> MEGA Macintosh
>  by BottleH2O
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> Chapter 1- The Mega Musings of a Forgotten Stallion
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The wreckage of an abandoned camp laid in the center of a humongous, perfectly round crater in the middle of the Whitetail woods. There, laying discarded and forgotten on the ground was a large tome. But this was no ordinary tome, this particular book was full of spells, both finished and incomplete, taken out of Canterlot’s royal library by none other than Prince Blueblood, the (spoiled) nephew of Princess Celestia and Luna. Why was this here? Well essentially Blueblood and a few friends of his got tired of constantly having their personal requests ignored by the princesses so they decided to use a spell in the book on themselves to become more noticeable. And by more noticeable I mean they used an incomplete growth spell to grow into giants. Once they became the largest thing in the kingdom, they thought for sure they could get their way. Yeah, that didn’t happen. Now that it was all over and things had gone back to normal, but there was one thing everypony had seemingly forgotten about: The book that caused all this. 

There it laid on the ground, still sparking weakly, this due to the magical residue left on the book by Blueblood’s magic. You see, when a spell is activated on an object or artifact, it has a specific time of life where the spell is good, like when you cut into an apple and see the smooth, ripe inside of it. However, when the spell exceeds its lifetime, it starts to deteriorate and become wild, similarly to how a sliced apple becomes brown and mushy due to a chemical reaction when exposed to the air for too long. 

Many scholars and magic users know full well to always cancel out their magic on artifacts that aren’t in use because if they don’t, then, as stated before, the magic becomes unstable and unpredictable. Any spell casted with said artifact would lead to unknown and potentially catastrophic results due to the mutated spell.

And unfortunately for the foolish Blueblood, he never did cut out the spell he used on the magic book, the growth spell well exceeded its lifetime. 

The book laid motionless, still fizzling feebly when all of a sudden it stopped, and the light faded. Seconds passed with nothing happening, then suddenly the book shot into the air, magic circling around it wildly, getting stronger and stronger, wind picking up in its surroundings, making leaves and branches fly around. All around, forest critters scurried to safety to escape the sudden storm. 

The book charged up its remaining energy and blasted out a yellow colored energy beam out of its covers, shooting through the trees. The book flopped back down onto the ground, once again motionless and weakly sparking.





THUD! Several apples rained down from their lush, green homes in the treetops and fell down into buckets laid carefully around the base of the trunk. The bright round red apples filled up to the brim of each one of the large buckets and even overflowed from their overabundance of the large ripe fruit.

And standing behind the buckets, wiping sweat from his brow, was the hulking form of muscle, power, and mass, the earth pony stallion Big Macintosh.

Big Mac let out a breath as he observed the tree, he had just bucked stop vibrating, with the last of the straggling apples on the branches fall to the ground and into the bucket neatly. His bright red fur glistened with sweat and slight fatigue from a long day of work in the orchard, his iconic large wooden yoke gleamed in the sun, and his green cutie mark of an apple matched up nicely with some of the fruits that had been procured from today’s harvest.

“Eeyup,” Big Mac said nonchalantly as he strode forward. Leaning down he grasp one of the buckets by the handle with his mouth and began placing them one by one into the wagon he had brought with him. There were roughly 20 buckets total, all of which was filled with the apple family’s trademarked bright red, ripe, and juicy apples. Big Macintosh silently closed the back of the wagon shut with the flip up wooden board, securing the harvest in the back before sauntering over to the front of the wagon.

There he attached the front of it to the harnesses on his yoke. Once secured Big Mac began his long trek back to the barn so he could unload his cargo.

It was only him working in the fields today, due to the fact that Applejack was out with her friends at Canterlot today meeting with the Princesses to discuss some incident that had happened with some rowdy nobles earlier that week, Apple Bloom was still far too young to be doing any hard labor in the orchard, besides she and her friends were busy crusading to get their cutie marks again today. Something about becoming bungee jumpers. Big Mac usually let them try whatever they wanted, so long as nopony got hurt and that they were safe about it. And as for Granny Smith, well her name spoke for itself and the fact that she physically couldn’t do any hard labor anymore in the fields due to her age. But at her prime, according to Big Mac’s Ma and Pa, Granny Smith was a beast in the orchard. Easily being able to buck several trees in a few hours. A feat that Big Mac had learned to replicate and improve himself over the years.

But as the earth stallion made his way back to the barn, Big Mac contemplated the absence of his middle sister Applejack. It had seemed that ever since she had gone into the forest that night for the summer sun celebration, she just seemed to be a little too busy to help out on the farm anymore because of her sudden connection to Princess Celestia herself. She had become something called an “element of harmony,” 

“Ah think that’s what the girls called it,” Big Mac thought

Applejack had been told that she represented the element of honesty which apparently meant that she could now wield some ancient pony power that the royal sisters held ages ago. And to say that Big Mac was proud of his little sister was an understatement to say the least. He was over the moon for her about how proud he was of her how proud Applejack would have made their parents. But since that day Big Mac felt like he was seeing his sister less and less as she got called to deal with threats to the kingdom. Like that random dragon that appeared one day and decided to take a nap in the mountains and unknowingly cover the sky in smoke. After AJ had returned she was praised like there was no tomorrow by the Apple family as she became the family hero.

The large stallion felt a small pit of sadness open in his heart at the thought. He loved both of his sisters and was proud of them, he always will be. But lately Big Mac couldn’t help but feel like as the weeks went on, he seemed to be fading further and further into the background. For both in Ponyville and at family meetings.

And the reason why he felt like that was simple: What was something he had done that was considered noteworthy? In an extremely large family like his, standing out wasn’t something that is easily done. And something that you accomplish that felt big to you could be easily overlooked by everypony as somepony else takes center stage.

“What exactly have Ah done that makes me stand out?” Big Mac wondered, pausing his walk briefly to think about it. A small frown crossed his face as he faced the sky thinking about it, but he was saddened to realize that he came up with nothing. Sure, he handled the finances of the farm sometimes and could harvest half a field in a single day, but at the same time the finances were something Granny could do as well, which was something she busied herself with doing now that she wasn’t out in the orchard anymore. And as for harvesting a half a field in one day, well, what did that matter when AJ would just come along and the two of them could knock out the entire thing in a single day. Thus, negating the value of his hard work alone.

Big Mac shook his head, trying to free himself of those thoughts as he resumed his walk to the barn. But as he continued to dwell on it, all he could come up with were feats that the rest of his family had contributed and done. His dear Granny Smith had founded the entirety of Ponyville for goodness sake! That was definitely something of note in the eyes of everypony. Which is why, whenever Granny Smith went into town, there was always an aura of authority and presence following her, even though she wasn’t the mayor.

Apple Bloom and her friends, the cutie mark crusaders, had also made a name for themselves. In both the club they had started, but as well as their mischievous antics to get their cutie marks. The entire town knew who they were, and they were always joyful to see them. The filles were constantly giving the town a good laugh as they tried to help others in their seemingly never-ending pursuit to get their marks.

And then there was Applejack, now one of the elements of harmony, element of honesty, hero to Equestria, and the hero of the Apple family. As Big Mac had reaffirmed before, he loved his little sis to bits and will always be proud of her. But now at every family gathering his relatives would flock over to Applejack to her about her latest heroic exploits, over to Apple Bloom to hear about what the latest trouble was she had gotten herself into, and Granny Smith so she could tell some stories about the old day. All Big Mac usually got now was a passing “Hi,” from somepony and that was it.

This was even prevalent at home and at the dinner table. Usually at the table, it used to be a time for all of them to reconnect after a long and hard day, at both the farm and, in Apple Bloom’s case, school. But now all that seemed to be happening was everypony eagerly awaiting to hear from Applejack what her latest adventure was and what she and her new friends had gotten up to. Sometimes it ranged from going up to the capitol and talking to the princess to dealing with some beast from the Everfree. But nevertheless, everypony was excited to hear about the spectacle.

After Applejack was done recounting her day, it would be Apple Bloom’s turn to talk about her day, and it was usually the kind of trouble she found herself in. From overflowing the Cake’s oven with Marshmallow trying to get a baking cutie mark, to building a lopsided doll house trying to get a construction cutie mark.

After this it would be Big Macintosh’s turn, but nowadays his talking time was negated to something simple like “Mah day was good, just bucking apples from them stubborn trees in the south orchard,” or “Ah plowed the fields to make way for the coming harvest everypony.” To Big Mac, it felt like his exploits weren’t nearly as memorable or exciting as his two younger siblings. Sure farm work needed to be done for the farm to continue to function, it wasn’t like he was just going to abandon his responsibilities for the sake of having some fun, but just once he wished for something noteworthy to happen to him so he wouldn’t be seemingly forgotten by his entire family.

Big Mac signed as he finally reached the barn. He carefully unhooked the harness from his yoke and let the ropes drop to the ground. Once safety free from the wagon, Big Mac marched over to the front of the barn and pried them open. The big stallion wincing as he heard the old wood creek and groan from the effort. The old rusty hinges of the barn made it really hard to open the door, but that was the least of his problems. The wood itself was fading from its old shiny red look, leaving blotches of white underneath. It was cracked and pealing off in some areas and Big Mac was sure that there was a hole in the roof somewhere.

Letting out an exasperated sigh, Big Macintosh bowed his head, looking over the damage he’d have to fix by hoof at some point before heading back over to the wagon.

“Eeyup,” he said as he took one of the bucket handles in his mouth and carried it over to where the food cellar was, inside the back corner of the barn. Big Mac set the bucket down in front of the cellar as he observed the decrepit state the doors were in. These were made of wood as well, but they were a faded brown. And bits were also pealing off from old age.

Mac just looked at it wearily, knowing that he’d have to repair this as well soon, before fall rolled around, and things got too cold. He took hold of the door hinges and opened up the entrance to the food cellar and headed down, grabbing the bucket of apples as he went and deposited them in the apple section of the cellar. Mac went back up and retrieved the rest of his haul for the day. Carrying it one by one down into the dark food cellar. 

After the last one was placed downstairs, Big Macintosh emerged from below. Carefully closing the door behind him so he wouldn’t upset the hinges anymore than he needed too and headed back outside of the barn. He walked back up to the wagon and began to fiddle with the ropes and harnesses. Intending to reattach them to his yoke so he can roll it into the barn for storage for the next day. 

But as he was preparing to do that, he heard the sound of few mares laughing. Peaking his head around the side of the barn, Big Mac was able to see that it was Applejack and the rest of her friends, all of them waving her goodbye as they dropped her off at the farmhouse. From the looks of it, she had just got back from the Ponyville train station from her trip to Canterlot with the girls.

“Well shucks, Ah can’t thank y’all enough girls for helping me pick up mah little sister from school,” Applejack was saying as she patted Apple Bloom on the head while giving her mane a little ruffle.

Apple Bloom giggled playfully at her older sister’s antics before she and the rest of her friends began bouncing around the rest of the element bearers “We can’t wait for you guys to tell us about your trip to Canterlot!” they all chimed in happily.

Applejack giggled “Now don’t you worry none lil’ sister, Ah’ll be sure to spill everything at supper tonight,” she said happily

“YAY!” Apple Bloom cheered “Ah can’t wait to tell y’all what me and the girls did today while we were crusading. Cuz boy howdy it was a tizzy!”

The CMC as well as the element bearers waved each other goodbye as they all went their own separate ways. Applejack and Apple Bloom heading back to their house while the rest of AJ’s friends and their little sisters headed back down the path to Ponyville.

Big Mac let out a sad sigh as his ears flopped down. Turning around, his head hung as he made his way back over to the wagon as the sounds of the girls voices faded away. “Congratulations to ya sis for another job well done,” Big Mac thought, a small spark of pride flaring in his heart at his sister’s accomplishment, before quickly being washed away by sadness “And once again Ah won’t have nothing to contribute tonight at supper aside from the usual ‘Ah did farm work,”

Big Mac gloomily began to reattach himself to the wagon so he could haul it into the barn for the night “Just once, Ah wish something significant could happen to me so Ah could be noticed by mah family for a change. But will that time ever come?”

Well, who said opportunities don’t come knocking? Because as Big Mack began to fasten the straps to his yoke he began to hear and feel a vibration in the air. He paused what he was doing and looked around confused, trying to figure out what was going on.

And his answer came in the form of a bright yellow beam of light rocketing out of the forest and hitting the large stallion directly in the chest, tearing the herness loose and sending him shooting into the barn at breakneck speed. 

With a WHAM! Big Mac collided into a haystack. Going limp as he was knocked unconscious form the force. But unnoticed to him, as his head was lolled back lifelessly, small trails of arcane lightning was sparking around his body.





“..ac? …acky? BIG MAC!!” hollered a voice

With a grunt of surprise Big Mac jolted awake, shooting upward form the “ground.” Blinking his eyes his surroundings came into focus and he was able to see that he was no longer in the barn, but was now laying down in his bed. With the concerned faces of Applejack, Granny Smith, and Apple Bloom looking down at him.

“Macky are ya alright?” Granny Smith asked, worry plastered all over her face

“Yeah, Ah’m all right Granny. What happened ta me?” Big Mac asked wearily 

“Ah don’t know Mac, ya got hit by some beam of light and were thrown into the barn!” Granny Smith said “Are you feeling alright?” 

“Eeyup,” Big Mac said slowly “I don’t feel no different Granny,”

“Are ya sure Big Mac?” Applejack asked “That there was a mighty big blast,”

“Yah AJ, Ah’m all alright, thanks for askin,” Big Mac grunted out.

Applejack nodded slowly, worry still etched on her face “Alright big brother, as long as you’re sure,” she said “Granny, Bloom, and Ah are gonna head down for supper. Holler if ya need anything alright? We’ll bring up some for ya in a bit ya hear?”

“Alright AJ, but Ah’m not to hungry, Ah’ll pass on supper tonight,” Big Mac said

Everypony stared at him and before sharing a glance. Did they hear him right? Big Mac skipping a meal because he wasn’t hungry?

“Um, alright then big brother, whatever ya say,” Applejack said as the three others headed to the bedroom door “We’ll head down now then,”

Big Mac nodded silently as the three left, stretching down under the blanket more. But as he did, for some reason, an uncomfortable feeling began to spread out across his body, a foreign feeling really, kind of like when your body falls asleep and you feel pins and needles all over your body.

Meanwhile at the kitchen table the remaining Apples were discussing how Applejack’s days went.

“So why were ya at Canterlot sugercube?” Granny Smith asked Applejack, as she poured syrup over her apple flapjacks

“Well, we had to head up cuz tha Princess wanted to check up on them nobles who turned into giants a little while ago. We got ta see now Enterprise Pursuit and Lily Shine were holding up and honestly, things are going pretty well for them. Despite getting in trouble, they still remain good ponies deep down. Fer some reason that other one, Blueblood kept whimpering whenever Princess Luna came into the room. Don't know what that's all about. All Ah know is that she handled his punishment personally. Them other ponies however, Jet Set and Upper Crust still remain as nasty as ever. Ah’m willing to bet that they ain’t even sorry, just sad they ain’t towering over the kingdom no more. ” Applejack said with a twinge of anger in her voice as she recalled just how snobby those two were in particular “The Princess hasn’t found whatever fancy spellbook they used to grow big, the royal guard are working overtime trying ta find it. They said that it has to be found fast before somepony else becomes all big and such,”

Back at the bedroom, Big Mac rolled on his side, trying to get comfortable, but for some reason he couldn’t. From both the feeling of pins and needles in his body as well as the fact that his hooves were feeling a little cold. Blinking, he looked down towards the end of his bed, expecting to see a window open or something. But instead, he saw that his big red hooves were dangling over the side of the bed. Big Mac frowned in confusion as he saw this, he never had a problem fitting in his bed before, so what gives? 

