over Twilight, making sure that she wasn't going to fall or get crushed or worse. Although he couldn't sleep, he was relaxed, especially in the embrace of the titanic pegasus, whose snores thundered through the air, and caused slight winds that pulled his mane back and forth. And the mattress under him expanded and deflated from the snoring as well. She had quite the cute belly. And the cutest part was if you rubbed the "floor", the earth would rumble as the giant giggled and kicked her hooves a bit.
During the train ride, that same thunderous snoring filled the air as Rainbow had curled up and drifted into her daily nap. Her face was at level with the micro ponies, and thus her breath could be felt at a huge rate and made a bit of a humid storm. The fillies didn't mind it too much, because at least she brushed that morning. Again, Vanilla just sat there and stared at the giant as she slept. His gaze though was interrupted by a tapping on his shoulder.
"You really like her, don't you?" Twilight asked the stallion. He turned to her and hesitated a bit, but then nodded.
"Yeah. I do. I mean, yeah I know she doesn't act like a normal, proper mare, but that's just it." he then looked to her again. "She's not a proper mare. She's adventurous, risk taking, and head strong. She's got a great sense of humor and such a playful pony. She has a bit of poor manners, but nothing too disgusting. She's pretty rough, but gentle enough. And not to mention, she's beautiful."
Twilight just sat there next to him and giggled. "Why haven't you told her any of this?"
He gulped. "Well.... everything I mentioned is true, but there is one thing that I forgot to mention that she is: special." This confused Twilight.
"Well of course she's special. Every pony we have a crush on or love is special to us." Vanilla then shook his head.
"I don't mean that kind of special." he said. "I mean, she is the fastest flier in all Equestria. She's the element of loyalty, and she's, and I quote, awesome. Now I'm sure that she'd want a stallion with all of those credentials, not a literal bug underneath her hoof that can't keep up with her. Remember the ladybug and cricket she rejected? She wanted cooler and BIGGER. That's not me at all. That's why I haven't told her about my feelings."
Twilight gave a frown to Vanilla, not in irritation, but more of concern. "Are you certain that's the way she thinks? I mean, yeah you pretty much nailed the head on everything that comes out of her big mouth, but are you sure that that's the kind of stallion she would want?"
"Well, it's just the way she appears to me." he said.
"But that's just it. It's nothing but assumptions. You won't truly know unless you express your feelings to her. And if she doesn't think you two would work together as a couple, then that's fine, because we already know she cares so much about you, and will never stop being your friend." Twilight's words made Vanilla very happy, to which he gave Twilight a hug, which was returned back to him.
Suddenly, a shadow loomed over both of them. Scared, both of the adults turned to see what was behind them. It was a monstrous face, but luckily, it was a friendly one.
"YA'LL DOIN' OKAY BACK HERE?" boomed the mighty voice of Applejack.
"We're fine!" yelled the unicorn.
Applejack smiled and leaned in. The rumbling her head made sent shivers down Vanilla's spine, as she loomed past them, and pressed heavily on the three sleeping fillies. "WAKE UP, SUGARCUBE." Applejack boomed to her sister, though all of them heard and felt her. They all woke up and looked up to the giant, a little spooked at first, but soon relaxed. Applejack then leaned back and just smiled down at them.
"How much longer?" Twilight asked.
"WE'RE ALMOST THERE. JUST A FEW MORE MILES. WANT ME TO WAKE SLEEPIN' BEAUTY?" she gestured over to Rainbow.
"Yeah, go ahead, AJ. She should be up and ready when we arrive." Vanilla said up to her. Applejack nodded and stomped over to the pegasus. She then gave her a nudge. Rainbow snorted and positioned herself in another spot.
"Five more minutes." she boomed, rather exhausted and sleepy-like. AJ motioned for the tiny ponies to cover their ears, which they did.
"GET UP, RAINBOW!" she shouted. Instantly, the pegasus perked up and yelped like a puppy getting spooked. She darted her eyes around to see what disturbed her, finally catching a glimpse at the farm mare.
"Great. Rise and shine. We're almost there." she said as she went back to her seat. Dash was very grumpy at the sudden awakening. She looked down and saw all of the tiny ponies laughing at it as well. Rainbow's face grew into a smirk, and got very very close to the ponies on the seat.
"Oh you thought that was funny, huh?" she boomed in their direction, and soon huffed a slight shot of smoke from her nose in their faces. Even though it made a huge burst of humid wind, it made the ponies really laugh. It was that playfulness that Vanilla said that he loved. She smiled and gave them all a gentle, loving nuzzle. Soon enough, the train had arrived at its destination, and the ponies were now that much closer to returning to normal size.
"Ah can't wait ta get bigger again." Apple Bloom said to her friends. "Ah don't know how much longer ah can take bein' smaller than an earthworm. It's so intimidatin' having a big sister who takes full usage of the word: BIG!" Just as she made her statement, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle, who were in front of the little farm mare, got a full view of what was happening behind her. At first, they were just as scared of the giant apple looming behind her tiny sister like a monster, but as soon as they saw a "little" wink being made by the giant, they instantly let their guard down and smiled. As Apple Bloom continued to rant away about the hardships of being so small, she began to feel a tiny wind coming from behind her. Being so small, she assumed it was just somepony simply moving. But as the wind began to build up, Bloom found herself trying hard not to get blown away.
Meanwhile, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle were doing the same thing, but laughing like hyenas at the same time. As soon as Apple Bloom saw that there was something screwy going on, she turned around to see her "BIG" sister, her lips puckered, and creating the strongest wind turbine she had ever felt. As the wind suddenly died down, the puckered lips suddenly curled into a huge smile.
"HOOOOWEEEEE! AH WONDER WHERE THAT SISTER OF MINE WENT. MAH LIL' SIS IS SO SMALL, AH LOSE HER JUST ABOUT ANY TIME, EVEN RIGHT IN FRONT OF MAH OWN EYES! OH WELL, GUESS AH'LL JUST SIT HERE AND WAIT FOR HER TO COME BACK." the apple mare boomed in front of the fillies. Soon, her head rumbled back into the heavens, and began stomping herself around, now showing off her gigantic apple-rump. And just as she proclaimed, her rear began to rumble down to the seat, as if the moon itself was coming down to the earth. The three fillies instantly got onto their hooves and galloped like the sky was falling, in which this case, it was. But JUST before the rump could smash them into nothing, it quickly raised back up into the heavens, with the monstrous mare laughing like thunder, which garnered an annoyed reaction from the little sister of the bunch.
