A Royal Meal

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A warm early evening light was beaming down upon the city of Canterlot as Luna prepared for her nightly duties. After a quick stretch and the donning of her royal garb, she started to make her way to the door.

Just before she reached the towering doorway, she spotted something upon her dresser. It was her calendar with a large red circle with the words ‘Celestia’s Birthday’ written within, only a week away from the present day.

This will be a most special birthday for her, Luna thought to herself as she made her way through the halls of the palace to meet with her sister. After what she did for my birthday, she deserves something truly grand.

The dark blue mare pondered as she trotted forward, eventually reaching Celestia’s room.

The question is, ‘What should I get her?’, or better yet, ‘What should I do for her?’ The night princess gently nosed open the sun-emblazoned door, making her way inside where she spotted her sister on the balcony, gazing out towards the lowering sun.

“Good evening, Luna,” the alabaster alicorn said softly as the younger mare came up to her side. Celestia leaned in close to nuzzle the smaller alicorn. “Are you ready for you nightly duties?”

“As always, dear sister,” Luna merrily answered as she returned the nuzzle. After a brief bout of their exceptionally powerful magic, the sun sunk below the horizon while the moon ascended skyward.

“Well Luna, I hope you have a good night tonight,” the sun princess said as she strolled into her room, taking a seat on a cushion near her unlit fireplace. “At least you didn’t have to deal with the prime minister of Woolachia.”

“Yes, that’s one ram who refused to lead anywhere.” Luna tittered, drawing a chuckle for her elder sister. The younger princess began to canter over to the door, but paused before she placed her hoof on the knob. “Sister…” She looked back over her shoulder, seeing Celestia had brought a book up to her eyes.

“Yes, Luna?” Celestia began to rise from her cushion, only for her sister to casually wave.

“Nothing.” Luna forced a smile as she rubbed the back of her neck. “I was simply wondering…” Think, Luna. Do not make it sound like you have no idea what you’re doing here. She mentally chided herself before nervously gulping. “Is there anything you’d like for your birthday?”

“Oh, that?” Celestia replied casually as she sank back into the cushion. “Honestly, anything you do for it will be wonderful, Luna; no matter what.”

“Really, Sister?” Luna’s eyebrow rose as Celestia placed a hoof to her chin.

“Well…” the elder mare singsonged, making Luna raise her hoof to interrupt.

“Let me guess, a large cake?” the mare of midnight smirked as she saw the last vestiges of Celestia’s restraint start to crumble.

“You know me all too well, sister.” The snow white mare chuckled as she leaned into her cushion, raising her book up once more. “At any rate, I hope you have a pleasant night.”

“As do you, Celestia,” the younger replied as she stepped out of the room, taking a deep breath.

As she trotted down the halls, she kept up a pleasant smile, making all those she passed assume her night was going rather swimmingly. In her mind, however…

Faust curse it! That gave me no idea what to do for her! She wants a big cake, what a surprise!

Reaching the throne room doors, two night guards opened the way for her and she strolled inside.

“Thank you, my guards” Luna said once she’d walked by them, the pair silently nodded in response.

After a brief trip up the dais, Luna took her place on the throne to handle night court as Raven quickly took to her side with a clipboard in her magic.

“Raven,” Luna kept her eyes trained forward. “What have we scheduled for tonight?”

The bespectacled mare’s eyes quickly scanned over the clipboard and papers. “Well, Short Circuit and Hotwire of the science division had to cancel at the last moment due to food poisoning. We could send in Ms. Quickshot for her appointment early if you so choose.”

Luna rubbed her chin ponderously. “Before we do that, there’s something I would like to ask you.”

“And what would that be, Princess?” the snowy unicorn inquired, pushing her glasses up as she tilted her head.

“My knowledge of how modern ponies celebrate the birthdays of adult friends and family is rather limited.” Luna leaned closer to her assistant, making the smaller mare start to sweat. “Mayhaps you could provide some suggestions for what I could do for my sister’s coming birthday.”

“Y-yes, well…” Raven swallowed hard as she tugged at her cravat, mind running a mile-a-minute to try and think up an appropriate response. After several seconds of thought, she gave her reply. “The last time I went to a birthday party, we got a stallion to pop out of the top of the cake.”

“A stallion within a cake?” The princess’s eyebrow cocked in perplexment. “Why would one do something like that? Wouldn’t it ruin the cake? And how does the stallion survive the baking?”

“Well your highness, the cake has a hollow area in the middle,” Raven answered as she tried to straighten out her cravat and glasses. “The stallion gets inside after the cake is baked.”

“I see.” Luna nodded as she took in the information. “But why would one want a stallion in their cake?”

“Your highness, the stallion in the cake is usually…” A bright crimson spread across Raven’s face as her eyes fell to the floor. “A stripper… or an erotic dancer…”

“Ahh! I see!” Luna’s eyes shined like stars as a large smile graced her face. Celestia’s always had a healthy appreciation for the male form. This and cake will make a wonderful gift for her! “Raven, after tonight’s business has concluded, I would like for you to arrange a meeting for such a stallion. I now know what to give Celestia for her birthday.”

“Very well, your highness.” Raven quickly scribbled down a note upon her clipboard. “Should I send Ms. Quickshot in?”

“Yes please.” Luna answered, nodding merrily. As Raven descended the steps of the dais, Luna giddily rubbed her hooves together.

This is perfect! This will be a gift Celestia will never forget! Nothing could go wrong!

~~Twenty-Four Hours Later~~

“What do you mean you couldn’t find a stripper for this?!” Luna shouted as she sat slack upon the throne, making the white unicorn flinch.

“I’m sorry, your highness; but all the professional organizations that normally provide this kind of service are all fully booked.” Raven swallowed as she took a slow step back.

“This is unbelievable…” Luna sighed and rubbed her temples. “Sorry for shouting at you, Raven. Are you sure they’re all booked?”

“Yes Ma’am, I was very thorough in my search.” Raven shifted her glasses and she went through a list on her clipboard. “Super Studs, Fine Flanks, Bananas, they’re all fully booked for the next month. However, I was able to find a stallion amongst the palace staff that would be willing to take the job.”

“You have?” A smile spread across her face, her mind thinking of the possibilities.

This is great! This stallion’s likely one of our more attractive guards. Maybe we can count this as an on duty assignment and save a few bits.

“Raven, may we please see this stallion?” Luna eagerly rubbed her hooves together and bounced in her seat.

“Of course, Princess.” The pale mare nodded before darting down to the throne rooms towering doors. Sticking her head outside, she said something Luna could not hear before returning to the throne nervously. “Princess Luna, allow me to introduce our volunteer.” She sweat bullets as she gestured toward the door grandly.

The doors slowly parted and a nervous looking stallion made his way into the room, taking his place at the bottom of the dais. Luna was stunned at the sight of him.

Is this stallion really the best Raven could find?

The freckled stallion before the pair was fairly young and shorter in stature than even Raven. His coat was a dark shade of green with a dirt brown mane and tail. The thing that stuck out the most about him was the white muzzle that sharply contrasted the rest of him. Secured snugly upon his shoulders was a lime green vest, indicating he was one of the gardening staff.

Luna let out a tired sigh before slapping her frog against her forehead, much to the stallion’s chagrin.

“Raven,” the midnight blue alicorn whispered to her aid. “Were there seriously no other stallions on staff who’d volunteer for this?”

“I’m afraid not, Princess,” Raven whispered her reply into the royal ear. “Every other stallion had some form of objection to this, ranging from finding it degrading to simply not feeling comfortable about this.”

“I guess he’ll have to do,” the princess sighed as she rose from the throne. “Tell me, what is your name, stallion?”

“V-V-Verdant Range, your highness.” He nervously stepped back as Luna descended the steps.

“Verdant Range,” Luna’s stare felt soul-piercing to the stallion as she grew ever closer. “Why did you volunteer for this while the rest of the staff turned this down?”

“Ms. Raven said that she needed somepony to serve a task for one of the royals.” Verdant gulped as Luna reached the bottom of the steps, towering over the shaking stallion; the top of his head barely reaching her neck. “Since nopony else volunteered, I felt it was my duty to do so to serve the crown.”

“Hmm…” the alicorn hummed suspiciously, her eyebrow raising as she stepped closer to him. “And you have no ulterior motive to do this?” The smaller stallion was sweating bullets as her eyes seemed to bore into his soul.

“There is…” he squeaked before coughing into his forehoof, his voice soon returning to normal. “There is, your highness. Ms. Raven said I would get paid for my time doing this.”

Giving the green pony a hard stare for what seemed like an eternity to him; Princess Luna pulled back and inhaled deeply. “Very well. Your services are appreciated and you shall do.”

The green stallion nervously nodded as Luna rose back up the dais, taking her place on the throne once more.

“Verdant Range, you are to meet with the head chef tomorrow morning so he may take measurements needed for the cake. Be sure to have a clean vest with you when you’re put in the cake. You’re the closest we could get to a stripper so we’ll simply have to make due. You may leave now.” Luna said with an air regal authority, making the stallion salute before heading out the door. Rubbing her temples, Luna turned to the mare at her side. “Raven, could you please have somepony fetch some liquor for me?”

“I’ll send one the guards to fetch something for you, princess.” The alabaster unicorn descended the steps once more, making her way to the doors. “Hopefully that Barrier stallion hasn’t emptied us out again,” she muttered to herself as she pushed the door open.

***

The days passed by relatively pleasantly for Luna and the palace staff as they diligently worked to prepare for Celestia’s party, having opted to close off one of the castle’s ballrooms and hang a multitude of beautifully designed white and gold banners emblazoned with the ever-familiar sun.

Upon one table was a large assortment of wrapped gifts sent to Celestia from various nobles, ambassadors, heads of various countries and her closest friends. Still, as Luna sized up the stack of presents for her sister, she beamed with pride, confident that her gift was the one Celestia would love the most.

On the table across from the presents was a breathtakingly decorated three tiered cake. It was stencilled in gold upon snow white fondant images depicting some of Celestia’s greatest feats throughout the centuries. The lowest tier was carefully lined with some of the freshest strawberries in Equestria, while the second tier had layers of frosting draped over it in a way reminiscent of fine silk curtains.

The third and final tier had the pièce de résistance; the top of the cake was covered in an ornate gold piping laid in the shape of Celestia’s cutie-mark with a small-scale representation of Princess Celestia herself in the form of the finest modeling chocolate Prance could provide and hoof-crafted by a master artisan.

Luna had kept the amount of ponies who knew about the surprise waiting in the depths of Celestia’s cake to a bare minimum, not wanting word of the idea to reach her sister too early. Only she, Raven, Verdant and the three chefs that had made the cake were privy to the secret.

“Magnificent.” Luna beamed as she and Raven examined the cake. “Now all that’s left is to get the stallion in the cake.”

“Already taken care of, Princess.” Raven pulled away from Luna’s side. “Verdant, are you okay in there? Can you hear us?”

“Yes, ma’am!” A muffled reply reached the two’s ears from inside the cake. “Everything’s going smoothly on my end.”

“Fantastic!” The moon princess giddily clapped her hooves together. “Things are going magnificently.” Catching her overly enthusiastic tone, Luna cleared her throat before shifting to a more authoritative tone. “Verdant, you are to remain silent until you hear me say, ‘Surprise’. That will be your que to pop out. Do you understand?”

“Yes, your highness. Will do,” the voice from the cake answered swiftly.

“Right, I will fetch my sister.” Luna raised her voice as her horn started to glow. “Places, everypony!” As the staff and guests scrambled to their hiding places, Luna’s horn glowed even brighter until she vanished in a flash of blue light.

An instant later, the midnight blue alicorn reappeared in her sister’s bedroom, making the elder mare stumble off her bed in surprise.

“Oh, sister!” Luna sang as she flared her horn once more, summoning a yellow handkerchief into existence. “Are you ready to go to your party?”

Celestia groaned and pulled herself to her hooves, quickly putting on a gentle front. “Of course, Luna,” she beamed as Luna levitated the cloth over her eyes. The younger sister soon came to Celestia’s side, draping a wing across her back.

As the two started to move forward, Luna acting as her sister’s guide, the elder alicorn was shaking in anticipation.

“I’ve been looking forward to this all week, Luna.” The blindfolded mare grinned as they travelled down the hallway. “Is the cake going to be a big one? I skipped dinner and I feel so hungry that I could swallow a cake in one gulp!”

“Oh please, sister,” Luna chortled at Celestia’s exuberance. “Even at your most enthusiastic, you couldn’t swallow a whole cake in a single gulp.”

“We’ll see about that. I’m sure I’ll love it even if it’s a small cake.”

“In that case, I’d say you’ll love this cake so much, it would be enough to make Chrysalis explode!” Luna’s horn ignited, pushing the massive twin doors open for the royal pair. Stretching a foreleg out, Luna brought her blinded sister to a halt. “Are you ready to see what we’ve got for you, sister?”

“Oh, you bet I am!” the elder princess merrily answered as she struggled to stand still in her excitement. Celestia’s ears flicked as she heard the hum of Luna’s magic behind her head, untying the blindfold.

As the blindfold fell from her face, and her eyes laid themselves upon her gifts, Celestia’s jaw dropped before the hidden guests all popped out from their hiding spots from behind pillars or under tables.

“Happy Birthday, Princess Celestia!” The mass collection of guests’ voices echoed throughout the room, bringing a massive smile to Celestia’s face.

“Oh, Luna,” the princess pulled midnight blue mare into a bone-crushing hug. “This is wonderful. This is the best birthday I’ve ever h-” Celestia paused, gasping at the sight of her cake and dropping Luna from her grasp. “Mother of me…” A single tear slid down Celestia’s visage as she stepped forward with a lick of her lips.

“I’m glad you’re happy, Celestia.” Luna dusted herself off as she rose from the floor, quickly taking her place at her sister’s side. Luna smiled happily, her eyes closed as she boasted. “I made it special so it’s unlike any cake you’ve likely ever had before. In fact...” With a wave of her hoof, all the guests, save for Raven, quickly and quietly shuffled out of the room. “This cake has something special, meant for your eyes only.”

The only response Luna received from her sister was a loud growl coming from her stomach.

“Sister?” As Luna’s eyes opened, Celestia had charged towards the cake, taking a flying leap at the three-tiered pastry.

***

“Happy Birthday, Princess Celestia!” The shout of the happy crowd penetrated the layers of the cake, reaching the ears of the patiently waiting pony.

Okay, Verdant. Get ready. This could be the thing that makes or breaks your career, maybe even your whole life!

The earth pony nervously swallowed as the wait dragged on in the dark.

Just hold still until Luna says ‘surprise’, then pop out, do a little dance and try to look sexy for the princess as you take off your vest. Do that right and everything should be-

Verdant’s train of thought was derailed as he was rapidly tumbled about, becoming disoriented.

“Ugh…” He spoke in a groaned whisper, rubbing his forehead as he tried to make the small dark chamber stop spinning. “What the hay just happened?”

As his head stopped spinning, he felt the cake was being gently rocked back and forth by something.

Maybe the cake’s being moved from the one table and somepony tripped trying to move it? Guess I should get ready.

Verdant shifted his stance as much as he could in the cramped space, preparing for his leap.

Oddly, no signal came for the confused pony. He heard muffled talking from Celestia and Luna, but nothing loud or clear enough to make out as time dragged on.

“When is Princess Luna going to give me the signal to pop out?” the baffled pony whispered as he brought a hoof to his chin. “I think the cake fell off the table.”

***

Luna stood dumbstruck at the sight that had occurred. Somehow, defying her comprehension, Celestia’s jaw had unhinged like something out of a horror movie as she somehow managed to swallow the entire cake whole in a single flying leap. She rolled across the floor before coming to a halt by the wall.

“Ahhh.” Celestia contently sighed as she rubbed her swollen belly. “And you said I couldn’t eat a whole cake in a single gulp.” She smugly said, her closed eyes not seeing the horrified looks upon Luna and Raven’s faces.

“I...I…” Luna sputtered as her sister rose to her hooves and stretched.

“I really needed that.” The alabaster alicorn chuckled before bringing a hoof to her mouth, suppressing a belch. “I felt so hungry; I could’ve eaten a horse.”

“No kidding,” Raven squeaked as she stared at the swollen, swaying stomach; thinking of the fate of the poor pony trapped within.

“So Luna, what was so special about the cake that made it ‘for my eyes only’?” Celestia smiled as she came trotting up to her stunned sister.

“What...what we had inside…” Luna swallowed, making her sister gasp.

“Oh dear,” Celestia frowned as she pulled Luna into a hug, pressing her against her big belly. “Sorry about that, Luna. I promise that the next time you have a cake for me, I won’t just inhale it like I did today.”

“Sister... I nee-”

“So, Princess Celestia!” Raven exclaimed as she dashed in between the alicorn pair. “Should we bring the guests back in and get this party started?”

“Oh, course.” The elder alicorn nodded as she sauntered over to the table, the large stack of gifts resting and waiting upon it. “I shouldn’t be the only one celebrating. Come on in, everypony! The party’s about to really get started!” She cheered as the far doors opened up, letting a large crowd of ponies back into the ballroom.

As the jubilus ponies danced and chatted amongst themselves, a nervous bespectacled unicorn crept over to the night alicorn's side as she watched her sister dance about, her grand gut swinging about as she swayed.

“Princess Luna,” Raven harshly whispered into the alicorn’s ear. “What are we going to do?! This is a disaster!”

“I don’t know!” Luna hissed with a glare, making the unicorn shudder. “Sorry.” Luna glanced away to her sister for a moment. “All we can do right now is hope it passes.”

“This situation…” Raven’s head tilted in confusing. “Or Verdant?”

A Royal Meal II - Electric Scootaloo

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Celestia grimaced as she looked down at the numbers on her bathroom scale. It had been over two weeks since her birthday in which she had been gifted many delicious cakes by her guests.

She learned that either those cakes were more fattening than she thought, or she had indulged herself much more than she had thought in those days. Even when she tried to space out the tasty treats, she had somehow managed to gain over three-hundred and fifty pounds.

With a depressed sigh, she fell onto her flanks and gazed down at her bulbous belly.

“I’ve got to do something about this,” she whispered before giving her belly a poke. “Maybe I’ll feel better after a hot bath and some time spent with Madame Frog.”

The alabaster alicorn’s horn flared a brilliant gold as the crystalline taps turned, rapidly filling the tub large enough for a family of four ponies. After a few moments, the tub was sufficiently filled for the plump princess.

Celestia flared her wings wide as she lifted herself into the air and hovered over the steaming pool below. Slowly, her wing beats decreased in speed, gently lowering her into the hot water, starting with her hind legs.

“Aaaahhhhh…” Celestia merrily sighed she sat down in the soothing bath. “I needed this. My hooves were starting to kill me.” She leaned back against the walls of the tub, letting the warmth just melt her troubles and stress away.

A small rumble which came from her rotund belly broke the blissful silence.

“Hungry again already? Dinner was barely an hour ago.” The confused princess gazed upon her grumbling gut. “Still, I guess a little dessert won’t hurt.”

With a quick flash of golden light, a bowl full of chocolate covered strawberries appeared at Celestia’s side. As she brought a piece of the candy-coated fruit to her face, her right foreleg slid across the surface of her submerged stomach, slowly approaching her nethers.

Celestia licked her lips as Madame Frog met up with Lady Lovetunnel and the beautiful berry drew closer to her maw. Sighing happily, she tossed the treat into her mouth, letting the chocolatey treat dance across her tongue.

The chocolate coating started to melt from the warmth of Celestia’s body as the berry slipped along the fleshy organ before the two reached the back of her mouth. With a soft swallow, Celestia sent the first bit of her snack down to her belly.

***

Verdant Range sighed as he fanned himself. The heat of the fleshy chamber that was Celestia’s stomach grew warmer from the heat of the bath.

The poor stallion was slowly growing used to such living conditions since the princess’s birthday, the cake that once housed him had long since dissolved and passed. Since then, the princess’s stomach had become his new quarters. Her sweltering innards keeping him constantly warm and shaking him about with every movement she made. Flying was the worst for the princess’ passenger.

This is worse than when I was living in a damned tool shed. At least then, I didn’t feel about a ton of alicorn squishing down on me when she sleeps on her belly.

The tired earth pony felt a warm trickle on the top of his head. Looking up, he saw the esophageal valve pouring down some melted chocolate followed by a whole strawberry which bounced upon his nose before he caught it in a fore hoof.

At least the food’s free. The green stallion sighed before taking a bite out of the spit-coated strawberry. Just wish the food wasn’t 99% ABC’d.

Verdant laid back as he heard the princess start to moan, resigned to his fate.

He had once considered calling out to the princess for a possible escape, but he instantly remembered a lesson his mother had pressed upon him since his youth.

“If you ever encounter the royalty, do not speak to them unless spoken to. They are far more important ponies than us so we should not bother them outside of official business.”

Verdant could only gaze around the cramped chamber that had become his bedroom, kitchen and bathroom.

Maybe someday, Princess Celestia will either eat a lot of bran or get food poisoning. Then I’ll be free.

Several escape attempts had been made when the alicorn slept, but they had all failed. When he tried to go back up her esophagus, the valve had refused to open. It seemed the only time the esophagus would open wide enough for him was when she was sending down a large amount of high-class food that would nearly bury him before sealing up once more. When he tried to go for the back exit, he could barely fit half of his foreleg down.

If this keeps up, that valve will end up becoming my girlfriend. The tired stallion snorted as more chocolate and strawberries rained down upon him.

There’s no way this can keep on going. Something’s going to have to change and soon.

***

The morning sun shone brightly through the grand windows of the throne room. Princess Celestia sat upon her throne with Raven standing diligently to her right, taking notes.

“Morning court has concluded, your highness.” Raven smiled at the towering princess, checking the final box on her clipboard.

“Excellent, Raven.” The princess smiled for a moment before it morphed into a concerned frown. “Has there been any update on the missing gardener?”

“N-n-no, Princess,” Raven nervously stuttered with sweat upon her brow, looking away from Celestia’s visage. “Verdant is still missing.”

“That’s terrible.” Celestia frowned as she leaned back in her cushioned throne. “The poor pony… He always planted moon lilies just the way I liked them. What could have happened to make him just disappear?”

“A-at any rate, Princess,” Raven slowly pulled away from the princess, drawing her out of her worried thoughts. “I’ll be taking my bathroom break. Once I return, I’ll take your lunch order post haste.” The white unicorn then dashed away, keeping her hind legs close together as she bolted out the door.

“Thank you, Raven!” Celestia called out, hoping her thanks reached the mare’s ears. “Now, what to have for lunch…”

The princess rubbed her gold clad forehoof against her chin as she pondered. “Hmm… I do still have a fair amount of cake left over from the party…”

Down in her belly, Verdant rolled his eyes at her words.

For Zacherle’s sake, you’ve had cake every day for the past two weeks. I should know since it’s been becoming a regular part of my diet!

“Well…” The princess’s words echoed throughout the stomach. “We do still have quite a lot of cake… and it would be rude to let it go to waste.”

Verdant’s eye twitched violently at the princess’s ponderous words.

Are you kidding?! Every day’s been the exact same for your meals! Pancakes for breakfast, cake for lunch and salad for dinner! I’m trapped in here, forced to live in what’s basically the world’s smallest port-o-john, likely for the rest of my damn life because you eat like a pig! You nearly squish me like a bug whenever you go to sleep, I barely get to sleep when you decide to play with yourself, and I have to survive by eating the exact same partially digested junk everyday day for lunch until I die! That tears it! I will not stand this anymore! Etiquette be damned! The line must be drawn here and no further!

“Hey,” he called out, his voice shocking the alicorn greatly, “Could you send down a bran muffin? Or maybe at least something other than cake?”

Celestia was dumbstruck by the voice from her bulging belly. After a moment of stunned silence, she came to the only conclusion that made sense to her about these strange circumstances.

“My stomach is talking to me!” Celestia exclaimed, making her prisoner slap a hoof to his forehead. “I have no choice but to obey it!”

Is this really the mare who’s saved Equestria so many times over? The mare who’s probably going to rule over us until the sun burns out? Verdant sighed and rubbed his temples. However, his pupils dilated in an instant as a thought occurred to him.

Wait a second… The princess said she has no choice but to obey me... Slowly, a wicked grin stretched across his muzzle as he leaned back. Oh, I’m gonna milk this cow until I can fill an ocean.

“That’s right, Celestia,” he called out to her once more. “It’s your stomach talking and I’m getting really sick of all the cake you’ve been giving me to take care of; not to mention all the times you’ve slept on top of me.”

“B-b-but… How?” Celestia craned her neck down towards her stomach in befuddlement. “How is it possible that you’re able to speak and think?”

“I don’t know,” Verdant replied, quite annoyed. “You’re the immortal alicorn that’s been practicing all sorts of power magic for centuries. I’m just an organ for digesting whatever I’m filled with. You tell me.”

“This is insane.” Celestia pulled her head back; chuckling to avoid confronting the wild premise she was being presented. “Th-this has got to be a prank… Somepony’s just throwing their voice to trick me!” Her eyes scanned the room, looking for any sign of her phantom prankster, only to find not even the slightest trace. “Okay my little pony, the joke’s run its course! Come out now so we can both have a laugh!” She called out, only to be met with her own echo.

“You haven’t snapped, Celestia. I’m talking to you!” Verdant shouted up her esophagus before giving her walls a series of quick jabs, making her belly quake to her shock.

“I… I see, my stomach…” the princess sighed and accepted the insanity of her talking stomach. “So, you’d like a bran muffin for lunch?”

“That’s just a start, Celestia.” Verdant triumphantly rubbed his hooves together. “I’d also like a pizza. A stuffed crust one with…” He paused, trying to recall what meaty topping a griffin friend of his introduced him to. “Pepperoni! Yeah, a pepperoni stuffed crust pizza.”

“You want me to eat meat?!” Celestia’s eyes bulged out before grabbing her gut and giving it a shake. “Why in the name of me would you have me eat meat?!”

“Because like it or not, Celestia,” Verdant glared upwards as he answered, incensed by the quake. “You’ve had way too much cake in the last couple weeks. You could really use some protein.”

“I guess you have a point,” Celestia grumbled like a small filly as she leaned back in her throne. “Anything else you want me to put in you?”

After a brief moment of consideration, Verdant thought of what to order next. If I’m going to play the part of a princess’s stomach, might as well get something classy. “How about a bottle of red wine?”

“You want me to drink during my lunch break?!” Celestia shouted, giving her belly a jab that hit the pony within in his eye. “Why the hay do you think this would be a good idea?”

“Well, y’know how some doctors recommend an average pony drink a glass of wine every day for a healthy heart?” the green pony spoke up as he rubbed his swelling and darkening eye.

“I vaguely recall something along those lines…”

“The key word being average pony. You’re a lot bigger than them, so it stands to reason you’d need more wine. I figure a whole bottle works for a mare your size.”

Silence reigned for several seconds before the snow-colored mare huffed.

“Alright, Stomach. You win. I’ll have the wine with my lunch.”

“Splendid!” Verdant grinned like a foal in a candy store just as the throne room doors were pushed back open, Raven quickly trotting up the steps to the throne.

“Greetings, Princess.” The spectacled mare bowed as she reached the top of the steps, clipboard at the ready. “What would you like to have for lunch today?”

“Well, Raven,” Celestia leaned closer to her trusted aide. “My stomach said I should have a bran muffin, a pepperoni stuffed crust pizza and a bottle of red wine.”

“Alright, I’ll j-” Raven stopped as she went back over the princess’s words once more. “...My apologies, princess, but did you say your stomach talked to you?”

“Yes, Raven. I did.” Celestia quickly shifted her head back and forth, scanning the room to ensure they were truly alone. “It started talking a few moments ago because it’s apparently pretty upset over my recent diet.”

“I… I just… This doesn’t make any sense!” Raven exclaimed, punctuated with a stomp. “There’s no way your stomach could be talking because it doesn’t like what you’re eating.”

“Are you sure about that, Raven?” Verdant’s quizzical voice came from the royal belly, much to the unicorn’s shock. “Do you know what else could possibly make me talk?” The stallion bit his lip to keep from laughing. Even with the thick wall of flesh separating them, he could tell Raven was sweating bullets.

“Um…” Raven slowly started to back away down the steps. I can’t tell Celestia that Luna and I made her eat a stallion! That would make things worse than saying Tirek broke into her bathroom to pull an upperdecker! “I guess I was wrong then, Princess. Heh heh heh…” She chuckled nervously as her dilated pupils remained fixated on the big belly. “I’ll go place your order and be right back ASAP.” Once she reached the bottom, the unicorn mare bolted out the door, faster than she had ever done in her entire life.

Well… Verdant thought to himself as he gently leaned back against the stomach wall. This isn’t exactly an ideal situation, but I think I’ll be able to make it work.

The verdant stallion grinned as Celestia leaned back in her throne, making the stomach sway like a hammock in the breeze.

Yeah, I can definitely get used to this.

~Meanwhile, several miles away~

In the middle of a large apple orchard, an orange earth pony mare fanned herself with her stetson.

“Well,” the mare smiled as she placed the hat upon her head before wiping away the sweat from her brow. “It was a hard day’s work, but Ah managed to beat mah apple buckin’ record.”

Taking the gorgeous sight of all the trees with their delicious fruit harvested, a sense of pride swelled within her.

“Now this calls fer a—” The orange mare paused as she saw a trail of dust on the horizon bolting towards her at lightning speeds. As whatever was approaching got closer, a voice started to reach her ears.

“AAAAPPPPLLLLLLLLEEEEJJJJAAAACCCCKKKK!!!” the voice screeched before the source of the dust cloud came to an abrupt stop mere millimetres away from the orange mare’s face, revealing it to be a bright pink mare with a curly pink mane.

“Pinkie, what in the hay’s gotten into you?” Applejack inquired as she gently shoved her friend further away from her face.

“The problem’s not what’s gotten into me, the problem’s what’s gotten into Scootaloo!” Pinkie answered urgently, hopping about on tippy-hooves. “She was dared to eat an unripe zap apple, and now not only is her coat and mane sticking up like something out of Rarity’s nightmares, but she’s shooting out electricity too!”

“What?!” Applejack was stunned by Pinkie’s news, pupils becoming the size of gnats. “Why in the hay would she ever do somethin’ that damn crazy?”

“Because the writer really wanted to justify a terrible pun title!” Pinkie grabbed the farm pony by the shoulders and frantically shook her like she was the world’s second biggest snow globe.

“Wait, what was that about a—”

“No time to answer!” Pinkie exclaimed before tossing Applejack into the air and catching the disoriented mare on her back. “We’ve gotta go help Scootaloo, now!”

And with that, Pinkie dashed off like a shot with Applejack clinging onto her shoulders for dear life, praying that she wouldn’t be meeting up with her parents that afternoon.

Curse's Genesis

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Long, long ago in the heart of the distant land of Zebrica, there was a colossal mountain known to the locals as Mt. Mrefu, a peak that could be seen from many miles away.

In times far past, a trio of a brave equines approached the grand mountain, intending to be some of the first to reach the peak without the aid of teleportation or flight.

Leading this band was a yellow unicorn mare with a short red mane. She beamed merrily as this reached the base.

“Huzzah my friends! We have finished the first leg of our journey!”

“Aye, lassie.” The large green coated earth pony at her side gave her shoulder a tap. “Now we’ll have the most difficult part of the trek to conquer.”

“Don’t be so pessimistic, Verdant Range.” The unicorn stretched as she dropped her saddlebags to the ground. “Thou art one of Equestria's finest mountaineers. If there be any stallions who could make it to the top, thou art the one.”

“Thou flatters me, Compass Rose.” The stallion with a leafy mane gave a teasing bow and chuckled.

“It would be dangerous to climb at night,” the final member of the party spoke up. She was a slender zebra mare with a flowing mane and tail. “We should set camp and wait til dawn’s light.”

“Thou raises a good point, Laana.” Rose sighed before diving into her saddlebags, pulling out a variety of supplies. “We shall put up the tents and get some rest. Verdant, prepare a fire and get our meals ready.”

“Aye aye, Rose.” The emerald eyed pony saluted before pulling some firewood from his bulky bags. “Any particular things thou would like for dinner?”

***

The fire’s roar was like that of a wild beast as its light cut through the darkness. The trio sat closely around the flame and made quick work of their simple meal of beans and herbs.

Rising up and stretching, Compass Rose loudly yawned. “Have a good night, my compatriots. I shall see thee in the morning.”

“Have a good night’s rest, Rose.” Verdant waved to the unicorn as she slipped inside her tent. “Tell me, Laana; what dost thou know of Equestria?”

“Of Equestria, there’s not much I can say,” the zebra looked deeply into the large stallion’s emerald eyes with her sparkling citrines. “Only there are mares that command night and day.”

“Ohohoho,” Verdant chuckled as he scooted closer to her. “There’s much more to Equestria than that. It’s a land of peace and harmony. A land with plenty for all those who live under the alicorns’ rule. A place where a smart and beautiful mare such as yourself could have everything thy heart desires.” He slunk a foreleg around her back, leaning closely to her ear.

“Wouldst thou rather be there than in a land filled with deadly creatures and poisonous plants? A place where you could be so very much more than a guide for wouldbe adventure seekers?”

Laana looked down to her hooves, nervously fidgeting. “A land such as that is a great temptation…” With a hard swallow, she faced the comforting stallion once more. “But would I be welcomed in the pony nation?”

“They would with one of their own at your side.” Verdant’s hoof slid up and down along her back as he looked deeply into her eyes. “One who cares about you, respects you, and wishes the best for you.” He inched this snout closer, nearly touching the zebra’s.

Laana closed the gap as a single tear of joy came from her eye. The two held each other closely as their hooves roamed their bodies, groaning as their tongues clashed together. After an intense moment of passion, the two fell over with Laana atop the earth pony.

“Let us take this into thy tent,” she whispered between gasps. “We don’t want to cover the camp in our scent.”

As the zebra slid off Verdant and went into his tent, a dark smirk crossed his features.

***

“That wast amazing, Laana.” The sweaty stallion sighed as the mare fell onto his chest, breathing heavily and cuddling into him.

“That wast both kind and mighty,” Laana whispered into his ear between gasps. “I am glad to give my body to thee.”

“It was truly a pleasure, dear.” Verdant gave the top of her forehead a kiss and shifted away. “If you’ll excuse me, I need to go water a tree. I’ll just be a moment.”

Quietly slipping out the tent, he passed the dying fire and came to a tree where a figure was emerging from behind it, the sight made him tense up. Fortunately for the startled stallion, what came from behind the tree wasn’t a hungry predator or a bandit, but merely Compass Rose.

“My, Verdant…” Rose softly chuckled as she came up to his side. “I did not take thee as a stallion who’d be so romantic.”

“Hardly,” Verdant snorted with a roll of his eyes. “I’m a stallion who has a mare in every port. I was simply curious as to what a striped mare would be like in bed.” He moved a past her, going behind the tree.

“Honestly, I’m just surprised she fell for such a lie.” Rose giggled, making her way to her tent. “So much for zebras being smart.”

“Tell me, about it.” Verdant held back a laugh as he relieved himself. “At any rate, have a good night.”

After Verdant finished his business, he made his way back into his tent and cuddled Laana closely before falling asleep.

Unfortunately for the green stallion, Laana had exceptionally sharp hearing.

That no good, lying tribalist rat! He’s worth no more than wildebeest scat!

After Laana stewed for a moment, a wicked idea came to her.

Scat, of course! A sinister and quiet laugh came from the zebra and she grinned darkly. A great punishment for that son of a whorse!

Several minutes passed as she waited to ensure that both of the equestrians were soundly asleep before sneaking out of the tent.

When the pair hired Laana to be their guide, they simply took her as a smart zebra who knew several skills and her way around the land.

But in truth, Laana was much more than that; she was a powerful witch descended from a long line of magic practitioners.

Until now, the only ones who’d suffered from her terrible powers were wild predators, but now her wrath had been turned to the lying stallion.

Reigniting the fire, she took a small cauldron out of her bags and filled it with a collection of liquids and powders. When the cauldron was placed upon the fire, the brew changed from a sickly orange to a glowing green, purple smoke wisping up from the top.

“Spirits of vengeance, hear my command! Rise up from your tombs beneath the sand! I call upon your powers dark and strange to forever curse the name Verdant Range!”

A distant rumble of thunder responded to her call as the cauldron’s contents glowed brighter. The winds howled as the smoke billowed towards the skies.

“Let it forever follow this cretin, that his curse is to be eaten. Yet this affliction he will survive, for he cannot suffer if he’s not alive.”

Lightning streaked across the starless skies, the winds becoming more violent.

“This one request I beg of thee!” She closed her eyes and bowed before the bubbling cauldron. “Grant a tool of vengeance to me!”

The rumble of thunder slowed to a stop and the wind started to die down. Once the wind had settled, Laana felt a light tickle from something landing upon her snout. Opening her eyes, she saw it was a purple flower with dark streaks of yellow in the center.

“Thank you ancestors, for the shrinking violet.” An eerie chuckle emanated from her throat as she rose up, snatching the plant in her hoof. “A taste of revenge Verdant soon shall get.”

***

As the sun started the rise over the sprawling plains, Verdant laid alone in his tent. His nose twitched at a scent that wafted through the early morning air.

Raising up with a stretch, he made his way out of the tent, bumping into Rose as she too followed the scent. As their vision started to clear, the two saw Laana sitting before the campfire, filling a pair of bowls with a delicious looking stew.

“Ah, the two of you are awake at last!” She happily grinned as she gave a bowl to her companions. “Please, enjoy thy hearty breakfast.”

“Why thank you, Laana.” Verdant gave the zebra mare gentle nuzzle, at which Rose smirked before she dug in. “This breakfast smells most wonderful.”

“What a kind thing to say.” Laana leaned into the stallion, grinning as she watched him take a bite of his specially prepared meal. “I simply wanted a good start to the day.”

“Well this is definitely a grand way to start, Laana,” Compass Rose spoke up between wolfing down her meal. “Thou art an excellent chef, my good mare.”

If thou thinks my cooking is great, wait til thou sees magic driven by hate. Laana smiled before making her way to her saddlebags. “Well then, shall we be depart soon? I hope we can reach the peak before noon.”

“Agreed, my good guide!” Rose stood up proudly as she finished her food, pointing towards the peak in a manner that made her cohorts roll their eyes. “Let us away to complete our historic journey!”

***

Hours passed as the trio scaled their way up the mountainside, powering through the dangerous obstacles they faced. As the sun reached the highest point in the sky, the three had decided to take a quick rest upon an outcropping.

As they caught their breath, Compass Rose noticed something amiss.

“Verdant, hast thy bag always been that big upon thee?” She tilted her head as she drew closer, seeing how the straps upon his bag hung loosely.

“What art thou talking about?” the shamrock stallion stood up in confusion, seeing that the unicorn he once stood tall than was now at least an inch taller than him. His confusion turned to horror when he realized that not only was the mare now taller than him, but the whole world was bigger and still growing. “Faust above, what is going on?!” He screamed, backing into a wall as Laana rushed to his side.

“Oh dear ancestors, what an unfortunate fate stroke!” Laana panickingly said as she closely examined Verdant. “This must be shrinking violet or poison joke!”

“Poison joke? Shrinking violet? What in Zacherle’s name art thou speaking of?!” Verdant screeched as he continued to diminish, his head now reaching only the bottom of the mares’ bellies.

“Poison joke randomly changes its victims’ body,” Laana gently ran a hoof along his back, trying to calm him down, “while the violet shrinks one to the size of a pea.”

“Canst thou reverse his condition, Laana?” Rose shook as Verdant’s form grew smaller and smaller before her eyes.

“I know of the remedy you seek, but I cannot make it this close to the peak.” Laana picked the shrinking stallion in a single hoof, making her way to the tent. With a nervous sigh, she looked back the frightened unicorn. “Prepare at the top to plant your flag. I will carry Verdant in my bag.”

“But wha—” Rose was silenced by Laana’s hoof which had gently been placed on her shoulder, a reassuring smile upon her face.

“With your trek over, to my village we’ll go for curative supplies. Rest easy, Verdant will not meet his demise.”

Rose nodded in response to the comforting words of the zebra mare before turning her attention to the makeshift campsite and gathering up her things. While she was packing up, Laana quietly made her way into the tent with Verdant in toe.

“Oh thank you so much for this cure, Laana!” the pea-sized pony shouted from her frog. “Rest assured, when we arrive in Equestria, I sh-”

“Spare me your pathetic lies, oh little stallion that I despise,” Laana hissed as she glared at the minuscule pony, causing him to stumble back.

“Why Laana, I have no idea what you mean,” Verdant quivered as he looked into the giantess’ furious eyes, the trembling of his legs felt in her hoof. “I meant every word of what I said last night.”

“‘A mare in every port,’ to Rose you did say, after our little roll in the hay.” Laana’s words made the green stallion’s coat become white as a sheet. A dark grin appeared on her muzzle before she licked her lips. “In your breakfast, I put in shrinking violet. Now a fitting punishment you will get.”

“Laana, please, don’t hurt me!” Verdant begged as he fell to his knees. “I’ll do whatever you say, just don’t kill me!”

“Killing is not at all part of my plan,” Laana replied, giving Verdant a light toss. A mere two inches was a drop of over two meters for her verdant victim. “I’ve something much more delicious in store, little man.”

Laana chuckled as Verdant scrambled to his hooves and tried to run to her foreleg, only to be tossed into the air once more. He soon found himself hanging in mid-air, his tail being hung onto by her colossal hoof.

“My plot for revenge will have some irony.” Laana dangled the petite pony before her eyes, an evil grin spreading as she lifted him up higher. “I wish once more to have you inside me.” She suspended her prey above her face, her maw stretched wide to welcome its next meal.

“Laana, wait! I’m—” Verdant’s pleas were silenced by his screams as Laana let go, sending him tumbling downwards. With a hard splat, he landed belly first across her massive tongue before being pulled into her cavernous mouth.

“I’m sorry, Laana! I shouldn’t have treated you as—” The titaness’ tongue slammed the small stallion into her boulder sized teeth before whipping him around to the other side of her mouth. Before he could catch his breath, the tongue rose up, slamming him in the mouth’s moist roof.

“Laana, I beg of thee!” Verdant cried out, his voice echoing throughout the humid chamber as the tongue fell back down. “Let me out! I promise to make things up to you! I swear to thee on my honor!”

Silence held for a moment, only broken up by the sound of Laana’s breathing. Verdant soon received an answer to his pleas as the tongue slowly rose up, sliding the battered pony toward the back of Laana’s throat. Verdant nervously gulped as he saw her uvula dangling above him. Looking down, he saw the undulating muscles of the zebra’s throat, begging for a scrap of food to send to her belly.

With a hard swallow, Laana sent Verdant downwards. Her throat squeezed the puny pony like a grape as it sent him down into the sweltering chamber that was her stomach.

Verdant was harshly spat into a goop that had once been Laana’s stew, now an unrecognizable, bubbling concoction. Sputtering, he dragged himself through the sludge, pulling himself onto a chunk of undigested potato.

“You’ll pay for this, you witch!” His shout echoed throughout the pulsating chamber. The faint sound of his screeching reached Laana’s sensitive ears, making her roll her eyes.

“You should get used to stomachs, for that is your curse,” She said before giving her belly a light jab, sending Verdant flying into a wall and landing back in her food with a splash. “It will spread throughout the multiverse.”

“Multiverse? What in bloody tartarus are you—” Verdant coughed before he was drowned out by a muffled voice penetrating the stomach’s walls.

“Laana, art thou ready to head for the peak?” Rose stuck her head into the tent, seeing her zebra guide slipping on her saddlebags.

“Yes, now let’s reach the peak with great speed so we can help with Verdant’s need,” she melodramatically replied, giving her bags a gentle pat. “If only my village weren’t so far away. Travelling there will take more than a whole day.”

“Worry not, Laana.” Rose smiled reassuringly as she placed a hoof upon her shoulder. “Once we make history, we shall restore Verdant as quickly as our legs can carry us. Now, let us away!”

While the unicorn charged out of the tent, a dark grin stretched across Laana’s face.

“Once in my village, I’ll let you out, oh insufferable git,” she whispered to her belly before shaking her hips, the waves within the stomach pitching the stallion all around the chamber. “Then you’ll be what you truly are; a piece of shit.”

Hearing a whine from within, Laana trotted out, ready to finish her journey towards the heavens while Verdant Range explored the bowels of hell.

***

Within the confines of a dark tent, a mare was swirling her hooves around a crystal ball, giving the stallion across from her a glimpse of the distant past.

“And that’s the reason why you’re cursed.” The pink mare happily smiled and nodded, nearly knocking her head dress off.

“So my great-grandfather was a total flank hole to a zebra, so everypony with the same name as him is cursed to be eaten alive?” The green stallion sighed, bringing a hoof to his forehead.

“Yeppers. That’s why this keeps happening to you and every other version of you.” Pinkie energetically nodded, knocking the hat from her head onto the floor. “But hey, could be worse. You could end up getting partially digested each time since the curse only said you’d survive, not be unharmed. Guess the spirits decided to be nice to you since you’re not the intended target of Laana’s wrath.”

Verdant Range the Second groaned and slammed his face into the table. “Why did my parents have to name me after that creep? I would have gladly been named after Great-Great-Grandma Minty.”

“Well,” Pinkie nervously scratched her neck. “Since this reading didn’t turn out so good, how about I get you some desserts at Sugarcube Corner? My treat.”

A moment of silence passed before Verdant raised his head to face her. “Do you have anything with strawberries?”

“You bet your green flank we do!” Pinkie beamed as she leapt from the chair and over the stallion, reaching the lip of the tent. “C’mon! Let’s get you a strawberry smorgasbord!”

The tiniest of smiles came from Verdant as he slid out of his seat. He could take great solace in knowing that this day was much less crappy than the one his not so great-grandfather had had so very long ago.

Operation: Eat Your Greens (APD)

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It was a lovely early spring morning as a verdant, vest-clad stallion was tending to his garden. A silkie chicken walked about while he worked, occasionally shuffling her feathers.

“Private Range,” a familiar voice reached the stallion’s ears, making him turn to see his former captain. He was a tall unicorn stallion with a black coat. His eyes were an icy blue while his mane was twin shades of blue. The unicorn tried to look intimidating and authoritative… only to be undermined by the chicken choosing to hop up and perch herself upon his head.

“D’aww, Pizza likes you.” Verdant held back on laughing at the sight as he rose up. “So, what brings you to Vanhoover, Barrier? I’m guessing it’s not a social call.”

“I wish it was, Verdant,” Barrier sighed. “First, get your chicken off of me before I have her deep fried.” The charcoal stallion’s left eye twitched ever so slightly as he pointed to the hen on his head.

Verdant smirked then whistled a little tune, making the bird fly over onto his vest covered back.

“Thank you. Now let’s get inside,” Barrier said as he walked past the smaller earth pony. “I don’t want anypony else hearing.”

“Oh dear.” Verdant ushered his former mentor into the house, taking him to his living room. As the military stallion took his seat and then a deep breath to prepare himself.

“Verdant, what I’m telling you is classified information. Nopony outside the highest members of the guards and the princesses know what I’m about to tell you. You’re not to repeat a single word of what I’m about to tell you. Understood?”

“Yes, sir.” Verdant nodded, giving a nervous swallow. Whatever this is, it has to be huge.

“At approximately two-hundred thirty hours last week, Queen Chrysalis escaped from her prison cell, along with several changelings who remain loyal to her.”

Verdant stumbled back and into a chair at the news. He had heard many a tale of what had happened while he was locked away in a crystalline dungeon of the empire. The stories of Queen Chrysalis were the ones that frightened him the most. She was a dangerously capable shapeshifter who could easily disguise herself as anypony and who, at her peak, had enough power to topple Princess Celestia in one-on-one combat. It was something that had haunted his dreams for quite a while upon learning of her.

“Dear Faust…” the shamrock stallion whispered, feeling a chill running up the base of his spine.

“Unfortunately, it gets worse.” Barrier leaned further back in his chair, seeing the green pony’s pupils dilate. “According to our sources, not only has she managed to fully recover from her injuries at the royal wedding, including regrowing her horn, but she’ll be going into heat fairly soon. After that, she’s going to lay a huge clutch of eggs. She could quickly recoup her losses and bring in a whole new army of loyal changelings that are ready to fight in just a few years' time if she’s able to do this.”

Verdant remained quiet as he sat down upon the floor, his pet giving him an affectionate nuzzle.

“Verdant?” Barrier tilted his head as the young stallion petted the overly fluffy bird. “Did you hear what I said?”

“Aye, sir.” Verdant looked up, seeing the stern stallion in the eye. “I assume the reason you’re telling me this is because you will require my skills with whatever plan you have to stop her?”

“Correct,” Barrier replied as he rose from the chair. “Some allies and I have put together a plan on how to prevent Chrysalis from creating a new army and make those that are still loyal to her turn their backs on her.”

“That’s all good, but what skills of mine do you need?” Verdant stepped closer, starring the obsidian stallion in the eye. “My skills with a bow? My knowledge of plants and their effects?”

“I need your ability to be shrunk down and survive being eaten.”

Silence hung in the air for a tense moment as the colt looked to the unicorn in confusion.

“Excuse me, sir?”

“You heard me, Verdant.” Barrier placed a firm hoof upon his shoulder, his eyes boring into the nervous earth pony. “I need you to shrink down and get inside Queen Chrysalis in order to stop her.”

“Are you out of your mind?!” Verdant pulled back, looking into Barrier’s eyes with a mixture of shock and fear. “How in any way is me getting eaten by a giant bug going to help Equestria?!”

“We’ve been doing what we can to work out a plan that will result in minimal loss of life, Verdant.” Barrier stepped forward, backing the smaller stallion into a wall. “This plan to put her out of commission without killing her or any other changelings is our best option.”

Verdant swallowed nervously as the captain stared down at him. After a moment of silence, Barrier slowly backed away.

“You’re not obligated to do this, Verdant. However time is of the essence. Whatever answer you have for this, I need it ASAP.”

“Aye, sir.” Verdant took a deep breath to consider. “Just give me a little bit to find someone to look after Pizza for me.”

“That won’t be needed, Verdant,” a small smile reached the unicorn’s face as he placed a hoof on the earth pony’s shoulder. “I’ll take care of her for you.”

“Well, thanks cap—” Verdant was silenced has Barrier’s hoof struck his neck, darkness quickly encompassing as he fell to floor.

***

“Ow…” Verdant groaned as his vision slowly returned to him. He found he was no longer in his Vanhoover house, but in a small conference room. In front of him was a large, round table with a plethora of chairs stationed around it. The walls were all a slate gray with the only source of light in the room being a lamp hanging above the table’s center.

“Good to see you’re awake, Verdant.”

The earth pony looked over his shoulder, where he saw Barrier approaching the table.

“Now we can get underway with the plan.”

“Was it really necessary to knock me out, Barrier?” Verdant complained as he rubbed the still tender spot on his neck.

“Unfortunately so, Verdant,” Barrier replied as he took a seat at Verdant’s right. “This location’s classified. Had to get you here without you knowing where we are.”

“Fair enough, I guess.” Verdant leaned back in his chair. “Anything else you plan on telling me before I go on this mission?

“Yes. For the sake of security, we won’t be using our real names from now until after the mission’s over. Currently, when speaking to me, I’m to be referred to as Agent Arcana while when you’re using the com crystals, I’m to be called Papa Bear. Meanwhile, your codenames are Agent Shamrock and Porridge respectively and Chrysalis will be called Mama Bear on the coms.”

“Understood.” Verdant nodded just as a squeak reached his ears. Turning around in his chair, he spotted a strange figure approaching from the darkness.

The figure had shiny black chitin with large aqua eyes. It had a curved horn and sharp thestral like fangs. The back of the head had a row of spiky fins going down its center, leading to the dark blue shell covering its back. The strangest feature of the approaching creature was that it had several large holes in its legs.

“Perfect timing.” Barrier said, hopping out of his seat. “Agent Shamrock, this is our spy in Chrysalis’s current base and your way in. This is Agent PB.”

“Call me Peanut Butter.” The changeling happily smiled while Barrier glared at her. “What? It’s not like it’s my real name.”

“At any rate,” Barrier lead the changeling over to the table, where they both took a seat at Verdant’s sides. “PB will be referred to as Kettle when speaking over the com. Any questions?”

A quiet moment passed while PB dumped the contents of her saddlebags onto the table, spilling an assortment of papers and devices around.

“Alright. With that out of the way, we’ll be discussing the plan in detail. Agent PB.”

“Right!” She beamed before clearing her throat, her tone becoming more serious. “The plan we have is to render Queen Chrysalis infertile. With her unable to lay fertile eggs, not only will she no longer be able to recoup her losses from the Canterlot invasion, but it will cost her the faith of a great deal of her remaining subjects, possibly to the point of revolt.”

“Is all this stuff with shrinking me really necessary, sir?” Verdant looked to Barrier with a raised eyebrow. “Couldn’t you just slip some sort of drugs in her food that could do the job for you?”

“Possibly, but that has a chance of failure. That’s not something I’m willing to take a chance on,” Barrier stated as he seemed to pull a flask from out of nowhere. “Even after that kick Octavia gave her, I find that it's possible that Chrysalis could still lay viable eggs.”

“With the plan we’ve cooked up, we have the best odds of stopping all of this with minimal risk to both our species as a whole. You’re pretty much the most qualified pony for this, Agent Shamrock.” PB mustered the biggest puppy dog eyes she could to sway the stallion, aided by a quick flash of green flame.

“Alright.” Verdant slumped into his chair, taking a deep breath. “Let’s continue talking about the plan.

“Yay!” PB grinned as she fished through the pile of junk on the table, pulling out an anatomy chart and a pointer stick. “This is the anatomy of the average changeling queen. For the first step in the plan, Agent Shamrock will be shrunken down via poison joke and then slipped into a bowl of Queen Chrysalis’ food. After that, you’ll then enter here.” She slammed the tip of the stick upon the chart, right upon the subject’s mouth.

“As long as you don’t get chewed to death, Chrysalis will swallow you, which will send you down her esophagus and eventually into her stomach.”

“Agent PB,” Verdant held up a hoof like a foal in class. “Is there something special I’m supposed to be doing besides getting a tour of a digestive system? I’ve got plenty of experience with that already.”

“Right, I’ll skip to the big part. This is where pony and changeling anatomy differ.” PB picked up the pointer with her magic, slamming the tip in the figure’s flank area. “At the end of her bowels, you’ll reach a chamber called the cloaca. This multipurpose area will be the key to things. Once Chrysalis is asleep, you will enter the cloaca and make your way through her vagina. You’ll then make your way from the shell gland and through the oviducts into Chrysalis’ ovaries, and this is where the important stuff happens.”

“You’ll be equipped with a specialized suit for this mission,” Barrier spoke up, taking a swig between sentences. “It will have several things such as a gravity enchantment in the shoes to make travel easier, along with a thing called dimensionally transcendental saddlebags. Basically, they’ll be bigger on the inside. You’ll be carrying tons of backup supplies for your mission.”

“Once you’ve entered the ovaries,” PB took over the briefing once more, casually kicking back, placing her hind hooves on the table. “You’ll have to inject every single one of her follicles with a chemical solution that will keep the ovums from maturing, meaning each egg she’ll put out will only be good for omelets.”

“But as an added measure of security,” Barrier’s horn ignited in a flash of blue light, pulling PB’s hooves off the table. “You’ll also be spraying a spermicidal chemical throughout her oviducts.”

“Right. I understand all this.” Verdant nodded as his eyes closely examined the chart before him. “Besides the stuff to make her infertile and that suit, what else will I have for supplies?”

“You’ll have a tent, some books, and about a month and a half’s worth of food and bottled water.” Barrier slipped out of his seat, trotting over to the changeling and pony. “You’ll need them since your mission will have you in there for about twenty days.”

“Twenty days!?” Verdant exclaimed, his pupils dilating in shock.

“It’s a necessary step to help guarantee the ovums won’t be mature when it comes time for Chrysalis to breed.” PB looked at Verdant sadly and patted him on the back. “This way, you’ll have plenty of time to complete the mission.”

“I...I just…” Verdant groaned and rubbed his temples. “I hope I get well rewarded for this.”

“Rest assured, you will.” Barrier levitated the flask to the earth pony’s face in offering, only for it to be gently pushed away.

“Once you’ve done all that, I suggest you exit while Chrysalis is laying one of the eggs.” PB turned Verdant to face her, giving him a gentle smile. “Just be sure not to follow too close. You could end up stuck inside the shell of one of the eggs. Best to hang back until the shelling’s done.”

“Okay.” Verdant deeply inhaled, a small grin appearing on his muzzle. “So, when are we getting started?”

“Immediately,” Barrier stated as his horn flared again, causing a large suitcase to appear upon the table. The clips opened up with a click then case slowly opened.

Within the foam-padded case was a folded up suit that seemed to be made of some sort of spandex-like material, a matching helmet with a clear visor, and a jar full of a blue powder.

“Suit up, Agent Shamrock.” Barrier magically tossed the suit into Verdant hooves. “Time is of the essence.”

After a few moments, the green pony managed to slip himself into the suit and snap the helmet shut around his head.

“All set to go, sir.” Verdant saluted as Barrier levitated the jar of powder up, taking a step away as he undid the lid.

“Best of luck, Verdant,” Barrier said as he started to pour some of the blue poison joke powder on the suited stallion. “I’ll make sure your place and your pet are well taken care of while you’re on this.”

“Thank you, sir.” Verdant nodded as the last of the powder covered him. “Now if you need to knock me out, just don’t make it another painful karate ch—”

The shamrock stallion was cut off at he was struck from behind with a wooden bat, sending him tumbling to the ground.

“Did you really need to do that?” Barrier glared at the changeling with the wooden club clenched in her teeth before dropping it to the floor. “I found the sleep powder on the way in.”

“Hey, I’ve got to do something to warrant writing these off as a business expense.”

***

Verdant groaned as wakefulness returned to him, interrupting a pleasant dream involving him and the mare of his life. He felt a shaking all around him as his vision started to clear.

Once the blur of his sight had cleared, Verdant found himself in a tube made of a hard black substance. Gazing out of the tube, he saw that the tube was one of the many holes in PB’s leg. She was walking through a colossal cavern, a bowl being carried in her mouth.

Verdant gave his changeling ally’s leg a hard jab, hoping to gain her attention. For once in the small stallion’s life, his attempt to make a giantess notice him was successful.

PB quickly halted her steps and set the bowl down. With the bowl on the cave floor, she quickly scanned the cave to ascertain that she was alone before raising her foreleg up to her face.

“Good to see you’re awake, Shamrock,” she gently whispered. “You can activate the com crystal in your helmet holding a hoof to the right side of it.”

“Like this?” Verdant placed a hoof on the side of his helm, drawing a grin from PB.

“Bingo. Now let’s get you ready for the next part.” She smiled before tilting her leg and letting the little pony jump off the smooth surface, making him fall down her leg hole. Eventually he landed in the bowl which was full of a strange green mush. “Operation: Eat Your Greens is a go.”

Verdant rolled his eyes as PB craned her neck down. “Did Ba… Papa Bear come up with that name?” Verdant asked as PB picked the bowl up with her mouth.

“Uh-huh,” PB muttered as she trotted down the cavern.

“Then remind me to kick his flank for that terrible pun once this is all over.” Verdant’s reply drew a chuckle as the two of them entered an expansive chamber.

From his place in the mush, Verdant spotted many more changelings either flying about or clinging to the jagged stone walls.

Soon, the speck of a stallion found himself staring up at the colossal, intimidating face of Queen Chrysalis. Verdant gave a hard swallow as PB laid the bowl at the queen’s hooves.

“Your majesty,” PB grinned and bowed. “Your mashed beetles are ready for you.” As she spoke, Verdant dived into mush, hoping to avoid the queen’s eyes.

“It’s about time,” he heard Chrysalis grumble as he felt the bowl being lifted once more. After a tense moment of silence, Verdant found himself being scooped up the by the changeling’s tongue, narrowly avoiding her teeth and she begun to chew up her meal.

Verdant was rolled and tossed about by the giant’s forked tongue as she savoured the flavor of the beetles. As the massive muscle rose once more, pushing him toward the sides of the cavernous mouth, Verdant had to jump away to avoid being wedged between a pair of her terribly sharp fangs as well as the row above as they came slamming down.

After several more close calls, the mush was turned into a thick paste just before Chrysalis tilted her head back, sending her meal and the male sliding towards the back of her throat. With a hard swallow, Verdant found himself being squeezed downward by her powerful throat muscles.

“Urgh…” Verdant groaned as he descended the esophagus. I swear, these things get tighter every time this happens.

Verdant soon felt the pressure on his hind legs disappear before he fell down with a wet plop, being drenched with more of Chrysalis’ food as he tried to stand.

Looking around, Verdant found the changeling queen’s stomach to be much different from any he’d been in before. The walls of the stomach seemed to be ever so slightly transparent and green, while the juices in the pulsating flesh chamber had a faint glow.

Verdant sat back to prepare to continue, only for his concentration to be broken by another load of beetle mush falling down upon him.

“Right, on with the mission,” Verdant muttered as he pulled himself from the muck, shaking what he could off like a dog and bringing a hoof to his helm. “Come in, Papa Bear. Mama Bear thought her Porridge was just right. Over.”

“Good job.” Barrier’s voice came in loud and clear from within the helm’s earpieces. “Now I need you to head on down to the grocery store. There’s a great deal on eggs.”

“Copy that. I’ll be heading out soon. Over and out.” Verdant trudged along as the stomach pulsated. Thankfully, the gravity charm kept Verdant safely grappled to the fleshy floor, but it didn’t do much to combat queasiness as he reached the sphincter.

“Alright little valve,” Verdant reached out to the orifice, giving it a gentle rub. “Be a nice little hole and open up for me. I want to get this over with as soon as I can.”

The valve slowly opened up, allowing Verdant to slip into the duodenum.

“Thank you,” he grinned from behind his helmet. “Hopefully the next part won’t be too unpleasant.”

***

Hours passed for the pea-sized pony as he journeyed through Queen Chrysalis’ body. While the huge insectoid mare had gone for a run through the caverns and had a soak in a hot spring, Verdant had crawled through the fleshy caverns of her bowels and soaked in the foul smelling sludge that was her bodily waste.

A little more than an hour after Chrysalis had fallen asleep, Verdant finally arrived in her cloaca. With a tired groan, he scraped her waste from his suit before continuing his quest.

Verdant took in the strange sights of the queen’s cavity. On one side was a massive shutter-like hole that would be his eventual exit from the enormous enemy. On the other, Verdant found a pair of fleshy tunnels which lead deeper into the changeling queen’s body.

The upper tunnel was the large intestine that Verdant had finally left. The lower tunnel was the one he needed to traverse to reach her ovaries; her vaginal canal.

Raising a hoof to his head, Verdant activated the com. “Calling Papa Bear. I’m on my way to the grocery store, just gonna go through the tunnel of love first.”

“Alright, keep going,” Barrier’s voice replied before a chuckle-snort came through. “How does this kid come up with these things?” His amused voice came through loud and clear.

“Papa Bear, you’re still on.” Verdant smirked under his helm before he heard the com cut out. He then went forward, slowly making his way into Chrysalis’ vagina.

As he made his way onward, the meaty walls started to become damp. The tunnel started to move about as it became wetter and warmer. Verdant’s eyebrow rose until he heard something in the distance.

“Hmm… Shining Armor…” Chrysalis’ booming voice echoed throughout before she started to snore once more.

Verdant’s face paled from behind the helmet, the horrifying truth dawning upon him.

Oh shit! Chrysalis is having wet dream and I’m stimulating her! I’ve got to get out of here!

Verdant bolted forward and the tunnel started to clench and tighten, becoming even hotter as more fluids splashed over the tiny stallion. The poor stallion failed to realise that by running forward instead of moving slowly, he was only stimulating her more.

The entrance to the shell gland grew ever closer. As Chrysalis moaned in pleasure, the muscles contracted so tightly around Verdant that he couldn’t move. He was worried that Chrysalis’ insides would crush him before he saw a torrent of fluid headed towards him.