“It’s not like Ah got bigger right? Mah growth spirts ended years ago. Ah reckon it must be Mah imagination, gotta build a bigger bed at some point,” Big Mac thought as he settled back into bed, his hooves still dangling over the side of his bed
> Chapter 2- Small Tasks with Mega Results
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ZZZZZZZ- Snort!

With a small lurch, Big Mac jolted awake, rousing himself from his deep slumber. He blinked sleepily at his surroundings for a second, his mind still taking a bit to wake up.

With a colossal yawn, Big Mac threw back the covers and stepped out of bed, ready to start the day, but in his stupor, he didn’t even notice the two cracks on the ground his hooves had produced as he had emerged from his bed.

Striding across the room sleepily, Big Mac located his wooden yoke. Picking it up he threw it over his head and onto his back, wincing a little as, for some reason, it seemed to be a little tighter than normal. “That ain’t too much of an issue,” Big Mac thought as he silently adjusted the length of it, so it could now fit more comfortably on his broad neck.

“Eeyup,” Mac said nonchalantly, content that the problem had been solved. Walking over to his desk he retrieved a tan rodeo cowboy hat that had been given to him by his sister’s friend Rarity for Hearth’s warming. He normally didn’t wear anything aside from his yoke but today he was willing to make an exception. After all, today was going to be a scorcher outside and he didn’t want a repeat of yesterday, sweating up a storm in the hot sun.

Placing the hat on his head, Big Mac looked himself over in the mirror. It was different than what he was used to, in all honesty he thought he looked more like Applejack than himself. “Maybe that’s a good thing,” The cynical part of his mind told him darkly “Maybe now the rest of yer family will notice another Applejack instead of plain ol’ Big Macintosh,” 

Mac frowned at the words the back of his mind had produced, yet, as he made to reach up and remove the hat, he paused and looked in the mirror again, before slowly lowing his hoof to the ground. “Maybe looking like AJ ain’t gonna be so bad,” Big Mac thought “Ah could try this out for the day in case something do end up changing for me,”

With his resolve set, Big Mac nodded in the mirror, ready to start the day.

Making his way over to his bed again, he quietly fixed the sheets and covers, tidying it up before walking to the door

BANG!

With a grunt of pain, Big Mac rubbed his head as he glared up at the offender of the headache.

The top of the doorframe.

Big Mac simply raised an eyebrow as he continued to stare at it. Did he really just hit his head off the top of the frame? But how could that be, it was over 7 feet tall and he was nowhere close to that height.

Deciding that he was too tired to deal with that so early in the morning, Big Mac just shrugged and said “Nope,” before jamming his fallen hat back onto his head and walked outside into the hallway. 

The hall creaked and groaned as Big Mac sauntered through but he thought nothing of it. Making his way to the stairs he headed down and entered the kitchen. There Granny Smith was busy finishing up breakfast while Applejack and Apple Bloom were already seated at the table, talking amongst themselves.

The two siblings at that point notice that Big Mac entered and were quick to get up and swarm around him.

“Big Mac are ya ok? Ah was worried sick about ya yesterday!” Apple Bloom said as she scurried over and hugged Mac’s leg.

Big Mac chuckled and gently patted his youngest sister on her head “Eeyup. Ah’m alright sis,” He drawled in his usual southern twang “Nothing a good night’s sleep can’t fix,”

“Ah’m glad to hear that big brother,” Applejack said with a smile as she embraced him on the side, giving him a big hug “Ya gave us quite a scare yesterday Ah reckon,”

“Eeyup,”

“Well, as long as ya feel alright that’s all that matters ain’t it?” Applejack said reassuringly “Come on Macky, Granny just finished her famous apple family fritters and Ah already brought out some orange juice,”

“Eeyup,” Big Mac replied in his usual manner as Apple Bloom broke her hug and bounded back over to her chair to resume her breakfast.

Applejack took her seat next to Apple Bloom on the same side of the table and Big Mac took a seat on the opposite side, the head being reserved for Granny Smith. But as Big Mac walked over to his seat, his brow furrowed as he gave it a confused look. Had it gotten smaller? He was sure the chairs in the house were bigger than this. But he just shrugged it off. He was probably still tired from the early morning, so much so that his brain probably still didn’t process what was going on yet. 

But as Big Mac sat his large red apple buns down on the seat, he felt a noticeable crack go down the chair as it groaned under his weight

“Darn it, the doggone chair has a break in it. Ah’ll have to repair it after Applejack and Ah finish up in the fields today,” Big Mac internally sighed at the unexpected additional work he’d have to do today.

If the others had heard anything, they didn’t remark about it because at that moment Granny Smith had finished preparing the fritters and was heading back to the table with a large plate of them, all steaming hot and a crispy golden brown.

“It’s all done everypony, come and get it!” She said happily as she set the plate down on the table center, snagging one for herself.

As Granny Smith took her place at the head of the table, she started with slight surprise as she finally noticed Big Mac sitting there “Well Ah’ll be, how are ya feeling Mac?” Granny Smith asked.

Big Mac simple nodded at Granny Smith “Ah feel alright Granny. Not too different from yesterday. Whatever hit mah chest didn’t seem to have any bad effect, Ah was able to sleep it off,” he replied

Granny Smith looked relieved at the news “Well, that’s good ta hear sonny! As long as ya are feeling better that’s all that matters,” she said as she took a bit into the apple fritter. The others around the table beginning to dig in as well. But As Big Mac took his first bit into the fritter he felt like it was taking him a lot of effort to actually swallow the bite he had just taken

“That’s weird, Ah guess Ah’m still not that hungry,” Big Mac thought “Still, Granny put a lot of work into this here fritter so Ah won’t leave it ta waste,” 

As Big Mac tried to force himself to finish eating, Granny Smith looked at her other two grandchildren and addressed them “So what are y’all up to for the day?” she asked them

“Ah’m gonna meet up with Scootaloo and Sweetie Bell today so we can try our hoof at getting construction cutie marks!” Apple Bloom said excitedly “We’re gonna meet up at Fluttershy’s house and help her build a few fancy bird houses. We’ll get our cutie marks for sure this time!”

Granny Smith and Applejack laughed good naturedly, the latter ruffling her sister’s mane “Ah’m glad to hear that lil’ sis. It’s gonna put mah mind at ease knowing Flutters is gonna be keeping an eye on you three,” Applejack said jokingly

“So what about you Applejack?” asked Granny Smith

“Big Mac and Ah are gonna go and finish harvesting the south fields today then the two of use are gonna go and do the West fields. We should have it all finished by the end of the day Granny,” Applejack said

Granny Smith nodded “well, looks like all of ya have your days cut out for ya. Well, after everypony finishes eating we should get started. Remember: Make hay while the sun shines young’ins!”

“Yes Granny,” Applejack and Apple Bloom in unison in a slightly board voice, while Big Mac next to them was draining his glass of orange juice so he could finally polish off that apple fritter he was forcing himself to eat.

Granny Smith looked over “Macky, ya only had one fritter? Here, take another,” she said, plopping another fritter down in his plate.

Big Mac looked at her with a slightly pleading expression “Ah’m all set Granny, Ah feel really full this morning,”

“Ah nonsense, go on then Macky, Eat! And they’ll be plenty more where that came from. After all, you and Applejack are gonna need your strength today after you’re done harvesting!” Granny Smith said sweetly

Seeing no way out of this, Big Mac just sighed in defeat and took the fritter, nibbling at it as he tried to finish off this one too.





The warm morning sun shined pleasantly in the sky, the rays wafting down from the clear sky. Dew was collecting on the grass, adding a little sparkle in the landscape while the birds were chirping away, truly adding a little tranquility to the landscape.

Further away, the front door to the Apple family house opened and a small yellow form adorned with a large bow on her head scurried out. Apple Bloom quickly said her goodbyes to Big Mac and Applejack as she darted over to where her two friends, Scootaloo and Sweetie Bell were waiting for her so they could head off to school. Apple Bloom gave her two friends a quick greeting before clambering into a wagon with Sweetie Bell being pulled by Scootaloo’s scooter with the three of them zooming off towards the schoolhouse, trying to make it before the bell rang.

Meanwhile back at the house, Big Mac and Applejack came walking leisurely out, having just finished saying their goodbyes to Apple Bloom. Big Mac clonking his head against the doorframe again as he went out. Granny Smith had decided to stay back at the house to wash the dishes and clean up a little before retiring for a nap, Mac and AJ were now heading over to the south fields to tackle the harvest over there for the day.

The south fields haven’t been touched yet, which was why the two of them were determined to get started as soon as possible. 

“Boy howdy Big Mac, Ah’d say that there’s plenty of apples left for the two of us to buck down,” Applejack said as the fields came into view, toting behind her a wagon full of buckets

“Eeyup,” Big Mac replied in his usual manner, hauling his own similar wagon and cargo

“Heh, with so much left, I gotta wonder if ya were slacking some yesterday!” Applejack said playfully, slugging him in the side. Big Mac didn’t even feel anything from the blow but nevertheless he simply glanced back at Applejack and said “Nope,” but internally he was mentally sighing 

“Ah know AJ’s just playing but still, kinda devalues the time and effort Ah spent yesterday clearing out the fields alone if the two of us is gonna finish it off in a day,” Big Mac mused, his ears drooping a little, before he perked them back up quickly so Applejack wouldn’t notice.

The two of them entered the south fields, pausing briefly to survey the landscape. There were tons of trees everywhere, all of them filled up with big, red, juicy apples on every branch.

“Alright Big Mac, here’s what Ah’m thinking. Ah’ll stay over at this here cluster of trees and buck them apples off and continue mah way in, meanwhile you’ll head over to the back end of the fields and get to work bucking them apples there and work ya way in as well so the two of us can meet up in the middle of the field. Whaddya say?” Applejack asked proudly with a grin, glancing up at Big Mac.

Big Mac for his credit just tipped his hat and said “Eeyup, Ah’ll head over now Applejack,”

“That’s the spirit Big Mac, We’ll have this place harvested in no time!” AJ said happily, taking her wagon and trotted off to where she wanted to begin knocking down apples. 

“Eeyup,” Big Mac said nonchalantly as he gathered up his wagon and buckets and headed over to the back end of the field. 

“Well, time to finish off this here harvest,” He thought as he headed over.

But as he went, Big Mac couldn’t help but notice that something was off, though he couldn’t place what it was.

“Are there less fruit on the trees? No that ain’t it. Maybe the grass grew shorter this year? No that ain’t it either. So what is going on? Am Ah just loosing it today?”

It wasn’t until poor Big Mac knocked his head on a branch leaning from a tree he was passing by did it come to him. “That’s it! Ah don’t know why or how but for some reason the trees seem to be a little smaller. Why is that? Ah could never hit mah head on any branch before when Ah was walking here a few days ago and now there seems to be plenty around for that to happen. We hadn’t gotten any rain or such lately so why do the trees seem so small today?”

Big Mac continued to ponder this as he strutted up the apple trees in the back of the south fields. He decided to just drop it for now and focus on the task at hoof. 

Setting his wagon down by a nearby bush, he unhooked the latches from his yoke and set them down before walking over to the back of the wagon. Just like yesterday Big Mac lowered the wooden plank from the back and began to remove some of the buckets one by one and placing them around the first tree he was going to buck.

After everything was in position, Big Mac stepped back with a satisfied “Eeyup,” and surveyed his work. Getting the buckets into place was a delicate job that requires precision, contrary to what a few ponies thought, where they felt like you just place the buckets in random positions and hoped for the best. Maybe it was his attuning to nature that gave him some strange form of foresight of were everything was going to fall? Honestly Big Mac wasn’t sure.

Big Mac made his way over to the tree trunk and turned around, about to rear his hooves and buck the tree when he noticed something: a small dent in the trunk. Normally he wouldn’t have thought much of that because that occasionally happens when he and Applejack buck some of the trees but what struck him as odd was the fact that he remembered tackling the south orchard last harvest by himself, which means that he would have made the dent in the tree. What was so wired to Big Mac was the fact that if he bucked the tree now, then his hooves would have reached a good deal higher than before. 

“But how could that be?” Big Mac wondered “Ah stopped growing years ago, Ah couldn’t have suddenly have gotten another growth spurt right?”

But the more Big Mac thought about it, the more he seemed to some to the realization that this had to have been the case. From his legs dangling out of his bed, to his yoke not fitting entirely in the morning, to hitting his head on the door frame and the branches, to even the chairs back at the house seemingly becoming smaller. All the facts pointed to him receiving a seemingly late growth spurt.

“Ah can worry about that after Ah’m done with the harvest. After the day is done Ah can tell Granny and mah sisters and let them know,” Mac thought as he reared his muscular legs back, the force building up, before unleashing, striking the trunk of the tree.

And then the chaos ensued. 

The second Big Mac struck the tree trunk, his hooves released a blast of green magic, a similar color to his cutie mark, it arched up the entire tree and spreading to a few other nearby. Big Mac back off, stepping back as he looked up in disbelief at the spectacle.

There he saw that the trees began to shudder slightly before the leaves somehow became even more green than before, more and more apples began to grow on the branches at a rapid-fire rate, and even the dent in the tree repaired itself by magic.

But the staggering about of apples in the tree soon became too much for the branches to handle before they began to rain down onto the ground, falling down onto the ground while others managed to fall into the bucket, eventually leaving the branches bare.

But the surprises weren’t over yet, because as Big Mac continued to gawk at the scene, his cutie mark began to glow, and a green hue surrounded himself. Big Mac looked down in shock at the aura, not daring to move before he saw that the tree line before him was beginning to get smaller.

Big Mac looked on incredulously as he continued to rise, getting bigger and bigger until finally, his head popped up over the tree line. A flock of birds flew past his head as Big Macintosh blinked and tried to understand what in Equestria just happened. Where did he suddenly get magic from? Why did he have magic? And most importantly: WHY WAS HE TALLER THAN THE TREES NOW?

“Macky?!” hollered a familiar voice from somewhere down below

Big Mac turned his head down and observed the ground, still a little shaken from the experience. Down below, still at the front of the south fields which he could now see with ease, Applejack stood next to her wagon, she had just seen a bright flash of green magic from somewhere over to the south when she suddenly found herself gawking at the face of her now 50-foot-tall brother who’s head had just popped up over the treeline.

Big Mac slowly took off his now gigantic hat “Uhhh AJ? Ah think ya should go get Twilight,” he rumbled

“Uh-huh,” Applejack just simply said in a weak voice.
> Chapter 3- The Mega Revelation
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Applejack was only gone for a couple minutes at the most, as she raced out from the Apple family orchard and over to Ponyville where Twilight lived in Golden Oaks library. But during that time, Big Mac was able to calm his racing heart down a bit as he was able to fully grasp the situation. In all honesty, panicking wouldn’t really help anypony, it would only make things worse. With his huge cowboy hat now back on his head, all Big Mac could do was wait for his sister and Twilight to come back.

Which didn’t take long thankfully. Big Mac eventually heard the pattering of hooves against the ground as he lay down on the ground next to the orchard. Lifting his huge head up he was able to spy the little forms of Applejack, Twilight Sparkle, and even Spike scampering back over to where Big Mac laid resting.