The other ponies found this little time of playfulness amusing, but saw that they really needed to get all of these ponies back to normal size. Everytiny mounted their giantess of choice. Sweetie Belle stuck to family and stayed on her BIG sister, as did Apple Bloom and Scootaloo. Twilight and Vanilla were up next to decide who to ride on. And with the final two options being either Pinkie Pie or Fluttershy, they decided the logical choice would be the pegasus, since they didn't want to toss their lunch on the bouncy giant. So with everypony ready to go, they docked off of the train, and began heading straight to Canterlot's Royal Castle.
In a way to avoid looking weird, the giant ponies tried to refrain from speaking with their shrunken passengers. The crusaders however to just enjoy the ride anyway. Apple Bloom used her sister's hat as protection, though being right under her hat made things a little more humid for her ride. Sweetie Belle decided to use the huge curls of her massive sister as shade from the sun, to which Rarity even thought it was a clever idea from her sister, giggling a bit when she used her mirror to view her tiny passenger. Scootaloo was just happy enough riding in between the huge caves on Rainbow Dash's muzzle. Every now and then, Dash would go cross-eyed just to get a glimpse of her little pipsqueak rider. The sight, though huge, always made Scootaloo giggle. It appeared so cute, no matter what size she was.
On the gentle giantess, Vanilla Beam and Twilight Sparkle just enjoyed the ride like there was nothing important going on. Vanilla constantly told Twilight about the "out of this world" softness that Fluttershy's mane possessed. She always just rolled her eyes, thinking that all of that was just his teeny mind creating an over-exaggeration. But as soon as they both were dropped into this bed of vines, Twilight became a believer, and most ironic of all, she pondered whether or not she wanted to ask Fluttershy for some of her own mane to use as a blanket. And whenever she'd think of that, she'd instantly regret her thoughts, and question what kind of pony she really was.
Vanilla however had other thoughts going through his mind. Twilight looked to him and saw that something did seem to be bothering him, but she learned that whenever you wanted somepony to talk to you about their problems, the best way to do it is start a conversation, and slowly lead your way into asking your question.
"Gosh Vanilla. I never thought that actually riding in a pony's mane was quite the relaxing ride. I could get use to this." she said with a smile, laying back in the huge bed of Fluttermane. Vanilla simply chuckled at the mindset of his best friend.
"Hehehe, I bet you could. I know I did." he said. "But you need to be big like the rest of your friends. Your teacher I'm sure has big plans for you too, and I'm sure she wants a BIG student to do big things." Twilight had something to work with, and decided to dig a little deeper.
"Who says I'm destined for "big things"? All I know is I'm just learning about friendship, and I think I've gotten pretty good at it. And right now I'm learning a little more about you and what it takes to be like you. And I just want to say thank you. You've taken such good care of me down here, Vanilla. I could never ask for a better friend than you." she said to him.
Vanilla could feel tears in his eyes trying to well up and start pouring out, but he did his best to hold them back, not wanting his best friend to see them. "I-It's no problem, Twilight. I-I know you'd do the same for me if I was in the same situation. Now that we're on the way to see your teacher now, she'll help you get back to where you need to be, and that's all that matters to me. You get back to the land of the giants where you belong, and leave living with the bugs to me." he said as he did his best to crack a smile.
Twilight still felt that something was a little off, but she dismissed it, not wanting to bring it up to upset him a little more. Taking full advantage of the incredible softness of Fluttershy's mane, she snuggled in and decided to take a little relaxing nap. Once Vanilla saw she was deep in her sleep, he decided to give her some space and slid down the pink vines down to the yellow, grassy meadow-like fur on Fluttershy's back. Not only did he want to leave Twilight to herself, but he also wanted to be alone as well. Lucky for him, it didn't seem like the giant they were riding on noticed of his change in placement, and thus made him seem more alone.
He began trotting along the backside of the pegasus, thinking to himself. He was so happy that he could finally get his best friend back to safety, back to her friends and family among the giants. No longer would she have to worry about being eaten, being stomped on, being ignored, or overall, just being a speck to the world.
Then again, that's how he felt he was exactly. Ever since she shrank herself, Twilight has been watched over almost like a hawk. If she tends to be misplaced, her friends are there to keep her safe. That's what he was doing as well, but he couldn't shake the feeling that he was to blame for her being in this situation in the first place. And even worse, now the fillies were now at the very same danger as well, not to mention they were nearly eaten alive at one point as well. It would've never happened if Twilight didn't want to see how Vanilla lived his horrible life.
He knew that she was just curious, but she wouldn't have been curious if he wasn't there. He felt as if they'd be better off without him being a burden to them, and nearly putting his friends in danger. But at the same time. he didn't want to be alone. These were the only friends he had in this now gigantic world, and it took a lot of luck to even get this many friends as he did. He hated being alone so much, and it reminded him of those dark days of when he was first shrunk by Hexyl. His heart couldn't bare with his conflicting feelings.
Meanwhile above, the ponies were merely trotting down Canterlot on their way to the castle. Each of them were stuck in their own conversations. Where most of the conversations were about minor stuff like Rarity still hoping to bank on a boutique somewhere here in the city, the bubbly Pinkie Pie went on and on and on about the latest pastry that was being sold at one of the shops they just passed by. She started bouncing around and thought out loud about what most of the secret ingredients were.
As she bounced, she didn't pay attention to where she was bouncing, or in what direction she was bouncing to. She eventually ended up bumping into Rainbow Dash, who in turn like a domino effect bumped right into Fluttershy. Vanilla Beam, who was sitting right by her rump, saw the huge wall of cyan fur rumbling toward the yellow mass he rested upon. He braced for impact, but it was too late.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
The titanic rump collided with the other, and the impact sent Vanilla flying off his ride. Luckily for him, to lessen his impact, he grabbed a hold of the pink vines of Fluttershy's tail, and slid all the way to the stone road at the bottom. Unfortunately for him, once he landed, the jolting stop released his grip, and he hit his skull on the road, knocking him dizzy for a few moments. At the point, the vines he held onto completely slid across his body, until there was no more to be felt.
Once he came to, he looked up and saw the five multicolored, blurry mountains all stomping off into the distance, all at a fast pace. Vanilla looked in horror, and soon began to charge for them, realizing that he had got thrown overboard.