Verdant braced himself as best he could before he was struck by the oncoming flood. He was battered by the rush of changeling queen cum and squeezed by her clenching canal. As a minor bit of fortune, the gravity charm on the suit held Verdant in place.

A satisfied and happy sigh came from the slumbering queen as her vagina slowly loosened its grip on the cum-coated pony.

“Urgh…” Verdant groaned as he slowly and sorely moved trudged onwards. “Note to self, Queen Chrysalis has a hair trigger.”

***

After hours of crawling through Chrysalis’ miles long oviducts, Verdant had finally made his way to the entrance to one of the changeling queen’s ovaries.

“Calling Papa Bear,” the tired pony said as he reactivated the com. “I’ve finally made it to the grocery store to get the first batch of eggs.”

“Copy that,” Barrier firmly replied. “Once you’ve got the first batch, go ahead and take a quick rest before getting the second batch.”

“Roger that. Over.” Verdant placed a hoof against the ovary’s orifice, gently massaging it into opening.

Hopping through, Verdant took in the sight of the ovary’s interior. There were tons of little orbs hanging from a strange fleshy bit that looked like a strange tree to him. Each little orb was an immature ovum, a potential changeling waiting to be made to serve Chrysalis and aid her schemes to conquer Equestria.

Taking a brief moment to steel himself, Verdant moved closer to one of the little eggs which was dangling like a ripe apple before taking one of the little syringes from his saddlebags.

He slowly removed the cap from the needle before plunging it into the orb, injecting it with a concoction of purple chemicals.

“Alright.” Verdant licked his lips behind the helm before stowing the used needle into his bags. “One down…” His gaze shifted up to the sight of the many unjabbed follicles. “...Several hundred to go.”

Verdant sighed heavily before pulling out the second needle of many.

***

After a few hours of hard work, Verdant had finished the injection of every single one of the follicles in Chrysalis first ovary.

Verdant was able to have a brief nap that was ended when the changeling queen awoke, shaking with the force of a light earthquake as she rolled over and stood up.

The hours blurred together for the stallion but, eventually, he managed to finish injecting every last one of Chrysalis’ follicles by the time she had finished her dinner.

“Leave me be,” the titanic queen’s voice barked. “I need to cleanse myself.”

Verdant stretched, leaning back against her oviduct. “Wish I could take bath. At least you didn’t have to crawl through literal shit.”

A loud, distant crackle reached Verdant’s ears. Rushing to his hooves, he saw a bright green flame quickly sweep over changeling’s innards, making the fleshy tube rapidly contract.

“Sweet Faust, is this what it’s like when she shapeshifts?” Verdant swallowed as he looked around the smaller ducts. “What is she up to?”

***

“Leave me be.” Chrysalis barked to her changeling servants as she entered her private chamber. “I need to cleanse myself.”

“Yes, your majesty.” The trio of servants bowed before backing away, closing her chamber with a large rock.

Once she certain her underlings were out of sight, she stood in front of the polished stone surface she had fashioned into a body length mirror.

In a flash of green flame, her appearance completely changed. Where was once a tall, chitinous black changeling was now a purple unicorn. A mocking grin spread across her face as she placed a fuzzy hoof to her chest.

“Look at me, I’m Twilight Sparkle!” she said in a mocking, nasally tone. “I’m a nerdy loser of a mare with a crush on her big brother who’s gonna flush years of planning down the toilet and crush someling’s buggyhood dreams by being obsessive compulsive to the point of knowing when Cadance schedules her BMs.”

***

Verdant glared toward where he assumed Chrysalis’ head was.

“And with that, I now have absolutely zero guilt over using your insides as a toilet!” He shouted just as another flash of emerald flames to wash over her insides, thankfully providing some more room for the queen’s passenger.

***

Chrysalis grinned at the face of a midnight blue alicorn that was looking back at her.

“Zounds, all shalt kneel before Us, for We art Princess Luna!” she bellowed in imitation of the Royal Canterlot Voice. “All shalt love Us, even after I attempted to murder the planet. Truly We art worthy of praise, despite not spending five minutes in many months to learn Faust cursed Equish.”

The disguised queen chuckled, briefly returning to her true voice. “I spend more time prepping to seduce a pizza delivery colt.”

In another flash of green light, Chrysalis morphed into the form of a large, alabaster alicorn.

“Greetings, my little ponies,” she spoke in a sickeningly sweet tone. “I’m ever so grateful for your tributes of sweet pastries. You’ll all have the great honor of adding to my sun-sized royal rump.” Chrysalis quickly spun around, facing her rump to the mirror. She then swiftly shook her plump rear back and forth.

***

When Chrysalis spun around, Verdant was treated like a pony in a centrifuge; the suit's charms being the sole thing holding him to the oviduct floor. The forces made him feel like his heart sank into his rear.

Before he could begin to settle down, the queen’s booty shaking started to toss the stationary stallion to and fro. Verdant forced himself to smile as widely as he could, trying to keep himself from retching in the snug suit.

***

Chrysalis’ evening was quite entertaining for her as she used her mimicry to mock the various ponies that had ever bothered her, from Princess Cadance to a barista that once screwed up her order.

As her day came to a close, the changeling queen did a few quick stretches, getting ready for bed. With her stretches finished, she hopped backward, flopping back onto her soft, queen sized bed.

Her eyes briefly flicked to a stone dresser beside her bed. With a flash of her horn, she opened a drawer and pulled out a thick, cylindrical toy.

“It’s been a while, Shining Armor.” Chrysalis grinned at the toy, licking her lips. “Time to put you back where you belong.”

Slowly, the obsidian insectoid spread her long, hole filled legs.

***

Verdant groaned as he pulled himself back up, recovering from Chrysalis flopping on her bed. To the minuscule stallion, it was as if he were in a large city that had been dropped from the sky.

Just as he managed to straighten himself out, a lusty moan reached his ears.

“Oh for buck’s sake.” Verdant slapped a hoof to his forehead just before the chamber shook from the changeling bucking her town-sized hips.

“Yes, Shining Armor! Harder! Faster!” Chrysalis shouted as she played with herself, causing yet another earthquake for the stallion within to suffer through.

“Yes! YES!! YEEEESSSS!!!” The changeling exclaimed before her wild shaking started to slow, eventually coming to a stop. Her aroused shouts were replaced by heavy pants.

“Thank you, my dear prince.” Chrysalis’ whisper came though clearly to Verdant, along with her snores that came moments later.

“Finally!” Verdant sighed in exasperation as he flopped down onto his belly. “At least I can some R&R now.”

Verdant sorted through his saddlebags, pulling out a ready-to-go meal, a bottle of water, a large manga volume, a sleeping bag and a lamp. Taking off his helmet, Verdant sighed before wiping his brow.

“Well that’s two nights down. About eighteen more to go.”

***

Thankfully for the micro equine, things the next day were much more pleasant than the one before. A good night’s rest did wonders for him.

The shaking from Chrysalis’ movements were fairly light that day as she went about her daily routine of command, exercising, bathing, and so on.

As Verdant had a brief moment to relax, his eyes drifted to some of the stains covering his suit.

“Hmm… Barrier did say I have a month and a half’s worth of water…” he pondered as he weighed his options. “I guess one little bath and suit wash won’t hurt.”

The small stallion quickly discarded the suit and started to fish through his saddle bags, producing a large bottle of water.

***

Chrysalis was quite happy with tonight’s meal. Her changelings had not only managed to find her favorite species of beetles, but they also managed to steal some pastries made by a loving couple. She could still taste the love from them as she made her way to her bedchamber.

I should probably do something after that. The dark queen thought to herself as she came up to her mirror. I may need fat and protein for the eggs, but I still want to keep my naturally fantastic figure.

Chrysalis cast a spell over her chamber, ensuring no sounds would escape. She then removed a hidden stone panel in the wall, revealing a blue and silver boombox.

Gently pressing a hoof on the play button, a peppy little pop song started to fill the room. When the music kicked into high gear, Chrysalis danced along to beat. She stood upon her hind legs, swinging her hips wildly back and forth. Her forelegs were above her head, flopping around in an impersonation of rabbit ears.

***

“Perfect!” Verdant grinned as he held up the now sparkling suit. He had managed to scrub every last trace of what he had been forced to trudge through from its surface.

“Time to—” the pony was interrupted by a sudden shift in the queen's movement, he then found himself being bounced around her insides by the shaking of her hips. He was battered around like a pinball as he desperately tried to put the suit back on in the air before being slammed into a wall of changeling flesh.

After several torturous minutes of flailing in flight, he had managed to slip back into the suit, the enchantment allowing him cling to one of the swinging inner walls.

“Right…” Verdant sighed as he hung onto the fleshy floor. “Now where in Tartarus did my supplies and helmet go?”

The shamrock stallion’s second question was answered as his helm collided with the back of his head. He was luckily able to grab the headgear and put it on before the next hip swing managed to send it flying away. However, the horrible bouncing continued, the earthquake like tremors taking its toll on the clinging equine.

Eventually, by what Verdant could only consider a miracle by Faust, the shaking died down and Chrysalis slowly made her way into bed.

The small stallion gave an even smaller sigh of relief as the tremors had ceased for the night. “Right. Thank Faust that’s finally over. Now I can just kick back and…” He paused as he scanned around the colossal innards. “Where did my damn saddlebags go?”

Verdant could only groan when he couldn’t see where his bags had ended up.

“Wonderful. I’m gonna be searching all damn night,” the earth pony grumbled before setting off on his search.

***

The days started to blur together as similar things played out between the changeling queen and the pony hiding within her. Verdant was grateful that the queen kept to such a routine since this allowed him to plan out things like when he could rest and eat.

There was only one real change Verdant really took note of as the days went by. The follicles in Chrysalis’ ovaries had been slowly filling up with yolk. What once seemed to be the size of toy balls to him were now massive sacks.

“At least my time in here’s coming to an end soon,” Verdant said aloud as he hopped onto one of the squishy sacks, treating it like an oversized water bed. “Then I won’t have to read the same eighteen magazines over and over or talk to myself anymore.”

***

Chrysalis relished the taste of the meal her changelings had prepared for her, giving her swollen belly a gentle pat before rising up and walking away.

This is excellent. My plans have been going exceptionally. The queen grinned as she towered over her servants. Now, all I need is to find a good breeding partner.

Her harlequin eyes scanned over the multitude of changelings she passed by on her way to the bed chambers. Soon, her eyes came upon a large changeling. Even with thick chitin covering them, she could see his muscles were quite large.

Chrysalis licked her lips as she approached the muscular changeling. “You, follow me. You’ve just received the great honor of siring an army.”

“Yes, your majesty!” He saluted and followed behind her, his eyes focused on her swaying rump and swollen, fertile belly.

The two quickly made their way into her bedchamber, where the queen gently laid down on the bed upon her back. She spread her legs wide to him as a she cast the male a sultry grin.

“Now, come for me.” She winked as he joined her on the bed, climbing atop her, unaware that the room’s entrance was slightly ajar.

***

Verdant steadied himself in the ovary as he listened to the queen’s words.

“Guess we’ll see if this injection stuff worked or not soon,” he said to himself before a breathy moan came from the queen.

The queen’s entire body quaked as she moaned, likely from her consort thrusting into her.

One more quake quickly followed, along with a moan from Chrysalis and a much louder groan from her mate.

An awkward silence came over the pair for a moment before Chrysalis shouted.

“ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?!” Her scream echoed not only throughout her body, but throughout the entire cavern, drawing laughs from many a changeling and the small pony. “TWO THRUSTS AND YOU’RE DONE?!”

“Wow, seriously?” Verdant laughed as he lounged upon the egg sack. “I was able to make her cum by accident, yet you somehow blew it? Just… wow…” He giggled as he brought a hoof to his forehead.

“Get the hell out!” Chrysalis frustratedly barked. “You’ve served your primary purpose, now I’ve got to take care of the rest.”

“Well,” Verdant hopped off the squishy sack, making his way to the ovary’s exit. “Guess I should go hose down her insides with that spermicide stuff while she’s jilling off.”

The small stallion soon came to a long bend in the oviduct, leading deeper into the groaning body.

“Guess this would be a good spot to do it.” He shrugged before reaching into his saddlebags. After a bit of shuffling about, he managed to pull out a large nozzle attached to a thick hose that went deep into the saddlebags.

With a flick of a switch, a pumping noise came deep from within the bag before a geyser of clear pinkish goop shot forth from the hose, starting coat the changeling’s inner canals.

“Hmm… Maybe once I’m out, I’ll rent that movie about the ponies that fought that painting ghost thing again,” Verdant muttered as he sprayed the fluid, trying to coat every microscopic inch. “Eh, I should probably just buy a copy once I make my escape.”

After nearly an hour, the hose had released the last of the fluid that now coated the inner walls.

“Well, that looks like a job well done.” Verdant smiled as he gazed upon his work before turning back towards the ovaries. “Hopefully that’s my last night in here.”

Upon reaching the ovary, Verdant climbed up onto one of the egg sacks and laid down upon the soft surface. Rest quickly overcame the tiny pony as the warmth and softness within the queen lulled him to sleep.

***

Chrysalis awoke with a yawn before slowing making her way out of bed. Gazing down at her rotund belly, she knew that the time she had awaited had finally come.

She quietly made her way into the deepest chamber of the cavern. Within, only a single changeling slept.

“Awaken,” Chrysalis said as she gave the changeling servant a light jab, rousing her from her slumber.

“Oh, what the—” PB paused as she spotted the queen standing before her. She quickly raised a salute and put on the realest smile she could. “Good morning, your majesty! Has the big day finally come?”

“Indeed it has,” Chrysalis yawned before pulling an about face and squatting low to the ground. “At least this will be easier than the day after I entered that chicken wing contest that griffin held.”

The queen bit her lip as she felt a movement deep within her.

***

Verdant was shocked awake by the sound of a loud and nearby tearing noise come from behind him. Quickly looking behind, he saw the sack he was on was tearing down the middle.

“Oh shit!” the tiny pony screamed as he scrambled away. He hopped onto a higher egg sack just as the first had split open, sending the yolk rolling downward, out of the ovary.

“Looks like exit day’s finally here.” Verdant gasped as he climbed higher, crawling up to the highest sack before activating his com. “Come in, Kettle. Your Porridge is going to be shipped out later today. I hope you’re ready for it.”

***

“The first egg will be coming out soon; it just needs to form its shell.” Chrysalis groaned as she felt it making its way through her just as Verdant’s transmission came through for PB. “Get ready to grab it once it’s laid.”

“Roger that,” the smaller changeling replied to the two as she drew closer to Chrysalis’ plump rear. After a few minutes passed, PB heard Chrysalis start to groan louder and saw the cloaca slowly start to open, revealing the familiar shape of a changeling egg slowly making its way out of the queen.

PB grabbed a hold of the egg just as it finished being squeezed out, quickly setting it aside. “That’s the first egg down, your majesty.”

“One down,” Chrysalis bit down on her lip one more. “Several hundred to go…”

***

Hours passed for the small steed as he witnessed the egg sacks tear open one by one before exiting the ovary. Eventually, the final sack tore open and the yolk was expelled.

“Time to make my move,” Verdant said as he leapt from the empty sack of flesh, exiting the ovary.

The speck of a stallion saw the colossal yolk rolling down into a deeper part of the changeling’s oviduct, rumbling along like a boulder that could flatten Canterlot Castle.

Verdant stayed back from the future egg as he followed, doing what he could to avoid getting caught in the egg’s amniotic fluids or shell.

After trudging through a mile of fleshy tube, a distant rumble reached the pony’s ears. Looking behind in the distance, he saw the terrifying sight of another yolk coming towards him.

“Oh shit!” Verdant screeched at the sight. I forgot her other ovary!

Verdant bolted forth, trying to possibly outrun the oversized orb. When he saw the titanic yolk was gaining on him, an idea came to the panicking pony.

“Faust be with me!” Verdant clenched his tech before taking a hop and landing on his back. Without the gravity charm in the suit’s hooves touching the fleshy floor, gravity and the changeling queen’s squatting position allowed him to accelerate as he slid down the oviduct. The giant yolk seemed to vanish from sight before he slid into the shelling gland, making the stallion crash face first into the shell of a freshly formed egg.

Verdant groaned and pulling his head from the smooth surface, trying to regain his bearing. Just as he managed to make his vision stable again, the shell gland started to tighten around the egg, pushing it and its passenger downwards into the vaginal canal.

“Kettle, come in!” Verdant exclaimed as Chrysalis’ vaginal muscles prepared to expel the egg. “Your Porridge delivery is at the back door!”

With a groan from the colossal queen, Verdant and the egg were squeezed out of her cloaca, where they landed in the waiting hooves of PB.

Looking up at his comrade, Verdant saw the changeling give him a quick wink. He nodded in response before running along the egg’s surface and crawling into one of PB’s leg holes.

“Calling Papa Bear.” Verdant gave a sigh of relief as he hid in PB’s hole. “Mission accomplished.”

***

Two weeks had passed since Verdant’s mission deep into changeling territory had ended and the shamrock stallion was happily humming to himself as he made the trot home from his early morning grocery trip.

Pushing open the door of his apartment, he was greeted by his chicken taking her place upon his head as he made his way to the kitchen, where a charcoal unicorn stallion and a grey earth pony mare were waiting for him. Barrier rested comfortably in a chair while the mare was cooking something on his stove.

“Hello, Mr. Barrier. Mrs. Melody.” Verdant happily nodded as he placed his saddlebags on the floor. “What brings you—”

“Business as usual, Agent Shamrock.” Barrier interrupted before looking over his shoulder. “You can drop the disguise now.”

“Right,” the mare replied without looking over her shoulder before green flames washed over her, revealing a familiar changeling.

“At any rate, Agent Shamrock,” Barrier leaned back in his chair as Verdant took a seat across from him. “We’re here to provide thanks for your aid in Operation: Eat Your Greens.”

“I still wish you didn’t pick that name.” Verdant gave the unicorn a half-lidded glare, which Barrier replied to with a smirk.

“At any rate, while we can’t grant you anything official, due to the nature of this mission, we do have a reward for you.” Barrier’s horn flared for a moment before a briefcase popped into existence, startling Pizza and making her fly away.

With another flaring of his horn, the clips on the case opened up, revealing a rather large collection of coins.

“Here are two million bits in five-hundred non-sequential coins, for a total of four thousand.” Barrier then closed the briefcase and slid it over to the stunned stallion. “Feel free to keep the briefcase. I got it cheap.”

“Thank you, sir…” Verdant happily nodded and took the case. With that done, he then looked past Barrier to the changeling at his stove. “But why did you bring Peanut Butter here?”

“I wanted to thank you personally since what you did likely saved a bunch of changeling lives.” She flashed Verdant a fanged grin. “So I had Barrier knock me out and bring me here so I could cook some breakfast for us.”

“Ah, thank you, Peanut Butter. You didn’t have to do this.” Verdant smiled and leaned over to the stallion across from him. “Does this mean I blew your real name to her?”

“Nah, she already knew mine.” Barrier dismissively waved and leaned back. “She just called me Agent Arcane to be professional. Still, she doesn’t know your name for your potential safety.”

“Alright, I’ll remember that.” Verdant fell back into his chair as a ding came from the stove.

“All done!” ‘Peanut Butter’ happily called out as she put some green food on three plates and placed them on the table with her magic before taking a seat. “Alright guys, let’s dig in!”

As she happily dug into her food, Verdant and Barrier could only stare at it.

“Peanut Butter,” Verdant tilted his head to the side as he closely examined what was on his plate. “What is this?”

“An omelet. Why do you ask?” She replied as she continued to wolf down her serving.

“But why is it green?”

“Well duh, all changeling eggs are green,” PB casually answered, not bothering to look away from her meal.

“Wait, you made these out of Chrysalis’ eggs?!” Verdant and Barrier pulled back in their chairs in shock.

“Well of course,” PB pulled back as she finally looked at the stunned pair. “I did say her eggs would only be good for omelets, didn’t I?”

Author's Notes:

Hey folks. Happy Vore Day. If you're somewhat confused by the continuity of this thing and who Barrier is, this is set in the same universe as A Pony Displaced,which you can find on the NoLongersober account. It's well worth a read. All fics set in that universe will have an (APD) in the titles, while all stories set in the Another Path/Homeward universe will have an (AP) in the title.

Since this is a special chapter with new characters, we get another pic provided by yours truly.

Next time, we return to the storyline of Celestia and her "Magic Talking Stomach" in A Royal Meal III: Journey's Rear End.

Until that chapter comes out, we will have a poll about what will come after that. What will you choose?

A First Time for Everything (AP): We see the first time Verdant got eaten the day after he got his cutie mark.
Swift Snort (AP): In the same timeline, we see one of the misadventures poor Verdant got tangled up in when he was training on Butterfly Island.
The Quickest Way to a Mare's Heart... (APD): Verdant and Twilight go to the Crystal Empire for a nice time, only for the former to end up in sticky situation with a certain pregnant princess.
Grim Prospects: In a world similar to that of the APD: Another Path/Homeward world, Barrier and his cadets are stuck on an island where they're attacked by band of griffins, lead by the dreaded Brigadier Grimhilde LeGrande.
A Mid-Summer Night's Tasty Dream: Verdant volunteers for a long range teleportation experiment, only to end up tiny and in the cabin of Fluttershy, who thinks she's having a very nice/private dream.

Cast your votes in the comments and I'll see you next time.

P.S.
Hey guys, I now need a new editor for this story since the content of this one made my anonymous editor quit. If you're interested in the position, send me a direct message. You must have a discord account for the position.

A Royal Meal III - Journey's Rear End

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In a bright sunny field on a warm summer day, Verdant Range was happily running through the fresh grass and sending dandelion fluff flying when the green stallion saw a large lake coming up in front of him.

“Cannonball!” the excited stallion screamed before leaping into the air and making a mighty splash as he struck the water.

When he resurfaced, the giddy stallion splashed about before falling into a slow and pleasant backstroke.

“Enjoying your swim, Verdant?” a voice came from the bank. Turning his head, he saw the form of Princess Luna sitting by the lake’s edge.

“Good evening, Princess.” Verdant gave the alicorn a wave as he floated along. “I was kinda expecting to see you in my dreams a lot sooner.”

“And I apologise for that, my good stallion.” Luna dipped her hoof in the cool water, twirling it about while avoiding the stallion’s eyes. “Unfortunately, a number of theatres mistook a film about an ice princess with a horror film of the same name, so I’ve had to work overtime to cure those nightmares.”

“Meanwhile, my nightmares have only been while I’m awake since I’VE SPENT THE LAST THREE MONTHS INSIDE YOUR SISTER’S STOMACH!” Verdant shouted and angrily swatted at the water. “I’m… I’m sorry about that, Princess. I shouldn’t-”

“Do not apologise, Verdant.” The princess held up a hoof, silencing the shamrock stallion. “It’s partly my fault you’re in the predicament and Raven and I are working on ways to free you from the depths of my sister’s innards.”

“Hope these plans work, your highness.” Verdant doggy paddled towards the lake’s edge. “I’ve been trying to get out of her since day one and I’ve got nothing.”

“Rest assured, we will try to free you every night until you are out.” Luna held a hoof out for Verdant, which he graciously accepted before she pulled him from the water.

“And?” Verdant tilted his head, a knowing eyebrow cocked as he looked into the taller mare’s eyes.

After a moment, Luna gave a tired sigh. “And we shall see to it that you receive a fair amount from workhorse compensation, along with your time within counting as work hours.

“Thank you, princess.” Verdant grinned as he gave Luna a sweeping bow. As he stood back up, the world around them started to shake all around them.

“I assume that’s Celestia waking up, which means you’ll wake shortly,” Luna said as the bright blue sky started to turn a fleshy pink.

“Most likely.” Verdant saw the ground the two stood on slowly started to break away and fall into the now green lake. “Hopefully I’ll see you later, Princess.”

“Mark my words, you shall be freed, my little pony.” Luna flew up just before the ground broke away, sending Verdant falling into the lake of stomach juices. “Plan A goes into effect now!”

In a flash of light, Luna vanished as the skies became the fleshy walls that matched his real current home.

~~~Plan A~~~

Luna eyes shot open just before she darted out of her bed chambers. As she trotted down the palace hallway, Raven spotted her and quick dashed up to her side.

“Did it work, Princess?” Raven struggled to keep pace with the alicorn as she they towards the palace dining room.

“Yes, Raven. We were able to contact him in his dreams. Now all we have to do is get him out and we can put this nightmare behind us.” Luna grinned as they came to the dining room. With a flash of her horn, the doors were tossed open, a loud boom echoing through the halls when they struck the walls.

“That would be wonderful,” Raven happily sighed as Luna took a seat at the magnificent table. “No more nightmares of a pony being digested. No more squashing rumors about Princess Celestia’s ‘Magic Talking Stomach’.”

“And I already have a plan to get that stallion out,” Luna grinned as the doors on the far side of the room started to slowly open. “Show time,” the alicorn of the night whispered as her sister slowly dragged herself into the room.

“G’morning, Luna,” Celestia yawned as her belly swayed heavily before she took a seat at the table. “How are things by you?”

“Quite well, dear sister.” Luna grinned between taking sips of her mimosa. “I was just thinking of something to do later tonight.”

“Oh?” Celestia’s eyebrow rose as her horn lit, lifting a mouth full of pancake up to her mouth. “Do tell,” she asked just before taking a bite.

“Well, I was thinking we have a night of watching movies and enjoying a wide assortment of spirits.” Luna said before having a bite of fresh pineapple.

“Hmm… that does sound fun…” Celestia rubbed a hoof against her chin. “But won’t that mean you’ll miss night court?”

“Worry not, Sister.” Luna laughed and casually waved. “I already had Raven schedule a night clear so we can have some sisterly fun. What do you say?”

“Alright, that sounds like a wonderful plan.” The princess of the day nodded before looking down at her belly. “What about you, Stomach? What do you think of it?”

“As long as you don’t lay on me and have some popcorn, I’m totally in favor of this.” Verdant’s voice came from the alicorn’s round belly, making the two alicorns grin, though for very for different reasons.

“Phase one is now complete,” Luna whispered to Raven, smiling before downing her drink.

***

The day seemed to zoom by for the excited sisters as the two settled onto some large cushions in Celestia’s bed chamber. A projector had been set up between the pair with a screen across the room.

“This feels so nice,” Celestia hummed as she leaned back into one of the fluffy pillows. “So Luna, what’s the first film on tonight’s agenda?”

“Well Celestia, I thought it would be a good idea to see what movies are popular with our ponies these days, so I decided to make it a superhero movie marathon tonight.”

“Ooh! I’d love to see some of those new superhero movies.” Celestia grinned like a foal in a candy store as she clapped her hooves together. “Can we start with that new Pony Rangers movie?”

“Hold on, dear sister,” Luna’s horn flared to life before a stack of film canisters and a top hat appeared in between them. “I’ve set up a random draw for the films, along with a drinking game to go with each film to make things more fun.”

“Very nice, Luna.” Celestia grinned as she pulled the hat towards in her her golden magical aura. The magic briefly fished around inside the hat before pulling out a small piece of paper. She brought the slip up to her face, making expression fall like an airship made of lead. “Batmare V Aquamare: Prawn of Justice - Supreme Edition.” Celestia sighed before she tossed the paper at Luna.

“Don’t forget we’ve also got a drinking game to go with this film, Sister.” Luna’s magic picked up the paper, allowing her to closely examine it. “Take a shot ever time someone says ‘Marshall’.” She recited before she set the paper down.

“Well, let’s get this movie going.” Celestia groaned as she leaned back into her pillows. “What do we have for drinks tonight?”

“I thought we’d start with something small… a few bottle of finely aged wine from the Bianco Vineyard.” Luna levitated a trio of wine bottles and a set of shot glasses in between the two of them. “After that, I thought we’d move on to this bottle of Pepper Belle’s spiced rum.” The second bottle of liquor appeared in a flash next to the wine.

“Alright, sounds good,” the frown on Celestia’s face quickly turned into a smile as her horn started to glow once more, setting the film on the projector. “Let’s go!”

An hour into the film, the three wine bottles were completely drained. Luna was laughing at a scene in the movie with a slight blush upon her face while Celestia looked in perplexment at the empty bottle.

“I don’t get it,” Celestia rubbed a hoof against her chin. “I had a ton of wine, but I barely feel anything.”

Down in the solar alicorn’s stomach, Verdant was struggling to keep himself from drowning. The level of wine had completely covered him, causing him to drink a good deal of the wine himself. The stallion felt the world spin around him, followed by the level of wine being lowered to his neck.

“Hey brother, pour the wine!” Verdant drunkenly sang as he leaned against the stomach’s wall.

“Sorry, MTS, but we’re all out,” Celestia replied as her magic uncapped the first of the rum bottles. “Still, got something a little stronger than that.”

“Shishter,” Luna leaned into Celestia’s side as she slurred. “I love you.”

“D’aww, I love you too, Luna.” The elder mare poured a round for herself and Luna just as another cry of ‘Marshall’ came from the film. “Bottoms up!”

***

Luna groaned as wakefulness slowly came to her. Her head felt like it was being split apart with a giant battleaxe as the chirping of birds was like cannon fire in her sensitive ears.

The only comfort was rubbing her face against the soft pillow her head rested upon. After a few moments of savoring the softness, she noticed some things that felt odd. The pillow seemed to have a layer of fuzz over its surface.

That alone would not seem too odd, but the warmth that emanated from it combined with that certainly did.

As wakefulness slowly started to let her mind to overcome the haziness of sleep, she noticed an odd taste in her mouth. She had trouble placing it. The closest she could recall was a seafood buffet that she had sampled when having a meal with the griffin ambassador.

Luna pushed those thoughts aside as she pressed her head harder against the pillow. Bah! I shouldn’t worry about that. Tis Celestia’s time of day to handle. Hopefully the liquor was enough to make her sick enough to bring that stallion back up.

The night princess’ thoughts were halted when she noticed her pressing into the pillow felt strange. Rather than the compression of laying her head upon a pillow filled with fine down, what she laid upon seemed to squish underneath her.

Luna slowly pulled away and opened her eyes. The only light in the room was the smoldering embers in the nearby fireplace.

As her eyes adjusted to the darkness, she was horrified to find where she was. What she thought was a pillow was Celestia’s soft belly, with the younger alicorn resting in between her sister’s thick legs.

“No…” Luna whispered as all the color in her face drained away in a flash. “We couldn’t have…”

“You did,” Verdant’s voice came from the slumbering Celestia’s swollen stomach. “When you said you loved each other, you really meant it.”

“Mother of Zacherle…” the pale blue on Luna’s face was quickly overtaken by a sickly green.

“Say, with me in here, would you say that counts as a threesome?” Verdant asked just as Luna had stumbled out of the bed and bolted away to the bathroom.

The sound of violent retching from that royal water closet had awoken Princess Celestia. The princess of the day rose with a stretch and a yawn before turning her focus to the source of the sound. “Oh my. Sounds like Luna can’t hold her liquor as well as me.”

“Not that surprising really, considering how tall you are.” Verdant chipped in as Celestia clambered out of bed.

“Hmm…” Celestia hummed as she noticed an odd taste in her mouth and feeling in her hindlegs. “Stomach, did Luna and I invite a stallion to bed last night? It kinda feels like it.” She then tittered before she started to stretch. “Honestly, it’s just been a very long time since I last had a stallion inside me.”

Verdant merely rolled his eyes at the princess’s ironic words.

***

“Alright,” Luna sat at a seat in the dreamscape that took the form of a fancy prench restaurant, rubbing her temples as she talked. “Plan A had some problems.”

“Yeah,” Verdant took a sip from his dream strawberry milkshake. “Who could have possibly foreseen that the single biggest mare in the world could handle more alcohol than a smaller pony?” he said with jovial sarcasm. “Maybe next time, you should run the plan by me first. That way, we could possibly find some holes in it.”

“Very well,” Luna sighed as she sipped from a cup of non-existent coffee. “Well, I have Plan B set to go, and it’s something much less likely to fail.”

“I’m all ears, Princess.” Verdant gave a grin as he leaned back in his chair. “What’s the plan?”

“Tis quite simple, my little pony.” A cocky smile came from Luna as she thrust a foreleg into the air. “I will have place some laxatives in Celestia’s food. As long as you don’t eat the pills, you should be out faster than you could say ‘Chocolate Waterfall’.”

“I’ve heard of that brand. Heard they work pretty well.” Verdant kicked up his hindlegs and set them on the table. “Can’t wait to see how this fails,” the verdant pony muttered as Luna slipped out of her seat.

“PLAN B SHALL COMMENCE IMMEDIATELY!” Luna bellowed in the Royal Canterlot voice, blasting the earth pony from his seat and sending him tumbling down the dreamy street.

~~~Plan B~~~

Celestia yawned as she strolled into the dining hall, meeting seeing Luna with a warm smile on her face.

“Good morning, Sister!” Luna called out with a wave as Celestia took a seat at her side. “I have had a special breakfast prepared for you today.”

“Do tell, Luna,” Celestia gave Luna a tender smile as she patted her belly. “I’m sure I and my stomach will enjoy whatever surprise you have for us. Right, Stomach?”

“Of course I will,” Verdant replied as Celestia unwittingly patted his head.

“So, what’s the surprise, Luna?” Celestia lightly bounced in her chair, causing the wooden seat to creak under the ton of alicorn.

“I have prepared pancakes with chocolate candies mixed in, just for you.” Luna’s horn gently glowed as a silver platter with a stack of fresh, steaming pancakes appear in from the alabaster mare.

“Hmm…” Celestia leaned in close the delicious looking breakfast, savoring the scent of the freshly cooked treat and licking her lips. “Thank you, Luna. Would you like to have some as well?”

“No thank you, Sister,” Luna replied before faking a yawn. “I would normally love to, but I think I’ll just have a few strips of hay bacon before going to bed. Still, I hope you enjoy the pancakes.”

“Oh I promise you, Luna. There’s no way I wouldn’t.” Celestia grinned widely behind she began to dig in, saving the soft texture of the the pancake contrasting the crunch of the “candies”.

As Celestia indulged in her breakfast, Luna smirked as she watched mouthful after mouthful was sent down her sister’s throat. While the older sister was devouring her meal with wild abandon, Luna quietly slipped away, a few strips of hay bacon floating along in her magical aura.

***

Luna grinned as she sat upon the throne for Night Court, Raven coming up to her side. “So, what’s on the agenda for tonight, Raven? Another slow night?”

“I’m afraid not, Princess,” Raven adjusted her spectacles as she examined our clipboard. “We actually have a really busy night ahead of us.”

“That’s… appreciated but odd.” Luna’s eyebrow quirked as she gazed at her assistant. “Is there a reason for the surprise influx?”

“Yes, actually. Apparently, Celestia had to postpone all her meetings for today due to a sudden bout of diarrhea.”

“Of course,” Luna sighed as she rubbed her rubbed the sides of her forehead. “What of the status of Verdant?”

“Still stuck, your highness.”

“Fantastic,” Luna grumbled and slouched in the throne. “Well, at least I have some ponies to distract me from this failure. How many do I have to tend to tonight?”

“Let’s see,” Raven’s eyes rapidly darted across her clipboard, tallying up the pony names. “One hundred and sixty-four.”

“I…What?!” Luna squeaked in surprised before groaning and laying back in her seat. “I have only myself to blame for this. Prepare a pot of coffee, Raven. This shall be a long night.”

***

“Well, that was a total bust,” Verdant said as he ducked for cover behind a concrete slab in his dreamscape, now a war torn city with dark skies and ruined buildings.

“Indeed, but Plan C shall be the one I know will set you free!” Luna peeked over the cover, spotting armored pegasi with strange, cannon-like devices at their sides and mechanical scorpion tails. The princess ducked back down to avoid a hail of projectiles that they launched at her.

“Hopefully, it’s not something that involves your sister’s butt,” Verdant shouted as he pulled what Luna thought was a silver apple from his saddlebags. The stallion quickly pulled the stem out with his teeth and tossed the apple into the crowd, where it exploded into a massive ball of fire. “It’s the least preferred way to get out.”

“No worries, my little pony. Our plan will not involve her rear at all!” Luna called out just as one of the pegasi leapt over the barricade and tried to jam its stinger into the princess’ face. The alicorn just barely managed to duck her head to the side before blasting the pegasus away.

“Well, how are you gonna get me out this time?” Verdant pulled out a miniature cannon similar to the ones the pegasi had, quickly rising over the cover and firing at the oncoming enemies.

“We’ll show her terrible movies, the worst we can find.” Luna winced as a shot from the enemy knocked her crown from her head.

Verdant smirked as he took down another pegasus. “Will she have to sit and watch them all as you monitor her mind?”

“Well, we’ll have her watch this in hopes of making her sick.” Luna leapt away from the cover just as another pegasus landed where she was just an instant before. With a deft blast of magic, the pegasus was sent hurtling into the deep grey skies. “The movies we shall show her will be so disgusting that she will be retching in a matter of moments.”

“Well, good luck with that.” Verdant’s eyes rolled as he ducked back behind his cover, reloading his weapon.

“Plan C is a go!” Luna stood proudly as she shouted, only for the pegasus forces to turn her to swiss cheese a moment later.

~~~Plan C~~~

“I’m glad you’ve set up another movie marathon for us, Luna.” Celestia grinned as she laid down on her plush bedroom carpet. “To be honest, after all we drank, I can’t really remember what happened that night.”

“I wish I did,” Luna grumbled as she set up the projector, putting a film reel with the words, ‘Two Mares, One Cup’ into the machine.

“Hey, remember our agreement, Celestia?” Verdant called out, making the alabaster alicorn quickly move into a sitting position.

“Sorry, MTS. It slipped my mind.” Celestia blushed as Luna took her place at her side. With a quick swatting of her hoof, the film had started to play.

This is it! This plan is foolproof! Luna grinned as her sister draped a wing over her back. There’s no way she won’t retch from these films!

“Oh, hey! I remember this film,” Celestia giddily said, much to Luna’s horror. The look on the lunar princess’ face fell like as lead balloon as Celestia was completely unaffected by the disgusting debauchery onscreen. “Fancy Pants showed me this at a party of his a few years ago.”

Damnation! What will it take to make her sick?! Luna rubbed her chin in frustrated confusion. Perhaps the Equine Centipede movies will be enough.

***

Celestia was laughing her flank off at the sights unfolding on screen, barely able to wolf down more of her popcorn. “Did you see those effects?! Oh dear Faust, who got paid for such shoddy work?” The bag of popcorn that floated in her magical aura slowly moved its way under Luna’s nose. “Want some, sis?”

“No thank you,” Luna replied as she gently pushed the bag back. While Celestia couldn’t see it due to the darkness of the room and her eyes being locked onto the screen, the night princess’s coat was turning from a deep blue to a sickly green.

What depraved artists has Equestria birthed in our absence? What vile creatures could find this sort of filth to be entertaining?

A loud bought of laughter came from the mare at Luna’s side as she slapped her hindleg in her delight. “You are ze meedle piece! Ahahaahah!”

What has this world come to? Luna rolled her eyes before she slapped a fore hoof against her face. Plan C is officially a bust.

***

“Verdant, I have OH DEAR FAUST!” Luna covered her eyes as she entered the dreamscape once more, finding Verdant in a red smoking jacket in a large bed, cuddled by her sister on his right and a duplicate of herself on his left.

“Well, um…” Verdant blushed and tried to look away from the now fuming alicorn. “Let’s be honest, this is not the worst thing you’ve seen ponies do in dreams with you or your sister.”

The princess of the night glared daggers at him before her expression slowly started to soften.

“Sadly, that’s very, very true,” Luna said with a shudder before approaching the bed. “At any rate, we have another plan set to go. This will surely make my sister throw you back up.”

“Are you going to give her some ipecac?” Verdant asked as the alabaster alicorn nuzzled against her neck.

“No, we have decided not to attempt poisoning her anymore. Not after last time.” Luna laid back as she faced the lounging stallion. “Instead, we shall be taking her to a fair. She will indulge in a fair amount of snacks and treats before we take her on an intense ride, thus you shall finally be ejected.”

Verdant kept from making eye contact with Luna has her doppleganger draped a wing over him. “I’m not so sure about this, Princess,” Verdant softly replied as the dream figures drew closer, making him the middle of an alicorn sandwich. “I’ve tried to escape that way a bunch of times before. What makes you so certain it’ll work?”

“Oh ho ho, my little pony of little faith, we have seen how Celestia handles such rides before,” Luna grinned wickedly and she rubbed her hooves together. “She may put on a brave face, but her with a belly full of snacks and a ride upon the fairgrounds creates a disgusting cascade the likes of which very few have ever seen and fewer wish they had.”

“Alrighty,” Verdant said with a sigh as a white wing stretched across Luna’s duplicate. “Here’s hoping this plan works, Princess.”

“Rest assured, it will,” Luna giddily said as she hopped off the bed. “Now, I shall leave you to continue whatever perverted fantasies you may have. Farewell!”

In a flash of azure light, Luna had vanished without a trace, likely off to aid another pony in their dreams.

“Hmm… Should I have told Luna she might want to bring a rain slicker for that?” Verdant became to rub his chin just before the mares at his side both started to nibble upon his ears. “Mmm, she’ll be fine. Meanwhile,” he brought his forelegs to the two’s backs, drawing them ever closer, “I’m about to have the best night ever.”

~~~Plan D~~~

“This is the worst day ever!” Verdant quietly grumbled to himself, making sure neither the sun princess nor the ponies outside heard anything.

Deep within Celestia’s stomach, Verdant was sitting in a massive slush that was once, from what he could tell, popcorn, soda, cotton candy, chocolate covered hay bacon strips, corn dogs, and a small salad with a light dressing.

The stallion sighed as he sat in the sickening stew, having his head being drenched as Celestia chugged down her family sized big gulp full of diet orange soda.

“Either this plan works flawlessly, or Luna’d better suffer for this,” Verdant muttered as another glob of former corndog landed upon his face.

***

Celestia and Luna were having a blast as they went about the local fair, playing the games, seeing the sights and, especially in Celestia’s case, partaking in the delightful carnival food.

“Is this not a most excellent way to spend our day off, Celestia?” Luna merrily said as she looked up to her big sister, finishing off what had to be her sixth corn dog at the very least.

“It sure is, Luna,” Celestia grinned like a schoolfilly before covering her mouth, suppressing a belch that otherwise would have shattered nearby windows. “Can we go on some rides next? I’d love to play on the bumper cars.”

“Hmm…” Luna raised a hoof to her chin, pretending to be deep in thought while her sister gave her the puppy dog eyes. “Alright, but I get first choice of ride to go on.”

“Sure thing, Luna.” Celestia’s featured quickly morphed back to her usual giddy self. “Pick whichever you’d like.”

“In that case,” Luna’s tone became oddly sinister to Celestia before the younger alicorn’s hoof shot out, pointing directly at the biggest roller coaster in the fair. “I choose this one! The Ultimate Rocket!”

“Oh, I see,” Celestia put on a courageous face, the only signs of fear visible only to Luna. “That sounds lovely, Luna. Let’s go.”

A few minutes passed before the two reached the front of the line. To Luna’s delight, she saw that the seats they would have would be the ones for the very end of the ride, where the gravitational forces would be the most intense.

“Welcome aboard The Ultimate Rocket,” the attendant said as the princesses stepped forward. “Plus keep your hooves inside the…” her words died in her throat as she saw the state of Celestia’s swollen stomach.

“What’s wrong, miss?” Celestia was perplexed as Luna slipped into her seat.

“Um… Princess Celestia…” the attendant was sweating bullets before the towering alicorn. “This ride is not safe for pregnant mares to go on.”

Princess Celestia huffed, trying to keep her temper in check as she took a seat next to Luna. “I’m not pregnant. This,” she gave her belly a jab, shaking the pony within around, “is the result of too much cake.”

While the princesses were being strapped in for the ride, a worrying thought occurred to Verdant.

Wait… what safety restraints do I have? And if the princess throws me up, where the hay will I land?!

A chill of panic went up Verdant’s spine as he felt the ride lurch forward, carrying the ponies on it up a steep incline.

“Luna,” Celestia looked about nervously as the top drew ever closer. “How intense will this ride be?”

“The most intense, my sister!” Luna exclaimed with glee, her face quickly taking on a wide, toothy grin. “This is the greatest roller coaster ponies have ever created, sporting twenty-eight loops and sixty hairpin turns. This shall be a ride will shall never forget!”

Celestia began to sweat profusely as the carriage reached the top, the cars holding at the top for a brief moment before they were rocketed down towards the ground.

“Yes! Yes!” Luna joyfully shouted as they took several sharp turn and went through two loops. “This is the greatest ride ever!”

“Yeah,” Celestia replied weakly and sarcastically as her coat quickly became as green as grass. “Just peachy…”

“What’s the problem, sister?” Luna asked with faux concern. “Can’t handle it?”

“N-no… I…” Celestia’s eyes bulged out as she felt something rushing up her throat. Luna could only look on in horror as her sister failed to look away from her.

***

Luna diligently scrubbed every part of her coat as steaming hot water from the shower washed over.

“So, I guess Plan D was yet another failure,” Raven’s voice called out from outside the princess’ bathroom.

Luna shuddered as she turned off the shower, likely using up all the hot water in the palace. “Verily. We are fortunate that neither the park or the patrons who my sister ‘coated’ decided not to ask for some kind of repayment.” With a brief instance of magic, the water on Luna’s coat quickly evaporated just as she left the bathroom, Raven quickly falling into step behind the steaming alicorn.

“Do you have a Plan E for Verdant’s escape yet?” the unicorn mare asked as she tried to keep pace with the princess, following her out into a palace hallway.

“Yes, I do in fact!” Luna spun around to face her assistant, a mad grin spreading across her face as her right eye twitched. “Plan E is my most brilliant plan yet!”

“W-what’s that, Princess?” Raven swallowed hard as the princess crept closer to her, a midnight blue snout nearly touching her alabaster one.

“First, we shall construct a new cake!” Luna said as her nose bumped into Raven’s making the unicorn nervously back away. “Then, we shall have you hide within the delicious dessert. Once you’re inside, we shall present the cake to my sister. After she swallows you and the cake whole, you will simply grab on to Verdant and teleport the two of you out!” Luna started to cackle madly, not seeing Raven sweating or her pupils becoming the size of pinpricks behind her spectacles.

“Oh… well…” Raven quickly glanced around the hallway, “I… I would be honored to partake in this mission to rescue LOOKADEADBIRD!” she exclaimed and pointed behind the princess of the night.

Luna looked away for an instant at where Raven was pointing, only seeing a long stretch of empty hallway. Before she could spot anything out of the ordinary, the sound of nearby glass shattering reached her ears.

Swiftly looking back, Luna saw that Raven was gone, in her place was a large hole in the window. Gazing out, Luna spotted a white unicorn sporting a few scratches running away as fast as her legs could carry her.

“Coward!” Luna shouted out the broken window before sighing and turning away. “Fine! I’ll go straight to Plan F instead.”

***

In the dreamscape, Verdant was waiting patiently for the princess’ appearance in the middle of a wide park, the lone pony sitting on a swing. Right on time, she appeared in front of him in a flash of blue. The green stallion could immediately tell that something was off about the mare of the night. Her coat was now somewhat frazzled and ruffled while her ethereal mane somehow managed to look wild and tangled.

“Greetings, my little pony,” Luna sported a mad grin as she trotted up Verdant, her eye twitching the whole time. “The time has come for the plan to finally release you!”

“Okay,” Verdant nervously smiled when the princess brought her face right next to his. “W-what’s the plan this time?”

“It’s the greatest plan ever conjured by pony!” Luna shouted in the Royal Canterlot voice, knocking the stallion from the swing and sending him tumbling across the grass. “We shall have Celestia devour humongous quantities in food to push you out of her stomach, forcing you to move through her and finally exit through her bowels! It’s brilliant, brilliant, brilliant I tell you! Genius, I say!”

“B-but, princess!” Verdant scrambled onto his hooves, his voice trembling as he righted himself. “What if I get buried? Or suffocate, or-”

“SILENCE!” Luna bellowed as her twitching eyes glowed with a terrifying white light, the Royal Canterlot Shout launching the shamrock stallion through the the side of a tree. “WE DO NOT NEED THY CONSULTATION! WE SHALT COMMENCE OUR PLAN IMMEDIATELY!”