“Ya see Twi? Ah wasn’t pulling ya hoof!” Applejack said, gesturing over to where Big Mac was. Twilight skidded to a halt, her mouth dropping open and eyes as wide as hoofballs as she took in Big Mac in all of his big glory. 

“Wow, Big Mac got even bigger,” Spike said bluntly as he peaked out from behind Twilight, nodding his head at the huge red stallion.

“Howdy Twilight, howdy Spike,” Big Mac rumbled, tipping his hat in greeting “Ah can’t thank ya enough for coming on such short notice,”

Twilight continued to stare blankly.

“Uh Twilight? Are ya ok down there?” Big Mac asked

No response from the aforementioned purple smarts.

Applejack walked over to where the frozen unicorn was and whispered into her ear “Hey Twi, Princess Celestia said ya gotta be sent back ta magic kindergarten because ya ate her cake,”

It was like someone flipped a switch, instantly Twilight’s pupils shrank to pinpricks as she bounced into the air in fright before grabbing Applejack by the shoulders desperately.

“WHAT? How did she find out?! It was only one bite, and I was so hungry from studying all night on size shifting spells so we wouldn’t have a repeat of the nobles’ incident so surely, she could understand right AJ? Please tell me she’s not gonna banish me to the moon too?!” Twilight yammered out as she shook the orange farm pony back and forth with a little bit of a wild look in her eye.

Applejack cleared her throat, looking at Twilight with a pointed stare before patting her on the head and said “Welcome back to tha land of the livin Twi,” 

Twilight quickly removed her hooves and looked at her friend with a sheepish grin “Oopsie, I did it again didn’t I?”

“Eeyup,” Applejack simply said before a looming shadow covered the rest of the present cast. The three looked up to see the hulking form of Big Macintosh looking down at the three of them as he simple leaned over from his resting position, a stern expression directed at Twilight

“And Twilight, Ah’d appreciate it if ya don’t rough handle mah sister like that. Understood?” He asked

“Sorry!” Twilight squeaked “It won’t happen again Big Mac, I promise!”

Big Mac nodded, settling back down “As long as ya understand that’s fine with me,”

Nodding in confirmation, Twilight quickly looked Big Mac over “So Applejack tells me that you just randomly grew out of nowhere, is that correct?”

“That’s right,” Big Mac confirmed

“Then I think I know what must have happened to you Big Mac! Do you remember when Zecora first came to town how me and the girls followed her into the forest?” Twilight asked

“Ah remember,”

“And how we ran into blue flowers called Poison Joke? The one’s that played those really mean pranks on us,”

“AJ told me about it,” Big Mac said, thinking back to that day. Applejack and Apple Bloom had already left the house before any one of them had woken up, but he had heard later on from her at dinner that the seemingly innocent blue flowers had caused all sorts of problems for her and her friends. One of which left Apple Bloom as the big sister and Applejack as the smaller sister. The latter being literally shrunken down in size.

“Well, my theory is, since your farm is so close to the Everfree forest, it’s quite possible that some of the pollen form the flowers may have been carried over by the wind gusts and settled down on you. And the explanation for your growth might be because of a play on your name: Big Macintosh. So, the flower pollen could have magically made you bigger as it’s “prank.” Which I guess makes sense because it did originally make Applejack smaller,’ Twilight said, rubbing a hoof against her chin with glee, her scientific mind beginning to go wild at the possibilities from the theories she was cooking up in her fluffy purple noggin. 

Big Mac blinked “Um, Twilight? Ah don’t think that it was Poison-”

“Oh, this is so exciting! I have so many ideas! So many theories! But to conduct a scientific experiment on the probable cause of this enigma I’ll need to return to the library and get some materials for the tests I’m going to run so I can properly analyze this phenomenon!” Twilight squeed in absolute giddiness before lighting up her horn, looking up at Big Mac with a maniacal grin, a few strands of her mane beginning to poke out in random place “I’ll be back in a few minutes with my equipment so I can run tests! Lots and lots of tests! Don’t go anywhere!”

And with a POP! Purple smart was gone.

Big Mac turned his head to look back down at Applejack and Spike “Tests?” he asked weakly “Ah don’t want any kind of needles anywhere near me ya hear?”





“Ah said Ah don’t want no needles near me!” Big Mac protested, taking a few ground shaking steps back away from Twilight as she held up a small syringe innocently.

“Oh, come on Big Mac! Just one sample?” Twilight asked

“Eenope,” 

“Please?”

“Nope,”

“Pretty please? With Pinkie Pie’s apple topped triple decker cake on top?” Twilight asked sweetly, giving the giant stallion the biggest puppy dog eyes she could muster.

Big Mac almost wanted to roll his eyes at the attempt. Apple Bloom tries that same trick all the time on him so she could have things she wanted. Like extra cookies before supper or staying up past her bedtime.

And gosh darn it, the puppy eyes trick always works on him.

“Urgh fine, But Ah still don’t like no needles,” Big Mac relented, laying back down on the ground.

Twilight’s eyes lit up as she pranced forward joyfully towards the enlarged red stallion “Yes! Science! It’s all for science!” she chirped 

“And here’s your triple decker apple topped cake courtesy of Pinkie!” came the voice of Ponyville’s hyperactive party planner.

Pinkie Pie, wearing a small propeller hat, popped out of a bucket of apples next to Applejack, holding a covered dish in her mouth (“Woah Nelly!” Applejack said as she recoiled back in shock, her hat flying askew as she did).

“Heeeeeerrreeee’s Pinkie!” the puffy pink pony announced enthusiastically, somehow being able to talk clearly even though she was plainly holding the large, covered dish in her mouth. But to further destroy any sense of logic, Pinkie gave her hat’s propeller a little twirl and she began to slowly rise out of the bucket like a helicopter, drifting lazily over to where Big Mac large form was laying down.

Giggling, Pinkie managed to halt her flight in midair, stopping directly in front of Mac’s muzzle “Open wide Mega Macky! And enjoy my finest apple flavored cake!” Pinkie Pie squealed happily.

Obediently Big Mac opened his mouth, not bothering the question the situation. This was Pinkie Pie after all. His warm breath smelled heavily like fresh, ripe, apples. The cavernous maw was big enough to swallow the small pink poinkers whole with plenty of room to spare.

But showing no fear whatsoever, Pinkie uncovered the plate, revealing a huge (to normal pony standards) vanilla and strawberry triple decker cake with apple slices decorating each layer and simply tossed it into Big Mac’s mouth.

Macintosh closed his mouth with a small Boom and swallowed the cake whole. Despite still not being hungry he did appreciate the gesture, nonetheless.

“Well? Did you like it? Huh? Did ya? Did ya?” She asked excitiedly

“Ah did, thank ya kindly Ms. Pie,” Big Mac thundered with a small smile.

“YIPPIE!” Pinkie cheered happily, causing Big Mac’s smile to grow even more. Seeing the party planner so happy made him happy as well at the positive reaction.

“Oh and I can’t forget about you Spikey-Wikey! Auntie Pinkie brought something special for you as well!” Pinkie Pie giggled as she floated over to Big Mac’s back, where Spike had climbed up onto with a recliner chair while Twilight was busy getting her testing equipment.

Pinkie reached into her mane and pulled out another covered dish. How she fit that thing in her mane was anyone’s guess.

She uncovered it to reveal two gem covered cupcakes with little purple and green frosted spikes on them. Spikes eyes widened as he gasped. Sparkles flourishing all over his eyes as he took the two cupcakes from the tray. “Enjoy Spikey!” Pinkie said, patting the baby dragon fondly on the head before doing a performer’s dive back into the bucket of apples, knocking a few out and scattering them out onto the ground. 

Applejack slowly made her way over to the bucket and gave it a cautious poke with her hoof. Receiving no further response, she looked back up and blinked a few times.

“Ah have no idea wut just happened,” she said.

“And done!” Twilight announced happily, holding up the syringe, a red substance inside of it “Now all I need to do is analyze it and then-” Twilight broke off as she looked back up at Big Mac’s back, seeing Spike munching on the second cupcake. “Spike? Where did you get that?” She asked.

“Pinkie gave it to me!” Spike managed to get out, his mouth full of sugary goodness.

“Pinkie was here?” Twilight asked, bewildered

“Yeah, just now. How did you miss it?” 

“I was sciencing! This could be groundbreaking!” Twilight said defensively, puffing out her cheeks a little bit.

“Alright, alright, chill,” Spike said quietly, reclining back on his chair laying in the vast red pony field that was Big Mac’s back.

Rolling her eyes, Twilight made her way back to where she had left her lab equipment in a heap. From the pile she dawned a small lab coat, goggles, and for some reason a surgical mask.

“Uh, surgarcube? Are ya sure ya need all them fancy stuff?” Applejack asked hesitantly as she watched Twilight put some protective rubber gloves on her hooves.

“Of course I need it Applejack. I don’t know what made Big Mac grow. For all I know it could be some kind of substance that could cause him to get poisoned and keel over or worse!” Twilight said offhandedly as she began tapping the red substance inside the syringe and placing it over a Bunsen burner.

Spike swore he felt he felt the fur under him grow cold as Big Mac shot him a worried look.

“Well, don’t worry Big Mac, I doubt it’s anything that serious,” Spike said, patting the ground he was on reassuringly.

But as much as Big Mac wanted the gesture to make him feel better, it really didn’t.





About an hour passed with Twilight working on the samples. And after the 60 minutes had passed the amount of progress she had made was practically nothing.

“Argh! I don’t understand why nothing’s working!” Twilight exclaimed in frustration as she threw aside the stack of papers she had been using to write down her notes.

Big Mac and Spike blinked sleepily from their resting position. After some time had gone by Applejack had left to go finish bucking the apple trees in the orchard for the day while Twilight worked on analyzing the samples she had procured form Big Mac. But of course, since she was taking so long the two opted to just lie there and relax.

“What’s the matter Twilight?” Big Mac asked the small purple mare

Twilight huffed “I don’t know why, but for some reason all of the fur samples I took from you are resisting any spells I try to conduct on them. Whatever cause you to grow just seems to be completely resisting my spells!” she said exasperatedly 

Big Mac blinked “Wait, all ya took was just some fur samples?” he asked.

Twilight slowly nodded “Yes, that’s all. Why? What kind of samples did you think I took?”

“Ah thought ya took, ya know, blood samples and such,”

“WHAT? NO! Blood samples are icky! Why would I need that to preform a spell autopsy on a subject when the external body is being affected? Not the internal. I’m not some mad scientist looking for crazy samples!” Twilight said indigently 

“Ha! Could have fooled me!” came Spike’s voice from behind Big Mac

“Nopony likes a wise guy Spike!” Twilight said sticking out her tongue at the baby drake’s direction.

Big Mac chuckled at the spectacle. The two youngest siblings bickering amongst themselves reminded him of Applejack and Apple Bloom getting into a disagreement over something trivial.

“Anyway, that aside,” Twilight began, while giving Spike a stink eye “I honestly don’t know why you’re suddenly so resistant to magic. It’s almost like your…immune…to…to…” Twilight trailed off as a look of horror replaced the frustrated look she had earlier.

“What? What happened?” Big Mac asked

Twilight slowly turned to look Big Mac directly in the eye, that look of horror and fear still present on her face “I…I think you were hit by the same spell that turned those nobles from Canterlot into titans a little while ago,” she said hesitantly.

“Them gigantic ponies Ah saw standing around tha mountain a few days ago?” Big Mac asked as he thought back to the scene. As well as when the colossal form of Prince Blueblood effortlessly stepped over the entirety of Ponyville like it was a mound of dirt in the ground. Something so small it wasn’t worth the titan’s attention.

Big Mac was always a larger than average stallion. It had always been that way since he was a colt, and now that he was a fully mature adult this still remained true. Hours of working on the farm had done wonders for his body making him a walking powerhouse, showing off layers of immensely strong muscles bulging from him. Furthering his intimidating stature and height. But when the day came and the nobles were seen all over the Kingdom and more specifically at Canterlot itself, for the first time ever in his life, Big Mac understood what it felt like to be tiny. 

For the ponies of Ponyville it was absolutely frightening to know that one day, they had all been doing their normal routine, only to almost be squashed underhoof by a group of ponies so huge that they were all practically no bigger than pests on the ground to them.

Big Mac shook his head clear of those troubling thoughts “Are ya sure Twilight?” he asked.

Twilight could only nod her head “The facts are indisputable. You’re becoming huge just like they are, and you are now pretty much completely resistant to all forms of magic now. Which explains why none of the spells I casted had any effect on the fur samples I collected,” she said.

“That ain’t all though. While Ah was working in the fields earlier today when Ah apparently gained some kind of amplified magic as a result of the growth taking affect,” Big Mac said

“Really? Could you show me?” Twilight asked curiously.

Big Mac nodded and slowly rose to his hooves, the ground rumbling a little as he did, throwing Twilight and Spike off balance as his great form rose into the sky.

“Spike?” Big Mac rumbled as he looked down to where the baby drake was “Ah think you should stand over there with Twilight just ta be safe,”

“Oh, ok Big Mac. Sure thing!” Spike said as he skittered around Mac’s bulky hooves and hurried over to where Twilight was standing. The purple mare handing him a small quill and paper so he could take notes on the phenomenon Big Mac was going to show them.

Big Macintosh took a breath, raised one of his front hooves, and concentrated a little. Just like before, his green apple cutie mark began to glow, as did his hoof, and then he released, tapping his hoof against the ground with a small THOOM! 

All at once, light green magic began to arc through the ground and spread to the trees in the surrounding area in a 50-foot diameter. Twilight and Spike watched dumbfounded as they saw all the leaves on the trees seem to get a glow up. Becoming greener and lusher with the size of the trees becoming slightly larger as the trees became healthier. They even witnessed a few stray dents in the trees from the Apples bucking them over the years get completely fixed in the tree trunks and more apples growing on the branches like it was nothing. Falling down onto the ground. A few rolled over to where the pair was standing.

Spike cautiously picked one up and bit into it “Wow!” He exclaimed, his eyes sparkling with delight “This has got to be one of the best Apple’s I’ve ever tasted!”

Twilight bit into one herself hesitantly, before her eyes glazed over and she whimpered in happiness “Soooo gooood….” Twilight moaned contently as she began to ravenously eat it up.

And off in the distance Applejack’s voice could be heard echoing in the air “CONSARNIT! Ah just finished bucking down them apples! How the hay did they grow back?!”

Applejack made her way back through the trees and dashed back over to where she had left the others. Once back she was greeted to the sight of Twilight and Spike sitting down on the ground greedily eating some apples that were next to them, a roll of paper lay forgotten next to Spike.

But what really got her attention was the green glow surrounding Big Mac. She looked on in shock as she saw his size increase yet again. 

Big Mac observed the world shrinking around him again as he rose from 50 feet and began to get bigger, and bigger before eventually stopping at 100 feet tall. He did have to be honest, the sensation he felt when he grew was pretty enjoyable. Almost like a giddy feeling you would get when something exciting was about to happen.

Chuckling he looked back down over to where his now really little sister and her friends were standing. Twilight and Spike had finally stopped munching on apples as they took in the full scale of Big Mac’s new size.

“How’s tha weather down there?” He asked jokingly

“Woah…” was all Spike could say as he craned his head back to try and keep Macintosh in his field of view.

“Wow,” said Applejack speechlessly as she stared up.

