> Bragging Rights 2: The Art of Bragging > by Klamnei > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Supersized Smooth-talker Strongarms Stubborn Sovereign > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bragging Rights 2: The Art of Bragging Part 1 The Prideful Falls were famous for being the biggest in Equestria. Every moment of every minute of every day, countless gallons of water fell a dizzying one thousand feet down into the bottomless basin below; a frothy white rush that had never stopped once in all the thousand years of recorded history. To tourists and natives alike, the fearsome roar of the Prideful Falls was a comforting certainty. Hydras could grumble and Ursa Majors could growl, but nothing - nothing - could ever out-shout this wonder of the world. But of course, Pride always did come before the Falls… BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. Hoofsteps sounded like thunder, heralded by earthquakes that shook the trees down to their core. Huge, feathered wings commanded the winds, great gusts howling through the forests like Tirek in Tartarus. The skies filled with birds and squirrels skittered for cover. Or were those pegasi and earth ponies? They all looked about as little to Rainbow Dash now. “This should be a good place to stop!” she declared to no one in particular. It was hard not to verbalize, for someone her size. She was just so big, so important, that it only made sense to let the world know what she was doing at each and every moment. Like a hurricane watch or a tornado warning, Rainbow Dash’s presence in an area had become news. And this just in, every pony in a dozen miles was now aware that she was at the bottom of the basin! She chuckled at that thought, but neglected to mention it to her tiny passenger. No doubt Twilight would say her head was swelling bigger by the minute. Rainbow would agree, of course. That’d been the point of the spell Twilight had cast on her earlier that day: to make her head grow to match her enormous ego. It wasn’t her fault that it had made the rest of her grow, too. And grow, and grow, and grow. “How’re ya doing, Twi?” Rainbow asked, looking back. She wiggled her rear, silently delighting in the extra-plush padding her growth spurt had put on her flank. A much smaller, more aerodynamic Rainbow Dash might have lamented what the extra bulk would do to her speed... but a much bigger, cuddlier Rainbow Dash could win any race by taking two steps off the starting line. “Am I comfy enough for ya?” “No!” Twilight Sparkle squeaked in reply. An hour spent stuck to Rainbow Dash’s flank had left her in a very sour mood. Held fast to the blown-up image of Rainbow’s cutie mark, still smelling of her… juices. No matter how soft or squishy or squeezable her ride had been, there was no calling this situation comfortable. “Being stuck to your butt is the last place I want to be at the best of times, and this is more like the worst of times!” “Reeeally?” The words dripped from Dash’s mouth like honey, a sly grin spreading across her face. “I think you need to appreciate your luck a little more, Twi. Every stallion in Ponyville would kill for a squeeze of this flank, and you’re up close and personal!” “How lucky I am,” Twilight grumbled… then her eyes went wide. “Rainbow, you didn’t just say that. Tell me you did not just say that!” “Say what, Twilight?” Rainbow purred innocently. “All I did was tell the truth. This flank is two tons of fun! Must be softer than Pinkie’s by now, too! In fact…” She turned her head about and shot Twilight a wink. “If it was just a teensy weensy bit bigger, I bet even you couldn’t resist sleeping on it!” All Twilight could do was grit her teeth. It started slowly: the rushing, river-like twinkling of a magical spell coming to life from below, a lavender purple glow climbing slowly up Rainbow Dash’s hooves. Twilight’s whole world was jumbled as her enormous captor shivered in obvious anticipation. A rumbling purr of pleasure filled the air as the glow spread up over her column-like legs… It took longer and longer for the spell to work its magic on Rainbow’s body, with every inch and every foot she grew. The magic was fueled by her insatiable ego, but even magic could only work so quickly! As her body inched ever higher into the sky, her growth spurts would only last longer, a few moments of blissful high stretching into minutes of sensual decadence. And Twilight was caught at ground zero. The image of Rainbow Dash’s cutie mark stretched wider and wider around her, her tiny purple form lost amidst a field of cloudy white. “yeesSSSSSSSSS…” Rainbow’s voice boomed louder. The feeling just kept feeling better, everything about her becoming greater! It almost felt like she was flying, but her hooves were still on the ground! She was only about a quarter the size of the Falls, but her marehood was practically a waterfall by itself now... The rumbling grew so great that Twilight was able to wrench herself free. She flew off Rainbow’s flank in a sticky, sweaty, flustered mess, trying very hard NOT to think about what she was covered in. Once she was clear, she turned around to give Rainbow a piece of her mind— “Eep.” Twilight didn’t know how big Rainbow was anymore. Her height was still climbing as the seconds passed, her glowing, growing body filling Twilight’s entire vision. Trees were being toppled by Rainbow’s ankles as she expanded... and she was gradually creeping back closer to Twilight as she took up more and more space! Twilight gulped. She tried to think of something, but her mind was still swimming in a haze. The thick, heady scent of Rainbow’s musk was amplified by the moist air of the Falls, staggeringly strong and dizzyingly cloying. All Twilight could think of was how worked up she still was from not getting off— She slapped herself. Hard. “Ahhhh…” Rainbow’s voice was thunderous. The magic subsided at last to put her at a size that she could use the Basin’s deep waters like a bathtub. “I gotta say Twi, this is the best blunder you’ve ever had!” Twilight growled. She flapped her wings hard to fly up and around to Rainbow’s now even larger face. She cast a voice spell on herself and bellowed as loud as she could. “RAINBOW DASH!” Rainbow brightened. “Oh, good thinking! I can actually hear you over the Falls now.” Twilight was nearly blown off course by the force of Rainbow’s exhales. She quickly flew a few dozen feet higher. “Are you ever going to stop this?!” Rainbow snickered. “Depends. Gonna zap me again?” Twilight gave her a flat look. Or maybe she didn’t. It was hard for Rainbow to tell expressions anymore. “I’ll take that as a no.” Rainbow yawned and stretched her wings, her feathers the size of trees. “Congratulations, that might be the smartest thing you’ve done today!” “This has gotten out of hoof!” Twilight shouted. “You’re going to do real damage if you don’t stop! Please! Let me find a counterspell!” Rainbow lazily tapped her chin. “Well see, I would… but I don’t think you’ve learned your lesson yet.” “MY lesson?!” Twilight threw up her hooves. “Oh, for pony’s sake... look, I’m sorry I cast a spell on you, okay?! I was just trying to teach you some humility! Heaven knows you could use some!” Rainbow sighed. “Y’know, for a super-smart egghead, you can be really dense sometimes. You still haven’t caught on, have you?” Twilight’s patience was wearing thin. “You had over a dozen pegasi back in town preen you, I’m still covered in your—y-your effluence, and and I’m suddenly supposed to believe you have a deeper reason?! You’re just addicted to how good it feels!” Rainbow gave her a patient look. “Then why am I not bragging nonstop, Miss Smarty Pants?” Twilight stared at her. Rainbow stared back. The only sound between them the rustling of the wind and the crashing of the Falls. “Twilight,” Rainbow said. “We need to talk.” Of all the things Twilight expected to hear, that wasn’t one of them. “What.” “We. Need. To. Talk.” Rainbow eased her massive rump onto the beach with a tremendous THUD. A fifteen foot-high sand cloud flew up in all directions like a grainy tsunami. “You and me, mare to mare, buddy to buddy.” Twilight still wasn’t sure she’d heard that right. “You used those ponies like servants, abused the spell to grow this big, and humiliated me by sticking me to your flank… so we could TALK?!” Rainbow chuckled. “You’re the one who took things a step further. I was gonna stop back in town, but you zapped me a s-second time and threw down a challenge.” Sparks of magic jetted off Twilight’s horn. A tight feeling clawed at her insides and throat, raw and unfocused. Her face twisted into a vicious scowl that made her whole head shake. “You’ve been a mess ever since you got those wings,” Rainbow continued. “Boss, boss, boss. Nag, nag, nag. Worry, worry, worry. You’ve been freaking out over every little thing just like back when you came to Ponyville! It’s like you went backwards in time!” Twilight fought the urge to scream. “Rainbow, you have no idea how much responsibility I have now! I have to live up to the standards of the other princesses, and if I don’t—” "—it could affect all of Equestria, end the world as we know it, break reality or whatever, blah, blah, blah.” Rainbow rolled her eyes. “You work yourself up into a panic over nothing, assume the worst, then start doing crazy things to fix it! You really are your own worst enemy, you know that?” Twilight wanted to retort out of sheer spite, but try as she might, she couldn’t form the words. “I dunno when or how, but somehow, you lost your confidence along the way.” Rainbow’s huge eyes got a steely glint. “I’m not gonna sit by while you have a nervous breakdown, got it? No more control freak, no more snarky fits, no more shutting others out. Whether you like it or not, I’m gonna fix your craziness here and now.” Twilight glowered and crossed her hooves. “Rainbow, the only thing that’s keeping me from teleporting right now is the thought of what you’ll do by yourself while I’m gone. Hate to burst your bubble, but you can’t make me do anything I don’t want.” Rainbow yawned, her mouth like a bottomless black pit. “If you could teleport, you’d have unstuck yourself f-from my butt back in Ponyville. What’sa matter, Twi? Too horny to focus?” ...crud. It was actually worse than Rainbow had guessed. Twilight’s marehood was dripping, her tail flagging, her crotch utterly soaked. There was a hungering, pulsing ache clawing at her belly, further fueled by the problem of still drowning in Rainbow’s scent. It clung to Twilight’s coat, it lingered on her tongue, it filled her lungs every time she time took a breath. It was like a moist, sweltering fog clouding her thoughts... ...and Twilight could tell it was getting stronger. Not only that, but Rainbow’s voice had a slight tremor that kept slipping out now and then, her pink, fleshy tongue darting out to lick her lips. Her fully-splayed wings cast long shadows over the forest and river, painfully stiff and twitching like mad. Her mighty tail was flicking, pony-sized drops of mare honey fell from her cavernous cunny to plummet over a hundred feet onto the beach. Twilight slumped and hung her head. Her own worst enemy, indeed. “Fine... I’ll humor you for now.” “Yesssss!” Rainbow pumped her hoof with a WUMPH of air. “Gotcha now, girl! No poofing away! Time to face the music!” Twilight only hoped she didn’t regret this. “Let’s assume that you’re right and I really have been some kind of neurotic nutjob lately. How do you plan to ‘fix’ me?” Rainbow didn’t miss a beat. “Easy-peasy! Y’know the bragging spell you cast on me? Just cast it on yourself and have fun with it!” … … ... “...Excuse me?” Twilight said. “C’mon, I didn’t stutter there,” said Rainbow. “Cast it the same way you did on me, then—” “WHY IN EQUESTRIA WOULD I DO THAT?!” Twilight burst out. “LOOK AT WHAT IT’S DONE TO YOU!” The shout was so loud it made far off birds fly away, but Rainbow just laughed. “Riddle me this, Twi. When was the last time you looked back, reallllllly looked back, and r-realized how much you have under your belt? Have you even considered that maybe, just maybe, you deserve the things you have? The praise you get?” “..." “I swear, it’s like you’re afraid to be proud of yourself!” Rainbow tsked and shook her head. “Lemme let you in on a little secret—d’you know what happens when you focus on the doom and gloom all the time? It gets to you! Shocker, I know—” “Enough,” Twilight snapped. “Not that I don’t love you pointing out my faults, but what does this have to do with the Ego spell?” “Everything!” Rainbow threw up her hooves. “Don’t you see? You’re one of the most awesome ponies who ever lived! If you’d just stop doubting yourself for two seconds—” “I said ENOUGH.” Twilight’s tone turned frosty. “You want me to cast the Ego spell on myself to... accomplish what, exactly?” Rainbow leaned even closer, her titanic muzzle now only a few feet from Twilight. “I know you, Twi. Realizing how awesome you are feels good, but to snap you out of your funk, you need to feel GOOOOOOOD.” Twilight could see now. “You’re hoping that the positive feedback loop will give me additional incentive to pander to my own ego, thus lessening and/or eliminating my feelings of self-doubt and neuroticism.” Rainbow huge eyes spun in a dizzying roll. “Of course you find a way to make it sound boring.” Twilight couldn’t believe she had to explain this. “You’re forgetting one minor detail. You know, the whole GROWING BIGGER thing?! Look at you! You’re… y-y-you’re immense! You want me to grow to the same size as you?! Think of the damage we might do!” Rainbow shrugged. “So what if we make some waves and knock down a few trees? Better than you going nutso and becoming Nightmare Sparkle or whatever.” “But we—” “Everypony believes in you,” Rainbow said. “But none of that matters if you don’t believe in yourself. I know this is just the pick-me-up you need, but seeing as you’re in a rut—heh, and also in sore need of one—” “Look who’s talking, Miss Waterfall-Between-Her-Legs.” “—I figure this is the best way to help with both!” Rainbow said. “Consider this your own private seminar getaway-thing! Awesomeness 101, and I’m your teacher, Miss Rainbow Dash! Today, I’m going to teach you all about the fine art of bragging!” … … ... “You,” Twilight said slowly.  “Want to teach me... how to brag.” “Teach, coach, whatever.” Rainbow grinned. “C’monnnnn, this is your chance to improve. Doesn’t Twilight Sparkle like learning?” She may as well have been offering a drug to an addict. It was painful to watch as Twilight's face soon went red, her mind filling with sticky black tar. Rainbow fought the urge to laugh. At this rate, Twilight was gonna be back to her old self in no time— “I can’t,” Twilight spat through clenched teeth. “I’m sorry, but… I just C-CAN’T! I appreciate... the offer, but th-that isn’t something I want… to l-learn.” Damn it all, Sparkle. “Twilight.” Rainbow’s voice went soft. “This is me, your friend, telling you that you’ve been letting dumb things change—” “I GET IT!” Twilight landed atop Rainbow’s muzzle, glaring into one of her immense eyes. “I get what you’re trying to say, okay?! But I can’t build myself up like that, I just can’t! I have to keep myself grounded if I’m going to shoulder all this responsibility—” Rainbow blinked, her eyelid swooping down in front of Twilight before rising up like a the world’s biggest window shade. “There’s that word again. Responsibility this, responsibility that. That’s really all you can see, isn’t it?” Again, Twilight didn’t reply, but her silence spoke volumes. “Well, your loss, I suppose.” Rainbow looked off towards the distance. “Guess I’ll just have to let you rip yourself apart! Ah, well… and here I was all looking forward to helping you.” A hole formed in Twilight’s gut. “Rainbow…?” “Meh, I bet you wouldn’t be able to handle how g-good it feels, anyways.” A tingling tremor raced through Rainbow. “Certainly not like I can, at least. Even with it feeling better every time, I just keeping wanting more! You don’t even know how awesome of a teacher I’d be! I’m practically the Queen of Bragging!” Oh, no. The rush of magic sparked to life like a mystical stream. Rainbow moaned as it crept over her at a deliciously slow pace that vibrated inside her. Her hoof wandered to her slick nethers to coax along the urge, her hind legs sliding out into the river along and scraaaaaaaping off a chunk of the beach. It took even longer for the magic to envelop her this time, but once it did... “Oh, yes…” Rainbow murmured. “YES!” She was teasing and stroking her marehood in fast strokes, fiery coils squeezed tight in her belly alongside the tantalizing magic. Every second she’d been talking with Twilight it’d been building, and at last she was able to give in. Every inch of her was expanding—her head rising higher into the air, her colorful tail snaking deeper into the forest, her rear legs spreading farther into the river, her wings stretching out farther and farther— “OKAY!” Twilight yelled over the noise. “I’LL CAST THE SPELL! Jeez, louise...” It was fortunate that the spell was far to cast than easier than teleporting. Twilight even managed to get it going despite the distraction of the hairs of Rainbow’s coat rising up to her shoulders. Twilight fired it at herself once ready, the incantation hitting her with a jolt. “!!!” White-hot lightning lanced through Twilight. Her tail flew up, senses hurtled past the point of no return, her tunnel clamping down HARD. Bombs went off in her frazzled mind, the peak not coming in waves, but tsunamis. Rainbow moist schlicks of fetlock-on-privates could be heard even over the crashing of the Falls.  Her face was flush, eyes half-lidded and fluttery, colossal wings throbbing in time with her heart. Foot after foot she claimed, rubbing faster as it felt better, yet she still wanted to be bigger… BIGGER! Her juices drenched what was left of the beach as her cushy rump brushed against the trees on the forest’s edge… only to topple them under a spreading wall of pegasus butt. Twilight sagged to her knees. She stared at nothing, drunk on an endorphin cocktail. Where before her head was hazy, she now felt floaty in the best way. The air around her was still heavy with the smell of Rainbow, but Twilight didn’t care. All that was going through her mind was a single word. Again... “YES!” Rainbow shouted so loud the Falls jittered. A gush of marecum spashed out around her soaked hoof to wash away even more the beach in a torrent of sex. The shallows became saturated with her juices flowing out like waves at high tide, each wave higher as she continued to grow. Her thrashing tail toppled trees in a deafening series of snaps and smashes, prismatic hairs thick as vines whipping to and fro. The echoing shout snapped Twilight out of it. She had a split second of clear thought… before all the misgivings and fears came crashing back. Past experiences, one after the other, all trying to teach the one lesson Twilight just couldn’t get the hang of. Did she really want to go through this song and dance again? Well, considering the veritable grassfield of blue fur around her... “We’ll try things your way, Dash,” Twilight muttered. “I just hope you know what you’re doing.” Rainbow sighed dreamily as her latest growth ended. She took a moment to examine her now-smaller surroundings before replying. “I knew you’d come around.” Her voice was louder and more powerful than ever. “Okay, hop off and land down on the beach. I wanna see you do this.” Grumbling, Twilight obeyed. She flew off of Rainbow and glided down towards the far end of the beach. “I cast the spell already,” Twilight said as she turned. “It should be in full…” Sweet Celestia, that was a big Rainbow. Even as far away as she’d flown, Twilight still couldn’t get all of her in view. Rainbow’s legs were sequoias that stretched up towards the sky, her barrel alone bigger than Cloudsdale’s weather factory. Her rose-colored eyes were each bigger than houses, and Twilight betted that If Rainbow stood at the base of the Falls and reared, she could almost touch the very top of the cliff with her hooves. With said hooves now each wider than an entire street! It took Rainbow a second to locate the teeny purple dot below. She nearly laughed as she realized all ponies were that small now. “Let’s get started, then. You ready to feel awesome?” Twilight may as well not have gotten off at all. That familiar insistence, that tensing need roared back and swept all other thoughts aside. Twilight didn’t even notice her hoof wandering to her loins, her cunny clenching with haywire magic. “Y-You...” Twilight wet her dry lips. “You got... quite a bit bigger...” Rainbow grinned. “Yuh-huh. Get ready to take notes, because class is in session!” The heat of Rainbow’s body combined with the waterfall’s spray was like a sauna. Not only was Rainbow’s humongous sexy body was all Twilight could see, it was all Twilight could smell[, the wind was blowing the thick smell of pegasus need in her face. Rainbow’s curves stretched out in every direction like sky blue hills topped by a cascade of color, and the only thing that overshadowed her were the Falls themselves. But even they were starting to look less impressive... Twilight swallowed hard. “T-Teach away...” > Modest Meticulous Monarch Magnifies Mass > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bragging Rights 2: The Art of Bragging Part 2 “Question before we start,” Rainbow said. “Is bragging a good thing, or a bad thing?” Twilight’s heart was pounding. Sweat stung her eyes as she took a lungful of humid air. “U-Um… a bad thing?” Rainbow crouched her head down low. “Nope. Bragging can be good OR bad. And not just for the pony bragging, but the ponies they’re bragging to!” Twilight’s pupils shrank as she was swallowed by Rainbow’s monstrous shadow. That fuzzy face alone was so massive, her pupils like glossy caves. “I-I see…” “Bragging’s about confidence.” Rainbow smiled, revealing her tower-sized teeth. “Showing confidence, and then giving it to others. Yeah, it’s easy to get carried away, but that’s what makes it fun! It’s all about riding the line.” Twilight was having trouble listening. Even Rainbow’s smallest movements made the ground rumble, Rainbow’s body warmth washing over her. “What do you mean?” Rainbow’s voice fell to a booming whisper. “Haven’t you ever heard or seen somepony and thought, ‘I want that. I want to be on the top—I know I can be on top!’” Twilight chewed on her lip. “A-Am I supposed to be thinking that now?” Rainbow’s eyes gleamed. “You tell me.” Twilight shivered. She could feel the spell coursing through her, heating her up like a pot of water on a stove. “I-I’ve never really competed before… at least, not seriously at anything.” Rainbow chuckled. “Twilight, Twilight, Twilight. You might just be the most competitive pony I’ve ever met!” Twilight furrowed her brow. “How am I—” “You play a bigger game,” Rainbow said. “A game you’re so good at, you wind up drafting the losers onto your team.” It took Twilight a second, but she eventually got there. “...Oh.” Rainbow winked. “You definitely know what it’s like to compete. You know the feeling of wanting others to rise up to your level, to see them become as awesome as you! It’s a good feeling, isn’t it?” Twilight shifted back and forth. “I dunno… I-I mean, it is, yes, but...” Rainbow squinted and tilted her head. “You said being a princess means you have to stay grounded. That seems kinda backwards, don’cha think? Why would a pair of wings mean you gotta stay on the ground?” Twilight was quiet. She glanced at her wings one at a time, stiff and throbbing at her sides. “If you want ponies to follow you, you gotta convince ‘em you’re worth following.” Rainbow leaned closer, her colossal muzzle like a fuzzy hill. “Think about when you’re talking about friendship. Don’t you believe what you’re saying?” Twilight shifted in place. Thoughts and feelings were all swirled together in her mind like a smothering blanket. She watched the hairs of Rainbow’s coat sway in the breeze, thick and strong as jungle vines. “I want you to pretend I’m somepony who’s been living under a rock the last few years,” said Rainbow. “Imagine I’m one of those stubborn jerkwards that’ll walk all over you if you let me—” Twilight paled. “Er… not literally,” Rainbow said quickly. “Picture that I only respect ponies that are strong, y’feel me? I need you to tell me about the things you’ve done because that’s the only way you’ll only win me over, and if you aren’t confident, I’m not gonna care.” Twilight wet her dry lips. “This isn’t really—” “You’ve worked your plot off to get where you are, haven’t you?” Twilight flattened her ears. “You know I have.” “But pretend I don’t!” Rainbow straightened back up to rise high, high over Twilight. “I’m a pony who’s just come to Equestria, and I have no idea how awesome the great Twilight Sparkle is! I need you to tell me!” Twilight’s head was swimming. Protests rose to the surface only to be obscured just as quick by a lust-laden fog. Her mental walls were impressive, but even they couldn’t long withstand the rising tide... towering over her like a skyscraper... Rainbow watched the speck below her, a purple blip amidst the sandy beach. “Well?” It felt like Twilight was on the edge of a cliff. For so long she’d steered clear of this, afraid of what’d happen if she jumped... “H-Hello, my name’s Twilight Sparkle!” she said. “I was born and raised in Canterlot, but I moved to Ponyville to continue my studies. I’m the Princess of Friendship and I’d like to talk to you about who I, uh… I’m not doing it right, am I.” Rainbow looked like she was caught between giggling and groaning. “This isn’t an essay.” Rainbow spread her mammoth wings wide. “You don’t do that when you meet new ponies, do you?” A fresh shiver raced up Twilight’s spine, but this one was different. “O-Okay, um… a little about me. I-I graduated from CSGU summa cum laude as valedictorian. I was the first student to hatch the dragon egg used as an entrance exam for the school, and also the youngest pony ever to be tutored by Princess Celestia. I saved Princess Luna from corruption and reawakened the Elements of Harmony—” “You sound like you’re reading off a checklist,” Rainbow said. “C’mon, aren’t you proud of all those things?” Twilight blanched. “Of course I am!” Rainbow blew a raspberry. “Could’ve fooled me.” Stars alive, that tongue could’ve filled the entire foyer of Canterlot Castle. “Well, I am. I’m very proud of the things I’ve done!” Rainbow got an odd grin. “Then say you’re the smartest egghead in the world.” “What?!” Twilight did a double-take. “H-Hey, come on! Intelligence is subjective! A fish will always seem like an idiot if you judge it by how well it can climb a ladder—” She was cut off by Rainbow snickering. “Fine. How about saying that you’re the smartest when it comes to friendship?” It was getting harder and harder for Twilight to stay focused. “Uh, well… I s-suppose that’s more accurate, but still not necessarily—” Rainbow blew a puff of air at Twilight. “Quit with the humble act already.” “Gah!” Twilight had to put a shield to prevent being pelted with sand. “Okay, yes! I know more about friendship than most ponies!” At this, she felt the barest hint of a flicker inside her, but it was so minute it was lost amidst the tension. Rainbow laughed. “Say it like you mean it!” Horseapples, Twilight’s tail was flagging again. She fidgeted in place and tried to keep her hooves put. “Uh, w-well…  