"HEY! GIRLS! WAIT! I FELL OFF! HEEEEEEEY!" he screamed and cried, but to no avail. He was in the territory of the insects, and down here, there was absolutely no help that was gonna come from the giants. They were all too distracted in scolding Pinkie for being so clumsy, that they didn't think to check if all of their passengers were still with them.
"PINKIE! FLUTTERSHY! RAINBOW DASH! HELP MEEEEEEE!" he screamed again, not paying attention to his surroundings. Now that he was on the road, he was now at the mercy of the other giants who he didn't know. One such giant was trotting in Vanilla's path. With a quick gasp and quicker reflexes, he jumped out of the way of an oncoming pillar of death.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Though the impact itself caused the shock wave of air to blast right into him and blow him back, knocking him even more dizzy. And soon, another hoof was bound to crush him. He was forced to find shelter and fast, so he galloped as fast as he could to a nearby diner's table, and dove underneath as the hooves all around him thundered to the ground, completely covering everything around him in dust.
Once in safety, Vanilla looked all around. A sign. A familiar voice. A familiar scent. Nothing. He couldn't see hide or hair of his friends. They all must have stomped away towards the castle, without even knowing of his disappearance. He tried calling out to them.
"TWILIIIIIIIGHT!....... APPLEJACK!......... RAINBOW DAAAAASH!........ RARITYYYYY!........ anypony......" he was slowly losing hope, as the tears began to build up again. "..... help me."
He had once again found himself in a vast alien world, with no one there to help him, or even hear his cries, as Vanilla Beam laid under the giant table, and began to cry, for he was now alone once more.
Vanilla had at least managed to stow away under a table in front of a pastry diner. From the taste of the boulder-sized crumbs that fell from the sky, they seemed to be from a danish shop. The pastry asteroids were actually very delicious, and the only complaint Vanilla would have is that he didn't have any milk to counteract the sweetness. Although, that in reality was the least of his worries at the moment.
One of those very harsh realities was the fact that with all of the crumb boulders scattered about the street in front of the shop, attracted dozens of predatorial birds. They each wanted a piece of those little tiny crumbs as well, and he knew that is any of those overgrown canaries would spot him, he sure enough could end up as nutrition for either them, or their hatchlings.
He was still unable to be heard by the towering giants from up above, not even the ones who stopped for a while to sit and eat, providing those sweet asteroids. By this point, Vanilla was beating himself up. Why did he have to be so careless? Why did he HAVE to move out of the safe place of the mane down to the rump where anything went? WHY did he have to be so selfish?!
All of these questions continued to haunt the inside of his mind until suddenly...
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Something huge smashed right in front of the tiny stallion. It belonged to a living creature, but it didn't appear to be of a pony. No. It was bigger.... purple.... and instead of fur, it had the patterned texture of.... scales! Vanilla instantly beamed with excitement as he gazed up quickly to confirm if there was maybe hope for him.
There, towering above him almost as big as any of the establishments that lined the streets, stood the biggest baby dragon in the world, at least to his eyes. It was indeed Spike. Who had in one claw a mug filled with some type of refreshment to wet his whistle. And in his other claw, carried a chocolate glazed donut. With this visual confirmation, it seemed that vanilla had taking shelter right behind Donut Joe's. That would explain the delightful pastry crumbs that littered the ground.
"Finally! A dragon can just sit back, relax, and enjoy some of Equestria's finest." roared the mini giant reptile, as while his maw was still open from speaking, took one big bite out of his circular pastry, once again showering the micro stallion in asteroid crumbs.
Vanilla had to think fast. Spike was his very last hope of finally being able to get home again. If he let this opportunity slip, he would be stuck in Canterlot forever! So with much haste, he instantly lunged onto one of the two titanic claws that connected him to the earth. Now of course, these were very different to pony hooves. For one, the texture was much more difficult to attain a grip. It was smoother, and less of a grip to grasp onto, much like actually trying to rock climb.
And of course, there were the appendages that only Spike had. Three massive toes that could crush me individually, almost each like a massive guard dog trying to keep me away from their master. But Vanilla was willing to break through them, for he needed to get back to his pony friends. So after clearing the tootsies, he began making his very long ascension up the scaly mountain.
It would prove to be much more difficult as not even up to his knees, the not-so-little drake began to start making his forward motion. Each thundering stomp he took shook Vanilla's grip fiercely, each time threatening to release his grasp, and causing him to fall to his demise on the hard road below. Vanilla just continued up the mountain to the best of his abilities, all the while shouting up to the dragon as best as he could. As to be expected, his voice would be easily ignored and unheard.
Vanilla looked around for some other form of a solution, and then began to form up a plan, even if it was quite the moronic plan at that. On occasion, the drake would move the huge pastry back up to his muzzle, and take a big chunk from it. Vanilla thought that if he could gain his attention before taking another bite, he would be home free!
With very little time to think, Vanilla waited for Spike to lower the donut back down to his side. Once the huge wall of chocolate lowered down to his accessibility, Vanilla Beam made one major leap of faith, and latched into the icing surface. At this point, he was completely covered in a thick, chocolate coat. Now Vanilla would definitely need a bath after all of this.
Of course, Vanilla couldn't resist the urge to take a few licks of the chocolate surface. Donut Joe was truly a magician in his own right, and all of his desserts were simply magic in on themselves. Every time he, Twilight, and Spike made a trip to Canterlot, they would always stop at Jose to dine on a few donuts, and drink some nice cool milk.
However, these pleasant memories would end up getting interrupted by the fierce motion of Spike lifting the pastry up to his face once more. But this time, Vanilla was ready to start shouting up to the massive dragon. Once up to his muzzle, vanilla could already feel the temperature changing dramatically. Thing in front of the mouth of a dragon, or any mouth for that matter, it would immediately feel humid from the acids in his belly creating a moist, humid air. But since he was a dragon, the smell of sulfur and the added heat from the fire that festered in his belly made it even more humid. The longer he sat infront of his muzzle, the more vanilla began to sweat.
"Spike! Down here, little buddy! It's Vanilla Beam! On the donut!" Vanilla continued to scream more and more, but it seemed that it was still to no avail. Spike seemed preoccupied with the delight in his own desert, to pay attention to any of the tiny words that Vanilla screamed out. What made matters worse, the dragon soon opened up his mouth, saliva dripping from the top of his teeth, all lined and razor-sharp fangs, and the humid breath becoming even more unbearably hot. And the worst part, the pastry soon begin moving into the huge, massive maw.