In a thunderous crack, the princess vanished from the dreamscape, leaving a groaning Verdant to pick himself up.

~~~Plan F~~~

“Luna, do I really need to do this?” Celestia whispered as she took her seat in front of a large table. A large outdoor event was being arranged with several other ponies busily stacking large piles of food on the table.

“But of course, Sister!” Luna from behind her, a large grin gracing her features. “This is a magnificent charity! For every plate of food you finish, more money will be donated to the Paradise Estate Orphanage! If there’s any mare who could raise a ton of funds for the orphans, it’s you!”

“But can’t I just allocate bits to go to the orphanage?” Celestia winced as a bowl that was larger than the average mare full of mashed potatoes was placed on the table, making the metal legs groan. “You know I’m trying to lose weight.”

“But Sister,” Luna mustered the cutest pout she could, dealing a massive blow to Celestia’s resistance. “The poor little orphans wanted to see a show of their princess going through a great trial to win a great prize for them. You don’t want to disappoint the little children, do you?”

“No,” Celestia answered with a sigh. Luna could feel the last of her sister’s resistance crumbling to dust. “Well, I might as well get this over with.”

“Excellent!” the princess of the night flew into the air, facing the crowd. “Citizens of Equestria, are you ready to see your princess put her waistline on the line to help out the little foals of Paradise Estate?”

A roar of cheers and applause echoed forth from the crowd, many eager to watch the coming display.”

“Then let the gorging begin!”

***

Within the stomach, Verdant had braced himself for the upcoming onslaught. The small stallion had ducked and covered, keeping his snout close the the lower valve.

Please, Faust. I beg that Luna’s plan works and gets me out of here quickly.

Verdant shuddered as he felt something plopping down onto his back. From the texture and smell, the substance was likely mashed potatoes.

After a few moments, far more food began to rain down upon him. At first it wasn’t so bad, but now the weight and pressure was becoming quite the strain on him. It was only because of how he had covered his head that he was even able to breathe, just barely.

The princess’s stomach gave several hard clenches around Verdant and the pile that was weighing down upon him. With a harder clench, Verdant’s snout was pushed through the valve, slipping into her duodenum.

More and more food flooded into the royal belly until the pressure started to push the stallion further into the princess’s body.

***

Luna was relaxing happily in her bedroom, sipping a mimosa through a crazy straw.

For the first time in a while, the princess of the night was content. She had gotten confirmation that Verdant was no longer in Celestia’s stomach and if things went according to plan, he would finally be out some time tonight if he wasn’t already.

In a burst of bright light, Celestia had appeared at the night princess’ side. “Good evening, Luna. How are you doing?”

“Most splendidly, my dear sister,” Luna cheerfully replied as she set her drink aside. “And how are you this fine evening?”

“Eh, could be worse,” Celestia answered with a shrug as she sat down. “Honestly, the worst thing I can really complain about right now’s this terrible case of constipation I have.”

“T.M.I., Sister…” the dark alicorn voice slowly died in her throat as she process her sister’s words. “Oh dear…”

“Eh, it’s not too terrible,” Celestia leaned Luna’s bed as she flippantly replied. “I’m sure it will pass. It’s just a bit uncomfortable when you have this and need to spend hours on the throne.”

“Y-yes. Indeed.” Luna swallowed as her coat quickly started to match her sister’s. Maybe… Maybe it’s not as bad as I think.

***

With an azure flash, Luna appeared in Verdant’s dreamscape once more, now taking the form of an ancient stone temple. The princess tried to put on a brave face as she searched for the missing stallion.

After a few moments of search, she had found the gardener was wrapped up in a giant, purple cobra creature’s coils; the intimidating serpent gave the stallion a crushing squeeze.

“Greetings, Verdant,” Luna galloped up to the squished stallion. “How are you?”

“Eh, good news, bad news,” the emerald pony calmly wheezed as the snake gave him another tight squeeze. “The good news is after several months, I’ve finally seen the light of day again.

“The bad news is that I had to see it through your sister’s tail hole!” Verdant’s voice suddenly shifted to a furious bellow as he glared daggers at the alicorn.

Luna winced at the stallion’s shout. “My apologies, Verdant. I will do what I can to think of way to get you out as soon as possible.

“Hopefully,” Verdant pouted as he looked away. “You do not want to know what I’m feeling all around me right now.”

A tinge of green came to Luna’s face at the mental image of Verdant’s current conditions.

“Well, rest assured; I shall think of ways to get you out throughout the night!”

***

Dawn had just broke and Luna was doing what she had been doing for the past hour and a half; staring at a blank piece of parchment.

“This is unbelievable,” Luna grumbled, rubbing her temples with a huff. “How could I not think of a way to get that stallion through the last leg of his journey?”

A pair of loud knocks came from the princess’ bedroom door.

“Luna?” the voice of her elder sister came from behind the thick entryway. “Would you like to come to breakfast?”

“Oh!” Celestia’s voiced startled the blue mare, knocking her from her chair. As she straightened herself out, she saw that the sun had been raised while she had been trying to plot. “Yes! Coming, Celestia.”

Luna quickly adjusting her vestments before opening the door just a smidge and slipping out through the narrow gap.

“How are you this fine morning, Celestia?” Luna inquired, trying to sound perky while masking how tired she truly was.

“Same old, same old,” Celestia replied as the two started to trot down the hall. “Raven’s recovering nicely. But other than that, it’s pretty much-”

The elder mare was silenced as a crackle of magic was heard above her. Looking up, she saw a letter with Twilight Sparkle’s seal upon it.

With an interested hum, Celestia unfurled the letter and began to read aloud. “Dear Princess Celestia. We had quite the strange anomaly this morning. A large trio of dragonesses suddenly appeared in Ponyville, causing a bit of a panic. They said they were from another dimension before heading off to Canterlot, saying she wished to speak to a princess whose name she recognized.

“I hope things go well for everypony in Canterlot with these three. Signed, Twilight Sparkle.”

“This could be quite the challenge, sister,” Luna said as she put hoof on her sister’s shoulder.

“Oh, don’t worry. I’m pretty sure we can handle any dragons that show up here.” Celestia smirked as her horn began glowing with a golden radiance. In an instant, the two sisters were now standing in the royal gardens. “Now we just have to wait until they-”

A thunderous boom drowned out Celestia’s words and shook the mountainside. Looking upward, the duo very quickly saw the dragons that Twilight mentioned had arrived, though they were not quite what the two were expecting.

Instead of three separate dragonesses, they appeared to be a single green dragon body with three heads.

The three-headed creature was absolutely massive. The solar alicorn saw that a single toenail from them was larger than her. The three of them were taller than the highest tower of the palace, putting them over eighty feet in height.

“So, this is what Canterlot looked like before the mega spells dropped,” the leftmost head of the dragoness said with a huff. While she tried to whisper, she was still loud enough to shake windows.

“Don’t be so rude, Jade,” the right head gave the left a chiding glare. “This is a pretty nice city. It’s really colorful.”

“Yeah, enough to make my eyes want to bleed, Peri,” Jade grumbled as the right hand jabbed a talon into Peri’s snout.

“Quite down, both of you,” the central head grumbled with authority before their wings smacked Peri and Jade on the backs of their heads. “We need the princesses help to get back home and I don’t want you two messing things up for us. Understood?”

“Yes, Esmeralda,” the two heads looked away sheepishly.

“Well then,” Luna said as she looked up at the bizarre trio. “Shall we go fly up and speak to them, sister?”

Celestia could only stare up in silent shock at the massive sight that stood before her.

“Sister?” Luna’s eyebrow quirked up at she stared at her sister standing still as a statue. Before she could say another word, she heard a strange sound coming from behind her; a strange mix of a plop and a thud.

“Oh! Um…” Celestia snapped from her stupor, her face redder than the grandest ruby Luna had ever laid eyes on. “Sorry, Luna. It’s just seeing our new guests startled me so much… um… it cured my constipation…”

“Urgh… tell me about it…” a voice came from behind the alicorn pair. Turning around, they saw Verdant Range, looking disgusted as he was covered in what was once Celestia’s meals.

“Verdant Range!” Celestia grinned at the sight of the once missing pony, only for it quickly fade away at what he was covered in. “Oh my me, I’m so sorry! I didn’t know anypony was behind me when I… lost control. Rest assured, I will compensate you this and ask for you not mention this to anypony.”

“No worries, your highness,” Verdant grimaced as he tried to shake off some of the vile mess that was stuck to him. “I never want to talk about this ever again.

As while Verdant and Celestia looked disgusted at the sight of the stallion, Luna looked on with triumphant delight.

This is fantastic! Verdant has finally been freed and we can finally move on from this gross nightmare!

“By the way, Verdant,” Celestia raised a hoof to her chin, “where have you been these last three months? You were missing for quite a while.”

Oh, poop… Luna thought as she realized she forgot to make a cover story for the shamrock stallion.

“Did… did my paperwork get lost?” Verdant tilted his head in confusion. “I could have sworn I filed the the paperwork for a temporary transfer months ago.”

“Oh, I guess it must have gotten lost somewhere.” Celestia gave a shrug before she started to slowly trot away. “Well, I suggest you take a long, hot shower and take the next couple days off. Meanwhile…” Celestia attempted to move her hind legs, only to wince in pain. “I’m gonna find some aspirin and something to sit on.”

The princess of the sun’s ivory horn started to glow once more as she muttered. “Sweet Faust, it feels like I’ve given birth.” She then vanished in a golden flash.

“Well, I’m impressed, young stallion.” Luna offered Verdant a sly grin. “I never knew you could be such a skilled liar.”

“When you grow up with six sisters, you learn some skills to get you out of hot water,” Verdant replied, still trying to scrape some of Celestia’s waste off him.

“Well, at any rate, we can finally put this disaster to rest,” Luna sighed relief and straightened her back. “Head for the staff showers, Verdant. Once my sister has returned and we’ve dealt with this… these dragons, I shall handle the paperwork for your compensation.”

“Thank you, Princess Luna,” Verdant said with a bow before he started to trot away. “One thing’s for certain, I hope I never have something like that happen to me ever again.”

The Quickest Way to a Mare's Heart... (APD)

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It was a bright and beautiful day in the Crystal Empire as a pair of ponies disembarked from a crystalline train. They were Twilight Sparkle, heroine of Equestria and her boyfriend, an earth pony named Verdant Range.

“I can’t wait to see Shiny and Cadance again,” Twilight Sparkle said with a wide grin on her face as she trotted along the city streets. “It’s been so long since we were last here!”

“Well, it’s been a long three months, for sure,” Verdant replied as he tried to keep up with the excited unicorn. “Feels longer when you have to spend a chunk of time in a crazy bug lady,” the shamrock stallion muttered and shuddered.

“What was that, Verdant?” Twilight looked back that the stallion.

“Just wondering if Cadance and Shining Armor will like my recipe for sweet and sour stir fry,” Verdant quickly answered to cover his slip.

“Oh, I know they will, Verdant.” Twilight gave the earth pony a nuzzle which he quickly returned.

“Thanks, Twilight.” Verdant smile before he and Twilight shared a quick kiss. “I hope Spike doesn’t mind sitting for Pizza and Owlowiscious while we’re here.”

“Well,” Twilight lightly chuckled as they walked along. “Since you left him with a pile of gems that was bigger than he was and gem filled pancakes in the fridge, I’d say the worst thing he’d have to deal with might be a tummy ache.”

“Alright, and soon we’ll be able to have a nice quiet night together,” Verdant leaned closer to the violet unicorn. “Just you, me and a… what the hay?”

“Hmm?” Twilight looked over to where Verdant was facing, seeing that right outside the entrance to the royal palace, two pairs of ponies were tossing food at each other, blocking the way in.

“Take that, you fast food shoveling hacks!” One mare angrily exclaimed as she tossed tomatoes and lettuce at the ponies across the way.

“At least we can take somepony’s order and have it finished in under two hours!” Another mare shouted back while chucking watermelons and cheese wedges.

“Oh well, this isn’t a big deal,” Twilight said as she placed a hoof on Verdant’s shoulder. “Once we drop our bags off, I’ll take care of this friendship problem in under a half hour.”

“Sounds like a plan, Twilight, but how will we get…” Verdant stopped as he saw Twilight’s horn glowing with a magenta light. “Oh, right.”

“We’ll be past that in just a-” Twilight was cut off by a pepper shaker the one mare at tossed flying overhead, its contents making the unicorn’s nose twitch. “Ahhh...ahchoo!”

With a loud sneeze, Verdant and Twilight vanished in a bright flash of magenta.

***

Verdant and Twilight found themselves in a dark metal tunnel, being rushed forward along by rapidly running water that filled the entire tunnel. The two would occasionally smack into each other or the smooth metal walls.

Soon, the pair went around a bend and plummeted down a rough waterfall before plunging into a deep lake below.

Verdant and Twilight swam towards the surface as quickly as they could. Eventually, the pair breached the surface and took deep breaths of air and coughing.

“Where,” Verdant coughed into his hoof as he tried to catch his breath. “Where are we?”

The two looked around, taking in the strange sight of where they had ended up. The waterfall seemed to be pouring down from a massive pipe in the sky. Above that, the sky was a shimmering white. All around them were thick clear walls that were covered in a light blue glow that seemed to encircle the lake they were in.

“I don’t know, but I’ll-whoa!” Twilight was cut off as the lake was suddenly shifted away from the waterfall and pipe. “What was…” Twilight looked upwards, now seeing in the center of the sky was the snout of a pregnant pink pony princess.

“Oh, dear Celestia, we shrank and are in Cadance’s drink!” Twilight shouted at the glass was levitated up in Cadance’s magic, coming closer to her plush lips. The pair tried to swim away to the far side of the glass as Cadance started to tip the glass and open her mouth.

Twilight strained, trying to make her horn ignite, but to no avail. All that came from her horn were a few faint sparkles.

“Twilight, grab onto my back!” Verdant called out as he swam closer to the unicorn mare, but it was too late. Cadance had tilted the glass too far up and now the current was carrying them into the alicorn’s mouth.

Waves dragged the two further into the princess’s mouth, over her whale sized tongue and towards the whirlpool at the back of her throat. They paddled for all their worth, but the rushing water made them pass under her dangling uvula and dragged them under just as Cadance swallowed.

Verdant and Twilight were pushed along the flooded tube of flesh, squeezed through her esophagus by muscles with dragonesque strength forcing downwards.

The two heard the loud thumping of Cadance’s heartbeat just before a valve opened up below them, dropping the pair and a torrent of water into the alicorn’s stomach.

Twilight and Verdant fell onto a piece of celery, gasping for air and coughing after their terrible tumble into the acid filled chamber.

“Did…” Twilight let out a hard cough, clearing the water out of her airways. “Did Cadance really just swallow us?” she weakly said as she tried to stand up on the partially digested hunk of vegetable.

“Seems so,” Verdant wheezed as he rolled onto his belly. “At least we’re in one piece.”

“Oh Faust,” Twilight whispered as she looked around the pulsating chamber. All around them were chunks of vegetables what she assumed was pasta of some kind, all mashed up and dissolving in the thick, bubbling lake of acid. The stench of the acid and digestion made her eyes sting while all around her, the sound of Cadance’s heart filled the digestive sack while more water poured in from the hole in the ceiling.

“I… I’ve killed us…” the lavender mare softly as she felt a hoof softly fall upon her shoulder. Looking over, she saw Verdant with a kind expression on his face before he gave her cheek a nuzzle.

“No, Twilight. You didn’t,” he comfortingly whispered into her ear. “This was just a terrible accident. If it weren’t for the pepper, we’d just be in the palace instead of in your sister-in-law.”

“I appreciate the sentiment, Verdant,” Twilight bit her lip and looked away glumly. “But we’re going to die in here.”

“I have doubts there, Twilight,” Verdant patted her on the back. “First, remember what you told me Cadance taught you.”

“Right,” Twilight said as she stood up before extending her foreleg back and forth and taking deep breaths. “Thanks, dear. That made me feel a tiny bit better.”

“No problem, Twilight,” Verdant smiled at her before he glanced around the chamber. “Now, let’s take stock of what we’ve got to work with.”

“Well, my magic’s not much of option right now,” Twilight answered glumly before she gritted her teeth and strained. Her horn managed to spark briefly before it sputtered out, making her gasp for breath. “I think that the teleport and shrinking spells used up most of my magic. I can’t really do much right now.”

“Alright, that’s one thing,” Verdant replied as the water flow finally stopped and he looked around. “Do you think after you’ve rested, we’d be able to teleport out of here?”

“That would be really dangerous,” Twilight said with a swallow. “A blind teleport from inside somepony could cause all sorts of horrible stuff to happen. We could materialize inside a wall of flesh or bone, or end up stuck in a blood vessel and cause a lethal arterial clog to Cadance, or we could-”

“Okay, teleporting’s not an option,” Verdant quickly cut her off, trying to keep her from conjuring the mental image of what horrors could occur. “Are you acid proof?”

“What?” Perplexment was clear in Twilight’s tone as she tilted her head. “No, I’m not acid proof. Nopony is.”

“Actually, I am. See,” Verdant casually said before dipping a foreleg into the bubbling brew.

“Verdant, stop!” Twilight screeched, grabbing his foreleg out. “Who knows what… you’ve…” her words died as she examined his foreleg. He should have at least be suffering from chemical burns and the hair on his leg dissolving, but it was completely unharmed. A few droplets of acid dripped off the leg. The droplets made a hiss and foamed when they made contact with the celery.

“How… how’s that even possible?” Twilight said in bafflement at the earth pony. “How did you know you’re acid proof?”

“Well,” Verdant clicked his tongue as he looked away from her. “I’m not really at liberty to give details, but I will say that this isn’t my first time in a stomach.”

“This… certainly is a surprise…” Twilight raised a hoof to her chin in thought.

Before either pony could say another word, the stomach trembled as a thunderous boom echoed all around them. The pair covered their ears with their hooves until the roar died down. Once the ringing in their ears stopped, they heard a loud voice in the distance.

“PARDON ME.”

***

Princess Cadance gave a sigh of relief as she made her way into the the palace’s kitchen. A long day of court had finally come to a close and the princess was parched.

With the day’s affairs finally taken care of, she could finally just relax and get off her sore hooves that had become even sorer in the past three months, even though she was barely showing.

Humming a little tune to herself, Cadance lit her horn; pulling a glass from a cupboard and and turning on the faucet.

The alicorn princess stuck the glass into the stream, not seeing when a pair of minuscule specks fell into her drink.

With the glass filled, Cadance began to trot away, taking a long swig of her quenching drink. As she walked down the hallway of her palace, she took in the sights of all the flowers, both outside in the gardens and inside in crystalline vases.

As she started to turn a corner, the princess felt a bubbling in her belly and something heading up her throat. She tried to cover her mouth, but it came too quickly, making her unable to suppress the loud belch.

“Pardon me,” she said to herself and started to trot away, only to pause when she heard a chuckling coming behind her.

“Oh, I don’t know, dear. It’s seems like behavior somewhat unbecoming of a princess,” a voice teasingly said as a white unicorn stallion came around the bend, drawing a chuckle from the princess. “Honestly, what would your husband say?”

“Oh, I’m pretty sure he’d be jealous since he knows he could never beat me in a belching contest.” Cadance grinned as Shining Armor joined her at her side. “So, have Twilight and Verdant arrived yet?”

“Not yet, Cadance,” Shining Armor sighed as they headed down the hallway. “It’s weird. The train arrived on time and ponies saw them disembark. I know Twily would have checked in with us as soon as she could.”

“Probably just a minor obstruction keeping them up,” Cadance gave her mate a soft pat on the back. “For all we know, Marinara and Heavy Cream got into a food fight again and she’s trying to solve their friendship problem.”

“Yeah, I could see that.” Shining Armor smiled as he shook his head. “Hope they won’t be too long.”

“I’ve got a gut feeling that says we’ll see them soon, dear,” Cadance replied as they strolled along, only to get a strange feeling in her belly a few steps later. “Uh-oh…” she whispered as she set her glass aside.

***

“Well, thanks to that gaseous expulsion, we probably have a lot less air to breath,” Twilight sighed as she looked towards the stomach’s upper valve.

The lavender unicorn’s ears perked up when she heard a loud splash behind her. Snapping to look, she saw Verdant was now swimming around in the stomach juices.

“Verdant, what in Zacherle’s name are you doing?” Twilight asked as the green pony kept paddling about, using a piece of noodle as a pool noodle.

“Well, a tiny part of me’s hoping that if we can shake things up enough in here, the stomach will get upset enough that she’ll throw us up,” Verdant answered as he paddled a bit closer to Twilight.

“I’m pretty sure that at our size, the most you’ll be able to do with that would be probably just making her burp again.” Just as Twilight had finished, the stomach walls rapidly starting to convulse and clench, tossing its contents around as well as bouncing the green pony back onto the celery.

“Which is why the main reason why I was doing this was trying to kill time until Cadance was hit by a certain side effect of pregnancy.”

Verdant and Twilight grabbed onto each other as the churning grew worse and worse. Suddenly, they felt a massive shift from Cadance starting to run before the stomach clenched and launched them upwards.

The pair’s screams were drowned out by the alicorn’s heartbeat and the rush of the geyser below them as they rocketed up her throat.

The two quickly passed by Cadance’s dangling uvula and were headed toward her open mouth, where they could see a potted plant outside.

***

Me and my big mouth. Why did I have to say gut feeling?! Cadance felt a deep, intense swirling down in her belly, one she knew she couldn’t hold back.

“Cadance, are you okay?” Shining Armor reached a hoof out to Cadance, seeing her face starting to turn a sickly green. Before he could reach her, the princess bolted down the hallway, running towards a potted plant.

The alicorn’s cheeks bulged out as she grabbed the sides of the pot while Shining Armor looked away.

“BLAURGH!!!” the sickening sound echoed throughout the halls as the stallion slowly approached his wife, keeping his eyes clenched shut tightly.

“Urgh…” Cadance groaned as she tried to catch her breath. “Damn pregnancy. I really didn’t need to taste my lunch a second time.”

“There there, Cadance,” Shining Armor gave a comforting whisper as he placed a hoof on her back and started to rub her back. “I’m sure we’ll get you a better meal that you can keep down and you’ll feel better a lot real soon.”

“Thanks, Shiny.” Cadance grinned as she starting to pull back, only to pause upon seeing something. “Honey, I think I found Twilight and Verdant.”

***

Night had fallen upon the Crystal Empire by the time Magic Barrier found himself traversing the palace halls, looking for any sign of the prince or princess.

The charcoal stallion sighed and took a swig from his flask as he turned a corner.

“All my years in the guard and I have to play delivery boy for the princesses,” he mused aloud, stowing the flask as he spotted Twilight Sparkle and Verdant Range headed down a hallway, soaked to the bone and trying to dry themselves off. A moment later, Princess Cadance followed behind them.

Quickly lighting his horn, Barrier had teleported closer to the alicorn, catching her uttering repeated apologies to the pair.

“Princess Cadance,” he broke the princess from her apologies and pulled a small package from his saddlebags.

“Ah, Barrier. Surprised to see you,” she said as she tried to sound cheerful, though she seemed somewhat upset despite that. “What brings you here?”

“What was up with Private Range and Twilight?” He casually ignored her question as he looked over her shoulder, seeing the drying pair entering one of the guest rooms.

“Oh, well they used up all the hot water in their rooms so they had to use one of the guard showers to clean themselves off after they were drenched because of their time inside me.” Cadance’s answer made Barrier’s eyebrow rise a tiny bit.

“Beg pardon?” Barrier flatly asked, making Cadance have to use all of her will to keep from grinning or laughing.

“Oh yeah, the two had quite the time inside me. The two got completely drenched because of this,” the pregnant princess coyly said as she forced a blush to her face. “You should have seen the look on Shiny’s face when he saw it.”

“So,” Barrier smirked at the pink pony, “You’re the latest creature to eat poor Verdant.”

“Ah, poop,” Cadance grumbled as she gave Barrier a glare. “You’re no fun.”

“Too old to be fun,” Barrier chuckled as he levitated the small parcel onto Cadance’s back. “Princess Celestia told me to give that to you or Shiny. Didn’t tell me why, just not to look. If you’ll excuse me, I’ve got a long train ride back to Manehattan to the mates and kids. Goodnight, Princess.”

***

The now fully dried Twilight Sparkle let out a tired sigh as she flopped face first onto the guest room’s bed. “I’m so sorry about this, Verdant,” she muttered through a face full of pillow.

“Hey,” Verdant softly said as he hopped onto the bed beside her. “Don’t feel so bad about this.”

“How can I not?” The mare asked as she lifted her head up, not looking the stallion in the eye. “I nearly got us both killed with that botched teleport. And then we got covered in…” she shuddered before Verdant gently stroked her side with his hoof.

“Twilight, none of that was your fault. It was an accident.” He leaned in closer and gave her cheek a nuzzle. “The teleport was messed up from that mare throwing that pepper around. If it weren’t for that, things would have gone perfectly."

“Still,” Twilight looked down at the stallion before slinging a foreleg around him. “I feel bad about this. It really messed up our trip.”

“Oh, trust me Twilight,” Verdant’s tone subtly shifted, but the unicorn could hear the sadness in his voice, “This is far from my worst trip to the empire by a very wide margin.”

“Verdant,” Twilight’s grip around the stallion tightened, pulling him closer.

“Besides,” Verdant’s voice became much happier as he pulled back, looking Twilight in her amethyst eyes. “Things are much better since I have the world’s greatest mare beside me.”

Twilight chuckled as a faint blush came to her face before she lit her horn, pulling the blanket out from under them and gently draping it over the two.

“A brilliant and powerful mare who’s one of the greatest heroines Equestria’s ever seen. A mare who’s caring, considerate and willing to do everything she can to help ponies.” Verdant hugged her softly, which the unicorn quickly returned.

“Thanks, Verdant,” Twilight said before leaning over and giving his a quick peck on the lips. “And I’m glad I have a wonderful pony like you by my side.”

With a brief display of magic, the lights in the room were turned out as the two snuggled closely together.

“Goodnight, Verdant.”

“Goodnight, Twilight.”

In the final moments before the need for sleep overcame them, the two spoke in harmony.

“I love you.”

Grim Prospects

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Verdant gave a yawn as he slowly started to awaken. Glancing around in the dark, he found himself on what looked like a cerulean log while massive dark blue strands were all around him.

His memory started to return as wakefulness returned to him. He had been using the base of Swiftsword’s horn for the past three days since he and the rest fellow soldiers were afflicted by poison joke.

While Verdant had been reduced to the size of a pea, Swift’s horn had grown to an absurd fifteen feet in length. Hat Trick had lost all the feathers on his wings while Winter Gem had gained several hundred pounds of muscle and had grown taller than their captain and Iron Forge and become a ball of cobalt colored fluff.

Lastly, the squad’s captain, Magic Barrier, had been turned into a mare by the plants and was trying to deal with the troubles caused by estrus.

Verdant yawned once more before grabbing onto one of Swift’s hairs and sliding down it, skidding to a halt on the soft ground. The minuscule earth pony was feeling nature’s early call and dashed over to a nearby bush to answer it.

Once his business had been tended to and the plants watered and fertilized, Verdant started the trudge back to where his fellows were still sleeping when he heard something rustling in the bushes.

The young stallion paused as he looked towards the bush, praying that whatever creature it was would be something like a small bird or a rabbit, something that would be a threat to only him and not his sleeping comrades.

The green pony’s face turned white as snow when from the bush crept an absolutely massive griffin with a black coat that might have been taller than even Princess Luna, a mare that even before his encounter with poison joke was nearly twice Verdant’s height.

“Everypony, wake up!” Verdant screamed at the top of his lungs, which to those in the camp might as well have been the squeak of a mouse.

The earth pony bolted towards Swift as quickly as his puny legs could as more griffins emerged from the bushes, pulling chains and dark rings from the bags around their waists.

“Now,” the obsidian griffin whispered as she and the others pounced Verdant’s comrades, quickly wrapping chains tightly around their bodies and slamming the dark rings on the unicorns’ horns. The troops could barely awaken before they could see they had been captured.

“Well well well,” the lead griffin said as the five were laid against some trees before additional chains and locks bound them to it. “This was quite the surprising catch.”
Verdant swallowed hard and tried to remain out of the sight of the enemy troops. Even in the early morning darkness, he could see at least ten griffins, not counting their massive leader.

With a wicked grin upon her beak, the leader lifted Barrier’s chin, forcing the charcoal unicorn to look her in the eye.

“I am Brigadier Grimhilde LeGrande. You will tell me what you’re doing on this island or you will deeply regret it.”

“Magic Barrier,” the unicorn growled at the gargantuan griffin. “Captain of the Royal Equestrian Guard. Two-three-eight-zero-three.”

“Hmm,” the faintest trace of a grin formed on Grimhilde’s beak. “So, this must be a military exercise of some sort. Though it is rather curious...” Her eyes roamed over Barrier’s form and the rest of her captives. “I had been told Captain Magic Barrier was a stallion. I assume there’s poison joke on the island?” She took her talons off her chin and shoved the unicorn hard against the tree.

“Magic Barrier,” the captain groaned defiantly, trying to force whatever magic she could muster into her horn. “Captain of the Royal Equestrian Guard. Two-three-eight-zero-three.”

“Save your breath, Barrier.” Grimhilde chuckled at the unicorn’s straining. “You’re merely wasting both of our…” the words dyed in her throat as she saw glowing cracks start to form in the ring. Acting quickly, the griffin struck Barrier with an incredible punch, breaking her concentration and dazing her.

“More rings, now!” Grimhilde bellowed as her troops raced over, once nearly stepping on poor Verdant as he carefully crept along the ground.

In a matter of seconds, layers of additional horn rings had been placed on Barrier as her eye began to swell.

“Rather impressive, Barrier,” Grimhilde whispered as she stalked up to the mare once more. “Perhaps you’ll have a better use than just a meal.”

Several of the griffins licked their beaks at the mere mention of food.

“Magic Barrier, Captain of the-” Barrier started once more, only for Grimhilde to interrupt with a yawn.

“Spare me your ‘good soldier’ speech, Barrier. It grows rather tiresome.” Grimhilde started to eye the other cadets when she spotted something by the base of a bush. Much to Verdant’s horror, it was him.

The shrunken stallion tried to rush into the bush, but he felt a sharp pull on his tail and his hind legs no longer touched the ground. In a matter of seconds, the giant of a griffin was holding the tiny equine up to her golden-yellow eyes.

Grimhilde chuckled darkly as she gazed upon the speck of a stallion. “My, I’ve never seen a pony quite this small before. What is your name?”

“V-V-V-Verdant Range,” the green equine swallowed before putting on the sternest and most intimidating face he could muster with his minute size. “Cadet. Three-six-two-three-seven.”

“Another disciplined soldier. Fascinating.” The grin on Grimhilde’s beak grew wider before casting her eyes towards the other captives. “But I wonder if the rest are as stern as you and your captain.”

“Swiftsword. Cadet. Three-six-two-one-eight.” The cerulean mare barked from her place by the tree, her horn bound by both a ring and a rope.

“Allow me to give you all an ultimatum.” Grimhilde lifted her talons up, making Verdant dangle above her upturned beak. “You will tell me whatever I wish to hear or I will bite your comrade in half.”

Verdant was shaking when Grimhilde slowly opened her beak, giving the terrified pony a gander as her slick, humid mouth, her thick tongue that was the size of a whale to him, and her uvula that dangled over the dark tunnel that lead to her stomach that turned many a pony before into her meals.

The shamrock stallion screamed and struggled as the griffin lowered him down, lower and lower. He could feel the warmth of her breath as he grew closer to his doom.

Looking to the side, Verdant saw Barrier and Swiftsword keeping up the same stern looks towards the griffin as before while Gem and Hatty looked on in fear. The blue bundle of fur that was Forge was shaking about, his face hidden behind his coat.

After what felt like an eternity, Grimhilde stopped lowering Verdant down right at the edge of her beak. Before he had a chance to adjust, the earth pony saw the edges of her giant beak closing in around him. The bird of prey’s golden beak kept coming closer until Verdant felt her lower beak start to graze his belly.

“Stop!” a scream came from the blue bundle. “Please, I’ll talk, just don’t do it!”

Grimhilde’s eye shifted toward the unicorn as one of her underlings brushed the fur around his face aside, revealing his sniffling, tear soaked face.

Verdant felt the beak drop away from his and the talons on his tail lifting him upward.

“Cooperate and I promise not to bite your friend in half. Understood?” Grimhilde glared and opened her beak wide before lowering Verdant once more.

“Forge,” Barrier growled at the stallion on the far side of the tree. “If you talk, your career in the guard is finished! Do you understand?”

Forge gave a hard swallow, his gaze shifting from his captain to his dangling friend. He took a breath to steal himself. “We were here to practice our survival skills when we encountered poison joke and found ourselves like this. We searched the island, but were unable to find the ingredients needed to cure us.”

“Interesting,” Grimhilde’s eyebrow cocked. “I assume you attempted to contact Princess Luna through your dreams?”

“Yes, yes we did!” Forge squealed as he struggled within the chains. “Please, I beg you, keep your promise!”

“Very well, Mr. Forge,” Grimhilde’s eyes shifted from the bound stallion to the one dangling above her. “I am a hen of my word and I shall keep it.”

Verdant felt the world drop around him as Grimhilde let go of his tail, making him drop into her disgustingly humid mouth with a splat against her colossal tongue before her beak slammed shut around him.

The four cadets gasped in horror while Barrier looked away at the sight of Grimhilde swallowing. A small bump was briefly visible in her throat before it disappeared into her chest.

“N-n-no…” Forge was stunned while the dark griffin licked her beak. “You said-”

“I said I would not bite him in half.” Grimhilde held up a talon as she sauntered over to the prisoners. “I have upheld my word and now thanks to you, I know that more ponies will be coming here to try to cure your little group. This will mean even more meat to feed my people.”

“Oh Faust…” the unicorn stallion wheezed as his eyes slammed shut, clearing away some tears. “Verdant… I’m so sorry.”

“Oh, your friend’s still alive, dear Forge,” Grimhilde chuckled as she raised his chin up. “I can feel him struggling inside me. It tickles in a most delightful way.”

The towering hen pulled away and reached into her saddlebags, pulling out a bright yellow apple. “Still, I am a gracious host and I will provide him with a last meal.”

Grimhilde tossed the apple back, snatching the whole apple in her beak and swallowing it down, leaving a much larger bulge in her throat as it traveled down.

“Now, with that enjoyable experience done, we have work to do.” Grimhilde pulled an about face, staring down her troops. “Sorae, Eule, search the island for any sign of poison joke, gather them up and burn them in a campfire. Kramurx, Hemd, prepare a bath of cure for some of ourselves and our prisoners.”

“Why would you want to cure any of us, you monster?” Barrier growled at the great griffin, who answered by giving him a swift punch to the eye.

“I am no monster, Barrier. I am a hero.” Grimhilde growled as she gave a burning glare to the charcoal unicorn. “I perform my duties to feed the rightful rulers of this world.”

The griffin took a deep breath to rein herself in and straighten herself out. “Besides, curing Swiftsword and the white coated one will make them easier to contain while we’ll have easier access to Forge’s meat.” A dark grin crossed her features as she cupped Barrier’s face in her talons. “As for you, I have some very special plans once you’re cured.”

Her vile chuckle came to the squad’s ears once more as she pulled away. “Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have something I wish to tend to in my tent.” Grimhilde craned her head away to face her remaining troops. “Continue to set up camp and keep watch over the prisoners. Do not interrupt me unless it is urgent. Understood?”

“Yes, ma’am!” The griffins saluted before Grimhilde spread her obsidian wings and took to the skies as Celestia’s sun began to crest over the horizon.

After a few moments of flight, she landed at a small campsite that had been set up the night before when the griffins arrived. Slipping into her tent, Grimhilde flopped onto her back, landing on a soft blanket atop some straw.

She gazed down at her belly as she not only felt the frantic, ticklish movements of the pony within, but the apple being churned about alongside him.

“Yes, keep struggling, my little pony,” Grimhilde whispered as her talons stretched down her body. One rested atop her belly as she rubbed while another went to her nethers. “Keep moving, for soon you will be a part of me.”

***

Light was cut off around him as the massive griffin’s beak slammed shut with Verdant Range trapped within. He didn’t have much time to think as Grimhilde’s tongue rose up, tossing him to the back of her throat. The disoriented stallion tried to reach for her uvula, but it was just the tiniest bit out of his reach before the griffin swallowed him down.

Fitting for a griffin whose exterior was a veritable mountain of muscles, her insides were much the same, if a bit softer, as the powerful muscles of her throat squeezed him down, nearly crushing the life from him as his ears were overwhelmed by the thunderous sound of her dark heart beating.

While it felt like hours for the suffering stallion, it was mere seconds before a valve opened below him, unceremoniously dropping him into the griffin titan’s stomach.

Verdant grimaced and groaned as he struggled to his hooves. Despite her mouth being pitch black, he found himself able to see within the griffin’s fleshy inner chamber. Thick walls pulsated all around him in time with her heart, while a lake of steaming and bubbling juices filled most of the room.

The trapped pony swallowed at the sight of some unidentifiable meaty slabs floating in the boiling pool. He didn’t want to imagine what… or who Grimhilde’s previous meal was.

Verdant turned to the wall and let fly a series of strikes while he tried to scale the slick surface, hoping beyond hope that he could somehow make it back into Grimhilde’s esophagus.

I can’t touch those juices! Kuni might not have digested me, but this griffin is a pony eating, killing machine! I’d be fat on her ass in an instant!

A powerful and dark chuckle echoed all around Verdant before a booming voice came from above.

“OH, YOUR FRIEND’S STILL ALIVE, DEAR FORGE. I CAN FEEL HIM STRUGGLING INSIDE ME. IT TICKLES IN A MOST DELIGHTFUL WAY.”

“I’m going to make you wretch until you die, you giant evil bitch!” Verdant exclaimed as he pounded even harder into the stomach’s wall, still only tickling Grimhilde’s belly.

“STILL, I AM A GRACIOUS HOST AND I WILL PROVIDE HIM WITH A LAST MEAL.”

“Wait, what?” Verdant pounding ceased as when he heard a loud gulp from above. In a matter of seconds the top of the stomach opened wide above the shrunken stallion, dropping a large yellow apple on top of the pony, sending him and the giant-sized fruit tumbling into the acid lake.

“No! No! Help!” the earth screamed as he splashed about in the stomach juices. “It burns! It burns! It… feels like hot water…”

The tiny pony looked around as he floated, seeing that despite how warm it was in the griffin’s stomach acid, it felt just like when he was having a hot bath back home.

“Is her stomach just that weak or…” Verdant trailed off as he looked around him, seeing the meat chunks and apple were both bubbling and dissolving in her juices.

“How’s this possible?” the shamrock stallion swam up onto the apple’s surface, just as the hen barked an order at her troops, making him slam face first into her walls. “Urgh… how is it that a monster that eats ponies for a living can’t kill me? This should be impossi-WHOA!”

Verdant’s stomach lurched as the stomach all around him bounced about. From the pace of the bobs, he guessed that Grimhilde was flying.

“This sucks…” Verdant’s face was a deeper, more-sickly shade of green from the griffin’s flight. “Keep this up and you’ll be getting some second-hoof food from me, you vile beast!”

The poor pony found himself launched forward, crashing against the stomach’s wall when Grimhilde set down.

“Sure, just keep tossing me around,” Verdant’s tone dripped with sarcasm as he looked up towards the clenched sphincter to Grimhilde’s throat. “I love being tossed around like a salad. Please ma’am, may I have another?”

Grimhilde seemed to answer by flopping onto her back, spinning Verdant’s world about and making him splash down against the shoreline of the stomach acid.

“I was kidding, you bastard!” Verdant growled as he let another series of blows out to strike her stomach walls.

“YES, KEEP STRUGGLING, MY LITTLE PONY,” Grimhilde’s whisper loudly echoed around the chamber while Verdant kept punching her insides. “KEEP MOVING, FOR SOON YOU WILL BE A PART OF ME.”

“Not a damned chance!” Verdant screeched as he glared upwards. “Captain Barrier’s going to escape, capture your underlings, make you barf me up and then shove his horn right up your-”

The green pony was drowned out by Grimhilde letting out some loud pants coming from above. Her body shook about, with the source of the movements seeming to come from her hips, judging from the waves striking his back.

“What in Faust’s name are you…” Verdant looked back in confusion until the griffin brigadier’s pants grew into loud moans.

“Eww, you’re masturbating!” Verdant’s face became greener once more. “The thought of me struggling and digesting inside you makes you horny?! You’re a really sick griffin!”

“YES! YES!” Grimhilde’s pants grew louder as the waves within the stomach splashed about at a fevered pitch, tossing Verdant to and through; under the acid and above, crashing from digesting food to stomach wall and back again.

With a loud pant from above, the movement of the griffin’s body suddenly stopped, turning the stomach’s stormy sea into a placid acid lake. The calm allowed Verdant to catch his breath as he floated in the stomach juices on his back.

“Seriously,” Verdant huffed, looking up the puckered sphincter to Grimhilde’s throat that he floated under. “Can you get any more twisted than getting your jollies off from the thought of eating a whole pony and feeling them digesting inside you?”

The stallion of the stomach soon received an answer when the valve opened up, dropping a mass of a clear, sticky goo upon him. Verdant sputtered and coughed, trying to clear the stuff from his mouth and nose. He noted the strange substance had a smell and taste similar to the fish Barrier had served them for dinner the previous night.

Verdant groaned and rolled his eyes at the realization of what the griffin had just swallowed. “You’re just trying to make me throw up now, aren’t you?”

The puny pony’s entire world shook from Grimhilde rolling over onto her belly before raising up. When the room finally stopped spinning from the griffin’s sudden movements, Verdant had found himself on the far side of her stomach, floating towards a lower orifice that was starting to open up.

“Well,” Verdant sighed as he casually floated closer to the open sphincter. “At least the intestines are a bit safer than in her stomach.”

Once he passed through the open orifice, Verdant found something quite unexpected. Rather than entering a small intestine, he found what appeared to be a second stomach. But this was much different than the last stomach, for this one not only had thicker walls that pulsated about and instead of chunks of digesting food in the acidic lake, there were rough rocks in that moved about by the pulsations of the walls.

Verdant paled at the sight before him as he drifted closer towards the stones that were the size of great boulders to him. After a moment of being shocked into silence, he recalled a brief lesson on griffin anatomy Barrier had taught the cadets before teaching them how to strike certain points to deal critical blows to one of them.

“Since griffins don’t have teeth to mash up their food, they need to swallow rough stones once in a while that are stored in a sort of secondary stomach called a gizzard.”

“Okay, Verdant,” the pony took some quick breaths in an attempt to calm himself and prepare for the rough journey ahead of him. “You can do this. You’ve got to get out of here, free your friends and kick this stupid griffin’s flank! Go!”

Verdant starting swimming through the juices, moving as fast as he could while avoiding boulders being tossed about by the gizzard’s movements.

A pulse caused a rock from below Verdant to suddenly rise up and toss him through the air, making him bounce off the gizzard’s firm, muscular wall before he fell back down onto another stone below, briefly driving the wind from him.

Wincing as he pulled himself off of the rock through gritted teeth, he eventually managed to make his way to the gizzard’s back end, with the sphincter clenched shut tightly before him.

“I’d better get a damned medal for this crap,” Verdant grumbled as he bobbed against the acid’s surface.

***

Verdant had tiredly traversed a long way through the griffin hen. After hours of pulling himself along miles of intestine, he could tell from the smell and some of the things laying around he was nearing the end of his terrible journey through Grimhilde’s body.

Turning a corner through the foul-smelling tunnels of her bowels, he came across a sight he never thought he’d consider beautiful before. Ahead of him was a large log of the griffin’s waste that was being pushed through the tight tunnel.

With a joyous grin on his face, Verdant bolted down the bowel, making it halfway to the end just after the last of the waste was expelled. Seeing the ring of flesh starting to close, Verdant charged as quickly as his ant-like legs could carry him.

Verdant grit his teeth and took a leap to try to make though the closing ring; to his delight, he made it through, feeling the back of his hindlegs barely scraping against the fleshy hole.

The shrunken stallion scrunched up to ready himself for fall, but that was halted when he felt the griffin’s anus close tightly around his tail, making the pea-sized pony dangle helplessly from between her buttocks.

As Verdant dangled, he could only stare down at Grimhilde’s vulva, tail and the pile of feces directly below in a small pit that the hen was covering with some dirt.

To the minuscule pony’s relief, Grimhilde had started walking away from the mess she’d left. The force from her steps shook Verdant and caused his tail to slowly slip out of her tight anus, causing Verdant to tumble towards the ground below.

Before he could hit the ground, Grimhilde’s movements caused Verdant to land in the fluff of the titanic griffin’s tail. The small stallion clung tightly to the beast’s tail fur, trying to remain concealed within the bunch of fluff.

From what he could see, the massive griffin was approaching another hen with snowy white coat and an shiny black beak.

“Status report, Private Eule,” Grimhilde barked, making the smaller griffin salute.

“Ma’am, we have successfully searched the island and burned every poison joke plant and prepared a cure bath.”

“Very good, Léonie,” Grimhilde patted the soldier on the shoulder. “Have you taken a bath after handling those plants?”

“No, ma’am,” Léonie replied as she set her foreleg down. “I wanted to wait until after reporting to you and asking to be relieved before doing so.”

“I admire you commitment, soldier. You’re relieved for the night. Dismissed.” Grimhilde nodded before she and Léonie pulled a swift about face.

The sudden shift was too much for Verdant as he was sent flying from Grimhilde’s tail before crashing into something that was oddly soft that he found himself squeezed against. Pulling his face from the soft surface, he saw that he was pinned between two massive snowy orbs. Just above him was a tightly clenched hole and a long white, furry tube that draped down over the globes he found himself between.

“What is with me ending up in griffin butts today? Am I cursed or something?” Verdant groaned before glancing down, seeing the massive pillars of the griffin’s legs as she walked along, causing her huge, fleshy cheeks to uncomfortably rub against him.

Things quickly grew darker when one of the hen’s giant claws loomed over the bountiful buttocks, the towering talons soon sank into her flanks, giving her rear a scratch.

The movement of her walking and scratching caused one of her cheeks to pull away. Verdant barely managed to grab onto a few strands of her flank’s fur to keep himself from falling to the ground below.

The oblivious hen soon let go of her flank, causing the cheek Verdant clung to to slam into the other, nearly knocking the wind out of him.

Léonie gave her rear a shake before clenching her cheeks closely together, trying to rid herself of whatever was causing that damnable itch, but to no avail.

The snow-coated hen sighed just as she arrived at the lip of the bath her comrades had dug. “Well, hopefully this will taken care of this accursed itch.”

The sound of something large and heavy being tossed away reached Verdant’s ears. From what he could tell, the hen had tossed her saddlebags into a nearby bush.

The hen slowly made her way into the cool waters, the sound of her talons breaching the surface drew the shrunken stallion’s attention.

With his eyes focused downward, Verdant soon saw her hindlegs enter the water. The tiny earth pony let go of the griffin’s powerful plot and quickly slid down her cheeks before falling into the open air with the ocean sized bath hurtling towards him.

Verdant’s dive below the water went completely unnoticed by Léonie as she waded towards the center of the water.

Below the water’s surface, Verdant saw things were starting to shrink around him as the bath’s brew began to restore him to his former size.

The growing pony was suddenly slammed against the dirt walls of the bath by Léonie sitting down in the bath, making a powerful wave before she layed further down into the small pool.

Right, Verdant thought to himself as put on an intimidating face and swam closer to the hen as she relaxed. Time to face my baptism of fire.

The water quickly grew more shallow and the earth pony’s head quietly breached the surface while the griffin was diligently scrubbing away at her coat and feathers.

In a matter of moments, Verdant was restored to his true size as he quietly crept up on Léonie.

In an instant, Verdant leapt onto the griffin’s back, clamping a forehoof over her beak while his other leg wrapped around her neck.

“Don’t move,” Verdant whispered in the gruffest voice he could muster, hoping he could intimidate the griffin below him, fiercely glaring into her frightened eyes. “I’m an earth pony, so I could easily snap your neck like a dried twig if you make the slightest twitch or sound. Now, you’re going to help me if you want any hope of making it out of here alive. Understood?”

Léonie gave a hard swallow and gave her head the tiniest bob.

“Good,” Verdant growled. “Tell me, where are your chains?”

Léonie’s eyes briefly darted towards one of the bushes on her right before starting back up at her assailant.

“Thank you,” the green pony whispered and pushed his hooves forward, making the griffin’s head strike a stone at the pool’s edge, knocking her out almost immediately.

Quietly as he could, Verdant picked up the griffin and dragged her unconscious form over to the bushes, where he found her saddlebags where she said they’d be.

With a smirk, Verdant reached into her bags and pulled out a long length of chain, using it to tie her to a nearby tree.

Slipping on the griffin’s oversized and heavy saddlebags, Verdant laid low to the ground as he made his way through the woods.

“Operation: Turning Tide is a go.”

***

“Y’know,” a brown coated griffin lounged at a campfire in front of the quintet of captured and cured ponies, “You ponies should be grateful once we kill and eat you. That way, you won’t have to suffer being an inferior species anymore.”

The tiercel’s remark only earn him a glare from for the ponies, leaving Forge remaining glum with eyes turned downwards.

“You damn meals on legs gonna say something?” The griffin rose up, rolling his shoulders.

“Magic Barrier. Captain of the Royal Equestrian Guard. Two-three-eight-zero-three.”

“Swiftsword. Cadet. Three-six-two-one-eight.”

“Winter Gem. Cadet. Three-six-two-two-nine.”

“Hat Trick. Cadet. Three-six-two-three-four.”

“Iron Forge…” the sad unicorn weakly spoke up. “Cadet. Three-six-two-three-eight.”

The griffin huffed and rolled his eyes. “Seriously? Is that all you damned ponies can say?” He strolled up closer to the bound equines. “”Not even an insult or an empty thre-”

The tiercel was suddenly pulled into a nearby bush by something hidden in shadow. The ponies’ ears stood at attention as rustling and came from the bushes before ending with a heavy thud.

A tiny bit of shuffling about and metallic ringing came from the bush. After a few moments a green figure emerged from the bush, holding a set of keys in his mouth. The cadets all gasped with a great smile forming on Forge’s face.

“Verdant?” Barrier squinted through his non-swollen eye. “Am… am I dead?”

“Not yet, sir,” the emerald pony said through his mouthful as went behind the tree. A bit of rustling was heard from the back before the satisfying sounds of the locks clicking open one by one reached their ears. In a matter of moments, the chains holding the group in place fell away.

The group all started to stretch as Verdant emerged from behind the tree.

“Anypony still need the cure? I can take you th-” Verdant was quickly quieted by Forge rushing forward and wrapping his forelegs around the the earth pony.

“I’m so sorry, Verdant.” Forge sniffled as his grip tightened. “I didn’t mean for this to happen.”

“Save it for later, Forge,” Barrier said as he trotted up to the pair. “Hat Trick still needs his wings taken care of. Other than that, we’re good to go.”

“Alright, let’s gather up these chains,” Verdant said as Forge relinquished his tight grip. “I’ve knocked out and tied up two griffins so far, so we still have ten left to take of.”

Barrier gave the five a nod and he stood before the fire. “Right, everypony. Get ready for your first real taste of battle.

***

As the night went on, the six ponies soon started to pick off the griffins one by one. Most went down fairly quickly with Grimhilde proving the biggest challenge, requiring the magic of all three unicorns, Hat Trick quickly wrapping chains around her massive form and the two earth ponies using all their strength to pin her down before the locks were all in place.

Another three days passed before an Equestrian ship had arrived on the island, with Princess Luna flanked by a pair of thestral guards. To her surprise, Barrier and the cadets seemed to be perfectly normal.

“We art rather surprised by thy current state, Captain.” Luna’s eyebrow rose ever so slightly as she examined the six, not spotting anything abnormal about them. “We assumed poison joke would be a much greater malady.”

“It was, Princess Luna,” Barrier said as he stepped forward. “However, a sudden appearance of griffin forces eventually led to us being cured and with a dozen griffin captives, including Brigadier Grimhilde LeGrande.”

A stunned look briefly came to the alicorn’s face before she resumed her stoic look. “Very good, Captain. We will require a full debriefing after we have the griffins on board the Wave Dancer.”

“Understood, Princess.” Barrier gave the princess a nod before turning about face. “I’ll lead you to them. However, I will note that I believe Cadet Forge should be discharged for his actions while Cadet Range should be rewarded for his efforts.”

Iron Forge wilted as he and the others followed along. Verdant gave Forge a gentle pat on the back.

“Don’t worry, Forge,” the shamrock stallion whispered into unicorn’s ear. “I’m sure we’ll find a smithing job for you, even without guard training.”

“Thank you, Verdant.” Forge gave a grateful grin as they moved forward into the forest, where everything was starting to seem a little brighter.

A First Time for Everything (AP)

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Morning had just struck the bustling town known as Dream Valley. Birds were chirping as some of the townsponies were starting to wake up and prepare for work.

In what was considered an average house for a herd, home to five adults and seven children, the early morning rays of Celestia’s sun pierced the curtains of the bedroom shared by a young colt named Verdant Range and his older sister, Gold Leaf.

The little green colt groaned from the light striking his eyes before soon getting up with a yawn. As wakefulness came to him, he recalled the day prior and how momentous it was for him.

Tending to his father’s plants had lead to little Verdant earning his cutie mark, though his father seemed somewhat worried due to the mention of the “blue roses” he had stumbled upon, even more so when Viridian had said he wouldn’t be able to get the herbs he needed until the next day.

The young foal paid no mind to that as he stretched from under the blanket he and his sister shared, which felt oddly different to him; somewhat heavier.

“Goldie!” Verdant happily shouted as he hopped out from under the blanket and looking to his side to wake his sister on the other side of the bed. “Time to wake up! We’ve got a lot… of…”

Verdant words died in his throat as he saw that sleeping form of his older sister had become gigantic.

“Goldie!” Verdant screamed in a panic as his eyes darted about the room, seeing it was not just the older earth pony filly had grown, but so had everything in the room. “Goldie, please wake up! I need your help!”

The yellow filly let out an earth shaking yawn as she started to rise. She tried to rub the sleep from her eyes as she looked over her shoulder.

“Verdant,” she sleepily said. “Wake up, father said I have to…” Gold Leaf stopped as saw no sign of her brother, unable to spot the mite sized colt.

“Faust curse it, the one time he does not try to wake me,” she groaned as she hobbled over to Verdant’s half of the bed, not seeing that she had walked past him.

“Gold Leaf!” Verdant called out as loud as his little lungs could muster. “I am over here!”

The faint squeaks of the colt’s voice failed to reach the filly’s ears as she started to sit down. Verdant tried to flee, only to be stuck under a ton of filly flank flesh.

“How did he get out of bed without waking me?” Goldie scratched her head in perplexment, not feeling her now very little brother struggling under her rump.

“Goldie, get thy fat ass off me!” Verdant shouted as he pushed with every ounce of strength he could muster, roughly equal to that of a mosquito.

Mercifully, Gold Leaf soon rose up, freeing Verdant from the crushing weight. The tiny colt breathed a sigh of relief before he spotted her starting to turn around.

In a rush, Verdant scrambled up to her tail and grabbed on to one of the strands of hair before she hopped off of the bed, with Verdant holding on for dear life as he dangled from his sister’s tail.

“Maybe if I get to her ear,” Verdant said to himself, “I might be able to make her hear me.”

The minuscule pony reached out and grabbed onto another strand of hair. After few moments, Verdant was nearing the base of Gold Leaf’s tail just as she came into the kitchen, where a silver unicorn mare was spreading some honey on a piece of toast.

“Good morrow, Gold Leaf,” the unicorn offered the little filly a happy nod. “Wouldst thou like some honey and toast for breakfast?”

“No thank you, Aunt Swirl,” Goldie answered as her eyes roamed around the room. “Pray tell, hast thou seen Verdant this morning?”

“I have not,” the mare replied. “Though Viridian hast told me of his encounter with poison joke and hast already headed out to get the herbs needed to treat him.”

“Drat,” Goldie harshly whispered. She trotted a few steps away when she felt on odd tickling on her rear. Swiftly turning about, she saw a tail green speck crawling along the base of her tail.

“Ahh! Spider!” the golden filly screamed and flailed about, sending Verdant flying about the kitchen.

To his great relief, Verdant’s landing was fairly soft and he landed with a splash in the jar of honey. That relief quickly turned to panic as the mare at the table placed the lid back on the jar, surrounding the colt in complete darkness.

“Calm yourself, little one,” Magic Star Swirl softly said as she pulled away from the table. “No dangerous spiders live in Dream Valley and it appears to be gone. Thou hast nothing to worry-”

The two were interrupted by a series of knocks at the door. Wondering who it could be this early in the morning, Swirl’s horn glowed a bright cerulean as the door was pulled upon.

Standing in front of the door was familiar face to the entire village. It was a zebra mare with a short and spiky mane and tail, with the former covered by a red band. Swirl could well remember the day this young mare first came to the village some years ago and had been supplying them with firewood since then.

“Ah, good morning, Kuni.” Swirl pleasantly waved as she came up to the zebra, who was rubbing her throat. “I am rather surprised to see you so early, my friend.”

“Good morning to you as well, my friend, Swirl,” Kuni hoarsely whispered, stepping into the Greens home. “Could you please help this poor zebra girl?”

“Well, I shall certainly try, my dear.” Swirl smiled, patting Kuni’s back and pulling her further in. “What seems to be thy problem?”

“Recently, my throat has been quite sore.” Kuni swallowed as they came to a halt by the breakfast table. “It has made talking become a painful chore.”

“Worry not, my friend.” Swirl’s horn lit once more, picking up the jar of honey on the table, unaware that she was shaking up her nephew within. “A bit of honey should have thou feeling right as rain in no time, Kuni.”

“I give my deepest thanks to thee.” Kuni whispered with a smile as Swirl’s magic lifted up the flap of her saddlebags, slipping the honey inside. “For this, thy next shipment is free.”

“Why thank you, Kuni.” Swirl gave the zebra a quick hug. “I wish thee well and a speedy recovery.”

The zebra mare gave the unicorn a grateful nod and trotted out of the house, oblivious to the tiny colt being shaken about by every movement of her hips.

Within the jar, Verdant was struggling to keep his head afloat. The jar was pitch black and the honey kept coming at him in waves with every step that Kuni took. He coughed and sputtered every time he went under, barely managing to breach the sticky surface each time.

Several minutes passed as the zebra made her way through town before eventually coming to a stop.

Verdant wondered what made her stop when the movements soon became up more intense from the zebra sticking her hoof in the bag and pulling the jar up to her face.

“M-m-maybe she’ll spot me when she opens the jar,” Verdant stuttered and swallowed before he felt as if the entire world was being tilted. The jar’s lid was pulled away, letting light shine down on the colt for the first time in what felt like an eternity. What joy he had felt quickly turned to horror as what he saw from the jar wasn’t the zebra’s amber eyes, but her open muzzle with a colossal tongue reaching out like a hungry serpent.

“Kuni, stop!” Verdant screamed and he tried to swim through the sticky goo, but the jar kept tipping and her tongue made its way inside, pulling the little colt and a lake’s worth of honey in the mare’s maw.

Verdant was tossed about around Kuni’s mouth as she savored the sweet taste. He was pushed all around, hitting her cheeks, teeth and roof of her mouth.

“Ms. Kuni, please stop!” Verdant wheezed from the tip of her tongue, sliding toward the back of her mouth.

“Kuni, no! Don’t eat me!” he screamed, struggling as hard as he could to break free. He tried to grab onto her dangling uvula, but he was barely able to graze it with his hoof before the zebra swallowed.

Verdant was pulled down with the honey, unable to breathe as he was squeezed down Kuni’s throat. The thundering boom of her heart beat reached his ears just as a valve opened up, dumping the colt and the honey into an immense chamber that was pulsating around.

The green colt coughed and huffed as he pulled himself free of the honey before gazing around where he was trapped. The room was a grand bag of flesh with a lake of bubbling, foul smelling juices.

“Oh no…” Verdant shivered in fright as he backed up into a fleshy wall. “I’m in Kuni’s stomach!” The panicking colt looked to the hole he fell from and tried to scramble up to it.

“Please, let me out!” he exclaimed as his tiny hooves futilely slammed against the stomach, going completely unnoticed to the zebra as she went about her small home.

“I don’t want to be your breakfast, Kuni!” Verdant cried as he gradually tired himself out before slumping against the stomach wall.

The poor colt sighed as he looked around the nearly empty chamber before everything started to move about as Kuni took a seat at her table. Verdant clung to the stomach’s wall, desperately trying to keep from falling into the steaming lake of stomach juices below.

“This could not possibly be worse…” Verdant gulped just before he heard a wet noise coming from above. Hurriedly looking up, he spotted a large ball of mashed up fruit being dumped into the stomach, landing on top of the poor colt and knocking him off the wall.

When the first wad of Kuni’s breakfast splashed into the acidic brew, Verdant quickly scrambled to the top of the island of chewed up food. Before he could catch his breath, another chunk of food came down, barely missing the terrified colt.

“Ms. Kuni! Help!” Verdant screamed, going unheard as she enjoyed her breakfast of honey covered fruit and bread.

Tears came from the colts eyes as he curled up into a ball, sniffling as her stomach was being filled more and more.

A minutes passed as the sound of Verdant’s stomach gurgling joined with the sounds of Kuni’s belly.

“Oh… so hungry…” Verdant moaned as he tiredly and sorely rose up, looking for the sign of anything edible. Sadly, for the colt, the only food was whatever Kuni and already chewed up and swallowed.

Verdant winced as he made his way over to the a chunk of mashed strawberry, recalling his mother’s words. “Starvers can’t be choosers…”

***

The day went by fairly normally for Kuni. Her throat was feeling much better as she made her deliveries of firewood, stopping by the marketplace, having more of her meals and taking a nice hot bath.

She was completely unaware of the tiny colt she carried around inside her. Shortly after her lunch, the minuscule raft he was on floated out of her stomach and he was sent on a wild ride through her small intestine before landing with a splat in the foul-smelling large intestine.

Verdant spent hours traveling through the zebra’s bowels, feeling very tired and groaning as he marched onward.

“Must… keep… going…” he strained to keep moving. Before he could take another step, he was sent bouncing about the flesh tunnel from Kuni hopping onto her bed.

As soon as he began to pull himself up, he felt his world shift, making him fall down the path where he slammed into Kuni’s anus as a moan came from the distance.

***

The silvery light of Luna’s moon pierced through the darkness of Kuni’s modest bedroom, the sole source of light as she blew out her last candle.

As the zebra hopped onto her bed, she felt she could no longer ignore the aching warmth coming from her nethers.

Estrus has come with a strong urge to breed. Kuni bit her lip as her right foreleg traveled along her belly, eventually reaching her lower lips. Perhaps my hoof will fulfill my need.

Her touch made her arch her back and she squatted over the bed. She barely stifled a moan as she began to pet herself harder. Her moans steadily grew louder and louder, drowning out both the gurgling from within her body and the tiny squeak that came from below.

***

“Open up! Open up!” Verdant exclaimed as he pounded his hooves against the tightly shut meaty ring. He tried to jam his hooves into it and pry it apart, but it barely budged. “C’mon, Kuni! Let me out of your butt!”

A rumble came from deep within the bowel. From the noise, the shamrock colored colt could tell that whatever is was was growing closer.

Verdant felt a burst of hot air strike him, pressing the poor pony against the massive zebra’s anus.

Soon the pressure became great enough and gas made the anus open up, expelling the colt in a burst of disgusting air.

Verdant softly landed on the bed below, coughing as tried to rid his lungs of the gross gas.

Once the coughing had stopped, the colt gazed at the sight before him.

Towering above him was Kuni's massive striped buttocks shaking about while her hoof furiously rubbed against her winking marehood.

The colt’s eyes were locked upon the sight of her glistening labia dripping onto the bed. He had seen a mare’s nethers multiple times before, but they were usually either just brief glimpses seen from either one of his family or the other mares around town.

But this was so much different. Kuni’s colossal nethers were winking open, giving Verdant a glance of her damp inner flesh as well as the amazing scent that came from within. The only time he could recall a smell similar to this was during the spring, when his mother and his aunts seemed somewhat off to him.

Verdant was so transfixed by the sight of Kuni playing with herself that he didn’t notice her body shifting, sending her hind end hurtling down towards him. By the time he realized what was happening and had started to run, Kuni slammed down on the bed as her labia winked open, making the colt crash into her fleshy lips.

Kuni’s vulva winked shut, pulling Verdant deeper inside just before the zebra mare flopped onto her back. The massive quake bounced Verdant deeper into her vagina, while her bucking hips forced him even further.

Verdant’s screams were hopelessly drowned out by the sound of Kuni’s moans as she bounced her hips. The mite-sized earth pony soon reached the back of her vaginal canal, passing through a small hole that was just barely opened wide enough for him to slip through into her womb.

The colt groaned as he landed face first against her uterine walls, bouncing against the blood-lined flesh. Looking up, Verdant gasped at the tiny cervical opening starting to seal itself shut.

“No!” he screeched as he bolted along her spongy walls. “I don’t want to be trapped in here!”

Verdant took a running leap at the orifice, desperately trying to slip through, only to feel the cervix clench shut around his waist.

“Lemme go, you stupid thing!” Verdant groaned and tried to pull himself free, feeling his hindlegs helplessly dangling on the other side.

His persistence paid off when he felt the cervix dilated ever so slightly once more, making the foal land safely back in Kuni’s vagina.

To keep from being tossed about and getting stuck in her uterus once more, the earth pony laid low to the floor, gripping the wet surface as hard as he could as he carefully pulled himself along.

Verdant peered through the distant opening, seeing the entrance was mostly blocked by the masturbating mare’s mammoth hoof stroking herself. Just barely beyond that, he could spot moonlight bouncing off the zebra’s clenched thighs.

As he pulled himself along, Kuni’s shouts were becoming more rapid, the walls became slicker with her wetness and they seemed to be closing in around the colt.

Kuni’s hip movements became more erratic as her climax closed in. In an attempt to keep his grip firm, Verdant tried to keep himself in place by biting down on the fleshy floor.