it’s not really for me to decide, is it? Nnnngh, other ponies have to be the judge on this kind of thing—” “Twilight.” She wilted. “...I’m not sure I can do this.” Rainbow took a mighty step forward with a deafening THOOM. “I once heard you say that you thought you were ‘nopony special’. Well, like it or not, you’re one of the most special ponies in the world! How about you give yourself credit for a change?” Twilight had to use her earth pony magic to keep steady amidst the tremors. “I-I...” “Let’s try again.” Rainbow loomed over Twilight even more now. “Tell me who you are, and this time, I want you to mean it.” Twilight gulped. Her mind was clouded over, senses saturated in Rainbow Dash. Protests were being replaced by a mire of sticky tar. The back of her throat ached like something was trying to claw out of it, something desperate to break free of its bonds... “I am Twilight Sparkle,” she said. “I’ve been taught by the best of the best all my life, and I know for a fact that they’re all proud of me! I’ve done amazing things thanks to the things I’ve been taught, and my friends and I deserve all the credit we've gotten.” Rainbow smiled. That tone was creeping into Twilight’s voice, the one that always held your attention. “Keep going.” Twilight shuddered from a fresh rivulet running down her leg. “A-All my life I’ve heard what a… what a genius I am, that I was being groomed for the throne. I never paid much attention, but deep down, I saw what Princess Celestia was teaching me, the skills she wanted me to have… Skills I was always the best at.” Twilight was so focused she didn’t notice the rising tingle in her body. It added to the knot tightening in her belly, goading… encouraging. “Even before I became an alicorn, I was one of the most powerful ponies of our era.” Her eyes flashed bright, her mane and tail shimmering. “I can control the elements, manipulate matter, even travel through time itself! But now... well, not that I’ve tried or anything, but let’s just say that if either Celestia or Luna wanted a day off, I’m pretty sure I could cover them.” At this, the whole beach rippled like water. Even Rainbow could feel the air crackle, the giddy magic making her heart beat faster. “Yes.” A blush spread on Rainbow’s face. “Nnngh, yes… you could...” The air went back to normal as Twilight quieted her magic, but her whole body was steaming, even more building up. “Pride… that’s where it all comes from, isn’t it? In the end, bragging’s all about your pride.” Rainbow licked her lips. “And you have every reason to be proud.” At last, Twilight noticed the tingling. She gasped as the enveloping heat flared from deep within to spread to her limbs, electric and buzzing in the best way. Her point of view slowly rose inch by inch, her growing hooves pushing away the sand. She felt the magic of the spell now working, newfound strength flowed into her to support her size, pooling deep inside her before flowing back into her core... But it was over far too soon. Twilight was left wanting as the feeling faded to the back of her head. She made a noise between a snarl and a moan before looking back up at Rainbow, who was staring at her, face flushed, expression almost hungry. “There's my Twi," she said. Twilight checked herself. She’d guessed she’d grown maybe half a foot or so, putting her just shy of Princess Luna. She poked herself to make sure it was real. “Wow…” Twilight shivered again. “That's what it feels like?” Rainbow leaned closer again, her voice soft and low. “You can sorta think of bragging as a fib that isn’t really a fib. Unless you’re tossing shade, which is a little different…” The thought of Twilight smack-talking made Rainbow quiver. “A-Ah, good bragging isn’t full-out lying, it’s just adding a little more to the truth! You don’t wanna say you, um… can do something impossible, but you don’t wanna sell yourself sh-short, either.” Twilight noticed the slight catch. “You okay?” “U-Um…” Rainbow wiggled her titanic hips. The idea of Twilight getting that cocky smirk, standing tall as she claimed could do the most ridiculous things, except they were all true… Wrecking ball-sized drops fell from Rainbow’s marehood to splash down onto the beach like bombs, and she flicked her tail with a SNAP that boomed like thunder. Twilight clapped her hooves over her ears. “Hey, take it easy!” Rainbow shook her head clear. Growling, she walked off the beach to instead go out into the ankle-deep water (to her, anyway) her crashing steps causing incredible waves that made Twilight have to fly up into the air. “RAINBOW!” Twilight felt her ire rise. “Would you be a little more careful, please?!” “Errrrgh…” Rainbow made her way to the cliff face and sat beside the waterfall with a sound like an avalanche. The rockface groaned and shuddered, but otherwise remained intact, her fluffy tail like a colorful dam spread out across the river’s length. Twilight approached from the air, but stayed a ways off in case of an actual avalanche. “What’s wrong? What’re you doing?” “C-Cooling off.” Rainbow splayed her hind legs out wide, scooping several swimming pools worth of water to splash on her crotch. “Nnnffff… W-Watching you do that was HOT.” Twilight blinked like an owl.  “What?” Rainbow blushed and jerked her head away. “E-Erm! Where… where was I? Oh, yeah. Bragging’s all about getting psyched, y’know? You get others psyched by sh-showing what they could be, and yourself psyched by reminding yourself what you are. It f-feels good to look back at all the times you’ve won and be like, ‘Wow, I can’t believe I did that!’ I’m a-awesome!” Twilight flew a bit closer, now hovering just above Rainbow’s knee. She could feel the heat from Rainbow’s loins, her thick scent stronger than ever. “Rainbow, did you just—” “You’ve got plenty more to brag about, so go ahead and pick something!” Rainbow shifted, her movements making the cliff crack even more. “Tell me all about the coolness, the awesomeness, the r-radicalness that is—unf—Twilight Sparkle!” Twilight almost didn’t argue. That deep itch was still there, more insistent from the waterfall’s spray mixed with Rainbow’s warmth and scent. It was a cloying cocktail drenching Twilight from nose to tail, and all she wanted was to fly down to that supersized slit and… ...watching you do that was HOT… And here was yet another cliff Twilight was on the edge of. Guess her mother wasn’t the only thrill seeker of the family. “Confidence and belief, pride and power, competing and embellishing… ” Twilight cleared her throat and shouted. “You wanna know all about me? HA! Look at you, all hot and bothered already! Your nerves might short out if I say even a fraction of what I’ve done!” Twilight felt it creeping up this time—a hyper sensation that thrummed in her ears and spread over her like a blanket. A moan escaped her as she swelled larger, her wingbeats faltering as she ran her hooves over herself. Rainbow looked on with a shark-like grin. Her spread wings twitched, one of them brushing the waterfall and flicking water far out into the forest. “Y-Yeah?” “YEAH!” said Twilight. “You've no idea how, erm… awesome I am! I’ve fought gods and spirits and—oh sweet Luna—c-come out on top! I’ve recovered ancient relics and fought d-dragons! I’ve done more—ohyesmore—in the last few years than most do in their whole life!” Twilight nearly fell out of the air from the repeated bursts, her body lengthening and thickening, her frame reaching greater sizes. She reached Celestia’s size in seconds and kept right on growing, filling more and more space as time passed, now a proper alicorn. And Rainbow had a front row seat to the show. Her nostrils flared in shallow pants, her hoof now hovering above her flower. “Twiiiiiiii…” “You th-think you’re so high and mighty—ahhhnnn—just because you’re big?!” Twilight shouted. “You can’t even begin to imagine what I can do! Reality itself is my toy!” Another brag, another few feet added to her height. This time she did fall out of the air, landing belly-first atop on Rainbow’s knee, groaning long and low. Rainbow chuckled. She hadn’t even felt Twilight land on her. “I-I saw that spell you used back in town. You know all kinds of s-sexy spells, don’cha?” Twilight rose to her hooves. She stumbled and swayed back and forth, legs longer and more powerful with every step. “A-Alright, stop!” Twilight’s horn throbbed nearly as much as her groin. “Rainbow! H-Have you been coming onto me this whole time?” Rainbow waggled her eyebrows. “I’ve cum onto you plenty.” Twilight’s legs shook. It took her all of two seconds to decide a course of action, the coiled, gnawing tightness just needing a little bit more... “Y-Yeah, well I’m—” Twilight cut herself off with a moan. “—I’m not s-sure you’d be able to handle me! I may be an egghead, but the s-smartest eggheads apply what they’ve learned! And do you know who I am?!" Rainbow could actually feel Twilight’s weight now. She was the size of an elephant, but to Rainbow she was nothing but an ant. “Who?” Twilight threw her head back and screamed. “I'M THE SMARTEST EGGHEAD IN THE WORLD!” It hit her like a train. Her voice failed her as her muscles went rigid, hips jerking to grind on Rainbow’s knee. Upward and outward Twilight grew, shooting up more and more, synapses firing with every new inch. She surpassed the largest of elephants and started making her way towards house-size, but all she wanted was more… MORE... Rainbow couldn’t hold back anymore. She bit her lip as the first jolt hooked her in, and the cliff cracked more and more as she pushed her fetlock to her crotch, her juices coating her tail in a steady stream. Twilight was having to widen her stance more and more, each surge greater than the last, but when it ended she was left wanting again. Normally a peak like that would leave her satisfied and then some, but here... “S-So you like confident ponies,” Twilight said. “Then let me tell you a little secret, Rainbow—the real reason why I don’t brag about the amazing things I’ve done... is because I never know where to start.” Rainbow groaned. Her eyes were closed, head tilted back, her fetlock moving with loud SCHLICKS that echoed throughout the basin. Twilight felt the tingles resurge. For the first time, she inhaled deep and relished the aroma that saturated everything. “And of course I know pleasure magic! Did you forget who my sister-in-law is?! By the time I’m done, your throat will be raw from screaming my name!” Rainbow arched her back. She rubbed faster, the lewd sounds of slick flesh overtaking the roar of the Falls. She opened one eye and saw the dot of purple was now like a tiny figurine, Twilight’s voice getting louder… stronger... Twilight got a wicked grin. “But you look like you’re enjoying yourself plenty already.” She looked down at the crevasse that was Rainbow’s cunny. “Does hearing me follow your advice get you going, Rainbow? You better enjoy it now, because pretty soon, I’ll be using my mouth for other things...” Rainbow sucked in a breath through clenched teeth. Her eyes were fluttering, her legs twitching. She could tell Twilight was growing faster now, already the size of an Ursa Minor. Every brag shrank the gap between them, but the notion excited Rainbow all the more... Twilight examined Rainbow in a different light. Muscled legs from a lifetime of exertion. Wings that looked chiseled from the very cliff. Wide, padded hips and a toned tummy. Soft skin and a plush, shiny coat. A rapturous face, ruby eyes lowered in a sultry gaze, her colorful mane stuck to her neck and shoulders. “I hope you taste as good as you look,” Twilight purred. “You won’t want—haaaaa—anypony else after you’ve been with me! You’ll only want the BEST!” Rainbow’s humongous soaked hoof was moving with heavy WUMPHS that were like an impossible piston. She was gonna peak in the next few seconds regardless, but if she wanted to push it to the next level... “Always did want... an equal!” said Rainbow. And her body rumbled, a charge in the air that signalled what was to come. Hot, burning POWER built up like a furnace inside her, hotter and hotter, like a volcano preparing to erupt. It all funnelled into the incredible rush that’d been on a hair trigger... Twilight felt the rumbling, but she was too caught up in her own sensations to care. Her horn sparked and popped from the continued surges coursing through her. "More!" Twilight’s eyes rolled into the back of her head. "MORE!" The cliff cracked as Rainbow’s already colossal form grew. The waters rippled around her swelling rump and hips, and while it looked like she was only gaining inches, in reality she was gaining yards, her head rising higher as she became greater. She jerked up her hips with a shout that was heard for dozens of miles, a deluge of marecum flooding out to replace the river’s waters. “Bigger!” Rainbow could feel every part of her piling on more mass, from her wings to her hooves to her flanks. And when her hips crashed back down, the force was so great the river exploded in a blast of liquid and stone. “BIGGER!” The shaking made Twilight fall back to her stomach. Rainbow was outpacing her… outgrowing her! For every foot Twilight gained, Rainbow multiplied it! Rainbow’s fuzzy coat was rising back over Twilight, the hairs creeping around her legs like tall grass! How— And then Twilight remembered. “The c-counterspell back in town...” She couldn’t help but groan. “Guess I’ll need t-to...” Except she didn’t remember what she’d cast. Normally she had a memory for these things, but right now… But she had lots of magic, so maybe… “Gotta...” The magic came freely and readily. She didn’t even think on what she was casting, she just let it rip! “Gotta beat her!” The spell was pure adrenaline. Twilight felt it pour into her, feeding into