"NO! SPIKE! DON'T EAT ME! I'M ON THE DONUT! STOP!" Vanilla screamed at the top of his lungs. However, it was drowned out by the many birds that surrounded the area, and the ponies chattering away about something that could be less important in the life of another pony at risk.
"HHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH~" roared Spike, as he was prepared to devour what was left of his desert all in one bite. The sound of his exhale was like a deep wind across the sky, and vanilla could definitely feel the fires within that bottomless pit building up as the pastry drew closer to his face.
Vanilla was running out of options, until he saw the only thing that could probably save his life. But in order to reassure him of that fact, he would have to make a jump for it. So with the little time he had left, he pulled himself out of the chocolate quicksand, and made one last attempt to jump for it. Just as his hooves left off of the ground, Spike instantly in one bite devoured the giant moon-sized pastry. The sound of his teeth grinding and crushing all of the flakes and chocolate icing was absolutely sinister, added with the deep, booming, yet soft moans of delight that he made as he savoured the rest of it.
*SPLASH!*
Just as Vanilla Beam had planned it, he managed to make a fifty hoof jump from the chocolate donut, into the gigantic, milk filled mug that was still being held in the other claw. And although it was definitely a very hard landing, and it stung quite a bit, at the very least, the tiny stallion was alive. He then reached the surface, nostrils full of lactose, and looked around and saw that he was indeed in one of the biggest pools of milk ever created.
The only downside at this particular moment was that the rim of the cup seemed to stretch way higher than vanilla was expecting. With that being said, there would be absolutely no way for Vanilla to simply climb his way out, meaning that he was indeed trapped. And what made matters worse was he couldn't see the eyes of the dragon that held his current pool prison. All he could see was the scales on the top of his head, and he knew that if he couldn't see those reptilian eyes, then he couldn't see the tiny pony inside of his drink.
But things were about to go from bad to worse, as the giant mug began shifting its position. At this position, Vanilla finally was able to see Spike's eyes, but unfortunately for the tiny stallion, they were shut, so he still wouldn't have been able to see him. But there was something that was indeed open on the drake: his mouth!
Once again, vanilla bean found himself in a very dangerous position. But instead of being eaten, Vanilla now faced being washed away down the same of gullet. Vanilla was now running out of way less options than he had before, as the tide began to drastically change. Once the tip of the mug touched the purple pillow me lips of the dragon, the river of milk soon begin to flow down is open maw.
As the milk begin to flow down his throat, the once stable pool now became a roaring rapid waterfall. Vanilla desperately try to swim against the current, but kept feeling himself being pulled further and further back. Occasionally he would look back, and see that Spike's circular lips had drawn even closer and closer.
"SPIIIIIIIKE! STOOOOOP! PLEEEEEEEEEASE!!!" Vanilla screamed out in a last ditch effort to save himself. But all seemed to be lost. Spike still couldn't hear him, and Vanilla was almost on the verge of being chugged away forever.
The humidity of his fiery breath washed over him once again, as though Vanilla was getting a little taste of Tartarus before he would officially meet his maker, while the mini dragon would soon be getting a taste of Vanilla. This was indeed the end for one of our tiny protagonists. Left behind from the ones he loved, stranded in the middle of nowhere, and about to become lunch for a titanic predator.
In this world, no one truly notices the little guys.
Trotting into Canterlot Castle was no new experience for most of the ponies. But for the shrunken equines, who had now decided to stay together on Fluttershy's head, it was quite the spectacle indeed. The towering ceilings would normally make anypony feel tiny, but for the mini ponies, they could barely make out any detail of the ceiling from the blurred colors. Even the tips of the pillars managed to blur out towards the top, and made the castle feel endless.
The stain-glassed windows that shared the various stories of the history of friendship, now appeared as monuments that could've taken eons to complete at their sizes. Twilight especially felt uneased at her own stain glass, seeing herself so huge, feeling how tiny Vanilla must feel to her. But before she could have time to notice their lacking passenger, one of the towering guards above them bellowed out to the small group.
"PRINCESS CELESTIA IS READY TO SEE YOU! YOU MAY ENTER!" he roared out, perfect for intimidating the tiny ponies, and gained a few dirty looks from the normal-sized ones.
As Fluttershy stepped forward, the tiny ponies got to see that guard in full detail. His golden armor glistened even brighter at this point, each strand of exposed fur was perfectly brushed and pressed against his body, and the sheer size of him towering over the giant they were already riding on caused the crusaders to burrow a bit in the soft, pink vines of Fluttershy's mane. Somehow she was able to feel that, and instantly went into mother-mode.
"It's okay, girls. They're only here to make sure the princess is safe. He's not going to hurt anypony. And if he tries, he's going to have to deal with me." she says, as if these ponies were her own tiny mice or chipmunks. Degrading maybe, but they were the only things she knew were that small, and she was that protective over.
Once inside of the throne room, they were greeted with the same style of architecture, blurring and disappearing in the exact same way as before. However, just straight ahead, was another blurred visage. It seemed to be made up of a bunch of different colors, some even moving just a bit. But the majority of the image seemed to be in white, that seemed to grow as it appeared to be standing up, and spreading out. Twilight Sparkle seemed to have an idea of what it could be, and it was soon confirmed when the huge titan they rode on began shifting her position, and her head began to lower. The ponies looked around and saw all five of the other giants began doing the same thing. All bowing before their ruler.
"Hello, my little ponies." boomed a very deep, yet very motherly voice. It was a voice that made Twilight jump in her seat. It would be silly to assume that Twilight Sparkle wouldn't be able to recognize the voice of her mentor, her teacher, her second mother, Princess Celestia. But she had never heard it with such power, deepness, or size. Soon enough, Twilight was about to find out that her voice wasn't the only thing about Celestia that had truly grown in size.
Most ponies use the expression that hoof of Celestia stretches across Equestria, and the world rests in it. Well at this point, to the tiny ponies, that expression could be literal. They could feel the sheer power of the princess of the world coming toward them, her strides getting louder and stronger with each step, and even started to shake Fluttershy herself, and this time it wasn't just her shivering in fear. That instead was all of the ponies in her mane, as Celestia's huge, dark shadow casted above all of them and shrouded them in her size, presence, and overall mercy. The princess of the sun was now literally BLOCKING the sun!...… or at least the light above the room, but at this point, who could really tell the difference?