The attempt, however, pushed Kuni over the edge. Her deafening shout forced the colt to cover his ears as her walls threatened to crushed the life out of him before a tsunami of the zebra’s feminine juices launched Verdant from her vagina, making the soaked colt skid across the bed until he finally stopped between her knees.

Heavy breathes came from the two as they started to relax from the ordeal. While Verdant gave a sigh of relief at now being free, Kuni let out a powerful snore.

“At least… I’m out…” the colt said as he pulled himself to his hooves and shaking what wetness he could from his coat. “Now I just got to get to her ear and then I can go home.”

Looking around the darkened room, Verdant could see this would be no easy task. Kuni’s hooves went right up to the footboard, so going around wasn’t an option. Looking back up between her legs, Verdant knew the only way to get to the zebra’s ear would be to climb her gigantic body.

Taking a breath to steel himself, the little colt began his trip. After a while, he made it to the spot where the zebra’s hip met her thigh and started to scale up the tight space.

After an exhaustive effort that pushed him near his limits, the mite-sized mammal sighed in relief as he reached the top of Kuni’s thigh.

“Now the rest should be a walk in the park,” Verdant grinned as he trotted along. “A park with warm fur instead of grass… that must be over a mile long…”

The colt’s thoughts begun to wander as he walked until he heard a slight groan from the zebra and felt the fleshly ground beneath him was somewhat softer. Before he had a chance to think, he walked directly into a fleshy nub that protruding from the mare’s lower belly.

“By Luna, I’m on Kuni’s teats!” Verdant said he slowly reached a hoof out, gently feeling the surface of her nipple.

“My word…” the colt whispered as pulled the hoof back, looking towards the nipple’s tip. On a sudden impulse, Verdant launched himself toward the tip, his forelegs barely clinging on as he scrambled to the top.

Once he reached peak, Verdant signed as he heard a light moan in the distance. Gazing up to the slumbering mare’s face, he could see the faintest trace of a blush upon her cheek.

The curious colt’s focus shifted back to where he stood, his hooves near the entry point of a duct too small for even him to fall into.

Verdant took a careful step forward, feeling his hoof sink somewhat into the now hardening flesh of the zebra, making her groan once more.

“I guess a mare’s teats are really sensitive.” Verdant bit his lip as he slowly made his way around the nipple’s surface, making the occasional quake from the zebra as her leg twitched.

When he came to the edge, he gazed down and found the distance from the nipple’s tip and the soft mammary flesh had somehow doubled.

Taking a hard swallow, Verdant leapt from the nipple, soon landing in the mare’s soft breast, bouncing as if on a trampoline before crashing face first on her belly.

“Right… dumb idea to climb it…” the colt groaned as he pulled himself up. “Better to get my flank moving.”

***

After what felt like several hours for the tired colt, Verdant had finally made it to the zebra’s collarbone. He took in the sight of the colossal mare as she gently slept.

“Almost… there…” Verdant huffed as pulled himself along. He tried slowly making his way down between her shoulders and neck, only to tumble down, landing on his back on the mare’s spiky mane.

“It’s nearly over…” the sore colt pulled himself up and carefully made his way through the mass of long hairs until he was directly under her left ear, jumping up and pulling himself onto the ear’s surface.

Got to be very careful now. Verdant cautiously made his way into the mare’s ear canal. If I wake her too early, I could end up getting flung to the other size of the room. Or crushed like a bug!

The colt slowly crept into Kuni’s ear before coming to a stop in front of her hairs within. Verdant grabbed onto one of the strands and wrapped it around his waist.

Here goes… Verdant swallowed before shouting. “Ms. Kuni!”

In response to his call, the entire tunnel fiercely shook about as the zebra was startled awake and stood up in her bed.

“THAT WAS RATHER STRANGE,” her voice boomed liked thunder, forcing the tiny colt to cover his ears. The earth pony speck felt dizzy from the movement of her head looking about the room. “I THOUGHT I JUST HEARD VERDANT RANGE.”

“Ms. Kuni! I’m inside your ear!” Verdant shouted, making the zebra’s head suddenly stop.

“THAT WOULD EXPLAIN WHY YOU SOUND SO NEAR,” Kuni spoke in a softer tone, but it still hurt the poor pony’s ears. “BUT HOW DID THIS COME TO BE, MY DEAR?”

“I think my father said something about poison joke,” Verdant said as Kuni slowly made her way out of bed. “I woke up shrunk this morning. Then I ended up in the honey… and you ate me.”

“OH DEAR, YOU POOR COLT!” Unseen to Verdant, Kuni’s black and white face turned a bright crimson. “I NOW FEEL LIKE SUCH A DOLT! COME, LET US GET YOU HOME QUICKLY. IT WILL BE A GREAT RELIEF TO YOUR FAMILY.”

***

Once Kuni had learned of what happened, things went quite smoothly for Verdant. His family was grateful for his safe return, though the two decided not to tell them about his time within the zebra’s digestive tract.

The colt’s father had a bath full of poison joke cure prepared for most of the day that only needed to be heated up once more before the minuscule pony was restored to his normal size, though he did need to scrub for quite a while before the smell would dissipate.

After a long and hectic journey as well as drying off, the colt crawled into the bed he and Gold Leaf shared.

“Good night, Verdant,” Gold Leaf muttered as he made his way under the covers.

“Good night, Goldie,” Verdant yawned as his head fell upon the pillow, the need for sleep finally becoming too much for him. “Hopefully something like today never happens again.”

Author's Notes:

Hey folks, how you enjoyed getting two chapters in two days. I doubt I'll ever do that again.

Fun little fact about Kuni. Though they don't know it, her and Verdant are actually cousins. Remember when Verdant's great grandfather slept with Laana? Well, that lead to the birth of Laana's son, Kijani and eventually her granddaughter, Kuni. So I guess that would make her and Verdant... half-first cousins, once removed, I think.

And now, for the first time in a long time, it's time to vote on what chapter you'd like next.

Swift Snort (AP): In the same timeline, we see one of the misadventures poor Verdant got tangled up in when he was training on Butterfly Island.
A Mid-Summer Night's Tasty Dream: Verdant volunteers for a long range teleportation experiment, only to end up tiny and in the cabin of Fluttershy, who thinks she's having a very nice/private dream.
Having Your Cake and Eating It Too: Barrier's cadets have all been invited to help with Pinkie Pie's coming birthday party and they prepare a special cake for her, only to learn about her voracious appetite.
Trapped in Cider: A teleportation accident leads Verdant stuck as a shrunken speck in a bottle of cider. A bottle that Apple Bloom has snuck away from her family's cellar.
Oh, cud!: Verdant finds himself reduced to the size of a pea stuck on a piece of grass when his cow neighbor, Bea Wellington, stops by.

Hope you have a good time and I'm still looking for an editor to replace the editor that quit. If you'd like the job, feel free to send me a DM.

Trapped in Cider

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It was a fine, sunny afternoon in Vanhoover as Verdant Range made his way to a building called the Vanhoover Institute for Science and Technology. It was a large, five story building that was a pristine white color with sparkling windows. The facility’s name was carved above the entrance that he slowly trotted towards.

What had drawn the shamrock colored stallion to this place was a flier he had seen a few days prior. Reaching into his saddlebags, he pulled out the slip of paper and re-read what was written upon it.

Test-subject wanted for experiment that may change long distance travel as we know it. For more information, inquire at lab number thirteen on the third floor of the Vanhoover Institute for Science and Technology, located at Forty-Six, Sunlight Street. Pays handsomely.

Those last two words had especially gotten Verdant interested in what this experiment could be, so he thought this would be a good way to spend his day off.

As he made his way into the building, he saw that walls were a pale blue that contrasted the dark gray tiled floors. Before him stood a dark pink unicorn stallion with a burgundy mane sitting in front of reception desk.

“Can I help you, sir?” the unicorn asked as Verdant trotted closer.

“Uh, yes. I’m here for-” Verdant started to speak as he held up the flier to the unicorn, only to be cut off.

“Ah, you’re here for High Gear’s thing. Excellent.” The secretary stallion said as he glanced over his shoulder to down the hall on his right. “There’s a elevator that’ll drop you off right in front of her lab. Have a nice day.”

“Thank you,” Verdant replied as he trotted down towards the midway point of the hallway that was lined with doors. From what he could see within, he saw ponies working on all sorts of strange devices that looked like they belonged in one of the Star Trot serials.

The stallion pressed the button beside the elevator to be instantly greeted with a loud ding and the doors opening wide for him. With a small swallow, the emerald earth pony quickly entered the elevator and pressed the button for the third floor.

Man, I never thought I’d see an elevator in a place like Vanhoover before. They just seem like more of a Manehattan or Canterlot thing. Verdant thought to himself as he felt the elevator start to move. The fur on the back of his neck started to bristle until the elevator stopped and the doors opened up once more.

Verdant stepped out onto a floor that was nearly identical to the first floor, only with the walls a light red instead of blue. After a few moments, he came to a door with a large number thirteen on it.

“Hello?” Verdant cautiously asked as he stepped inside a room with all sorts of strange equipment, ranging from all sorts of tools, covered wires on the floor with a large pad in the center of the room and a console of some kind at the back. “Is anypony here?”

“One sec!” a scratchy, feminine voice called out from behind the console, a blue hoof raising and waving before a bespectacled mare emerged. The mare trotted out from behind the console, revealing a set of different colored gears upon her light blue flank. “How can I help you?”

“Hello. Are you Dr. High Gear?” Verdant trotted closer to the mare, careful to not trip over any of the wires and cables.

“The one and only.” High Gear smirked and ran a hoof through her violet mane. “Guessing you’re here for the ad I placed?”

“Yes, Doctor,” Verdant happily answered. “Could you tell me a bit about what this experiment’s about?”

“Sure thing,” High Gear said with a sparkle in her orange eyes. “What I’ve built is a long range teleportation device.” She giddily trotted up to the room’s pad, proudly standing atop it. “This baby will take whoever and whatever you want and instantly move it to another location!”

“Can’t unicorns already teleport stuff and themselves?” Verdant titled his head as he stepped closer to the teleporter.

“Yes, but this is much different.” Gear’s tone was dripping with pride as she stepped down from pad. “For one thing, very few unicorns have the skill to teleport while my machine will teleport anyone and anything. Secondly, for the few unicorns that can teleport, the usual maximum range is between thirty and forty-five feet whereas this is set up to teleport you to send whoever or whatever we’re gonna teleport to a sister lab we’ve set up in Baltimare. And last but certainly not least, this form of teleportation doesn’t involve magic. This uses electrical energy as its power source to deconstruct the subject, instantaneously transport and reassemble them. This way, should there be some sort of anti-magic field or someone is able to drain away all the magic in Equestria, this machine will still function.”

“Alright then,” Verdant said as he brought of hoof to his chin. “Have you tested this on a pony before?”

“Not yet,” the doctor answered as she moved back behind the console. "But we’ve tested it on inanimate objects, plants and even some test rats. Save for this one thing where a plant was lost, they all turned out perfectly fine.”

“In that case, why not test if it works yourself?” Verdant inquired.

High Gear gave a roll of her eyes as she grabbed a clipboard from the console. “One, because someone needs to be behind the console to operate the machine and two, no reputable scientist would use themselves as a guinea pig for their experiments.”

“Alright.” Verdant swallowed as he trotted over to the approaching mare. “Is there anything I need to do before we test this thing out?”

“Just got to sign a waiver and then we can get started.” Gear handed the clipboard over to Verdant, who quickly started going over contract.

“Hmm…” Verdant closely checked over every word of the paper, recalling his mother’s lessons on reading every last detail of a contract. “Alright, everything seems to check out.”

“Perfect!” High Gear said as she ducked behind the console once more before emerging with a pen in her mouth.

After a somewhat awkward passing of the pen between their mouths, Verdant had signed his name on the waiver.

“Fantastic,” Gear said with a grin, pulling the clipboard away and dashing behind the console once more. “Now, all you have to do is stand on the teleporter and you’ll be in Baltimare in no time.”

“You got it, Doctor.” Verdant gave the mare a salute before slowly stepping onto the teleporter pad.

“All systems are go. Teleport in three… two… one… go!” High Gear exclaimed as she flipped the switch. The pad below Verdant started to light up beneath him and he felt a slight tingle in his fur.

Gear was grinning like a madmare as the light grew brighter and brighter beneath the stallion’s hooves. Everything seemed to be going smoothly until a loud bang came from within the console, causing it to billow smoke.

“Shit! Abort!” High Gear screeched as she reached for the switch, but the room was engulfed in a bright light.

When the light died down and the whir of the machines faded to nothing, High Gear gazed over the console, seeing the teleport pad was now completely empty with no sign of the shamrock stallion.

“Oh… crap…” High Gear whispered as she rushed over to the pad, looking for any trace of the missing pony. “Please be okay… wherever you are…”

***

In a brief flash, Verdant found himself falling in a dark room. The stallion’s scream echoed about before he landed in some liquid.

Disoriented from the crash, Verdant eventually managed to breach the surface of the liquid, gasping for air.

“Doctor?” Verdant called out, trying to see if he could see anything in the darkness, only seeing some vague shapes in the distance. “Please tell me the teleport room’s just flooded and has the lights turned out…”

The only reply Verdant received was a faint echo.

After a moment of quiet, the emerald earth pony noticed a scent that seemed to come from whatever he was swimming in. It was a scent the was oddly familiar to him, but he couldn’t quite place where he’d smelt it before. In a moment of curiosity, he stuck his face into the brew and took a long sip.

Swishing the mystery fluid around, Verdant soon realized what the drink was.

“Hard cider? Why is there a giant lake of…” Verdant stopped as what had happened quickly dawned on him. “Oh Faust curse it, did I get shrunk again?”

Far in the distance, a loud creak reached Verdant’s ears as light began to pour into the room, revealing to the earth pony that he was trapped within one of countless bottles full of cider that lined the shelves of the cellar they were in.

Looking towards the source of the light, Verdant saw image of a earth pony filly that was slowly sneaking her way down the cellar’s stairs.

The colossal yellow filly moved as stealthily as she could, somewhat undermined by the fact she was humming a tune that Verdant recognized from a spy movie.

Seeing no sign of other ponies, the youngster stuck crept low to the ground as she moved closer to the bottle of cider Verdant was in.

“Uh… little girl,” Verdant swallowed and backed away in the brew as the bow-clad filly drew closer. “I know lots of kids want to try grown-up drinks, but don’t grab this b-”

The shrunken stallion was interrupted by when the girl lunged her face forward and grabbed the bottle with her teeth, slamming Verdant about and giving him a horrifying view of her inner mouth.

A wave of cider pulled Verdant under as the filly tossed the bottle into her saddlebags, engulfing him in darkness once more.

Verdant had only managed to reach the surface of the cider once more before he found himself tossed about by the giant foal running back up the stairs.

***

Apple Bloom reached the top of the cellar stair and gazed out towards the orchard, seeing no sign of her older siblings, her grandmother or any other ponies that could get her in trouble.

Moving quickly and quietly, she got out and closed the cellar door before bolting towards a tree in a more secluded part of Sweet Apple acres that held a clubhouse she had proudly rebuilt for her and her friends.

The young filly swiftly darted up the ramp to the clubhouse, where she found her her close friends, an orange pegasus and a marshmallow white unicorn waiting for her.

“Did you get it, Apple Bloom?” The pegasus, Scootaloo, whispered, just in case there was anypony nearby that could overhear and get them in trouble.

“Eeyup,” Apple Bloom gleefully said as she pulled the bottle from her bags and set it before them on a table. “You shoulda seen me. Ah was like a ninja getting this.”

“You’re sure this is the cider we’re not supposed to have?” The last of the trio, Sweetie Belle asked as she carefully eyed the bottle.

“Sure as shootin’. Watch this!” Apple Bloom grabbed the bottle by the neck, giving the brew (and the tiny pony within) a vigorous shaking. Setting the cider back on the table, the trio saw a bubbly foam rising up towards the top. “Y’see? Hard cider foams up like a soda, but regular cider just kinda sits there like juice.”

“This is gonna be great!” Scootaloo grinned as she bounced in place. “Grown-ups say this stuff is for them only, but I figure if we all drink it, we’ll be bound to get our cutie marks!”

“Yeah!” Apple Bloom cheered. “We could get a bottle, or a mug, or a stein, or a keg, or-”

“Or like one of the wine glasses my sister has!” Sweetie leaned closer to the bottle. “So… how do we decide who goes first?”

“How ‘bout Rock, Paper, Scissors?” Apple Bloom said as she pulled away from the table. Her compatriots nodded in agreement as they moved to different parts of the room, making them equally stand apart.

“Rock, Paper, Scissors, shoot!” The trio spoke in unison. Scootaloo and Sweetie deftly crossed their forelegs over while Apple Bloom kept hers firmly locked together.

“Ha! Rock smashes Scissors! Ah win!” The bow-clad filly grinned as she walked back to the table.

“I would have won if we were playing Rock, Donut, Thursday,” Scootaloo pouted and crossed her forelegs.

“Well we didn’t, so…” The earth pony punctuated her sentence with a raspberry as she twisted the cap off the drink and brought the bottle up to her face.

***

Within the bottle, Verdant found everything to be spinning from the intense shaking the little filly had given it.

“Urgh…” the emerald pony groaned as he tried to keep afloat. “This was supposed to be an easy day off. A quick little trip, I get a bunch of bits and I go home happy to enjoy a lazy Sunday. Fan-friggin-tastic.”

Just as the earth pony had managed to get his stomach to settle, he felt the bottle shaking once more as the little filly grabbed the bottle and twisted the cap off, making the brew bubble up closer to the top.

Verdant could only gaze on in terror as the bottle was being tilted up towards the filly’s mouth as it slowly opened.

“Uh… Miss… Apple Bloom, please don’t drink this stuff! Or me!” Verdant screeched, his voice unheard by any of the fillies. He tried to struggle against the current as the waves of cider start to flow into the giant girl’s gaping maw. “Stop! This stuff’s bad for you! I’ll tell!”

The shamrock stallion fought to swim against the flow, but it was as if a minnow was challenging a tsunami. The poor pony soon found himself pulled into Apple Bloom’s mouth. He could see the sight of the bottle pull away from her lips before her tongue swished through the flooded chamber, slamming Verdant from one cheek to the next and savouring the flavor before she gulped it all down.

The speck of a stallion was dragged downward with the cider fall until he landed in a pile of apple scented mush within her stomach. Whatever apple food she had eaten before had long since become an apple sauce.

“This is unbelievable,” Verdant groaned as he pulled himself up before a ear splitting boom echoed all about.

***

After her swig of the cider, Apple Bloom let out a loud belch that echoed throughout the orchard and briefly woke her grandmother from an afternoon nap.

“So, how’d it taste?” Sweetie Belle said as the earth pony set the bottle back on the table.

“Not too bad. Pretty good cider,” Apple Bloom replied before giving her throat a rub. “Just a heads up, it makes yer throat burn a bit after drinkin’ it.”

“Okay,” the unicorn filly nervously said as she picked up the bottle. “Here goes nothing!” Sweetie tilted the bottle back, taking a few large chugs of the bottle.

“My turn!” Scootaloo said, grabbing the bottle the second Sweetie Belle finished and chugging what remained of the cider down.

“Alright, now fer the big test!” Apple Bloom exclaimed before the three faced their flanks… only to groan in disappointment at the sight of them still being as blank as the they they were born. “Shoot. Another bust!”

“Well,look on the bright side,” Sweetie cheerfully said. “At least there’s a bunch of other stuff to try for our cutie marks we can do.”

“Alright, Sweetie. So, what’s next to try?” Scoot asked as she slipped the empty bottle into her saddlebags.

The unicorn filly darted over to a crate with a clipboard on top, listing the day’s plans. “Oh! There’s a big speed eating contest at the Hayburger! For just ten bits per entrant, you can enter a competition to win free Hayburgers for a year!”

“Awesome!” the pegasus beamed from ear to ear before bolting out of the clubhouse and landing by her scooter and wagon. “C’mon! The sooner we get there, the sooner we can get champion speed eating cutie marks!”

“Hold on there!” Apple Bloom called out as she and Sweetie followed down the ramp. “Ah need a minute to head to the house an’ use the bathroom.”

“Just go behind a tree. They could probably use a watering,” Scootaloo as she strapped her helmet on, which made an angry blush cross Apple Bloom’s face.

“Ah don’t just have to pee, Ah have to go number two as well!” Apple Bloom grumbled as her hindlegs fidgeted.

“Then give the trees some fertilizer while you water them. No big deal. Now hop on!” Scootaloo stomped a hoof impatiently, making the bow-clad filly’s glare become more intense.

“Ah ain’t doing that!” Apple Bloom bellowed as she stomped out to the pegasus. “Not only could Ah get in trouble is someone finds it, but Winona might end up eatin’ that darn thing!”

“Girls, c’mon! T.M.I.!” Sweetie shouted as she hopped into the wagon. “Are you trying to make me sick before we can get to the competition?”

Scootaloo sighed as she laid her chin on the handlebars. “Fine, but try to be quick about it.” She looked towards Apple Bloom as she spoke but only spotted a trail of dust zoom as her friend bolted towards the barn house.

***

Verdant groaned as he laid against the stomach wall. From what he could tell, the energetic filly that ate him had done quite a bit of running before forcing her unwitting passenger to listen to the sounds of her relieving her bladder and bowels.

Now however, things had reached a relative calm as he assumed she was now just sitting in her friend’s wagon as it was pulled along. This provided the shrunken stallion with enough peace to let him think about his current predicament.

“Let’s see… what can I do to get out of here…” Verdant said aloud as his eyes wandered around the stomach, seeing acid pouring in from the walls and turning the filly’s previous meal into a liquid mush that was being pulled through a hole at the far end of her stomach.

“Nope! Nopenopenopenopnopenope!” the trapped stallion shook his head at the thought. “Going through someone’s butt is bad enough, but there’s no way in Tartarus that I’m going anywhere near a little filly’s butt! That’s just one step too far!”

With a sigh, Verdant’s gaze wandered the stomach once more, casting his eye towards the valve that dropped him into Apple Bloom’s stomach. “Guess my best bets are to either hope she eats too much at this contest thingie or try to crawl my way up there when she’s asleep or something…”

“ALRIGHT, GIRLS! WE’VE MADE IT JUST IN TIME!” the giant filly’s voice boomed all about before everything quaked, tossing Verdant around the stomach like a bug. “TIME TO GET OUR GRUB ON!

***

“Alright, girls! We’ve made it just in time!” Apple Bloom excitedly exclaimed as she hopped out of the wagon. “Time to get our grub on!”

“This is gonna be great!” Scootaloo shouted as she bolted from her scooter towards the door. “We’ve got this in the bag!”

“Yeah! This’ll be great!” Sweetie said as she caught up to her two friends.

“CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS, SPEED EATERS!” the three shouted in unison as they entered the fast food restaurant, not caring that their shout drew the eye of many an employee and customer.

The crusaders spotted a plump employee standing behind a cardboard stand with a bunch of forms before him.

“Hey there!” Apple Bloom smiled as she came up to the mare. “Mah friends and Ah would like to enter the contest.”

“Sure thing,” the cream colored pegasus gave the three a nod as she slipped them some papers. “Just sign your names and pay the entry fee and you’ll be all set to start.”

After the three tossed some small bags of bits at the mare and took care of their papers, the trio were sent over to a table that a few other foals were sitting, eagerly awaiting the contest to begin.

Only a few minutes passed until the mare that had registered them left the stand, trotting over to the contestants’ table.

“Mares, Stallions and people of all species, welcome to the Hayburger Speed Eating Contest, Junior division!” She called out, drawing the eyes and applause from what patrons were able to take their eyes off their meals. “My name’s Drumstick and we have quite the stiff looking competition. Soon, one of these lucky foals will trot away with a pass for free hayburgers for a year.” The plump pegasus covered her mouth and quickly spoke. “Limit of one per day. Some other restrictions may apply.”

“We’re gonna take these other foals down,” Apple Bloom grinned and gave Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle high hooves.

“Quick rundown of the rules,” Drumstick raised her voice once more. “If you leave the table or suffer a ‘Roan Incident’, you are disqualified. You’ll each be provided glasses of water that will be refilled as needed.”

“What’s a Roan Incident?” Sweetie whispered as she leaned over to Scootaloo.

“That’s when you barf during the contest,” Scootaloo replied, making the marshmallow filly’s white coat become somewhat green.

“Are you ready?” Drumstick asked as a bunch of platters full of burgers was levitated over to the table. “On your mark… get set… go!”

As soon as the plump pegasus said go, Apple Bloom grabbed a burger and quickly chewed it to bits, swallowing it down.

***

“Hope you’re having fun, kid.” Verdant swallowed as he heard the sound of Apple Bloom’s approaching meal. “I know I won’t.”

The upper valve opened up, dropping a large collection of mashed up burger into her stomach. Verdant was barely able to jump out of the way before he could be buried by the former sandwich splashing into the acid.

“Well, one down. So that should buy me some OH FAUST!” Verdant was stunned as a second chewed up burger came dropping down into the stomach before he could even catch his breath. The shamrock stallion tried to hop out of the path of the falling food, only for the ABC’d sandwich to bury him alive.

Verdant was relieved that the burger’s thick remains were light enough for him to push his way through, allowing him to breach the surface just as more bits of burger plopped down near him.

“Hopefully she gets full soon…” Verdant groaned as he continued to try and wade through the meal as even more dropped down. “After all, she’s just a little filly. How much can she eat?”

***

Apple Bloom quickly wiped her mouth with a foreleg before she started to scarf down her sixth burger.

On her left, Sweetie Belle groaned after finishing her fourth burger.

“I…” the marshmallow filly groaned as she tried to lift the next burger to her mouth, only to drop it back onto her tray. “Sorry… I can’t do it.” She said as she pulled away from the table.

“Must… keep… going…” Scootaloo muttered as she pushed herself forward, gobbling down her sixth burger, only to feel a terrible rumbling in her belly that made her pupils shrink and her cheeks bulge.

The little pegasus bolted away from the table and barely made it to the mare’s bathroom when a horrid retching came from within.

“Oh my, seems Scootaloo’s had a Roan Incident. Poor thing.” Drumstick called out before turning her attentions back to the tables. “Well, now we’ve only got Truffle Shuffle, Petite Treat, Apple Bloom and Pepper Belle remaining.”

The competition quickly escalated with the remaining foals digging into the burgers with blinding speeds.

One by one, the competitors would eventually call it quits until…

“We have a winner!” Drumstick exclaimed, holding the victor’s foreleg aloft. “With a total of twelve burgers, our Hayburger Speed Eating Junior Champion is… Apple Bloom!”

“Yay!” the bowed filly weakly shouted before glancing at her flank. “D’aww… dangit.”

“Well, at least you got a pass for free burgers, Apple Bloom,” Sweetie Belle came to her friend’s side, patting her on the shoulder.

“Y’know, I’m kinda glad I didn’t get a cutie mark for barfing,” Scootaloo hoarsely said as she slowly walked up to them. “It'd probably be some gross bag or a toilet or something.”

“Ah’d say it’s a victory then.” Apple Bloom smiled as she hobbled away from the table, grabbing the pass Drumstick held out and stashing it in her bow. “So, what’s next on the list?”

“That would be,” Scootaloo stuck out her tongue as she pulled a sheet of paper from her saddlebags. “Movie critics! We watch movies and review them.”

“How do yah review a movie?” Apple Bloom’s eyebrow shot up as they trotted out of the restaurant.

“I think you just write down what you thought about the movie and get it printed.” Sweetie shrugged as she climbed into the back of the wagon.

“Plus it gives us an excuse to check out the new Da Pukas movie,” Scootaloo said as she plopped her helmet on.

“Alright, let’s do this!” Apple Bloom shouted as she pulled herself into the wagon next to Sweetie Belle, albeit with some difficulty.

“CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS, MOVIE CRITICS!” the trio shouted together as Scootaloo started flapping her wings, pulling them away from the hayburger.

Apple Bloom stretched out in the back of the wagon, surprised to see that Sweetie Belle was staring at her stretched out belly. “Uh, Sweetie? Wha’ are yah staring at mah gut?”

“Huh?” the earth pony’s words snapped the unicorn from her transfixed gaze. “Sorry. I was just wondering how you could fit twelve burgers in there.”

“Gotta admit, it’s kinda hard,” Apple Bloom replied. She tried to look strong, but the filly felt quite overstuffed and more than a little queasy from all the burgers she’d eaten.

“I’ll bet…” Sweetie’s gaze was transfixed on her belly as she once more and reached a hoof out, giving the stomach a rather hard poke.

“Whoa!” Apple Bloom winced, feeling her stomach rumbling like mad from her friend’s surprise jab. “Careful! I think I’m…”

The earth filly suddenly slammed her mouth shut, feeling something rushing up her throat.

***

Breaching the surface of the sandwich slurry, Verdant gasped for what air he could get. The Apple filly’s appetite was far greater than he had been expecting. Looking up, he saw the stomach’s upper sphincter was just barely out of the reach of his forelegs.

“So close yet so far,” the shamrock stallion muttered as the stomach shook about from Apple Bloom’s movements.

“UH, SWEETIE? WHA’ ARE YAH STARING AT MAH GUT?” The farm filly’s voice boomed like thunder all around, forcing Verdant to cover his ears with a wince.

“Could you please try not to be so damn loud!” Verdant exclaimed, shooting the valve a nasty glare.

“GOTTA ADMIT, IT’S KINDA HARD,” the thunderous filly’s voice answered back.

“Guess I’ll just have t-” the tiny stallion was silenced when the stomach was suddenly struck by a hard jab, making a wave of sandwichy sludge that pulled him back down and caused the stomach around him to pulsate and shake about.

Just as he reached the surface once more, the stomach gave a hard clench, forcing the shrunken stallion and a tsunami of slurry to rocket up Apple Bloom’s throat.

All Verdant could do was brace himself as he saw the uvula speeding towards him and he found himself crashing face first into the back of the filly’s lips.

The emerald pony shook his head to regain his bearings when he saw the divide of the lips.

“Yes!” he shouted, paddling through the slurry as fast as his minuscule legs could pull him. “This is it! Sweet freedom! I’m getting out of CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPP!!!”

Just before he could reach the divide, the entire chamber of her mouth tilted back. Verdant found himself dragged by gravity and the slurry’s current to the back of her throat before he was swallowed back down.

Verdant muttered a colorful array of curses as he was pushed along with the former food through the farm filly’s esophagus, plopping back into the stomach even more drenched than when he’d left it.

“Dammit all!” the verdant pony growled, giving the disgusting goop a hard punch. “I just want to get out of here! Is that too much to ask?”

***

Apple Bloom gave a hard swallow, forcing her sick back down and making her stomach feel even more unsettled.

“Dangit, Sweetie!” she weakly grumbled, her yellow coat quickly becoming more green. “Ah jus’ threw up in mah mouth cuz’ o’ that!”

“Sorry, Apple Bloom,” the snowy-coated unicorn scooted away from her glaring friend. “I didn’t mean to make you sick.”

“Trust me, Sweetie, you do not want to taste a hayburger a second time.” Scootaloo bristled before looking over her shoulder at her crusading compatriots. “They taste a lot worse.”

“No kiddin’,” Apple Bloom groaned as she gave her belly a gentle rub, hoping it would settle down soon. “Ah’ll be glad when we get to the ROCK!”

“Rock?” Scootaloo tilted her head in confusion. “What are you talking abWHOA!!!” The pegasus’ eyes went wide at the sight of the large rock dead ahead of them. She tried turn away, but it was too late. The scooter hit an incline on the rock’s surface, launching the three into the air.

The trio tumbled about in the air when suddenly, they, the scooter and the wagon came to a halt in mid-air.

Slowly opening her eyes, Sweetie Bell saw that all of them were floating in a magenta glow as a violet unicorn ran up towards them.

“Are you girls okay?” the mare huffed as she came to a halt and set the three down on the ground.

“Yeah, we’ve been through worse, Twilight.” Scootaloo brushed some dust off her coat, trying to look cool.

“Thanks, Twilight.” Sweetie smiled as she wrapped her small foreleg’s around Twilight’s. “That was pretty scary.

“Ah’ll say…” Apple Bloom spoke up, drawing Twilight’s attention and showing her just how green the little filly was. Before she could take a step closer, the foal’s cheeks bulged out and her pupils dilated.

***

The stomach shook about far worse than any earthquake Verdant had ever felt before, making him dizzy as he was slammed back and forth through the mush.

Things seemed to start to settle, but the stomach was still wildly shaking and Verdant’s eyes were spinning about when he found himself being launched upward once more.

Verdant’s sight barely returned to him as he saw the Apple Bloom’s uvula quickly approaching as the geyser of sick pushed him forth.

Hope this works! Verdant crouched into a ball as the wave forced him from the filly’s mouth, crashing face-first into a rosy and translucent glowing wall before he was pelted by a tsunami of the former contents of the filly’s stomach.

The tiny earth pony winced as the sickening waves washed over him. Thankfully, the disgusting slop soon died down and he felt it slide down his back as he clung to the shining wall as tightly as he could.

“SORRY, TWILIGHT.” Verdant looked behind, seeing the sickly giantess holding a hoof to her mouth. “AH JUST COULDN’T HOLD IT BACK ANYMORE.”

“IT’S OKAY, APPLE BLOOM,” a booming voice came from behind the wall. Turning back to face the source, Verdant saw that he was staring into the amethyst eyes of a unicorn that dwarfed the titanic filly. “THAT SORT OF THING HAPPENS AND… IS THAT A TINY PONY ON MY FORCE FIELD?”

***

After a quick spell to restore Verdant’s height and some ginger ale to settle Apple Bloom’s stomach, the three fillies, Twilight and the drenched earth pony went to Sweet Apple Acres, where Scootaloo was having a blast spraying Verdant down with the hose.

“Sorry ‘bout all this, Mr. Verdant.” Apple Bloom looked away sheepishly. “Ah had no idea Ah ate somepony.”

“Don’t sweat it, Apple Bloom,” Verdant replied as Scootaloo finally turned the hose off. “Not the first time that’s happened and I get the feeling it’s not going to be the last.”

“Well, at least nopony got hurt,” Sweetie Belle chipped in.

“Indeed.” Twilight’s horn lit up, causing the soaked stallion’s body to quickly dry. “And maybe this will provide some scientific research for your friend.”

“Here’s hoping,” Verdant gave a slight stretch as he saw a mare approaching the barn from the fields. She had a bright orange coat that covered her toned muscles and complimented her long blonde mane and tail.

“Hey girls,” she tilted her stetson up as she came up to the quintet. “Who’s this fella?”

“Applejack, this is Verdant Range.” Twilight gestured to the stallion as Apple Bloom ran up to her sister’s side.

“Y’all won’t believe this, Applejack,” Apple Bloom excitedly said. “This guy was inside’a me earlier.”

Applejack’s pupils shrank before she looked at the stallion with a look of pure and unfiltered hatred. “Beg pardon?” she asked through clenched teeth.

“Yeah,” Verdant nervously said as he started to back up into the barn’s wall. “It was… weird, to say the least.”

“Ah see…” Applejack’s eye twitched before she pulled away, her hooves stomping all the way as she turned the corner. “‘Scuse me fer a moment.”

“What’s eating her?” Scootaloo scratched her head in confusion.

“Hmm…” Verdant raised a hoof to his chin in thought. “Can’t say. Honestly, I’m drawing a blOH FAUST!” The shamrock stallion was barely able to duck as a pitchfork flew towards him, burying itself right where his head had been only moments prior.

Before he could get back up, Applejack tackled him into the wall, driving him into it face first.

“YOU SON OF A-!” Applejack screamed, launching a foreleg towards his face like a rocket, only for it to be caught in a magenta light a few centimeters from his snout. Looking to her side, she spotted Twilight with her horn shining brightly.

“Applejack, not like that!” She exclaimed as she used her magic to pull her friend away from the terrified stallion. “What they mean is he was shrunken down and Apple Bloom swallowed him.”

“Whut?” Applejack flatly said as Twilight let go of her magical hold on her.

“Well, yeah.” Apple Bloom tilted her head as she looked to her sister. “What else could Ah mean by sayin’ he was inside me?”

“Oh… well, um…” Applejack pushed her stetson down over her eyes, trying to cover her blush. “Sorry ‘bout this. Huge misunderstandin’ on mah part.”

“It’s… It’s okay…” Verdant nervously said as the implications dawned on him. “If someone did that to one of my sisters, I probably would have done the same thing. At any rate, I need to get back to Vanhoover. Bye!” With that, Verdant took off like a rocket, occasionally tripping as he ran off the farm.

“At any rate, we should probably get cleaned up for dinner an’ stuff.” Applejack scratched the back of her neck. “So you should probably wash up soon, Apple Bloom. You an’ yer friends can still play fer a bit, just as long as yer hooves are spotless.”

“You got it, Sis!” Apple Bloom cheered and headed for the clubhouse. “C’mon girls, last one to the clubhouse is a rotten egg!”

The two remaining crusaders quickly caught up to the earth filly as they dashed about the acres.

“You knew exactly what they were talking about, didn’t you?” Scootaloo said with a coy smirk on her face.

“Well, duh,” Apple Bloom replied before chuckling. “Ah grow up on a farm and my brother’s one of the most popular stallions in town. How could Ah not?”

“What are you two talking about?” Sweetie tilted her head, completely lost. Her two fellow companions shared a look and grinned before they spoke together.

“We’ll tell you when you get older.”

***

The following afternoon, Verdant had returned to the Vanhoover institute’s third floor. Peering into High Gear’s lab, things seemed rather peaceful, save for the mare nervously pacing about the room.

“Dr. High Gear?” Verdant said as he slowly pushed the door open, making the mare halt mid-step.

“Verdant!” High Gear gasped before charging across the room and wrapping her forelegs around him. “Oh thank Faust, you’re alright! I was worried sick about what happened!”

“Well, I’m in one piece, so that’s good.” Verdant slipped from the scientist’s grip. “Still, being shrunken down, stuck in a bottle in Ponyville, being drunk by a little filly and barfed up twice is not something I want to happen again. Ever.”

“I’m so sorry, Verdant.” Gear turned her gaze to the lab’s floor, where she nervously rubbed her hoof along the polished surface. “We had a defective part blow out. It’s what caused all of this. It’ll be a few days before it’s ready to be tested again.

“Well, I hope your next test goes well, doctor. I just want to get my money and try to put this thing behind me.”

“Of course. I’d probably want to as well.” Gear trotted over to a cabinet and pulled out a chequebook and a pen. She quickly scribbled down a signature on the slip and tore it from the book, placing it in Verdant’s hooves. “I hope this makes you feel better.”

“Thank you, doctor.” Verdant gave a nod as he looked at the cheque he held. Seeing what was written on the cheque, his pupils dilated and his jaw dropped.

“Is something wrong, Verdant?” High Gear asked, adjusting her glasses.

“Um... no doctor. Just one question.” Verdant smiled as he quickly stuffed the cheque into his vest’s pocket. “When’s the next test?”

Author's Notes:

Hey folks, it's been a while, but we've got a brand new chapter right here. I'm a bit surprised so many voted for Apple Bloom, but I can roll with it.

This chapter's character pick is none other than our resident scienentist, Dr. High Gear. There's more to her than meets the eye. What could that be? You'll have to wait until she reappears.

Now, time to vote for what will be the chapter after next.

Swift Snort (AP): Verdant is training with his fellow soldiers on Butterfly Island and we see one of the misadventures there.
A Mid-Summer Night's Tasty Dream: Verdant volunteers for a long range teleportation experiment, only to end up tiny and in the cabin of Fluttershy, who thinks she's having a very nice/private dream.
Oh, cud!: Verdant finds himself reduced to the size of a pea stuck on a piece of grass when his cow neighbor, Bea Wellington, stops by.
Betty: The Last Cutesaur: Verdant is recruited by Daring Do to explore an island full of long lost flora and fauna, only to encounter a creature that supposedly went extinct eons ago.
Verdant and the Beanstalk: Returning to the teleportation lab, Verdant prepares for another try, only for something to happen on the floor below.
Bibinba's Inside Story: While playing Marinara Party with some friends of his, Verdant accidentally lands on the wrong space and finds himself staring down an imposing longma.
Deep Into Darkness: Princess Luna has become a powerful being of darkness named Nightmare Moon, making her too fast for Celestia to blast with the elements. However, the princess has a plan involving the skills of a certain green stallion.
Lovely Nights and New Beginnings: Princess Cadance and Shining Armor want to have a foal, but are having some troubles. However, things take a turn for the better when Cadance learns of a shrinking stallion.
A First Time for Everything - Alternate Ending: What would have happened to poor Verdant if he didn't reach Kuni's cervix in time? There's only one way to find out.

Hope you had a good time and stick around for the next tale: Having Your Cake and Eating It Too.

Having Your Cake and Eating It Too (AP)

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It was a clear and calm evening as Applejack returned to the farm after spending the better part of the day at Pinkie’s party for her pet alligator’s birthday. Her tired legs pulled her along to the house, sore from all the dancing she’d done.

Stepping into the kitchen, she was greeted by the scent of something sweet baking in the oven.

“Hmm… that’s smells good,” the apple mare muttered to herself before she trotted further into the house and called out. “Hey Granny, watcha bakin’?”

“Ah ain’t bakin’ nothin’, dearie,” the elderly mare’s voice replied from another room. “That’s yer cousin and her friends’ doin’.”

“Beg pardon?” Applejack’s eyebrow rose just before she heard a quiet creaking coming from behind her. Turning around, she saw the snowy white coat of Winter Gem emerging from one the lower cupboards.

“Hi there, Cousin,” Gem said as she dusted herself off. “How’s your day going?”

“Pretty good, Cuz.” Applejack smiled as she trotted over to the blonde mare. “Likin’ the new hair cut yah got and Ah’m glad yer helpin’ with Pinkie’s party tomorrow.”

“Thanks, Applejack,” Gem said before pulling the orange mare into a hug. “After Pinkie threw that party for us in Vanhoover and what you guys did in the empire, there’s no way we’d miss this.”

“So,” Applejack awkwardly said as she pulled out of the hug. “Mind tellin’ me why you were hidin’ in a cupboard?”

“Swift told us how Pinkie seems to be able to sense ponies coming into Ponyville, we tried to stay hidden in case she came around,” a masculine voice with a distinct Trottingham accent came from another one of the cupboards.

“Swift even had us tuck and roll off the train a couple miles before we reached the town’s limits,” a second stallion’s voice joined in.

“In my defense,” a fancy, feminine voice chipped in before a sky blue unicorn emerged from another cupboard. “I have had experience with visiting Ponyville before and have seen Pinkie’s skills first hoof. If we’re going to surprise her, stealth should be our watchword.”

“Oh, by the way,” a third stallion’s voice chipped in from one of the smaller cupboards. “Wind Whistler’s upstairs playing with Apple Bloom and her friends.”

“Well… glad yer all here then.” Applejack smiled as one by one, the three ponies emerged from their hiding places. “So, watcha got bakin’ here?”

“Oh, just an idea I got from a baker in Vanhoover.” Verdant said as he did some quick stretches. “It’s a special cake that I’ll pop out of for Pinkie. I was told some mares like having a stallion jump out of their cakes.”

“Ah see…” the orange mare nodded. “Well, just try to keep things clean in case the fillies come in.”

“No problem, Applejack,” Verdant threw out a salute. “I’ll make sure I’m spotless before going in. I don’t want any of the cake to go to waste.”

“At any rate, Twilight’s pickin’ up a cake fer Pinkie tomorrow, so Ah guess a second cake might be a good idea considerin’ all the guests.”

“Indeed, Applejack,” Swift said as she trotted up to Applejack’s side. “Rest assured, Pinkie will have a wonderful birthday tomorrow.”

***

The next morning, the five privates were all hidden within the barn, a wall of haystacks serving as their hiding place of choice as well as keeping the decorations and the cake they’d made hidden from sight.

Through a small gap in the stacks, Winter Gem spotted Applejack approaching with several carts overstuffed with apples when she spotted the pink coated birthday girl emerge from a haystack outside.

“Huh, oh hi, Pinkie Pie,” Applejack’s voice made the privates stand stock still. “What brings you ‘round these parts?”

“Who’s ready to shake their hoof-thang?!” the party mare exuberantly exclaimed and hopped. She pulled one of the pink envelopes from the basket on her head and held it out the the orange Apple.

“It’s an invitation to Gummy’s ‘after-birthday’ party this afternoon.” Pinkie was practically glowing with excitement as she bounced in front of the stunned farmer. “There’s gonna be dancing, and games, and cake, and ice cream, and punch!”

“This afternoon?” Applejack stuttered as she backed up. “A-as in, “this afternoon” this afternoon?”

“That’s funny,” Pinkie sounded surprised as she raised a hoof to her chin. “That’s just what Twilight said,” her voice once again became a source of boundless excitement as she continued. “And the answer is, “Yes! It’s this afternoon.”

Sweat quickly started to gather on Applejack’s brow as she tried to further back away. “Uh, well… Ah… Ah… uh…”

Behind the haystacks, Winter Gem grimaced at her cousin’s display and quietly smacked a hoof against her forehead.

“Ah don’t think Ah can make it ‘cause…” Applejack nervously paused as she tried to do what she did worst. “Uh… Ah have to… uh... uh, you know what? Ah… uh… pick apples!” Her voice became somewhat more confident, even as she was pouring sweat like a leaky fountain. “Yep, apples! ‘Cause that’s what we do! With the… apples. We, uh… pick ‘em!”

Applejack put on the best smile she could to help sell her lie, meaning she would easily lose her life savings if she were playing poker.

A tense silence held in the air as Pinkie stared at the nervous Apple as she gulped, until…

“Okey-dokey-lokey!” Pinkie merrily said as she began to walk away. “A party’s still a party, even if there’s only three guests.”

Just as Applejack let out a sigh of relief, the pink mare suddenly leapt back in front of her face.

“By the way, my Pinkie sense told me a bunch of new ponies who’ve never been to Ponyville arrived recently and are somewhere near here.” Pinkie’s cheerful tone made the former soldiers all tense, their legs ready to leap into the hay at a moment’s notice. “Do you know where I could find them?”

“Uh…” Applejack bit her lip and looked away from Pinkie’s gaze. “Can’t say Ah do, Pinkie.”

“Oh well, thanks anyway.” Pinkie smiled as she started to bounce away. “Next stop, Rarity’s!”

Though Pinkie soon disappeared from sight, the privates and Applejack waited several more minutes until they felt they were in the clear.

“Now that was way too close fer comfort,” Applejack said as she pulled into the barn and began detaching the carts.

“No kidding,” Winter Gem said, looking up over the haystacks. “We’ll try to get everything ready for Pinkie’s party ASAP, Applejack.”

“Much obliged, guys,” Applejack wiped her forehead and headed to the carts. “While yer doing that, Ah’ll be handling this stuff.”

***

The morning slowly turned to afternoon for the privates as they worked on getting the barn set up. Fortunately, as the day rolled on, more ponies came to the barn to help with their preparations. The first was Twilight Sparkle, followed a few minutes later by Fluttershy and Rarity.

“Thanks for accepting again, Swiftsword,” Rarity said as she examined the sky blue mare. “By the way, I really like your new manestyle. It looks rather nice on you.”

“Why thank you, Rarity.” Swift grabbed Rarity’s hoof and gave it a quick shake. “By the way have you lost weight?”

Before she could reply, a loud yell came from outside. From within the barn, they could not only see Applejack trotting up, but two streaks racing over the hills towards them. One in a rainbow of colors, and the other in the most terrifying shade of pink they had ever seen.

“Applejack, we’ve got a problem!” Rainbow screeched as Pinkie trailed closely behind the speeding pegasus.

Applejack gasped in shock at the sight just as Rainbow flew into the barn. The farmer mare ran close behind her, slamming the door shut. Barely an instant passed before Pinkie started loudly knocking on the door with her face.

“Quickly” Swiftsword whispered, her fellows grabbing the non-Applejack ponies and dragging them behind the bales of hay.

“I know you’re IN THERE!” Pinkie bellowed from behind the door.

With a nervous swallow, Applejack slowly opened the upper half of the barn door a crack. “Oh! Howdy, partner.”

“Mind if I…” Pinkie leaned closer, trying to get a better look. “Take a look inside the barn?”

“No! Uh, Ah mean, yes, Ah mean…” the farmer nervously stumbled over her words. “You can’t come in here!”

“Rainbow Dash just went in there.” Pinkie gave Applejack a harsh glare.

“Oh, well, she was just bringin' in some... supplies! Yup, supplies for the... renovation!” Applejack’s eyes slightly brightened as she thought up a half-decent lie. “Fixin' up the whole thing, top to bottom... uh, lots of construction goin' on in there right now.”

Before Rainbow could utter a word in response, the blue aura of Swiftsword’s magic snapped her mouth shut while the unicorn pulled a serrated dagger from mane and started sawing into one of the spare planks.

Forge pulled a hammer from his bags and started to strike the wall while Gem and Verdant quickly and loudly set up a ladder.

“Ey,” Hat Trick affected a deep tone and a thick Manehattan accent, “Could somepony pass me a five and three quarter incher? Dez bolts ain’t gonna tighten themselves.”

“Yup! Construction! That's my story, and Ah'm stickin' to it.” Applejack nervously chuckled as she looked Pinkie in the glaring eye before nervously swallowing.

After a moment of tension thick enough for Swift to cut it with her sword, the glaring pink mare started to trot away. “Okey… dokey… lokey…”

Applejack sighed in relief, only to instantly find Pinkie right up in her face, staring at her with their snouts touching before she started to leave once more.

Once Pinkie was far enough away, the ponies in the barn all gave a sigh of relief.

“Well that was close to bein’ a constipation cure,” Applejack said as she wiped the sweat from her brow.

“Pinkie was close to ruining the surprise.” Twilight’s magic moved some of the haystacks aside. “By the way, Rainbow, is the cake okay?”

“Check it out,” Dash cockily replied as she pulled the remarkably intact cake with Pinkie’s face on it from her saddlebags. “Even pulling all that speed, the cake’s still perfect!”

“Great job, Dash,” Twilight clapped her hooves together. “We’re perfectly on schedule for Pinkie’s birthday party.”

“Right, everypony!” Applejack called out, making the privates stand at attention. “Now let’s git everythin’ set up fer a party that’ll knock the socks off Pinkie fer years to come!”

With that, the collected ponies quickly set about decorating the barn with the earth ponies and unicorns setting up tables, presents and balloons while the pegasi handled the banners.

***

“Nice work, everypony,” Twilight cheered as she took in the sight of the barn, covered in a wide assortment of colorful banners, streamers and balloons while a large stack of presents were neatly set up on a table. “Now the only thing left to do is to bring the birthday girl here.”

“I’m on it!” Dash said with a salute. “I’ll get her here in a flash!” She cockily grinned as she flew out the barn door, taking off like a cannonball.

“Now all that’s left is to get into the special cake.” Verdant said as he climbed a step ladder and took off the cake’s top.

“Now remember, whatever performance yer doin’, keep it PG, alright?” Applejack said as the shamrock stallion clambered into the cake.

“Do you mean a modern PG or a PG from a couple decades ago?” Forge asked as his horn lit and a fiery orange glow placed the cake’s top back. “Snow’s shown me there’s apparently a pretty big difference.”

Applejack sighed as she trotted away. “Least the party should be kickin’ soon and then we got the gala comin’ up after this.”

“Oh, you’re going too?” Gem smiled as she trotted up to the orange mare’s side. “What do you plan on doing there, Applejack?”

Applejack also smiled with pride and polished her hoof on her chest. “Ah’m planning on settin’ up a cart at the gala to sell some of mah apple treats and bring in a ton of bits to spruce things up here. We might even get Granny a new hip.”

“You plan on setting up a food selling stand…” Winter Gem tilted her head in confusion. “To a catered event?”

“Well, I-”

“In addition,” Swiftsword interjected, cutting off the farm mare. “Based on my history with the Grand Galloping Gala, most ponies don’t bring their bit bags to such events, meaning somepony buying food seems rather unlikely to me.”

“Well...” Applejack nervously rubbed her foreleg. “Maybe stuff’s changed and it will pan out?”

“I hope so, for your sake.” Swift gently placed a hoof on Applejack’s shoulder. “After all, it would be bad to pay for the permits without turning some kind of profit.”

“Wait, what permits are you talkin’ ‘bout?” Applejack suddenly backed away from Swift’s grasp with a raised eyebrow.

“Well, you’d obviously need some permits to allow that sort of thing.” Swift drew closer to Applejack. “First of all, a permit to sell food.”

“Ah’ve already got one of those,” Applejack said with clear annoyance.

“For Canterlot, though?” Swift asked in concern. “Things may have changed, but I believe you would need a permit for whatever city or town you’re hoping to sell food in. Not to mention the permit to set up such a thing on the palace grounds.”

“Don’t forget the receipt of declared commerce since you’ll be crossing rural lines,” Verdant chimed in from the cake. “My mother always stressed how those sorts of things are important.”

Applejack glumly turned her gaze to the floor for a moment before Gem walked up and gave her shoulder a pat.

A few minutes passed while the gathered ponies waited until they heard a grunting sound outside.

“We’re… here…” Rainbow’s voice was heard before the barn door started to open.

“Surprise!” the element bearers and privates shouted in unison as Pinkie started to come into the lavishly decorated barn. However, the pink party pony was perplexingly non-preppy. Her coat and mane both seemed a lot darker with normally poofy curls looking straight and deflated. What was most surprising to them was the expression on her face was one her friends rarely saw; anger.

“I really thought she’d be more excited,” Fluttershy stated softly as she looked to a nervous Twilight.

“Excited? Excited?!” Pinkie furiously bellowed. “Excited to attend my own farewell party?!”

“Farewell party?” Twilight asked in a mix of shock and confusion.

“Yes! You don't like me anymore, so you decided to kick me out of the group and throw a great, big party to celebrate!” She exclaimed before flailing her forelegs and turning away from her friends. “A "Farewell to Pinkie Pie" party!”

“Why in the world would you think we didn't like you anymore, sugarcube?” Applejack walked up to Pinkie’s side, only to get a glare.

“Why? Why? Why?!” Her glare shifted from one attendee to another. “Because you've been lying to me and avoiding me all day, that's why!”

“Uh, yeah!” Rainbow casually said, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. “Because we wanted your party to be a surprise.”

“We'd been planning this party for such a long time, we had to make excuses for why we couldn't attend Gummy's party so that we could get everything ready for yours.” Rarity offered Pinkie a soft smile as she moved in closer to her.

“We even did our best to remain out of sight so this would be an even bigger surprise.” Swiftsword said from behind Twilight.

“If this is a farewell party,” Twilight strolled over to a table with a single layer cake upon it. “why does the cake I picked up from Sugarcube Corner say "Happy Birthday, Pinkie Pie"?”

Pinkie bit her lip as she looked about the barn, carefully taking in the sights of decorations and a large stack of presents before she slowly walked over to the table with the yellow and purple frosted cake. In the center of the cake was the image of a smiling Pinkie Pie with exactly what Twilight had said.

The glum looking earth pony literally brightened up as her mane seemed to inflate back to its normal poofy and curly self with a loud squeak. “Because it's my birthday! Ooh, how could I have forgotten my own birthday?”

The gathered guests gave a sigh of relief just before they found themselves swept up in Pinkie’s stretchy forelegs for a bone-crushing hug.

“And you like me so much you decided to throw me a surprise party!” Pinkie said as she hopped away from the nine ponies, scattering them about the barn floor.

“That's what we've been trying to tell you, darling,” Rarity wheezed as she pulled herself up and dusted off her coat.

“You girls are the best friends ever!” Pinkie exuberantly exclaimed. “How could I have ever doubted you?”

“It's okay, Pinkie Pie. It could have happened to any of us.” Twilight grinned as she trotted over to the birthday girl as the other element bearers chimed in similar comments.

“I kinda doubt it,” Hatty muttered before Forge elbowed him into silence.

“I'm just glad I haven't been replaced by a bucket of turnips,” Dash chipped in, much to the confusion of Twilight and Swift. Seeing the surprise in the unicorns’ face, Dash spoke up. “You don't wanna know.”

“All right, everypony! Enough of this gab,” Applejack called out before turning on a record player and filling the room with festive music. “Let’s party!”

The ponies all gave a cheer before Swiftsword slung a shoulder around Pinkie shoulder. “Before we get to opening your presents, my friends and I have put something together for you.”

Swift gently lead the pink mare along, idly noting how she seemed to bounce with every step towards a table at the back. Pinkie’s eyes seemed to sparkle as she took in the sight before her.

Upon the table was a pink three-tiered cake with white frosting on each layer. It wasn’t nearly as well done as what Mr. and Mrs. Cake would make, but its was clearly something they put a lot of effort and care into making nonetheless.

“We heard of an interesting custom with modern desserts for adult mares,” Swift started to say, not seeing Pinkie Pie preparing to pounce on the pink pastry. “So we thought what better way to celebrate your birthday than to make one of these cakes with a delightful surprise insi-”

The unicorn was cut off as the party mare leapt past her, flying up towards the ceiling before spinning about and dive bombing the cake with her jaws opened wide.

In an instant, where a cake once stood now laid only a very happy Pinkie Pie, licking her lips and showing no sign she’d just eaten a cake that was bigger than she was.

The sight was such a shock to the gathered guests that Applejack didn’t pay attention to where she was walking, bumping into the record playing and knocking the needle off.

“That was a scrumdiddlyumptious cake you guys made,” Pinkie said, seemingly oblivious to the shocked looks on everypony’s faces. “So, what was that surprise you said was inside, Swift?”

“Umm…” Swiftsword nervously bit her lip as her eye’s focused on Pinkie’s belly.

***

Verdant found his whole world seemed to shake and tumble about, feeling like the cake he was hiding in had been bucked to the other side of Ponyville.

After a few intense moments, the sudden and rough movements came to a halt with the top of the cake being knocked aside.

“Whoa, you girls must party harder than I remembered,” Verdant uttered as he pulled himself up to look out of the cake’s rim. His eyes then dilated in shock at the world around him. He found himself suddenly in a massive chamber of flesh that was bigger than Applejack’s barn and filled with things that seemed to be massive pieces of food, with even a single chocolate chip or strawberry now being bigger than him.

“Oh, Faust curse it!” the shamrock stallion angrily exclaimed. “How’d I even get shrunk this time?!”

***

“Uh… Raspberry jelly!” Swift said with the widest grin she could muster. “We worked extra hard on it.”

“Well I’d say you guys did a really good job on it.” Pinkie rolled off the table back onto her hooves. “By the way, where’s Verdant? I figured he’d be with you guys.”

“Well, I’m sure he’s around somewhere.” Swiftsword scratched the back of her neck. “Excuse me for a second, I need to speak to Twilight.” The sky colored unicorn stated before leading the stunned violet mare over to a more secluded part of the barn.

“Twilight, I pray you know of a way to get Verdant out of there,” Swift whispered, her tone filled with concern for her comrade. “I don’t want my friend to be stuck in another stomach any longer than necessary.”

“Okay… I’ll try to think of something,” the violet mare whispered back as she observed Pinkie going about the party with nary a trace of the large amount she ingested having an impact on her figure. “Is Pinkie’s stomach dimensionally transcendental?”

“I haven’t the slightest idea what that even means. I just wish to save my friend.”

“Alright, I think I’ve got a plan,” Twilight whispered before waving over a still shocked Applejack. “AJ, I think I know how to save Verdant. Do you have a pie tin and a can of whipped cream?”

“Uh… yeah,” the farm mare responded, still somewhat stunned. “There should be plenty o’ pie tins and whipped cream at the house. Just help yerself.”

“Thanks, Applejack.” Twilight’s horn began to shimmer a brilliant magenta. “I should be back in a few seconds.” In a bright flash, the violet unicorn had disappeared.

“So…” Applejack gave her foreleg a awkward rub. “This have somethin’ to do with that ‘snack-sized stallion’ thing that Pinkie mentioned back in the empire?”

“Yes, it does.” Swift gave her a nod before taking a deep breath. “You see, centuries ago on Butterfly Island…”

***

Pinkie was having a blast as she danced about with her friends, though she was somewhat bothered by an awkward air that seemed to be lingering over the party.

Still, it was a nice surprise her friends had thrown for her and she was savoring every moment of it.

“Hey, Pinkie!” Applejack called over the festive music. “We’ve got another special treat for ya!”

The pink mare’s ears instantly perked up before she spun around to face her fellow earth pony. She found Applejack and Swiftsword with a pie that had an absurd amount of whipped cream between them.

“Ooohhh! That looks like a really nice pie!” Pinkie said as she stalked over to the dessert that seemed to be somewhat shaking. “What flavor is it?”

“Um… grape!” Swift answered as quickly as she could. “Yes, we thought a grape pie would be something the birthday girl might enjoy.”

“You would be right!” Pinkie replied as she stepped down on the edge of the tin, launching the pie and it’s contents into the air before swallowing them whole. “Deeee-lish!”

***

Down in the belly of the beast, Verdant had spent his time climbing up several of the piled desserts, hoping to get closer to the stomach’s upper valve. Sadly, his efforts were fruitless as he stood atop a strawberry. Even with how far he’d climbed, he was barely at the halfway point to the high sphincter.

“Looks like the back door’s the only way out for me…” Verdant grumbled as he started to hop back down. “Again.”

Just as he reached the fleshy floor, a rumbling came from above and something was spat into the stomach in front of him. What had landed before him was Twilight Sparkle, groaning as she pulled her cream and crust covered self back to her hooves.

“Are you okay, Twilight?” the shamrock stallion inquired as he rushed over to her side.

“I’ve been better,” Twilight replied as she rolled her shoulders before looking around the massive chamber that was Pinkie’s stomach. “Dear Faust...”

“I know, it’s surprising to learn that either Pinkie’s body shrank us or that her stomach’s dimensionally transcendental.” Verdant calmly said as he tried to brush some of the whipped cream from Twilight’s coat.

“Indeed. Clearly further study would be needed...” Twilight’s gaze soon wandered back to the two of them. “But we’ll save that for another time. I’ll teleport the two of us out of here and we’ll be back to the party in seconds.”

“Oh, thank you!” Verdant said in relief before pulling Twilight into a tight embrace. “I really didn’t want to go through a mare’s butt for a third time.”

“Alright, let’s…Wait third?” Twilight had a look of confusion before shaking her head and lighting her horn. “Nevermind. Let’s get out of here!”

The light of Twilight’s horn bathed the stomach in a bright light and the two to vanish in a flash… only to reappear at the top of the stomach before falling down onto the tops of some cupcakes.

“I… I don’t understand…” Twilight said with a note of fear as she shook the frosting from her coat. “I should have been able to teleport out of here like it was nothing.”

“That is weird,” Verdant replied, pulling himself off the pastry. “What could be the cause of this?”

With a sigh, Twilight brought a hoof to her forehead. “I’m afraid it’s just another one of the mysteries of Pinkie.”

***

A few minutes had passed and Swiftsword was growing more anxious as Pinkie happily danced and opened presents.

“Something is clearly wrong,” the sky colored unicorn whispered into Applejack’s ear. “Twilight should have been back long before now.”

“Ah know, sugarcube.” Applejack gave a swallow. “Ah’m worried too.”

“Worried about what?” Pinkie suddenly burst up between the two, giving both a start. “Is this about where Twilight’s gone?”

“Well, yeah, to be honest.” Applejack gave her neck a nervous rub as she and Swift faced her. “Y’see…”

“Pinkie, it wasn’t raspberry jelly that was inside the cake, but Verdant.” Swift stepped closer to the party mare. “He was supposed to jump out and dance to surprise you, but you devoured it far too quickly.”

Pinkie Pie’s jaw suddenly slammed down into the barn floor like a ton of bricks.

“Furthermore, Twilight had covered herself in whipped cream and disguised herself as a pie so you’d swallow her so she could teleport herself and Verdant out.” Swift took a deep breath to maintain her composure. “Unfortunately, she has not teleported out, meaning something must be preventing her from doing so.”

“WHAT?!” Pinkie bellowed in shock. “Holy guacamole, this is bad! This isn’t what most ponies mean when they wish to get a pony or two inside them on their birthday!”

“I...I will take your word for that, Pinkie.” Swift nervously nodded her head. “Regardless, now that you know what’s going on, we know what we have to do.”

“Absolutely, there’s only one thing we can do,” Pinkie sternly said as she marched herself over to the table, stopping directly in front of the punch bowl. “Since they can’t be at the party, I’ll have to bring the party to them!”

“Wait, what?” Swift tilted her head in surprise and Pinkie lifted up the punch bowl.

“Pinkie Pie Punch Pool Party!” the excited mare yelled before dunking her head into the bowl, guzzling down the fruity drink in a matter of seconds.

“There. Now they can have some real fun down there,” Pinkie proudly said before letting out a tiny burp. “Oh, excuse me.”

***

“Well, it sounds like Pinkie at least has an idea about what to do,” Verdant said, his ear tilted towards the upper opening.

“I sure hope so,” Twilight said as she wandered about to stomach, stopping in front of the lower sphincter.

“SINCE THEY CAN’T BE AT THE PARTY, I’LL HAVE TO BRING THE PARTY TO THEM!”

Twilight gave a swallow while Verdant’s eyes became the size of saucers. “That can’t be good,” the two said in a frightened harmony.

“PINKIE PIE PUNCH POOL PARTY!” the party mare’s words thundered all about and a rumbling soon followed. The two quickly learned the source of the rumbling as the top of the stomach opened up and gallons of fruit juice flooded into the fleshly chamber, sweeping the two up in its current.

Once the rushing rapids stopped, the two were able to breach the surface and clamber onto the stick of a lollipop. The pair sputtered and coughed as they clung to digesting treat.

“So,” Twilight wheezed between coughs. “Any ideas on how to get out?”

“Sadly, yes.” Verdant gave a resigned sigh before pointing to the now underwater orifice. Twilight groaned in disgust before smacking her head into the stick.

***

“Miss Pie.” Swift bit her lip as trotted up to her side. “As much as my companions and I would love to continue to party, we need to get on the train back to Vanhoover soon if we want to be back before midnight.”

“Oh! That gives me a great idea!” Pinkie leapt over Swift’s head, bouncing over to the front door. “C’mon, everypony! Grab the snacks and presents since we’re bringing it with us! All aboard the party train!” She tossed the barn doors open and was about to bolt away when she spotted a small blue pegasus filly with a pink mane and tail that was covered in an equally pink sticky gum.

“Um, guys… the Crusaders and I had a little accident…”

***

Hours went by as Verdant and Twilight delved through Pinkie Pie’s body, with the only light being provided by the unicorn’s horn.

Much to the great relief of the tiny twosome, the pink pony’s body was surprisingly clean and empty as they journeyed through her large intestine.

“Y’know,” Verdant broke the silence as he followed Twilight. “All things considered, this is probably the most pleasant time I’ve had being eaten.”

“Well, I hope I don’t get more examples to compare this to,” Twilight replied, looking over her shoulder at the earth pony. The moment she looked towards him, she felt the tip of her horn hitting something soft and fleshy.

Taking a step back, the pair saw the tunnel ahead seemed to grow smaller and smaller, becoming barely enough for a crawling pony.

“Guess Pinkie being bigger on the inside had to end at some point…” Twilight nervously said as slowly approached the tighter tunnel.

“At least this means this whole thing’s almost over,” Verdant tried to sound reassuring as he and Twilight crouched down and slowly started to crawl ahead.

***

On an evening train that was racing towards Vanhoover, the element bearers and the former soldiers were sitting within a few cabins in the train cars, partaking in whatever snacks remained from Pinkie’s party.

“Thanks again for taking care of the gum, Miss Rarity,” Wind Whistler said from Swiftsword’s side, running a hoof through her now much shorter mane.

“Oh, my pleasure, dear,” the alabaster unicorn waved from the other side of the cabin. “I just wish that Sweetie and the others weren’t so completely covered.”

“Well, Ah’m sure that their coats’ll grow back before winter sets in.” Applejack stretched against the cabin’s seat. “And if they don’t, that just means yah get to whip up some nice winter clothes for them.”

“Say, does thinking of winter make anypony else think of ice cr-” Pinkie’s words were suddenly cut off as she felt a strong pressure in her hindquarters.

“Gotta go, guys. I think Twilight and Verdant are about done!” The party mare took off like a bolt of lightning, leaving a trail of pink dust and glitter behind her as she whizzed past the train attendant and her small cart, slamming the bathroom door behind her.

As the room started to stop spinning for the attendant mare, she heard a loud groaning coming from the small bathroom.

“Miss?” the unicorn mare cautiously approached the source of the noise, pulling her cart along behind her. “Are you okay in there?”