the loop and whirling inside like lightning! Every nerve in Twilight’s body fired in a glorious burst, and hot on that burst’s heels was something big, something that built and built like a balloon inflating in her chest... “Oh...” Twilight’s skin itched. Her whole body quivered, a sensation like she was seeing herself from outside her body. “OH!” It was like the pleasure so far had been a four or five. But now it was cranking up, going to a six… then a seven… Eight! Nine! Twilight couldn’t even speak. The sensation wiped her mind clean, her own hoof trailing south to join in Rainbow’s bliss. She felt too small for her skin, but the walls were crumbling more and more. A small part of her made one last desperate attempt to keep the beast inside its cage, but it was far too late. It happened in spurts. The brimming wellspring would flood into her, and Twilight would GROW like an explosion had gone off inside her. The first put her at sixty feet, but that was hardly a milestone as the second pushed her up two more stories. Twilight was now big enough to stomp a house flat, but she was a newborn puppy to Rainbow, her hooves only barely dangling over the edges of her knee. And Rainbow was still growing, too. The need had been gathering the entire time she’d coached Twilight, and now she was swift approaching three-quarters the size of the Falls, her head swimming in a lust-drunk haze. Her eyes were locked on Twilight’s as they rode their highs, their faces rosy, mouths silently moving as they became larger... and larger... Twilight gripped Rainbow’s knee and thrust. “The things I’m gonna to do to you...” That one made Rainbow squirm. She was already picturing it, spurred on by Twilight’s bedroom eyes. “Gotta... c-catch up to me first.” “Oh, I’ll catch you.” Twilight slid down Rainbow’s leg to fall into the leg-deep water and cause a tidal wave. “And then I’m gonna take you! You’re MINE, Rainbow Dash!” The ground shook… actually shook with the force of Twilight’s weight. The water churned around them, more and more rocks falling from the tall cliff. The beach was long washed away now, many of the nearest trees starting to topple. Rainbow chuckled, her scratchy voice echoing throughout the Basin. “Prove it.” Twilight sized up her quarry. Rainbow was seven times larger than her—a veritable mountain of a mare. Nothing a genius magical prodigy and seasoned heroine couldn’t handle. She moved towards Rainbow in a lazy stride. “You want me to do it fast? Or you in the mood for something slow? Doesn’t matter to me—the result will be the same...” Rainbow couldn’t hold back her whimper. Her afterglow wasn’t even gone yet, and she was already feeling that tightness again. “Ho-ly Celestia…” Twilight tut-tutted. “Wrong princess.” Those eyes… that tone! Rainbow started going at it again even as her back tickled from the rock crumbling around still-growing form. Her flanks now took up the river’s width and then some, her outstretched legs bulldozing an entire acre of forest and still swelling BIGGER... “You didn’t answer me.” Twilight brushed her wing across Rainbow’s cutie mark—a symbol the size of a crop circle. “Fast? Or slow?” Rainbow went rigid at Twilight’s touch. “T-TWILIGHT!” Twilight snickered. “What? You think I haven’t researched certain customs since getting wings?” Rainbow’s hooves dug into the ground. She was panting, her soaked hoof already a blur. “S-Slow! Go SLOW!” Twilight only barely kept her voice level as her growing wing covered more and more of Rainbow’s flank. “The great Rainbow Dash, wanting something slow for a change? My, my. Do you want to savor what’s about to happen? Or maybe... do you want to savor me?” Every word was fuel to the flames. Rainbow couldn’t have stopped even if she wanted, her thighs clenching hard and fast. Twilight was getting easier and easier to see, almost as if she were rising up into the air… Twilight planted kiss after kiss on Rainbow’s cutie mark, her lips like a cloud along Rainbow’s soft coat. “I hope you know what you’re in for. If knowledge is power, I’m the queen of the world! You can’t even—nnngh—imagine the things I know...” Rainbow was sweating. Her hoof was on autopilot as she teased herself, falling into a rhythm that never failed to please. Her attention was glued to Twilight, watching as she went from newborn puppy-size to doll size in mere seconds. “For example.” Twilight’s buzzing horn glowed. “Did you know there’s particular group of flight muscles that become sensitive when a pegasus i-is... aaaaa—aroused? Doubly so if they’re a strong f-flier...” Rainbow felt a deliciously hot pressure between her shoulder blades, kneading and squeezing exactly where she’d been grinding against the cliff... Her squeal hit a new octave. Her pinned tail thrashed and smashed the river with wet SMACKS that sent water flying over a thousand feet into the air. Rainbow abandoned all thoughts of teasing and went straight to for the finish, her growing hoof the size of a water tower. Twilight savored the reaction like a fine wine. She took a deep breath and closed her eyes, and when she opened them, she was thirty feet taller. “Speaking of sensitive spots, there’s a certain sssssomething I noticed about you at the spa a few months back…” Rainbow felt her rear horseshoes being pulled off, landing in the forest with an impossible CRASH! She had a split second to react before her hooves were enveloped in that same hot pressure, stroking and massaging… “AHHHHH!” Rainbow kicked and bucked. The ground heaved as trees of all sizes went flying, her legs scraping the area like glaciers right down to the rock. Her labia was winking, aching for need and release, but all it did was make the knot in her belly tighter... “Mmm...” Twilight nipped the edge of Rainbow’s hip. She felt cramped, filled with an enveloping energy flowing through her. “No wonder you didn’t want—ngaaaa—anypony touching your hooves!” Rainbow could hardly breathe. She could feel the newest peak threatening to crash into her, and she wanted nothing more than to embrace it. She smashed her head into the rock and made it shatter like thin ice, her hips thrusting, the power inside her swelling more with every second. “And if we’re talking—mmmmf—MAGICAL power, then hoooooo boy, you picked a winner!” Twilight reared, her hooves teasing the bottom of Rainbow’s ribs. She thrust against Rainbow’s flank, trailing kisses up Rainbow’s side as she grew. “I’m the most gifted ssss-student Princess Celestia’s ever had! It didn’t matter what kind of challenge—YES—she threw at me! I always… ALWAYS beat it!” Rainbow didn’t care that Twilight was growing faster than her. She herself was taking up the entirety of the river’s mouth, the gigantic waterfall crashing down onto her shoulder. Untold gallons were cascading down her front to pool in the gaps between her abs. She was moaning, eyes on Twilight, her motions jerky and tense. “Maybe I’ll sh-show you my true power.” Twilight stared up at Rainbow, their gazes smoldering. “But I’ll warn you, Dashie… if you like strong ponies, you might get obsessed!” Rainbow bit her lip so hard it nearly bled. Her need was as big as the rest of her, her core a compressed spring. Her growth stopped at just shy of eight hundred feet, but Twilight was still closing the gap between them... “But you wanna... kn-know the best part?” Twilight punctuated her words with wet licks. “Even though I’m brilliant… even though I’m an alicorn… even though I’m a living legend… my legend… keeps... GROWING—” BOOM! One second Twilight was talking, the next she was grabbed—no, glomped to the ground with the force of an earthquake. Rainbow pulled Twilight into a desperate kiss, Rainbow’s lips dominating Twilight’s along with most of her muzzle. Now it was Twilight’s turn to squeal, Rainbow’s need sparking a sympathetic fire that made her only want MORE. She was half Rainbow’s size and rising steadily, able to kiss back more and more by the second, already able to wrap her hooves around Rainbow’s head and keep her trapped, but it wasn’t enough, not nearly enough... Rainbow groaned as she felt Twilight’s grip strengthen, pulling her down into a proper lover’s embrace, just as frantic and so very sure. Twilight’s magic was flaring, the energy so powerful it lifted stone and water to hover in the air around them. Rainbow’s own magic responded in kind, clouds gathering above them and wind picking up. The river bottom cracked beneath Twilight’s still-increasing mass, whirlpools and rapids raging around them and adding to the chaos. Twilight thrust up her hips, her crotch just shy of Rainbow’s underbelly. She was even bigger on the second thrust, and her soaked nethers touched Rainbow’s stomach before sliding south. Rainbow thrust back immediately, and before long their multi-million ton bodies were entwined in a titanic sexy dance. They were bigger than castles yet the urge was just as fierce as ever. Rainbow broke their kiss and dove right back in for a second, then a third, then a fourth and a fifth. Their kisses rolled one after the other, their lips like magnets. Each new growth spurt pushed Twilight on, fueled by sensations she now readily embraced, insatiable and burning hot, hot, HOT! And the size difference between them just kept dwindling—seventy feet… fifty feet… twenty… a yard... It was when Twilight wrapped her legs around Rainbow’s rump that they noticed. Rainbow pulled back with a wet POP, rosy-faced and nostrils flaring, nickering low as she took in the mare of equal size beneath her. “Quick study...” Twilight wrapped together their tails and tugged. “Good teacher.” “Mmmmf…” Rainbow gripped her harder. “I knew I shoulda gone for you sooner.” Twilight could feel her butt pressed up against the cliff, her sheer weight crushing the rock to rubble. “Think you can handle—ahhhnn—a princess?” Rainbow growled. She swooped back down for a fresh kiss, their lips moving with smacks louder than cannonfire. Their tongues were mingling, frenzied and desperate, Rainbow intoxicated by the taste. She was so enamored that she didn’t notice how Twilight’s lips were starting to envelop hers, how Twilight’s tail was lengthening, or how the sounds of cracking rock and heaving stone were increasing. But Twilight noticed. She pulled Rainbow down harder and thrust again, each one pushing a little more into Rainbow’s goliath weight. The tinglings had never stopped, running on a backlog that seemed endless… until there wasn’t any more room between their bodies anymore. But it didn’t stop there. Twilight’s body kept swelling, expanding, growing more and more until she was lifting Rainbow’s immense hooves off the ground! “!!!” Rainbow pulled away. Her wings fluttered with the strength of tornadoes, but Twilight held her tight. She yanked Rainbow back into their liplock, growling and gripping her captive even as she continued to grow. The Basin was swiftly becoming more purple than blue as the seconds passed, Twilight consumed by a fire that could only be quenched by Rainbow Dash. But that only served to fan Rainbow’s fire. She moaned just as loud and got rougher, the two of them pushing back and forth, their hooves wandering and groping. Rainbow sucked on Twilight’s lower lip in between breaths for air, their soft gasps and pants only making her needier, their exhales pushing into each other’s mouths. The cliff behind them was crumbling, the waterfall splitting into multiple new paths that split even further as more cracks formed. Twilight clutched Rainbow and shifted. Building-sized stones heaved and levitated up into the air as they rolled, Twilight’s sparkling horn a monolith that crackled with rising power. The river and forest was levelled with impossible noise under the moving mass of moaning mares, Twilight maneuvering on top of Rainbow, laying on her like a smothering blanket. That was when Rainbow peaked. She squeaked and kicked mightily, exploding the cliff in a shower of dust and of gargantuan rocks that flew all around them. Her pegasus magic went wild, the clouds above them forming into an incredible thunderhead. Rain was soon pouring down in heavy sheets, but it felt barely like a sprinkle to them. Twilight’s growth finally slowed. She broke their kiss right as Rainbow came down and nibbled her jawline, now a head or so taller than her. “Gotcha,” Twilight whispered. Rainbow purred like a sleepy kitten. She stroked Twilight with her hooves and wings, the latter lingering on Twilight’s cutie marks. “You know what it’s like, don’t you?” said Twilight. “To be in a league of your own. To be something nopony’s ever seen before.” Rainbow nodded. She nuzzled Twilight, a dull murr escaping the depths of her throat. “Why’d I never realize it?” Twilight said. “Mmmmm, you’re somepony who knows how—nnnggh—lonely it is at the top. A fellow paragon...” Rainbow could feel Twilight’s growth picking back up. Now she was really starting to dwarf her, her world becoming purple and pink and indigo. “You and your egghead words...” Twilight moved up to kiss Rainbow’s shrinking ear. “The best of the best. The one who ssssssets the bar. THE model of excellence—or better, awesomenesssssss…” Rainbow was pressed deeper and deeper down by Twilight’s colossal weight. She could feel the stone caving, the river rushing down into a new waterfall. “S-Sounds like me…” Now Rainbow’s body shook like an engine revving up. Gradually the gap between them began to shrink, Rainbow easily, almost lazily catching up to Twilight’s size. Acre after acre of forest was conquered by a confidence that knew no bounds, and yet Rainbow knew she was nothing to what she knew she could be—WOULD be! Twilight chuckled. She could feel her growing magic empowering the original spell she’d cast, pouring into Rainbow like liquid through a