At this point, Celestia finally stopped, as she stood above all her subjects, who in turn finally stood back up to full height. Even by standing up, all the tiny ponies could see in front of them now were their own reflections shivering in Celestia's golden chest plate.
"I've heard that you have a "little" problem on your hooves? Hmhmhmhmhm" she boomed. Now that she was closer, her voice sounded louder than before, and even vibrated through their bodies. But what surprised them the most, was that with all that has happened, after everything they went through.... Celestia was still able to crack a joke.
"I-Indeed we have, your highness." Rarity chimed in, answering first. "It appears that Twilight Sparkle had a bit of an issue with her latest size incantation, and it somehow managed to also effect our little sisters as well."
"In other words, she shrank herself, and our little sisters." Rainbow Dash added, gaining a stern look from Rarity, since she pretty much said the same thing.
"Hehehehe, so Princess Luna has told me. Thank you so much for bringing it to her attention, Rainbow Dash. For if you hadn't have told Luna, I probably wouldn't have known. And not to worry, I have the remedy that everypony needs. So I should be able to fix all of them. Now speaking of, where are my VERY little ponies?"
"Oh ummm, they're in my mane, your highness. I carried them here." Fluttershy stated, to which she in turn bowed her head a bit closer to the princess, making the tiny ponies shiver a bit more. Soon, they were greeted by the sight of Celestia looking down at them... but she wasn't looking at them yet.
She was scanning Fluttershy's mane for any form of the tiny ponies, so that way she could properly fix them, and not accidentally affect their ride. So to get a better view, she began leaning her head down to see better, creating a low rumble for the tinies. The crusaders were petrified at the sight of the princess growing more and more gigantic, like a giant goddess threatening to smite the inferior. Even Twilight herself was a little uneased, but knew she had to calm them down. So she turned to them and rubbed their heads through the brush of pink mane.
"It's okay, girls. She's just trying to get a better look. She wants to help. You don't have to be scared." Twilight said, as the fillies began poking their heads out. As they did, they looked behind Twilight, as they seemed to be focused on something way bigger. And as Twilight turned back around, she was met face to face with the biggest violet eye she had ever seen.
"GAAAAH!" she screamed in terror, as she wasn't expecting her mentor to already be THAT big, THAT close, THAT fast!
"Hello, Twilight." Celestia roared, as her voice was so deep, it put Big Macintosh to shame by this point.
"H-H-H-H-H-H-Hello, Prin-n-n-ncess Celes-s-s-stia!" Twilight stuttered in reply, now she herself being scared at the sight of the mega alicorn goddess.
"My my, you've gotten yourself into quite the mess, haven't you?" Celestia boomed, while trying to have a bit of fun, still retained that tender nature for her tiny pupil.
"I'm sososososososo sorry, princess! I didn't know what I was doing. I just wanted to see what it was like to be small like Vanilla Beam, because he has it way worse than any of us. A-And I just wanted to try it out, and I couldn't fix myself, and I only made things worse when I shrunk their sisters, and I'm just so sorry! I'm really really sorry!" Twilight cried out, tears welling up in her eyes. As her hysterical show continued, Celestia just gave off a warm smile, even though none of the tiny ponies could see it.
"Twilight, it's okay. You made a mistake, and it's perfectly fine. You didn't hurt anypony, and you managed to protect these three fillies with your life, and that's all I need to know. You made a mistake, and you were willing to fix it no matter the cost. You aren't use to using size alteration to such an extent. That's why you haven't been able to fix yourself yet. You haven't let your powers strengthen up for such a use. And as far as they are concerned, you were scared, and one huge surge of instinctual magic came out. You didn't mean to hurt anyone, and I'm not mad at you about any of this. And you shouldn't be mad at yourself."
Celestia's speech managed to calm Twilight down, and the crusaders fully came out of their pink protection, to which Celestia soon looked at them, and gave off a deep giggle. A giggle which made her eye blink, and send a few gusts of wind down to their tiny frames.
"Hello little ones. Did you enjoy your big adventure?" the alicorn giant asked the fillies.
"YEAH!" all three answered in unison.
"Hehehehehehe, that's wonderful to hear. And you were very lucky to be in good hooves with Twilight and Vanilla making sure you were safe. But I take it you all want to return back to normal now, yes?" All of the fillies began to nod in synch as well.
"Alright then. Now, I don't want to accidentally make Fluttershy here a massive giant as well." Celestia said, which in turn made the yellow Pegasus blush and smile.
"Hop on!" said the alicorn, as the tiny ponies once again heard a rumble building up, but this time, it came from beneath their steed. They looked over the edge of Fluttershy's mane, and soon got a good look at a new island seeming to be rising from the depths of out of sight. It was a huge platform of doughy, white softness, that stretched yards and yards. It turned out just to be Celestia's overturned, exposed hoof of course.
When their ride had finally arrived, Twilight and the fillies wasted no time to slide off of Fluttershy's mane, and into the hoof of the princess. The touch of her sole was even softer than any of the other giants they had been held by thus far, even Rarity's. And since she was way bigger than any of the other ponies, Celestia's hoof stretched even further around them. It was almost like standing in the middle of a buckball stadium. Soon added were a few rhythmic tremors under them as the colossal princess stomped backwards to give the other ponies the space she needed.
Once enough distance was made, Celestia then slowly lowered her hoof back down to the floor, as the tiny ponies enjoyed their last ride down to the earth from a giant pony. It was as smooth as a lift, and the wind blew through their manes and tails. For the last bit of this chaos, they were at ease.
"Oh! Fluttershy, could you wake Vanilla Beam up? I want him to see me get grown back to normal." Twilight said up to the Pegasus up above.
"Of course." she boomingly replied, and began looking at her flank for him. Meanwhile, the hoof finally stopped on the floor, and it was time for the tinies to get off of their ride.
"And this is where we finally dismount, little ones." she boomed, waiting for the specks to climb off of her hoof. Twilight was the first to leap off, just so that way she could carefully and safely help each crusader off of the high ledge of Celestia's hoof nail. Each one were scared at first, but they climbed down just the same, and Twilight made sure they were fine. And once on the gigantic, marble floor, Twilight and the fillies trotted away to give Celestia more room, but the princess had it covered.