“Interesting, so it appears that when Big Mac uses his new magic, greenery and vegetation will not only grow more abundantly but it will also get healthier and even heal itself,” Twilight commented as she wrote furiously on the paper that Spike had dropped “And it also looks like that every time Big Mac uses his magic he gets bigger as well,”

“Is that so?” Big Mac asked with a grin as he looked over to where the run-down barn was. Mac observed it curiously “Ah wonder….” He said trailing off. Wasting no time, the massive red stallion walked over to where the barn was, the ground rattling with the power from each one of his steps. 

Big Mac stopped in front of the barn, looming over it imposingly as he raised a giant hoof over it

“Mac? What are ya doing?” Applejack asked worryingly 

“Ah’m just testing something,” Big Mac replied nonchalantly as his cutie mark began to glow again, green magic engulfing his hoof as Big Macintosh brought it down and very gently, tapped the roof of the barn. 

And the results were instantaneous. 

The cast present watched in awe as the seemingly dead and damaged wood repaired itself back into its former glory. Rust faded away from hinges leaving them looking like it was brand new, the red paint on the barn returned to a clean and bright look, any peeling wood chips were instantly fixed, and the cracks and holes all over the barn were patched up and wood replaced the missing pieces.

“Well Ah’ll be,” Big Mac said with a chuckle as he observed his work, magic then surrounding him again as he began to rise up in size once more. His vast shadow covering much of the land as he rose up to a mighty 200 feet in size.

Big Mac looked down at the little ones with smile “Well how’s about that? Looks like the more magic Ah put into something, the more Ah’ll grow,” he laughed

“Big Mac you gotta stop right now!” Twilight’s slightly faint voice called out from down below “We can’t risk you getting any bigger because I have to inform the princesses about what happened, and we can get to work on a counter spell to this!” 

Big Mac’s smile faded a little as he heard those words “Are ya sure Twilight? Cuz Ah could do some real good with mah magic-”

“Yeah, that’s right Macky!” Applejack called up, interrupting him “Let’s put a pin in it for now. Don’t use any more of that there magic until they have that spell!”

Big Mac stared down at the two, before hanging his head reluctantly and let out a sigh “Alright, Ah won’t use any more of mah magic,” he said quietly

“Great! I’ll head back to the library and send a message to Princess Celestia so we can get working on a counter spell! Why don’t you take a load off until then and get some sleep? It’s been a long day already and everypony is tired, ok?” Twilight said

Big Mac just sighed “Alright Twilight, that’s fine,” he said

“Alrighy then, I’ll let Granny and Apple Bloom know what happened. Sleep well Big Mac!” Applejack said as she, Twilight and Spike began to make their leave.

Not seeing anything else left to do, Big Mac silently made his way over to the side of the toy sized barn and laid down next to it, resting against it as he lowered his head onto his legs and closed his eyes, giving way into sleep as a small, restless, and sad frown was still present on his face.
> Chapter 4- The Mega Decision
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

A few hours had passed since Twilight, Spike, and Applejack had departed. Night had already fallen, and Big Mac was left all by himself to sleep next to the now miniature barn. Which made sense because he was now big enough to flatten the house with one step. The explanation to Granny Smith and Apple Bloom had been an interesting one to say the least, they had both taken the situation surprisingly well. Granny Smith had just smiled and said “Now don’tcha worry Macky. Ah’m sure tha Princesses will getcha back down to normal in no time!”

Apple Bloom on the other hoof was ecstatic to see her even bigger brother. She wasted no time climbing up onto his back and having fun with her friends. Even though Big Mac was a little down in the dumps at the moment, he did manage to crack a smile at the sight of watching the fillies having fun. They raced back and forth across the fluffy red terrain and even got Big Mac to bounce them up in the air a bit with his snout.

But eventually all fun things had to come to an end As night fell, everypony present had to head off. Sweetie Bell returned to her home, Scoots left for hers, Twilight and Spike and gone back to Golden Oaks to send a letter to the Princesses about his “new Titan condition,” as Twilight called it, and Applejack, Apple Bloom, and Granny Smith had all retired back to their house to catch some much needed shut eye. 

The Apple family had first worried about how Big Mac was going to eat now that he was gigantic, but Big Mac had assured them that he still wasn’t hungry. He was beginning to chalk it up to the spell nullifying any sense of hunger in his body and leaving it perfectly fine.

“Ah have ta admit, whatever pony made that spell was pretty clever to leave that lil’ detail in,” Big Mac thought as he rested his muzzle against his legs as he laid down on the ground. As he did, Big Mac’s mind began to wander. It was already late into the night, but if he was being honest, he wasn’t feeling tired. After all, how could one sleep through the night if they currently resided at 200 feet tall.

Mostly everypony was freaking the hay out about his sudden growth spurt, that much was certain, and if Big Mac really thought about they did have a good reason, as he thought back to how much the ponies in Ponyville freaked out when they saw the titanic form of Blueblood stepping over their small town on his way to Canterlot. Everypony had been pretty scared when they saw that, but as Applejack had re-affirmed at the dinner table, there had been more than one giant wandering around Equestria, and they had caused significant damage to major cities and towns in some selfish desire to further their own goals.

“If Ah had to guess, Twilight and Applejack are worried that somehow Ah’d end up like them fancy nobles. Tearing up all tha place and such. As if Ah’d ever do something as pigheaded as that!” Big Mac said with a snort of frustration.

“Ah guess that just goes to show just how little faith they have in ya,” the cynical part of his mind pipped up again “Ya aren’t some fancy, big-time hero like Applejack. Yer just Macintosh. Farm hand and small town bumkin. Ya don’t have some special connection to tha Princess or go on grand adventures to save tha kingdom. Yer just gonna remain here on tha farm, forgotten,”

Frowning, Big Mac took off his hat and rested against the tiny barn. Was becoming a “Titan,” as Twilight called it, really so bad? Big Mac really didn’t see himself going off and causing havoc around the Kingdom for personal gain just because.

He began to think back to some of his earlier musings he had before he had been hit by the growth spell. What stand out qualities did he have exactly that would get him noticed by others? As before, the more he thought about it, the more he could only come up with qualities that his other family members had and not himself.

Granny Smith had literally founded the entire town, so her respectable qualities pretty much went without question. Everypony respected her in town, she was about as respected as Mayor Mare herself.

Apple Bloom had also made a name for herself. Her and her friends the Cutie Mark Crusaders were a bunch of troublemakers, there was no question about that, but there were well meaning in their actions. The town all loves them and even sometimes lends a hoof in to aid the trio in whatever mischief they came up with to get their cutie marks. Providing of course it was safe.

And of course, there was Applejack. The one who had surpassed everypony in the family and had become both a celebrity and a national hero. But if Big Mac had to guess, saving the Princesss’ younger sister was a pretty good start to that. From there on, Applejack had been propelled into the greater world outside of Ponyville and had to get used to life as one of the new heroes of Equestria. She got sent off on missions all the time now with her friends. From saving Rarity Belle from kidnapping by the paws of Dimond Dogs, to Everfree monster attacks, and even the occasional odd event caused by who knows what. Needless to say, she had definitely received some standout qualities.

And then there was him. 

Big Mac. Just Plain old Big Mac. What was something that defined him?

Really the only thing that came to mind was the fact that ever since he was a colt, he was naturally bigger and stronger than most his age, a fact that was enhanced because of his constant work on the farm. Big Mac thought of it as a constant work out. Why bother going to the gym when he would get the exercise, he needed every single day? And because of that he and worked up into the walking powerhouse he was now.

“At least Ah can say with certainty that Ah’m stronger than Applejack,” Big Mac thought with a small smirk at the little victory.

But what else was there besides being strong? Big Mac pondered that question for a little bit, thinking about his day-to-day life, the activities he does on the farm, as well as the interactions he has with the ponies of Ponyville whenever he has to go into town.

It took him a little bit, but he was able to land on a solid answer: ponies appreciated him. Maybe not on a grand scale like they did with the element bearers, but in smaller ways. The flower trio thanking him for repairing their broken water valve for their hose, Mayor Mare always asking him for help to organize town events, and even the foals at the schoolhouse always asking him to tell them stories about stories on the farm and all the different kinds of clients he always delt with who wanted to do business with Sweet Apple Acres.

“It’s tha little things Ah do that matter,” Big Mac realized “Than maybe this here growth ain’t so bad after all. Ah just have to accept it and embrace it. Sides, Ah could do something real special now can’t Ah? Ah saw mahself regrown an entire field of apples in a few seconds and even repair tha barn. Who knows what else Ah can do ta help out the little folk?”

Big Mac looked up at the moon, still perched high up in the sky as he mulled things over.

“Then that’s what Ah’ll do tomorrow. Soon as everypony wakes up Ah’ll head out and lend Equestria a big ol’ helping hoof,” Macintosh thought, a small smile beginning to creep across his face under the bright moon. But then, he froze as he remembered something, a terrifying moment that had occurred only a few days ago.

The scene of Ponyville in panic as they beheld the noble titans as they passed by and stepped over their little town. All the damage they had done to cities and towns all over Equestria, and the fear they had instilled for their own personal gain.

Big Mac shook his head and said very clearly “Eenope.”

“Ma and Pa didn’t raise no bully. When ya have a gift, ya use it to benefit and help everypony. That’s what we Apples have done for generations when we farmed our apples. Ah won’t be nothing like them fancy nobles galivanting around like they own tha place. Ah swear that Ah’ll do mah darndest ta uphold tha Apple’s name and be tha kind of pony Ma and Pa would be proud of!” Big Mac nodded; a firm look on his face as he made his decision. 

This wasn’t just something he wanted to do; this was something he needed. And maybe the kingdom needed as well. He could finally try and fill that void in his heart that had been plaguing him for some time about himself being alone and forgotten. Not to mention after the panic brought upon by the previous set of giants, everypony could use a firm reminder that there were still good ponies out there who wouldn’t go and abuse their power the second they go and get their hooves on some.

Big Mac lowered his great head back down against his legs and closed his eyes “Ah should try ta get some sleep. Ah got a big day tomorrow. Heh, pun intended,” he thought with a small snort of laughter, the exhale rattling the miniature barn as the gigantic stallion settled down peacefully under the stars.





A warm breeze wafted through the air as the sun rose over Sweet Apple Acres. The birds began their morning routine as they began chirping, the rooster cawing loudly, and the Apple family all blinked sleep out of their eyes as they roused themselves to start the say.

Applejack stumbled out of her bed sleepily as she made her way over to the bathroom, washing her face under the warm water to wake herself up. After she freshened up for the morning she headed down to the kitchen where she found the remaining two members of her family waiting for her, along with Spike and Twilight, both of whom had arrived early that day to update everypony about the whole titan situation.

“Morning everypony,” Applejack called as she sauntered over to her seat and practically collapsed into it.

“Good morning deary,” Granny Smith called from the table

“Morning AJ,” Apple Bloom yawned as she unknowingly poured marmalade into her cereal in her sleepily state.

“Good morning, Applejack,” Twilight greeted her in her usual cheerful manner, Spike sitting next to her munching on an apple muffin also gave her a wave.

“Morning Twi. What brings ya over here so early in tha day?” Applejack asked as she grabbed a muffin herself

“I just came to update you and your family about the whole Titan situation. I got a letter back from Princess Celestia last night and she said she’ll get to work immediately talking to the nobles and see if they can tell her where they left the spellbook that made Big Mac grow, in the meantime Princess Luna and I will try to develop a counter spell from scratch if at any point the guards cannot find the book,” Twilight said as she produced a scroll from her saddlebag and handed it to Applejack

Applejack took the letter and began to read it. Sure enough it was pretty much a confirmation of what Twilight had just summed up. But there was one thing that was still worrying her.

“Hey Twi? Tha Princess aren’t, you know, angry at mah brother because he got blasted by that there spell and became a Titan too are they? They ain’t gonna punish him for it are they?” Applejack asked her purple friend.

Twilight simply smiled and put a reassuring hoof on her shoulder “I spoke to Princess Luna about it last night. When they heard another pony had become a Titan, they were worried at first because they thought they would have to deal with another situation like the nobles. But when I told them that it was Big Mac that grew, they were relieved about that. Princess Luna said that while it’s unfortunate that Big Mac ended up in this situation, obviously through no fault of his own, she can rest easily knowing that somepony as responsible and trustworthy as your brother is the one who’s become huge,”

Applejack let out a breath of relief she didn’t realize she was holding “Thank goodness fer that. Ah was worried that tha princesses would get mad because they might have thought that Big Mac tampered with tha spell or that he was involved with them no good nobles somehow,”

“Now don’t be ridiculous girl,” Granny Smith said as she looked up from her food “Tha Princesses ain’t gonna punish a pony just fer being in tha wrong place at the wrong time,”

“Ah know Granny, Ah just got worried that’s all,” Applejack said softly

“I think it’s really cool that the Princess trust Big Mac so much,” Spike pipped up “Imagine if somepony even worse than the nobles got hit with that spell, like Queen Chrysalis or King Sombra,”

Twilight and Applejack collectively shuddered as their minds wandered back to those two adversaries from the past, neither one of them wanted to think about the untold amounts of destruction either one would cause if they were the size of a mountain.

“Well, thank goodness that ain’t ever gonna happen,” Applejack said 

The others silently nodded as they went back to their meals, trying to get the mental image of such a disastrous scenario out of their heads.

But not too long after, the house shook gently as everypony heard a tapping noise coming from the roof.

“Can everypony come outside fer a spill? Ah have something ta tell y’all,” came the echoing voice of Big Mac.

Everyone looked at each other in slight confusion, but regardless, they all got up and headed outside, standing in the shadow of the Stallion.

“What is it Macky? Are ya feeling alright?” Applejack called up to him

“Well, not entirely AJ,” Big Mac said “Ah’ve been doin’ some thinking lately and Ah think Ah’ve reached a decision. Ah’m gonna head out an go lend mah talents ta help out Equestria,”

“What?! Ya can’t leave Big Mac! What if something else happends tha makes tis here transformation worse?” Applejack asked frantically.

“Ah highly doubt that’ll happen AJ,” Big Mac said “All Ah’ve seen this spell do is amplify mah magic and make me bigger, nothin more to it. Besides, Ah don’t really think it’s something Ah really want ta do Applejack it more something Ah need ta do. With y’all girls working round tha clock sorting out mah problem and the issues them nobles caused, who’s gonna help out tha little guy. Ah can’t in a good conscious park mah rump down here an do nothin when Ah know Ah could be doing something tha help out mah fellow ponies. That ain’t the stallion Ma and Pa raised. And it ain’t who Ah am either. Ah’m going,”

Applejack looked like she still wanted to protest, but a hoof on her shoulder stopped her. Turning around she expected to see Twilight, but instead, to her shock, she saw it was Granny Smith who was stopping her. Granny Smith had a small smile on her face as she looked at her eldest granddaughter “Applejack, ya should let the feller go. Don’tcha trust Mac?” she asked.

The seemingly innocent question hit Applejack like a ton of bricks “Land sakes Granny, course Ah trust him,”

“And ya trust that he won’t abuse his magic like them nasty nobles,”

“Yes ma’am,”

“Then what’s all this fuss about girl? Macky said himself that their ain’t any bad side effects that he’s been feeling. So why not let him go an help? That’s what we Apples have done for generations. Helping out ponies who needed it. Ah’ve seen you yerself go an do it so why not yer brother? Besides, don’tcha think Big Mac is smart enough ta come back to tha farm if something goes wrong and there is a bad side effect?” Granny Smith asked, that knowing smile still present

Applejack’s ears flopped down in shame as she looked at Granny Smith “Ah know that Granny, Ah wasn’t insinuating nothing, Ah’m just worried that’s all,” she said softy.