After one more groan and a sigh of relief, the door popped open with a trio of ponies tumbling out.

“I’m okay!” the pink pony weakly said and waved. “I just need a donut something fierce.”

The attendant’s horn lit a light green as she pulled an inflated ring cushion from the cart… only to find the pink mare snatching an actual donut from the cart.

“Ah, much better,” the plump pink pony happily said, trotting away as if nothing happened.

“Miss, could my friend and I please have some drinks?” the lavender mare weakly started to stand up. “I have the feeling we’re going to need it.”

“You can have it, Twilight,” her green companion said as he rolled onto his belly. “I’ll just raid Barrier’s liquor cabinet when we get home.”

Author's Notes:

Hey folks, welcome back to another chapter of Stomach Stallion. Sorry this took so long. My only excuse is that chapters based on actual episodes take a lot longer to do because I find them so draining.

At any rate, time to vote for the next chapter.

Swift Snort (AP): Verdant is training with his fellow soldiers on Butterfly Island and we see one of the misadventures there.
A Mid-Summer Night's Tasty Dream: Verdant volunteers for a long range teleportation experiment, only to end up tiny and in the cabin of Fluttershy, who thinks she's having a very nice/private dream.
Oh, cud!: Verdant finds himself reduced to the size of a pea stuck on a piece of grass when his cow neighbor, Bea Wellington, stops by.
Betty: The Last Cutesaur: Verdant is recruited by Daring Do to explore an island full of long lost flora and fauna, only to encounter a creature that supposedly went extinct eons ago.
Verdant and the Beanstalk: Returning to the teleportation lab, Verdant prepares for another try, only for something to happen on the floor below.
Bibinba's Inside Story: While playing Marinara Party with some friends of his, Verdant accidentally lands on the wrong space and finds himself staring down an imposing longma.
Deep Into Darkness: Princess Luna has become a powerful being of darkness named Nightmare Moon, making her too fast for Celestia to blast with the elements. However, the princess has a plan involving the skills of a certain green stallion.
Lovely Nights and New Beginnings: Princess Cadance and Shining Armor want to have a foal, but are having some troubles. However, things take a turn for the better when Cadance learns of a shrinking stallion.
Dog Day Afternoon: On a day out, Verdant finds himself stumbling upon a patch of Shrinking Violets... and a rather hungry Diamond Dog.
Twilight Tour: After an accident with a flower cart, Verdant owes his friends a favor. Now Verdant has to go on a special roller coaster designed to teach ponies about anatomy. A roller coaster ride through Princess Twilight Sparkle. - Based on a piece of art by PonyThroat. Used with permission.
Tales from the Mirrorverse - Antacid's Creed: In a world where everypony's evil, Verdant wants to get himself a high ranking position in Celestia's forces. What better way to prove he can sneak into anywhere than sneaking into the princess herself?

Remember, only vote for one chapter to avoid possibly ties. At any rate, I hope to see you all again (and hopefully much sooner than last time) for the next chapter, an alternate ending for A First Time for Everything. See ya then!

A First Time for Everything (Alternate Ending)

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Long ago in the cozy village of Dream Valley, a colt by the name of Verdant Range was afflicted by poison joke. The poor pony found himself being shrunk smaller than a pea and taken on a journey that lead to him being devoured by an unaware zebra mare by the name of Kuni.

Verdant’s night went terribly as he was passed through her digestive tract before before being expelled in a burst of sickening hot gas. Only moments after that escape was he once again swallowed up by the zebra’s nethers. He’d only narrowly managed to escape from her womb as the cervix started to seal shut.

However, what would have happened if fate had taken a different turn for the sad young stallion?

***

Verdant softly landed on the bed below, coughing as tried to rid his lungs of the gross gas.

Once the coughing had stopped, the colt gazed at the sight before him.

Towering above him was Kuni's massive striped buttocks shaking about while her hoof furiously rubbed against her winking marehood.

The colt groaned as he landed face first against her uterine walls, bouncing against the blood-lined flesh. Looking up, Verdant gasped at the tiny cervical opening starting to seal itself shut.

“No!” he screeched as he bolted along her spongy walls. “I don’t want to be trapped in here!”

Verdant took a running leap at the orifice, desperately trying to slip through, only for the cervix to seal itself shut. The minuscule mammal smashed face first against the tight hole before falling back to the flesh floor.

“No, no, no!” the tiny colt bellowed, scrambling to the sealed passage. He frantically pawed at the shut cervix as his breathing reached fevered pitch. “Kuni, let me out!”

The zebra’s pants grew into a explosive shout as she bucked her hips, bouncing the pony within about the warm walls of the womb.

Verdant was dazed as the movements from Kuni’s hips slowed to a halt, her shouts replaced by gentle snoring.

“Damn it all,” the tired pony said as he struggled to push himself up to his hooves. “I’m stuck in here.”

Verdant’s eyes looked around the massive chamber that was Kuni’s womb. The walls were swelteringly hot and squishy under the pony’s hooves. Behind him, the cervix was still sealed so much that he couldn’t even slip one hoof through. Off in the distance, he could see a pair of fleshy tunnels that went off in strange bends.

“So... this is the inside of a mare’s mare parts,” Verdant slowly walked about the slumbering zebra’s womb, amazed by the strange sights that surrounded him. “Wish school taught me more about how our insides work.”

Verdant gave his face a quick fanning. While Kuni’s insides were always warm, the heat within her womb was much greater. After a few moments of walking about the uterus, Verdant came to a halt to see if he could spot anything in the tunnels ahead.

“Hmm… can’t see much…” Verdant briefly rubbed his chin in thought. “Still, maybe one of these will get me out of here.”

With a hum, the shamrock pony bit his lip as played a silent game of eeny-meeny-miney-mo. His foreleg soon came to a halt on the left path and he took some tentative steps into the fleshy duct.

Minutes passed by as he walked down the slick tunnel, not seeing much aside from fleshy pink until he spotted something white in the distance.

After even more walking, Verdant drew closer; seeing that the white object in the distance seemed to be a great big ball of some kind.

“Whoa, I’ve never seen a ball this big!” he said excitedly as he ran up to what he mistook for a toy. “Then again, a ball this big would probably be pretty small.”

Verdant skidded to a halt in front of the oversized orb, his nose only barely not touching it.

“Hmm…” Verdant scratched his chin as he stared up at the sizable sphere. “Wait, why would a ball like this be inside somepony?”

After a few seconds of thought, Verdant brushed the thought aside with a shrug. With a smile, he gave the mighty orb a light push with a foreleg. The sphere’s surface squished under the light pressure of his hoof.

“Feels kinda weird, but oh well.” The small colt tried to pull his hoof away but he couldn’t move it. In fact, much to his horror, it seemed the giant ball was starting to pull him in.

“Oh no! No, no, no, no!” Verdant panicked as he tried to pull away, but to no avail. “I’ve already been swallowed up twice today! I don’t want it to happen again!”

He tried to use another foreleg to push away, only to find that one being pulled in as well.

“Help me!” Verdant screeched, his screams unheard by the sleeping zebra as more and more of him was being sucked in. “Somepony! Anypony! Help me!”

In a matter of seconds, Verdant’s hindlegs were pulled in, followed soon by his torso and neck. With his head being pulled into the orb, he let out a final scream before he was silenced; his body fully absorbed by the spherical cell.

***

Verdant felt as if he was slowly starting to wake up from a strange dream. However, many things felt strange to him. The first thing he noticed was that he seemed to be floating, as if he was in a nice hot bath, but with the water being all around him.

The second was that wherever he was, it seemed fairly cramped.

The third was the fact that he couldn’t open his eyes for reasons he couldn’t figure out.

And lastly, somewhere in the distance, he could hear a heartbeat somewhere nearby.

Where… where am I? The last thing I remember is being pulled inside that ball inside Kuni… Is this inside the ball?

Verdant tried to move about, but whatever he was in was pretty cramped. He could feel the fleshy walls being struck by every little movement.

However, the poor pony did manage to find something. There was some sort of strange tube that connected to his belly.

What the heck is going on? Verdant started to think before the dark chamber shifted about. Once the movement settled, he felt like he was upside down. The little colt started to panic at the sudden movement, struggling to his full, limited extent.

However, two things came about that surprised Verdant. The first was a comforting, motherly shush while the second was a gentle rub coming from one of the walls.

“Rest easy, my little one,” a gentle voice echoed all around him. “The day will soon come when you will be done.”

Wait, I know that voice! Ms. Kuni? Am I still inside you?

***

The bright early morning light struck the slumbering zebra’s eyes, rousing her from her peaceful slumber. Her eyes opened to the sight of her rounded belly. With a gentle smile, she rose up to sit on her rump as she gave a quick stretch of her forelegs.

As she stretched her forelegs, she felt something moving about her belly, striking her insides.

“Rest easy, my little one,” Kuni quietly spoke, giving her swollen stomach a gentle rub. “The day will soon come when you are done.”

The zebra mare gave her belly a quick kiss before she moved out of bed and headed for the kitchen.

The past eleven months and been quite strange for Kuni. After her heat, she felt sick to her stomach in the mornings. She initially thought it was just some bug going around Dream Valley, but not only did this seem to continue for too long, but her belly was starting to grow larger and larger.

Eventually, Dr. Herbal Mixture had found the cause of these symptoms. Kuni was pregnant.

When she was told this, her jaw had dropped and she yelled at the stallion.

“But that’s an impossibility! I’ve never taken a stallion to bed with me!”

Kuni was disbelieving at first, but as time went on, it became more and more clear that pregnancy was the only explanation for what was going on with her body. Her belly continued to grow rounder, her teats swelled up, her hooves ached and she could sometimes feel movement and kicking coming from inside her.

Fortunately for her, there were many in Dream Valley willing to give her kindness and generosity during this strange time. Thanks to their kindness and support, despite the unknown origin of the pregnancy, she had decided to keep and raise her foal.

After enjoying a tasty breakfast of oats and bread, Kuni trotted over to the house of the family that had been the most inviting to her since the discovery of her surprise pregnancy.

Kuni loosed a series of quick knocks on the door. A moment later, the door swung open, revealing a pale green stallion with a forest green mane that went well with his emerald eyes. Upon seeing the zebra, he was quick to greet her with a warm smile.

“Good morning, Kuni.” He stepped aside, giving her plenty of space. “Please, come in.”

“Viridian Forest, I wish you good day,” Kuni warmly greeted as she stepped into his home. “Any good news on Verdant, I pray?”

Viridian gave a sigh as Kuni felt a few strong kicks from her belly. “I’m afraid not. Some days, I worry I may never see my son again.”

“Still,” a second voice joined them in the form of a plump green mare with a white muzzle and a short brown mane, “I pray to Faust every day for my little colt’s safe return.”

“At any rate, how are you this morning?” Viridian asked as he and Emerald Hills lead the zebra into the living room.

“My foal should arrive any day now,” Kuni said as she looked down at her belly, giving it a rub as more kicks came from within. “Which is good since I feel like a cow.”

“Well, I’m sure you’ll have a wonderful little baby, Kuni,” Emerald said as she gave her a gentle pat on the back. “Have you thought of any names yet?”

“If I have a son, he will be named Kijani. If I have a daughter, she will be AH!” Kuni winced as she felt a clutching pain in her belly. She bit her lip as her legs started to tremble. When she felt a wetness dripping down her hindlegs and the pain started to grow worse, a terrifying realization came to her. “It is now my child’s birthday! They are now on their way!”

“On it!” Viridian bolted from the living room while Emerald grabbed a pillow from the sofa and gently laid Kuni down on her side.

“Alright, Kuni; breathe. We’re here for you.” Emerald gently brushed her mane as Kuni practiced her breathing.

***

At the sound of hearing his father’s voice, Verdant started to struggle as fiercely as he could from within Kuni’s womb.

Come on, Miss Kuni! Figure out it’s me in you!

Shortly after the hearing his mother ask Kuni for her foal’s possible name, Verdant felt the chamber all around him contract and slowly, the water he seemed to be floating in started to drain away.

Whoa! What’s going on?! Verdant’s world started to shift until he found himself laying on his left side.

Soon, the small space started to contract more and more all around him, making his soft snout mash up against a fleshy barrier.

With a good deal of effort, Verdant managed to open his eyes, to try to see what was going on. He slowly blinked what he could out of his eyes as he saw Kuni’s cervix in front of his face, much smaller than when he last saw it. The hole was slowly starting to open as Kuni’s labored breaths reached the colt’s ears.

Verdant squinted to try and see through the slowly opening cervix, hoping to see more of the way out of the zebra. All he saw was the fleshy tunnel that swallowed him, though now it looked far too small for him.

Great. How the heck am I supposed to get out of here?

After a couple of minutes, the cervix had opened wide as the womb contracted more and more around Verdant’s body.

“Alright, Kuni. It’s time.” Emerald’s voice reached Verdant’s ears from outside the womb’s walls. “Now, push!”

Verdant felt Kuni’s body clench all around him once more, but far more intensely. Slowly but surely, the poor pony felt himself being pushed out of Kuni’s uterus and into her incredibly tight vaginal canal.

Oh dear Faust, this is the worst pain ever! Verdant thought as he felt like Kuni’s body was crushing him as he was pushed further along her body. Looking up a ways, he could see a narrow slit that had light coming from the outside, along with a few strands of the groaning zebra’s tail.

The agony persisted for several grueling minutes for Kuni and Verdant as he was pushed further and further through her body. After some of the greatest pain he’d ever endured, Verdant saw himself reaching Kuni’s nether lips before his head was finally pushed out of the zebra’s body.

***

“You’re doing fantastically, Kuni. You’re almost there!” Emerald said as she watched the shape of a foal’s head emerge from Kuni’s body, obscured by the amniotic sack.

“She’s right,” Viridian said with a wince as the zebra clenched her foreleg around his hoof, nearly crushing it. “Just one more big push and your baby will be here.”

“Aaaughgh!” Kuni wailed in absolute agony as she pushed as hard as she could. After several agonizing moments, the great pressure and pain had died down and the sound of a faint whimper came from near Emerald. The exhausted zebra barely had the strength to move her head towards the source of the sound.

“You did it!” Emerald softly said before she started to pull the sack away from the foal. “You’re now the mother of a beautiful baby…” the mare trailed off and her eyes dilated at the sight of newborn.

“Emerald, what’s going on?” Viridian carefully pulled his hoof from Kuni and drew closer to his mate. “What’s going on with the baby?”

When Viridian reached the foal, he nearly fell over by the sight of him. The baby was a little colt that had a forest green coat that contrasted the dark stripes along his body. His mane and tail were an earthy brown. The two things that stood out the most about the tiny colt was his white muzzle and that he already had a cutie mark upon his flank; a trio of water droplets.

The colt groaned tiredly as he forced his eyes open, seeing the bright room and the forms of Viridian and Emerald.

“Ver...Verdant…” the plump mare took half a step forward. “Is that you?”

“Yeah…” Verdant said weakly as he tried to stand, only to fall back on his belly. “I’ve got a long story for you, Mother.”

Emerald Hills gave shocked gasp before her eyes rolled to the back of her head and she fainted.

***

“And that’s how I became a zony,” an adult Verdant said before he took a bite of his daffodil sandwich, drawing shocked and confused looks from the others that sat by him in the Canterlot mess hall.

“Bull crap!” a violet pegasus across from him said as he leaned closer to the zony who continued to munch away. “If you just said that your father bred a zebra, I would have bought that, but this is insane!”

“I must say, your tale does seem rather…” the cyan unicorn interjected, swirling her fork through her mashed potatoes. “Far-fetched, to say the least.”

“I swear to Faust, it’s all true!” Verdant sternly replied. “I wouldn’t make that sort of thing up!”

“I doubt that,” the snowy earth pony on Verdant’s left piped in before leaning over to speak to the blue and white griffin on the other side of the zony. “Jaylin, what’s the real story here?”

The hen swallowed a bite of her tuna sandwich before setting it down. “As completely insane as it sounds, it’s apparently true.”

“What?!” the cobalt stallion across from Jaylin exclaimed in disbelief.

“Yeah, I know. It sounds crazy, Gem,” Jaylin offered a shrug. “But I’ve known Verdant since we were little. He was a regular earth pony, but the day after he got his cutie mark, he disappeared. Almost a year later, he reappears with those stripes on him and Ms. Kuni’s moving in with them.”

“B-b-but…” the pegasus’ head tilted, as if the gears in his mind were being ground down by the madness it was trying to resolve. “If you were turned into a zony baby, how come you’re the same age as us?”

“My dad gave me a bath in poison joke cure, just to see if it’d do anything.” Verdant shrugged before taking another bite of his sandwich. “That turned me back to my proper age.”

Swiftsword, the unicorn mare, gave a weary sigh and rubbed her temples. “I swear, I pray we never face such insanity.”

“Alright, cadets; listen up!” a voice barked as a charcoal unicorn stallion entered the mess, approaching the six who leapt from the table and saluted. “I hope you enjoyed your lunch, because it’s the last meals you’ll be getting from a Canterlot chef for a long time. Tomorrow morning, we’re heading off to Butterfly Island for survival training. Understood?”

“Sir, yes, sir!” the six repeated in unison, their salutes still raised for their captain.

“Very well, be sure to take fifteen laps once you’ve finished,” Barrier saluted sharply and dropped it before pulling a quick about face and starting to trot away.

The cadets gave a quick sigh of relief before sitting back down and digging into what remained of their lunch.

Well, I’ve never been to an island before. Verdant thought before he took another bite of his savory sandwich. How bad could things be on Butterfly Island?

Author's Notes:

Hey there, everyone. Hope you've enjoyed the newest chapter of Stomach Stallion. Now we have Verdant in this alternate timeline becoming a zony and Kuni moving in as one of Viridian's mates.

Now, some of you have probably read the A Pony Displaced stories and are possibly wondering, "Who the hell is this Jaylin character?".

Well, to put it simply, Jaylin is a character Sober and I both wish we thought of when we were first making the backstory of the cadets in the original A Pony Displaced. She would have been a griffin who was raised by ponies in Dream Valley and a neighbor/childhood friend of Verdant's who would later join the guard, becoming a member of Squad 982 with the other five cadets. But since Sober and I don't feel like going back and retconning her into the Another Path/Homeward timeline with that backstory, I decided to have her show up here instead.

Anyway, with that explanation out of the way, let's vote for the chapter after next.

Swift Snort (AP): Verdant is training with his fellow soldiers on Butterfly Island and we see one of the misadventures there.
A Mid-Summer Night's Tasty Dream: Verdant volunteers for a long range teleportation experiment, only to end up tiny and in the cabin of Fluttershy, who thinks she's having a very nice/private dream.
Dating Delights: Verdant goes out on a date with a fancy mare he met during a dating service and things seem to go swimmingly... until he learns she's a cannibalistic serial killer with a shrinking fetish.
Betty: The Last Cutesaur: Verdant is recruited by Daring Do to explore an island full of long lost flora and fauna, only to encounter a creature that supposedly went extinct eons ago.
Verdant and the Beanstalk: Returning to the teleportation lab, Verdant prepares for another try, only for something to happen on the floor below.
Bibinba's Inside Story: While playing Marinara Party with some friends of his, Verdant accidentally lands on the wrong space and finds himself staring down an imposing longma.
Deep Into Darkness: Princess Luna has become a powerful being of darkness named Nightmare Moon, making her too fast for Celestia to blast with the elements. However, the princess has a plan involving the skills of a certain green stallion.
Lovely Nights and New Beginnings: Princess Cadance and Shining Armor want to have a foal, but are having some troubles. However, things take a turn for the better when Cadance learns of a shrinking stallion.
Dog Day Afternoon: On a day out, Verdant finds himself stumbling upon a patch of Shrinking Violets... and a rather hungry Diamond Dog.
Twilight Tour: After an accident with a flower cart, Verdant owes his friends a favor. Now Verdant has to go on a special roller coaster designed to teach ponies about anatomy. A roller coaster ride through Princess Twilight Sparkle. - Based on a piece of art by PonyThroat. Used with permission.
Tales from the Mirrorverse - Antacid's Creed: In a world where everypony's evil, Verdant wants to get himself a high ranking position in Celestia's forces. What better way to prove he can sneak into anywhere than sneaking into the princess herself?

Remember, only one vote per person. At any rate, see you next time when we meet of Verdant's neighbors in "Oh, cud!". See ya then.

Oh, cud!

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It was a fine summer day when Verdant returned to the laboratory. While he certainly didn’t wish to have a repeat of what had happened last week he had found that the pay more than made up for the risks.

“Hello, Dr. High Gear?” Verdant called out as he poked his head into the lab.

“Right here, Verdant!” High Gear replied as she pulled herself up from behind her console. “Just giving all the parts a quick once over before we start. Just about everything’s all set for test two.”

“So, will I be headed for Baltimare this time?” Verdant asked as he stepped onto the pad.

“Not this time, bud.” Gear answered as she pushed up her glasses. “I thought this time, we’ll be sending you to your house, just to be a bit more careful. You said your address is 982, Sunbeam Street?”

“Yep,” Verdant said as he sat down on the pad.

“Perfect.” The blue mare smiled as she started to punch some numbers into the console. Just as she finished, a violet unicorn mare walked into the room.

“Hey Gear!” the mare called out, a pair of paper bags carried in her white magical light, along with a large soda she took a quick sip from. “I got us lunch from the 4D’s.”

“D’aww, that’s sweet, Pix.” Gear smiled as she gave the unicorn a rub of her pink, yellow and blue mane. “Verdant, this is my girlfriend. Pixel Flash.”

“Hi there!” Verdant gave a wave.

“Nice to meet you,” Pix smiled before taking another sip. “So, this your current guinea pig?”

“Indeed,” Gear replied as she started to activate the pad. “Now, you may want to stand back. I don’t want to spill anything on this baby.”

“Oh, relax.” Pix dismissively waved as the pad under Verdant began to glow. “I’m not gonna-” Her hoof accidentally smacked her soda, causing it to spill out onto the console and resulting in a blindingly bright flash. When the light died down, Verdant had vanished.

“...Pix…” Gear looked dumbfounded at the pad.

“Yes, dear?” Pixel Flash nervously started to back away.

“If I still had my horn, I’d be shoving it RIGHT UP YOUR ASS RIGHT NOW!!!” the blue mare bellowed, her teeth gritted as she faced her with a look of fury that could kill a cockatrice.

“...Well,” the lavender mare brought a hoof to her chin as she looked away. “I have been interested in experimenting with-”

“Oh Faust dammit,” Gear grumbled as she slapped a hoof against her forehead. “C’mon, we need to see if Verdant got home in one piece.”

***

In a flash, Verdant had found himself falling from the sky. He barely had a chance to scream before he landed in a tall patch of grass, clinging onto one of the long blades.

“Oh great,” Verdant grumbled as he struggled to pull himself up. “Where the hay did I land this time?”

“BUCK-AW?” A loud cluck boomed from behind the shamrock stallion. Nervously swallowing, he slowly turned around and saw a massive golden bird with fluffy feathers that covered her eyes.

“Pizza!” he called out to his now massive pet. “Can you hear me?”

To the tiny pony’s relief and delight, the right big chicken nodded at his question.

“Good girl!” Verdant smiled at having grabbed her attention. “Listen, I need you to go get help! Get Bea over here!”

The hen raised a wing in salute before running off towards his neighbor’s house.

After a minute or so, Pizza returned, leading a large cow over to Verdant’s patch.

The cow was mostly white with some black spots on her back, eyes and neck. Her brown hair bounced against her short horns as she looked around the yard.

Her name was Bea Florinda Wellington and she had been Verdant’s neighbor since he’d moved to Vanhoover. They had quickly become friends and soon after became ‘heat friends’ when spring and estrus rolled around.

“WHAT IS IT, GIRL?” Bea asked as she looked about once more, not seeing what was bothering the bird.

“BUCKA-BUCKA!” Pizza squawked, pointing towards the patch of grass before her.

“HMM?” the confused cow hummed as she leaned closer to the patch, giving the shrunken stallion an extremely up close view of her pink muzzle and violet eyes. “OH! I SEE!”

“Good to hear, Bea!” Verdant shouted as Pizza nodded.

“VERDANT MISSED THIS PATCH WHEN HE WAS MOWING THE LAWN AND IT WAS DRIVING YOU CRAZY!” the oblivious bovine said, the tiny pony blending in too much with the grass for her to see him.

Pizza slapped a wing to her face while Verdant did the same with his hoof along with an accompanying sigh.

“NOT A PROBLEM. I’VE GOT THIS.” Bea said with a smile before opening her mouth and snapping up the blades of grass, pulling the tiny pony into her mouth.

While Pizza angrily squawked like mad at the cow, Verdant was bounced around the bovine’s cavernous maw.

“Bea, stop!” Verdant shouted before he landed on a massive molar. Looking up, he saw an upper tooth coming down to crush him. Acting quickly, he leapt away, getting only the smallest bit of his tail’s hair bitten off.

“For the love of Faust, stop!” the stallion screamed as he tried to stand on Bea’s gigantic tongue. Unfortunately for him, the tongue suddenly rose, sending him tumbling towards the back of her throat. He was so disoriented by the quick movement that he was unable to resist being swallowed down with some of the chewed up grass.

Verdant felt himself being squeezed so tightly by Bea’s throat that he was afraid he might be crushed. He was glad for the brief moment when the crushing force stopped, only for him to drop into a massive chamber with a splat.

“Urgh… son of a…” the small stallion slowly started to stand. “Why do I keep ending up in stomachs?”

When he got to his hooves, Verdant started to glance around his friend's stomach. The first thing he noticed was that this was much larger than any other stomach he’d been inside. Taking a step forward, he saw that he was walking atop some lightly chewed bits of food. Grass, shredded wheat, and a few pieces of fruit.

“Guess I’ll be stuck in here for a while.” Verdant sighed before he started to walk about the fleshy chamber.

***

“Alright, Pizza,” Bea cheerfully said as she wiped her mouth off. “Problem solved.”

The bovine girl was rather surprised when the chicken angrily squawked and flew onto her head, giving her a series of hard pecks.

“Ow! Knock it off!” Bea started to run, knocking the chicken off and bouncing Verdant about her belly. “I know I don’t get it as even as a mower, but I don’t have a key for Verdant’s shed.”

The grumpy chicken repeatedly smacked her own head in annoyance, growling at the cow.

“Well, sorry that you don’t like it, but I have to get going,” Bea replied over her shoulder as she trotted over to the front gate. Just as she crossed the threshold, a pair of ponies came running up and skidded to a halt in front of her.

“Excuse me,” a blue mare with purple hair in a white labcoat said as she tried to catch her breath. “Have you seen…” (huff) “Verdant?”

“Sorry, but not for over an hour,” Bea said and drew closer. “Why? Is something wrong.”

“Crap…” High Gear said as she looked over the lawn. “He should be here somewhere.”

“Wish I could help you guys look for him, but I’ve got an appointment to keep. Sorry.” Bea started to walk away, leaving the two mares leaning against the fence.

“Hey Gear,” Pixel Flash said as she looked over the property, seeing a strange looking chicken bashing its head against the trunk of a tree. “Think your thingy turned Verdant in a chicken?”

“Not a chance, Pix,” Gear grumbled as she looked down at the grass. “If anything, it would have shrunk him down to about the size of a pea.”

“Yikes…” the lavender mare said as she looked out at the fairly large yard. “We’re gonna be here for a while…”

***

Verdant sighed as he trotted about the stomach, looking for the orifice that’d take him to her intestine, but to no avail.

“Where the heck could it be?” He muttered to himself before something clicked in his mind. He recalled a chat he and Bea had some time ago, where she told him about how her species have four stomachs.

“Great, so not only do I get to see one stomach’s insides today, I might get to see four.” The speck of a stallion said before the massive stomach started to move about, launching him and a fair amount of Bea’s previous meal upwards before they were squeezed into a smaller fleshy sack, burying him in the digesting material.

“Well, that’s two down.” Verdant rose up from under the mess. “Two to go, then I’ll end up seeing the unpleasant part of Bea’s butt.” The puny pony grumbled before sighing.

“KIKO?” Bea’s voice boomed, forcing Verdant to wince and cover his ears at her shout. “WHERE ARE YOU?”

***

After a few minutes of walking, Bea had arrived at the Vanhoover airport, where several airships looked all set to take off. She started to look about, trying to spot someone, only to find no trace of them.

“Kiko?” she called out as she walked by the bathroom. “Where are you?”

She came to a halt when she heard a voice singing in reply to her coming from the ladies room.

“She poopin’! She poopin’! She poopin’! This girl’s takin’ a shet! She poopin’! She poopin’! She poopin’! And isn’t finished yet!!”

“Gross, Kiko!” Bea winced in disgust before she heard a flush coming from the room.

“So says the girl that regularly throws up in their mouth to rechew their food,” the voice replied as a light brown goat emerged from the bathroom.

She had a white muzzle with a tiny beard on her chin and her eyes were a greenish yellow with rectangular slits for pupils that still creeped Bea out a bit, even after all these years. Upon her head was dark brown hair with a pair of bent horns sticking out from them.

“One, cud is a normal thing for my species,” the bovine replied with a roll of her eyes. “Two, you’re the one that’s wearing mountain climbing gear when you’re about to go on an airship, for no real reason.”

Bea had always been confused when creatures would wear clothes for no real reason. This meant Kiko’s ensemble was especially strange to her. She had a white t-shirt underneath a red jacket with black sleeves rolled up past her knees. Her lower body was covered by a set of black tights, blue jean shorts and a pair of hiking boots.

“There totally is a reason, Bea.” Kiko smirked as she struck a dramatic pose, standing on her hindlegs with one hoof on her hip and another behind her head. “It makes me look cool.”

“And you’re going to have to take it all off to put on your skydiving outfit.” Bea gained a smug grin while Kiko’s smile suddenly fell.

“Craaaaaap.” The goat gal fell back down to her hooves as Bea started to chortle. “Anyway, you want to hit the bathroom before you get on the ship? Don’t want to mess the suits. They’re expensive.”

“Nah, I took care of that on the way over,” Bea said as she regained her composure. “Now c’mon. We don’t want to make the others wait. Got the tickets ready?”

“Right here,” Kiko replied as she took two tickets from her jacket. “Another plus of wearing clothes is having pockets.”

A few moments later, the two had boarded the airship where a bunch of ponies had either taken seats or were slipping into skydiving suits.

“Good afternoon, everyone,” A mare’s voice rang out, drawing everyone’s attention to the front, where they saw an orange pegasus with a red mane. Upon her flank was the image of a black and yellow circle. “Thank you all for signing up for this skydiving tour. I’m Sky Crash, but don’t let the name fool you. Me and the other pegasi here will make sure you’re all safe when the diving starts.”

“First up, everyone get your gear from the overhead compartments. There should be a suit, a parachute pack, and a set of safety goggles in there. Once you’re all suited up, I’ll go over what we’ll be doing one last time before the jump.”

Bea quickly reached for the overhead compartments while Kiko started to strip herself down. After a few minutes, the two and managed to get themselves into their rather snug suits.

“Alright, everyone’s set up.” Sky Crash nodded as she walked through the room, making sure everyone had taken proper safety precautions. “Once we’re four thousand meters up, we’ll start jumping. When you jump, count to ten before pulling your cord. Should that cord fail, pull your second emergency cord. Should both fail, don’t panic. We have a team of pegasi all right by you to grab onto you and fly you down to safety. Any questions?”

“Right here!” Kiko stuck up a hoof, drawing everypony’s attention. “What will happen to any clothes or other items left on the ship?”

“Any and all items can be retrieved once the ship has landed. Any other questions?” Crash was met with silence from the assemblage. “Right. It’ll be a bit until we’re high enough, so I suggest you all take a seat while we continue to climb.”

The gathered all took to their seats with Kiko and Bea taking seats with a window between them. Turning her head, Bea looked out the window to see the coastal city starting to disappear below them. She nervously gulped before she heard a rumbling coming from her belly.

“You holdin’ up alright?” Kiko placed a hoof on the cow’s shoulder, drawing her attention away from the window.

“Yeah.” Bea gave her friend a smile. “I’ve just a bit of butterflies in my stomach.”

***

“Oh, I wish!” Verdant shouted upwards at the bovine’s words as he stewed in what was slowly becoming a stew. “What did I ever do to end up being a snack sized pony more than once?!”

***

“Heads up, everyone!” Sky Crash bellowed, drawing everyone’s attention. “We’ve reached jumping altitude, so let’s get ready to dive!”

“Showtime, Synergy,” Kiko whispered as she gave Bea a gentle elbow to the ribs, unknowingly sending Verdant face first into some stomach slurry.

“Right, here we go.” Bea got to her hooves and started walking to the airship’s doors which were slowly starting to open.

“Us pegasi will be heading out first,” Sky said as some of the pegasi in flight suits started to fly out, trailing behind the ship. “Once all of them except me’s out, you guys can start jumping one at a time, on my cue.”

When the last remaining pegasus took off, Sky Crash smiled and started to wave jumpers over.

“Right, you can do this, Bea,” the cow whispered to herself as she saw everyone jumping from the ship one at a time. After a few moments, it was Bea’s turn to step up.

Kiko gave her an enthusiastic slap on the back, making her finally move from her spot.

“Alright,” Sky Crash said as Bea stood by the edge of the platform, seeing some ponies falling through the sky while some parachutes were lower in the sky. “You’ll be all clear to jump… now!”

With a hard swallow, Bea sprung forth, taking to the open sky.

***

Bea wasn’t the only one that nervously swallowed as she prepared to jump. Verdant was nervous as the massive cow got ready to jump.

He felt the massive fleshly chamber shake before he felt everything around him start to enter freefall. His entire body started to float upward as some of the more liquid stomach contents started to join him.

“No! No! No!” Verdant screamed in a panic as his limbs futilely flailed about. “Earth ponies weren’t meant to fly! EARTH PONIES WEREN’T MEANT TO FLY! WE’D HAVE WINGS IF WE WERE!”

Verdant was suddenly slammed back down into the slurry from the sudden jerking caused by Bea pulling her cord and unfurling the parachute.

“WHOAOOOAA! THAT WAS THE GREATEST TRIP EVER!” Bea exclaimed in delight, nearly deafening the shrunken stallion.

“Speak for yourself, Bea!” Verdant grumbled as he slowly and sorely pulled himself from the settling mush.

***

After a few minutes of dangling from a parachute, Bea finally landed, gently on her hooves. She gave a “whoot!” of victory as a pegasus guided her away from the landing zone. “That was fantastic!”

In a matter of moments, Kiko landed and shakily wobbled over to her bovine buddy.

“Well, that was more exciting than I expected.” Kiko sat down at Bea’s side. “How about you?”

“Phenomenally!” Bea shouted as she and the goat walked away from the landing area. “That was amazing!”

“Glad to hear you had a good time.” Kiko replied. She had a big smile on her face until she saw something rising up her friend’s throat. ‘“Eww. Are you about to chew on your cud?”

“Yep,” Bea answered through a mouthful. “And it tastes pretty good.” Her chewing suddenly stopped with a wince when she felt a sharp pain on her tongue.

***

Verdant was tossed about from Bea landing on her hooves, eventually coming to a halt in a pile that was slowly growing softer from the digestive process.

“WHOOT! THAT WAS FANTASTIC!” the cow’s voice boomed like thunder, making the minuscule mammal wince and cover his ears.

“Do you really need to deafen me while I’m in here, Bea?” Verdant grumbled as the reticulum started to churn more.

“PHENOMENALLY! THAT WAS AMAZING!” She shouted once more before the second stomach’s movement forced him and the food within upward.

Verdant felt like was being squeezed like the last bit of toothpaste as he was sent up Bea’s esophagus before landing on her massive tongue.

Bea began to chew on the regurgitated food, moving it about her mouth. Verdant valiantly clung to the slippery surface of the tongue to avoid being chewed to bits.

“YEP, AND IT TASTES PRETTY GOOD.” Bea’s voice echoed about more, forcing Verdant to grit his teeth.

“Only… one chance…” Verdant bit down on the tongue, hoping to somehow get Bea’s attention. To his relief, the chewing suddenly stopped.

A moment later, Bea’s massive maw opened up and the tongue stuck out and curved upward. Verdant slammed his eyes shut from the sudden change of lightning while holding onto the tongue with every ounce of strength he could muster.

After a few seconds, his eyes started to adjust to the light of day as he looked over his shoulder. He saw that the bit of tongue he clung to had risen up over the edge of Bea’s nose, letting him see into her lake sized eyes.

“VAHDAN?”

***

Sometime later, at the Vanhoover laboratory, Verdant emerged from one of the rooms, now restored to his proper height once more. As he walked out of the room, he spotted Bea and Kiko chatting by the elevator.

“Hey girls,” Verdant said, drawing their attention to him.

“Verdant!” Bea began apologetically as she ran over and pulled him into a bone-crushing hug. “I’m so sorry! I feel like such an idiot!”

“It’s fine, Bea,” Verdant wheezed and patted her on the back. “Besides, it could have been worse.”

“Still weird to think you were in her stomachs that whole time,” Kiko chipped in as Bea let Verdant go.

“Would you believe this sort of thing has happened before?” Verdant asked as he trotted over to the elevator’s button and pressed it. Looking over his shoulder at the pair, he saw stunned looks on their faces.

“I… I just… wow…” Kiko sighed as the elevator opened up. Verdant held the door open as the two got in before slipping in last.

“So, what were you two talking about?” Verdant asked as Bea pressed the floor button.

“Well,” a smile crossed Bea’s features as she leaned closer to him. “I was thinking about how to make things up to you.”

“You don’t have to do anything for me,” Verdant replied.

“Oh, but you will like this.” Bea chuckled as she leaned against his side. “Since heat season’s starting up soon, I decided to do something special for us.”

“Oh…” Verdant blushed and nervously glanced at Kiko, who was chuckling at his expression. “I’m surprised you’re being so... open about this in front of someone.”

“Oh, but why wouldn’t she?” Kiko smirked as she leaned into the blushing stallion alongside the cow. “After all, my heat’s starting soon and she gave me an invite.”

“Whoa, wait, are you-” Verdant frantically looked between the smirking pair.

“Oh yeah.” Bea wore a smirk similar to her goat companion. “Interested?” She gave him a wink, making his emerald coat change to a ruby red.

“Yes!” Verdant’s voice cracked before he coughed into his hoof. “I mean, yes. I’ll gladly help you two with your heat.”

“Oh, yeah. This is gonna be good,” Kiko said as she and Bea both slung a foreleg over his shoulders. “By the time we’re done with you, your hips are gonna be sore for days.”

Author's Notes:

Hey there! Welcome back and happy Independence Day for my American readers. Great to have you back.

Fun Fact: Pixel Flash's mane is dyed. It's normally a dark purple.

Now, time to vote on the chapter after next.

Swift Snort (AP): Verdant is training with his fellow soldiers on Butterfly Island and we see one of the misadventures there.
A Mid-Summer Night's Tasty Dream: Verdant volunteers for a long range teleportation experiment, only to end up tiny and in the cabin of Fluttershy, who thinks she's having a very nice/private dream.
Dating Delights: Verdant goes out on a date with a fancy mare he met during a dating service and things seem to go swimmingly... until he learns she's a cannibalistic serial killer with a shrinking fetish.
Betty: The Last Cutesaur: Verdant is recruited by Daring Do to explore an island full of long lost flora and fauna, only to encounter a creature that supposedly went extinct eons ago.
Verdant and the Beanstalk: Returning to the teleportation lab, Verdant prepares for another try, only for something to happen on the floor below.
Bibinba's Inside Story: While playing Marinara Party with some friends of his, Verdant accidentally lands on the wrong space and finds himself staring down an imposing longma.
Deep Into Darkness: Princess Luna has become a powerful being of darkness named Nightmare Moon, making her too fast for Celestia to blast with the elements. However, the princess has a plan involving the skills of a certain green stallion.
Strawberry Sweetness: Another teleportation test brings him to Strawberry Sundae. Not the restaurant, but it's owner who's about to have some private time with her lovely wife.
Dog Day Afternoon: On a day out, Verdant finds himself stumbling upon a patch of Shrinking Violets... and a rather hungry Diamond Dog.
Twilight Tour: After an accident with a flower cart, Verdant owes his friends a favor. Now Verdant has to go on a special roller coaster designed to teach ponies about anatomy. A roller coaster ride through Princess Twilight Sparkle. - Based on a piece of art by PonyThroat. Used with permission.
Tales from the Mirrorverse - Antacid's Creed: In a world where everypony's evil, Verdant wants to get himself a high ranking position in Celestia's forces. What better way to prove he can sneak into anywhere than sneaking into the princess herself?
Not a Snack-Sized Stallion, But a Micro-Sized Man: Verdant's enjoying his little job of mowing his history teacher's lawn when suddenly, a pot with a blue flower in it appears from the sky and smacks him in the face. Now the teenage Verdant is just a speck when Barrier's niece, Twilight Sparkle, comes to visit.

Remember, only one vote per person. At any rate, see you next time when we have Verdant take on a special assignment from Princess Cadance in "Lovely Nights and New Beginnings". See ya then!

Lovely Nights and New Beginnings

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Today was a very strange day for the earth pony known as Verdant Range. He’d been happily going about his normal day of work, tending to flowers at the shop until a note magically appeared in front of his face. It was an urgent letter of summons by Princess Cadance telling him to go to the Crystal Empire on the next train with a single return ticket. When he’d arrived in the empire, he’d barely stepped off the train when a couple of guards escorted him to the palace.

Verdant had to keep himself from shaking as the two guards took him through the glittering halls until they came to a halt in front of a pair of tall double doors.

“Go on through,” the guard said as she and her partner took their places outside the door.

With a nervous swallow, Verdant pushed the door open and saw that the room he was in was a large bedchamber. On the far side of the room was a pink alicorn who seemed to be psyching herself up when she heard the door click shut behind Verdant.

“Ah, Verdant Range. Welcome,” Cadance said warmly as she turned around to face the now bowing earth pony. “Please, no need to bow.”

“As you wish, Princess,” Verdant replied as he rose back up and faced the approaching mare. He felt the need to keep from shaking at the approaching princess who was a full head taller than him. “How can I be of service?”

Cadance’s horn lit a baby blue that covered the walls, floors and windows of the opulent bedroom. The glow soon faded before she spoke in a serious whisper. “What I’m going to tell you is to never leave this room. Understood?”

“Of course, your highness.” Verdant dutifully nodded, seeing the piercing look in her violet eyes.

The pink mare took a quick breath to calm herself before speaking. “Recently, Shining Armor and I have been trying to conceive a child, but we’ve been having troubles. We saw a doctor not too long ago to determine the problem and it turns out my husband’s sperm is somewhat weak, unable to survive the trip to my uterus. We learned of the various treatments that could help us get around this issue, but my husband wasn’t comfortable with them for a variety of reasons.” A dangerous smirk then crossed her features. “This is where you come in.”

“How so, Princess?” Verdant asked as he caught the scent of something. It was a smell he’d gotten quite familiar with due to living in a household with ten mares. It was the scent of a mare in heat and it was coming from the princess’s nethers.

“I had to scour pretty far and wide to find information on ponies that have been shrunken down and have survived being inside another pony. You seemed to be the best fit for what I have planned.” Cadance stepped closer and closer to the nervous earth pony with a wicked grin on her face. Verdant soon found his flanks bumping up against the door and Cadance, complete with a half crazed look, now stood only an inch away from him.

“I want you to shrink down, go inside my vagina and then carry some of Shining Armor’s sperm to my eggs.” Cadance brought a hoof to his chin, giving him a somewhat sultry gaze. “How does that sound, Verdant?”

I’d much rather be inside Shining Armor. He’s byfar the more attractive of you two. Verdant nervously rubbed his neck before replying. “I… I’m not sure, Princess. Are you sure I’d be safe?”

“Absolutely. I’ll give you a crystal that will teleport you to a bathtub full of shrinking violet cure once you’re done. And after I’m confirmed as pregnant, I will pay you a handsome reward in the form of a hundred thousand bits for your service to the crown.” Verdant’s eyes widened at the surprising amount offered.

“Wow. That’s quite the sum…” Verdant bit his lip and his eyes shifted back and forth as he tried to think things over. “...Alright. I’ll do it, Princess.”

“Excellent.” Cadance smiled as she pulled away. “However, before we begin this, I must make one thing perfectly clear.”

“And what would that be, Your highness?” Verdant asked as Cadance’s once sultry look turned harsh.

“You are, under no circumstances, allowed to let even a droplet of your semen inside me. Especially anywhere near my eggs.” Cadance gave his chest a light jab as she warningly spoke. “I’m putting a great deal of trust in you for this task and if you betray that trust, the consequences will be severe. Understood?”

“Absolutely, your highness.” Verdant bowed before looking up at Cadance once more. Besides, I wouldn’t want to breed a pink mare anyway. Princess or not.

“Beautiful,” Cadance’s tone once again turned sultry as she climbed onto the bed and spread herself out. With a flare of her horn, she opened a drawer at the bed’s side and pulled out one of many purple vials and small crystals. “Just drink this potion and crush the crystal between your hooves when you’re finished.”

“Alright,” Verdant responded as he grasped the vial and put the crystal into his vest’s pocket before climbing onto the bed as well. “Princess, why do you have so many of these shrinking potions and teleportation crystals?”

“I don’t have to explain my fetishes to you, Verdant.” Cadance rolled her eyes before spreading her slender legs open, giving the shamrock stallion a clear view of her damp nethers. “Now, drink up.”

“Yes, ma’am.” Verdant nervously swallowed before he uncapped the potion and quickly downed the brew. Gently tossing the vial aside, Verdant drew closer to the pink princess.

As he drew closer to Cadance, the whole world seemed to grow around him. In a matter of seconds, Verdant found he was now smaller than the thickness of a hair as he stood before Cadance’s rump, her soaked vulva towering above him.

Before he could put a hoof to her rear to try and climb the prolific princess, he felt the bed quake from Cadance adjusting her sitting position to gaze down on the tiny pony.

“Oh my, you look adorable,” Cadance said before licking her lips. “Now, time for you to get inside me, you sexy looking speck.”

Cadance’s horn began shimmering as Verdant felt himself being floated into the air. His stomach lurched somewhat as he quickly ascended until he came to a halt, hovering in front of her hungry lower lips.

Despite not finding the princess particularly attractive, Verdant found the sight of the massive vulva and the scent of her heat very arousing; he could already feel his siring staff sliding out of his sheathe.

The blue glow that had enveloped Verdant soon reached the edges of Cadance’s fleshy lips, pulling them away to give the shrunken stallion a clear view of her soaked innards.

“Now the fun begins,” Cadance’s voice boomed as she guided Verdant towards her sex. The tiny pony felt the heat from her body blast him before he felt her magic release him, dropping him onto the slick, fleshy floor of her vagina.

Verdant fought the instinct he had to grind his hips against the hot inner flesh, choosing to instead stand up and shake some of Cadance’s juices from his coat.

“Ooooohh…” Verdant’s world shook as Cadance moaned and bucked her hips, sending him tumbling further inside. “Sorry, Verdant, but it felt sooo good!” Though Cadance was whispering, her words still echoed loud enough for him to easily hear her. “Better get going. You’ve got a long journey ahead of you.”

At the princess's words, Verdant journeyed deeper, occasionally slipping due to her wetness. One thing that certainly didn’t help was that Cadance was moaning with every step he seemed to take.

Man, how sensitive can she be if even my hoofsteps are so stimulating to her? Verdant asked himself with a snort, trying futilely to clear the scent of her sexual organs from his nose. Is she gonna cum before I can make it to her uterus?

Before he could make it to even the halfway point of her tight yet titanic tunnel, he heard the princess say something that filled him with an immeasurable sense of dread.

“SHINING, IT’S GREAT TO SEE YOU AGAIN.”

***

Cadance bit her lip, trying to suppress her throaty moans as she felt Verdant making his way further and further into her most intimate of places.

Not long after Verdant had entered her, she’d heard her bedroom door open once more. Looking to the door, she spotted the sexiest stallion she’d ever known. A stallion she had known since her days in Canterlot highschool and one who she’d eventually taken as her husband and handsome prince.

“Shining, it’s great to see you again,” Cadance said with a sexy grin on her face, trying to ignore the intense feelings being caused by Verdant trying to run through her vagina.

“Hey Cadance, how’s your day been?” The alabaster unicorn drew closer, getting a whiff of her scent.

“Pretty good, save for this unbearable heat, dear.” Cadance spread her legs to him as he approached the bed. “What I need is a good soaking from the sexiest stallion in the Crystal Empire.”

“Sure thing, dear.” Shining Armor grinned as he hopped onto the bed, his length already emerging from his sheathe, quickly hardening. “Think we’ll be able to conceive this time?”

“Absolutely.” Cadance enthusiastically nodded and bit her lip as Shining Armor crawled atop her. The two shared a passionate kiss as Shining Armor ground his hips against Cadance’s before lining his tip against her sopping entrance.

***

“Shit, shit, shit!” Verdant screamed as he ran deeper, making his way through the princess’s confines as quickly as his microscopic hooves could carry him. However, this only lead to him slipping on Cadance’s slick juices and tumbling onto his belly before skidding to a halt.

Before Verdant could get back on his hooves, a powerful moan came from Cadance that boomed like thunder. Looking over his shoulder, he saw the head of Shining Armor’s penis penetrating the princess’s pussy and quickly approaching.

Oh dear Faust, Verdant swallowed at the sight of the stallion’s approaching sword. The prince’s dick is even more beautiful than I ever could have OH CRAP!

Shining’s penis rammed into Verdant with tons of force, sending him hurtling into Cadance’s cervix. Unfortunately for the small stallion, Cadance started bucking her hips to match Shining’s movements, sending him bouncing back and forth between the cervix and Shining’s head.

“This… Is… Insane!” Verdant managed to grunt out in between bounces before gritting his teeth as he bounced against the cervix once more. When he was sent hurtling at the colossal stallionhood this time, he held his hooves out and managed to grab onto the top of the head.

“Alright, hopefully this will give me a chance to let my stomach settle dOOWW!” He screamed as Shining started to thrust harder and faster.

***

Sweet, Celestia’s flank! Shining Armor bit his lip as he continued to thrust into his beloved below. As the night went on, he had felt a strange sensation on his tip. He didn’t know what it was, but it was making his pleasure skyrocket. “Oh, I love you, Cadance!”

“I love you too!” Cadance screamed as she pulled her husband down into a passionate kiss. “I’m… I’m! … Cumming!”

Shining grit his teeth as he felt his stallionhood assaulted by a wave of Cadance’s juices and her violently spasming walls. To make things even better, the tingle that was on his tip seemed to vanish for a second before reappearing inside his shaft.

“Cadance!” Shining groaned as he sped up his movements, knowing the end was nigh. “I’m cumming!”

***

Verdant was feeling dizzy from the force and speed of the thrusts, as well as the view of the cervix growing closer and pulling further away. Soon the shrunken stallion’s grip started to fail him. On a thrust inward, Verdant was sent flying towards the cervix’s opening.

Before he could land, a scream of pleasure came from the princess and a flood of her juices collided with the shamrock stallion, sending him flying back.

Verdant tried to scream, but Cadance’s juices kept him from doing so as he was sent flying into Shining Armor’s urethra.

The micro-mammal coughed and sputtered as he landed inside the stallion’s shaft. Just as he managed to clear his lungs of vaginal fluids, he heard the rumbling of rushing fluids up ahead.

With a nervous swallow, he spotted a flood of white liquid full of tadpole shaped cells barreling towards him. He could barely brace himself before he was struck by Shining’s seed and sent crashing into Cadance’s cervix once more and being covered by a lake’s worth of semen.

***

The loving couple huffed, exhausted by their intense love-making as they stared into each other’s eyes.

“That… was… incredible…” Cadance said between pants, kissing Shining on the lips.

“You were… amazing, Cadance.” Shining Armor laid a row of kisses along her neck as he felt his member softening within her warm confines. “I’m gonna hit the shower. Wanna join me?”

“No thanks,” Cadance replied as he pulled out, causing a rush of his semen to escape from her nethers. “I think I’ll catch one later after I’ve caught my breath.”

“Alright. I’ll try to be quick, dear.” Shining Armor hopped off the bed, being sure to shake his hips as he trotted to their private bathroom.

Cadance smiled at the sight of her husband’s display until the bathroom door closed behind him. She then turned her attention down towards her soaked nethers, seeing some of Shining’s seed spilling onto the sheets below.

Hmm… I wonder if this counts as a threesome. Cadance chuckled to herself as she laid her back against the bed’s soft surface. I hope Verdant had a good time in there.

***

Verdant took in a deep breath as he breached the surface of the semen lake that had filled a good portion of the princess’s pussy. It took several snorts to clear his snout of the sticky substance.

“Urgh…” he groaned as he waded out of the stallion sauce before shaking what he could from his coat. “Well, at least I got to be inside the hottest prince in the land and I’ll get a huge payday for this.”

Looking about the drenched chamber of the princess’s soaked innards, Verdant saw a large collection of tadpole shaped sperm cells that were now swimming about.

“Right, time to start.” Verdant gave a sigh before trotting up to one of the cells, idly noting that they had heads larger than his shrunken self.

This is the weirdest damn job ever. He thought to himself before biting onto the cell’s tail. The cell tried to pull away like an excited dog, but the earth pony was able to hold firm.

Alright, boy. Time for our walk Verdant trotted up to the soaked cervix while trying to deal with the sperm struggling to pull away. Brushing some of the seminal fluid away, Verdant was able to get a firm grasp on Cadance’s fleshy barrier and began to climb upwards.

The climb was trying on the cell-sized pony for several reasons. First was how tricky it was to get a grip on the slick cervical surface. Second was because of the sperm, tugging his face with it’s every movement.

However, the thing that bothered Verdant the most during his climb was that his nethers were rubbing up against Cadance’s wet, inner flesh. The sensations on his member, along with the intense smells from Cadance’s estrus and Shining’s semen was driving him wild. The feeling was agonizing as he tried to hold back thrusting against Cadance’s insides, unsure how long he’d last in this state.

Just keep it together, Verdant! He grit his teeth as he passed the halfway point of his climb. You’ll be in deep shit if you cum inside Cadance. Just keep from doing anything here and once you’re mission’s done, you’ll be able to beat your dick like it owes you money.

After a few more minutes of climbing, Verdant had reached the mid-point of the cervix, seeing the tight hole that lead into the royal womb. The entrance seemed so small that Verdant would need to crawl along his belly.

Wonderful! Even more grinding my junk against the princess’s body while I’m not allowed to cum. Verdant rolled his eyes as he fell to his belly and slowly began to crawl along. This is agony! I swear, if I don’t get release soon, my balls will be bluer than the prince’s hair.

Verdant crawled along slowly and carefully, trying to minimize the feelings of pleasure he felt as he ground along the tight, fleshy canal.

Hmm… Y’know, I wonder if when my junk rubbed against her snatch earlier, it counted as Cadance and I having sex… if so, when she and Shining Armor started banging, did that count as a threesome?

After a great deal of slow crawling, Verdant soon emerged from Cadance’s cervix and finally arrived in her royal womb.

Finally! I’m almost done! Verdant grinned while keeping his grasp on the struggling sperm. Now I’ve just got to get to herWHOA!

Suddenly, the entire massive chamber quaked and Verdant was tossed about. The room spun before Verdant soon tumbled to a halt against the squishy, blood-filled floor.

Son of a bitch, what the fuck was that? Verdant thought as he sorely struggled to get back to his hooves.

***

“Hey Cadance!” The rosy alicorn’s eyes shifted to the bathroom door, seeing a slightly damp Shining Armor emerging from the room and rubbing himself down with a blue towel. “The shower’s all set and I saved you plenty of hot water for this.”

“Thanks, dear,” Cadance said as she rolled from the bed before trotting past her husband into the bathroom. As she gently closed the door behind her, Cadance noticed something.

Or rather, the lack thereof.

Hmm… not feeling Verdant in my snatch any more. Guess that means he’s managed to get into my uterus. The pink princess gave a chuckle as she entered the shower. Wait, does this mean I caused an earthquake for him when I rolled over? … Crap… Hopefully he’ll accept an apology and some more reward money.

Her horn lit a light baby blue as she turned on the hot water, feeling it pour down upon her like either a gentle summer rain… or some other things her and her husband had experimented with.

Still, I’ll try to be gentle for the little guy as he’s putting another little guy or girl inside me. Cadance gave a gentle hum as she poured some body wash along her form before carefully scrubbing herself with a sponge.

***

Verdant managed to steady his legs as he felt the titanic princess come to a halt. He took a brief moment to wipe the sweat from his brow before trotting through the massive chamber.

Right. Now to find her egg. How hard could that be? I know she’s in heat from the smell alone, so finding one shouldn’t take too long.

It took several minutes of traversing the womb, but he soon spotted something massive and white off in the distance. Picking up his pace, Verdant headed towards the white object as quickly as he could.

His running was helped by the sperm’s struggles pulling him along in the white thing’s direction.

After a few moments, Verdant came to the white object, feeling relieved for a moment, only to see that there was not just one, but two massive spheres before him.

Shit! Pretty sure the princess is gonna want me to get another sperm to fertilize her other egg. Verdant gave a snort as he drew closer to one of the spheres that easily dwarfed the cell-sized stallion.

At least this crazy quest is about halfway done. The shamrock stallion swung his neck to send the flailing sperm towards the egg’s surface, but the sperm suddenly flailed about more than it ever had before.

The angry sperm’s movements caused Verdant to repeatedly smack into the uterine floor and his grip on the tail to loosen.

Get in the egg! He tried to bite down harder on the tail, but the sperm’s flailing about was too much, sending the poor pony flying off.

When Verdant landed, he tried to run at the sperm, but quickly realized that he couldn’t move his lower body in the slightest. Looking over his shoulder, he was horrified as he saw his body was sinking into the egg’s surface, with more of his form quickly being pulled in.

“No, no!” The emerald-coated pony panicked, futilely struggling as he tried to escape from the ovum that was devouring him whole. By the time he recalled the teleportation crystal he’d pocketed, his body, along with the vest and its pockets, were already absorbed by the egg.

“Princess, help!” Verdant gave one last scream before his head was pulled into the ovum, leaving the only sounds to be heard within Cadance’s womb being the sounds of her heartbeat and the sperm flailing about before impaling itself into the second egg.

***

Cadance gave a light yawn as she trotted out of the bathroom towards her bed. She carefully slid into bed beside her husband who wrapped his hooves around her back and planted a firm kiss on her lips.

“Thanks, dear.” Cadance planted a kiss of her own on Shining before laying her head against the pillow. “You were fantastic tonight.”

“Thanks, Cadance. You were too,” Shining replied as he gave her back a gentle rub. “Think this time will be the lucky one?”

“I’m sure of it, Shiny,” the pink princess replied with a yawn, her eyes gently closing. “This will be the best thing ever.”

***

“This is the worst thing ever,” Cadance sighed to herself as she washed her face, looking at her reflection. Despite waking up a fair bit earlier and getting a good eight hours of sleep, Cadance felt tired.

The past eleven months had been quite the journey for the pink pony princess. While she didn’t hear from Verdant after he’d first entered her, he was apparently successful. She started to feel the symptoms of pregnancy a couple weeks after that night.

Since the doctor confirmed things, she had had to deal with morning sickness, feeling like she was carrying some bowling balls in her belly, the sensation of her insides (especially her bladder) being kicked by somepony, and her teats swelling up with the occasional leak of milk on top of being rather sensitive.

Cadance gave a sigh as she wandered out of the bathroom, feeling her stomach trying to settle while the two in her womb were being rather active this morning.

“How are you doing, Cadance?” A comforting voice came from the alabaster unicorn making his way to her side before gently placing a hoof on her back.

“Could be better, could be worse,” The heavily pregnant alicorn replied as they walked near their shared bed. “The twins are really eager to get out, so keeping last night’s dinner down is a little tricky.”

“Want me to get you some toast?” Shiny asked as he gave her a pat before she pulled away. To his mild surprise, Cadance hopped onto the bed before reclining on her back.

“Nah, but I do have something else on my mind.” Cadance gave Shining a sensual wink, making his semi-soft morning wood quickly begin to harden. “Want to squeeze in one more session before we officially become parents?”

“I’d love to,” the stallion answered as he clambered onto the bed. He carefully leaned over her belly to give her a loving kiss on the lips before grinding his length against her nethers.
The kiss between the two became more passionate as he rubbed against her sex. The two gently moaning as she placed her hooves on his shoulders.

Shining’s eyes suddenly shot open as he felt something splash against the underside of his erection. At first he thought he’d managed to make Cadance more excited than usual, but then she pulled away and gasped.

“Shining… It’s time…”

***

Where… where am I? A thought came from someone, feeling themselves floating around somewhere. Wherever they were, they felt safe and warm.

Who am I? The thinker pondered before trying to move about. To their surprise, they felt something else move nearby in response.

What is going on? The curious one questioned as they continued to move about, with similar movements answering their own.

The ponderer grew curiouser and curiouser until they felt the area around them squeeze and whatever they were floating in started to drain away.

Something’s happening! Not good! This is scary! They started to struggle as the warm room around them contracted. They felt some of the movements from their neighbor, but after a few moments, their movements seemed to vanish.

Help! Something’s really different! I’m scared! They thought before the chamber squeezed all around them, seeming to push them into a very tight space.

This feels really bad! Someone, help me! They felt a great amount of pain as the tunnel seemed to squeeze around them. However, soon the pressure around their head disappeared.

Part of me’s not warm! I don’t like this at all! A huffing soon reached their ears, along with a sound that seemed oddly familiar.

“You’re doing great, Cadance! Our little girl’s out and the other baby’s almost out! All we need is one last push! You can do this! I believe in you!”

The passage tightened once more before a loud noise struck them. After a few moments of pain, it ceased and the sensation of coldness closed in from all around them.

This is all wrong! I’m not the way I was before! I want to be like it was before! Help! In response to everything around them seeming to be all wrong, the thinker did the only thing they could do to get help.

They cried.

After a few seconds of crying, they felt something wipe some of the dampness off of them before being wrapped up in something. They weakly tried to struggle as they cried, but then felt something gently take them into its grip.

“Shhhh… It’s okay, dearie.” A tired yet soothing voice whispered, pulling the crying bundle close to them. “Mommy’s here for you two.”

The crying bundle slowly started to calm down a little from the warmth coming from whatever was holding them against their fuzzy form, along with the gentle beating sound they were accustomed to hearing.

This… this feels good… The crying soon died down as they tried to move part of their face. As their eyes opened, there was a slight stinging as light struck them for the first time.

With a bit of struggle, they looked up to the sound of the whisper and saw something pink. They seemed to be tired and disheveled, but they looked down at the bundle in their forelegs with endless joy.

“We did it…” She weakly whispered as she hugged the bundle in her left foreleg close to her chest, bringing it next to another bundle against her right. “We’re parents, Shining.”

***

A charcoal unicorn stallion gave a yawn as he pulled himself through the halls of the crystal palace. He gave his shoulders a quick roll before he nosed open the door to a chamber where he spotted his nephew walking through the hallway.

“Hey, Uncle Barrier!” Shining Armor excitedly said before rushing up to the tired unicorn and giving him a bonebreaker of a hug. “Great to finally have you here.”

“Yeah. Sorry I missed the crystalling, kiddo,” Barrier replied and tried to shake the tiredness from his eyes. “Would have been here a lot sooner, but some of Pathway’s mutant tarantulas escaped and it was a real nightmare trying to sort that mess out.”

“Either way, it’s always great to have family over. I’ve been really excited to show you the twins. Especially after everything that’s happened.” Shining Armor pulled away with Barrier following along close behind him.

“Glad you and the others were able to get everything sorted out,” Barrier said as they went about the opulent crystalline hallways. “Last letter I got from Night Light said you and Cadance hadn’t picked names for the kids yet.”

“Yeah, but we’ve taken care of that.” Shining Armor gave a nervous chuckle and rubbed his neck. “I think we picked perfect names for our little angels.”

“Well, spill.” Barrier pulled a flask from his saddlebag and took a quick sip.

“I’ll tell you once you can see them. Thankfully, they should be napping right now,” Shining whispered as they arrived at the door. Gently pushing the door open, Shining Armor cautiously tip hooved over to a cradle in the middle of the room while Barrier trotted along.

When the alabaster unicorn arrived at the cradle, he was absolutely beaming with pride at the slumbering bundles.

Barrier’s steps became lighter as he reached the crystalline cradle and looked inside.

On the left side of the cradle was a little filly. She was was a pale pink alicorn with a purple and blue mane that quietly slept.

On the right was a little colt. His coat was a purple-ish pink while his mane was the same shade of purple as his mother’s. The tiny colt nuzzled against the blanket and pillow as he dreamt.

“Barrier,” Shining whispered in a voice that even Fluttershy would say was too quiet, “Meet mine and Cadance’s children. Princess Flurry Heart and Prince Glowing Heart.”

Author's Notes:

Happy Vore Day, everyone! Glad to have you all back for the latest Stomach Stallion chapter. Now this universe's version of Verdant is gone, reincarnated as Prince Glowing Heart. When he's all grown up, he'll look something like this.

Now, time to vote on the chapter after next.

Swift Snort (AP): Verdant is training with his fellow soldiers on Butterfly Island and we see one of the misadventures there.
Verdant in the Sky, Then Diamonds: Verdant volunteers once again for a long range teleportation experiment, but then finds himself stuck in Rainbow Dash's protein shake. Sometime later, Rarity tries to enjoy some salad when Rainbow flies overhead. What will happen Verdant this time around?
Dating Delights: Verdant goes out on a date with a fancy mare he met during a dating service and things seem to go swimmingly... until he learns she's a cannibalistic serial killer with a shrinking fetish.
Betty: The Last Cutesaur: Verdant is recruited by Daring Do to explore an island full of long lost flora and fauna, only to encounter a creature that supposedly went extinct eons ago.
Verdant and the Beanstalk: Returning to the teleportation lab, Verdant prepares for another try, only for something to happen on the floor below.
Bibinba's Inside Story: While playing Marinara Party with some friends of his, Verdant accidentally lands on the wrong space and finds himself staring down an imposing longma.
Deep Into Darkness: Princess Luna has become a powerful being of darkness named Nightmare Moon, making her too fast for Celestia to blast with the elements. However, the princess has a plan involving the skills of a certain green stallion.
Strawberry Sweetness: Another teleportation test brings him to Strawberry Sundae. Not the restaurant, but it's owner who's about to have some private time with her lovely wife.
Dog Day Afternoon: On a day out, Verdant finds himself stumbling upon a patch of Shrinking Violets... and a rather hungry Diamond Dog.