siphon. “Hmm, what to do to you? So many possibilities, so little time… Oh, I know! An old favorite, but even kinkier like this...” She nuzzled Rainbow one last time before her kisses began trailing lower. She kissed the hollow of Rainbow’s neck, her stadium-sized tongue sneaking out to taste Rainbow’s salty skin. Rainbow’s breath caught in her throat as Twilight kept moving farther south, first kissing her chest… then her belly… then her— “GUH!” Rainbow went rigid when she felt Twilight’s breath there, but Twilight skipped the prize and kept going down, her kisses trailing yet farther south to pepper Rainbow’s thighs. Rainbow looked up to see Twilight’s head pulling back farther, her fluted horn pointed straight at her like a towering spire. Rainbow was about to say something, but then she felt the JOLT of that hard and buzzing spire graze her canyon-sized marehood— Twilight’s horn slid in. Rainbow’s howl was heard in four cities. She squeezed down on reflex, her inner muscles pulling Twilight in deep, the crackling magic stimulating every nerve inside. Now the magic really was pouring into her… but it also started to loop, the two spells building off one another! Twilight nearly came right and then and there. Warmth and wetness now enveloped her in a rippling massage, a whole city’s worth of magic flowing out and even more flowing back in. The now-greater magic would then circuit back out of Twilight and into Rainbow, only to turn right back around even stronger... “Unnngh…” Twilight pushed in deeper. “I wonder… if you can take… A-ALL of me? Or maybe I’ll be too BIG...” Rainbow gasped. Twilight’s horn was already a leviathan, and she could feel it suddenly getting longer… thicker! “I-I can taAAaAkE—” Rainbow sucked in a raspy breath. “ANnNYYYyTHINg!” Rainbow shot up fast to close the distance between them, needy and desperate for MORE! Not only was her growth fueled not only by her own boast, but the fresh magic pumping straight into her system! Within seconds she overtook Twilight, the two of them approaching two thousand feet tall! Soft. Wet. Tight. Those were the only things Twilight registered. She didn’t cared that a single hoof was larger than the entire beach she’d been on, or that her tail alone was longer than the now-destroyed Prideful Falls. She rocked into her thrusts, moaning even as she felt Rainbow swelling with each one. The familiar smell of Rainbow’s need became stronger again, overpowering and cloying and tantalizing as Rainbow’s legs rose all around her... Twilight opened her VAST reserves of magic and hornfucked Rainbow like a mare possessed. The raw power of an alicorn surged forth to push Rainbow larger… and larger… and LARGER… surpassing even the Basin itself! “Y-YES!” Rainbow was a goddess. Her body was tingling and buzzing, growing so fast that the clouds were rushing up to meet her. “BIGGER!” Twilight was laughing mad now. She was a puppy again to Rainbow, but only because the magic hadn’t finished a full circuit. It came back around with Rainbow’s added energy to pump into Twilight like a balloon being filled from a tank... And Twilight rumbled. Her laugh became a lewd shout. Peak after peak hit her, growing in leaps and bounds that’d never been seen before, nor since. With every hundred feet claimed she pushed that much deeper into Rainbow, soon matching her absurd size… then SURPASSING it, becoming twice Rainbow’s size… then thrice... stuffing her to the brim! But that wound up being Twilight’s limit. The overload hit her mind like a ton of bricks and blanked her, going limp and still as a ragdoll with a FWUMPH. The floating rocks and water crashed around the two titans with ear-shattering BOOMS like meteorites falling, and at last, all was silent. That is, save for the freak thunderstorm. The weather still raged on in a deluge of rain and sleet, the ruined Basin soon flooded with freezing water. But Rainbow and Twilight’s colossal bodies heated the area to form a mighty fog that obscured everything around. It was a moment before Rainbow came off her own rush to realize Twilight’s magic had stopped, then another to realize Twilight herself was in la-la land. Rainbow sat up and brushed the clouds out of her face. “Hey.” She nudged the behemoth between her legs. “Starswirl Junior.” Twilight murmured something about the square root of pi. Rainbow rolled her eyes. She pulled herself off of Twilight’s horn with a SCHLICK. “C’mon, up and at ‘em.” Twilight stirred. “Huzbgh...” Rainbow could feel the sheer weight and power behind her every movement, how slow everything seemed at this size. Muscles the size of city blocks bristled with strength to move her god-like frame. She could encompass all of Ponyville with her wingspan and then some. She wasn’t exactly sure how big they were, but something told her she could use a small mountain as a dildo if she wanted. And hey, if they weren’t quite that big yet… “So I’m not really sure how sensitive horns are,” said Rainbow. “But I’m gonna guess that felt reallllly good.” Twilight didn’t answer right away. She was still processing that the multicolor carpet she was staring at was actually a stretch of land bigger than Sweet Apple Acres. “...I think I should figure out that counterspell,” came her muffled voice. “Eh, give it a bit.” Rainbow got up, marvelling how high her vantage point was now. And yet she was practically a foal compared to two-and-a half-mile-tall Twilight, who was like a living landmass. “Let the lesson sink in.” Twilight’s voice was like a storm in and of itself. “Yeah… I suppose.” With earthquaking steps, Rainbow moved over to sit down beside Twilight. She had Twilight stretch out her wing so she could preen her. “You more loosened up now?” Twilight... hesitated. Her thoughts turned to that quiet sliver of fear, that insecurity that never truly went away. It didn’t have a stranglehold on her anymore, but…. “You might need to give me regular reminders.” Twilight glanced around them and cringed. “Preferably less destructive ones.” Rainbow giggled. “All that magic and you can’t fix this little mess? And here I thought Twilight Sparkle could do anything!” “Of course I can fix it!” said Twilight. “At the rate my magic’s been scaling, I could restore a tract of land ten times this size—” Twilight rumbled again. “O-Oh geez.” Her wings stiffened as she grew again, larger… greater… stronger. The three mile mark was approaching fast. “I sh-should probably stop talking...” Rainbow licked her lips. She was being greatly outsized by Twilight again, but that just meant there was more beautiful mare to ravish. “I could listen to you brag all day.” Twilight gulped. “M-Maybe some other time. The Crystal Mirror links to infinite alternate dimensions, so maybe we can find a barren world or something.” “Oooh, kinky.” Twilight looked down at Rainbow, now little more than a plush toy. “So, you really wanna give us a shot?” Rainbow raised an eyebrow. “I don’t give things a shot, Twi. No matter what it is, I give it my all.” Twilight shivered. Those fiery eyes drilling into her, never once looking away... “I’m gonna have a hard time saying no to you, aren’t I?” “More like you’ll have a hard time making excuses.” Twilight laughed as she felt Rainbow rumbling. She looked off into the fog, thoughts turning to counterspells as Rainbow broke a mile beside her. “I’ll have to hold you to that.” > Tree-Torching Tyrant Takes Tremendous Thrashing > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bragging Rights 2: The Art of Bragging Part 3 It’d been six months since the events at Prideful Falls. Twilight’s life had, for the most part, returned to a status quo. There’d been some excitement when she and Rainbow had announced their relationship, but given most of the country had either seen, heard, felt, or smelled their ‘therapy session’, it wasn’t much of a surprise. The usual Ponyville shenanigans had come and gone. Twilight and the girls had met Daring Do, who’d turned out to be a real pony. Rarity had briefly gone mad with power thanks to an evil spellbook. Fluttershy had been turned into a bat/pony hybrid for a short time. Pinkie and Applejack found they were distantly related. Rainbow found out she had a partial eidetic memory, and the Equestria Games had helped Spike with his self-confidence, no crazy bragging spell required. Then, Twilight had been summoned to Canterlot. Celestia, Luna, and Cadance had warned her of a new evil. Lord Tirek, an ancient and sinister centaur sorcerer who’d turned himself into an energy vampire with the aid of a forbidden ritual, was free once more. The other princesses gave Twilight their magic for safekeeping, and while Twilight didn’t fully understand why, she returned home and went off to practice controlling her newly expanded power... ...only to find Lord Tirek had acted faster than they’d realized. Now, Twilight and Tirek were locked in magical combat on the outskirts of Ponyville. Their struggle was visible from both Canterlot and Cloudsdale alike, and the very earth was trembling beneath their colossal clashing beams. There was no finesse, no nuance, only power against raw magical power. Blood roared in Twilight’s ears. The remains of a smoldering tree stump still burned in the center of Ponyville. She could still smell the charred wood. She could still feel the debris in her coat. Burning pages and fluttering ashes fell like rain in her mind’s eye. Her favorite pillow, the dishware her mother had given her, her father’s old telescope, her older brother’s bookbag, her little brother’s comics, all the photos of her friends— Twilight screamed. She pushed against Tirek’s beam with a fury that surprised even her. Arcane energy crackled throughout the entire valley in multicolored lightning bolts. Rippling clouds fled from them in a wide ring. Birds flew from their struggle in flocks, ponies hid in their homes, and the world held its breath as the two titans warred. Tirek grunted and strained beneath her assault, but he soon began to retake the lead, his laughter echoing over the sizzling struggle. “Pathetic!” Tirek shouted. “Is this the might of the legendary alicorns?!” Twilight saw red. She shoved his beam back again, this time even harder. She gained the upper hoof again for a few seconds, but like before, the advantage was short lived. “Give up, Princess.” Tirek took a step forward, his thundering steps as loud as an adult dragon’s. He grew larger and larger with each bit of magic he stole, and now, his hoof alone was wider across than Twilight’s whole body. “The power of your entire country is mine, amplified even more by my dark pact! Even now, my strength grows by the second!” Twilight grit her teeth. Her wings were aching, she was sweating like mad, and she swore he was siphoning her stamina somehow. Or perhaps he just had more stamina in general due to being so huge? She did recall that when she and Rainbow— Wait. “So much for the vaunted Elements of Harmony.” Tirek wasn’t straining any more. He’d covered half the distance between them, his great red and black body filling Twilight’s vision more and more. “This is your last chance, Twilight Sparkle! Give me your magic, NOW, or I’ll siphon it from your corpse!” It was a terrible idea. Reckless, idiotic, and embarrassing. It’d certainly result in more harm than good, no question. What was she thinking, considering something so extreme?! There was no telling— Rainbow’s six-month anniversary present had been in the library. “AAAAAAGGGGGHHHH!” Twilight rolled right. Tirek’s beam sailed past so close it singed her tail, but the terror was drowned out by an inner scream of rage. She didn’t even register the sound of it drilling into a far-off mountain echoing behind her. She hit Tirek with a potshot, used the pause to teleport in front of the sun, then chanted out a certain spell with the combined might of four alicorns. Tirek squinted at Twilight’s silhouette. “The light won’t save you!” He fired another beam right at Twilight’s fuzzy muzzle, but she was ready for it. She teleported to the side and braced herself, just in time to endure the desperate, clenching need going from zero to eighty inside her. Twilight panted for breath. “Stubborn jerkwad… been living under a rock...” Time slowed to a crawl around her. An electric tingling ran through every inch of her body, her coat standing on end from the sparks inside her. “Only respects the strong!" She knew she needed time. Thinking quick, she cast an illusion to appear like nothing was happening. Then, she gathered her strength and resumed her beam with everything she had. Tirek frowned. “What are you up to?” He caught her attack mid-way and began overtaking her once more in seconds. “You’re either toying with me, or you’re a buffoon!” Twilight’s eyes glittered. “You think you know power? HA! You might just be the weakest creature I’ve ever seen! It’s time for the smartest egghead in the world to—nnnfff— teach you a lesson you’ll never forget!” Tirek felt Twilight push back again. He put more force into his blast and started walking forward, his eyes fixed on her toy-sized stature. “By all means, try.” The sensations made it hard for Twilight concentrate. Her vantage point was rising, her magic growing even faster than the rest of her. “I’ve never seen someone so blind. You want our magic because it’s powerful, but you don’t even understand why! What kind of sorcerer are you?!” Tirek sneered. “A better one than you’ll ever be. All magic is the same when broken down! I don’t need to understand anything else!” Her sensitivity was so high she could feel the air displacing around her. Rivulets of honey flowed freely down her inner thigh, the heat in her groin only matched by the tightness in her chest. “You’ve always relied on yourself, haven’t you? Never trusted