She managed to take for thunderous stomps backward, which sent shockwaves to the tiny ponies, making them all tumble over just one final time. Knowing that they were all about to be fixed, they giggled amongst themselves. Aside from all of the near death experiences and the initial scare factors, it was quite the enjoyable time.
"Ready to be back to normal, girls?" Twilight asked the girls. They each looked up at their titanic sisters, still looking down at them, with caring smiles. They would be RELIEVED to no longer have to see them as towering monsters anymore!
"SEE YOU BACK UP HERE, PIPSQUEAK!" Rainbow Dash intentionally yelled down to all of them, making them all cover their ears one last time, though Scootaloo, who Dash was actually referring to, smiled with the pain of her ears. She was finally gonna be able to hug Rainbow again.
They looked back and saw that Celestia had her horn ready, and was glowing even brighter with each passing second. As Twilight Sparkle took one last look at her gigantic world, she noticed Fluttershy was still not looking at them, but her own flank. She couldn't get a good look at it at first, but she could've swore that Fluttershy had a slight look of panic in her eyes.
But before she could decipher what it was that was bothering her....
*ZAP*
In one brief blast of magic that surged through their bodies, all four of the young mares sprang right up into the air, and expanded to great length! All four of the miniature ponies were miniature no more! They had finally grown back to their normal sizes. But even at their regular statures, they were not out of the woods of being crushed.
In an instant, they were instantly swarmed by their sisters and best friends, wrapping them in the tightest hugs they had ever given. Although in the case of Scootaloo, she easily had a tighter grip than Rainbow Dash, as she latched on a vise grip of her own around the cyan Pegasus.
"Rainbow Dash!" she shouted. "I missed you so much! I thought I'd never be able to do this again! I was so scared!"
"Hehehehe, hey hey, you're okay, Scootaloo." Rainbow replied, hugging her just as much. "I told you I was gonna help you, didn't I? Now you're back, and with a little more spunk than ever."
It was a beautiful reunion, that even started to bring a tear to Princess Celestia's eye as well. Especially once Twilight came up and instantly gave her a hug as well, which of course Celestia returned.
"Thank you so much, princess." Twilight said, trying her best to hold all of her emotions in.
"You're quite welcome, my brave little pony." she said in return, nuzzling into Twilight's cheek.
"WOO HOO! Everypony's big again!" shouted the excitable Pinkie Pie. "This calls for an extra, super duper, mega fun-sized PARTYYYYYYYY!"
"HOOEE! Now yer talkin'." said Applejack, carrying her little sister on her back by now. "Let's all head home!"
The happy feelings however were interrupted by the frantic panting of Fluttershy, who was now truly in a state of panic. All of the other ponies were confused by this point, for they didn't know what was making Fluttershy so upset.
"Darling, what's wrong?" asked Rarity as she tried to get a better look at what the problem was. Twilight however began to have those dark thoughts creeping into her head. For about half of the trip, she hadn't seen or heard from Vanilla Beam ever since he moved down to Fluttershy's flank. Not even a peep. Twilight soon trotted up to her and leaned in.
"Fluttershy…." said Twilight "...…. what's wrong?"
"I...……. I CAN'T FIND HIM! I DON'T SEE VANILLA! HE'S GONE!!!"
And with that..... the whole room went deathly silent.
One day at the library, Twilight Sparkle was just laying on the floor, with an open book right in front of her, just reading away at the latest issue of Canterlot Cannibal: Twenty Four. She still had about seven more issues to get caught up on, and she wasn't intending on being tardy for the next Ponyville Book Club session, since that was going to be the latest topic. Although Twilight knew that no matter what, she would always be ahead of the game, because unlike the other ponies, she knew of the very rare Volume: 31.
She was so caught up in her latest issue, that she completely zoned out from the rest of the world. The only thing that mattered to her at that particular time was her book. She wouldn't have been able to hear any of the fillies playing quite loudly outside of the library, or Pinkie Pie with one of her loud parties going on all the way at sugarcube corner, or even the faint cries of a pony crying to her for help.
At last one in particular was actually happening inside of her library at that very moment. On one of her writing desks where she would write out her weekly letters to her Mentor Princess Celestia, was the very diminutive and quite minuscule earth pony known as Vanilla Beam. He was standing on the very edge of the desk, making extra precautions not to fall off and hit the unforgiving hardwood floor below, as he screamed at the top of his lungs for his current host to gain his attention. He had been doing it for the past six hours, and after a while of nearly dodging her falling hoofsteps, and being able to climb onto her tail only to be flicked off like a mere pest, he was slowly beginning to run out of options, and wondered if he would ever be found again.
He feared that Twilight Sparkle had forgotten about his existence, and was going to end up crushing or suffocating him unaware to the rest of the world, so he wanted to get her attention quickly and sufficiently, but he didn't know how. At the very least, he was out of harm's way and not liable to be crushed. But there was still the issue of getting his tiny voice to be heard by her gigantic ears, in which said voice was starting to strain from all of the screaming.
Eventually, he decided to scan his nearby area for some type of attention grabber, that would be more fit to his stature, but would still be seen by her. And he soon found what he was looking for, one of the quill ink containers that she placed on her desk didn't seem to be placed in a well-thought position. In fact, it seemed to be very close to the edge of the table, and one simple little bump by the giant pony could send it on to the floor. Or possibly, maybe a nudge from a very diminutive Pony could possibly knock it onto the floor and gain her attention! It was fool proof. And at long last, after a long day of nearly getting crushed and being overlooked, Vanilla could finally rest easy for the rest of the day.
As he made his way across the desk, getting closer to the ink container, he could hear the turning of the pages and Twilight's massive book. He could also hear the monstrous breathing from her gigantic lungs as she basically had no other form of communication at this point. She was fully entranced in that book, which made things twice as hard for Vanilla to gain her attention. But he knew that this major shift in interior decorating, it would definitely throw her off her balance, and she would have no choice but to finally see him.
He finally made it up to the container, he had to hold his breath, for the fumes of the ink inside were extremely strong, and already began to make him feel light-headed. With no time to lose, he began rearing his legs, and thrusting them forward to push the house sized container across the very little space in between the desk and the edge. He had to muster up all of his strength, and take a few running starts to nugget ever-so-slightly forward. As he continued this pattern over and over, Twilight was nearing the end of her book, so his time with her in that particular position with rowing dimmer with each passing second. He knew that if she walked away by now, it would be way longer before she would even think of coming back to this desk.