“Ah know that AJ, but Ah have full confidence in Macky that he will do us all proud, just like you have done too. So that’s why Ah’m gonna let him have that chance. He can’t exactly do that if he’s here cooped up on tha farm doing nothing now can he?”

Applejack sighed “Yer right Granny,” she said before looking back up at Big Mac “Mac, if ya feel weird or bad at all, come home right away, alright?”

“Eeyup,” 

“It’s alright Applejack,” Twilight said coming up to her friend “I got enough samples already, this should be enough for the princesses and I to start coming up with a counter spell and get Big Mac back to normal, ok?”

“Alright Twi, Ah may be a mite hesitant about it but Ah respect Big Mac’s choice,” Applejack said.

Nodding Big Mac leaned up to his full height, towering over the little cast below him “Well then, Ah better head off. Good luck with tha counter spell Twilight,” he called down to them

Twilight grinned “Thanks Big Mac, thanks for covering for me and the girls in the meantime!” 

Big Mac chuckled “It’s mah pleasure,” he said as he took a few earth quaking steps forward towards the property line before stopping. The ponies on the ground watched as Big Mac’s cutie mark lit up again as he reached over to where the house was and gave it a tap. All at once, the magic from Big Mac’s hoof covered the entire house and they stared in awe as the old family home completely repaired itself through Big Mac’s new extensive control over nature. The old wood healed and repaired itself, the paint becoming brand new, and any patches needed was fixed instantly.

Smirking, Big Mac felt himself rise up in size again as he shot up to 275 feet tall. Stepping out of Sweet Apple Acres, Big Mac used his magic to enhance some of the trees in the surrounding area of the orchard. As he departed he saw the trees becoming more green and healthy as he continued to grow. His shadow coming to cover a good portion of Ponyville down below.

On the ground, the little ponies stopped and stared with awe as they beheld the gargantuan Apple. Big Mac, remembering the absolute state of panic they were in when Blueblood passed by simply raised his hoof and tipped his hat with a smile “Howdy down there everypony, lovely day huh?”

The ponies at first were too shocked to say anything, that is until the Cutie Mark Crusaders, all cheered and waved to the gigantic stallion “Bye Big Mac! Good luck helping Equestria!” Apple Bloom called up to her really big brother

“See ya Big Mac! Have fun!” Scootaloo called up

“Bring us back a souvenir!” hollered Sweetie Belle with a grin

Big Mac chucked at the tiny trio “Thank ya kindly girls,” he boomed.

The ponies of Ponyville, now recognizing there was no threat, all waved and cheered for the big friendly giant.

Big Mac gave the miniature town one last wave and headed off, his magic activating once more and causing him to grow as he walked, getting bigger and bigger with each step as the scenery around him became healthy and greener.

The ground and trees trembled with each step as Big Mac’s form rose above it, the forest slowly reducing down to the size of toothpicks as the humongous stallion made his way over to his first destination: Manehatten.

“If Ah remember correctly, that there city got hit tha hardest by them nobles. Ah should stop there first and see if Ah can repair tha damage they caused,” Big Mac thought as he still continued to swell larger and larger. His height now equivalent to one of the skyscrapers in the city

Time to show them itty bitty little city folk what a real titan looks like.
> Chapter 5- The Big Apple Meets the Mega Apple
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

The sounds of construction penetrated the air.

The city of Manehatten was considered to be one of the shining gems of Equestria. An extremely large metropolis that housed several different races from all over the land. Stunning feats of architecture had been on display for all to see, such as the statues around the streets, towering skyscrapers piercing the skyline, and the beautiful city gardens that lay in the heart of the city, a calm serene place where ponies could go and relax after a long day at the office, or tourists could visit and take pictures of the moment.

But that all changed the day that the Titans arrived.

It had started out like any other day for the ponies of Manehatten. They had started their usual morning routine of leaving their apartments, grabbing a bite to eat from one of the nearby cafes, and going to their office, getting in the usual daily grind. But nopony had ever expected to witness what would happen next.

It had started with the shaking. 

Faint jostles rippling through the ground.

Some ponies who had been working in offices had glanced over to see their coffee rippling in its cup, other had lost their footing temporarily as another tremor rocked the area, and before anypony knew it, the entire city had been shrouded in shadows. If those on the ground turned their attention skyward, they were greeted to the sight of two absolutely monolithic sized ponies towering well beyond that of the biggest skyscrapers in the city. Ponies had frozen in shock and fear as they could do nothing but stare up at these two, seemingly impossibly sized titans. 

Then the mustard yellow pony raised her hoof and took the first step into the city, and from there it led to absolute pandemonium. The two gigantic ponies began walking through the city like they were going for a simple walk in the park, all while the tiny ponies on the ground were trying desperately to avoid their gigantic hooves as they passed through. But that wasn’t the worst of it, because these two titans seemed to be enjoying themselves. The two ponies, identified later as the nobles from Canterlot, Jet Set and Upper Crust, seemed to be relishing in their newfound size. To them, it made them feel untouchable and that there was nothing the ponies down below them could do to stop them from throwing their weight around the city and doing whatever they pleased.

And to make matters worse, while they were spending time romping through the city like it was a playset, two more even bigger titans eventually joined them: the business stallion Enterprise Pursuit and his wife, the supermodel named Lily Shine. From the sounds of their conversation that the many ponies overheard as the giants conversed, apparently, they were there to settle the score with some business rivals that had apparently sullied their companies with malpractice, and they had undergone this drastic transformation to get even with them. To many sane and rational ponies this just seemed to be extra and ridiculous, but the nobles were dead set on this strategy so the two parties parted ways to deal with their respective rivals. But as they did, only then did the biggest hit to the city come: the secondhand damage.

The side of a building crumbling away from Jet Set’s tail simply brushing against it; the gigantic strands tearing into the side of it like it was butter, Jet Set squashing several carts underhoof as he walked, several ponies having to scramble out of their vehicles in a panic as the giant noble’s hoof came down, completely unaware of their tiny presence, Enterprise and Lily creating huge street wide hoofprints as they walked, tearing up the pavement and sending large cracks along the ground, and let’s not forget the entire buildings that the ponies had either plucked up or completely crushed. Jet Set and Upper Crush completely tearing out Currency Trade’s building out of its foundation so they can talk to him before heading over to his storage warehouse to squash it. Meanwhile Enterprise and Lily, while they had certainly made an effort to be more careful and mindful of the puny ponies scampering about as they walked, they two had also caused significant damage to the city.

But even though the Princesses decree had come forth and the nobles had to pay for the repairs out of their own pockets, it was going to be a long time before any of the damage was fixed. There was just too much.

But as the city ponies continued to go about their work, they began to experience the strangest feeling of déjà Vu.

A faint tremor reverberated through the city. 

Then another. 

And another.

Ponies everywhere in Manehatten all seemingly stopped whatever it was they were doing and headed to the nearest window while others outside began to look about the clear sky, all of whom seemed to have an idea of what might be causing these rhythmic tremors as they increased in intensity, the ponies now beginning to bounce up in the air slightly with each thunderous THOOM!

And then they saw it, or rather, him.

There, at the outskirts of the city, and slowly rising up higher and higher into the air was the colossal form of a pony as they got closer to the city. First, they saw his gigantically sized cowboy hat covering his orange mane, then red face, followed by his neck and torso rising into the air, and lastly his legs carrying this absolute titan of a pony several hundred feet across the landscape with mere steps.

And of course, given the past experience the city ponies of Manehatten had with similarly sized giants, they did the only natural thing they could think of in this situation.

Panic.





THOOM! THOOM! THOOM! THOOM!

Big Mac, now standing several hundred feet tall was continuing his leisurely stroll towards the city, leaving behind the small town of Ponyville “Heh, both literally and figuratively. Ain’t that kicker?” Big Mac though with an amused smirk at the unintentional size pun.

His huge muscular hoof slammed down next to an outlier of trees from the Everfree forest, and as the colossal cowpony passed by, his magic activated again, nourishing the environment around him and letting him shoot up another hundred feet. As Big Mac felt himself rise higher and higher, he was able to make out buildings in the distance, signaling to him that he was approaching his destination.

“So that there city is Manehatten, tha one hit tha hardest by them no good nobles,” Big Mac thought as his vast form stormed over the country side, his hooves tearing into the soft earth, leaving behind behemoth sized hoofprints, with his magic instantly repairing it, causing the height of the buildings in front of him to get shorter and shorter the more the country stallion closed the distance “Ah should head in and try to repair tha damage they caused. Poor little ones musta been scared senseless with them snobs galivanting around tha place.

Big Mac let out a small snort of resolve and at long last, finally reached the city of Manehatten.

Only to find it in a state of chaos so severe, Discord would have been proud.

Ponies were scampering around the place in a frenzy, where they were going, Big Mac had no idea. All it looked like to him from his elevated height was that ponies were just running around in the streets in a panic. Pony pushed carts were overturned, some laid broken in the streets, there were huge craters everywhere that the citizens of Manehatten had to evade as they made their so called “escape” from the mega sized stallion.

“That musta been where them nobles were walkin around when they came here,” Big Mac thought as he stood silently at the front of the city, wincing slightly at the spectacle in front of him. But what sent a few chills up his spine was the hoofprints left behind from the nobles. They were bigger than his. Much bigger than his in fact. At this point in time most of the skyscrapers in the city came up roughly to Big Mac’s chest, and if the ponies were panicking about him when he was at this size, he could only imagine how bad things must have been for them when the Nobles showed their pompous mugs here.

But the ponies looked like they showed no sign of stopping any time soon, if they even intended to in the presence of the titan. While Big Mac watched the bug sized ponies below him, he was pondering how he could get them to calm down. He shouldn’t do something too extreme because that might just cause them to panic even more.

But while this was going down, high above the city, one of the vacation airships was beginning to slowly descend down from the sky. The pilot of said craft was coming in for a landing, but as he was doing so, to his shock, he was unable to get an “all clear” signal from the ground team. Why? Well, unbeknownst to him the team had fled in a panic at the sight of the gigantic earth pony

“Where is everypony?” The captain wondered as he leaned around the wheel, looking left and right desperately. They needed that ground team ASAP so their pegesi team can help slow the descent of the ship, without them they run the risk of crashing!

“We’re descending too fast!” the captain exclaimed in panic as he tried frantically to regain control of the fall “Where’s the ground team?!”

Now, a large air ship falling from the sky is sure to attract attention, and that is exactly what caught Big Mac’s eye from his extremely elevated height. He looked upwards in shock as the saw the out-of-control airship careening down towards the city. Wasting no time, Big Macintosh sprang into action. Taking several ground rumbling steps forward, the giant farm pony stepped into the streets, entering the city proper. 

The teeny tiny ponies squealed in fear and fled at the sight of the gargantuan red hooves strolling forward. Big Mac, unaware of them below at the moment, as his attention was solely on preventing on letting the ship crash into the ground.

Lifting up his massive, bulky leg, he reached up into the air and gently caught the now fun sized airship. Arcing his leg like an all-star hoof ball player about to throw the ball, Big Mac held the tiny ship up to his eyes and looked down at the mite sized ponies down below.

“Howdy down there lil’ ones. Are y’all ok?” Big Mac rumbled in his usual southern twang, a look of concern in his huge emerald eyes. His ears perked up as he heard several squeaks of gratitude to the giant hero. Big Mac exhaled in relief, the wind from his nose buffering the little ponies held in his grasp. 

As gently as he could, Big Mac lowered the toy sized airship down onto the ground, the ponies of Manehatten, having witnessed the heroic act committed by the giant, all cleared a space for him. 

Once the airship was safely deposited onto the ground Big Mac stood back up to his full height, his broad shoulders brushing against the sides of the skyscrapers as he did so, sending quivers down the sides. Down below him, he saw the miniscule ponies scampering out of the little airship and onto the safety of the ground, happy to be alive and well. But to top it all off, one pony in particular practically shot out of the airship and rushed over to Big Mac, tackling the one of his humongous hooves and tried to hug what little he could of the smooth broad surface, completely unable to even move his legs around it’s girth. 

“Thank you, thank you, thank you!” the captain of the airship cried happily as he still tried, and failed, to hug the single hoof “You saved all of us sir! You caught us out of the air right as we were about to hit the ground! You’re a life saver!”

Big Mac smiled gently, raised his leg, and tipped his cowboy hat “No thanks necessary lil’ one. Ah’m just happy ta help,” he boomed in his deep voice.

The crowd around them began to murmur to one another. They saw with their own eyes, somepony else was now a gigantic titan and instead of terrorizing the city with their size, they used it to save a falling airship. Maybe this big guy wasn’t so bad after all.

“Um Mister Giant sir?” One pony timidly asked as they step forward into view cautiously “Why are you here?”

Big Mac looked down at the crowd with a twinkle in his eye “Ah heard them nobles gave y’all a whole lotta trouble in their time here, messed things up real good. So Ah decided to mosey on over to lend a big ol’ helping hoof an help repair tha damage they caused,” he said sincerely.

“But how are you going to help Mister Giant?” somepony else pipped up.

Big Mac looked around briefly, before settling his gaze on one of the hoofprints left behind by Jet Set and Upper Crust.  His ears perked up

“Do y’all see that there hole in tha ground?” Big Mac asked the tiny crowd, who all responded with confirmation. Big Mac smirked “Keep ya eye on it,”

Raising his colossal leg, Big Mac stepped over the bug sized crowd with ease, his hoofsteps causing the ground to tremble beneath him, bouncing those present into the air as he walked with a purpose over to the creator. It was about as wide as he was, but that was no matter to him, with the number of repairs he’d have to make, Big Mac was sure that he’ll reach that size in no time. Raising his hoof, he tapped it against the ground, sending another wave of magic into it. The ponies watched in awe as they saw the creator begin to repair itself. It was almost like watching a movie in reverse. The missing pieces filled up and the cracks vanished. Before anypony knew it, the hole was completely repaired, so well in fact that it might as well not have been there at all. 

Big Mac grinned as the familiar sensation flooded through his body and he began to grow in size once more, rising up even higher a little. Big Mac turned back to the assembled crowd, positively glowing with delight as he tipped his hat “So how about it lil’ ones? Mind letting big ol’ me lend a helping hoof in repairing yer city?

The crowd was silent for a moment before bursting out into cheers of happiness. Looks like they’ll have the city back up and running in tip top shape in no time now that Mega Macintosh was on the job!

Big Mac thundered his way over to the first cluster of damaged building and straight to work, using his powerful new magic to repair the damages done onto them, and gaining some extra height as he did so.





“Eeyup,” Big Mac boomed as he held up a hoof full of steel beams, all of them the size of toothpicks. He was now sitting down on his hunches in the middle of the city, helping some construction ponies repair the foundation of a building that had been shaken apart from the quakes while the nobles had been walking around. A construction pony was perched on Big Macintosh’s nose, relaying instructions to the gargantuan stallion as he worked.

“Ok, steel beam A should be put on the 25th floor right there!” squeaked the construction pony as he looked at the blueprints he had brought with him “Then attach B1 and B2 as supports right below them!” 