others, only ever saw them as t-tools! You don’t care about others’ accomplishments—only your own!” Tirek narrowed his eyes. She was pushing back even harder, to the point he actually had to try. “The last time I put my faith in someone, I wound up rotting in Tartarus! I’ll not make the same mistake twice!” Twilight shuddered. Not because of Tirek’s words, but because the world got smaller every time she blinked. Steady, sensational strength flowed into her at a rate beyond measure, and it was just the beginning. “That should’ve been a wake-up call! Real friendships go both ways; they’re not just one-sided! Your brother got tired of being your—” Tirek roared. He poured everything he had into his attack with a rage that Twilight couldn’t help but respect. It was sudden enough that she let him regain quite a bit of ground over it, but like she’d experienced earlier, Tirek’s rage only gave a quick boost. “Friendships are about working together!” Twilight shouted. “My friends’ accomplishments are mine, and mine are theirs! That’s how we’ve—ohhhh—overcome every challenge, and how we’ll overcome you!” Tirek growled. His march forward had slowed to a crawl, and the strain had crept back into his voice. “Your friends... aren’t… here! YOU’RE ALL ALONE!” Twilight eased up a tad. She couldn’t overwhelm him yet—not without knowing where he was keeping the others. “It doesn’t matter. They’ve already helped me innnnnnn ways you’ll never understand, just like I’ve d-done for them! Nothing you do will ever change that! Your power is limited by how much you’ve s-stolen; ours is limitless!” Tirek couldn’t move forward anymore. He planted his hooves and focused, his muscles quivering just to keep the ground he’d gained. “Then show me! Show me this… errrrgh... limitless power!” Twilight bit back a moan. She’d just felt her expanding hooves touch the ground, some seventy feet below her illusion. Her arousal was starting to pool in the fissures around her legs. Her tail twitched with every foot she claimed, doubly so when upon realizing she’d already outgrown her foe. She could feel every tingling muscle, every jolt along her skin, the endless energy flowing into her enlarging form! Tirek felt Twilight’s beam start to ‘weaken’, but he knew better. “I see through your scheme! Your pathetic jibbering is just a ploy to buy time! Whatever you’re plotting won’t work!” He may as well have been speaking in another language. Twilight’s eyes had rolled back, her first peak rolling over her in desperate spasms. Her heated marehood was twice the size of a pony and growing, her divine size pushed higher by the thought of Rainbow between her thighs. The spell’s effects were intensifying, each ascent making her loom higher and higher, and already, her beloved Ponyville looked like a playset to her. “You’ve no i-idea what you’re up against.” Twilight’s titanic hooves shattered stone and made buildings shake. The air was getting wavy, her glamor struggling to conceal her two hundred foot splendor. “My friends and I, we llllllearn from each other! We call each other out on our m-mistakes! We tell the hard truths nopony will say! And most of all, we protect each other the bessssst we can… EVEN FROM OURSELVES!” It was at the word ‘ourselves’ that Tirek felt himself shoved back. He yelped and poured everything he had into his beam, but it was like pushing against a brick wall. “What is this?! What have you done?!” Twilight couldn’t hear over her mad laughter. Lavender legs like white pines lurched outward in every direction, then again a second time, then a third, and a fourth! The last was punctuated by a fresh peak that made her legs quiver, the delectable explosions echoing in her floaty mind over and over! Tirek didn’t even come up over her hooves anymore, and where before he could squash her flat under his hoof, the tables had now been turned. “THIS is true power!” Twilight paused to shield Ponyville, then... FWOOM! ...she detonated her illusion like a bomb. Onlookers in Cloudsdale and Canterlot had to shield their eyes from the blinding flash of Twilight’s godly magic. The roar of the blast came some seconds later, but it was heralded by a rumbling whoosh that sent ponies diving for cover. Clouds were vaporized, trees snapped like twigs, and acres of land were torn up to form a crater like someone had taken a scoop out of the valley. The surge was so great it sent up a gargantuan pillar of light. It was visible all throughout Equestria, ponies everywhere turning to behold its prismatic wonder shining in the sky... ...including a familiar group in Ponyville, now cheering within their magical prison spheres. “That’s usin’ your noggin, Twi!” Applejack raised a weak hoof in the air. “Now kick his sorry keister!” “Yeah!” Pinkie said. “Twizilla to the rescue!” Spike swiped at the air. “Go, Twilight! Get that tree-torching jerk!” Fluttershy put a hoof behind her head. “E-Erm, I know twe’re not sure what she’s doing, but if that is the bragging spell... doesn’t it make you... y-y’know…” she glanced at Spike. “H-O-R-N-Y?” They had a front row seat to the whole thing thanks to Tirek ensorcelling their spheres. Something about ‘witnessing their friend’s failure’; they’d been a little too dazed to hear. They could see and hear everything through the images on their spheres, and with the pillar of light now blazing high in the sky, they knew they were watching in real time. Spike gave Fluttershy a flat look. “No offense, Fluttershy, but it’d be pretty hard to write Twilight’s letters if I couldn’t spell.” “She’s just trying to be proper, dear,” said Rarity. She looked over at Rainbow, who was sitting up, leaned forward, eyes glued to the action. Her mouth was half open while her pink tongue swiped her lips, her hoof quivering centimeters away from her crotch. “Unlike some other ponies.” “Eh, proper-shmopper.” Applejack glanced at Rainbow as well, but didn’t bat an eyelash. “I’ll take randy over enraged any day. Can’t say I enjoyed seein’ Twi go berserk like that.” Pinkie winced. “To be fair, he diiiiiiiid blow up—” “I know, I know," Applejack said. “I’m not sayin’ it ain’t justified. Just worried for her, is all.” Fluttershy wiggled her wings. “Who isn’t?” … … … “She’ll be alright,” Spike said. “Take it from your friendly neighborhood dragon—Twilight was right when she said Tirek is blind. Blind with greed.” Rarity’s look soured. “Kind of like how we were blind to Twilight’s predicament six months ago?” Spike blinked several times. “I don’t—how’d you even get that out of what I—” “Because it’s true!” Rarity burst out. “What kind of friends are we?! We didn’t notice Twilight was so anxious until Rainbow took drastic measures! We should’ve intervened long before that!” Fluttershy chewed on her lip. “Rarity… have you been stewing in guilt this whole time?” There was a very pregnant pause. Applejack sighed. “Listen here, all o’ya. Learnin’ from your mistakes is one thing, but I ain’t gonna sit here and fixate on what we should or shouldn’t have done. The past is over and done with, and like my ma used to say: ‘should is a dangerous word’. Y’all wanna things right for screwing up? I’m all for that. But unless you can change the past without breaking causa-whoosit or whatever, I suggest ya stop dwelling on it.” Pinkie snickered. “‘Screwed up’... I’d say Twilight and Dashie were the ones that did the sc—” “OKAY,” Rarity all but yelled. "A-Ahem… you make a good point, Applejack. I didn’t mean to get anyone’s spirits down, I just… well, I suppose Twilight’s not the only one with a habit of being hard on themselves.” A smile tugged at Applejack’s lips. “Best get it sorted, then, cause I ain’t lickin’ your vagoo.” Rarity’s squawk was drowned out by Pinkie’s laughter. “Well, I never!” she huffed. “You’d better hope this little stunt’s given Twilight what she needs to beat that brute, otherwise—” Just then, their screens shifted to zoom in on a crimson forcefield. The dust and smoke made it hard to see any details, but Tirek’s silhouette was visible within. He didn’t look any worse for the wear, far as the girls could tell... But outside the forcefield was another story. The blast radius was acres across. A great heat rose up from the cherry red rocks over a hundred feet below. Tirek’s forcefield was a tiny island amidst a sea of ruin, and everything outside the crater sight showed signs of damage, from the far off forests to even the nearby mountains. “HA!” Rainbow’s yell made them all jump. “Hope you enjoyed the warm-up round, dirt-for-brains! Better throw in the towel now, or Twi’s might break out the counterspell!” … … … “Counter… spell?” said Spike. Rarity went whiter than normal. “You don’t mean…” Pinkie laughed even harder. “I think she does!” Rainbow rubbed her hooves together. “Hold onto your horseshoes, ladies. We’re in for a BIG show!” *** Tirek coughed within his shield. The smoke, dust, and mana residue hung heavy in the air, but it’d cleared enough that he could see vague shapes. But he didn’t need eyes to tell where Twilight was—her immense, stifling magic was impossible to ignore. “What backwards logic is this?” Twilight’s energy radiated like a star to his corrupt senses. “This was your plan? To give me even more magic to devour?! You’ve only hastened my rise to godhood, foolish pony!” There was a heavy pause… “By all means,” Twilight’s booming tenor said from on high. “Try.” An impulse struck Tirek like lightning. Desperate and manic, dread pooled in his stomach like lead and urged him to bolt. It was sudden enough he almost heeded it, but he shoved the impulse aside and tapped into his vampiric— A monstrous telekinetic power forced him to kneel. “But before that,” said Twilight. “I think you should show a little respect. You may be a lord, but I’m part of the royal tetrarchy.” It felt like Tirek was like trying to lift an entire continent. He was so caught up in trying to resist her power, he didn’t he notice the skyscraper-sized silhouette within the smog. “Vile witch… you DARE—” “You’ve invaded my realm, assaulted my little ponies, have taken my friends hostage, razed my house, tried to kill me AND my number two assistant...” Twilight sneered at Tirek squeaking below her like a rat in a trap. “I suggest you zip the lip before I introduce you to a spell called ‘Nailed to the Sky’.” The rock cracked beneath Tirek’s legs. He managed to raise his head and look at her, but when he did, he almost fell over entirely. Legs several times bigger than silos, hooves that dwarved houses, and a thick purple coat like a field of grain. Twilight’s glittering ethereal mane was like the northern lights, and her glowing, wrathful eyes were each thrice the size of his whole body. She had to be at least six hundred feet tall, and she was still growing! “This land is defended by the powers of harmony, friendship, and love.” Her thundering voice seethed like a volcano. “That’s why our magic is so strong, Tirek. Nightmare Moon... Discord... Queen Chrysalis... King Sombra… all of them refused to understand where our power comes from. You’re just the latest of the bunch.” Tirek looked up… up… up her purple slope of a chest to her grim, beautiful face. She was a living effigy of power, an irate avatar of magic, and her furious magic pressed down on him with the weight of his sins. Her bristling, colossal horn was veiled in clouds of hazy ozone, the sparks jetting off each larger than beach balls. “You’re going back to Tartarus.” Twilight took a tremendous, earth-heaving step forward. A wild, hungry look had crept into her face, and she kept having to widen her stance, look down at a greater angle. “Either give up the magic you stole peacefully, or I’ll rip it out of you. Slowly.” Tirek muttered a curse. He could sense whatever strange magic she’d used now, making her larger and stronger with every word. Her exhales alone hammered him like storm gales, and they only became stronger as the space between them dwindled. “The longer you wait, the worse it’ll be.” Tremors shook both her body and the land with each fresh spurt of growth. The amount of power flowing into her was staggering, yet she soaked it all up like a sponge. “I wasn’t kidding when I said this power is lllllimitless—I really am just going to get bigger, and BIGGER—” Suddenly, hundreds upon hundreds of Tirek clones apparent around Twilight. The real Tirek vanished with a FLASH and reappeared behind her in mid-air, her tantalizing power beckoning like a moth to the flame. “Arrogant brat!” his mirror images yelled. Tirek opened his mouth wide and ‘reached’ for Twilight’s energy. “Your magic is MINE—” “Time Stop.” VWITT-VWITT-VWITT! Tirek blinked. Why... did it suddenly feel like several minutes had passed in an instant? And what was that incredibly bright glow? “Time…” Tirek looked down. Countless arcane runes had appeared throughout the entirety of the crater. The glow of magenta magic could be seen for miles as dozens of concentric circles thrummed with the energy of the arcane. The eerie hum of their activation made his hackles rise, and before he could even blink, hundreds of thousands of multicolored mana threads sprung from the runes to gather above him like a divine storm. “Say hello to D-Dazzleshine’s Directed Disjunction...” Twilight smirked as the filaments swarm the Tireks. “Angry Princess Edition!” It wasn’t even a contest. Tirek tried to have his copies draw the strands away while he claimed his prize, but the fibers outnumbered his clones hundreds to one, and they moved with the speed of a Sonic Rainboom. The sound of rushing wind drowned out the wails of copies disintegrating like dry parchment over an open flame, and the original Tirek was forced to flee. “ERRRRGH!” It took everything Tirek had to evade the gossamer strands. Every spell he cast to