But luckily for him, he didn't know just how far off of the edge the container truly was, and with one last huge tackle, the container begin to angle itself off of the ledge, and gravity soon did the rest of the work for him. The contents inside the container soon began spilling out before it even hit the floor with extremely loud bang, at least to his ears. But he didn't even care about the sound that the container would make, as long as it was able to be picked up by her ears, he couldn't be any more happier.
As soon as the dish hit the floor, the contents inside of it spilled all over the floor, and on top of the huge book, definitely gaining Twilight's attention, as she let out a roar of surprise and fear, watching one of her most prized possessions, next to the thousands of other books she had stored in her Library, instantly be ruined buy a permanent black puddle of ink.
"GAH!" she shouted. "Nononononono! Not this issue! I didn't finish! Ahhhh! What happened?" All she had to do was take a look across from the book, and see the now almost empty ink container sprawled out onto the floor, along with a huge black stain of the contents inside.
Her look of shock soon turned into a look of annoyance and anger. She knew that her ink container was in a position to where it wouldn't have fallen off of the desk. And since Spike was asleep, as the baby dragon usually was, she knew that it couldn't have been his fault. She wanted to know who or what was the cause of her now ruined book, so she finally stood up and looked at the desk, to see what exactly did this damage.
As Twilight slowly began to stand up to her full height, her shadow began to cover most of the desk, shrouding the little pony in darkness. Even though Twilight was a very kind unicorn as much to his knowledge, he still felt very intimidated whenever she was right in front of him. And the fact that she rose like a monster from the Seas really made him a little on edge. But even with him being caught in her massive shadow, he still was very relieved that she was finally looking around on the table. So now all he had to do was frantically wave his arms so that her eyes might finally latch in his direction.
Much to his excitement, her eyes soon caught a glimpse of the tiny Pony as he was bouncing around on her desk and waving his arms like a child, basically in a form of confession that he was the one that did it, and he was very satisfied and relieved that she had finally noticed his existence, after seven hours of desperate screaming and surviving, he had finally been found.
"TWILIGHT! DOWN HERE! OVER HERE!" He screamed in much delight, as her face slowly loomed closer to him and squinted, possibly to get a better look at him.
"Vanilla Beam? Did you knock over my ink container?" boomed the mighty unicorn, as her voice rumbled through his body. And much to the chagrin of the earth pony, her voice wasn't in a form of comfort, but again in a form of aggravation.
"Y-YES! I DID! I HAD TO PUSH IT OFF!" he admitted to the lavender pony. He was starting to get a little bit worried about her actual intentions now that she knew where he was and what he did.
"VANILLA!" she roared, which sent him rolling backwards across the desk, pushing him nearly halfway to his inevitable fall. It was very clear now that her voice was now in a much more angered tone.
"Do you realize what you did? You completely ruined this incredibly hard to find issue of Canterlot Cannibal!"
"I-I know, but I had-" but soon the little earth pony was cut off as the giant continued her tirade.
"I'm supposed to have this issue read by tomorrow, and now I can't even read half of the book because the ink seeped through almost all of the pages!"
"I'm sorry. I was just trying to get your attention an-"
"REALLY? You couldn't have done it in a less messy manor? You couldn't have got me to notice you without ruining one of my books? Why didn't you just simply try to call out to me?"
"I was trying to, but you weren't answering for a long time, and I-"
"Maybe you could have just waited until I was done and the book was out of the way, and then it wouldn't have got damaged, and I could have just easily cleaned up the ink. I just don't know why you decided to do it at this particular point." By this point, Vanilla was visually starting to get distressed. The tears were really welling up in his eyes, and his heart was slowly snapping in two.
"I.... I'm sorry, Twilight. It was the only thing I could think of." He said, his tone really getting shaky, and him barely being able to keep a controlled and calm voice.
"Well now I gotta explain why half of my book is now covered in black ink. That's going to be really embarrassing, and very unprofessional for me. Honestly, Vanilla Beam. What were you thinking?"
"I JUST DIDN'T WANT TO BE ALONE AGAIN! I'M SORRY!" he finally screamed out, almost blowing his voice out at long last after the longtime of him trying to gain Twilight's attention, was now trying to beg for her forgiveness.
However, before he could let her do such a thing, he immediately began running off of the desk, to find the nearest table leg, so he could slide down on it, and give her the space that she wanted, since she seemed to be extremely upset at him. But arguably, he was more upset, because he felt that once again he had screwed up in a major way. Even before he was permanently stuck in such a tiny stature, he had always been viewed as someone who constantly made mistakes, and made things extremely difficult for other ponies, let alone flat-out ruining whatever they had. And these thoughts ring through his mind once more, as not only did he feel completely alone, but that he would never be able to truly be of use, and with just constant make things worse or ruin other ponies possessions.
Once he had made it all the way to the floor, he galloped as fast as he could out of the library, warm tears flowing down his cheeks as he found the nearest cubby, away from any other pony's view, and sat inside of the dark chasm and cried his eyes out. It was the first time in a while that he had ever felt so alone after being discovered. For so long, he had gone unnoticed, unheard, nearly crushed, nearly suffocated, and now belittled even more for his own mistake of trying to get himself discovered. He felt that it would pretty much be his only destiny to once again be crushed like the insignificant bug that he now was.
He could hear the explosions quite clearly ringing in his ears. He could also feel each earth-shaking vibration within their rhythmic patterns. Twilight Sparkle seemed to be stomping toward him, and knowing what kind of mood that she was in already, she knew that she wasn't going to have a pleasant time with him. In fact, with every thought racing through his mind, and feeling how strong the tremors were as she got closer, his mindset was that she was going to just flat-out stomp on him, and put him out of his misery, and finally keep him out of her and her friends manes.
"N-No... please.... Twilight..... don't step on me. Please...." he cried out in fear.
The tremors grew stronger as she got closer to the opening where Vanilla was currently sitting inside. The tears falling down his eyes grew fuller as he began getting more scared the closer she got.
"I-I'm sorry....... I'm sorry....." he continued to beg, his voice getting weaker and weaker, as the towering lavender titan continued stomping towards the area he was in.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!
One of her gigantic hooves stomped down almost right in front of the entrance, and the only way out, completely shifting and quaking the room around him, and blowing a gust of wind from the air that was pushed out from underneath of the platform through his mane and tail. The impact was also strong enough to force a tiny shriek from the even tinier earth pony as he felt that the end was near for him.