Twilight Tour: After an accident with a flower cart, Verdant owes his friends a favor. Now Verdant has to go on a special roller coaster designed to teach ponies about anatomy. A roller coaster ride through Princess Twilight Sparkle. - Based on a piece of art by PonyThroat. Used with permission.
Tales from the Mirrorverse - Antacid's Creed: In a world where everypony's evil, Verdant wants to get himself a high ranking position in Celestia's forces. What better way to prove he can sneak into anywhere than sneaking into the princess herself?
Not a Snack-Sized Stallion, But a Micro-Sized Man: Verdant's enjoying his little job of mowing his history teacher's lawn when suddenly, a pot with a blue flower in it appears from the sky and smacks him in the face. Now the teenage Verdant is just a speck when Barrier's niece, Twilight Sparkle, comes to visit.

Remember, one vote per person and I hope you had a good time. Next time, Verdant's going to end up in Fluttershy's cabin in A Mid-Summer Night's Tasty Dream.

See ya then!

A Mid-Summer Night's Tasty Dream

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Verdant gave a yawn as he came to the third floor lab once more. To his annoyance, rather than being done in the morning or afternoon, this time the experiment was done close to midnight.

“Dr. High Gear?” Verdant called out before noticing the blue mare drinking some coffee.

“Hey, Verdant!” She said before quickly downing the remaining drink and shaking his hoof. “How’s things by you?”

“Alright for the most part,” he said with a shrug as he stepped onto the teleportation platform. “So, who’s stomach am I going to end up in this time?”

“Oh, come on.” Gear gave a roll of her eyes. “Just because we’re… well, two for two, that doesn’t mean it’s gonna happen this time.”

“Uh-huh,” Verdant said as he tapped his hoof. “So, is there’s a reason why we’re doing this so late?”

“Well, my girlfriend and I had this really big party, I forgot to set my alarm and now my schedule’s completely screwed without lube.” High Gear gave her temples a rub before flipping some switches. “Anyway, you ready to get teleported?”

“Yeah, I’m ready to get eaten again,” Verdant replied as he gave a quick stretch.

“C’mon, third time’s the charm!” High Gear’s tone was dripping with annoyance while Verdant scoffed.

“Two hundred bits says you’re wrong,” the shamrock stallion said in a sing-song tone.

“You’re on,” Gear said as she flicked some more switches on the console. “Right. Teleport in three… two…”

Suddenly, a grey blur crashed through the ceiling and the control console, smashing it to bits while Verdant was engulfed in a flash of bright light.

“Oh, come on!” High Gear screamed, her left eye twitching in a manner akin to Pinkie Pie on cocaine as the dust and debris started to settle. From the remains of the console and ceiling emerged a grey pegasus mare with a light blonde mane.

“Oops. My bad…”

***

In a cozy cottage on the outskirts of Ponyville, a mare by the name of Fluttershy gave a yawn as she started to settle into bed.

“Well, today went really well,” the butter yellow mare quietly assured herself as she snuggled up beneath a warm blanket. “And tomorrow will be even better.”

Fluttershy closed her eyes and tried to go to sleep, but a few minutes later, she got a second wind, feeling much more awake than she had before.

Before she opened her eyes however, a flash of light appeared above her head. From the flash, the tiny speck of a shamrock stallion appeared before tumbling down and landing on her soft snout.

“Argh… Every damn time,” Verdant groaned as he rubbed his sore neck. Before he could get back on his hooves, the gentle mare started to rise from her bed and her massive eyes opened up.

“Uhh…” he nervously swallowed as he stared into the massive cyan saucers that gazed down upon him. “Hi there. My name’s Verdant Range. I’ve been shrunk and I need some help to get back home.”

Fluttershy stared in silence at the tiny pony on the tip of her muzzle.

A pony smaller than a breezie on my snout? Her blink sounded like thunder to the tiny stallion as a thought occurred to the massive mare. Oh! Of course! This is just a dream.

“Um… Miss?” Verdant nervously swallowed as her eyes became half-lidded and lusty as a grin stretched across her muzzle.

It’s been a very long time since I had a micro dream, Fluttershy licked her lips at the thought of once more experiencing a dream that allowed her to indulge her hidden fetishes of domination and micro. I just hope Princess Luna doesn’t see this.

The butter-colored mare tilted her muzzle downward. Verdant tried to get a grip on her short facial fuzz, but he couldn’t get a grip quickly enough, sending him tumbling down her chest.

The speck of a stallion bounced across her belly before he finally smacked into a firmer part of the pegasus. As he tried to shake the dizziness away, he saw the giant mare staring down at him with a look of sexual pleasure.

Verdant tried to back away, but felt his rump bump up against something firm. Looking over his shoulder, he saw what he’d bumped into was her massive erect nipple.

“Oh boy,” he hoarsely whispered as he looked back up at Fluttershy from her tit, seeing the colossal pillar that was her left forehoof come barreling down towards him. He tried to scream and run, but it was too late. Her giant left hoof mashed up against her teat while her right slid further down towards her nethers.

Fluttershy moaned in pleasure as she masturbated, feeling the tiny pony struggling against her nipple. Every smack of his little hooves drove her deeper into ecstasy.

After several minutes, Verdant just barely managed to slip out from under her hoof and went tumbling down her large mammary.

While he gasped for breath, Fluttershy saw he’d managed to slip out from her grasp.

“Naughty little colt,” she whispered, though to Verdant, her words were booming. “Looks like you’ll need to be punished.”

Verdant tried to scramble back to his hooves as Fluttershy adjusted her right hoof, pushing Verdant further down her belly. He futilely tried to struggle against her before she managed to push him onto a nub that was barely larger than him; her clitoris.

“Oooooohhhhh!” Fluttershy bit her lip as she pressed him into her pleasure button while the rest of her hoof rubbed against her lower lips.

“This… is… the worst!” Verdant tried to shout as Fluttershy’s moans drowned him out. His nostrils were soon flooded with the scent of her arousal. Normally he’d enjoy this scent, but the feeling of being crushed against her body far outweighed any pleasure he could receive.

Fluttershy’s hoof movements grew more frantic and she eventually pushed Verdant further downward. Her moans grew louder as he was rubbed against her slick folds. It only took a few moments before the pressure of her hoof against his back pushed him past her vulva, making him land with a wet splat against her vaginal walls.

“You’re doing wonderfully, my little pony,” Fluttershy said between gasps as she bucked her hips, sending the shamrock stallion further inside. “It’s been far too long since I had someone or something inside me.”

Verdant tried to get a firm grasp against her slick walls, but the flicking of her hips was too intense. He kept bouncing between her warm and wet walls, her soft frog or her rock hard hoof.

Fluttershy’s bucking and moans became more intense and she started to flap her wings, making her hips rise even higher.

Verdant felt sick as the bounces grew stronger and stronger. He was smacked deeper and deeper until he smacked up against her cervix. He tried to crawl towards her entrance, but her constant wild bucks and movements just threw him violently into her cervix over and over again.

Fluttershy’s moans soon grew to a fevered pitch as her movements became more and more frantic. She eventually let out a screech that drew howls from dogs a mile away as she hit her climax. Her inner muscles squeezed Verdant like a grape before launching him face first into her frog with a geyser of her love juices.

The two ponies heavily panted as Fluttershy pulled her sticky hoof up towards her face, seeing the tiny pony stuck to it.

“Oh, you sweet little thing,” Fluttershy said before licking her lips. She decided that since this was a dream, she would indulge in the last of the fetishes she kept hidden from the world. “You look good enough to eat.”

“Oh, Faust curse it…” Verdant weakly muttered before he felt her mammoth tongue prying him off her frog, starting with his hindlegs. Once he was completely peeled off, he flopped on his back, lying against the bumpy, wet surface of her tongue before he was pulled inside.

“Hmm… You taste delicious.” Fluttershy’s soft words were strong enough to knock the shrunken stallion across her tongue before she started to bounce him around her mouth.

“Glad you’re having such a good time,” Verdant sarcastically replied before the tongue quickly rose up, slamming him into the mouth’s roof.

The tongue rolled him against the roof for a bit before Fluttershy decided the time has come. Her tongue angled downward, sending Verdant tumbling towards the back of her throat.

Sore and tired, Verdant didn’t bother to put up a struggle when Fluttershy swallowed, squeezing him down her esophagus before he splashed down inside her stomach.

Verdant let out a sigh as the stomach tipped from Fluttershy lying down, followed by the gentle sound of her soft snores.

“Well, at least High Gear will pay me extra now.” Verdant let out a sigh as he laid back and floated on the acid. Soon the siren song of slumber managed to overtake Verdant, lulling him into as comfortable a sleep as he could expect in his new home.

***

Verdant found himself shocked awake when he felt something very warm splatter against his chest. As he snorted and his vision started to clear, he saw what had splattered against him was oatmeal with some peach chunks. The shamrock stallion was quite surprised that Fluttershy was able to get out of bed and start to eat her breakfast without waking him up.

After a few minutes of using the stomach acid to wash the oatmeal out of his coat, Verdant decided to listen carefully to what little Fluttershy said in order to formulate his plan of escape.

***

Fluttershy had a rather pleasant day as she enjoyed several tasty and healthy meals, a relaxing spa visit with Rarity, helped Applejack bathe Winona, and managed to get some good deals on vegetables in the marketplace before returning home and having a hot bath to top things off.

The gentle pegasus gave a yawn as she pulled herself into her warm bed and soon went to sleep.

Unbeknownst to Fluttershy, Verdant listened very closely to everything she did throughout the day, making sure she wouldn’t expel him from her body and leave him in a dangerous situation.

Nearly an hour after she had gone to sleep, Verdant quickly made his way into her colon. He huffed, tired from his running while also trying not to breath in or taste the aroma of her bowels.

“Alright, you giant thing,” he said to the puckered ring of flesh as he gave a roll of his shoulders. “I’m getting out of here and you’re not gonna stop me!”

With a vicious roar, he charged towards the meaty barrier before leaping, planting himself in the center of the tight, muscular gateway.

Verdant was barely able to move against the ring, but he was able to press on against the pressure that was only a faint itch to the giantess. After what felt like an hour of fierce struggling, Verdant’s head emerged from the pegasus’ anus, allowing the first taste of fresh air he’d had all day.

“Oh thank you, Zacherle!” he squealed as he pulled a foreleg from the bowel’s exit, followed shortly by the other. Nearly a minute later, he managed to pull the rest of himself free and tumbled onto the mare’s bedspread.

“Right…” Verdant pulled himself back onto his hooves and stretched. “Got to think of a way to get some help.” He quietly contemplated for several minutes, but the only thought he had was to contact the sleeping giant.

“Urgh… well, guess I’d better get going,” he grumbled before he started his trek, travelling along the right side, occasionally rubbing up against the fur on her thigh and hips.

Soon he reached one of the massive strands that comprised Fluttershy’s mane, leading to the puny pony concocting a scheme.

Alright. I’ll just climb up one of her hairs until I can reach her ear! He grinned like a foal who’d been given a stack of birthday presents taller than he was. Once she knows I’m here, it should be smooth sailing.

Verdant took off like a shot, running along the follicle’s surface until the angle became too steep, making him start climbing upwards.

The shrunken earth pony pulled himself along long past the point where his forelegs were in agony. Nonetheless, he kept pushing himself higher. As the top grew nearer, he was able to spot the first rays of the sun poking through Fluttershy’s window.

Yes! Yes! He grinned as he powered on through the pain. This terrible nightmare is finally at its end!

Suddenly, Verdant felt an earthquake around him as he quickly gripped the hair for dear life. His coat became white as a ghost as he realized what was happening. Fluttershy was waking up and rising from her bed. His stomach lurched as her movements shifted the world around him and made him collide with the top of her head.

Before he could get his bearings, a thunderous roar echoed out as the kind mare yawned.

“Hmm… that was was a good night’s sleep,” the titanic pegasus sleepily said before shaking her head, tossing her wild mane, and the miniature pony desperately clinging to it, all about. “I wonder what’s on the agenda for today?”

When her head stopped moving, the strands still took a moment to settle, causing the strand Verdant was clinging to fall in front of Fluttershy’s face. As he looked into her massive cyan eye, he felt all the frustration that’d been building inside him come to the surface.

“Oh, I don’t know,” he angrily shouted as he stared into the lake sized eyeball. “How about revenge?!”

“What the…” The gigantic pupil dilated while her coat became crimson. “Oh… my…”

***

One quick trip to Twilight later, Verdant was returned to normal size, though Fluttershy was quieter and redder than usual to Twilight’s surprise.

“The odds of this are really improbable, Verdant,” the lavender mare said to the shamrock stallion as Fluttershy flew back towards her house, no doubt to hide under her covers to die of embarrassment, or so Verdant assumed.

“Tell me about it.” Verdant scratched his neck before heading for the door. “At any rate, thanks for helping me again.”

“You’re welcome,” Twilight said with a smile and lit her horn, opening the door for him. “Anything else I can do for you?”

“Well…” Verdant gave his chin a rub. “Could you send a letter to Dr. High Gear in Vanhoover for me?”

“Sure thing,” she replied as she levitated a quill and parchment in front of her. “What would you like it to say?”

“Just that I’m on my way back and she should have her bits ready.” Verdant started to head out before stopping mid-step and looking back over his shoulder. “Oh, and that I won the bet.”

Author's Notes:

Here everyone. Hope you enjoyed the latest chapter of Stomach Stallion with a fairly popular pred. I was fairly surprised how many wanted Fluttershy to eat Verdant.

Now, time to vote on the chapter after next.

Swift Snort (AP): Verdant is training with his fellow soldiers on Butterfly Island and we see one of the misadventures there.
Verdant in the Sky, Then Diamonds: Verdant volunteers once again for a long range teleportation experiment, but then finds himself stuck in Rainbow Dash's protein shake. Sometime later, Rarity tries to enjoy some salad when Rainbow flies overhead. What will happen Verdant this time around?
Dating Delights: Verdant goes out on a date with a fancy mare he met during a dating service and things seem to go swimmingly... until he learns she's a cannibalistic serial killer with a shrinking fetish.
Betty: The Last Cutesaur: Verdant is recruited by Daring Do to explore an island full of long lost flora and fauna, only to encounter a creature that supposedly went extinct eons ago.
Bibinba's Inside Story: While playing Marinara Party with some friends of his, Verdant accidentally lands on the wrong space and finds himself staring down an imposing longma.
Deep Into Darkness: Princess Luna has become a powerful being of darkness named Nightmare Moon, making her too fast for Celestia to blast with the elements. However, the princess has a plan involving the skills of a certain green stallion.
Strawberry Sweetness: Another teleportation test brings him to Strawberry Sundae. Not the restaurant, but it's owner who's about to have some private time with her lovely wife.
Dog Day Afternoon: On a day out, Verdant finds himself stumbling upon a patch of Shrinking Violets... and a rather hungry Diamond Dog.
Twilight Tour: After an accident with a flower cart, Verdant owes his friends a favor. Now Verdant has to go on a special roller coaster designed to teach ponies about anatomy. A roller coaster ride through Princess Twilight Sparkle. - Based on a piece of art by PonyThroat. Used with permission.
Tales from the Mirrorverse - Antacid's Creed: In a world where everypony's evil, Verdant wants to get himself a high ranking position in Celestia's forces. What better way to prove he can sneak into anywhere than sneaking into the princess herself?
Not a Snack-Sized Stallion, But a Micro-Sized Man: Verdant's enjoying his little job of mowing his history teacher's lawn when suddenly, a pot with a blue flower in it appears from the sky and smacks him in the face. Now the teenage Verdant is just a speck when Barrier's niece, Twilight Sparkle, comes to visit.
Death to Daybreaker: In a dark world ruled by Daybreaker and Nightmare Moon, to vicious tyrants who plot and scheme against each other, the Mare of the Moon decides to put an end to her sister once and for all. For this, she's going to need a rather skilled assassin.

Remember to only vote for one chapter, preferably by name for tallying and that I hope you have a good time.

Since the votes last time were a three way tie, I decided to make a call between the three winners. Come back next time for... Verdant and the Beanstalk.

Verdant and the Beanstalk

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Verdant gave a yawn as he trotted once more towards the laboratory early in the autumn morning.

Another day, another bit or two… thousand. He thought to himself as he trotted along, drawing closer to the door. If I didn’t like working with flowers and plants so much, I could probably retire.

He pushed his way past the door and tried to rub the sleep from his eyes, only to bump into something and fall onto his flank. Looking up, the sight before him was a bit of a start.

Standing in front of him was the tallest mare Verdant had ever seen that wasn’t one of the princesses. He recalled the sight of Applejack’s brother and noted that this mare was half a head taller than that.

She was a rather slender mare with a light green coat while her mane and tail were more a leafy green. When she turned to face him, he saw that she had a pair of dark blue eyes that stood out from the rest of her freckled face. Her mane was a somewhat messy affair tied up in a long ponytail while her actual tail seemed more on the rough side.

“Oh, sorry about that,” the towering mare said as she held out a hoof to him.

“Nah, it’s my fault,” Verdant replied as he accepted her hoof before she picked him off the ground and plopped him back onto his hooves. “I should have looked where I was going, Miss…”

“Beans!” the familiar voice of High Gear called out as the scientist skidded to a halt in front of the statuesque mare. “What brings you here? I didn’t forget my lunch today.”

“Oh, I saw an ad to try a kind of brownie for cash on the first floor, so I came over.”

“Well, I hope it goes well,” High Gear said before she spotted Verdant. “Oh, hey there. Perfect time to have some introductions.” She quickly slung a foreleg around his shoulder as she presented the shamrock stallion to the emerald mare. “Verdant, this is my roommate and best friend, Beanstalk. I call her Beans. Beans, this is Verdant Range, my guinea pig.”

“Guinea pig?” Verdant muttered as he cast the scientist a glare.

“Nice to meet you, Verdant,” Beanstalk said as she started to walk away. Were she just a centimeter or two taller, Verdant was sure she could walk over him without his mane touching her belly.

“Well, at any rate, we’ve got some science to do,” Gear said as she quickly shuffled herself and Verdant into the elevator. Pushing the button, things were fairly quiet until Gear saw the look Verdant was giving her.

“What?” She tilted her head in confusion.

“Guinea pig? Really?” Verdant’s left eyebrow rose as the bell signaling the elevator’s arrival rang out and the doors started to open.

“It’s a term commonly used by scientists to refer to their test subjects.” High Gear strolled into the elevator, not making eye contact with Verdant as he followed her in. “Besides, you got an extra two hundred bits after last time.”

“And all I had to do was get inside a stomach for the third time since I started to work for you.” Verdant said just before the bell rang once more, opening up to the third floor.

“Look, feel free to blame me for what happened with the first experiment, but you can’t blame me for what happened the last two times.” High Gear retorted as she lead him into her lab. “The last two times were due to accidents completely outside of my control. This time should be perfectly fine.”

“Here’s hoping.” Verdant rolled his eyes as he and the blue mare approached the console. “So, wanna bet some more bits this ti-”

Verdant was cut off when the floor beneath them seemed to shake and explode all around them. Everything shifted so quickly, but from what Verdant could see in the brief glimpse, something burst up from the floor below and caused him and Gear, along with a fair chunk of floor, to be quickly pulled into a massive set of jaws before they fell down the creature’s throat.

The pair were squeezed by the throat against each other before they and the chunks of floor splattered down into a pool of stomach juice.

“Wow…” Verdant said as he tried to rise to his hooves, but was unable to do so courtesy of whatever had eaten them shifting about. “I didn’t even get onto the teleporter this time.”

“Urgh… that smarts,” Gear muttered as she looked around the fleshy sack, spotting the debris was now starting to dissolve in the acids. “This sucks.”

“You’re telling me,” Verdant said, helping to pull her to her hooves. “Say, how come you aren’t getting digested?”

“Forcefield bracelet,” she said as she pulled up her left sleeve, revealing a golden band. “Just in case something goes really wrong.”

“Any clue on what happened here?” Verdant asked as he brushed some of the dust and debris clinging to his mane away.

“Judging by the partially digested fruit loops, chunks of brownie and what was being done on the first floor, I’m guessing that the brownies being tested downstairs had the transformative agent from poison joke in them, making Beans become a giant again.” High Gear turned out her pockets, dumping some loose debris into the bubbling juices.

“Wait, again?” An eyebrow rose in surprise. “This sort of thing has happened before?”

“Oh yeah, tons of times.” Gear casually waved. “Poison joke makes her grow to about two hundred feet tall. It’s happened so many times we’ve actually got protocols in place in case of this.”

“And what are th-WHOA!” The entire fleshy chamber shook about, tossing the two into one another.

***

“Oww… my head,” Beanstalk groaned as she rubbed her head, trying to blink some of the dust from her eyes. “What the hay happened?”

“Miss Beanstalk!” a distant mare’s voice reached her ears.

Beans turned her gaze downward, where she saw one of the scientists that gave her the brownie was staring up at her.

“Um, doctor?” One of Beans’ ears flicked, knocking some dust and chunks of the building to the distant floor below. The emerald mare could see she was now sitting in what was the remains of the laboratory with the unicorn doctor standing by her enlarged thigh. “Was anything from poison joke used in those brownies?”

“Well,” the golden yellow mare’s horn glowed and a clipboard appeared in front of her face. “...uh, it seems some poison joke extract was used in the brownie’s creation with the hope of…” She quickly flicked through several of the pages in her aura. “Giving the consumer minty fresh breath… How’d that go, by the way?”

Beanstalk rolled her eyes before raising a hoof and exhaling onto it, followed by a quick sniff. “I’d say it smells like chocolate, fruit loops and rocks.”

“Breath freshening effects… negative.” The mare quickly jotted down before looking back up to the giantess. “Sorry about this.”

“Well, it was bound to happen sometime this year.” Beanstalk let out a sigh before she started to rise up, freeing herself from the ruined building. As she waited for the debris to fall from her, several pegasi flew by her colossal face.

“Hey there, Beanstalk!” One of the pegasi, a mare with a sandy coat and a wild light brown mane said, hovering in front of her snout. “We’ve already got your escort all set and we’ve got the warning song playing. We’re ready whenever you are.”

Beanstalk looked down towards the doctor, who was now joined by others who had been in the building, looking only a little dusty. “Sorry about this, everypony. I’ll contact my insurance company once I’m back down to normal.”

Taking a breath, Beanstalk slowly started to step forward while the pegasi flew ahead of her. After two massive steps, the sounds of the looped ‘warning song’ that High Gear had picked with the mayor, reached her ears.

“Grr… I hate this song,” the gigantic mare grumbled as she started to draw closer to the city, the damned song playing from speakers all throughout.

***

“Augh, dammit,” Verdant muttered as he rubbed his sore head. “What the hay’s going on?”

“Beans going through the planned protocols for when she grows giant,” Gear replied, shaking the acid and chunks of cereal from her mane. “She waits for escort pegasi to be ahead of her to clear the way while she heads to the community center, who’ll ready a swimming pool full of poison joke antidote.”

“Uh, Gear,” Verdant nervously looked about. “What happens to her stomach contents when she goes back to normal?”

“That’s something we thoroughly tested, Verdant,” the scientist said with an unnervingly large smile. “The acids and muscles in the stomach become much stronger, allowing for any materials to be more quickly dissolved and digested. Anything dissolved will be shrunken down with her when she returns to normal size.”

“Yeah, that’s great and all,” Verdant’s eyes darted back and forth as a note of panic entered his voice. “But what happens to food that’s not digested when she shrinks down?”

“We tested that with an apple. Apparently food that’s not partially digested will…” Gear’s pupils shrank to pin pricks when she realized the horrors to come. “Will remain the same size when she shrinks!”

“We’ve got to get out of here! Now!” Verdant charged towards one of the stomach’s valves, only for High Gear to whiz past him, frantically trying to open the orifice.

“OPEN, FAUST CURSE YOU!” She shrieked as she jammed her hooves in the hole, barely making it dilate.

“You’ve got this, Doc!” Verdant attempted to cheer despite his similar state of panic. “Use that good old earth pony strength!”

“I’M NOT AN EARTH PONY!” She yelled back in reply as she continued her futile struggle. “I’M A UNICORN! NOW MOVE YOUR ASS AND HELP ME!”

“Sorry, I’ll get started!” Verdant winced before running up to her side and starting to help her pry at the tiny opening. After a few moments, the orifice opened up, letting the two charge through into Bean’s intestine.

“So,” Verdant attempted to look casual as he and Gear ran through the intestine, their hooves being tickled by the villi and splashed by the fluids carrying digested material. “If you’re a unicorn, how’d you become like…”

“Is this really the best time?” Gear asked with a grumble as she gave him a withering glare.

“Probably,” Verdant replied. “Talking about your life story could take our minds off the possible danger we’re in… not to mention the smell.”

Taking a quick sniff that she immediately regretted, the blue mare signed as they continued to run. “Alright. Long story short, I was in a train accident, lost my horn, parents died, got adopted, met Beans, saw how difficult life can be without magic, entered a science fair, made an automatic bread slicer, got my cutie mark, decided to become a scientist and engineer, changed my name to High Gear and went to Canterlot Tech where I met Pix.” Gear started to huff as she finished speaking.

“Wow, all in one breath,” Verdant muttered as he drew closer. “You may want to lay on my back, Gear. You’re looking pretty winded.”

“Pix was right,” Gear said as she and Verdant started to slow. “I should get a treadmill. Urgh.”

“It’s okay,” Verdant comfortingly said as he shifted to allow her to lie down on his back and waited for her to hook her forelegs around his neck before rolling his shoulders and nodding. “Alright, let’s go!”

Verdant took off with High Gear bouncing slightly on his back as she worked to catch her breath.

“Y’know… that did take my mind off things, Verdant,” High Gear commented as her ride raced along the intestinal tract. “And thanks for carrying me like this.”

“No problem, Doc,” Verdant looked over his shoulder at her. “Besides, you’re not that heavy. I’ve had to carry a lot heavier stuff at the flower shop.”

“Either way, thanks.” Gear said as she felt the ache in her chest starting to fade away.

“So, I hope I’m not being rude here,” Verdant slowly started to ask, “But may I ask what your name was before you changed it?”

“Lavender Breeze,” Gear said with a soft smile. “While my birth mom was in the perfume business, I wasn’t really interested in it. Plus, when I got my cutie mark, I figured Lavender Breeze didn’t really fit a mare that’d get covered in grease and sweat all the time or crawl around on her belly connecting circuitry together.”

“Makes sense, I guess,” Verdant said as a large fleshy orifice started to come into view. “Heads up. We’re about to hit the large intestine’s entrance. How are you feeling?”

“Good enough to help out,” High Gear answered as Verdant started to slow down. When he came to a halt, she slid off and they both started to pry at the orifice. Much to her relief, this one seemed to be more willing to open than the stomach valve, soon allowing them entry.

“Alright, now there’s only one more…” Gear’s words died in her throat as she was struck by the foul stench of the large intestine and some of the contents that lined the walls and floor. “Oh Zacherle, I’m gonna throw up!”

“You get used to it after enough trips through,” Verdant shrugged before he started the charge through the meaty tunnel. “Now, c’mon! We’ve gotta get out of this organic sewer, A.S.A.P.!”

***

Beanstalk gave a sigh of relief as the sight of the community drew ever closer as she carefully stepped through the narrow streets while the annoying music continued to play. The roof for the pool section was retracted as a griffon hen flew up to Beanstalk’s face, gently landing on her giant snout.

“Everything’s good to go, Beanstalk!” The hen said as she gave a talon up to the massive mare.

“Thanks, Erica,” Beans replied as she carefully approached the building’s side. Looking at the ground, she could see the large indents she made in the grass and dirt while the concrete portions were cracked in her wake. “I hope this stuff doesn’t eat into the budget too badly.”

“Nah, we’re fine.” Erica casually waved as she sat on the snout. “The stuff doesn’t expire and we got a bulk discount for the cure.”

“That’s good.” Beans looked towards the Equestria Games sized pool. She slowly and cautiously reached a massive hoof towards the water. The hoof barely started to sink into the water before quickly pulling it back. “Yeash, you can’t heat the pool so it’s not freezing?”

“Do you know how long it takes to warm up a pool this size?” Erica asked with a raised eyebrow. “Besides, cold water helps us burn more fat.”

Beanstalk’s body gave a slight shake, making Erica fall to her side. “And hey, you can see the cure’s working from just that tiny amount, so you’d best get it over with.”

“Okay. Here we go again.” Beanstalk carefully stepped over the building’s walls before setting her hooves into the water one at a time, soon feeling her hooves touch the pool’s bottom and the water barely coming over her ankles.

***

“We’re almost there!” Verdant huffed as he and High Gear turned a bend in Beans’ intestine. “The next bend will lead us to right to her colon and then freedom!”

“Y’know, it’s kinda funny,” High Gear said with an amused chuckle.

“What is?” Verdant’s eyebrow rose as they still ran.

“That I’m ninety-eight percent sure you’re the first stallion that’s ever been inside Beans,” Gear bit her lip as she failed to suppress a laugh. “I know it’s not funny since she’s my friend, but kinda is.”

“How about we talk about the issues with her love life when-” Verdant was interrupted when everything around them suddenly shuddered, making the two of them trip and stop. Looking about, they could see the entire colon has become slightly smaller.

“Oh, crap, crap, crap!” Verdant shouted before he and High Gear took off once more.

“We’re almost there! We’re almost there!” Gear started to chant the words like a mantra as the two raced through Bean’s bowels.

Just as Bean’s body shuddered once more, the two turned a corner and spotted the fleshy ring that was the anus.

“Move, move, move!” Verdant shouted as he and Gear charged towards it, the surrounding tunnel now visibly starting to shrink down.

When the two reached the clenched orifice, they both pushed with all the force they could against the meaty ring, prying it open for them to squeeze through.

Looking through the shrinking mare’s exit, they soon realized that the pool was still over a hundred feet below while her long and messy tail was far closer. Not close enough to reach with just a hoof though.

“Jump and grab onto a hair!” Verdant shouted as he tried to push up against the hole more, leaving space for High Gear. “If we hit the water from here, it’ll be like hitting concrete!”

High Gear looked at the hairs, mentally estimating that they had to be a good twenty feet away. The spectacled mare took a hard swallow before jumping. Before she could reach the hair, Verdant leapt after, with the hole closing behind him and giving Beans a tiny itch.

Gear managed to grab onto a hair and started to slide down towards the pool with Verdant coming down a moment later.

When they were approximately twenty feet from the water, the pair let go of the hair and dived, safely breaching the water before slowly starting to rise to the surface.

The sound of the splashes the two made reached Beans and Erica’s ears. While the griffon hen glided down towards the pool’s edge, the shrinking giant slowly turned, seeing Verdant and Gear just as they breached the surface and gasped for breath.

“What the?” Beans looked down at the pair as she kept shrinking down, leaning closer to them. She was now around one-hundred and seventy-five feet tall. “Gear? Verdant? What are you doing here?”

“You ate us! We were in your butt!” High Gear shouted as she started to paddle towards the pool's edge.

Bean’s shamrock face exploded into a ruby red as Verdant followed Gear over to the edge. “Oh dear Faust…”

“It’s not your fault, Beanstalk,” Verdant said as Erica and Gear pulled him from the water. “It was just some crazy accident.”

“Still, this is humiliating,” Beans muttered as her shrinking started to accelerate, now reducing her to a hundred and twenty feet. “Not only does everyone get to see me turn into a huge freak, I ate my best friend and her test subject without even noticing a thing and they have to climb out of my house sized butt.”

“Don’t sweat it too much, Beans,” Gear said before shaking some of the water off herself. “It’s all water under the bridge and I’ll treat you to some Burrito Burro once you’re done.”

After a few minutes, High Gear had left for the center’s showers while Beans finally returned to her normal level of giantness and pulled herself out of the pool.

“Hey Beans.” Verdant drew closer as she tried to wring the water from her tail.

“What’s up, Verdant?”

“I was wondering a couple things about you.” Verdant approached while Beanstalk rolled her eyes.

“Lemme guess? Do I have to buy a mattress from the same supplier as the princesses? Do clothing stores charge me by the foot? Do I have to pay millions in insurance for these transformations?” Beans walked closer, looking down at the short stallion. “Am I in the right ballpark?”

“Well, no,” Verdant said as he nervously rubbed a forehoof. “I was going to ask if you like anime movies.”

“Oh,” Beanstalk was taken aback. “Well, yeah. I like a fair amount of Neighponese stuff. My favorites are Go-Go’s Bizarre Adventure, Uma ½, Ryu Tama X, Chou Sentai, particularly Tsuki Sentai Moon Lancer… Yeah. Why do you ask?”

“Well, I like those things as well. Could you… tell me what kind of restaurants you like?” Verdant struggled to keep his voice from cracking in front of the towering mare.

“Oh.” Beans’ eyes widened before she decided to look the stallion up and down. He seemed to be somewhat well toned with somewhat similar tastes, along with being rather nice from what she could tell. Besides which, very few ponies had the nerve to ask her something like this.

A smile came across her face. “Well, I prefer somewhat casual places where I can just relax like the Four D’s or the Burrito Burro. Does Friday at around seven sound good?”

“Absolutely,” Verdant returned the smile as he saw Bean’s tail gave a quick wag. “I look forward to getting to know you more, Beanstalk.”

“Me too, Verdant,” Beans gave a chuckle as she ran a hoof through her mane. “Me too.”

Author's Notes:

Hey everyone hope you enjoyed this chapter not just for the vore, but also for the tiny glimpse into the backstory of High Gear.

Plus, for once we have story with macro instead of micro.

As a special bonus, I included a height chart with this chapter.

And now with that done, time for the voting for the chapter after next.

Swift Snort (AP): Verdant is training with his fellow soldiers on Butterfly Island and we see one of the misadventures there.
Verdant in the Sky, Then Diamonds: Verdant volunteers once again for a long range teleportation experiment, but then finds himself stuck in Rainbow Dash's protein shake. Sometime later, Rarity tries to enjoy some salad when Rainbow flies overhead. What will happen Verdant this time around?
Dating Delights: Verdant goes out on a date with a fancy mare he met during a dating service and things seem to go swimmingly... until he learns she's a cannibalistic serial killer with a shrinking fetish.
Betty: The Last Cutesaur: Verdant is recruited by Daring Do to explore an island full of long lost flora and fauna, only to encounter a creature that supposedly went extinct eons ago.
Bibinba's Inside Story: While playing Marinara Party with some friends of his, Verdant accidentally lands on the wrong space and finds himself staring down an imposing longma.
Deep Into Darkness: Princess Luna has become a powerful being of darkness named Nightmare Moon, making her too fast for Celestia to blast with the elements. However, the princess has a plan involving the skills of a certain green stallion.
Strawberry Sweetness: Another teleportation test brings him to Strawberry Sundae. Not the restaurant, but it's owner who's about to have some private time with her lovely wife.
Dog Day Afternoon: On a day out, Verdant finds himself stumbling upon a patch of Shrinking Violets... and a rather hungry Diamond Dog.
Tales from the Mirrorverse - Antacid's Creed: In a world where everypony's evil, Verdant wants to get himself a high ranking position in Celestia's forces. What better way to prove he can sneak into anywhere than sneaking into the princess herself?
Not a Snack-Sized Stallion, But a Micro-Sized Man: Verdant's enjoying his little job of mowing his history teacher's lawn when suddenly, a pot with a blue flower in it appears from the sky and smacks him in the face. Now the teenage Verdant is just a speck when Barrier's niece, Twilight Sparkle, comes to visit.
Death to Daybreaker: In a dark world ruled by Daybreaker and Nightmare Moon, two vicious tyrants who plot and scheme against each other, the Mare of the Moon decides to put an end to her sister once and for all. For this, she's going to need a rather skilled assassin.
Tales from the Mirrorverse - Digestions & Dragons: Set after the events of "Antacid's Creed", Verdant is assigned to Celestia's elite privateer, Magic Barrier. His first assignment: recover the treasure from a hibernating dragon's stomach.

Remember, only one vote per person. Also, from now on, vote that only have a number will no longer counted and even deleted. I'm sorry if this seems harsh, but I did this since it makes tallying the votes easier for me.

At any rate, join us next time when poor Verdant is sent on quite the roller coaster ride. It's Twilight Tour.

Twilight Tour

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Verdant fidgeted uncomfortably in his seat as he looked out the train window. He nervously gave a swallow before he turned his focus back to the two stallions sitting across from him. “C’mon, guys. Do we really have to do this?”

“YES!” The pair angrily barked in reply.

“Your damn flower cart destroyed the smith shop, putting me out of a job while it’s getting fixed!” Forge gave Verdant a glare as he leaned closer.

“Not to mention it ruined just about all my magician supplies.” Hatty grumbled. “Do you know how long it’s going to take for me to get a replacement magician’s box?”

“Guys, please,” Verdant weakly pleaded. “It’s because the brakes on the cart were defective. I tried to stop it, but-”

“But nothing!” Forge snapped at him. “You were the one watching it and now our stuff’s wrecked. Now, we’re getting payback.”

Verdant let out a defeated sigh as he looked out the window, seeing a small town approaching. “So why are we going to Ponyville for this?”

“Oh, you’ll see.” Hat Trick darkly chuckled as he rubbed his forehooves together. “You’ll see.”

Verdant could only nervously groan as the train barreled along.

***

Verdant and Forge stood by the train station, waiting for Hat Trick to return after he took to the sky. It’d been nearly twenty minutes as the two sat on a bench before they saw the purple pegasus return, with a beverage container in his hoof.

“Alright, Verdant,” he said with an evil grin. “Here’s the first part of your punishment.”

“Oh boy…” Verdant swallowed nervously as Hatty placed the drink in his hooves. “What’s this?”

“A little thing for you to drink,” Forge said as he rose from the bench. “And you have to drink every last drop of this.”

Verdant nervously pulled the lid of the drink up, seeing a rainbow of colors awaiting him. “Is this… liquid rainbow?”

“Damn right it’s liquid rainbow.” Hatty gave Verdant’s chest a light jab. “And I had to pull some pretty stealthy stuff to sneak this away from the weather works, so bottoms up!”

Verdant gulped once more before he started to chug down the multicolored beverage. After just a few droplets, he felt like his tongue had been set on fire by the brew.

Oh dear Zacherle! I’d rather get eaten by a dragon than keep this up! Verdant slammed his eyes shut as he pushed himself to keep drinking. The only good thing is that this is still less painful than a ruby reaper.

After several agonizing minutes, Verdant dropped the now empty cup and was gasping as he tried to endure the pain.

“Alright, you’ve made it through round one,” Forge said as he fixed the lid to the cup before tossing it into a recycling bin, “we can get ready for round two.”

“Round…” Verdant said hoarsely before coughing. “Round two?”

“Oh yeah,” Hatty said as he put a foreleg around Verdant’s shoulder. “This is gonna be quite the treat.” The trio started to walk forward, Verdant having no clue where he was being led.

“Remember how some time ago, we were having some drinks and you said you’d like to be inside one of the princesses?” Forge had a wicked smirk on his face that made the hairs on the back of Verdant’s neck stand at attention.

“I don’t like where this is going…” Verdant whined as they turned a corner, making him catch sight of something that turned his pupils to pinpricks.

In front of the trio was Princess Twilight Sparkle, but she’d become gigantic in size. She was lying on her side while a tower was feeding roller coaster carts full of ponies into her mouth. At her back end, Verdant saw where the track ended as a train emerged from her anus and a group of ponies seemed to be cheering in excitement from their trip through her body.

Behind her was a massive sign with a cartoon image of the alicorn that read, “Today only! Learn and explore the digestive system!”.

“Seems the princess really wants to help educate others, so she’s set this up.” Hatty said as he stepped in front of the now paling shamrock stallion. “And guess who’s going for a ride.”

“Oh no. Oh Faust…” Verdant started to back away, only to feel the tingle of Forge’s magic holding him in place.

“Oh yes. You’re going to go on the ride, Verdant,” the cobalt unicorn said before patting Verdant on the back. “But there are also some other things you have to do.”

“S-s-such as?” Verdant’s hooves nervously quaked as the two started to lead him to the building with a banner that read, “Body Tour - Today Only”.

“First off, you’re going to have to get onto the last car.” Hatty smirked as he spoke. “That way, the trip’s a lot rockier for you.”

“Wonderful,” Verdant groaned as he felt his belly already doing flip-flops. Seems the liquid rainbow didn’t agree with him.

“And there’s one other thing,” Forge chuckled as he opened his saddlebags and pulled out a large wheel of cheese. Verdant coughed and stepped away as the foul smell of the cheese hit his nostrils. “You’re going to chuck this into the stomach acid.”

“I’m not sure they’d allow me to bring that sort of thing on the ride with me,” Verdant tried to step away, but Hatty put a wing on his back and pulled him back.

“Au contraire, mon ami,” Hatty said with a vicious grin on his face. “The advertisement I read for this encourages ponies to throw food into her stomach. See, the train stops in the stomach for a bit so you can throw food in and watch it digest. It’s all part of the educational process before you’re sent hurtling through her intestines.”

“And is this cheese safe? It’s smelling pretty ripe to me,” Verdant said as Hatty pulled him closer to the wheel.

“Relax, it’s meant to smell like this,” Forge said as he stuffed the cheese into Verdant’s saddlebags. “Plus, she’s got somepony checking stuff to make sure it’s safe, so it’s all good.”

“Okay.” Verdant nervously swallowed as he headed into the line. “Here’s hoping things go smoothly.”

A few minutes passed as the line moved along until he got to a point where a violet coated unicorn was inspecting the various foodstuffs that ponies were bringing with them on the ride. When Verdant’s turn came, she seemed to spend more time on the cheese than any of the others.

“Hmm… Limburger…” the mare said as she closely examined the wheel. “She’s not the biggest fan of cheese… but since that one pony brought in a box of shredded wheat, it should be alright. Proceed.”

Verdant and two others ponies soon reached the cars that were going to be loaded onto the elevator up to the princess’ mouth. The shamrock stallion noticed a pattern to the cars. First an indigo car, followed by a pink one and a purple one.

“Alright, I call dibs on first car!” a yellow pony with a blue and green mane rushed ahead, hopping into the indigo car.

“I swear, Fringe, you’re always like this,” a gray unicorn with a rust colored mane muttered from behind Verdant. “Well, you getting on?”

“Actually, Mister…”

“Name’s Curtain Call,” the stallion said.

“Right. Mr. Curtain Call. I’ve actually got to take the last car because of some stuff that happened back in Vanhoover.” Verdant said as he looked back towards the cars. “Would you please take the middle one?”

“Okay,” Curtain Call gave a shrug before he climbed into the pink car. With a quick sigh of relief, Verdant got into the purple car.

A moment later, the cars were pulled along before each one went up the elevator individually until they reached the top and the three cars were all reconnected. The three then stared at the sight of the princess’ open maw. Beside the cars was an orange mare with a brown stetson who made sure the passengers were all firmly secured in their seats.

“Alright. Y’all ready to learn all about the pony digestion system?”

Verdant gave a nervous nod while Curtain Call shrugged. The one called Fringe straightened his posture a bit before giving a firm nod.

“Okay. Hope y’all enjoy the trip.” The orange mare then flicked a lever and the train started to be pulled along into Twilight’s mouth.

Verdant shuddered as he felt himself engulfed by the warmth of her body. The inside of her mouth was rather humid. The shamrock stallion tried to take a deep breath to calm himself, but his calm was broken when a dollop of her saliva splattered down on his head.

He tried to shake the spit from his mane before he felt the train start to be pulled downward. Verdant felt his blood run cold as he saw her uvula pass over his head. If he were a little bit taller or stood higher in his seat, he was certain that his head would have brushed by the fleshy bit.

He was quickly snapped from his thoughts as the coaster rolled downward. Fringe seemed to be rather happy as Verdant felt his cart rumbling. While the pony in front of him seemed to be saying something, he was drowned out by the alicorn’s heart beat booming like thunder.

The trio soon exited the fleshy tube that was the esophagus and arrived in the stomach. The rails in the stomach formed a bunch of loops that wound around from the top down to the valve to the intestines.

Verdant’s own stomach lurched somewhat as the train suddenly stopped near the top of the tracks. He looked around in confusion before he heard a voice that seemed to come from the car itself.

“Hello there. I’m Twilight Sparkle and I’ll be your guide on this tour of the digestive system of a pony.” The princess’ voice came through a small speaker in the car that was close to the safety bar. “Since most ponies are already familiar with the process of chewing food and peristalsis, my friends have advised that I skip covering that in order to talk about the rest of the trip you’re experiencing through my body. Reluctantly, I agreed.”

“After travelling down the esophagus, you have reached the stomach. This is, as Pinkie Pie would put it, ‘where the magic happens’. Please look into the pool below you.”

Verdant nervously swallowed before he heeded the princess’ instructions. Down below was a bubbling pool composed of chunks of deformed masses that previous passengers had tossed down.

“If you’re after the first group, you should be seeing some food that previous riders have tossed into the acid to watch the digestive process. If you have anything you wish to toss in that our security has approved of, please do so now. This way, you’ll have fifteen minutes to watch the food being digested before you move onto the next step of your journey.”

Giving his neck a scratch, Verdant pulled the wheel of cheese from his saddlebags and held onto it.

While he hesitated to throw it, the two ahead of him on the coaster had no such issues and threw some food into the princess’ stomach juices without a second thought. Fringe had tossed in a whole pumpkin pie, minus the tin while Curtain Call tossed in something Verdant couldn’t quite make out; it looked like slabs of something white.

“Say, what was that stuff you threw in?” Verdant asked, making the purple unicorn give him a smirk.

“Grilled Scootaloo,” he replied before chuckling.

“Grilled what?” Verdant tilted his head in confusion. After another moment of contemplation, the emerald pony gave a shrug and chucked the limburger into pool below.

The cheese struck the surface of a bubble that was forming in the juices, making it pop and sending a burst of steamy and foul smelling gas to strike Verdant in the face. The earth pony gagged and coughed, making his already upset stomach even worse.

“Now, what you are witnessing is the process of the food being broken down by gastric acid, which is composed of hydrochloric acid, potassium chloride and sodium chloride. This process is normally aided by the food already being partially broken down by the food being chewed up and covered in saliva.” Her voice recited as the trio watched the juice around the food bubbling and sinking towards the bottom of her belly.

“Another factor that typically aides in the digestive process is the movements of the stomach’s muscles, but for your personal safety, a spell has been cast on my digestive system to prevent any motions. Now, while the process goes on, I’ll tell you about the various enzymes that are also a part of the digestive process.”

Verdant gave a groan and tried to tune out the educational info the princess was expounding. Time really seemed to drag on while the speech kept going. The shamrock pony was really regretting not bringing a Game Colt or a Walkmare to help him pass the time.

He felt his eyelids start to droop until he noticed Twilight’s speech starting to wrap up.

“-Complete listing of microorganisms. Now, this concludes this part of the ride as we’re about to move on to the next part of the digestive system.”

“Oh thank Faust,” a raspy mare’s voice muttered from the speakers. While Twilight’s voice seemed to ignore it, the three stallions in the coaster all got a chuckle from it.

“The next part of the tour will take you to the duodenum, which is the part that connects the stomach to the small intestine. Get ready because the train’s about to move.”

Before the riders could prepare, the coaster started to move very quickly. The three were swiftly sent through the loops that went around the stomach, making Verdant really dizzy before they entered into a twisting tunnel that was filled with wriggling tentacle like things.

“Now the small intestine plays a major part in the digestive process. Not only is the food further broken down as it travels along, but many nutrients and liquids are absorbed into the bloodstream by these things that line the intestine’s walls that are called ‘villi’.” Her voice said once more just before the track started to take several sharp turns, making the green stallion look even greener.

“On average, the small intestine is approximately six meters in length. To be able to fit, the intestine takes multiple twists and turns. Naturally, of course, the intestine you’re going through has been magically enlarged to accommodate you and the ride.”

Verdant ignored the lesson as his belly grew more and more upset. The sudden sharp turns and the smell of the digestive system were not agreeing with the rainbow shake resting in his own belly.

After a few intense minutes riding the rails, Twilight’s voice came from the car once more.

“Coming up, you’ll see the valve to the large intestine, which is one of the few parts of my digestive track which is more animated.”

Leaning to the right of the car, Verdant looked ahead and spotted a large fleshy donut that the tracks seemed to disappear into. For a moment, Verdant worried they’d crash into the barrier. Thankfully, the way opened up to let the riders begin the last leg of their journey.

Unfortunately for Verdant, the first thing he noticed when they entered the intestine was the foul stench that smacked into his face like a speeding brick. It was a disgusting aroma that brought him back to when his sister Parsley made burritos for the Fillydelphia potluck. It resulted in a bad case of widespread food poisoning and overstuffed portable toilets.

“And now we draw close to the end with the large intestine.” The alicorn’s voice echoed throughout the living sewer. “On average, the large intestine is one point five meters in length-”

“Wait a second, Twilight,” the voice of the mare that made sure Verdant was secure in his seat interrupted. “Why is it called the large intestine when yah said the small intestine’s about four tahmes longer?”

“Applejack, this really isn’t the time,” Twilight’s reply made Verdant picture her speaking through gritted teeth. “Moving on, the large intestine absorbs a fair amount of liquids in the digestive process and the last part of the journey that turns food into fecal matter.”

At the mention of fecal matter, Verdant noticed some chunks of the sickening waste clinging to the walls of the bowels.

“After nearly everything of value has been absorbed from the food, what is left is waste which is pushed through the large intestine before eventually being expelled through the colon and anus. You’ll soon be reaching this part of my body and finishing the tour. I hope you had a fun and educational experience learning about pony anatomy. Who knows? If this turns out to be popular enough, I may end up doing more of these types of anatomy tours to teach ponies about other bodily functions.”

As the coaster went deeper, the walls started to have more and more of the princess’ waste attached to the walls, growing uncomfortably closer to the riders.

The train took one more sharp turn and the trio were able to see two notable things. The first was the light of day coming through a glass tunnel that served to keep the royal anus open. The second was a chunk of princess pony poop that was hanging from the ceiling of the intestine. The rumbling of the coaster drawing closer caused the piece to break loose and fall towards them.

The foul chunk was above Fringe’s head, seemingly unnoticed by the yellow stallion. Curtain Call hastily dodged the piece as well, though his eyes seemed to stay dilated as the trip went on.

Things seemed to slow down as the piece fell towards Verdant’s face. He managed to move his head to the side, only just avoiding being hit.

Unfortunately for the poor pony, this was the final straw for his stomach. As the coaster finally left the alicorn’s body and passed the glass tunnel, Verdant felt the liquid rainbow rocket up his throat before it burst out from his mouth, falling over a dozen feet to the ground below.

The verdant stallion groaned as the train started to come to a halt. When it stopped, a pink pony came over and quickly undid their restraints.

“Thank you for taking the Twilight Tour,” the chipper mare said before picking up Verdant and putting him back on his hooves. “Would you like to have a photo as a souvenir of your trip?”

Verdant could only groan as Hatty flew over to his side. “Yes, my friend would in fact like three copies, Miss.”

“Okie-dokie-lokie.” She gave a sweet smile before dashing off before returning with a folder an instant later that she gave to the purple pegasus. “Have a good day!”

“Can we please go home?” Verdant weakly asked as Hatty started to guide him over to Forge.

“Yeah. I think you’ve been punished enough,” Hatty said as he opened up the folder. “Still, we do have a reminder of what happened today.”

Verdant looked over at the photo where he saw himself retching rainbows over the side of the train while Fringe seemed to be fresh as a daisy. Curtain Call still had a stunned look on his face.

“Hope you enjoyed your time inside the princess, Verdant.” Forge gave the earth pony a pat on the back as he chuckled.

“Hate you guys… so damn much…” Verdant weakly muttered. “Will… get… revenge…”

“Doubt it,” the pair replied in unison as they approached the train. “Still, I’ll make sure you get something really nice for your birthday. Maybe a complete collection of the GoGo’s Bizarre Adventures OVA.”

“... It’s a start…” Verdant said as the trio got onto the train platform.

“Well, at least you’re in a photo that gives you a good look at the princess’s purple curple and nethers.” Forge patted his side once more.

“Yeah… I will admit, that is a plus,” Verdant replied with a small blush before sitting down. He then looked over his shoulder, where in the distance, he spotted another train heading into Twilight’s mouth. “Here’s hoping that if I do meet her again, it goes better than this.”

Author's Notes:

Hi everyone. Hope you enjoyed this chapter, despite how long it took to come out.

This chapter is based on a piece of art by the great vore artist, PonyThroat. You should be able to find this pic easily enough if you search.

I'd like to given a special thanks to PonyThroat for letting me do this chapter based on the art, as well as Fringe Aesthetic and Vellus for the use of their OCs in this.

Now that the thanks are out of the way, time to vote for the chapter after next.

Swift Snort (AP): Verdant is training with his fellow soldiers on Butterfly Island and we see one of the misadventures there.
Lovely Nights and New Beginnings (Alternate Ending): Verdant was called upon to impregnate Cadance with Shining Armor's sperm. Well over a year after his successful mission, Princess Cadance calls him back to the empire. What could she want this time?
Dating Delights: Verdant goes out on a date with a fancy mare he met during a dating service and things seem to go swimmingly... until he learns she's a cannibalistic serial killer with a shrinking fetish.
Betty: The Last Cutesaur: Verdant is recruited by Daring Do to explore an island full of long lost flora and fauna, only to encounter a creature that supposedly went extinct eons ago.
Bibinba's Inside Story: While playing Marinara Party with some friends of his, Verdant accidentally lands on the wrong space and finds himself staring down an imposing longma.
Deep Into Darkness: Princess Luna has become a powerful being of darkness named Nightmare Moon, making her too fast for Celestia to blast with the elements. However, the princess has a plan involving the skills of a certain green stallion.
Strawberry Sweetness: Another teleportation test brings him to Strawberry Sundae. Not the restaurant, but it's owner who's about to have some private time with her lovely wife.
Dog Day Afternoon: On a day out, Verdant finds himself stumbling upon a patch of Shrinking Violets... and a rather hungry Diamond Dog.
Tales from the Mirrorverse - Antacid's Creed: In a world where everypony's evil, Verdant wants to get himself a high ranking position in Celestia's forces. What better way to prove he can sneak into anywhere than sneaking into the princess herself?
Not a Snack-Sized Stallion, But a Micro-Sized Man: Verdant's enjoying his little job of mowing his history teacher's lawn when suddenly, a pot with a blue flower in it appears from the sky and smacks him in the face. Now the teenage Verdant is just a speck when Barrier's niece, Twilight Sparkle, comes to visit.
Death to Daybreaker: In a dark world ruled by Daybreaker and Nightmare Moon, two vicious tyrants who plot and scheme against each other, the Mare of the Moon decides to put an end to her sister once and for all. For this, she's going to need a rather skilled assassin.
Tales from the Mirrorverse - Digestions & Dragons: Set after the events of "Antacid's Creed", Verdant is assigned to Celestia's elite privateer, Magic Barrier. His first assignment: recover the treasure from a hibernating dragon's stomach.
Apple Nut Brother: Another teleportation incident makes Verdant somewhere he never expected to be; not just in Sweet Apple Acres, but also inside a pony.

At any rate, join us next time when poor Verdant gets double the trouble in, "Verdant in the Sky, then Diamonds". See ya then!

Verdant in the Sky, then Diamonds

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Verdant gave a yawn as he stirred from his slumber. The earliest of morning light was just starting to peek into the bedroom.

He was at first surprised to find himself in a bedroom he didn’t recognize, but he started to remember the previous night’s activities.

It had been three months since he and High Gear had ended up inside the body of the mare known as Beanstalk. Last night, he found himself inside Beanstalk once more in a manner that they both rather enjoyed.

Now the shamrock stallion found himself wrapped up in Beanstalk’s forelegs as the statuesque mare held him as her little spoon.

A hum reached Verdant’s ears as Beans started to wake up before she gave the top of his head a nuzzle. “Morning, Verdant.”

“Morning to you too, Beans,” he replied, lifting his chin to rub against hers. “How are you feeling?”

“Pretty good,” Beans said as she loosened her grip, letting Verdant roll around to face her. “Thanks.” She then leaned down and gave him a kiss on the cheek.

“I’m the thankful one, Beans.” Verdant nuzzled into her chest before pulling back. “Want me to make you breakfast?”

“Nah. I think Gear’s already working on cooking something up.”

“Then how about I go get yours so you can have breakfast in bed?” Verdant asked as he slipped out from under the sheets of her princess sized bed.

“That sounds lovely,” Beans said before giving a stretch. “It would be a great way to start my day off.”

“One breakfast, coming up,” Verdant stated as he slipped out of the room, soon coming into the apartment’s kitchen where High Gear had made four stacks of pancakes with sides of hay bacon strips.

“Well, if it isn’t Verdant the Giant-Layer,” Gear said with a smirk as she saw him draw closer, shutting off the stove-top.

“Gear, I-”

“Proud and defiant, he laid the giant! He’s been in her rear!” She loudly sang until she felt a zap on her flank.

“No singing…” Pixel Flash said weakly as she slowly made her way into the kitchen, her mane a complete mess and her eyes sealed tightly shut. “Not until after coffee…”

“Ah, right.” Gear hissed as she gave her flank a rub. “Should only be another minute.”

Pix gave a muttering that resembled thanks as she sat down at the table. Verdant awkwardly moved towards the stacks of food.

“So, is it alright if I just take this to Beans’ room?” Verdant asked as the mare started to trot towards the table with a full pot of coffee.

“Sure thing,” Gear replied as Pix’s magic took the pot from the blue mare’s grasp and poured herself and Gear each a cup. “Just hope you’re ready to finally get back to testing the new and improved teleporter today.”

“A hundred bits says he ends up in a stomach again,” Pix gave a smirk before taking a long sip of her morning brew.

“Not gonna happen, Pix!” Gear said as she took a seat beside her. “I worked extra hard when the lab was being rebuilt to try and fully make sure that nothing should go wrong this time around.”

“And I know Gear doesn’t want to lose any more bits after what happened two sessions ago.” Verdant cheekily said before grasping the plates with his teeth and darting back to Beans’ room, hearing Gear mutter a small string of curses.

***

It was a little past noon when he and High Gear arrived at the laboratory. Verdant observed that the rebuilt lab was absolutely sparkling as he stepped up to the platform.

“Alright, time to give this bad girl a whirl,” Gear eagerly said as she rubbed her hooves together from behind the control panel.

“Okay, anything I should know about the new teleporter?” Verdant asked, making her realize something.

“Oh, not about this machine, but I do have something for you to take with you.” She rushed over to Verdant's spot on the platform before pulling a small green square from her lab coat. “This is a tracking chip I had some of the others help me build. This way, should something go wrong, we’ll have an easier time finding you.” She stuffed the chip into his vest pocket and made it clip into the fabric.

“Just in case?” Verdant gave a raised eyebrow as she headed back to the control panel.

“Ending up in a stomach once is a freak accident. Twice is a bad coincidence. Three times means something is up and four times makes me admit precautions need to be taken.” Gear said as she stepped up to the controls. “Ready?”

“Ready as I’ll ever be,” Verdant replied. “Let’s do this.”

“Right.” Gear gave a nod and flicked a switch. The platform started to light up underneath Verdant’s hooves and the machine began to hum.

Suddenly, the entire room went dark. The machines whirred down as High Gear gave a sigh and pulled a small flashlight from her lab coat.

“Has anyone seen Mr. Cheezers?” a mare’s voice came from outside Gear’s lab. “I think he’s gotten into the wiring.”

“Note to self,” Gear groaned as she used a hoof to rub the bridge of her snout. “Research and see if curses are a real thing.”

***

Verdant saw the lab vanish in a flash of light before he found himself tumbling downward. He soon fell into a large amount of a green and brown looking goop. He sank a few feet into the thick sludge, struggling to get back to the surface.

Before he could breach the surface of the slop, the world seemed to tilt and shake. The thick liquid started to slide out from under his hindlegs and he felt himself being dragged along by it. When he was finally able to get his head above the brew, he spotted that he was being dragged with the liquid into the mouth of a blue mare with a full rainbow for her mane.

“Seriously?!” he exclaimed in annoyance as he floated over her lips. “It’s happening already?”

The mare seemed to be rapidly chugging down the thick drink with the shrunken stallion within. Verdant felt himself being swallowed down and plopping into her stomach in record time.

Once the last of the drink had landed within the mare’s belly, Verdant managed to pull himself free, letting the stomach juices wash him clean.

“Gear’s lucky we didn’t make a bet,” Verdant muttered to himself. “I swear, if this happens five more times, I’m gonna make her buy me a sub sandwich.”

As he pulled himself onto the stomach’s slippery surface, a lot of shaking came from the outside. From what he could tell, the mare was taking off into a quick run.

“Well, at least she’s just running. Could be worse.” The tiny pony gave a shrug before leaning against the wall of flesh.

“Wait a sec…” a look of horror quickly spread across his face as he realized a possibility. “What if she’s a pegaSAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!” Suddenly, everything began to shift and tumble about. The shamrock stallion smacked into the stomach’s ceiling, along with the slurry of her beverage. As he opened his mouth to scream, a large dollop of the drink found its way in and silenced him.

The semi-used drink flooded his mouth with the taste of one of the protein drinks Kiko had made him try, along with some kale and other things he couldn’t recognize.

Verdant tried to defy the g-forces pinning him to the wall of the stomach, only for him to start bouncing all around the gastric chamber. Best he could guess was the mare he was inside of was indeed a pegasus and she had begun taking several sharp turns.

“Crapcrapcrapcrapcrapcrapcrapcrap!!!” he screeched as he was smacked with not only the shake slurry, but the other bits of food that occupied her stomach. “Did I get eaten by a Faust damned Wonderbolt?!”

***

In her cloud constructed home in Cloudsdale, Rainbow Dash let out a sigh after she shotgunned her protein drink. It was a good way to top off her breakfast and gave the mare a fair bit of nutrients for her extreme flight work.

Alright, she thought to herself as she put her now empty glass in the sink. Now that that’s taken care of, time to take a flight to shake breakfast down.

Rainbow gave a cocky smirk as she started to head for the door. She wanted to pet Tank along the way, but he was getting a little treatment at Fluttershy’s.

Least I’ll be able to pick him up once I do this little bit of exercise. She thought as she reached the edge of the cloud line, diving off the side and letting herself take in the sensation of freefall.

This lasted only a moment before she flared her wings out and started to accelerate. She could feel her breakfast slamming into the back of her belly.

The ground grew closer and closer. She was barely eight feet above ground before she took the first of many sharp turns.

Flying around and making hairpin turns were the standard morning routine for Rainbow Dash and she was loving every second of it. She dive bombed towards some trees and quickly weaved through each and every single one. The exhilaration was like nothing else as she started to climb, flying over Ponyville.

She pushed further and further, feeling what was coming up as a familiar mach cone started to form in front of her. After a few seconds, she blasted forward and created a massive rainbow explosion in the sky, completely ignoring the infinitesimally smaller explosion that came from her taut rear.

***

When another sharp turn was taken, Verdant was rocketed into the sphincter to Rainbow’s intestine. The fleshy hole quickly opened, allowing the stallion to smack into the wall of villi.

Before he could get his bearings, Dash took even more turns that Verdant was surprised didn’t break his neck. Even then, he found himself being bounced around her intestines like a pinball when the player was on cocaine. The only thing that let him know he had entered her large intestine was the foul smell.

Eventually, she stopped making turns as she started to fly upwards. When that happened, Verdant was finally able to get his bearings. He could see he was up against the tight ring that was her anus and the g-forces were pushing him harder and harder into the hole.

Don’t ask how it could get worse. You just know it’ll make it worse.

As the forces continued to grow more and more intense, he heard a rumbling from elsewhere within her bowels. In a matter of seconds afterwards, a blast of disgusting smelling air struck the shrunken stallion and expelled him from the racing Rainbow’s anus just as an explosion of light and sound completely consumed him, both blinding and deafening him immediately.

The only thing he was able to discern was that he was falling fast. When the ringing in his ears finally stopped, he saw a rainbow streak in the sky that went on for miles above him. Casting his eyes downwards, he saw the town of Ponyville was coming ever closer towards him.

“Shit! It can’t end like this!” the minuscule mammal exclaimed as he flailed helplessly in the air. “Please! Faust! Zacherle! Anyone, save me!”

Verdant slammed his eyes shut and braced himself, knowing that he would be hitting the ground any second now. He clenched his teeth, readying himself to be splattered.

Only to feel the ground splatter underneath him. Once he was sure he had stopped and was unharmed, Verdant slowly opened his eyes and saw what had happened.

He found that he had somehow landed in something that was soft, cold and smelled of prench vanilla, creating a cartoony hole in the shape of his body. Before he could pull himself up, a sticky brown liquid slowly started to fill up the hole.

The tiny pony struggled against the thick substance. When some of the goop ended up in his mouth, he was instantly able to realize what it was; chocolate syrup.

Verdant was completely covered in the sauce by the time he had managed to pull himself out of the hole. When he tried to catch his breath, he saw that he was high up on a mountain made of what appeared to be ice cream topped with chocolate sauce.

“OH MY,” a titanic mare’s voice echoed in the distance. Looking towards the source of the thunderous noise, Verdant spotted a marshmallow white unicorn mare with a dark violet, curly styled mane. “THIS IS THE MOST DELECTABLE ICE CREAM I’VE EVER SEEN! IT’S ALMOST TOO DELECTABLE TO EAT… WELL, ALMOST.”

“Oh for the love of,” Verdant gave a roll of his eyes as he forced himself onto his hooves. Before he could begin to run, he felt an earthquake below him. Looking behind him, he saw that the mare had stabbed her colossal spoon into the creamy treat below him, raising it and himself up into the sky.

The pea-sized pony could only sigh as the spoonful of sweet cream was guided into the massive maw of the mare. To avoid being smacked by the back of her lips when she pulled the spoon back, Verdant leapt off the spoon and landed on her moist tongue, feeling resigned to his fate.