stop the threads was disjoined at the base level, and every close call he had, the magic of his profane ritual wavered. He could feel it getting harder to contain the stolen magic he had, the swathes of wrathful fibers chasing him like an enraged, prismatic hydra. Meanwhile, Twilight was trying to locate her friends. She knew they couldn’t be far, but she wasn’t sure how to track them when they were all drained of magic. A scrying spell, maybe? She’d just need a personal item from each of them for that... although, if they were all in the same place— A mouse-sized weight landed on her withers. Twilight almost laughed. She concentrated on the source and redirected the spellthreads to fall on him. Tirek, who’d appeared amidst a lavender chest-height 'field', couldn’t even nab a shred of magic before he had to teleport again. He opted for the ground this time beneath Twilight— “ARGH!” He’d forgotten the rocks were still red hot. His yell alerted the supersonic projectiles to his position, and once again he had to teleport, this time choosing to reappearing on the smoking edge of the crater over a thousand feet away. “Were you hoping the—oooooh—th-threads would hit me?” Twilight fidgeted and rubbed her thighs together, that insistent itch building along with her spell. A fresh growth spurt hit her to make her now seven hundred foot body blot out the sun to form a corona around her outline. “Sorry, but the spell doesn’t work that way! Just another thing you d-don’t... unnnnnderstand!” Tirek’s burned hooves made him wince. Even from here, the ground was so hot he could barely stand it. “I knew of her kind's resilience, but this is absurd..." He expected the spellthreads to keep chasing him, but instead they stayed around her to envelop her in a glittering protective web. Twilight’s monstrous shadow engulfed him and continued on towards Ponyville, inching closer and closer to the city limits as the seconds passed. “You sh-should’ve waited until I was bigger to land on me.” A shudder raced through Twilight that sent an aftershock through the ground. She was nearing another peak, fast, but she had enough focus to track Tirek’s teleport and face him. "Better start shaping up, or n-not only will you be the easiest bad guy I’ve fought, your name will be mmmmmmmud when I send you packing!” Tirek clenched his fists. It wasn’t easy from this distance, but he managed to extend his consciousness enough to try and unravel the bizarre spell coursing through her. It was an amalgamation that seemed like a mistake more than anything else, though a counterspell should— His thoughts were interrupted by Twilight’s stilted moan. Her shimmering, waterfall-sized tail raised up, her rear legs locking while her front legs threatened to bend. Seven hundred twenty-five feet… seven hundred fifty… seven hundred seventy five… eight hundred! She rocked her hips in time with each shuddering surge of growth, her glowing white eyes never leaving Tirek’s dwindling form. “You kn-know, it’s funny.” The quiver in Twilight’s voice betrayed the torrent still present between her legs. Her growing magic seethed like tendrils of plasma, so hot that the rocks beneath were becoming a molten lake. “I’m so turned on I can barely think, and I’m still... wh-whooping you! What’s wrong, Tirek? Don’t tell me you’re—mmmhhh—s-scared!” Tirek’s pupils shrank. He’d just caught wind of her sweet, sticky scent, and the smell only strengthened as she grew another seventy-five feet. His eyes drifted beneath her to see how soaked her back legs were... “I thought you were this b-big, nasty tyrant like allllllllll the others.” Twilight growing hooves sank little by little into the deliciously warm lava. That mounting tightness in the pit of her stomach was morphing into a tingling that made her fur stand on end. “You’re—mmmmmf—not so big. In fact, I’d bet anything you can do, I c-can do… BIGGER!” At this, Twilight reached out her magic as far as she could. The air grew heavy for miles, stretching out farther and farther until her magenta aura encompassed the entire valley and beyond. It was like a thick blanket covering the entire countryside! Tirek gasped. He made to teleport to safety, but everything had turned wavy around him. The valley's dimensional space locked in place with an echoing CLICK, and just like that, he was left stranded in the valley. "I’d make a joke about a ‘captive audience’, but that’s beneath meeeeeee..." Twilight’s eyes rolled back as Tirek’s red and black speck dwindled even more. Every muscle in her body was getting tense as tense could be, her haunches quivering from the delicious one hundred and fifty foot increase. "I hope you know a v-voice sssspell, Tirek. I just broke a thousand feet; I may n-not hear your surrender...” Tirek clenched his fists. He racked his brain on how to apply a counterspell, but it was hard to focus amidst the smell of sour sweat, the overwhelming magic, the humid, sticky-sweet pony need, and the sheer spectacle of it all. An idle part of him noted Twilight’s primary feathers alone had to be over two hundred and fifty feet long, but the rest of him told that part to shut it. "Still entertaining delusions of grandeur?” Twilight took another step towards him, and then a third. Each hoof fall was heavier than the last, and each impact splashed more warm lava up Twilight’s legs. “I f-figured. I’d hoped you’d see reason, but you’re not the fffffirst baddie that’s needed c-cut down to size. You lost this fight a while ago, you j-just don’t know it yyyyy—ESSSSSSSSS..." Tirek could hardly stay standing amidst the rumbling. Twilight blew past twelve hundred feet with a long, lewd cry that was heard all the way in Canterlot. It felt like gravity had tripled from her magical aura alone, and it was only getting stronger by the second! Tirek was forced to shield himself with another forcefield, but the air was so laced with Twilight’s humid need, her body heat alone making it feel like it was summer in the tropics... “Nggggh!” Tirek’s concentration slipped. He was left panting and struggling to stay upright while Twilight grew, and grew, and GREW. Over thirteen hundred feet tall now, and several hundred thousand tons heavy. The valley trembled with her every thunderous thud, and even something as simple as her breathing now carried the strength of a tornado. The entirety of the crater was filled with lava, but it may as well have been bathwater for all it was affecting her! “Such power…” Tirek weighed his options. Did he keep trying to consume it, or try for the counterspell?! The latter seemed like the better option, but all the magic might disappear in the process! The very thought made every inch of him cringe! But on the other hoof, so did the thought of rotting in some infernal cell again… He did it while Twilight was lost in ecstasy. It’d been many, many years since he’d woven together a proper counterspell, but pony magic was primitive next to the mystic arts of the centaur. Sweat dripped from his brow as he studied the strange spell making her grow in size and strength. Twilight didn’t react to his proddings, as her thoughts were consumed by rose-red eyes, a sky-blue coat, and a multicolored mane. “No one makes a fool of me...” Tirek’s gaze travelled up, up, up the mountain of Twilight’s fuzzy chest, bellowing loud so she could hear. “Do you hear me, witch?!” She didn’t react. He was having trouble seeing her head anymore, especially with the sun perforating through her wings and turning everything violet. Grumbling, Tirek cast a voice spell and tried again. “YOU THINK YOU’VE BESTED ME?! I’LL… by the gods...” It was a memory that would be burned in his mind. Twilight, fourteen hundred feet tall and counting, looked down at him with that same eager, insatiable grin. Her starry ethereal mane was virtually seamless with the sky Her vast eyes were white holes that fueled her growth to infinite heights. She was so large he didn’t even come up past her hooves anymore, and when she spoke, she didn’t do so with her voice... but her mind. “There’s an old Equestrian saying.” Twilight’s thoughts echoed around Tirek. “‘The wise fear three things: A day that never ends, a night with no moon, and the wrath of a gentle soul’. You insist on opposing our very way of life? Very well. Prepare yourself, ‘Lord’ Tirek; you’re about to be the wisest creature that ever lived...” Tirek balked, then. It was a subtle thing, but few things were subtle to Twilight’s ascended senses. Her magic held him fast while her spellthreads spiralled down to surround him, each now as big around as a train car. “You brought this on yourself.” Twilight winced a little upon seeing Tirek panic, but then her latest brag started her on the way to two thousand feet tall. “I-IIIIIIIIIII… ” Tirek saw his chance. His horns glowed... *** “For Pete’s sake, Twilight!” Applejack yelled at the screen. “Haven’t ya heard of snatchin’ defeat from the jaws of victory?!” “Yeah!” said Pinkie. “Less yap, more zap!” It was hard to make sense of their screens with Twilight being so huge. But the feed was more for audio at this point, considering all of Ponyville could see her heart-shaped, six hundred foot rump. There were some that frowned at Twilight’s sopping, one hundred thirty foot slit winking in plain view, but those same individuals wanted their magic back with everyone else, so... Rarity ran a hoof down her face. “Powers beyond our understanding and she’s giving him a lecture. Twilight, Twilight, Twilight...” Spike was quiet. He hadn’t said as much, but his draconic senses could see the ‘temporal afterimage’ Twilight had made upon stopping time. It was like a blurry mirage that revealed many things about what she’d done during the freeze, and that, combined with his familiarity with her... “Don’t worry, everypony.” Spike rested his claws behind his head. “I’d say she’s got this.” Rainbow was quiet, as well. She might’ve had a comment on Spike’s statement, maybe supported his vote of confidence or somesuch... but she was a little preoccupied furiously masturbating. As for Fluttershy, well… she wasn’t watching the battle at all. For a while now, she’d been busy consoling the seventh and most miserable of their lot. It’d seemed like a lost cause at first, but in the past moment or so, they’d actually started to talk back. “We both know I don’t have a future,” Discord said. He was curled in a mottled ball with his back turned, his bleary eyes looking at nothing. “My future’s set regardless of who wins.” Fluttershy’s face was like stone. “Listen to me. You’re not entirely to blame for all this—it takes two to maintain a friendship, and we didn’t hold up our part of it.” Discord’s eyes darkened. “We both know I wouldn’t have accepted it. I’m nothing but a—” “Stop it,” said Fluttershy. Discord fell silent. He scratched the side of his face, but nothing more. A flash of… something, crossed Fluttershy’s face, but it was gone quickly as it’d come. “I’m not going to lie. Forgiving you for this is… hard. You hurt us, Discord. You hurt me.” The words felt like a knife in his chest. “But we didn’t give you a fair chance at friendship,” she went on. “How could we expect you to be loyal when we kept accusing you of things? Why put the past behind you when everyone kept holding it over you? Why ever help us when we ignored you at best, and bossed you around at worst?” Silence. The rumbling in the distance was getting louder, but they didn’t pay it any heed. “We all made our beds one way or another,” Fluttershy said. “You say you wouldn’t have tried, but I think you saw the situation was doomed from the outset. We shouldn’t have put you in that position, Discord. No one, especially not someone trying to improve, deserves that.” Discord closed his eyes. It felt like he was hanging above an abyss he’d only just clawed out of, and there’d be no coming out if he fell back in. Storms raged in his mind. Heavy weights shifted in his gut. The medallion he still wore around his neck was heavy, it's cold, polished metal pressed against his chest. “I suppose I didn’t do myself any favors.” He raised his head with the speed of a snail. “The ‘tests’ … the griefing… the attitude… the skulking... I guess I should’ve realized harmony and chaos weren’t going to get along straight out of the gate. I think… I might’ve set you all up to fail, too.” Fluttershy watched him turn to her. “I know we can all get along. Let’s start over with a clean slate, okay? We give each other’s values a chance, we forgive each other for the past, and most importantly, we forgive ourselves, too.” Discord was quiet for a long time. He held up the medallion he still wore, its dull golden sheen molded into strange shapes. Innumerable years as a statue, all filled with hateful leers and hushed insults. A past haunted by mistakes and ghosts. ‘Worthless,’ Tirek said. ‘Traitor,’ Shining Armor said. ‘Monster,’ Celestia said. ‘Failure’, his conscience said. He was still hanging by a claw above the dark pit, but right as his grip began to give, a silhouette above him held out a yellow hoof. Discord’s eyes watered. He yanked the medallion off, tossed it away, then smiled at Fluttershy. He put his claw on the curve of his prison, and Fluttershy put a hoof on hers— ZZZZZZZT! They all nearly fell over. An ear-splitting sizzle had just gone off from the south, followed by spike of magical power unlike anything they’d ever felt. They looked just in time to see another shockwave collide with the forcefield around Ponyville with an impossible WUMPH. Ambient energy flowed around the town like multicolored water… and a few seconds later, everything started to rumble. A lot. “Ngggh!” Rainbow thrust her hips. Her hoof was a blur as Twilight’s colossal form in the distance glowed brighter than ever. “Did Twi