“Eeyup,” Big Mac said nonchalantly again as he leaned his gargantuan self forward. He had grown significantly since he had arrived in the city from all the repairs he had done. Now, even sitting down, most skyscrapers only came up to his stomach. Further signaling to Big Mac just how massive he was now. His huge, beefy hooves reached forward and set the beams in the correct position. He then gave the building frame a little tap and sent a small shockwave of magic though it, solidifying the beams in place.

“Alright, looks like we’re done!” The construction pony said beaming at the sight “I’ll have the boys and I go and run a quick check there and afterwards we’ll get started on the walls ourselves. Thank you, Mr. Macintosh, you’ve been a great- WOAH!” the boss cut himself off in shock as the “ground” below him began to rumble. He bounced back and rolled onto his stomach as he watched in amazement as Big Mac’s nose, and subsequently Big Mac himself, get even larger than before. The field of red fur expanding in size with him on top of it. The boss pony got back onto his hooves and turned around, looking up at Big Mac’s eyes which were now even higher than before, and they were both looking down at him with amusement. 

“I don’t think I’ll ever get used to that,” he said bashfully at the giant stallion. A thunderous, booming chucking shook the air as the giant red stallion said, “Ah don’t expect ya to do so little guy.” Mirth danced within those warm house sized eyes, and even though he couldn’t see it, the boss was almost certain that Big Mac was grinning. 

A shadow covered the little pony, as he looked up, he saw the massive underside of Big Macintosh’s hoof lowering itself towards him. Big Mac plucked the puny pony off his nose and gently set him back on the ground “Ah’m happy Ah could help y’all fix this here little skyscraper,” Big Mac addressed the gathered team of construction ponies by his gigantic hooves as he got back up, his shadow completely covering most of the area around him “Good luck to y’all on finishing tha rest of it,” 

The group all hollered up their thanks to the giant as Big Mac turned around as headed off, the spell he had casted on the building preventing it from shaking apart again as he walked. Big Mac made his way over to a nearby skyscraper where he had left his hat hanging lazily off it like it was a coat rack. Big Mac chuckled at the sight, who would have thought that at some point in his life he’d be using entire buildings like they were everyday household items?

Reaching over, Big Mac plucked his hat off the tower and set it back on his head with his ever-favorite line of “Eeyup.” Turning around, he used the glass exterior of the buildings next to him as a mirror to tidy himself up a little. All those hours of working really worked up a good sweat! Big Mac subtly adjusted his hat on his head to center it as well as the yolk he was wearing. Noticing the ponies gathering inside the building he was using as a mirror; the colossal stallion gave them all a wink as he continued on his way, teasing the mite sized ponies a little as he practically stomped by, causing the entire building to tremble as he passed by next to it.

Big Mac made his way down the streets of Manehatten, a spring in his step as he observed the work he had done. Pretty much the entire city had been repaired by this point, almost no trace of damage was left, both the denizens of the city were happy because the repairs and Big Mac was happy as well because not only did, he get to help them all out, but it also came with the added bonus of a major size increase. He was almost as big as the nobles were by this point when they first came to the city, and he’s caused little to no damage at all. 

Big Mac stopped walking as he noticed he was approaching a particularly busy part of the city; carts were being pulled left and right here in the middle of a busy intersection but for some reason there was no pony there to direct traffic. Big Mac looked over at the sidewalks and saw that a bit of a crowd had amassed as they were all waiting to cross over. Some tourists as well as a small school of foals on a field trip along with their teacher. A distressed look on the mare’s face as she looked back and forth across the streets trying to figure out when they should cross because they’ve been waiting for so long.

A small frown crossed Big Mac’s gigantic face as he observed the scene “Nnope.” He rumbled as he made his way over to the tiny intersection. There was a brief respite in the constant flow of carts being driven back and forth so Big Mac used this opportunity to set his colossal hoof down on one side of the street and another hoof on the other side with a small THOOM, shaking the ground a little as he gave the miniscule pedestrians a chance to cross. His hooves were now so large they completely took up the entirety of the street. 

Big Mac looked down at the little ones with a warm smile “it’s safe for y’all ta cross over now,” The ponies talked amongst themselves as the beheld the sight of the titanic from in front of them, before shouting up their thanks to the giant hero. 

Big Mac looked down happily as the tiny foals passed by under him being lead by their teacher “Well howdy down there lil’ ones. Are y’all enjoying yer trip to tha big city?” he asked them as they went by.

“Uh huh, thank you sir!” some of the foals hollered up to him as they passed by his hooves and onto the sidewalk behind him, a few even tried to give him a hug, but they were so tiny that they might as well been trying to hug a wall. Their legs not even reaching anywhere close to around his own, and they were so small that they came nowhere close to reaching the bottom of the red fur above his hooves. After the last of the foals had made it to the other side of the street Big Mac stood up straight and removed his giant hooves from the side of the road allowing the carts to move back over freely. The crowd on the sidewalk cheered for Big Mac as he waved down to them before continuing on forward. 

But he had barely taken a few steps forward before he heard a small squeaking voice calling out to him “Mr. Macintosh! Mr. Macintosh! A word please?” 

Big Mac stopped with a blink as he looked around, trying to find the source of the voice

“Down here sir!” said the voice again

Looking down, Big Mac was able to see two pegesi mares with cameras around their necks and wearing matching hats, both of them with the tag “PRESS” on it.

“Mr. Macintosh, is it ok if we get a few pictures of you for the Daily Equestrian?” One of the reporters asked the giant excitedly

“Pictures?” asked Big Mac as he observed the two tiny ponies hovering in front of him like they were little flies

“Yupperoni! We want to write all about how you came and helped out our city after the disaster it faced!” The second reporter said in a chipper voice. She held up her camera and looked up at him hopefully “So can we? Please?”

Big Mac chuckled, a small smile tugging at his lips as he was briefly reminded of Apple Bloom whenever she would ask him to participate in whatever scheme she had to get her cutie mark next “Of course ya can young’in,” he said “Fire away,” 

The two gasped “Really? You really mean it?” they asked 

“Eeyup,” Big Mac replied

The girls cheered as they readied their cameras and began to take as many pictures as they could, trying to get a good angle of the giant hero. As they did that, Big Mac walked over to a nearby building, leaning against it as if to fully convey just how massive he was now. His bulky frame completely overshadowing the little structure as he posed next to it.

Smirking, Big Mac up the ante a bit more and decided to prop his giant elbow down on the roof of the building, his elbow alone was completely covering the top of the building as he got into a bit more of a relaxed pose. The press was snapping away as he did so. After a few minutes Big Mac decided to try something a little different, he stood back up and walked over to where the city park was, the little trees jostling with each step. 

Big Mac tapped the ground next to the park and watched with a pleased smile as a stream of magic shot from where he struck the ground and flooded into the park. The two mares gasped in wonder as they watched the magic spread to all the trees, flowers, and greenery in the area. Instantly the park seemed to spring up with renewed life and flourished with more lively vegetation. Big Mac even managed to create a swing set made entirely of flowers. 

“That’s incredible!” one of the reporters said, looking up from her camera and at Big Mac. He simply grinned “Trust me, ya ain’t seen nothing yet,”

As Big Mac said this, he began to once more grow in size, growing even more massive than before, entire buildings now only coming up to his ankles as he completely towered over the city. 

Big Mac heard two tiny squeaks of amazement as he continued his trek, the entire city now trembling from his steps. Big Mac made his way over to a stadium where a hoof ball game was being played, hundreds of speck sized ponies were all either in the stands or playing on the field. They all paused as they felt the ground trembling, loud, thunderous BOOMS permeated the air, and before they knew it, the gargantuan face of Big Mac filled the sky above the entire stadium.

Big Mac smiled down at the absolutely tiny spectators in the circular structure below him “Howdy everypony,” he rumbled, his thick southern accent shaking though the air. Cheers erupted from the stands below as everypony tried their best to say hi to the colossal hero of the day. Big Mac reached down and gripped the entire stadium in his muscular hoof, completely tearing it out of the ground like it was nothing. 

Big Mac beamed as he raised the tiny stadium up to his eyes, looking down at the hundreds of speck sized spectators in his grasp, the little ones still cheering for him as he held them all up in the frog of his hoof. His colossal biceps and pecs bulging as he did so, causing several mares in the stands and all over the city who were spectating the event to fall over, overcome with a fiery red blush on their faces.

After observing the diminutive structure in his grasp for a little bit longer, Big Mac let out his signature “Eeyup,” and gently lowered the stadium back down into the ground “Y’all little folk enjoy yerselves a good game alright?” he boomed at the ponies by his building sized hooves, another faint cheer could be heard as Big Mac raised his gargantuan leg and stepped over the stadium and proceeded to stroll back to where he left the two reporters. 

The two mares gulped slightly as the beheld the enormous form of Big Mac thundering back over to where they were. Even though they were flying though the air, they could almost feel the world shaking around them, accompanied by the tremendous BOOMS that tore through the air as Big Mac walked. His shadow completely covering them and most of the city as he stormed back over to them. The mountainous cowpony stopping in front of them and lowered his grinning skyscraper sized muzzle down towards the two tiny reporters 

“Well then young’in, was that ah good number of pictures for yer article?” Big Mac teasingly to the pair, his voice alone shaking the air slightly.

“Uh huh,” one of them said weakly, trying to fully grasp just how gigantic the stallion was now. Big Mac’s grin got wider as he said “Ya might want to speak up lil’ one. Ah can’t hear ya too well down there,”

The reporter mare swallowed, and she hollered “Yes it was! Thank you, Mr. Macintosh!” 

Big Mac nodded with the grin still plastered on his face at the two dumbstruck reporters as he stood back up to his full height, thousands of feet tall and even a little bigger than the nobles were when they first arrived. “Well, Ah’m glad ta have helped ya, good luck writing yer article!”

And with that final farewell and a hearty laugh coming from the gargantuan stallion that shook the air, Big Mac headed off. The two reporters simply continued to stare dumbstruck at the massive figure as he stormed away. 

“So, uh, do you think we got enough pictures?” one of the mares asked her partner after she finally found her voice.

“Oh yeah,” her partner replied with a giggle “And then some! But, I think I’m going to, you know, keep this one for myself,”

The first reporter raised her eyebrow as she floated over “Which one?”

Her partner squeed bashfully as she blushed and turned her camera around, the photo being displayed was the one where Big Mac was flexing his muscles as he held the stadium in his hoof

Big Mac, meanwhile, was stomping though the city as he went. Ponies down below cheered as the colossal hooves landed with a huge THOOM! On the streets next to them as the absolutely massive hero to the city passed through. Despite being even bigger than the nobles who had damaged most of Manehatten, Big Mac had been nothing but kind and gentle to both the citizens and the city, and damage he may have caused he repaired himself, adding onto the growth he had already amassed for himself. 

Big Mac thundered though the entirety of Manehatten showing off his newfound size and power to the masses below him as he happily looked on at the entire city he had repaired in less than a day. As he reached the outskirts of the city, he paused and looked back with a kind smile, tipping his cowboy hat in farewell before strolling out across the countryside towards his next destination in his kingdom wide stroll. What had started as nothing but ponies in panic and pandemonium at the sight of another titan had ended with everypony happy and content at the sight of their homes, businesses, and livelihoods completely restored at the massive hooves of the gigantic stallion they had previously feared.





Back at Golden Oak’s library, Twilight, Princess Luna, and Princess Celestia were busy trying to come up with a counter spell for Big Mac’s growth from scratch.

“Urgh! Why is it so hard to come up with a simple counter spell? Starswirl used to do stuff like this in his sleep!” Twilight complained as she gritted her teeth at the stubborn glowing ball of magic spells that she and the two Princesses were experimenting on.

“Have faith dear Twilight,” Princess Luna said, removing the safety goggles from her eyes “I am sure that we will come up with a solution in due time,”

“Luna is right,” Celestia said as she looked up form the stack of notes that Twilight had made on Big Mac’s fur samples, she had taken the day prior “Without the spell book this will be no easy feat. It may take some time but as long as we put or heads together, I’m sure we can come up with a solution in no time,”

Twilight sighed as she glared at the ball of magic floating innocently in the air, as if willing it to yield its secrets

“Maybe if I try adding a deconstruction spell to the mix that might work? It could be like deconstructing the spell that’s affecting Big Mac,” Twilight thought as she lit up her horn and shot a stream of purple magic into the magic ball. But the second she did that the ball began to shake and spark wildly, energy spikes shooting off in every direction.

“Oh no, it’s gonna blow!” Twilight hollered 

The princesses’ eyes widened in shock but before any of them could do anything, the energy ball exploded, covering the entire library in thick smoke.

When it cleared, the interior of the library was completely black with soot, it covered the ceiling, wall, books, and completely coated Twilight, Luna and Celestia. Their eyes blinking amidst the ash

“Bleah!” Twilight exclaimed in disgust, opening her mouth and sticking out her tongue. A stream of smoke poured out as she began coughing, trying to clear her lungs.

Celestia and Luna joined in, the latter using her magic to open the windows and let the smoke stream out into the air.

After everything had cleared, the two Princesses turned around and stared at Twilight, who simply shrunk back with a squee

“Heh, heh, oops?” Twilight said hopefully while the other two let out two very equine like snorts of annoyance.

Celestia sighed “Well, looks like it’s back to the drawing board,” she said as she levitated up a quill and some parchment, preparing to try again.
> Chapter 6- The Mega Sized Savior
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Oakenwood was a small and quite town, about as backwater as you can get. There was a mostly an earth pony population running the show around there. Not unlike Ponyville. The town was run by their mayor, a stallion named Chief Royal. He was very much liked among the community, always friendly, always accommodating, and extremely patient with others. He was the one of the ponies Celestia had to write to when a certain noble mare had asked to do community service in the town. A noble, who, up until very recently, had been so gigantic she overshadowed entire mountains as she and her associates galivanted around the Kingdom. Mayor Royal had at first been apprehensive, but after some persuasion from the Turner family, whom the noble had sparked a bond with, he agreed to let them host the former Titan at their residence. 

The guest bedroom of the Turner family opened and out stepped the yawning unicorn mare. She was a little taller than most ponies in town, having spent most of her time working out at the gym. Her fur was snow white which matched perfectly with her similarly colored mane, which was now sporting ocean blue highlights. And adorning both sides of her was her cutie mark, which was in the shape of two dumbbells. Sturdy Step was her name. In her late twenties, she was a third-generation professional boxer and winner of nine championships in a row. 

Sturdy walked into the bathroom and turned on the faucet as she grabbed her toothbrush. As she brushed, she continued to reflect on her past. When she had first began her boxing career, Sturdy had risen to stardom almost instantly, once word had gotten around that she was the daughter of the now retired, second-generation professional boxer Stalwart Step. She had wanted nothing more than to make her father proud and threw herself into her training. Stalwart had been extremely supportive of his little girl. Being a single father after his wife had run off with some lifeguard, he wanted nothing more than to make his daughter happy and give her a loving and supportive life. And through this, Sturdy had rarely known a bad day in her life. But even though things were alright for her everywhere she went, this unfortunately did have some unintended side effects to her ego. 