“MMMMM!” the white mare hummed in delight before she swirled Verdant and the ice cream around her mouth. The warmth of her body swiftly caused it to melt and Verdant was caught up in a wave of the cool cream and her saliva. It wasn’t long before the whale-like tongue rose up, tossing the stallion and the sweet to the back of her throat before she swallowed.

In a matter of seconds, Verdant and the ice cream landed with a splat in her stomach, landing on what he assumed was a salad that was heavy on the ranch sauce.

“Well,” Verdant groaned as he rose up and started to trot away from under the stomach’s valve as more of the cream started to pour in. “Guess I can now make it four more for the sub.”

***

After finishing off her treat, the reward of an especially large order she had managed to finish with plenty of time to spare, Rarity had a quick little trip to the spa where she met up with Fluttershy. The two eventually started to enjoy a nice hot soak in the tub.

“Ahh, this is always a delight,” Rarity said as she gave a stretch before laying back in the tub. “So, did anything happen since our last spa day together, darling?”

“Um, well…” Fluttershy’s face started to redden. At first, the marshmallow mare thought it was due to the heat. “I… I had a stallion inside me.”

“Oh my,” Rarity was taken aback by her winged friend’s words. “I must admit, it’s rather surprising to hear from you, Fluttershy. Well, was he any good?”

“N-n-not like that!” Fluttershy’s face went from a light red to a deep crimson and she frantically flailed her forelegs. “Well, you see… a while back, I went to bed the night before we met up and I dreamt that a tiny pony appeared upon my snout. Since I thought it was just a dream, I… I ate him.”

“I… I see…” Rarity tilted her head as she tried to process her friend’s words.

“However, the next morning, when I woke up, he was clinging onto a hair on the top of my head, angry over what happened.” The yellow mare started to slip down further into the water. “He had managed to escape my stomach and climbed my body so he could talk to me about what I had done.”

“Normally I would say that seems far-fetched, but then again, we tend to live rather fantastical lives.” Rarity placed a chin to her hoof before looking back at her compatriot. “What happened to the poor stallion?”

“I brought him to Twilight and she restored him to full size,” Fluttershy replied with embarrassment clear in her tone. “I just hope he doesn’t mention it to a bunch of ponies.”

“Well, since it’s been months since that happened and this is the first I’ve heard of it, I’d say it’s pretty safe to assume that word of this isn’t spreading around.” Rarity moved over to her friend’s side and pulled her into a gentle hug.

“It’s still something I want to forget,” Fluttershy said as she returned the hug and slipped a bit further down into the water. “Still, it’s nice to be able to get something like this off my chest. Could you please promise not to tell anypony?”

“But of course, darling.” Rarity gave her friend a warm smile before she went through the trademark movements of the Pinkie Promise. “My lips are sealed.”

“Thanks, Rarity,” Fluttershy said as she broke out of the hug and swam to the edge of the tub, pulling herself out of the warm water. “It’s always great when we can spend time together like this.”

“It most certainly is,” Rarity replied as she followed her friend out of the tub. “Sorry that we haven’t been able to do this as regularly as I wish, but I promise we’ll be able to do this again much sooner.”

“That’s great to hear, Rarity.” Fluttershy smiled as she slipped into a bathrobe. “Maybe if we’re lucky, we’ll be able to invite everypony else.”

“That would be fantastic. I hope they’ll all join us.” Rarity slipped on a robe of her own before she followed Fluttershy to the next room to continue their treatment.

As the sun started to set, Rarity and Fluttershy left the spa and headed for their respective homes.

“My, that was certainly quite the tale,” the alabaster unicorn mused to herself as she walked towards her home and place of business. “I can’t imagine what it would be like to have somepony inside them like that.”

Unaware to the mare as she opened her door, a loud shouting of micro-sized profanities emanated from deep within her intestines.

A short while later, Rarity had her dinner and headed up to her bedroom. Once she made sure Opal wasn’t in the room, she locked her bedroom door and pulled a book and rubber sex toy from a hidden compartment in her night stand.

Rarity let out a chuckle as she gently climbed up on the bed and spread her book open to where she had placed her bookmark.

Oh, and I stopped right before a rather saucy passage. Wonderful!

Rarity let out a chuckle as her horn lifted her toy towards her nethers and used it to tease herself. She felt herself growing damper as she continued to caress herself and read her book.

***

Verdant gave a sigh when he reached the last section of Rarity’s bowels. It had been a far longer trip than the one he took through Rainbow Dash, but he was glad this was about to finally end.

The fleshy tunnel seemed to shake from Rarity moving her hips, but he thought it’d be best to get out as soon as possible. Verdant charged forward started to push himself into Rarity’s anus.

The shrunken stallion pushed further and further until he managed to make his way out of her and started to fall. Rather than landing on a soft set of sheets, he found himself abruptly landing on a tower of damp yet firm rubber.

Looking back, Verdant saw that he was atop a dildo that was grasped in Rarity’s magic and was positioned directly in front of her soaked vulva.

“Oh crap!” Verdant tried to flee along the phallus, but tripped on the slick juices that covered the toy. Before he could get back to his hooves, Rarity gave the toy a hard thrust, pushing it and the puny pony inside her nethers.

A powerful moan echoed all about as Rarity kept thrusting the toy in and out of her. After a few quick thrusts, Verdant had tumbled from the toy and landed face first against her wet vaginal walls.

The poor puny pony wasn’t given a chance to catch his breath when the dildo barreled over top of him. The force of the toy was as if a giant, damp, rubber train was run over him before it pulled back and repeated the dreadful process.

Verdant tried his best to ignore not just the feeling of Rarity’s toy crushing against his back, but also the experience he was feeling in his nethers. The scent of an aroused mare was overpowering, making him quickly slip from his sheath and harden. The weight of the dildo caused him to keep pressing his stiff stallionhood against the wet wall.

The force and speed of the thrusts grew more intense along with Rarity’s breathy moans and heart beat. Verdant could tell that the mare was approaching her climax… and so was he.

Stop! You’ve got to keep from nutting inside a mare! We have no idea if shrunken sperm can still get a mare pregnant! Think unsexy stuff! Baseball! Tax forms! The gorey stuff in Mortal Fighters! The time you had to give Goldie a sponge bath!

Despite his attempts, Verdant couldn’t hold back any longer and felt himself erupt, coating Rarity’s insides with a spattering of seed that would likely fit on the head of a pin.

Verdant started to huff from his release, but was cut off when a torrent of Rarity’s own juices washed over him. He held onto what little breath he had left, waiting patiently until Rarity pulled the toy and the stuck stallion from her body.

The shamrock stallion huffed as he felt relief at being pulled from the great heat of her nethers. It was then he noticed that his legs were simply dangling below him while his body was stuck to the rubbery surface of the toy, thanks to a coating of Rarity’s fluids.

At the sound of a thunderous moan, Verdant looked towards the mare who was rolling onto her back and lifting the toy up to her face.

“Wait, why are you bringing this up to your face, lady?” Verdant gave a swallow. It was then her eyes became half-lidded and she gave his lips a sensual lick.

“Whoa, you do not want to do this, lady!” Verdant tried to struggle, hoping to somehow break free of the liquids that bound him to the toy. “Seriously, it’s super gross that you’d like to eat your own cum!”

Verdant’s words went unheard as Rarity started to lick her toy clean. Her colossal tongue soon scraped against Verdant, prying him and a fair amount of her love juices from the slick surface.

“Urgh, son of a bitch!” Verdant groaned as he tried to stand, but the tongue’s movements kept causing him to fall further and further back as Rarity fellated her toy. It was only a matter of seconds before the shamrock stallion had found himself being swallowed yet again, along with a generous amount of Rarity’s love juices, soon landing in her stomach and giving her dinner a tangy topping.

“This just keeps getting grosser and grosser,” the minuscule pony muttered to himself when the stomach shifted, sending him landing on his back in the pool of her stomach juices. “At least that’s one more time for the sub tally.”

***

The night was a rather pleasant one for the marshmallowy mare. She had gotten herself a good night’s rest and was about to enjoy a cup of coffee when a knocking came from the door. Rarity was rather surprised by this since it was still far too early for a customer to be showing up.

Curious, she set her black beverage aside and went to the front door, where she spotted what looked like a blue bespectacled earth pony with a short and messy violet mane and her focus seemed to be on a small black device on her foreleg that was emitting an odd pinging noise.

“Can I help you, ma’am?” Rarity cautiously asked, drawing the mare’s attention.

“Yes, ma’am.” The blue pony said as she drew closer to Rarity, carefully looking at her hoof mounted device. “My name is Dr. High Gear and I’ve tracked down my assistant to your home after he was the test subject of my teleportation device.”

“I… see?” Rarity tried to pull away from the doctor, but she kept drawing closer. “So your assistant is somewhere in my house?”

“Oh, it’s more than just that.” Gear was nearly touching Rarity’s snout with her own. “My tracking device and scanner shows he’s currently inside your digestive system.”

“WHAT?!” Rarity nearly shrieked in surprise as she threw herself backwards, landing on a couch that slid into the room. “Of all the worst possible things! How is this sort of thing possible?! A stallion inside me!”

“Yeah, like that’s never happened before to you,” Gear softly muttered as she gave a roll of her eyes.

“What was that, doctor?” Rarity unsuredly asked as she rose up on the couch.

“I said we’ll have to perform Verdant’s extraction and soon,” High Gear replied as she started reaching into her saddlebags.

“How are we going to do that? I don’t want the poor fellow to suffer any more as he is,” Rarity asked from her spot on the couch.

“Well, you ever seen Kung Pow: Enter the Hoof?” High Gear inquired and she approached the alabaster mare, still searching through her bag.

“No, I haven’t,” Rarity tilted her head in confusion as Gear moved behind her. “I don’t understand. Why do you ask?”

“Well, to quote the movie,” Gear stood before the unicorn, her right foreleg now covered by a sheet of rubber. “Ini-mini-miney-mo, I wonder where my glove will go.”

Rarity gulped in horror at realizing what would come next.

Please be gentle.

A little over an hour later, Verdant and High Gear were leaving Twilight’s place after she unshrunk him. Back at Carousel Boutique, Rarity was recovering from the extraction with a large tub of ice cream, some painkillers and a large donut shaped cushion that Pinkie Pie had suddenly brought over.

“So, this is that Ponyville place you keep ending up in,” High Gear said as she examined the place. “Now you’ve ended up in stomachs three times here.”

“Five actually,” Verdant shuddered at the thought as the train station came into view. “A lot happened while I was here this time.”

“Sorry to hear that, Verd,” the azure mare said as they approached. “How about if this happens five more times, I buy you a sub?”

“Make it three and you’ve got a deal.” Verdant held out his hoof to her. After a brief instant, Gear grabbed his hoof and gave it a shake.

“Deal,” High Gear said as she started to pull ahead of him. “So, anything you want to talk about? I don’t think the train to Vanhoover will be here for another hour or so?”

“Well,” Verdant tapped a hoof to his chin until a dark thought suddenly occurred to him. “Say, do you think a shrunken stallion’s sperm could impregnate a regular sized mare?”

“I… I don’t think so…” Gear said while looking at him as if he suddenly grew three more heads. “Then again, I’m not a biology expert. Why do you ask?”

“Oh, no reason,” Verdant nervously looked away from the bespectacled mare as he recalled what happened the night before. “So, when will the next test be?”

Author's Notes:

Hey folks. Bet you weren't expecting Verdant to get eaten thrice in one chapter. It was pretty fun writing this chapter and I hope you all enjoyed it too.

And now it's time to vote for the chapter after next.

Swift Snort (AP): Verdant is training with his fellow soldiers on Butterfly Island and we see one of the misadventures there.
Lovely Nights and New Beginnings (Alternate Ending): Verdant was called upon to impregnate Cadance with Shining Armor's sperm. Well over a year after his successful mission, Princess Cadance calls him back to the empire. What could she want this time?
Dating Delights: Verdant goes out on a date with a fancy mare he met during a dating service and things seem to go swimmingly... until he learns she's a cannibalistic serial killer with a shrinking fetish.
Betty: The Last Cutesaur: Verdant is recruited by Daring Do to explore an island full of long lost flora and fauna, only to encounter a creature that supposedly went extinct eons ago.
Bibinba's Inside Story: While playing Marinara Party with some friends of his, Verdant accidentally lands on the wrong space and finds himself staring down an imposing longma.
Double Trouble in the Fire: A teleportation accident ends up sending Verdant to another universe where he meets Dr. Overdrive and a green mare with a white muzzle named Shamrock Meadow. When the two try to get him back home, things go awry and the emerald pony pair end up in the kitchen of Spitfire.
Strawberry Sweetness: Another teleportation test brings him to Strawberry Sundae. Not the restaurant, but it's owner who's about to have some private time with her lovely wife.
Dog Day Afternoon: On a day out, Verdant finds himself stumbling upon a patch of Shrinking Violets... and a rather hungry Diamond Dog.
Tales from the Mirrorverse - Antacid's Creed: In a world where everypony's evil, Verdant wants to get himself a high ranking position in Celestia's forces. What better way to prove he can sneak into anywhere than sneaking into the princess herself?
Not a Snack-Sized Stallion, But a Micro-Sized Man: Verdant's enjoying his little job of mowing his history teacher's lawn when suddenly, a pot with a blue flower in it appears from the sky and smacks him in the face. Now the teenage Verdant is just a speck when Barrier's niece, Twilight Sparkle, comes to visit.
Death to Daybreaker: In a dark world ruled by Daybreaker and Nightmare Moon, two vicious tyrants who plot and scheme against each other, the Mare of the Moon decides to put an end to her sister once and for all. For this, she's going to need a rather skilled assassin.
Tales from the Mirrorverse - Digestions & Dragons: Set after the events of "Antacid's Creed", Verdant is assigned to Celestia's elite privateer, Magic Barrier. His first assignment: recover the treasure from a hibernating dragon's stomach.
Apple Nut Brother: Another teleportation incident makes Verdant somewhere he never expected to be; not just in Sweet Apple Acres, but also inside a pony.
Verdant vs. Verdant: Battle of the Bug (AP): A distress message from the Mirror Universe reaches Princess Celestia and Verdant is tasked by King Sombra to save the life of Queen Chrysalis from one of the most evil and dangerous assassins on the mirror world; Verdant Range.

Next time, Verdant is called upon by Princess Celestia to try to help best Nightmare Moon when he goes Deep into Darkness. Catch ya then!

Deep into Darkness

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Once upon a time, in the magical land of Equestria, there were two regal sisters who ruled together and created harmony for all the land. To do this, the eldest used her alicorn powers to raise the sun at dawn; the younger brought out the moon to begin the night.

Thus, the two sisters maintained balance for their kingdom and their subjects, all the different types of ponies. But as time went on, the younger sister became resentful. The ponies relished and played in the day her elder sister brought forth, but shunned and slept through her beautiful night.

One fateful day, the younger alicorn refused to lower the moon to make way for the dawn. The elder sister tried to reason with her, but the bitterness in the young one's heart had transformed her into a wicked mare of darkness: Nightmare Moon.

She vowed that she would shroud the land in eternal night. Reluctantly, the elder sister harnessed the most powerful magic known to ponydom: the Elements of Harmony. Unfortunately, Nightmare Moon was far too swift to be struck down by the elements, and so Equestria was soon blanketed by darkness.

It is only a day after the land was blanketed by the night where our tale begins.

***

The royal guards were all on high alert once Nightmare Moon struck out on her own. Many ponies were on the verge of panic because of this. Things were not helped by the many thestrals that had turned to Nightmare Moon’s side and against her sister’s loyal guards.

One guard, an earth pony private by the name of Verdant Range was rather surprised that he had received a personal summons to meet with Princess Celestia herself. He was certainly a serviceable archer, but he doubted he had the skills needed to best a twisted immortal.

Upon arriving outside the princess’s chamber, he spotted his captain, a charcoal unicorn by the name of Magic Barrier, standing beside the ornate door. Upon spotting the shamrock stallion, he silently beckoned him into the royal chamber. Moving quickly, Verdant followed close behind.

The young stallion swallowed at the sight of the large, well-decorated chamber the pair had stepped into. Before he could really take in any details however, a clearing of Princess Celestia’s throat drew Verdant’s eyes. He quickly fell into a bow.

“Rise, Private Range,” the alabaster alicorn spoke with a firm yet caring tone as she strode towards him. “We have an unorthodox request for thee that is of the utmost importance.”

“Before thou accepts, I suggest thou listen very carefully to what the princess has to say.” Barrier came to Verdant’s side as the grass-colored pony stood up.

“We have been attempting to cleanse our sister’s madness through the use of the Elements of Harmony. Unfortunately, Nightmare Moon’s skill with teleporting, turning to smoke and flight have allowed her to evade every attempt to strike her with the element’s magic.” Celestia said as she came to a halt in front of him. She towered over the green pony, over twice his size, even without her horn.

“I am uncertain how I could be of service to thee, Your Highness,” Verdant nervously said to the imposing alicorn. “I am merely an archer.”

“Tis not thy archery skills We require, but thy unique talent of surviving being swallowed whole and being trapped within another’s body.” Celestia’s words turned his green coat as white as her own. “Captain Barrier has informed Us of thy incidents that ended with thou being swallowed and passed. Thy skill in navigating a pony’s body is precisely what We need.”

“Oh dear Faust…” Verdant started to back up and sweat poured from his brow. “I know what thou art planning. Thou wishes for me to shrink down, enter through Nightmare Moon’s buttocks, and then cure myself to make myself grow and cause her to explode! Hatty was right!”

“NO!” Celestia exclaimed in the Royal Canterlot Voice. Barrier had to bite his tongue hard to keep from laughing while the princess looked both disgusted and horrified by Verdant’s words. “What We wish is for thou to shrink down and enter Our sister’s stomach whilst wearing a special saddlebag.”

“Ah. My apologies, Your Highness.” Verdant turned his eyes down towards his and the princess’s hooves as the color started to return to his coat. “Beg my pardon, Princess, but how will this defeat Nightmare Moon?”

“Simple,” Barrier interjected as his horn lit up. It was then a saddlebag was levitated from beside the princess’s bed before coming to a halt in front the young earth pony. “Tis what’s inside that shall best the Nightmare.”

Pulling back the flaps on the bags, Verdant was stunned by what was inside. The saddlebags held a set of six differently colored jewels. The one that stood out the most to him was the magenta gem that was shaped vastly different from the rest. While five of them look like little more than impressively large gemstones, the final one was cut into the shape of a six pointed star.

“Behold, Verdant Range,” Celestia said as she leaned her neck down towards him. “The Elements of Harmony.”

“Faust and Zacherle above…” Verdant hoarsely whispered as the bag was suddenly placed upon his back. “I do not understand. What is going on?”

“Our plan is most simple,” Celestia firmly said. “We can activate the elements remotely, so the current place is to activate them whilst thou art in Nightmare Moon’s stomach. Thus, she will be purified and Our sister shall be freed from the corruption plaguing her mind.”

“I see…” Verdant gave his neck a nervous rub. “But how will thou get me inside her stomach in the first place?”

“First, We shall shrink thee down and place thee in Our mouth. Thou shalt leave the rest to Us,” The princess said as Barrier came up to Verdant’s side.

“Were our options not severely limited, we would not call upon thee.” The charcoal stallion placed a hoof on Verdant’s shoulder.

“I… I understand, sir.” Verdant swallowed heavily before turning his attention towards the tall alabaster mare. “I am ready, Princess.”

“Very good, Private Range,” Celestia said as her horn began to glow with a golden radiance. “Rest assured, thou shall be well rewarded once our sister is freed.”

The golden aura soon encompassed the earth pony and the already towering mare quickly became the size of a mountain. It was then he felt himself being shot into the sky like a cannonball until he found himself suspended in the air in front of Princess Celestia’s plump lips.

“Thou hast Our deepest gratitude,” the Princess carefully whispered, though her words still felt like a rather intense wind to the shrunken stallion.

It was then the princess opened her massive maw wide and raised her dragon-sized tongue. Verdant was cautiously placed inside her mouth behind her bottom teeth. It was then the gigantic tongue started to fall as her lips sealed shut.

To the miniscule mammal’s great relief, despite the massive size, the tongue was placed gently over his tiny form. It was as if he’d been covered from head to hoof in multiple thick blankets… that were damp, in a hot and humid chamber that had the distinct, overpowering smell of bananas all about.

“Well, at least I can say I was inside a princess.” Verdant sighed as he tried to get as comfortable as his new surroundings would allow.

***

When Celestia closed her mouth, Barrier gave her a firm nod. The time to fight the nightmare had come.

Taking a steadying breath, Celestia’s horn ignited once more before the pair vanished from her bedchamber.

The pair soon found themselves in a dark and rocky part of the Everfree Forest, with many thestrals taking a defensive stance and hissing at their sudden appearance.

“We have come to seek an audience with Nightmare Moon!” Barrier called out loudly. The thestrals held their positions, though some now looked at the pair with curious looks on their faces. “Princess Celestia seeks to either end this non-violently, or, should this fail, challenge her in single combat for the title of ruler of Equestria.”

“Well, well, well,” a silky dark voice began, drawing Barrier and Celestia’s eyes upward to a natural spire of rock, where Nightmare Moon stood with a vicious smile on her face. “We were hoping thou wouldst have the mettle to face us in battle.”

“Do you accept her challenge, Nightmare Moon?” Barrier barked the question at the dark alicorn as the moon hung behind her in the sky.

“Verily!” She exclaimed before she glided down towards them. “Stand back, my loyal subjects. We do not wish thee harm as we crush our dear sister under hoof.”

The thestrals all started to back away, along with Barrier, forming a large ring around what was certain to be their last battlefield.

The two towering alicorns took their places at opposite sides of the makeshift ring. Nightmare Moon scraped at the ground while Celestia fell into a stance, ready to charge.

The two dashed towards each other with a speed that astounded Barrier before the pair grappled in the center.

“Thou shall fall, Sister! I shall-” the midnight black alicorn was silenced by her opponent suddenly locking her lips with hers. She was both stunned and horrified as she felt Celestia forcing her tongue into her mouth, as if trying to shove it down her throat. She felt ill as she tasted bananas and peas.

When Nightmare Moon managed to pull away, she reflexively swallowed a glob of her sister’s pea and banana-flavored spit.

“Gaugh!” Nightmare spat and gagged in disgust. “Sister, why didst thou do that?!” She bellowed, knocking several thestrals over with her booming voice.

“Because I love you, Sister,” Celestia replied, causing the dark alicorn to be even more stunned.

“Celestia, thou art my sister! Not my cousin!” Nightmare Moon’s right eye twitched rapidly. “That was sickening!”

***

Within Celestia’s mouth, Verdant nervously swallowed. He knew that Princess Celestia would get him inside Nightmare Moon soon, but he had no idea how she’d do it.

Suddenly, he felt the mare he was in charging forward as the tip of the tongue rose up above him before sliding under and lifting him upwards. He gripped the tongue tightly, knowing the worst was yet to come.

In an instant, he felt the tongue being launched forward. He saw two sets of lips blur past as he found the tongue he was gripping now being quickly pushed into a mouth that was filled with some rather sharp teeth.

Go! Go! Go! Verdant frantically thought as he let go of Celestia’s tongue and quickly slid off, landing on Nightmare Moon’s. Thankfully, the movements of Celestia’s tongue seemed to be distracting the nightmare long enough for Verdant to take a charging leap down into her throat. Just as he entered her throat, Nightmare Moon swallowed, sending him hurtling down into the dark chamber that was her nearly full stomach.

“Urgh… once again, I’m in a stomach,” Verdant said as he tried to shake off what he assumed were once truffles from his coat.

“Well, hopefully Princess Celestia won’t be too long with this…” Verdant said just before he saw that the bag was starting to glow with rainbow-colored light.

***

Princess Celestia let out a sigh as Nightmare Moon prepared to charge again. “Forgive me, Sister,” she said as her horn started to glow.

“Thou will need much more than ‘sorry’ to forgive all thy sins against me, especially thy latest one!” Nightmare Moon growled, but then noticed a strange rumbling that came from within her belly. “What… WHAT HAST THOU DONE?!”

The churning within her grew more and more fierce and she felt something rapidly rushing up her throat. She tried to cover her mouth with a hoof, but she could only hold it back for a matter of seconds before a burst of rainbow light spewed forth from her fanged maw.

The rainbow eruption from her mouth soared upward before coming back down and swirling around her. Shortly after the light engulfed her, the rainbow of light soon shot upwards into the sky.

A few moments later, to Celestia’s horror, the image of Nightmare Moon soon appeared upon the surface of the moon. This could only mean one thing. Her sister had been locked away for Faust knows how long.

“No… no…” Celestia tremblingly whispered before she collapsed to her knees. “NOOOOOOO!!! Tears streamed down her face as she screamed. Some say this scream of anguish was heard all throughout Equestria.

“Well,” Barrier quietly whispered to the thestral beside him. “At least the light came out her mouth and not the other end… You’re also all under arrest for high treason.”

***

Verdant groaned as he started to awaken. He found himself still tiny and within Nightmare Moon’s stomach, still filled with digesting bits of truffles.

"What happened?” He asked as he tried to stretch his sore limbs. “The last I recall, there was a tornado of rainbow light and then… what has happened?”

To him, everything in sight turned into a blue, starry mist. He was shocked as he saw his body turn into this before he felt himself zip away somewhere. He was incredibly disoriented until the mist soon reformed.

“Dear Zacherle, what was that?!” Verdant asked as he looked about in a daze of confusion. “Is that what it’s like when Nightmare Moon turns to mist?”

It was then the voice of Verdant’s unwitting capture boomed like a thunderous stampede all around him.

“OH, MY BELOVED SUBJECTS. IT’S BEEN SO LONG SINCE I’VE SEEN YOUR PRECIOUS SUN-LOVING FACES.”

“Oh boy, this will likely be a while.” Verdant groaned as he tried to get comfortable. A rather hard task when within a churning flesh sack of boiling acids and digesting truffles.

***

Even from within the dark alicorn, the night seemed to go on forever for Verdant. The most annoying of times were when she would turn herself back into mist before flying off. Even when his stomach ceased to be during those moments, it grew greatly upset.

The strangest moment of the night was when Verdant found himself somehow divided in three with each part in a different stomach, only to be rejoined together with three sets of memories moments later.

He felt himself starting to grow tired as the solidified Nightmare Moon charged towards something, but felt himself more awakened as she began cackling madly and rearing onto her hind legs, sending him hurtling into a wall on the far side of the stomach.

“Oh great, what’s going on now?” Verdant asked he rubbed his sore neck, To his surprise, an orange light started to come from within his saddlebags.

“Is the princess trying to use the elements again?” His whisper to himself was drowned out by the stomach gurgling as a pink light joined the first. This was shortly followed by blue, purple and red.

“YOU STILL DON'T HAVE THE SIXTH ELEMENT! THE SPARK DIDN'T WORK!” The nightmare’s voice thundered all around him before finally, a magenta light joined the five.

Once more, an explosion of rainbow light burst from Verdant’s saddlebags and swirled all around the stomach before shooting upwards.

The light soon turned a blinding white as Verdant found himself once more being swallowed up.

***

In the ruins that was once the Castle of the Two Sisters, a collection of six battle weary mares started to awaken.

“Urgh… my head,” the rainbow maned pegasus groaned as she rubbed her aching form.

“Everypony okay?” the orange coated mare in the stetson across from Rainbow Dash asked.

“Oh, thank goodness!” the alabaster unicorn said as she examined her tail, now restored to its full length and lustrous glory.

“Why Rarity, it’s so lovely!” the creamy yellow pegasus said as she noticed the golden necklace around her friend’s neck.

“I know!” Rarity said as she gave her tail a long wave. “I’ll never part with it again.”

“No. Your necklace,” Fluttershy pointed, drawing Rarity’s attention to the item in question. “It looks just like your cutie mark.”

“What?” Rarity was stunned by the appearance of the magnificent piece of jewelry clasped around her throat. It was then she saw the one around her cream-coated companion’s. “Ooh! So does yours!”

Fluttershy gasped at the sight of hers while an extremely pink pony was speaking to Applejack. “Look at mine! Look at mine!”

“Aw yeah!” Rainbow Dash said as she proudly looked down at the necklace with the red lightning bolt shaped jewel she wore.

“Gee, Twilight! I thought you were just spoutin' a lot of hooey, but I reckon we really do represent the elements of friendship.” Applejack said as she trotted toward the lavender coated mare who briefly cast a glance to the crown with a star-shaped jewel she now wore.

“Indeed you do,” a majestic voice said as daylight started to seep into the room. In a bright flash of white light, Princess Celestia appeared; standing tall above the six.

Twilight gasped at the sudden appearance of her mentor and calling out her name as her friends all bowed to her. She rushed towards the princess and the two shared an affectionate nuzzle.

“Twilight Sparkle, my faithful student. I knew you could do it.” Celestia gave her a warm smile as she spoke.

“But... you told me it was all an old pony tale,” Twilight said with clear confusion as she looked up at the white coated alicorn.

“I told you that you needed to make some friends, nothing more. I saw the signs of Nightmare Moon's return, and I knew it was you who had the magic inside to defeat her, but you could not unleash it until you let true friendship into your heart.” Princess Celestia then turned her attention to the sight of her unconscious sister across the room.

Her coat was much paler than before and her mane was material instead of the flowing starry mist it normally was and she was possibly smaller than when she last saw her. It seemed the elements had drained her of what magic she had within.

“Now if only another will as well.” She cautiously moved towards her little sister. It was then noticed that her belly seemed larger than normal. Perhaps a side-effect of her shrinking down after a large meal?

“Princess Luna.” Celestia’s call of her name awoke the smaller alicorn with a gasp. Looking up to Celestia, she had an expression of deep-shame upon her face. “It has been a thousand years since I have seen you like this.”

Celestia sat down in front of Luna, so they could both look each other in the eye. “Time to put our differences behind us. We were meant to rule together, little sister.”

A series of surprised mutterings came from element bearers at the princess referring to the former nightmare as ‘sister’.

“Will you accept my friendship?” Celestia asked as she rose back up. The element bearers leaned closer to see what would happen, with Pinkie Pie falling on her face.

Luna sniffled before she leapt into her sister, tears freely flowing from her eyes. “I'm so sorry! I missed you so much, big sister!”

Joyful tears from Celestia quickly joined Luna’s as she pulled her into a nuzzle. “I've missed you, too.”

“Um… not to spoil the touching reunion,” a stallion’s voice said, making both princess’s look to Luna’s distended belly. “But could you please get me out of here?!”

***

After many hours filled with laxatives, pain, sweat and tears, Verdant was finally freed from Princess Luna’s innards. It would take many more hours in the royal baths before he felt he was clean.

For many days after this incident, Princess Luna’s coat was tinted by a faint blush, making her appear purple to those unfamiliar. This included a pair of griffin toymakers known as the Hassenfeld Brothers, who made a line of toys based on the princesses, the element bearers and many other well known ponies in Equestria.

Sometime after he’d finished bathing, Princess Celestia had sent a summons to Verdant. He arrived outside her bedchamber that night. With a nervous swallow, Verdant gave a light rapping on the door.

“Come in, Verdant,” the princess’s voice came from the other side as a golden glow encompassed the doorknobs and made the doors open for him.

Slipping inside, he found Celestia laying on her bed, reading a book. To his surprise, she wasn’t wearing any of the jewelry he was accustomed to seeing her wear.

“Good evening, Verdant Range,” Celestia said as her magic placed a bookmark in the book before setting it aside. “I’ve called you here to discuss the reward you were promised so very long ago.”

“What didst thou have in mind, your highness?” Verdant asked without taking a step. He let out a surprised yelp as he heard the towering doors closing behind him.

“First of all, as thanks for the important role you had in freeing my sister, I will be providing you with a house in the city or town of your choosing.” Celestia said as she rose up from the bed and drew closer to him.

“The second part will be specialized classes to help you gain modern linguistics and job skills. The third will be a fair amount of bits to act as back pay for a thousand years on guard duty.” It was then Verdant noticed an odd grin on the princess’s face. “Now, if you wish, there is a fourth reward.”

“And what would that be?” Verdant asked as the princess drew closer and her wings started to rise.

“Well, you’ve had two rather unpleasant times within the bodies of my sister and I…” She then motioned her neck towards her large bed, “Perhaps I could offer you a much more pleasant time within me?”

Verdant’s face swiftly turned crimson at her words. “Princess, art thou serious?”

“I most certainly am,” she said as she turned towards the bed, making sure to wiggle her flank before walking over to it. “It’s been far too long since I’ve had a stallion to keep me company at night and I have heard that earth ponies tend to be more well-endowed than the unicorns I have mostly stuck to in the past.”

When she came to rest upon the bad, she shifted her tail to the side, giving the shamrock stallion a good glimpse of her ample flank. “So, do you accept?”

Verdant silently nodded before he approached the bed and leapt to Celestia’s side. She then draped a wing over him and pulled him into a deep kiss.

Verdant greatly enjoyed his night with the princess… though he would regret the damage done to his hips from eventually requesting the princess to be on top.

Still, even as he was in pain, recovering in his hospital room, he thought it was well worth it.

Author's Notes:

Happy Canada Day, folks!

Yeah, it's been a while, but I was able to get this chapter done. Will be able to get another chapter ready for August 8th? ... Eh, probably not, but here's hoping.

Well, for the first time in a long time, it's time to vote for the next chapter.

Swift Snort (AP): Verdant is training with his fellow soldiers on Butterfly Island and we see one of the misadventures there.
Lovely Nights and New Beginnings (Alternate Ending): Verdant was called upon to impregnate Cadance with Shining Armor's sperm. Well over a year after his successful mission, Princess Cadance calls him back to the empire. What could she want this time?
Dating Delights: Verdant goes out on a date with a fancy mare he met during a dating service and things seem to go swimmingly... until he learns she's a cannibalistic serial killer with a shrinking fetish.
Betty: The Last Cutesaur: Verdant is recruited by Daring Do to explore an island full of long lost flora and fauna, only to encounter a creature that supposedly went extinct eons ago.
Bibinba's Inside Story: While playing Marinara Party with some friends of his, Verdant accidentally lands on the wrong space and finds himself staring down an imposing longma.
Double Trouble in the Fire: A teleportation accident ends up sending Verdant to another universe where he meets Dr. Overdrive and a green mare with a white muzzle named Shamrock Meadow. When the two try to get him back home, things go awry and the emerald pony pair end up in the kitchen of Spitfire.
Strawberry Sweetness: Another teleportation test brings him to Strawberry Sundae. Not the restaurant, but it's owner who's about to have some private time with her lovely wife.
Dog Day Afternoon: On a day out, Verdant finds himself stumbling upon a patch of Shrinking Violets... and a rather hungry Diamond Dog.
Tales from the Mirrorverse - Antacid's Creed: In a world where everypony's evil, Verdant wants to get himself a high ranking position in Celestia's forces. What better way to prove he can sneak into anywhere than sneaking into the princess herself?
Not a Snack-Sized Stallion, But a Micro-Sized Man: Verdant's enjoying his little job of mowing his history teacher's lawn when suddenly, a pot with a blue flower in it appears from the sky and smacks him in the face. Now the teenage Verdant is just a speck when Barrier's niece, Twilight Sparkle, comes to visit.
Death to Daybreaker: In a dark world ruled by Daybreaker and Nightmare Moon, two vicious tyrants who plot and scheme against each other, the Mare of the Moon decides to put an end to her sister once and for all. For this, she's going to need a rather skilled assassin.
Tales from the Mirrorverse - Digestions & Dragons: Set after the events of "Antacid's Creed", Verdant is assigned to Celestia's elite privateer, Magic Barrier. His first assignment: recover the treasure from a hibernating dragon's stomach.
Kicking it into High Gear: With Dr. High Gear sick but tests still needing to be done, it falls to Pixel Flash to operate the teleport machine. At least Verdant still ends up in Vanhoover.
Verdant vs. Verdant: Battle of the Bug (AP): A distress message from the Mirror Universe reaches Princess Celestia and Verdant is tasked by King Sombra to save the life of Queen Chrysalis from one of the most evil and dangerous assassins on the mirror world; Verdant Range.
I Cooked Him Up and Ate Him: After a teleport drops Verdant in Ponyville yet again, he's found by Bon Bon, who drops him off at her house before she can contact those who could help him. Unfortunately, while she's out, Lyra shows up with a hunger for bean burritos.
Sailing into the Blue: In the war with the griffins, Captain Barrier comes up with a plan to allow them to infiltrate the Griffin Kingdom and turn the tide of the war. All they need is a boat, Verdant's knowledge of anatomy and a lot of Shrinking Violet potion

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Verdant gave a roll of his shoulders as he stepped into the lab that was growing more and more familiar to him.

“Hi there, High Gear,” he said to the mare behind the console as he stepped onto the platform in the center of the room. “So, are we gonna just try to send me to Ponyville this time? Seems I end up there all the time anyway.”

The bespectacled mare gave a roll of her eyes. “I swear, it will work this time. I went over every last detail last night to make sure this thing will run smoothly this time. Say...” she then spotted that something seemed off with his face. “Did you do something with your muzzle?”

“Uh-huh,” Verdant started to stretch out his hindlegs. “I had Color Splash use her magic to change it from a gradient between the green and white parts of my face to a solid divide. At any rate, let’s just get me in a stomach and get me a step closer to getting myself a sandwich.”

High Gear gave a grumble before she flipped a switch. The platform underneath Verdant lit up before a loud bang came from within the console. The shamrock stallion vanished and the machine started to power down.

Wondering what had happened, High Gear took a panel off to see what had made the strange sound. To her great surprise, one of the circuit boards was completely missing. In its place was a note.

Taking the note and quickly unfurling it, she scanned over the message.

Dear Dr. High Gear. I needed to borrow some of your chips in order to mod the Mortal Fighters cabinet in the break room into the Rainbow Edition. I’ll replace the chips A.S.A.P..
- Dr. Gear Grind.

High Gear’s right eye twitched in boiling fury when she spotted a glasses wearing earth pony walking by her door while eating an apple. “Hey Bunsen! Y’know what the best way to dispose of a body is?”

The yellow coated stallion swallowed before replying. “I’d recommend a wood chipper, a lot of bleach and a remote part of the sewers. The sewers would accelerate decomp and make it harder to pin on you.”

“Thanks, Bunsen.” Gear felt somewhat calmer as she let out a sigh. “I’ll be sure to remember that.”

***

In a flash, Verdant found himself in a fleshy chamber. To his surprise, it was certainly not a stomach. The chamber was far too small to be one and the fluid he found himself in was definitely not stomach acid. It was far too thick and smelled oddly of apples and salt.

The fleshy room seemed to be swaying somewhat. Based on the other movements, he assumed he was inside somepony who was walking at a comfortable pace.

“Hmm… Guessing I’m inside some stallion’s testicle,” Verdant muttered to himself as he tried to swim through the thick fluid to the walls. “Well, at least it’s a change of pace… Still, how am I gonna get out?”

As if in answer, everything seemed to shift about from the stallion’s movements. As things started to settle down, Verdant pondered on the possibilities of what had happened.

“Doesn’t seem to be moving anymore and I think the angle of stuff has changed…” Verdant brought a hoof to his chin as he pondered. “He’s probably sat down… but what for?”

***

In the house on Sweet Apple Acres, the large stallion fittingly known as Big McIntosh, often called ‘Big Mac’ for short, was heading up to his room. It had been a long and somewhat tiring day working on the farm, but now he was able to enjoy some time to himself before he’d be called down to dinner.

Stepping into his room, he closed the door behind him to ensure the privacy he sought. He soon made his way to his bed, where he gently sat down. While a part of him wanted to just lie back and enjoy a quick nap, a more powerful urge commanded his attention.

It had been a good while since he’d been able to take care of his needs for sexual release. He wasn’t really comfortable with any of the mares in town, so the only lady who could help him with his needs was good old Madame Frog.

Leaning over to the nightstand by his bed, he pulled open a drawer, where a box of tissues and a few magazines -the kind of stuff his grandmother or sister would burn if they discovered them- were waiting for him.

With a grin, he reached inside and pulled out an issue of Fine Flanks magazine. He quickly placed it on the bed and opened it to a two page spread of a zebra mare holding her prominent rump very close to the camera.

Very quickly, he felt his loins starting to stir as his very large member emerged from his sheath. It was already starting to harden as he brought his right hoof down to stroke his massive meat while his left started to massage the orbs beneath it.

“Hmm… Eeyup…” he quietly muttered to himself as he continued to pump his penis, unaware of what was happening in his right ball.

***

Verdant felt the organic orb move about from Mac’s massaging. He tried to keep steady, but the movements caused waves within the fleshy prison that would repeatedly pull him under.

“Damn it!” Verdant coughed as he breached the fluid’s surface for a moment before being pulled back under from the increasing speed of Big Mac’s masturbation. He soon breached the surface once more and tried to keep his head above the proverbial water as he swam towards one of the walls. “You’d better be a damn hot stallion to make this worth it!”

“EEYUP!” Big Mac’s voice echoed mightily as he picked up the pace even further.

Verdant tried to keep his breakfast down from the force of Big Mac playing with himself. In a matter of minutes, the semen levels started to rise before the shrunken stallion found himself being carried through the many tubes in the giant stallion’s reproductive system.

Verdant had to shield his eyes as he saw a light at the end of the tunnel as Big Mac’s baby batter blasted him towards the exit.

***

Big McIntosh’s right hoof pumped furiously, desperately seeking the release he sought. He knew he’d soon be making a mess that would go from the base of his bed to his door, but he didn’t care. In this moment, all that mattered was that he was about to finally cum.

Unfortunately, in his rush to seek release, Big Mac had neglected to lock his door. Just as his limit was nearly reached, his bedroom door began to open up.

“Hey Mac, Din-what in-” Applejack was shocked and horrified by not only the sight of her big brother playing with himself, but from the massive volley of semen that he’d just fired off. Her words were cut off by a great big glob hitting her squarely in the face. To make matters worse, some of the fluid that struck her went flying into her mouth, hitting the back of her throat and making her swallow on reflex.

Big McIntosh was mortified by the sight of his sister covered in his semen, coughing as his essence dripped down her face.

“Faust damn it, Mac!” she screeched at him between coughing and gagging. “What if it were Apple Bloom that caught ya doing this?!”

Mac tried to futilely cover himself with a pillow and give an apology, but then he saw his sister turning a sickly shade of green around her face.

“Oh Zacherly, Ah swallowed yer… yer… Ah’m gonna be sick!” Applejack then bolted away before Big Mac could say a word, leaving a trail of Apple seed on the floor as she headed into the bathroom.

The sight of him masturbating and ejaculating was already sickening to the orange mare, but the horrific realization that she had swallowed some of her brother’s semen was just too much for her mind or stomach to bear. She barely managed to raise the toilet’s seat up before she began to violently retch.

After a minute of emptying her stomach of everything inside it, she weakly pulled herself away from the toilet and flushed down its contents.

“Applejack,” Big Mac’s embarrassed voice came from beyond the bathroom door. If she had been able to see her brother, she would’ve seen his coat was practically glowing from his blushing. “Ah’m really sorry ‘bout this.”

“You’d better remember to lock yer door next time, Mac,” she said as she hobbled into the shower. “Tell Granny Ah’m gonna be a bit before Ah come down to dinner. Hopefully mah stomach will feel better by then.”

“Alright.” Mac’s hoofsteps rang out as he headed towards the dining room. It was then Applejack turned on the shower to wash her brother’s seed off of her face.

***

Verdant was nearly blinded by the daylight as he was fired from Big Mac’s siring staff. He and a massive glob of seed was sent flying across the room.

As he tried to open his eyes while dealing with the light and the high speed, he vaguely saw himself heading directly towards Applejack’s open maw.

Oh, of fucking course! Verdant thought just back he crashed into the back of the orange mare’s mouth, along with a good deal of the massive stallion’s essence. In an instant, he was sent hurtling down towards her stomach from her body’s reflex.

He and the seed landed down in her stomach with a goopy splat. The chamber was somewhat full of partly digested bits of bread, flowers, lettuce and naturally, apples.

“FAUST DAMN IT, MAC!” Applejack’s voice boomed all about Verdant before she coughed and gagged. “WHAT IF IT WERE APPLE BLOOM THAT CAUGHT YA DOING THIS?!”

“Huh, so now I’ve been inside all three of the Ponyville Apple siblings,” Verdant muttered to himself as he pulled himself from Big Mac’s fluid’s, landing face first in one of Applejack’s previous meals.

Suddenly, the stomach started to violently shake about, tossing the shrunken stallion all around the gastric sack.

“OH ZACHERLY, AH SWALLOWED YER… YER… AH’M GONNA BE SICK!” Applejack shouted before she took off like a shot.

The frantic running, along with the shaking the stomach was already going through was too much. After pinballing around the organic room, Verdant was sent face first into the lower valve. The opening allowed the emerald coated pony to enter the duodenum, where he clung onto a piece of the tunnel’s fleshy wall to keep from being sent further into her.

It was then the disgusting sound of Applejack’s vomiting reached his ears, along with the contents of her stomach being launched up like a geyser into the toilet. It was so sickening, Verdant felt his own stomach start to turn as his coat grew even greener.

After the sounds of the apple mare’s puking finally stopped, he heard the sound of the toilet being flushed.

“Well, at least I don’t have to navigate the Ponyville sewer system,” Verdant said through gritted teeth as he tried to pull himself up. After a moment, he squeezed himself back through the valve and once more into her stomach. The chamber was now mostly vacant, save for a few droplets of stomach acid and a couple stubborn globs of Big Mac’s seed.

“Hopefully High Gear gets here sooner rather than later,” Verdant said to himself as he looked up towards the entryway to Applejack’s esophagus.

***

After a rather long shower, Applejack made her way to the family’s dining room and took a seat at the table with the rest of her family.

“Hey sis, why were you pukin’ earlier?” Apple Bloom asked, making the orange mare turn pale.

“Uh… well… Ah, ergh…” Sweat started to pour from Applejack’s brow, her eyes quickly shifting back and forth. “Ah was… Uh, Ah was eatin’ an apple and Ah found half a worm in it. Yeah, that’s it! That’s why Ah got sick.”

“You were eatin’ an apple… right before supper?” Apple Bloom looked at her older sister with great skepticism.

“Well, yer sister has always had an appetite,” Granny Smith said as she took her place at the table. “Heck, Ah’m sure even if she didn’t throw up, she’d still be hungry enough to eat every scrap of what we’ve got ‘ere.”

“Now, Granny,” Applejack gave the wrinkly green mare a slightly annoyed look. “Ah don’t have an appetite that big.”

It was then her stomach interjected, growling so loudly that Winona was startled by it.

A tinge that matched her brother’s coat then spread cross Applejack’s cheeks. “Still… Ah am mighty hungry after what happened.”

The Apple family had a chuckle before they started to dig into the meal.

***

Within the seated mare’s belly, Verdant nervously swallowed at what he knew was sure to come.

“Faust, if Apple Bloom can eat a dozen burgers without getting sick, and she’s not the one with the big appetite, then how much can Applejack pack away?” He muttered to himself before a thunderous *GULP* rang out.

It was then the esophageal passage opened up, dropping a massive mound of mashed potatoes into the stomach. The mass landed hard against the fleshy floor, sending Verdant flying into the stomach’s ceiling.

The tiny pony groaned as his misfortune as he started to fall down towards the potatoes.

Dammit! If I were just a little more to the right, I could have made it to the esophageal valve. Then I could… well, get knocked back down by the next mouthful of food… Man, this is not my day.

Just as Verdant landed on the buttery mound on his back, he saw the valve start to open up once more with what he thought was the remains of a roll.

“This is gonna be a long night,” Verdant sighed before he was buried by the food.

***

Night had fallen on Sweet Apple Acres as Applejack made her way to bed. Aside from the… incident she had with Big Mac earlier, today went rather well. She’d managed to get a lot of work done, spent time with her friends and enjoyed a large and delicious meal with her family.

The orange mare let out a loud belch before quickly covering her mouth. “Pardon me!” she said to nopony, though she was certain her siblings could hear the noise she made.

Applejack let out a yawn before she crawled into bed. She laid down on her stuffed belly as she snuggled her face against her pillow.

“G’night, everypony,” she whispered before she drifted off to sleep, letting out a rather large snore.

***

“Dear Zacherly, I wish I could have a good night,” Verdant groaned from deep inside of Applejack’s stomach, buried underneath more food than he had ever seen in any stomachs he’d been inside before. He was rather shocked she was able to fill her stomach so much without making it explode.

All around were bits of potato, pie, rolls, apples, vegetables and all sorts of other things he didn’t bother to identify. The food weighed so heavily that he couldn’t move. In fact, he was rather surprised he could still breathe.

Suddenly, the sleeping mare’s stomach gave a powerful clench and moved about the digesting contents. Verdant soon found himself, along with a fair portion of the thick goop, being pushed through the value and into Applejack’s small intestine.

“Well, hopefully her intestines will be fairly empty so I can pull myself free and squeeze my way out.”

The shamrock stallion would have no such luck. In the hours that he and what was once Applejack’s dinner traveled through her intestinal tract, the mass all around him began to thicken and harden from the intestines draining away the nutrients and water.

Just before the crack of dawn, Verdant found only his head wasn’t trapped within Applejack’s waste with her clenched anus teasingly close to him.

“Faust dammit,” Verdant seethed at the sight of the tight hole. If he could only break his arms free, he’d be able to make his escape.

Then a loud yawn from the mare echoed out like a lion’s before everything shifted about. Verdant found the clump he was trapped in slide forward, making him crash into the anus with his face.

The only thing that kept him from screaming was the thought of getting anal flesh and feces in his mouth.

***

Applejack gave a yawn before she sat up and stretched. She was sure this would be a rather fine day, based on what she could see of the orchard and sky from her window.

Her thoughts were torn away from thoughts of selling apples in town from the feeling of pressure in both her bowels and bladder.

“Well, guess that’s priority number one and two laid out for me,” she said to herself as she crawled out of bed.

Just as her hooves touched the floor, the sound of Winona’s barking reached her ears. “Now what’s got Winona all riled up this early?” Deciding her need for a toilet could wait, Applejack grabbed her hat and headed downstairs.

Gazing out the front door, she saw that Winona was barking while happily running around a blue coated mare with a short, violet mane and green spectacles. The thing that stood out most to the farm mare was the strange black device strapped to her foreleg.

“Excuse me,” Applejack called out as she took a step outside. This made Winona stop her happy barking and drawing the blue mare’s attention. “Y’mind telling me what brings yah to Sweet Apple Acres this early in the mornin’, stranger?”

“Not at all,” the mare that Applejack saw had a trio of gears for her cutie mark said as she drew closer. “My name is Dr. High Gear and-”

“Hey, Ah’ve heard of you!” Applejack said as she hopped off the porch and drew closer. “Rarity told me about you and said you were a real pain in the butt.”

High Gear gave a roll of her eyes and sighed. “It’s not my fault that she was out of lube and the kinds I use aren’t for medical applications.”

“Uh-huh…” Applejack’s brow furled in confusion. Wait, was Rarity bein’ literal? Hmm… Ah should probably ask her after she finishes her doctor’s appointment. “At any rate, what bring y’all ‘round these parts, Doctor?”

“Well, I have some rather urgent business, Miss.” Gear then raised her foreleg to look at the device on her foreleg. “I’m looking for my assistant, Verdant Range. An incident caused by my soon to be dead colleagues caused him to accidentally teleport to Ponyville and my tracking device says he’s pretty close.”

“Verdant? Oh Ah remember him,” Applejack said as she recalled a previous incident when he’d ended up in Apple Bloom’s stomach and she nearly impaled him with a pitchfork. The orange mare drew closer to the scientist. “Ah can help yah look fer him. Ah just need to go ‘powder mah nose’ if yah catch my drift.”

As Applejack approached, she noticed that the device on Gear’s leg started to rapidly beep. “I’m gonna have to ask that you hold off on that. I think I’ve just found him.”

“Wait, what do you… Oh Faust dammit!” Applejack exclaimed as she realized what she meant. “Seriously, is that pony cursed to get eaten or somethin’?”

“Let me put it this way,” High Gear said as she put a foreleg around Applejack’s shoulders and led her towards the house. “If he gets eaten two more times, I owe him a sub. At any rate, I made sure to buy some lube to go with my gloves.”

“Uh, Ah don’t think we’ll be needin’ that.” A faint blush danced across Applejack’s face. “Ah need to ‘make some fertilizer’ if yah catch mah drift.”

“Not a problem. I prepared for that, too.” Gear reached into her bags and pulled a large plastic container.

“Oh… kay…” Applejack said as she started to head towards the family bathroom, rather glad that she could finally relieve herself.

Shortly after she entered the room, she heard the door clicking shut without touching it. Abruptly turning around, she was shocked to see High Gear had followed her into the bathroom.

“What the hay are you doin’ in here?!” Applejack shouted as she jumped back in startlement.

“I’m trying to save time in saving my assistant.” Gear then laid the container on the floor. “Besides, I’m a doctor and I’ve been in Verdant’s position before. Seeing you get him out won’t be something I haven’t seen before.”

With a sigh laced with annoyance and embarrassment, Applejack started to squat over the plastic container, pretending she was the only pony around as she felt the muscles in her hind end relax.

***

Well, at least the end’s in sight… Literally. Verdant thought to himself as gravity continued to force his gaze to be fixed on the tight ring of Applejack’s anus. He could feel everything move about from the mare starting to squat.

Verdant felt everything start to quake around him as the fleshy gate started to open and the log he was stuck in began to move. Verdant was blinded for a moment, but his vision soon cleared and could see himself being expelled from the muscular mare’s body. Her massive, pillar-like legs were visible in the distance as she squatted over the plastic tub.

The disgusting log soon entered freefall. Verdant fought back the urge to scream as he was sent hurtling towards the container.

The sudden crash into the tub’s surface caused the small chunk to finally break free, granting the small pony some freedom. Before he could catch his breath however, he heard an especially ominous noise coming from above.

Quickly looking up, he saw that Applejack’s anus was pushing out another large clump of her waste and that it would soon crash into him like a meteor.

Trying to avoid the fate of being trapped in feces once more, Verdant bolted away, sprinting towards the edge of the container as fast as his tiny legs could carry him.

An explosive *THUD* rang in the stallions ears as the biohazardous clump struck the bottom of the container. To the great relief of the shrunken stallion, he’d not only managed to dodge the tower of waste, but as he reached the wall that made up the container’s edge, he saw High Gear, who seemed to spot him and drew near.

Just when things seemed to be in the clear for the minuscule pony, he heard a loud sigh of relief coming from above him.

Looking up, he saw he was directly below Applejack’s nethers. Her lower lips winked open as, to his great disgust and horror, a river of golden liquid started to barrel down at him.

***

Applejack was feeling a great amount of relief now that she was finally taking care of her number two priority. She felt her whole body relax as the pressure from her rear just fell away.

Her relaxed state and closed eyes led to her forgetting about the world around her. To the orange Apple, this was just another day’s morning ritual.

With her number two priority taken care of, Applejack let out a sigh of relief as she took care of number one. She felt deeply relaxed as the pressure was released.

“Applejack, stop! You’re going to drown him!” High Gear’s scream snapped the Apple mare from her blissful state and her face quickly turned crimson.

“Sorry! Sorry!” Applejack quickly apologized as she felt the last of droplets pouring out of her. “Ah was just-”

Applejack was interrupted by the bathroom door opening as a yawning, bow-wearing filly entered the room. She was somewhat shocked by the site of her sister squatting over the plastic container while another mare was standing across from her.

“Sis… why do you have somepony watching you pee?” Apple Bloom asked as she slowly started to back out of the room.

“Uh… It’s okay because I’m a doctor?” High Gear nervously said as Applejack stepped away from the container.

“Uh...Huh…” Apple Bloom closed the door before her. Once the door clicked shut, Gear sighed and reached into her saddlebags.

“Well, I was going to end up using gloves anyway,” she said before giving her glove a loud snap.

***

After an unshrinking by Twilight, Verdant was brought to the local spa, where he was given not only the longest bath of his life, but he was also given a haircut to remove what bits of Applejack’s leavings refused to be scrubbed out.

His trademark green vest had to be thrown out, but Rarity was more than happily willing to replace the article of clothing. While she didn’t have the exact same color of fabric, Verdant still loved the new yellow vest he’d received.

With himself now fully cleansed and sporting a new vest, Verdant, Applejack and Gear started to walk towards Ponyville’s train station.

“Ah’m really sorry ‘bout all this, Verdant,” Applejack remorsefully said as she walked alongside the pair. Even with her hat drawn so low, Verdant and Gear could see the blush that adorned her face. “First Ah throw a pitchfork at yah, and then all this happens.”

“Yeah, it’s not often a shower ends up requiring somepony to get a bath afterward.” While Gear chuckled at her crack, Applejack merely groaned while Verdant smacked his face with a forehoof.

“Well, at least I ended up inside a cute pony,” Verdant said as he ran a hoof through his now shorter mane. “If I were single, I’d ask-”

“Just so yah know, Ah’m more of a mare’s mare, if y’all know what Ah mean,” Applejack interjected.

“Um, Applejack. No offense, but I wasn’t talking about you.” Verdant’s reply managed to make Applejack’s face match the coat of the pony he was referring to. “And like I was trying to say, I’d probably ask him out if I were single. Nowadays, I’m rather happy with my girlfriend.”

“Oh, by the way,” High Gear said as she gave the orange mare a tap on the shoulder. “His girlfriend makes your brother look short.”

Applejack gave a roll of her eyes. “Not to be rude, Doc, but Ah don’t think-” Applejack was cut off as High Gear pulled out a photo that depicted an absolutely massive green earth pony mare stepping through the open roof of a building. Adjacent to one of her forelegs was the minuscule form of High Gear.

“This… This is some kind of joke, right?” Applejack stared at the photo in shock by the apparent size of the green mare.

“Only Poison Joke,” Gear answered as she put the photo back into her saddlebags and replaced it with another. “Still, as you can see, Beans really is about a lot taller than your brother.”

Applejack examined this new photo that showed the green mare standing beside High Gear at a graduation ceremony, where she could see how much Beans towered over everypony there. “Wow. You weren’t kidding.”

“Nope.” Gear said as she put the second photo away and saw they’d arrived at the train station. “At any rate, we’re here.”

“Alright. Y’all want me to keep yah company until yer train arrives?” Applejack asked as the pair stepped onto the platform.

“No, you don’t have to,” Verdant replied. “I know how hard running a business like a farm can be. My mom made sure I knew.”

“Well, in that case, y’all take care now,” she gave the two a wave and started to walk away.

“So…” High Gear sat down on a nearby bench. “Now you’ve been inside all three of the Apple siblings.”

“And four of the element bearers,” Verdant added as he took a seat beside her. “Honestly, I wonder if I’ll end up getting the whole set.”

Gear gave a giggle at the thought. “If Pix were here, she’d say that’d get you a Haystation Trophy.”

“At any rate, I’m looking forward to getting that sub,” Verdant said in a rather teasing tone.

“Not gonna happen,” Gear bluntly replied. “I’m increasing my security so the teleporter can’t get cannibalized again. And if it does, the institute’s gonna be looking for some new scientists.”

“We’ll see, Doc,” Verdant said as he leaned back against the bench, waiting for the train to arrive.

A brief moment of silence passed between the pair before Gear started to chuckle. “Say, is it just me, or is it kinda funny the first and likely only time Applejack’s had semen in her was from her brother?”

With a groan, Verdant’s hoof once more met his forehead.

Author's Notes:

Happy Vore Day, everyone! I'm back and I'm glad to say the hiatus is officially over.

Also, we've now got a redesigned Verdant for you all to enjoy.

Now that we've gotten Verdant's new look, it's time to vote for the next chapter.

Swift Snort (AP): Verdant is training with his fellow soldiers on Butterfly Island and we see one of the misadventures there.
Lovely Nights and New Beginnings (Alternate Ending): Verdant was called upon to impregnate Cadance with Shining Armor's sperm. Well over a year after his successful mission, Princess Cadance calls him back to the empire. What could she want this time?
Dating Delights: Verdant goes out on a date with a fancy mare he met during a dating service and things seem to go swimmingly... until he learns she's a cannibalistic serial killer with a shrinking fetish.
Betty: The Last Cutesaur: Verdant is recruited by Daring Do to explore an island full of long lost flora and fauna, only to encounter a creature that supposedly went extinct eons ago.
Bibinba's Inside Story: While playing Marinara Party with some friends of his, Verdant accidentally lands on the wrong space and finds himself staring down an imposing longma.
Double Trouble in the Fire: A teleportation accident ends up sending Verdant to another universe where he meets Dr. Overdrive and a green mare with a white muzzle named Shamrock Meadow. When the two try to get him back home, things go awry and the emerald pony pair end up in the kitchen of Spitfire.
Strawberry Sweetness: Another teleportation test brings him to Strawberry Sundae. Not the restaurant, but it's owner who's about to have some private time with her lovely wife.
Dog Day Afternoon: On a day out, Verdant finds himself stumbling upon a patch of Shrinking Violets... and a rather hungry Diamond Dog.
Happy Hearts & Hooves Day (AP): Verdant wants to give Erica a wonderful Hearts & Hooves Day. After learning she has a fetish for shrinking and vore, he knows what he'll do to make his special somecreature happy.
Not a Snack-Sized Stallion, But a Micro-Sized Man: Verdant's enjoying his little job of mowing his history teacher's lawn when suddenly, a pot with a blue flower in it appears from the sky and smacks him in the face. Now the teenage Verdant is just a speck when Barrier's niece, Twilight Sparkle, comes to visit.
Death to Daybreaker: In a dark world ruled by Daybreaker and Nightmare Moon, two vicious tyrants who plot and scheme against each other, the Mare of the Moon decides to put an end to her sister once and for all. For this, she's going to need a rather skilled assassin.
Tales from the Mirrorverse - Digestions & Dragons: Set after the events of "Antacid's Creed", Verdant is assigned to Celestia's elite privateer, Magic Barrier. His first assignment: recover the treasure from a hibernating dragon's stomach.
Kicking it into High Gear: With Dr. High Gear sick but tests still needing to be done, it falls to Pixel Flash to operate the teleport machine. At least Verdant still ends up in Vanhoover.
Verdant vs. Verdant: Battle of the Bug (AP): A distress message from the Mirror Universe reaches Princess Celestia and Verdant is tasked by King Sombra to save the life of Queen Chrysalis from one of the most evil and dangerous assassins on the mirror world; Verdant Range.
I Cooked Him Up and Ate Him: After a teleport drops Verdant in Ponyville yet again, he's found by Bon Bon, who drops him off at her house before she can contact those who could help him. Unfortunately, while she's out, Lyra shows up with a hunger for bean burritos.
Sailing into the Blue: In the war with the griffins, Captain Barrier comes up with a plan to allow them to infiltrate the Griffin Kingdom and turn the tide of the war. All they need is a boat, Verdant's knowledge of anatomy and a lot of Shrinking Violet potion

Since the last chapter had a complete tie between all the votes, it falls to me to pick the next chapter. Come back next time as we get out first Tale from the Mirrorverse with Antacid's Creed. See ya then!

Tales from the Mirrorverse - Antacid's Creed

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In the dark world of Equestria, there were two wicked princesses who opposed the good King Sombra. The dark princesses, Celestia and Luna, waged a near constant war to overthrow Sombra and claim his throne.

Due to these wars, the kingdom greatly suffered, with many ponies needing to resort to crime in order to survive.

One such pony was Verdant Range, an archer with a good knowledge of poisons. He’d gotten his cutie mark when he managed to shoot down a fleeing thief when he was eight years old, a trio of blood droplets.

Previously, he’d been shrunken down due to poison joke and eaten by his neighbor, a zebra mare by the name of Kuni. This caused him to discover that he had the ability to be eaten alive yet escaped unharmed.

After that day, he would study various poisons and plants that had mystical properties. This led to him finding a recipe for a shrinking violet potion. Thanks to this potion, the young stallion was able to sneak into many a pony’s home, steal what he’d want, and then escape with no real trace.

Eventually, the day came where he had a plan for something that would set him for life.

He had gone to Canterlot to enact his grand plan.

***

On the grounds of the dark palace the princesses called their home, Verdant kept himself hidden in the bushes as one of their goons, a golden coated mare, started to trot by. With a wicked smirk, Verdant reached into his dark green vest and pulled out a vial full of a purple potion. With a quick swig, he downed the potion and stuffed the empty vial back into his vest.

As the golden coated mare drew closer, Verdant quickly started to shrink down to the size of a pea. The shrunken stallion went unnoticed as she walked by.

Chuckling to himself, he darted out from the bush and leapt onto the tip of her tail. He tightly clung onto a strand of tail as she walked along.

“Phase One, complete,” he muttered to himself as the goon carried him into the palace, mentally noting that the stones were all illuminated by the many torches that lined the imposing halls.

After several minutes, the shamrock stallion spotted from the hair that they were passing by a massive door that had an image carved upon it. It was an image of a sun with a black center.

“Well, I’d prefer Princess Moonbutt, but this will do,” Verdant said before he jumped down from the tail and darted to the door.

He managed to squeeze under the gap in the door and made it into a colossal bedroom. There were things that decorated the room such as the large fireplace or the ornate mirror but none of this mattered to Verdant. His eyes were locked solely on the bed.

Or rather, the specific part of the sheets covering the bed that wasn’t tucked in, hanging out of a corner and just barely touching the marble floor.

After a rather tiring climb that lasted nearly an hour, Verdant had managed to pull himself onto the top of the gigantic bed.

The minuscule mammal didn’t have much time to catch his breath, however, as the bedroom door swung open. Stepping into the chambers was the wicked mare of the sun, Princess Celestia. Her dark mane flowed as if an eternal breeze followed it.

She was adorned in the usual attire she would wear when she and her sister would go out to wage war on Sombra’s forces.