Twilight stood outside trying to find the miniature pony that found a hiding spot within the library, and was soon able to identify his location from the microscopic bawling that she heard from a tiny little space in between a couple of her books. By this point, but unaware to him, she had already calm down and was looking for him in a way to apologize, and hearing his absolutely tiny whimpers and cries broke her heart a little bit more. She then leaned her head down towards the opening, and began trying to coax him out.
"Vanilla Beam?" She asked down to him. She tried to make sure that her tone of voice wasn't as intimidating as it would normally be for him, and to his ears, her voice was still just as deep and booming, but now it at least didn't sound like she was angrily shouting down to him.
"If you're in there, please come out. I just want to talk to you for a bit. Please don't be scared. I'm sorry." She says as she stood back and let him come out on his own power.
It took about a minute or two, but eventually the tiny earth pony slowly begin coming out of the miniature cave that the books made on her shelf. He slowly trotted up to her gigantic face, tears still streaming down his cheeks, as he had a look of absolute guilt in his eyes. From the very little that Twilight could make out, it still continued to tug on her heart.
"Twilight, I'm really really sorry about what happened to your book. I really didn't mean to ruin it for you. If you want, I can write it all back myself, and I don't care how long it takes, I want to make it up to you. I know I made another mistake, and I'm willing to fix it as best as I can, or if you want me to just leave the library and not come back, I can do that as well, and you wouldn't have to worry about having to hear me again, and I can find somewhere else that hopefully has ponies that will hear me and won't stomp on me, because-..."
During his long-winded apology, he failed to look up at Twilight to see what she was doing, and it would be quite the surprise for him once he started to feel a warm, huge wall of fur that pressed into him. When he did finally look up, all he saw were just large lavender stalks of fur that aligned the biggest wall that he had ever seen. And each stalk were extremely soft to the touch. Since this was the closest thing that she could give to a hug that wouldn't entirely engulf him in her body, she took the opportunity and instantly latched on his tiny body on to whatever she presented to him, and hugged it tighter than anything.
"Hush up, Vanilla. I'm the one that's sorry. I am very very truly sorry that I wasn't able to hear you all day. That's my fault. It's one thing that if I didn't hear you while I was reading, and I was too focused on the book. But if you've been desperately trying to get my attention all day, then that was my fault for not being able to pay more attention. You've been with us for a pretty long time, and I should be more well aware of you than I am."
She continued moving her face from side to side, to give him a little bit of a rubbing nuzzle as he hugged onto her face.
"As far as the book goes, I can easily get a new one without trouble. It's true that I was a little mad at what happened to it, and I'm sorry for snapping at you the way I did. You're much more important than any of the books in my library. You just wanted to get my attention, and I promise that I'm really going to work on be more aware of your location, so it doesn't take me this long to find you again."
She then slowly backed her face away from Vanilla, and allowed her massive hoof to scoop him up so he can sit on a much softer surface, as the underside of her soul was nice and squishy under his hooves, as he continued looking into her gigantic eye. He could see within the reflection of her massive, dark pupil, and slowly wiped away the tears that were falling down his own eyes.
"And as far as you being alone, no matter what happens, just know that I'm always going to be here for you, and I'd never leave you out in the gigantic world alone. Never ever ever. If anything ever happened to you, I would never rest until I knew that you were safe. And if you ever feel like you are alone, and for some reason can't get any of our attentions, just climb up onto my back, because I would make sure that you were there and would comfort you and make you feel better. Not to mention, looking at you on my hoof, you kind of stick out like a sore thumb." She said with a giggle, sending some booming vibrations down to the tiny stallion, who was giggling himself from it.
"I'll always be here for you, Vanilla Beam. And we're always going to be very close friends." She said to him as she leaned down her nose once again and gave him a very light nuzzle.
Two hours had past at the castle, and everypony was wide-eyed and attentive to the floor and everything in front of their two front hooves. Each one with a magnifying glass either in hoof, or hovering above the ground. And with each and every individual step that they took, they made sure with the utmost care that they weren't going to landed on top of something that was far smaller and much weaker than they were.
But out of all of the ponies that were inside that one large room, none had the utmost care, but had the highest amount of anxiety and panic than Twilight Sparkle. On top of calling out for her tiny best friend, you could hear the shakiness in her voice, the stuffy nose that she had from building up tears, and desperately trying to hold those tears in in fear that she might accidentally drown her forgotten passenger. She had been calling out for Vanilla Beam for the past two hours, making sure not to use a loud voice in hopes of not accidentally busting his eardrums.
The other ponies could take one look at her and knew that she was absolutely heartbroken. As soon as Fluttershy I relayed the message that Vanilla was not on her anymore, you could almost see the fur on Twilight's body turn a pale white, that could even rival Rarity's own coat. And they knew that no matter how much time would go by, no matter how little that Twilight would rest, so I like would not stop until she knew if Vanilla Beam was okay. None of them would dare try to calm her down or even so much as touch her, not even Princess Celestia. They all just kept on their trails, and hoped that one of them might actually find him.
But just as all of their hope seemed to be lost, or vice versa that their luck couldn't get any worse, suddenly the doors to the main Throne Room flung open, as three figures instantly came running in. Two of them were the guards that Princess Celestia trusted to make sure no one got through, in which this case they obviously failed at, and the other was the tiny purple drake that had been hatched by Twilight Sparkle herself.
"Spike! Be careful!" Twilight shouted, fearing that any wrong step that any one of them could have taken might have squashed the tiny stallion. After Spike stopped in his tracks, everyone could see that he was panting and out of breath. He must have ran halfway across Canterlot to try to get into the castle to meet everyone in time.
"Good heavens, Spike. What's wrong?" Asked Rarity, since aside from Twilight, she was the only one that gave him any of the time of day. He could barely muster up a sentence in between each of his heavy breathing.
At that very moment, all of the heads in the room quickly snapped into his Direction, as now Spike was their key to finding out information about what happened to the tiniest stallion in all of Equestria. And none were more anxious and more determined to find out what happened then the purple unicorn herself. She tried it up nice and slowly to spike, with a very tired look in her eyes, but still very attentive and wanted to hear a clear answer from her baby dragon.
"Spike..... what happened?" She asked, prepared for the worst.