Sturdy spat into the sink and washed her mouth, taking a second to spray some breath freshener. Stepping back, she looked herself over in the mirror, satisfied with what she saw, Sturdy nodded and trotted back to her room. Match after match she had kept winning, the crowd going wild for her, and she got nothing but praise left and right. And that nonstop admiration went straight to her head. Before she knew it, she was hanging out with a crowd of ponies she barely knew well past 3 in the morning at ratty old bars, started getting more arrogant with both her manager and her poor father, and even started dating Prince Blueblood. All because they had literally run into each other after one of her matches. Sturdy still didn’t know, even now, if she had been genuinely interested in dating him or if that was the gold digger part of her mind coming into play because he was the prince. Regardless, she had not been in a good place for a while, surrounding herself with the snobs of the nobility that most ponies of Equestria had come to despise because of how far their heads were in the clouds. But that had all come to a climax just over a week ago.

Sturdy Step rummaged around inside her bedroom “where did I leave it?” she murmured. Pacing around her room once more, her eyes settled on a familiar blue headband laying on the bedside table. Sturdy smiled internally at the familiar headwear as she walked over to the table and put it on her head, just below her horn. As she walked out the bedroom door towards the stairs to the first floor, her mind flashed back to the events just a week prior. She had gotten into an argument with her father. He was getting worried that she was beginning to hang around with the wrong crowd, that the ponies she had met recently, Jet Set and Upper Crust, were not the best ponies out there and would most likely take advantage of her somewhere down the line for their own gain. But she had shouted back that he didn’t know what he was talking about and that he barely even knew her or who she hung around with. Even now Sturdy knew that was a blatant lie she had thrown out in her anger. She had lost contact with a lot of her former friends after she rose to stardom and her father knew that. But at the time she had been a completely different mare, she had yelled at her father that he didn’t control her and she could hang out with whoever she wanted before storming out to meet up with Blueblood for whatever “special” plan he wanted to do that day.

When Blueblood had announced that “grow into giants for the day and roam around the kingdom and eventually go to Canterlot” plan Sturdy was initially just along for the ride. The more egotistical side of her wanted a break from the argument she had just had with her dad and just be free to do whatever she wanted. And what better way to do that than parade around the kingdom as a several thousand-foot-tall titan? She would go from town to town, soaking up the praise and cheers from all of her adoring fans, do a few photoshoots with bug sized ponies clambering all over her, and even get to travel around the kingdom. The perfect way to get away from her nagging dad and be with the ponies who really cared about her.

“And how naive I was,” Sturdy thought as she made her way down the stairs towards the kitchen, where she could hear a few lively voices chatting away. While she had been on her globetrotting stroll, she had come across a particular young colt who went by the name Thimble Turner. Sturdy still winced internally as she recalled the predicament she had faced when she first “encountered” him. At the very first town she had visited, Oakenwood, she had been extremely careless. Still not accustomed to her size just yet she had roughly handled ponies when she picked them up, almost damaged buildings, but worst of all, accidently, unintentionally kidnapped Thimble who had shown up to the meet up but was left unseen and unnoticed by her due to his small size. As she left the town her tail had landed on the crowd, sweeping up Thimble in its strands and taking him along for the ride. The poor colt had been left tangled up and dangling from the tail strands as her mountainous form went from place to place. She had eventually noticed him and brought him back home. But while Thimble and his family were overall alright with how things ultimately turned out; Sturdy was still haunted by the experience. The entire time there had been a foal trapped on her and she hadn’t even known until Thimble tiny little voice eventually traveled to her ears. What if he had fallen from her tail? What if she had sat down at some point and accidently squashed him? Sure things turned out alright but that doesn’t mean that there hadn’t been a few near misses! Thimble and his parents may have forgiven her because nopony was hurt but that doesn’t mean that she forgave herself.

But what really did her in was the aftermath of the Titan debacle. After the guards had taken her into custody and she was given a reduced sentence, Sturdy felt like she didn’t deserve it. Just being there with the other made her feel like she was just as guilty as the other nobles were. But after seeing just how enraged Princess Luna was at Blueblood and the others, she was too intimidated of the Luner monarch to speak up. Instead, she had requested to be sent back to Oakenwood to do her community service. She could have easily stayed in Canterlot where she’d have access to the luxuries of her mansion, gym equipment, and fancy restaurants. But she felt like she’d be getting off too easy. She had done wrong and she wanted to make things right. And what better way to do that than by helping out the town and family she had inadvertently caused the most damage to. But there was also another reason why she had chosen the Turner family specifically, one was to make her little buddy Thimble happy because of how much he idolized her, and the other was to take the time and do some much needed soul searching. The Turners didn’t have nearly as much as she did, yet as she reflected on the time she had spent with the family while they had picked cotton for their hat making business, she realized that they were happy. And she couldn’t understand why. At least not yet. Before the guards had lead her to the train so she could be taken to Oakenwood to serve her sentence, her father had managed to catch up with her and the others. And to this day Sturdy couldn’t shake the devastated look on his face as he begged her to tell him that what had happened wasn’t true. Sturdy had no words as all she could do was look down in shame as the guards lead her away from her weeping father towards the train that was about to depart. The heartbreaking sight of the legendary Stalwart Step breaking down to pieces as he watched his only daughter be arrested and carried off to server her sentence. Sturdy was hoping that spending more time with this down to earth family would help her realize what she was missing with hers. Why the Turners, despite having so little, were far happier than she and her father. Despite the Sturdy Step’s family having seemingly everything, over the years the she and her father had grown apart. Sturdy was determined to figure out the answer to this riddle. “And make it up to you father,” She thought as she finally entered the kitchen “I promise you that when I return home, I’ll be a better mare than I was before. Not the selfish and egotistical one you had to watch grow up under your roof. No, I want to be somepony you can be proud to call your daughter,”





Thimble Turner giggled as his mother set another batch of scrambled eggs onto his plate. “Now make sure you eat all of it sweetie, you need your energy if you want to help us out in the fields today,” Mrs. Turner said

“Sure thing mom!” Thimble squeaked cheerfully as he began to ravenously wolf it all down. Mrs. Turner smiled at the sight “Slow down dear, you’ll choke on it if you eat too fast,” she chided gently.

“Mmmmm!” Thimble tried to say, his mouth full of scrambled eggs. Reaching for a cup of orange juice, Thimble Turner chugged down the entire lot in one go. Exhaling in relief, he was greeted to the blank stares of both his parents.

“Hehe. Oops?”

Mr. and Mrs. Turner smiled and rolled their eyes as they went back to setting up the breakfast table, just in time for a certain white unicorn mare to make her way into the kitchen. 

“Ah, good morning, Sturdy, how did you sleep?” Mr. Turner asked as he moved the spatula around the pan of eggs on the stove.

“I slept fine, thank you for asking Mr. Turner,” Sturdy replied politely as she took her seat at the table.

“Morning Sturdy!” Thimble piped up excitedly from his seat as he was gnawing his way through a pear fritter. Sturdy chuckled and ruffled his mane with a hoof “Morning champ,” she said “Are you trying to set a new record on how fast you can eat your breakfast today?” 

“Yup! I wanna be as fast as you are!”

Sturdy chuckled “Don’t worry kiddo, I’m sure you’ll get there eventually,” she said as she slid a pear Danish onto her plate and began to gobble it up.

“Oh Sturdy, surely you’d want to eat more than that,” Mrs. Thimble said as she began to move the plate of pastries over to the mare.

Sturdy shook her head with a small smile “That’s alright Mrs. Thimble, I have to get an early start for today,” she said

“Oh? And why is that?”

“I have to head out to town as early as possible to grab some new seeds for the plants out back as well as some new watering cans for the fields,” Sturdy replied

“Yeah!” Thimble spoke up “And I want to go with her so I can show her all the right seeds to get!” 

Mrs. Turner nodded “Alright then you too, don’t let us keep you for long then. I’m sure you two would want to leave as soon as possible,” she said. Thimble looked a little shocked at those words “Really? You’re not going to make us stay and try to force us to eat third helpings again before we leave?” he asked

Mr. Turner chimed in at the question, turning away from the stove briefly “Nah it’s alright Thimble, I understand that you two probably want to get a head start before Celestia brings the sun up too high and it gets too hot outside. Don’t let us keep you,”

Smiling brightly, Thimble turned to Sturdy who had just finished polishing up her pastry “Ready to go?” he asked his idol excitedly.

Study could only smile at the young colt’s enthusiasm “Yeah, I’ll meet you outside,” she said as she rose from the table and trotted out into the hallway. Thimble squeed with delight as he quickly put his plate and cup into the sink before dashing out into the hallway as well and out the door. But before he could take one step outside, he realized that Sturdy had forgotten to take the bag of bits the two had put aside for today for their shopping. Racing back upstairs and into the guest bedroom, Thimble retrieved it and began to trot back downstairs. But as he did, he heard his parent’s hushed voices coming from the kitchen.

Sparking his curiosity, Thimble tip-hoofed over to the closest wall and began to listen in

“Have they left?” Mrs. Turner’s voice asked

“I think so,” Came Mr. Turner’s voice as he replied to his wife, the sound of a chair scraping against the floor could be heard as the stallion took a sear down at the table.

“Thank goodness, I didn’t want them to be around while we discussed this, I didn’t want to make Thimble worry,” Mrs. Turner said

“Don’t worry dear, I’m sure everything will be fine. Luckily Thimble and Sturdy went to the market to get some more seeds so they’ll be out of the house for a while,”

Thimble could hear a small scoff come from his mother before she spoke up again “I not sure how much good that will do considering the first batch of plants barely had any gain from them,” she said “This month’s harvest has been extremely taxing on us as well as the rest of the community. There has been little to no rain here and because of the drought, us and most of the town have barely grown anything,”

A sigh could be heard from Mr. Turner as well as the ruffing of papers “I know honey, these bills and taxes speak for themselves. We were barely able to pay off the previous set, but with the way things are looking, I’m not sure if we can even afford to pay the next months.” he said “Has the mayor heard anything from Cloudsdale’s weather team? Will they be sending over some storm clouds so we can get some water into the soil?”

“So far there’s been nothing from them,” Mrs. Turner said somberly “They’ve been prioritizing major cities like Las Pegasus and Manehatten over smaller towns like ours. And of course, Ponyville.” 

Mrs. Turner looked as if she drank some sour milk as she uttered the rival of their town’s name “One of the members of the weather patrol lives there and she occasionally likes to give her town special treatment. One of Princess Celestia’s element bearers, Rainbow Dash,”

A sigh could be heard from Mr. Turner “Do we know when Cloudsdale will send rain clouds to us next?” he asked

“At least another 3 weeks or so,” 

“But that’s way too long! The bills are due in one week! There’s no way we can pay those off in time. We haven’t had a good harvest, nor have we gotten enough supplies to keep up with the demands from customers commissioning hats from us.” Mr. Turner said before letting out another tired sigh “We’re falling behind on our bills. At this rate we’d probably have to start selling a few things just to keep up, I don’t want us losing the house next,”

“Does Sturdy and Thimble know?” asked Mrs. Turner

“No, I don’t want them to worry,” Mr. turner replied “Sturdy already has enough to worry about with her punishment still in effect, and I don’t want Thimble to worry as well, that’s why I was so intent on getting them out just now so they wouldn’t have to hear us talk about this,”

“Is it not possible to simply ask Sturdy and her family for a loan?” asked Mrs. Turner

“I wish that was possible, but Princess Luna forbade any access to Sturdy’s wealth during her time here, remember? That was part of Sturdy’s agreement,” Mr. Turner said “We’ll just have to figure something out dear. I’m sure we’ll come up with something. Somehow.”

Outside, Thimble’s ears flattened against his head as he overheard the conversation. Their sales weren’t doing well? They had a poor harvest? They could lose the house? He had never heard about any of this. Every time he asked about his parents would tell him not to worry, so he would always assume everything was fine. But things clearly weren’t fine! But what could he do?

Slowly backing away from the entrance to the kitchen, he made his way back outside. Closing the door silently behind him, he then scampered down the road to catch up with Sturdy Step. But as little Thimble raced down the road, his mind just kept replaying the words over and over again of what his parents said and that did indeed fill him with worry. Worry about his parents and what they must be going through as well as what they all might loose later if something isn’t done. 

He eventually met up with Sturdy Step who had already arrived in the town square. There she was, already in conversation with the Pegasus parole officer who had been stationed at Oakenwood by order of the Princesses. He went by the name True Law. 

After all the strict and stern officers that had been assigned to the likes of Jet Set, Upper Crust, Enterprise Pursuit, and Lily Shine, Officer Law had been surprisingly mellow about the whole ordeal. Though it could be argued that he had been briefed form the Princesses that after the whole Titan ordeal, Sturdy had been the least terrible one of the lot and had actually tried to keep her damage to an absolute minimum. So he knew she could be trusted.

“So what was it like?” He was asking her as they both wandered over to the marketplace “Being all big and such?”

Sturdy blushed “It was interesting to say the least,” she said “When I first came to Oakenwood I was still getting used to my size so I may have been a little rough handling ponies the first time around. But as the day went on I just kept getting bigger and bigger. Soon towns looked like moss on the ground, and I was able to sit against a mountain like it was a chair,”

“Wow,” Law said looking awestruck “If it was me who was that big, I would have been so nervous. I probably would have stepped on somepony or something by accident,”

Sturdy giggled “I will admit, that almost did happen once or twice. But luckily I had my magic to make sure nopony got seriously hurt,” she said “Why bother becoming gigantic if you got nopony around to see you, you know? Just because I’m gigantic doesn’t mean I suddenly forget my morality.”

“True,” Law chuckled “I’m happy that we got somepony like you passing by here. Somepony who was careful and kind with their size, and didn’t abuse it,”

“Yeah,” Sturdy replied, looking distant as she glanced off to the side “I guess I got a bit of a wakeup call during all that.” With a sigh, she paused as she noticed a small figure running up to her. A smile broke across her lips as she recognized who it was. 

“Hey Thimble, there you are! I was wondering where you had gone off too,” Sturdy said cheerfully, looking over from Officer Law “Ready to go get those seeds kiddo?” she asked. 

But Thimble said nothing as he slowly came to a halt in front of her. Sturdy looked on confused as he silently deposited the bag of bits into her saddlebags before retreating a few steps.

“Thimble? Is everything ok?” She asked

Sniffle

Sturdy’s eyes widened as she saw his lower lip start to tremble. Crouching down, she softly put one of her white hooves under his chin and gently raised his little face up to hers. A single warm tear fell onto her hoof.

“Thimble…? Why are you crying?” she asked lightly, sitting down on her hunches, with Officer Law coming over silently with a concerned expression on his face.

Thimble shook his head, refusing to say anything.

“Did something happen on your way here? Did you hurt yourself?” she asked

“N...No,” Thimble squeaked out

“Did somepony tell you something on your way here? Were those guys from school picking on you again?” 

Again, Thimble shook his head no

“So what happened kiddo?” Sturdy asked gently. She froze and Thimble suddenly dashed forward and latched onto her with a hug, more tears beginning to spill as the little colt began to cry silently. Sturdy put her forelegs around him and hugged back, adding a small rocking motion as she let Thimble let it all out.

Eventually Thimble’s sniffles lessened, before turning into exhausted breathing. He tried to pull away from the hug but Sturdy held tight, rubbing the top of his mane softly “Feeling better?” she asked. Thimble nodded silently. “Why were you crying kiddo?” Sturdy asked him. 

“Mom and Dad might lose the house soon,” Thimble stammered out

“What?!” Sturdy and Law exclaimed

“I heard them before I left the house. They were saying that they were running behind on their bills and because of the harvest and no rain! They don’t know if they can keep up on all the payments!” Thimble said weakly.