Atop her head was a golden crown shaped like a pair of draconic horns. Wrapped around the great spire of ivory that was her horn was a golden ring with a violet jewel dangling from it that contrasted her dark magenta eyeshadow. Clasped around her neck was a stunning golden peytral with a dark amethyst in the center with a flared collar that matched the gem. Adorning her forelegs were a set of dark purple socks that went halfway up her pillar-like legs with gold shaped into the image of flames that held them in place. The last thing the shrunken stallion spotted on the approaching titan was a golden scorpion-like stinger that was attached to the end of her magical tail.

“Well, seems the reports of Celestia being the unappealing sister were greatly exaggerated.” A dark grin crossed Verdant’s face as her horn flared in a deep magenta light as she started to strip herself down. “Oh I will savor this show.”

The princess soon removed the last piece of clothing before teleporting the pieces onto a ponyquin that laid in a far corner of the room. When she started to draw closer to the bed, Verdant quickly covered himself with a bit of the sheet to keep hidden from her sight.

The bed trembled like a violent quake as Celestia settled in. Only a moment after the bed settled, the alicorn laid her head on her pillow. Sleep quickly overcame the mighty mare.

Nearly twenty minutes after she fell asleep, Verdant tossed the sheet off him, feeling certain that her sleep was deep enough that he could carry out his insane plan.

He traveled along the great valley of her bedsheets, her thick legs acting as a soft, fuzzy cliffside. The wicked stallion enjoyed the pleasant walk between her legs, but what he enjoyed even more was the sight of her colossal nethers, thanks to her tail being draped to her left side.

“My, oh my,” Verdant chuckled as he drew close to her hind quarters. “Much as I enjoy the view of this magnificent sight, I’ve got bigger fish to fry.”

Looking to his right, Verdant saw he’d reached the point where her leg met her hips. The little corner of flesh and fur would be perfect for his climb.

“Hopefully I can have some fun around here someday,” Verdant said before he leapt onto her thigh. “Maybe enter her in a way that’ll be better than what I’m gonna do.”

The climb was a strain for the shrunken stallion. While he had climbed many a pony before in his thievery, he’d never had to climb anypony anywhere close to as tall as Celestia. It took nearly twenty minutes for him to reach the top of her rump.

Verdant laid on his back as he tried to catch his breath. “I’m gonna be sore in the morning,” he grumbled as he felt himself slightly sinking into the flank flesh.

After a few minutes, the sore stallion rose back up before he started to walk forward. “You’d better be right about your crazy plan, Verdant,” He said to himself, seeing the long trek he had ahead of him. It would likely take the bulk of the night to reach his destination.

“Rest assured, Me,” he replied to nopony. “Once I’m done here, I’ll have a new job that will pay out like never before.”

“Or you’ll just make a fuckton of enemies and get tortured to death. I’d say it’s fifty-fifty.” He said as he reached the base of the princess’ back.

Time seemed to move slowly as he traveled close to the titanic alicorn’s spine. The trip was a weary one for the stallion, but he refused to quit. His goal was all that mattered to him.

When he reached the halfway point of Celestia’s back, she gave a slight shake. This was enough to send Verdant sprawling face first into her back.

“What the shit?! He exclaimed as he hastily looked to his sides. His vision soon fell on the princess’ giant right wing, which he had wandered near.

“Right, of course,” Verdant observed aloud as he slowly got back onto his hooves. “If wings are a sensitive spot on pegasi and griffins, it’d make sense it’d be that way on an alicorn too. I’ll need to tread carefully if I want to complete my mission.

“Maybe once you get paid for this, you could afford to talk to a therapist, Green Bean,” he said to himself as he gently tried to step away. “Remember, talking to yourself is the first sign of insanity… Well, besides coming up with the kind of plan you did.”

Verdant carefully moved along, trying to avoid tickling the princess with his hoofsteps. While there would be the occasional twitch, it wasn’t enough to knock him over once again.

After what felt like forever but was likely close to two hours, he let out a sigh of relief as he reached the base of her neck.

“Finally,” he chuckled as he cautiously tried to climb her neck, “Phase two is so close, I can almooOOOOOO!”

Verdant’s hooves slipped out from under him and he started to tumble down. Upon landing, he was rather glad he was too small for the princess to hear the multiple screams of profanity he uttered before he landed face first on the pillow.

“Well,” Verdant groaned as he pulled himself up. His legs were quite sore, despite landing on something soft. “Could have gone better, but I’m almost done with this phase.”

After nearly ten more minutes, Verdant reached the top of the pillow where the princess laid her chin.

As the tiny stallion stared down the colossal mare’s face, the breath from her nostrils pressed on him like a strong wind. Still, he stood strong as he prepared to charge.

“Alright, Crazy Horse, it’s go time!” He shouted as he ran towards the sleeping mare’s face. His legs ached as he charged towards her.

Verdant got as close as he could before leaping off the surface of the pillow and landing on her lower lip.

The shamrock stallion swallowed as he crawled forward, squeezing through her tight lips until he finally slipped through into her mouth.

“Well, at least if you survive this, you can brag that you’ve been inside a princess… Probably right before she vaporizes you.” Verdant’s small words echoed throughout the royal mouth, unheard by the slumbering alicorn.

He slid down the inside of her lip before leaping onto one of her lower teeth. Thankfully, the sleeping mare’s teeth were parted more than enough distance for him to pull himself over the tooth and land face first on her moist tongue.

Verdant rose back to his hooves as he tried to shake her saliva from his now soaked mane. He started to gently trot along the princess’ hoofball field sized tongue.

Don’t dream chew, princess. He thought to himself as he glanced around the mare’s maw. The heat was incredibly strong, like a muggy summer’s night.

After a few minutes of slow trotting, Verdant found himself under her dangling uvula. Looking down her throat, he saw the fleshy muscular tunnel that led to her stomach.

“Okay, Verdant. Time to start phase two.” He said to himself before nervously swallowing. After a moment to gather his nerves, he leapt forward and landed face first at the esophageal entrance.

On a reflex, the princess swallowed as she slept. The crushing force of her throat muscles squeezed him downward. He could only wince in pain as the muscular motions kept pressing him on.

After a thankfully brief period of time, the squeezing stopped as he was dropped into the royal stomach. A droplet like splash came as he belly-flopped into a mixture of stomach acids and digested food.

“Well,” Verdant groaned as he hoisted himself up onto what appeared to be a chunk of potato and tried to kick some of the dripping juices off his boots. “Phase two is a go. Now I’ve just got to wait for the princess to wake up.”

A silence only interrupted by the gurgle of digestion hung in the air. Verdant sat down on the potato chunk and clicked his tongue.

“Just gotta keep myself occupied while I wait,” He said as he tapped his hindlegs with his forehooves. “I’m sure I’ll find a way to keep from getting bored.”

Silence hung in the air once more as he tried to think of something to do. After another boring moment passed, Verdant could only sigh in boredom.

***

Verdant fell asleep as he floated about on his potato chunklet. He was eventually awakened by a powerful rumbling all around him.

Snapping to his hooves, Verdant tried to steady himself as the princess started to rise. It was the most intense shaking the shrunken stallion had ever experienced.

“Alright, guess phase three will be starting up fairly soon.” Verdant felt his own stomach lurch as Celestia’s hoofsteps carried him along. “I hope only one of us ends up throwing up today.”

***

Celestia gave a yawn as she strolled through her bedroom, heading towards her extravagant private bathroom. The chamber was almost entirely made from sculpted marble and gold.

“Another day, another attempt to strike against Sombra,” she mumbled to herself as she stepped into her shower.

A quick flare of her magenta magic turned a knob, causing a rain of cold water to bombard her.

“Yargh!” she screeched as the shock of the cold banished the last trace of sleepiness from her mind. “Well. There are worse ways to start the day.”

The water soon started to warm up, making the mammoth mare grin. Opening her mouth, she let some water collect until her maw was full and she swallowed it down.

“New water in. Old water out.”

***

As the water bombarded Celestia's body, it made the inside her stomach sound like the inside of a house during a heavy rain storm.

“Well, at least it’s a nice change of pace from heart beats and digestive noise.” Verdant sighed before leaning back, unintentionally falling backwards into her stomach juices.

Before he could scramble back onto what little scraps remained, a large torrent of water came crashing down into the stomach, creating waves that caused him to slam into her walls.

“NEW WATER IN. OLD WATER OUT.” The princess’s quiet comment was thunderous to Verdant as his brow rose in confusion.

“Old water out? What do you mean by-” Verdant was cut off by a distant sound of gallons of water being drained away, followed soon by the princess sighing in relief. “Eww. You pee in the shower? And I thought being a princess would mean you’d have more class than that.”

Shortly after the sound of her bladder draining had ceased, the alicorn started to moan and movement started to emanate from her towards her rear.

“Well, seems you enjoy a morning session with Mrs. Frog,” Verdant said as he felt a stirring of his own in his loins. “May I join you?”

“YES! OH FAUST, YES!” The mammoth masturbating mare exclaimed as her body continued to quake.

“Don’t mind if I do,” a dark grin came across the shamrock stallion’s face as he quickly stripped out of his garb.

***

After her rather pleasant shower and morning ritual, Celestia strolled through her palace’s halls. She would occasionally stretch her wings or neck before she made her way to the dining chamber, where she found her sister waiting for her.

“Good morning, Luna,” Celestia greeted as she strolled towards the dark blue mare. “Anything of note happen on your shift?”

“No. Last night was rather uneventful,” Luna dismissively replied as a rather frightened servant placed a plate of fruit in front of her, along with some toast and a glass of milk.

“Well, hopefully that means some fools are falling in line.” Celestia sauntered her way to her seat, where she saw a servant placing a ridiculously large stack of pancakes, along with a generous supply of scrambled eggs and hay bacon. All three foods were covered in a thick coating of maple syrup.

“You really need to diet better if you wish to topple Sombra.” Luna’s words were quickly blown off by the alabaster alicorn.

“While you’ve let your body become a bounce house, my body is a temple,” Luna smugly said before she started to drink her milk.

Celestia then gave a wicked grin. “In that all worshippers are allowed to enter.”

Luna choked and spat as the milk shot from her nose. Celestia gave a bellowing laugh as Luna glared death at her. A lesser pony she would have set on fire.

Once her laughter had died down, she stabbed into her pancakes and cut out a piece of the first seven layers before placing the moist treat into her mouth.

***

“Sweet Faust almighty, is the reason she’s so damn tall because she eats so much?” Verdant asked from the top of the mush mountain that was her breakfast.

Verdant let out a sigh as there finally seemed to be no more piles of food being dropped upon his head. After one more moment to be certain, he started to reach into his vest’s inner pocket.

“Alright. Time to be-” Verdant was silenced by the sound of an approaching waterfall. Bracing himself, he was pushed down the moist pile that was Mount Breakfast by a river of an orange colored drink.

The shamrock stallion groaned rose up from the lake of the drink, coughing to clear the recycled drink from his lungs.

“Urge… Tastes like orange juice, but burns like alcohol. Was that a mimosa?” he asked no one before shrugging.

“Oh well. Questions for later.” Verdant reached into the vest and pulled out a vial filled with a brown syrup. “Time to begin phase three.”

The emerald coated pony smashed the vial between his hooves. He was suddenly pushed back as an explosion of the brown syrup quickly started to fill the fleshy chamber.

Note to self. Verdant quickly shut his eyes and covered his mouth and nose. Be more careful when you smash a vial with a ‘bag of holding’ enchantment on it.

***

“Ah…” Celestia sighed in delight as she finished her breakfast drink. “Nothing like a mimosa to finish breakfast.”

“Personally, I’d save alcohol for later in one’s day,” Luna rolled her eyes as her sister rose from her seat and approached her.

“At any rate,” Celestia said as she arrived at Luna’s side. “I hope you have a pleasant AH!”

“Are you alright, sister?” Luna’s brown rose as Celestia grasped her belly. “You’re looking a little gre-”

Luna’s words were drowned by the geyser of vomit that launched from her sisters mouth and directly into her face. Several violent waves came from the alabaster alicorn until she collapsed against the table.

“Urgh, sister, why didn’t you aim it away from…” Luna's royal rant was silenced as she noticed an odd green spec upon her muzzle. Upon closer inspection, she saw it was an incredibly small stallion.

“Good morning, Princess.” Verdant weakly bowed as he looked into her titanic eyes. “I have a proposition to make.”

***

Verdant’s screams echoed throughout the dungeon as Celestia’s magic tightly squeezed and contorted the restored stallion as he hung suspended in the air.

“So, Verdant, I believe you said you was?” Celestia’s fearsome grin grew wider as her magic tightened further around him. “Can you give me a reason I shouldn’t have you torn to pieces and burned to death for high treason?”

“Vest… pocket…” the shamrock stallion weakly said as he tried to fight back the urge to scream or beg for death.

Luna’s horn ignited a vivid scarlet as she pulled out a vial filled with a silver liquid. Pulling it close and uncapping it, she took a quick whiff of the contents. “Hmm… Belladonna, nerium oleander and… I believe silver swamp slime. Quiet the lethal concoction.”

Tossing the vial aside, the alicorns were rather surprised by how the puddle created from the newly broken small vial greatly exceeded its size.

“So, it seems you were smart enough to get an enchanted vial to store more than enough poison to kill even someone of my size.” Celestia’s magic then swiftly pulled him down so he was floating mere inches from her face. “What makes you think trying to kill me would make me grant you some form of mercy?”

“Not trying… to kill…” Verdant mustered what little strength he had remaining to answer the alicorn. “Job… Interview…”

Celestia’s brow rose as she released her magic, causing him to drop face first to the floor. “You’ve got thirty seconds to explain yourself.”

Verdant softly coughed, feeling too sore to bother to try to rise to his hooves. “I wanted to demonstrate how my skills would be of value to you, my princess. A pony with powerful enemies could make use of a stallion who is not only a highly skilled archer, but also one who’s well versed in poisons and is capable of not only sneaking into your palace, but into your very body.”

“Well, that makes you the first stallion to be inside her in... what’s it been? Five years?” Luna coyly smirked as Celestia glared daggers at her.

“I’d never dream of causing you true harm, oh mighty Princess Celestia,” Verdant continued speaking. “I only wished to offer what services I could to you.”

A tense moment of silence hung in the air until Celestia’s horn glowed once more. This time, when the magenta light encased Verdant, it simply picked him up and placed him on his hooves.

“You seem to raise a fair point, Verdant,” the mare said as her sharp magenta eyes remained fixed on him. “What say you, Captain Barrier?”

From the shadows behind the torture racks emerged a tall, dark coated unicorn stallion with a long, jagged mane that was two shades of blue.

“I think I could make some use of this stallion, once I get him to work on the Solar Striker,” the stallion spoke with the tone of a scallywag.

“Then here’s what will happen, Verdant,” Celestia said as she leaned down so that her eyes were level with his. “You will be under Barrier’s command and required to do everything he says for the next five years or face a very slow execution. Understood?”

Verdant swallowed before trying to sound as confident as he could muster. “Yes, your highness.”

“Good,” a sinister grin graced her features as she brought a hoof to the underside of his chin. “And if I ever get the idea you’ve decided to enter my body again, I will eat you. However, this time you’ll be roasted, cut into tiny pieces and thoroughly chewed up. Understood?”

“Yes, Princess!” A faint blush came across Verdant’s muzzle as he heard his voice crack.

“Very good,” Celestia said as she started to pull away with Luna soon following suit. “Barrier, I’ll leave the rest to you.”

“Yes, your highness,” the onyx coated stallion replied as her and Luna’s horns began to glow before they vanished in a flash.

“If it makes you feel any better, you’ll probably be inside Luna in a more pleasant way within a year’s time,” Barrier said as he slung a hoof over the stallion’s shoulder and started to lead him away. “At any rate, prepare yourself for hard training and the life of a privateer, Cadet Range.”

Author's Notes:

Hey there everyone and welcome back to Stomach Stallion. After so long, we've finally had a story about the evil Mirror Universe version of Verdant.

Naturally, since there's some new versions of ponies, that means some new art for them.

And now, it's time to have the votes for the chapter after next.

Swift Snort (AP): Verdant is training with his fellow soldiers on Butterfly Island and we see one of the misadventures there.
Lovely Nights and New Beginnings (Alternate Ending): Verdant was called upon to impregnate Cadance with Shining Armor's sperm. Well over a year after his successful mission, Princess Cadance calls him back to the empire. What could she want this time?
Dating Delights: Verdant goes out on a date with a fancy mare he met during a dating service and things seem to go swimmingly... until he learns she's a cannibalistic serial killer with a shrinking fetish.
Betty: The Last Cutesaur: Verdant is recruited by Daring Do to explore an island full of long lost flora and fauna, only to encounter a creature that supposedly went extinct eons ago.
Bibinba's Inside Story: While playing Marinara Party with some friends of his, Verdant accidentally lands on the wrong space and finds himself staring down an imposing longma.
Double Trouble in the Fire: A teleportation accident ends up sending Verdant to another universe where he meets Dr. Overdrive and a green mare with a white muzzle named Shamrock Meadow. When the two try to get him back home, things go awry and the emerald pony pair end up in the kitchen of Spitfire.
Dragon of the Wastelands: In the wastelands that were ruined by mega spells, a small band of ponies wish to reach the town of New Griffinstone. To get there, they hire an odd unicorn mare who goes by the name of Verdant Range.
Dog Day Afternoon: On a day out, Verdant finds himself stumbling upon a patch of Shrinking Violets... and a rather hungry Diamond Dog.
Happy Hearts & Hooves Day (AP): Verdant wants to give Erica a wonderful Hearts & Hooves Day. After learning she has a fetish for shrinking and vore, he knows what he'll do to make his special somecreature happy.
Not a Snack-Sized Stallion, But a Micro-Sized Man: Verdant's enjoying his little job of mowing his history teacher's lawn when suddenly, a pot with a blue flower in it appears from the sky and smacks him in the face. Now the teenage Verdant is just a speck when Barrier's niece, Twilight Sparkle, comes to visit.
Death to Daybreaker: In a dark world ruled by Daybreaker and Nightmare Moon, two vicious tyrants who plot and scheme against each other, the Mare of the Moon decides to put an end to her sister once and for all. For this, she's going to need a rather skilled assassin.
Tales from the Mirrorverse - Digestions & Dragons: Set after the events of "Antacid's Creed", Verdant is assigned to Celestia's elite privateer, Magic Barrier. His first assignment: recover the treasure from a hibernating dragon's stomach.
Verdant vs. Verdant: Battle of the Bug (AP): A distress message from the Mirror Universe reaches Princess Celestia and Verdant is tasked by King Sombra to save the life of Queen Chrysalis from one of the most evil and dangerous assassins on the mirror world; Verdant Range.
I Cooked Him Up and Ate Him: After a teleport drops Verdant in Ponyville yet again, he's found by Bon Bon, who drops him off at her house before she can contact those who could help him. Unfortunately, while she's out, Lyra shows up with a hunger for bean burritos.
Sailing into the Blue: In the war with the griffins, Captain Barrier comes up with a plan to allow them to infiltrate the Griffin Kingdom and turn the tide of the war. All they need is a boat, Verdant's knowledge of anatomy and a lot of Shrinking Violet potion

Also, you may have noticed Strawberry Sweetness is missing from the list. The reason for this is... well, I realized what I had planned for this would be too similar to what I have planned for the next chapter.

Once again, we had a three way tie, so it falls on me to say we'll be Kicking it into High Gear.

See ya then!

Kickin' It into High Gear

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The early evening was pleasant as Verdant stepped into the ever-familiar laboratory of High Gear. To the shamrock stallion’s surprise, the good doctor was nowhere to be seen. Instead, behind the console was Pixel Flash.

Meanwhile, in the far corner of the lab, standing next to a ladder that led into an open duct in the ceiling, was an earth pony stallion even shorter than Verdant himself. He had a faded looking purple coat that sharply contrasted his rust brown mane. His dark green eyes matched the color of his jumpsuit.

“Hey there, Pix,” Verdant called out as he drew closer. “Mind telling me what’s going on?”

“Oh, sure thing,” the mare with the tricolored mane said, looking away from the stallion by the ladder. “Gear’s got a cold, so I’ll be running the test for today. Meanwhile, Short Circuit and his sister in the ducts are just doing some minor maintenance. We’ll be all set to go once they wrap things up.”

“Uh, no offense Pix, but are you sure you can pull off this super science stuff?” Verdant’s question was met with a harsh glare from the unicorn.

“First of all, while I’m not a doctor, I’m still an electronics expert with a master’s degree in electrical engineering. I helped build almost all the parts that make up this baby. Heck, not only do I make my own custom game consoles for a hobby, I even made it that a Cougar-CD works one-hundred percent of the time!” Pixel Flash said in a tone that utterly dripped with frustration.

Verdant replied with a low impressed whistle as he slowly backed onto the teleporter.

“Besides,” Pix then said in a more relaxed tone. “Gear wrote up a really precise list of instructions on how to handle this thing.”

“Okay then,” Verdant replied as he looked at the jumpsuit wearing stallion. “So, when will this stuff be ready?”

“Very shortly, sir.” Short Circuit stated, looking to the ceiling opening. “Nickel Wire’s just going over the last few steps. Rest assured, we’re using the best tools we have to make sure this is working as smoothly as possible.”

“What to do? Just grab on to some duct tape! Woo-hoo!” A mare’s voice happily sang out from the ceiling, making Verdant turn pale.

“Nicky, that’s not really something to joke about.” Short Circuit angrily barked. “This guy’s about to be a guinea pig in some crazy science experiment.”

An earth pony mare with a coat and mane that matched Short Circuit’s stuck her head through the opening. “C’mon, Shorty, I’m just kidding around.”

“Can I get a status report, you two?” Pix asked as she leaned against the wall.

“I’m all done in here,” Nicky pulled her head back through the opening before climbing down the ladder. “I’d say you’re all set to fire up your little doodad whenever you want.”

“Fantastic,” Pix replied before pressing a series of buttons on the console. “Ready to go, Verdant?”

“Might as well. I really want that sandwich your girlfriend’s gonna owe me.” Verdant replied as he sat down. “Let’s light this candle.”

“Lighting candle now,” Pix replied as she pushed a lever on the console. The light from the teleporter quickly flooded the room.

Suddenly, a series of sparks erupted from the ceiling opening. The lights dimmed and Verdant vanished from the teleporter.

“Oh, c’mon! What went wrong this time?!” Pixel Flash roared as she slammed her hooves against the console. “I went over every last part of this machine! It should have worked, Faust damn it!”

“Uh, Sis?” Shorty asked as he noticed something off with Nicky’s attire. “Where’s your lucky wrench?”

“What are you talking about? It’s right…” Nicky started to pat her flank, when she noticed something was missing from her back pocket. “...Uh-oh…”

“Oh, fantastic,” Pix grumbled as she brought a hoof to her forehead. “Knowing my luck, Verdant’s probably in one of our stomachs right now.”

“WHAT?!” The twins exclaimed as their faces paled.

***

Verdant blinked as he found himself in a somewhat narrow, fleshy tube that seemed to stretch quite a ways. In the distance, he could hear both the sound of a heart beat and the sound of rushing liquids.

“Of course, I get teleported directly into a pony. Again.” Verdant gave a roll of his eyes. “Just like last week.

Looking over his shoulder, seeing more of the seemingly endless biological tunnel, Verdant shrugged before sitting up and starting to walk through the mystery pony’s body.

Not long after the sound of the rushing water stopped, a loud sigh reached Verdant’s ears.

“URGH… NOTE TO SELF. TRY TO EAT MORE FIBER.” The thunderous voice of the host made Verdant pause at the familiar sound.

“Wait, I’m in High Gear?” The shamrock stallion was rather stunned by the revelation. “What are the WHOA!”

Verdant found himself pitched about as the mare suddenly shifted. The powerful, quake like movements tossed the shrunken stallion about, sending him further along High Gear’s passageway.

Things started to settle as the mammoth mare seemed to begin walking about at a more regular pace. As he started to shake off the dizziness, he saw he was now at the end of the tunnel. What he saw was rather surprising.

At the end of the tunnel were some odd tendrils with a large, spherical organ only a small leap away.

“Wait a sec, I know where I am!” Verdant exclaimed, knowing his shout would be unheard. “That’s gotta be one of her ovaries, meaning I’m in one of Gear’s fallopian tubes!”

At his realization, Verdant quickly spun around and charged down the tube. “If I get past her cervix, I can get outta here!”

A little over a minute later, the minuscule mammal reached the end of the tunnel, arriving in the hornless unicorn’s uterus.

“Alright! At least the exit’s nearbyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!” Verdant screeched as the world flipped around and gravity inverted for a moment. The feeling of weightlessness soon ended when everything seemed to crash around him, making Verdant slam hard into the womb’s blood lined walls.

“Dammit, Doctor!” Verdant muttered as he massaged his sore muzzle. “What are you doing out there?”

***

High Gear let out a sigh as she finished relieving her bladder and bowels.

“Urgh… Note to self. Try to eat more fiber,” she said with a rather stuffy nose before she hopped off the toilet. Kicking a foreleg back, the bespectacled mare knocked down the toilet’s lid before flushing.

She soon made her way out of the bathroom, where what was left of her coffee was waiting on the bedroom night stand.

Oh, sweet coffee, she thought to herself as she took a sip of the black brew. You are the only thing I have to comfort me while I deal with this damn cold. At least Pix is filling in for me.

She gave a quiet hum as she looked down at the now empty cup when a disturbing thought crossed her mind.

Oh Faust, please don’t tell me I just drank Verdant down with my coffee… Nah, I doubt that happened.

Setting the cup back on the nightstand, High Gear decided to have a little bit of childish fun by jumping up and landing back-first on the soft bed.

Gear chuckled as she sank into the mattress before picking up a book she had left on the pillow beside her and stretching out.

Nearly twenty minutes passed before the bedroom door opened with Pixel Flash walking inside.

“Hey Pix,” Gear said as she dog eared her book and set it aside. “How’d the test go?”

“Same old, same old,” Pix sighed as she hopped onto the bed beside Gear. “I started up the machine, something went wrong and Verdant vanished. All I know right now is that Verdant’s not in my stomach, nor the stomachs of anypony at the lab. I’ll fire up the long range detector in the morning.”

“Alright. So, what do you want to do now?” Gear asked, causing a grin to stretch across Pix’s face.

“Well, I like seeing you spread out like this.” Pix started to climb on top of Gear, looking the hornless mare in the eye. “And I so rarely get to be on top.”

Pixel Flash leaned down and gave High Gear an open mouthed kiss. Gear started to push her tongue into Pix’s mouth before the violet mare started to pull away.

The mare with the multicolored hair adjusted her body so she was sitting up. She then pulled up Gear’s left leg and hugged it to act as support as she started to grind her nethers against Gear's, the two mares slowly beginning to moan in shared ecstasy.

***

Verdant got to his hooves as High Gear’s body settled down. As he rubbed his sore neck, he saw the gate that was her tightly sealed cervix.

“Alright Gear, please let your body be nice and let me out!” The shamrock stallion shouted as he darted towards the fleshy ring. He pushed his legs as hard as he could before he leapt at the tiny hole in the cervix center.

Within moments, his head had become stuck in the minuscule hole, leaving the rest of his body dangling in the womb.

“Oh Faust dammit,” Verdant said weakly before sighing. The tiny pony attempted to pull against the cervix, only to find the flesh refusing to let him move backwards. “Guess the only way to go is forward.”

Verdant tried to climb forward and squeeze his limbs into the tight tunnel. After several long minutes of intense struggle, he was finally allowed to pull himself through the minuscule opening, landing on his rear in High Gear’s vaginal canal.

“Wow, I’m inside High Gear’s vagina,” Verdant observed as he started to walk along the reproductive tract’s walls. “I figured I’d only end up in here if Beans was feeling really adventurous on my birthday.”

The birth canal’s entrance drew closer as Verdant walked along, rather grateful that his movements seemed to go unnoticed by High Gear.

As he made his way closer to the vulva, his ears stood at attention as he heard Gear’s booming voice in the distance, soon joined by Pix’s.

“Hey Pix, you want to try to run the scanner on your girlfriend to figure out where I am?!” Verdant’s exclamation went unheard while he felt the walls start to dampen.

“Uh, I never thought I’d say this, but could you two ladies please not have sex while I’m inside one of you?” Verdant nervously called out before Gear’s body was hit by a powerful quake. Falling to the fleshy floor, he looked ahead to try to see if he could see anything outside of Gear’s nethers.

As a second quake struck, Verdant saw that just beyond Gear’s vulva was another, this one surrounded by violet fur.

“Oh, wonderfUUUUUU!!!” Verdant screeched as High Gear began to bounce her hips, mashing her nethers against Pixel Flash’s.

The moaning of the two created a cacophony of booming explosions as they ground against each other, unable to hear the shrunken stallion’s screams.

One particularly strong thrust of Gear’s hips left Verdant terribly disoriented. Everything was a blur for him as the scientists scissored.

He soon found himself landing face first against a vaginal wall. To try to keep from being bounced around any more, he quickly and desperately clung to the warm, wet wall.

After a few moments, his stomach started to settle, despite the continued movements of the mares. Once his head stopped spinning, it was then he realized something was off. He looked up towards the cervix and saw that some of the mare’s fluid were seeming to fall directly towards his face instead down to the vaginal floor.

Giving a gulp, Verdant looked over his shoulder and through the edges of the mare’s vulva and saw the fur that surrounded the second mare was now a light blue.

“Great, now I’m stuck inside Pix while she’s-” Verdant was interrupted by the sound of the violet mare’s moans growing louder and louder.

Verdant grit his teeth as Pix gave the most powerful scream yet as her walls began to wildly spasm. He tried to tighten his grip on the wall, but his efforts were made futile as a wave of her juices knocked him down.

One final spasm from Pix sent Verdant and her fluids shooting forth, the cannon-like force of her orgasm sending him flying back down High Gear’s love tunnel, skidding along the wet floor before he violently crashed into the bottom of her cervix, falling unconscious as he slid back.

***

Pixel was left huffing from what she believed was one of the most powerful orgasms she had ever had. She gently fell atop High Gear, giving her a deep kiss before she pulled away to catch her breath.

“So, how’d you like that?” Pixel asked as she pushed herself back up, only to be crestfallen at the dissatisfied look on her love’s face.

“Sadly, I’ve had better,” Gear replied before raising an eyebrow. “Did being on top really turn you on that much?”

“Uhh…” Pix’s face soon turned crimson as she stood up and looked away in embarrassment. “Sorry, Gear. I swear, that’s never happened to me before.”

High Gear gave a chuckle at her girlfriend’s words. “I thought only guys who were bad in bed said that.”

Pixel groaned before she looked down at Gear’s soaked entrance. It was then a thought came to her mind and a grin stretched across her face.

“Tell you what,” Pix said as she moved back on the bed and started to lay on her belly. “How about I make this up to you by getting myself something to eat?”

“Wait, don’t you mean get me something to… Oh!” Gear quickly realized what her mate had planned as Pix moved her face in front of her nethers.

“That’s right,” Pix said before licking her lips. “You’re about to get eaten.”

Opening her mouth wide and sticking out her tongue, she gave Gear’s exposed clit a strong lick before moving down and penetrating her vagina with her broad, flat tongue.

***

Verdant groaned as wakefulness started to come back to him. As he shakily tried to stand up, he could see that he was once again inside a mare’s vaginal canal.

“THAT’S RIGHT,” the voice of Pixel Flash echoed thunderously, forcing the shrunken pony to cover his ears and fall back to the wet floor. “YOU’RE ABOUT TO GET EATEN.”

“Wait, what?!” The stallion screamed as he shot to his hooves, only to stumble as the fleshly canal trembled and the roar that was High Gear’s moan boomed all around him.

As Verdant tried to steady himself against the shuddering walls, another loud moan reached his ears. It was then he looked towards the entrance and saw it was being penetrated by a massive tongue.

“Oh, Faust dammit!” Verdant exclaimed as he tried to dash back towards the cervix, only for Pix’s tongue to pick him up and toss him along its slippery surface.

“Crapcrapcrapcrapcrapcrapcrap!” the stallion muttered as he tried to run along the tongue as it pushed forward and massaged High Gear from the inside.

When he reached the tip of the tongue, he springboarded off and hurried along towards the cervix, the spasms and moans reaching a fevered pitch.

“Let me in, let me in!” the shamrock stallion shouted as he reached the cervix, only for a large blast of her fluids to come spewing forth.

The geyser of Gear’s love juices sent poor Verdant hurtling back, where he then skidded across the surface of Pix’s tongue. Before he could get his bearings, he was swallowed down with the pool of marecum, sent tumbling down her esophagus before making a splash in a stomach filled with instant ramen, cheesy corn chips and lemon-lime soda.

“Urgh… Son of a bitch,” Verdant said as he tried to pull himself to his hooves, using a noodle for support. “When I finally get that sandwich, I’m gonna make it a huge one.”

***

High Gear was breathing hard as she started to come down from the high of her orgasm. Looking down between her legs, she saw her beloved swallow as she rose up.

“Hmm… Tasty as always.” Pixel Flash said before licking her lips and crawling up to Gear’s side. “I love you, Gear.” She leaned forward to give the bespectacled mare a kiss, only to be stopped by a hoof.

“I love you too, Pix, but could I get it on the cheek?” High Gear asked as she looked into Pix’s peridot green eyes. “I don’t really want to taste myself on your lips.”

A warm smile graced Pix’s face as she leaned back in. “Of course, dear,” she softly said before planting a kiss on Gear’s cheek. “Well, now that we’ve had some fun, how about I cook us up some dinner? I’m thinkin’... Homemade pizza with alfredo, mushrooms, olives, and extra cheese?”

“Sounds great,” Gear replied before kissing Pixel’s cheek.

As Pixel Flash rose out of bed and sauntered out of the room, Gear’s eyes were locked firmly on the violet unicorn’s flank and every deliberate shake she made as she left the bedroom.

A delighted sigh came from High Gear as she leaned back in the bed. “I love that mare.”

***

Hours later, Verdant gave a tired sigh as he sat in the pile of junk food that filled Pixel Flash’s stomach. The combination gave off a rather foul aroma as the food digested in the bubbling stomach acids.

“Seriously, what makes this keep happening to me?” the tiny earth pony asked aloud as he looked up to the twitching fleshy walls. “Why is it I keep ending up eaten, or at least inside someone? First there was time with Kuni when I was little, now I’ve ended up in Apple Bloom, Bea, Fluttershy, Beans, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Big McIntosh and Applejack, all in less than a year.”

Bored and hungry, Verdant tore off a chunk of cheese from some of the pizza remnants and took a bite. “Hmm… at least she can make a good pizza. Just wish it wasn’t ABC’d.”

After finishing off his recycled dinner, the shamrock stallion stood up and waded through digestive juices to make it to the unchewed noodles. He laid against some of the strands before wrapping some around him to act as a blanket.

With a yawn, Verdant allowed sleep to consume him, allowing him to get a somewhat pleasant sleep.

Until he was bolted awake by some hot oatmeal landing on top of him.

***

It was a rather bright and sunny morning as High Gear strolled into the apartment’s kitchen, where Beanstalk and Pix were seated, enjoying steaming bowls of oatmeal.

“Hey there, Gear,” Pix said as she spotted the violet haired mare through a mouthful of food before swallowing. “How are you feeling this morning?”

“Much better, Pix,” Gear replied as she took a seat beside Pix, who served up a bowl of oatmeal and set it down in front of her.

“I’m sure you’ll love breakfast this morning,” Pixel Flash stated in between large bites. “Beans made a lot of oatmeal with strawberry jam mixed into it.”

“Thanks, Beans. You’re the best,” Gear said as she picked up a spoon and scooped up a mouthful of oatmeal.

“You’re welcome, Gear,” the statuesque earth pony fidgeted in her chair. “Say, would you mind checking your long range scanner to find out where Verdant is?”

“What’s the matter? Don’t like the idea of him being inside anypony but you?” Pix’s remark was met with a death glare from Beanstalk as she rose up from her seat.

“I’m worried about my boyfriend’s safety.” the angry green mare leaned down so her nose was pressed against Pix’s. “Especially since every time he’s been Gear’s guinea pig, it’s ended up with him in a stomach.”

“Oh, relax, Bean,” Pix said in a relaxed tone as she gently pushed the large mare away. “Every time that’s happened, he’s turned out fine. Heck, that’s what led to you two becoming a couple.”

As Beans started to grumble, High Gear rose from the table. With a spoon sticking out of her mouth, she opened a drawer and pulled out a foreleg mounted device.

Attaching it to her limb and returning to the table, the light blue mare started to adjust the dials on it.

Upon seeing what the long range scan said, her brow rose and she gave a curious hum. She adjusted the focus of the device while Pix leaned over to see what was going on.

When the machine was set to close range, it started to rapidly beep, startling the bespectacled mare and making her spit her spoon out in surprise.

“Sweet Celestia’s fat flank, Verdant’s in Pix’s stomach!” Gear’s exclamation caused Beans and Pix to gasp in surprise.

“Wait, how?!” Pix was dumbstruck by what her lover was saying. “I checked myself before I left the lab.”

“You must have eaten him after you got home,” Beans said as she left the table and headed off to the bathroom.

“But I was super careful when I made the pizza last night!” Pix protested as she got out of her seat. “I went over every last piece to make sure the food was Verdant free, just like you did with breakfast! The only other thing I ate last night was…”

Both Pixel Flash and High Gear’s faces exploded into a bright crimson as they realized how poor Verdant ended up in her stomach.

The two were left speechless as Beans returned with a walkie-talkie and a strange device Pix had never seen before.

“Well, you know what to do,” Beans said as she placed the walkie-talkie in front of Gear.

“Uh, right,” Gear picked up the walkie as the blush on her face started to fade, pressing a button on its side. “Hey, Minute Detail? It’s High Gear and-”

“Lemme guess,” a raspy mare’s tired voice came from the walkie. “Code Green?”

“Yep, Code Green,” Gear answered back as she used a hoof to rub the bridge of her snout. “This time, at my apartment.”

An annoyed sigh came from the walkie’s speaker. “Alright. Gimme about twenty minutes and I’ll be there.”

“Thanks, Mini. I owe you,” Gear said before setting the walkie aside on the table.

“One more, and you owe me a sub,” Minute’s voice replied before Gear trotted over to the second device.

“Alright Pix, now we’ve got to get Verdant out,” Gear said as she picked up the device’s electrical cord and a hose that she attached to the sink faucet.

“Uh, Gear?” Pix asked as Gear picked up a long plastic tube. “What is this thing?”

“My own custom made stomach pump. I made it for just this sort of thing.” Gear’s rather calm reply made Pix’s violet coat turn pale as a sheet.

***

A little over half an hour later, Verdant emerged from the bathroom. His coat was somewhat damp, but he was otherwise perfectly fine.

Walking out into the living room, he saw a greenish-looking Pixel Flash holding her belly at the kitchen table while High Gear was talking to a gray coated unicorn with a short, curly, pale indigo mane that sharply contrasted her magenta eyes, even with them partially hidden by the red frames of her glasses. Upon her flank was the image of a magnifying glass.

“Thanks again, Dr. Minute Detail,” Verdant said as he drew closer to the table, only to be swiftly pulled into a hug by Beanstalk.

“Eh, no big deal,” Mini replied with a wave as she picked up a coffee cup in her violet aura and reduced it to the size of a sugarcube. “At least oatmeal’s less gross to wash off than cud.”

“Hopefully, things will go smoothly next time and I won’t have to buy anypony subs,” Gear said as Mini restored the cup to normal.

“Not counting on it,” Verdant and Mini shot back simultaneously, making Gear groan.

“At any rate, I’d best be getting to work,” Verdant said as Beans let him go. “Those flowers aren’t gonna water themselves.”

“Ditto. My dad’s gonna have me plow the fields while he and Mom plant.” Beanstalk followed Verdant out the door, leaving the three scientists alone.

“So, that must have been the worst threesome ever.” Mini gave a smirk at the daggers Gear and Pix were glaring at her before taking a sip from her cup.

“Dammit, Mini,” Gear sighed as she rose up from the table.

“I figure if you want to make up for what happened, you could give him one heck of a birthday present.” The smug grin on Mini’s face was knocked away by the pillow Pix tossed at her.

Author's Notes:

Hey folks. Hope you enjoyed this latest chapter of Stomach Stallion. It was fun to get to do this chapter heavily featuring High Gear and Pixel Flash. Plus, this was the first I wrote a F/F sex scene, so that was an interesting experience.

And now, it's time to have the votes for the chapter after next.

Swift Snort (AP): Verdant is training with his fellow soldiers on Butterfly Island and we see one of the misadventures there.
Lovely Nights and New Beginnings (Alternate Ending): Verdant was called upon to impregnate Cadance with Shining Armor's sperm. Well over a year after his successful mission, Princess Cadance calls him back to the empire. What could she want this time?
Dating Delights: Verdant goes out on a date with a fancy mare he met during a dating service and things seem to go swimmingly... until he learns she's a cannibalistic serial killer with a shrinking fetish.
Betty: The Last Cutesaur: Verdant is recruited by Daring Do to explore an island full of long lost flora and fauna, only to encounter a creature that supposedly went extinct eons ago.
Bibinba's Inside Story: While playing Marinara Party with some friends of his, Verdant accidentally lands on the wrong space and finds himself staring down an imposing longma.
Double Trouble in the Fire: A teleportation accident ends up sending Verdant to another universe where he meets Dr. Overdrive and a green mare with a white muzzle named Shamrock Meadow. When the two try to get him back home, things go awry and the emerald pony pair end up in the kitchen of Spitfire.
Dragon of the Wastelands: In the wastelands that were ruined by mega spells, a small band of ponies wish to reach the town of New Griffinstone. To get there, they hire an odd unicorn mare who goes by the name of Verdant Range.
Dog Day Afternoon: On a day out, Verdant finds himself stumbling upon a patch of Shrinking Violets... and a rather hungry Diamond Dog.
Happy Hearts & Hooves Day (AP): Verdant wants to give Erica a wonderful Hearts & Hooves Day. After learning she has a fetish for shrinking and vore, he knows what he'll do to make his special somecreature happy.
Not a Snack-Sized Stallion, But a Micro-Sized Man: Verdant's enjoying his little job of mowing his history teacher's lawn when suddenly, a pot with a blue flower in it appears from the sky and smacks him in the face. Now the teenage Verdant is just a speck when Barrier's niece, Twilight Sparkle, comes to visit.
Death to Daybreaker: In a dark world ruled by Daybreaker and Nightmare Moon, two vicious tyrants who plot and scheme against each other, the Mare of the Moon decides to put an end to her sister once and for all. For this, she's going to need a rather skilled assassin.
Tales from the Mirrorverse - Digestions & Dragons: Set after the events of "Antacid's Creed", Verdant is assigned to Celestia's elite privateer, Magic Barrier. His first assignment: recover the treasure from a hibernating dragon's stomach.
Verdant vs. Verdant: Battle of the Bug (AP): A distress message from the Mirror Universe reaches Princess Celestia and Verdant is tasked by King Sombra to save the life of Queen Chrysalis from one of the most evil and dangerous assassins on the mirror world; Verdant Range.
Sweet & Shining Strawberry Snacks: Another round of teleportation leads to another disaster for Verdant as he's teleported to a bowl of strawberries in the Crystal Empire just as Princess Cadance and Shining Armor are about to have a sexy little game.
Sailing into the Blue: In the war with the griffins, Captain Barrier comes up with a plan to allow them to infiltrate the Griffin Kingdom and turn the tide of the war. All they need is a boat, Verdant's knowledge of anatomy and a lot of Shrinking Violet potion.
Kickin' It Into High Gear (Alternate Ending): What happens to poor Verdant in this different tale from inside the good doctor?

As for the next chapter, it seems you guys like stories about F/F couples, so next time, we'll see Lyra have to explain what happened to Verdant in "I Cooked Him Up and Ate Him".

I Cooked Him Up and Ate Him

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Within a rather pristine Vanhoover laboratory on a pleasant afternoon, Dr. High Gear was carefully adjusting the various dials, nobs, buttons and switches on her teleporter’s console.

“Y’know,” Verdant casually said as he leaned back on the teleporter. “We could just go to SubNeigh, get some small subs and reset the counter for this and call it a day.”

“Not gonna happen,” High Gear said through gritted teeth as her right eye twitched. “It’s gonna work this time. No ifs, ands or buts.”

“Oh, I know butts will be involved if we go through with this, Doctor,” Verdant replied as he laid back. “Might as well just fire that thing up, send me into somepony and then I'll make you pay for the biggest sub sandwich I can get my hooves on.”

“Initiating startup,” High Gear ignored the shamrock stallion as the teleporter started to hum to life.

The panels on the teleporter started brightly glowing when all the lights in the room suddenly went black. The whirring of the various machines soon fell silent.

With a loud sigh of frustration, High Gear reached into her lab coat and pulled out a glow stick. Quickly snapping and shaking the stick, she could see that Verdant was nowhere to be seen in the darkness of the lab.

“Alright, who’s the dumb bastard who forgot to pay the electric bill?” Gear exclaimed, her voice echoing throughout the building.

“Weren’t you the one that was supposed to drop off the cheque this month?” a voice that she recognized as Bunsen Burner’s replied from the hallway.

High Gear was rather glad that the darkness and green light of the glow stick hid her blush.

“SHIT!”

***

In a flash, Verdant found himself falling through the air before landing hard on his belly. As he forced himself to his sore hooves, he saw that not only was he on a kitchen counter next to a boiling pot of beans on the stove, but also in front of a mare that per expectation, towered over the pea-sized pony.

The rather stunned mare had a coat that was the color of cream while her mane had two colors. Her left side was a dark blue while the right was a light pink color.

“WHAT THE…” the amazing colossal mare leaned down closer to Verdant, allowing him to get an up close and personal look at her teal eyes. “IS THAT A TINY PONY?”

To his great relief, the mare then turned her head so her right ear was faced towards the tiny stallion.

“Excuse me, Miss!” Verdant shouted, hoping his little voice was enough to reach the giant mare’s ears. “My name is Verdant Range. Is this Ponyville?”

“YES, IT IS.” Though the giantess tried to be quieter with her words, it was still quite thunderous for Verdant. “MY NAME IS BON BON AND I MAKE CANDY HERE.”

“Okay, Bon Bon! I need you to find Twilight Sparkle and tell her I’m back in town! She’ll know how to fix this!” Verdant’s exclamation caused Bon Bon to pull away. With a flick of her foreleg, she flicked the stove off and started to run out of the kitchen.

“Okay, I’ll go find her and get her to fix this!” She shouted as she approached the house’s front door. “Lyra, could you take care of the shrunken pony on the kitchen counter?! Also, dinner’s ready!”

“Wait, dammit!” Verdant futilely shouted from his spot on the counter. “Why didn’t you take me with you?!”

When the sound of the front door slamming shut was the only response, Verdant slumped down and sighed. “Great. Now how will things end up getting worse?”

Verdant’s ears perked up at the sound of a toilet being flushed somewhere in the distance. A moment later, another pony entered the kitchen.

This mare was a unicorn with an aquamarine coat that paired well with her mane which was a pale cyan, streaked through with white highlights.

The unicorn looked around confused as she arrived in the kitchen. “BON BON, WHAT WAS THAT YOU SAID ABOUT DINNER?”

Her gamboge eyes failed to see Verdant as they focused in on the bubbling pot of beans.

The unicorn known as Lyra took in a deep whiff of the beans before sighing in delight. “HMMM… IT SMELLS SO GOOD… I’M SURE BON BON WON’T MIND IF HAVE THE FIRST ONE.”

“Hey, Lyra!” Verdant hopped and squeaked, pointlessly trying to get the unicorn’s attention as she used her magic to pull some tortillas from a cupboard and a large spoon from a drawer.

The oblivious mare merrily hummed to herself as she held a tortilla in the air and scooped up some of the beans. As she poured some of the saucy beans, a few of them fell from the spoon and landed on top of Verdant, completely burying him.

“OOPS,” Lyra briefly muttered before shrugging her shoulders. “OH WELL. FIVE SECOND RULE.”

Before Verdant could emerge from the small bean pile, he felt himself suddenly being scooped up. When he finally managed to push his head free, Verdant saw he was being pulled by Lyra’s massive tongue behind her closing lips.

“Oh, motherf-” Verdant’s curse was interrupted by the tongue suddenly moving him and the beans towards her rapidly descending teeth. The shrunken stallion only had a split second to leap off one of her molars before he could be crushed. He barely managed to jump onto the bumpy surface of her tongue before she began to crush the saucy beans into a thick paste.

Despite trying to cling as tightly as he could, Verdant was unable to keep his grip, courtesy of the mare’s slippery mouth and the powerful force of her giant tongue. The force of the tongue flicking back and the throat opening up was enough to easily send him hurtling downward.

Lyra’s throat muscles were surprisingly some of the strongest Verdant had encountered as he was squeezed down, landing with the mess of mashed beans in her nearly empty stomach.

“Well,” Verdant grumbled as he looked around the pulsating chamber. “At least I’m getting that sub once this is over.”

***

Lyra was happily humming to herself as she was applying the last of the finishing touches to her burrito, applying a new type of hot sauce she’d been meaning to try.

Just as she finished applying the last of the sauce, she heard the front door opening up. “Lyra!”

“Hey, Bon Bon!” Lyra happily called out as she picked up a second burrito in her magic. “Perfect timing. I just finished prepping the burritos.” As Lyra looked over her shoulder, she was rather surprised to see Twilight standing by Bon Bon’s side.

“That’s good to hear, Lyra, but where’s Verdant?” Bon Bon asked as she grabbed the burrito Lyra passed to her.

“Who?” Lyra asked as she picked up her own burrito.

“When I headed out to get Twilight, I asked you to take care of this shrunken pony named Verdant,” Bon Bon said as she moved over to the counter.

“Sorry, but I couldn’t really hear anything ‘cuz I was in the bathroom,” Lyra replied. “I could barely hear anything you said and I just came down to see you’d finished making dinner.”

“Well, Verdant’s got to be here somewhere,” Twilight interjected as she drew closer to the kitchen counter, only to halt when Bon Bon suddenly held up a hoof.

Bon Bon leaned closer to the counter and spotted the telltale remnants of a sauce stain that had been wiped up. “Lyra, did you spill some beans on the counter?”

“Well, yeah,” the minty mare replied with a shrug of her shoulders. “But it’s no big deal. I licked them up within five seconds, so it’s all good.” Lyra then started to take several large bites of her burrito, making her face turn pepper red.

“Whoa,” Lyra huffed as she fanned herself with a hoof. “This is quite the hot sauce.” She then started to quickly scarf down the rest of the burrito.

Bon Bon could only sigh at Lyra’s nonchalance. “Twilight, could you-”

“I’m already on it,” Twilight interjected, her horn lighting up a bright magenta. “This is the fifth time I’ve had to help him out with this sort of thing.”

“Umm…” Lyra spoke through a mouthful of burrito before swallowing, staring down at her guest as she examined her belly. “What are you doing?”

“Finding Verdant,” the lavender mare replied as the light from her horn faded away and she pulled away. “And it turns out my guess was right. He’s currently inside your stomach.”

“WHAT?!” Lyra stumbled back as she exclaimed. “How’s that possible?! How are we gonna get him oOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” She clutched her belly as she felt a powerful and terrible rumbling from within. “What’s happening?”

“Lyra, I think that’s the hot sauce kicking in,” Bon Bon answered as she picked up the bottle in question. “The label says it’s called ‘Butt-Blaster Habanero’.”

“BATHROOM!” Lyra screamed as she bolted away like a Wonderbolt. Twilight and Bon Bon were left far behind as she ran up the stairs to the bathroom. The door slammed shut as the two reached the top of the stairs.

As Bon Bon reached for the door, a powerful pained scream came from the sealed room, along with a rather disgusting wet, splattering noise.

***

A small smile stretched across Verdant’s muzzle as he could faintly make out the voice of Twilight Sparkle coming from the other side of the stomach walls.

“Well, hopefully this means I’ll be getting out of here quicker than usual.” He muttered to himself as the upper opening of the stomach opened up, allowing chunks of chewed up burrito to splash down into the acidic pools.

“Man, either you’re really hungry or you don’t have the best table manners,” Verdant said to no one as more and more bits of burrito splashed down into the stomach, making the juices start to rapidly bubble.

After a few moments, the stomach started to rapidly spasm all about. Verdant screamed in surprise as one of the spasms sent him hurtling into the steaming digestive lake.

The fleshy chamber continued to spasm and clench. A valve in the stomach opened and Verdant felt as if he was being fired out of a cannon as both he and the juices were launched into Lyra’s intestine.

The rushing current sent the screaming stallion flying face first through the tunnel of flesh. His face was constantly being smacked by Lyra’s villi as the tsunami sent him on the world’s most disgusting water slide.

He soon reached the end of the small intestine, but the intense force of the current just kept pushing him through the running mare’s body.

The rushing river was soon mixed with the collection of waste from Lyra’s previous meals as he continued hurtling towards the clenched ring that was her anus.

A scream rang through Verdant ears as he was sent flying from Lyra’s body. As he soared, his eyes shrunk to pinpricks as he saw that instead of splashing down into a toilet bowl, he was going to crash directly into the toilet’s raised lid.

The shrunken stallion struck with a sickening splat, followed swiftly by the fecal geyser that slammed against him. Verdant was thankful to Faust that the sickening flow stopped after a good ten seconds before he slid down onto the toilet’s seat.

“LYRA,” Bon Bon’s concerned voice boomed from the other side of the bathroom door. “ARE YOU OKAY IN THERE?”

“I’M SORE, BUT I THINK I’LL BE FINE.” Verdant turned his attention to the unicorn that laid on the bathroom’s tiled floor. Her face was pressed against it while her flank was raised with her tail moved to the side, giving him an unimpeded view of the sore hole he’d just been launched from.

“LYRA, IS VERDANT OKAY?” The minty mare’s ears stood at attention at Twilight’s question.

After a moment of straining to get back to her hooves and turning about, Lyra turned around to see Verdant was now standing on one part of the toilet that was still white. “YEAH, IT LOOKS LIKE HE’S OKAY… BUT HE’S GONNA NEED A BATH AND WE’LL NEED A LOT OF BLEACH.”

A tense silence hung in the air until Bon Bon spoke up once more. “HOW BAD IS IT?”

“WELL, REMEMBER THAT PREQUEL TO THAT MOVIE ABOUT THOSE TWO IDIOTS? THE ONE WITH SCENE WITH THE MELTED CANDY BAR?”

“YEAH?” Bon Bon’s reply was dripping with worry.

“OKAY, NOW MULTIPLY IT BY ABOUT TEN.”

***

Nearly an hour later, Verdant was fully restored to his proper height and washed off. Feeling rather sorry for what happened, Lyra and Bon Bon gave him a bag of strawberry flavored candies as an apology.

When Verdant stepped off the train back to Vanhoover, he was rather happy to see Beanstalk and High Gear were waiting for him. The shamrock stallion was quickly swept up into a tight hug by Beans before she gently placed him back on the ground.

“Sorry about this, Verdant,” High Gear said as she nervously rubbed the back of her neck. “I don’t know why this crap keeps happening, but I’ll try to make sure it won’t happen again.”

“It’s okay, Gear,” Verdant replied with a soft smile. “I know it’s just a series of freaky coincidences. On the bright side, you didn’t have to take a trip to Ponyville this time and now I’ll be getting my sub.”

“Right, right,” Gear chuckled as she and the two earth ponies started to trot away from the train station. “Hopefully me buying subs won’t be a recurring thing.”

“Who knows what the future holds?” Verdant replied as they walked about.

After a few minutes, the trio arrived at SubNeigh. The restaurant was sparkling clean and thankfully, the three had managed to arrive before the dinner rush, with nopony waiting in line for their orders.

“Alright, Verdant,” Gear patted the earth pony stallion on the shoulder. “Go place your order for any sub and I’ll pay for it. Heck, I’ll even get the same for Beans.”

“Aww, thanks, Gear. I was getting pretty hungry,” the towering mare said as the scientist trotted up to the register.

As Gear reached the register, Beans and Verdant stepped up to place their order.

“Hi there. I’d like to order a footlong daisy, lettuce and tomato with honey mustard on nine-grain honey oat,” Beans said as the employee started to work on her order.

“And what can I get for you, sir?” the unicorn behind the counter asked when she saw the warm smile on Verdant's face had morphed into a wicked grin.

A dark chortle drew Beans’ eyes to him before he began speaking. “I’ll take a twelve-foot chicken, hay-bacon ranch melt with extra hay-bacon and sauce, swiss cheese and parmesan on Bitalian herb and cheese.”

As the employee began to work on their orders, Beanstalk leaned down to whisper in Verdant’s ear. “Verdant, is it really okay for you to order one of those things?”

“Considering all the literal crap I’ve had to go through since I became her guinea pig, I’d say so.” Verdant casually replied. “Besides, she did say I could order any. Not my fault that she didn’t set a size limit.”

Beans gave a chuckle as an employee came out of the back room, carrying an absurdly long piece of bread.

“Wait, why would you need a-” High Gear began to speak before she spotted the villainous smile on Verdant’s face and realized what he had done.

“Oh, you bastard!” she furiously exclaimed with a glare that could kill a puppy.

***

After the three had received their orders, the pair had split up. Beans and Gear went back to their apartment to help Pix with a game project she was working on while Verdant went to his own home.

The shamrock stallion had soon cut the sandwich into twelve pieces and stuffed eleven of them into his enchanted fridge. In this fridge, the sandwich would last for nearly a year. He planned on savoring the sub for every single moment it was worth.

To that end, he had soon brewed up a little potion he’d found in a cook book he’d borrowed from the library. It was for a potion that used shrinking violets to allow him to shrink down to the size of a pea. Once it was finished up, along with an antidote, he poured some of it into a small bottle before stepping onto his table.

“Oh, I’m gonna enjoy you for looooooooooooooooooong time,” he said before licking his lips and taking a swig of the shrinking potion.

The world seemed to greatly expand around Verdant as the potion swiftly shrank him down in front of his mammoth sized meal. With him reduced to his tiny size, he quickly skittered across the table and climbed up the bready structure before crawling inside and taking a bite out of a succulent piece of hay bacon.

After a few minutes of digging into his colossal meal, a distant yet loud noise reached his shrunken ears. It was the sound of his front door being unlocked and opened.

Verdant knew only a few ponies had keys to his home. His parents and sisters, but they all lived in Fillydelphia, so it likely wasn’t them. The only ponies in Vanhoover with keys were Beans and…

“VERDANT? YOU IN HERE?” High Gear’s voice echoed about. The shamrock stallion tried to move out of the sandwich, but a heavy dollop of ranch sauce fell on top of him, making him stick to the sandwich.

“I’ve tempted the gods of irony, haven’t I?” Verdant asked aloud as High Gear drew nearer.

***

“Verdant, you in here?” The scientist called out as she entered the house. Looking about, she saw no sign of the stallion.

“I wanted to say I’m sorry about being so mad earlier,” she said as she headed towards the kitchen. “Yeah, you cost me a lot of money, but I’ve only been through a fraction of the crap you have since we started this.”

A moment passed with no reply being heard by the bespectacled mare.

“Eh, guess I’ll just leave him a note,” Gear said with a shrug before pulling a piece of paper from her jacket and placing it onto the table. She then pulled out a pen and started to write a message with her mouth.

Verdant.
Sorry about being mad earlier. Still, the max limit on size for any future subs is one foot with no extra toppings I’d be charged for.
- High Gear P.H.D.

As she finished up her note, a rumble came from High Gear’s belly. She briefly glanced down at her stomach before looking back up to the table where the sandwich laid. Then a wicked grin stretched across her muzzle before adding something to the letter.

P.S. I’m stealing part of your sub. I paid a small fortune for it, I deserve some of it.

Stuffing the pen back into her pocket, High Gear licked her lips as she picked up the footlong sandwich.

***

A powerful quake rocked the shrunken stallion as the sandwich was picked up. Looking ahead, Verdant saw the gaping, glistening maw of Gear as the sandwich drew closer.

“Shit! Not again!” Verdant screamed as he struggled to free himself from the thick sauce, only for a chunk of chicken to fall and further pin him.

He tried to struggle out from under the chunk, but it was too late. Another quake rocked Verdant from the unicorn taking a large bite of the sub.

Verdant landed with a faint splat against her warm tongue. The piece of chicken rolled off of him as the tongue started to move about the sandwich chunks, directing them towards her colossal mashing teeth.

Acting quickly, he grabbed onto her tongue. His grip was thankfully strong enough to keep him from being crushed by her teeth.

Verdant was splattered by a mix of chunks of chewed up sandwich and saliva. He shook like a dog to try and fling the spit and sub from his coat.

It wasn’t long before the shamrock stallion was buried by the chewed up food. The weight was too much for his grip and he began to slide towards the back of Gear’s tongue.

Verdant sighed as the tongue began to rise up and he saw he was sliding under her uvula.

“Well, I’m counting this as the first of the new ten,” he tiredly said as High Gear swallowed, sending him down into her esophagus.

He was squeezed down with the sandwich mush by the powerful muscles before he splashed down into the stomach that was otherwise empty, save for a small pool of her bubbling acids.

As Verdant tried to pull himself from the sandwich, a deafening hum reached his ears, forcing him to quickly cover them.

***

“Hmm…” Gear hummed in delight as she savored the aftertaste of the sandwich. “That’s some good stuff. I should probably head to SubNeigh more often.”

As she started to bring the sandwich back towards her lips to take another bite, she paused.

“Wait a sec…” She set the sandwich back down on the table and activated her hoof mounted scanner. The beeping like crazy told her exactly where Verdant was.

“Oh Faust dammit!” She angrily exclaimed before sighing in annoyance. After a deep breath, she looked down to her belly.

“Sorry about this, Verdant.” She remorsefully said, hoping the shrunken stallion would accept her apology. “I should have scanned before just eating the sandwich. I swear, I’ll make it up to you on your birthday.”

As if in response, her belly gave a small gurgle.

“In the meantime,” High Gear said as she picked up the sandwich once more. “I’m gonna head home and finish off this sandwich. I’ll be sure to get you out… Well, I’ll let you out tomorrow morning.”

As the hornless unicorn took another bite of the sandwich, a loud series of curses she’d be unable to hear began to come from inside her stomach.

Author's Notes:

Hey there, everyone. It took a while, but we're back with a brand new chapter of Stomach Stallion. Since this marked the time where Verdant finally got his sub, I decided to be nice and give you all a double dose of unicorn vorey goodness.

And now, it's time to vote for next time.

Swift Snort (AP): Verdant is training with his fellow soldiers on Butterfly Island and we see one of the misadventures there.
Lovely Nights and New Beginnings (Alternate Ending): Verdant was called upon to impregnate Cadance with Shining Armor's sperm. Well over a year after his successful mission, Princess Cadance calls him back to the empire. What could she want this time?
Dating Delights: Verdant goes out on a date with a fancy mare he met during a dating service and things seem to go swimmingly... until he learns she's a cannibalistic serial killer with a shrinking fetish.
Betty: The Last Cutesaur: Verdant is recruited by Daring Do to explore an island full of long lost flora and fauna, only to encounter a creature that supposedly went extinct eons ago.
Bibinba's Inside Story: While playing Marinara Party with some friends of his, Verdant accidentally lands on the wrong space and finds himself staring down an imposing longma.
Double Trouble in the Fire: A teleportation accident ends up sending Verdant to another universe where he meets Dr. Overdrive and a green mare with a white muzzle named Shamrock Meadow. When the two try to get him back home, things go awry and the emerald pony pair end up in the kitchen of Spitfire.
Dragon of the Wastelands: In the wastelands that were ruined by mega spells, a small band of ponies wish to reach the town of New Griffinstone. To get there, they hire an odd unicorn mare who goes by the name of Verdant Range.
Dog Day Afternoon: On a day out, Verdant finds himself stumbling upon a patch of Shrinking Violets... and a rather hungry Diamond Dog.
Happy Hearts & Hooves Day (AP): Verdant wants to give Erica a wonderful Hearts & Hooves Day. After learning she has a fetish for shrinking and vore, he knows what he'll do to make his special somecreature happy.
Not a Snack-Sized Stallion, But a Micro-Sized Man: Verdant's enjoying his little job of mowing his history teacher's lawn when suddenly, a pot with a blue flower in it appears from the sky and smacks him in the face. Now the teenage Verdant is just a speck when Barrier's niece, Twilight Sparkle, comes to visit.
Death to Daybreaker: In a dark world ruled by Daybreaker and Nightmare Moon, two vicious tyrants who plot and scheme against each other, the Mare of the Moon decides to put an end to her sister once and for all. For this, she's going to need a rather skilled assassin.
Tales from the Mirrorverse - Digestions & Dragons: Set after the events of "Antacid's Creed", Verdant is assigned to Celestia's elite privateer, Magic Barrier. His first assignment: recover the treasure from a hibernating dragon's stomach.
Verdant vs. Verdant: Battle of the Bug (AP): A distress message from the Mirror Universe reaches Princess Celestia and Verdant is tasked by King Sombra to save the life of Queen Chrysalis from one of the most evil and dangerous assassins on the mirror world; Verdant Range.
Sweet & Shining Strawberry Snacks: Another round of teleportation leads to another disaster for Verdant as he's teleported to a bowl of strawberries in the Crystal Empire just as Princess Cadance and Shining Armor are about to have a sexy little game.
Sailing into the Blue: In the war with the griffins, Captain Barrier comes up with a plan to allow them to infiltrate the Griffin Kingdom and turn the tide of the war. All they need is a boat, Verdant's knowledge of anatomy and a lot of Shrinking Violet potion.
Marshmallow-ception: As Hearth's Warming is drawing near, Verdant volunteers once more for High Gear's experiments. Naturally things go wrong and he ends up in a marshmallow in Sweetie Bell's hot cocoa.
Dinner and a Magic Show: On a date with Beanstalk, Verdant attends a magic show starring a local star named Hocus Pocus. He volunteers for one of her tricks, but then things go wrong.

Next time, we get yet another time where Verdant ends up in our favorite scientist by seeing what would happen in the world of "What If?".

See ya then.

P.S. - I'm also working on a one-shot story with shrinking and vore with a different protagonist called Downsizing with the Wonderbolts. When I finally finish it, I hope you enjoy it.

Kickin' It into High Gear (Alternate Ending)

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Some time ago, due to one of many teleportation accidents, Verdant Range had found himself inside High Gear’s reproductive system a short time before she began to have sex with her girlfriend. Not too long after that, he’d ended up being ejected from High Gear’s vagina and swallowed by Pixel Flash, trapping him in her stomach until he was discovered the next day and freed thanks to a home-made stomach pump.

However, in another timeline, what happened that day would take a sharp, drastic change that would alter that version of Verdant forever.

***

Verdant screeched as High Gear began to bounce her hips, mashing her nethers against Pixel Flash’s.

The moaning of the two created a cacophony of booming explosions as they ground against each other, unable to hear the shrunken stallion’s screams.

One particularly strong thrust of Gear’s hips left Verdant terribly disoriented. Everything was a blur for him as the scientists scissored.

He soon found himself landing face first against a vaginal wall. To try to keep from being bounced around any more, he quickly and desperately clung to the warm, wet wall.

Giving a gulp, Verdant looked over his shoulder and through the edges of the mare’s vulva and saw the fur that surrounded the second mare was now a light blue.

“Great, now I’m stuck inside Pix while she’s-” Verdant was interrupted by the sound of the violet mare’s moans growing louder and louder.

One final spasm from Pix sent Verdant and her fluids shooting forth, the cannon-like force of her orgasm sending him flying back down High Gear’s love tunnel. The sudden impact rendered Verdant unconscious as he bounced against the fleshy floor and was sent flying through her dilated cervix.

Verdant laid knocked out within High Gear’s womb, deaf to the thunderous screeching of Pixel Flash’s climax.