just do what I think she did?!” Applejack called over the noise. “That wasn’t her!” Rarity’s horn was emitting sparks. “I think Tirek is—” Spike’s odd laugh made them all pause. “Blind, blind, blind,” he said. “Seriously, how could a spellcaster like Tirek forget you can cast multiple spells during Time Stop? It’s like he’s got tunnel vision!” The other girls didn’t quite get what Spike meant… but the realization hit Discord like a train. He’d heard about the first debacle with this tangled mess of a spell, but now that he examined it proper, he realized just how... chaotic it was. “She took my advice.” He looked at Twilight like he was seeing her for the first time. “She hoped for the best, but planned for the worst…” Spike’s fierce, emerald eyes met his. “You’ve got a weird way of doing things, Discord. Your tests and junk taught Twilight a lot, but you sure didn’t make it easy for her.” Discord hung his head. “I’m... sorry.” Spike studied Discord for a long time. “But, I think Fluttershy’s right. If we’d been more friendly to each other, things might have been different. You deserve another chance. We all do.” Rainbow moaned as Twilight’s ass took up even more of the horizon. Her rose-red eyes were wild, she was panting like mad, and her hind legs twitched with every stroke of her sex. She breathed Twilight’s name like a mantra as the rest of the world passed by in a fuzzy blur. Discord chuckled and turned to his screen for the first time. “So, what’s Mister Chain Gang up to?” *** It all happened in under a second. Tirek fired a crimson ray at Twilight, but as he did, a ward set into Twilight’s disjunction spell activated and sent a pulse into their respective tendrils. Said tendrils then intercepted Tirek’s counterspell in the blink of an eye, first twisting and warping it into something new... then empowering that new thing several times over! Tirek’s ray exploded like a firework. Realizing he’d been had, he tried to cancel his spell... but the magic wasn’t his anymore. The altered magic pierced Twilight’s three foot thick coat and flowed into her, and... ZZZZZZZT! Words had failed Twilight the first time she’d cast this ‘counterspell’. This empowered version did much the same, her voice giving out amidst an ocean of power swirling into her. The sensation of being too small for her own skin set in again, only it was amplified beyond reckoning. Every sexual nerve in her body fired off in a peak beyond description, and then, the first growth spurt expanded her frame to make room for more… SO much more! Twilight moaned, low and lewd. A tower-sized phallus of pure magic formed behind her, and she fell back on its ridges in a clenching, blissful frenzy. Everything about her rocketed up and out: Her bones lengthened and thickened to support the manifesting tons of mass. Her muscles swelled to new sizes that dwarfed not just Tirek, but anything he could ever hope to be. Her heavenly wings we getting longer and larger in proportion to the rest of her, their indigo and pink tips rippling with the power of the cosmos. The sky pulsed like it was alive. The sun and moon appeared on opposite horizons, and every last star became bright and visible in the semi-dark sky. Love energy filled the air and enveloped Equestria in a colorful protective shroud. The land rumbled more than ever, but the tremors soon dulled like they were far away, even as Twilight’s growing weight crashed down on her equally-scaling toy. She’d doubled in size already and showed no sign of stopping, her hulking front legs bulldozing the crater’s edges with every new foot she claimed! Tirek was paralyzed. He wasn’t standing in front of Twilight anymore—he was practically in her lap! Purple legs like vertical cruise ships swelled ever-thicker and longer in his peripheral. Acres of fuzzy underbelly sloped over him like an upside-down hill. Twilight’s impromptu dildo was over two hundred feet long and growing, and she was taking all of it at once. Her stuffed nethers slid up and down with immense WUMPHS of air that made his ears pop, and every crash of her colossal rump made spherical, stadium-sized depressions that grew larger and deeper. But also, each crash kicked up lava tsunamis towards Tirek. Fortunately, as the magma was about to descend, it parted down the middle under Twilight’s magic. Searing heat scorched Tirek’s hide and stung his face. The stifling air was heavy with the smell of molten rock and spicy scent of horny mare. Twilight’s tremendous sex grew closer (literally) every time she hilted herself, and she was ascending so fast that now, even her clit was bigger than him! Tirek pupils shrank. He was going to be caught by Twilight’s growing dildo at this rate, or crushed by her titanic labia. Even if he was lucky enough to slip inside, her powerful inner muscles would make short work of him. He was having difficulty grasping the magnitude of Twilight’s power anymore, and the realization made him feel short of breath— “RAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHH!” A vertical crease formed down the center of Tirek’s chest. A grotesque, alien, fang-filled mouth opened with a sickly squelch, its unholy scream rending the air like a blade. A vile, seething hunger welled up from the ravenous depths of Tirek’s hidden maw, and his mind blanked as the vampiric energy demanded he FEED— “There was a time that would’ve scared me. Now, it’s just sad.” The vile energy vanished. It wasn’t counterspelled at all, it just simply ceased to be. A psychic force like iron slammed into Tirek’s mind and silenced the all-consuming hunger, then flipped off his magic like a switch. His second mouth was forced shut and re-sealed without a trace, and he was forced to his knees again as great magenta bindings appeared around his arms and legs. “You called the Elements of Harmony ‘vaunted’ before.” Now a mile in size and climbing, Twilight’s head was higher than the wispy clouds. “Vaunted: To praise or boast about something, especially in excess. How ironic.” Tirek found himself being lifted into the air. Up, up, up, past the gentle curve of Twilight’s thighs, past her wide hips that took up his field of view, past her windswept chest with a tuft bigger than a city block. At last he beheld her face again, and it was even more divine than before. Her ethereal mane pulsed with the power of creation. Her five hundred foot horn crackled with reality-warping energies. Each of her eyes were over eleven times his size—scratch that, twelve, and while her smile wasn’t anywhere near as wide as a mile, a fresh thousand foot surge brought her that much closer. “You think friendship and harmony are a waste, that relying on others only holds you back.” Twilight’s mental voice was calm, but her expression grew lustier with each monumental bounce. “Few things in life are so black and white, Tirek. If we all spent our lives being so closed-minded, we’d never grow as individuals.” Tirek said nothing. He couldn’t. A distant part of him was screaming defiance, roaring with curses and vowing revenge, but Twilight’s words overrode it all. He was a fifty-foot warrior with the magic of an entire country, yet he was like an ant to her. The meek, naive foal was gone—in her place was this goddess of magic and harmony. “Maybe someday you’ll learn, just like I did, that sometimes the things we’re convinced are bad are simply misunderstoooooood..." Now even Twilight’s mental voice wavered amidst a thousand... no, two thousand foot surge. “E-Even... Discord managed to learn that lesson, and he embodies the vvvvvery opposite of harmony! I wouldn’t be here right nnnnnow without him and my other friends, so I know th-there’s hope for—” A miniscule flash glittered over Twilight’s muzzle. It was a golden medallion—the same one Tirek had given Discord. She almost lost track of it thanks to another growth spurt putting her over two miles, but she retrieved it from her fur right as it transformed into an elegant key. “Is that the…” The key’s glowing, prismatic energies calling to Twilight’s ascended senses. “Wait, right now? Really? I mean, I-I suppose I could, but… oh, fine, why not. Not like it’s gonna hurt anything...” She summoned the crystal box the Tree of Harmony had given them. The other five keys were already inserted, so she took her key, fitted it into the final slot, and turned them all of them at once. FWSSSSSHHHHHH! Light. Incredible, heavenly, valley-encompassing light. Tirek would be a liar if he said he knew what just happened, but he did know Twilight’s grip on him was now slipping. Eyes closed and flailing, he wormed out of her restraints while slipping out of her mental hold. He was soon in freefall towards the earth, but he cast a flight spell and slowed to a halt. But he didn’t flee. No, of course he wouldn’t run. How could he? There’d been only one thing on his mind this whole time—the same thing that’d consumed him for years innumerable! The strange light burned his vampiric powers, but he didn’t care. He extended them towards Twilight, found her irresistible magic, opened his drooling mouth— “My goodness!” came Fluttershy’s deafening voice. “Twilight, what did you do?!” Tirek paused. That... wasn’t Twilight’s magic at all! It was... a SECOND source of mind-boggling power?! His eyes were only now starting to adjust to this blasted light; who was that?! “It better not be permanent, that’s for sure!” said Applejack, her voice just as loud. “How the hay am I supposed to applebuck like this?!” Pinkie’s giggle was like a peal of thunder. “Quick! Someone grab Rarity before she goes mad with power! Again!” Rarity scoffed behind Tirek. “Worry about yourself, Miss Jumps-Everywhere. Do be a dear and stay still for a change, hmm?” Tirek’s jaw dropped. Where once there was one pony titan, now there were six! It was the bearers of the Elements of Harmony, but not only were they all equally gigantic as Twilight, they’d undergone some kind of… transformation? Their manes and tails were longer and streaked with bright colors. Mystical sigils shaped were emblazoned along their legs. Their cutie marks had been altered into greater forms, and most notable of all, the magic radiating off them— “Oh look, a centaurfly.” Rainbow raised her island-sized hoof over Tirek. “I hate those things.” “D-Don’t!” Twilight managed to say. She put her hoof over Rainbow’s and coaxed it down. “NNNNNNot… w-worth it.” Rainbow’s mouth twitched. She didn’t try again, but she did use her pegasus magic to create a prison of deadly-fast air around Tirek. “Ever hear of slicing winds, jerk?” She ran her wing across her throat. “Go on, steal some magic now. I dare you.” Applejack wasn’t sure whether to sigh or facehoof. “Right… well, uh, let’s... zap him? I s’pose? Pretty sure the Elements are overkill at this point, but I’m pretty sure that’s what we’re supposed to… um, yeah.” So that was what they did. Calling it was a ‘zap’ at that scale was putting it lightly, but the result was all the magic of Equestria flowing out of Tirek in one fell swoop. To him, it felt like his body was being rent apart at a fundamental level, and true to Twilight’s word, not quick in the slightest. He may have yelled something during the middle of it—something about revenge or whatnot, but when the light cleared a few moments later, the great Lord Tirek had been reduced to a shrunken, shrivelled up shadow of his true self. “Okay.” Twilight banished Tirek to Tartarus with a mere thought. The Ego spell was still on her, but using the Elements had cleared her head a bit. “Now that that’s over with, let’s get back to normal... before…” She saw Rainbow was giving her the look. Twilight knew she should say no, but damn those come-hither eyes and that cheeky grin! She was already imagining the strong embrace of Rainbow’s downy wings, their warm lips pressed together, their desires rising point for point... “Always did wanna bang a goddess.” Rainbow ran her nose through Twilight’s cosmic mane. “How about we celebrate our anniversary a day early?” Twilight’s legs almost gave out. “O-Oh…” Okay, now Applejack facehoofed. “Here we go again.” Rarity got an idea. She beckoned Fluttershy over and whispered something in her ear. Fluttershy bit her lip. “I... suppose I could try.” She cleared her throat. “Erm… Discord?” A pause… “Thank you for calling the Reformed Spirit of Chaos Hotline,” came Discord’s voice. “My name is Discord, how can I help you?” Fluttershy giggled. “Are you alright? Sorry about up and vanishing like that. I imagine you can see me, wherever you are. Kind of like… so many… other ponies… everywhere... ohhhhhhh, no…” Discord chuckled. “I wondered when that would occur to you. I’m afraid that gaudy rainbow power is too powerful for me to dispel, but! How’s about you and the others come and stay at my place while the lovebirds elope? We can sort out the size shenanigans once they’ve had their fun.” At this, a two-mile tear in reality opened up behind Fluttershy. Twilight and Rainbow were dimly aware of the others leaving through it, but it was forgotten amidst a heated kiss. Rainbow could tell something was happening, her skin tingling and buzzing with Twilight’s magic, but she couldn’t tell what it was. Or at least, not until the scenery changed. The plains outside of Ponyville were gone. They were in the heart of gray, barren wasteland that extended as far as either of them could see. The sky was blank, the ground was bare stone, and the wind was listless and stale. There was no sign of civilization anywhere, even from their lofty vantage point, nor was there any sign of life in general. Rainbow squeaked in Twilight’s mouth. She pulled away and looked all around. “What’s…” Twilight waggled her eyebrows. “Barren parallel reality. Remember what I said at Prideful Falls?” The End