Sturdy bit her lip as she heard him. She had noticed the increasingly decrepit state the town was starting to undergo. She had tried to see if she could pull things back together with her family wealth, but that agreement she had made with the princess was unknowingly a double-edged blade. She couldn’t access her wealth, nor could she let others use it. Probably a side effect of Princess Luna’s return to the modern age. She was still getting used to how things were run, as it had been she herself who had made the written agreement. If she appealed to them now, she was sure that Luna would overturn her vote in a heartbeat, but it would take some time go through the legal process. Time that the Turners and the Town didn’t have.

So, what could they do? It wasn’t like they could ask the national heroes of Equestria for help. This was probably below their paygrade. If they were even on the crown’s payroll.

Well, luckily for the town of Oakenwood, help would indeed come. But it wasn’t in the form of the Mane 6. But instead in the form of one kindhearted stallion. Who happened to be several thousands of feet tall, had bright red fur, and wore a humongous brown yoke and a cowboy hat.

Sturdy Step, Thimble Turner, Officer Law, and all of Oakenwood seemed to freeze as the felt the ground begin to shake rhythmically. Low THOOMS echoing through the air. It was the sound that everypony in Oakenwood remembered quite will.

That was the same noise a giant sized Sturdy Step’s hooves had made the first time she came to Oakenwood.





Big Macintosh traversed the tiny landscape of Equestria, his size increasing ever more as his magic continued to seep into the soil. He had just bid everypony in the city a fond farewell after taking care of the issues there.

He was feeling pretty accomplished from the events prior; he repaired a city, brought it back from the brink of disaster. Big Mac remembered all the tiny construction ponies clambering around his massive muzzle as they relayed instructions, the ticklish feeling their little hooves made as they scurried about. After that was done, he had then had time to spend time with the miniscule ponies of the city. Helping out a tiny class cross the street and even making it into the newspaper. With the press taking various photos of him, even one of him holding up an entire stadium full of ponies.

Big Mac blushed as he recalled reaching down into the pavement like it was butter and tearing out the stadium full of hundreds of ponies watching a hoofball game. 

“Ah admit, Ah might have gone a tad bit too far on that one,” he thought sheepishly with a small grin. But, if he really though about it, the ponies really didn’t seem to mind. They had outright cheered when Big Mac and reached down scooped them all up into the frog of his hoof.

“Maybe them little folk enjoyed seeing powerful ponies throw their weight around?” Big Mac wondered. He stopped for a second, thinking it over before he shook his head and continued on his stroll. That couldn’t be it. After all the exact same thing had happened only a week prior in the form of the nobles and they had been left pretty scared at the end of the ordeal.

“Or maybe they just enjoyed seeing mah big mug after repairing tha city,” Big Mac shrugged his huge broad shoulders at the proposition. While he didn’t have a definitive answer as to why the ponies were so happy while he was in Manehatten, he could only assume they gave him a pass because he was the one who fixed everything, and they knew he wouldn’t harm them. 

“That’s probably it. Speaking of which, where am Ah going?” Big Mac stopped his earth-shaking walk again and observed his surroundings. After leaving the city the landscape around him was back to the normal countryside, a sight he was used to. Well aside from his point of view. After leaving Manehatten the gargantuan apple stallion had grown even bigger. He was now bigger than the nobles were initially when they grew into Titans. Towering well past the height of all the skyscrapers in the city. His massive bulk rose into the sky, his head and bright orange mane almost piercing the low clouds above. Trees and entire forests had been reduced down to the size of moss below him which trembled and quaked with each one of his mighty steps. Flocks of birds, no bigger than pinpricks, flew past his legs as the world rumbled around them.

“Well, it looks like Ah’ve gone past Ponyville by this point again. Ah have repaired some of them craters the nobles left behind around in tha area. Though Ah do seem tha recall AJ going on about them waking around the place and then some. Maybe if Ah keep walking around Ah could find some more craters and patch them up,” Big Mac though with a small snort, the powerful gale blasting from his nose, scattering a flock of bird’s V formation in front of him.

Raising his colossal hoof, Big Mac stepped forward and continued on his path forward. Though he did try his best to keep his growth at a minimum. After all, he didn’t want to terrify any new ponies whom he would eventually meet. Big Mac could only think about scared they would be of him. Similarly, to how the ponies of Ponyville reacted when Blueblood stepped over their tiny town as he walked by on his way to Canterlot.

As the landscape around Big Mac shuddered from his mighty size, he eventually was able to spot a patch or brown and grey among the clear green landscape. “Well, Ah’ll be. Ah almost forgot there was a lil town round these here parts,” Big Mac thought with a small smile as he thundered over to it “Might as well go an say hi to the lil’ ones,” 

But as he got closer and closer to the town, his newfound earth pony magic began to tingle around within him. There was something off about this particular town, though he couldn’t quite tell what just yet. Searching deeper within himself, Big Mac focused. Feeling the rush of the wind, the feel of the ground, and the earth beneath himself. 

There! He could sense it! The town he was approaching was filled to the brim with decaying plants. Fruits, Vegetables, and all sorts were in a bad state due to the poor conditions of their environment. Probably due to some neglectful weather ponies no doubt. Well, he had already fixed up his family’s orchard at only 100 feet tall. Now several dozens of times bigger, this should be no problem for the caring apple Titan.

Oakenwood continued to tremble as Mega Macintosh got closer. Ponies and stands bouncing up and down amidst the rumbling ground. Even entire houses were bouncing up from their foundations and back down animatedly. Macintosh’s shadow covered more and more of the town as the giant stallion got closer. Eventually, Big Mac’s ginormous hoof landed on the edge of the town with a resounding BOOM! sending everyone and everything in the town up into the air one last time.

Rubbing her sore rump from the impact of the fall, Sturdy Step looked out towards the distance. And up. And up. And really far up. Craning her head backwards she could barely make out the colossal spire that was the red leg that towered over the town. The massive tan hoof attached to the leg was humongous in it’s own right. This pony was so huge that the houses and clock tower didn’t even reach up to half of the hoof’s height.

“W-Wow,” Sturdy though in awe as she stared slack jawed at the hoof’s girth in front of her “So this is what it looks like from down here, huh?” 

Big Mac chuckled internally a little as he examined the little town in front of him. He really had gotten much bigger from when he had left Ponyville. Before he used to be able to tell the individual buildings apart, but now he was so massive that they all seemed to blend together. With the little multicolored dots that were ponies staring up at his colossal self, high up in the sky. 

“Well, howdy down there little ones,” Big Mac spoke in a friendly manner, tipping his massive cowboy hat in greeting.

“Woah,” Thimble squeaked out as he stared up at the giant “He’s even bigger than you were Sturdy,”

“Uh-huh,” Sturdy said weakly

Seeing that there was nopony answering the gigantic pony’s question, Thimble bravely steps forward, away from Sturdy Step and True Law and towards the red giant “Um, h-hi Mr. Giant, sir,” he said.

Big Mac’s ears twitched as he picked up on the young colt’s voice. Swiveling his massive head towards the ground he spotted a trio of tiny little figures all grouped together near the center of the town.

“Howdy there young stallion,” Big Mac said kindly, crouching down a little bit so he didn’t intimidate the tiny ponies on the ground with his huge bulk. It obviously didn’t work, but hey, it’s the thought that counts.

“Uh, umm,” Thimble’s mind seemed to draw a blank as he tried to think of where to steer the conversation next, luckily, he had a former Titan next to him to pick up the reins.

“Hey, hold up there buddy! How did you get so big?” Sturdy Step demanded as she stepped in front of Thimble protectively “And why? I seem to remember the Princesses getting pretty mad the last time some ponies tried doing the same thing!”

Big Mac pulled his head back a little and bowed his head respectfully “Begging yer pardon little miss, Ah understand y’all have the right ta feel a tad nervous after what them nobles did to ther kingdom. Ah don’t mean ta cause all y’all any alarm. Ah simply got tis big cuz of a magic mishap. Tha Princesses are currently working on a counterspell for this, so in tha meantime Ah decided to head out and put this here size ta good use an fix all tha damages that them nobles caused around tha kingdom,” he said honestly.

“You’re fixing all the damages? But that was part of their punishment that the Princess gave them,” Officer Law called up to Big Mac “Wouldn’t they be mad about that?” he asked uncertainly 

Big Mac shook his great head as he spoke “Mad or not sir, some ponies got hit hard by tha damages them no good nobles caused and almost lost their livelihoods and jobs. Tha Princesses can be mad at me if they want but as an adult mahself, Ah couldn’t, in a good consciousness, let mah fellow ponies suffer while Ah have tha power ta do something about it,” 

“Wow,” Sturdy thought as she listened to Big Mac talk “This is such a contrast to what we did when we were giants. With us, all we could think about is how to benefit ourselves and do whatever we wanted. Because who could stop us? We got hit hard by karma. But here’s this complete stranger who became even bigger than we did, and instead of doing as he pleases, he instead is trying to help others as a giant. The complete opposite of what we tried to do,” Sturdy’s ears flopped down as the revelation hit her. Did this make her a bad pony? Sure she had initially fixed the places she had gone with her magic, but morally, she couldn’t deny that she had became huge for the initial purpose of doing as she pleased.

“Um, Mr. Giant, Sir?” Officer Law’s voice broke Sturdy out of her thoughts “You said that you were trying to fix the damages that the nobles caused, correct? How have you been doing that? I thought that Earth ponies could only manipulate the magic in the ground to grow crops,”

The ground rumbled as Big Mac chuckled “Normally ya would be right little one, but with mahself being all huge and such came with a huge magic boost!” he replied

Sturdy’s ears flicked at the familiar description.

“I’ve been able to completely repair the ground and craters that them nobles left behind as well as any structures they damaged,” Big Mac said “And that leads me into why Ah’m here actually. Has tis here tiny little town been having some issues lately, more specially with tha plants y’all harvest?” 

“Yes!” pipped up Thimble “The crops and all of our harvests wouldn’t grow because nopony from Cloudsdale would send rainclouds over to here! So because of that a lot of the town’s crops aren’t growing as well anymore,”

“Ah see,” Big Mac rumbled as he looked up thoughtfully “So how’s about ya let me help all y’all?”

“Really?!” Thimble asked, a spark of hope beginning to grow in his eyes “You would do that for us?” 

“Ah would little one,” Big Mac said

“How are you going to do that?” asked Officer Law “You can’t just walk over to Cloudsdale, take some clouds, and come back with them. That’s stealing!” 

Big Mac nodded his head “Ah know that sir, that’s why Ah wasn’t going ta go get rainclouds. Ah’m going to save yer harvest a different way. One only Ah can do,”

“And what’s that?” asked a random pony in the background.

Big Mac smiled “Ah’ll let it be a surprise. Will y’all let me save yer town?” the gigantic stallion asked

The crowd muttered amongst themselves. Well, the last time a giant came to the town nothing really bad had happened. And this one had said that he was fixing up Equestria from the damages that was caused. So maybe this won’t be so bad?

Big Mac heard the mutters of approval float along the crowd as he stood back up to his full, absolutely massive height. Standing so tall that the town could fit in one of his hoofprints. The air seemed to rumble as Big Mac stood tall, towering over all of them. Sturdy gulped as she looked up at the Titan. “So, this is what most bugs see when a pony passed by, huh?” she thought with a shiver. It was pretty intimidating. And she certainly felt as small as one in the presence of the colossal stallion. 

“Alright everypony, it’s going ta be a surprise!” Big Mac boomed cheerfully as he reached up and removed his cowboy hat “So no peeking!”

The town seemingly stood still as they saw the Titanic pony lower his enormous hat towards the town, setting it down with a soft BOOM! Causing the ground to tremble slightly, as they were all bathed in a gentle shadow.

“It kinda smells like hay and apples in here,” Thimble though with a small giggle at the though of the giant liking the same food as him. 

High up above, Big Mac looked down at his hat with an amused look. To think, he was now so gigantic that an entire town could fit under his hat, with hundreds of miniscule ponies underneath the simple article of clothing. “Wonder how big Ah’ll get by tha end of this?” Big Mac wondered as he charged up his earth pony magic. A small grin made its way onto his lips “Well, why not set a goal for mahself? How about so big Ah can hold entire cities an mountains in tha frog of mah hoof? Now that would be a sight! Watching all them little ponies scurry around a giant pony hoof. Let’s just hope that by tha time Ah’m done with all tha repairs Ah’ll be that big. And of course, before tha Princesses reverse tis here growth,”

With his goal set, Big Mac set his hoof down and gently tapped the ground, unleashing a small wave of magic into the earth. Inside the hat, ponies gasped as all around them in the darkness, flashes of green erupted around them, lighting up their surroundings. The air rumbled as the humongous red hoof belonging to Big Mac reached down and lifted up the town covering hat. Ponies down below looked up in awe as they saw the hat they had been previously stuck under, lifted up like it was nothing by the giant and set back onto his head.

“Annnnnd done!” Big Mac announced with his deep, booming voice and a cheerful grin “So what do y’all think everypony?”

The ponies looked around in shock as they saw their previously lifeless plants suddenly blossoming with life. Dull yellow leaves and stems had been miraculously changed to a rich, green color teeming with beautiful pigments. And while this was happening, the familiar glow engulfed Big Macintosh as he began to raise to even bigger and better heights.

Thimble gasped as, even from the town center; he could see the sudden explosion of growth from the cotton plants from his family farm. Tears began to build up again in his eyes, but this time they were tears of joy at the sight of the huge crops. Turning his head away from the sight, he looked back up at the red Titan, towering over them in the sky

“T-thank you Mr. Giant, sir! Thank you so much!” Thimble squealed with happiness “I can’t wait to tell my parents the good news! Our family farm is saved! Now they won’t have to sell their stuff!”

A gentle smile graced Big Mac’s face as he leaned down again, tremors shaking the earth as he shifted his colossal bulk and faced Thimble Turner “Ah’m glad ta hear that youngin. By tha sound of it, yer were pretty worried about this ain’t ya?” he asked

Thimble nodded “Well, not only that, but my parents were really worried as well. And I don’t like seeing them that worried because it makes me worried as well,” he said. 

Big Mac nodded “Youngin, during those time, you should always remember never ta give up hope, specially when it comes to ya family. Especially during times of crisis, always remember to cherish your moments with yer family because those moments at tha end of the day, they always matter most. Family support ya, no matter how though things might seem,”

Thimble’s eyes widened with happiness “I will Mr. Giant, sir! Thank you! Thank you so much!”

Big Mac winked down at Thimble with a kind look as he stood back up to his full height, the town of Oakenwood beginning to cheer for him, thanking the Titan who saved their town. Big Mac looked down at the diminutive sized town and even tinier residents and gave them the good old tip of the hat as he bade them farewell. The colossal stallion lifted up his hoof and set it down next to Oakenwood with a THOOM, once more bouncing the residents and structures up into the air comically as the Titan resumed his stroll. The deep, booming sounds of his hoofsteps fading off into the distance along with his colossal frame.

“Wow…” Thimble said in awe

“Amazing…” Officer Law trailed off as he still looked off into the distance, faint Booms and still echoing through the air along with the minor tremble.

But Sturdy Step however had stopped thinking about the Titan walking away, rather the words or wisdom he had imparted onto Thimble about family “Especially during times of crisis, always remember to cherish your moments with yer family because those moments at tha end of the day, they always matter most. Family support ya, no matter how though things might seem,” The colossal titan had said to him

“Maybe he’s right,” Sturdy thought “Maybe later today I can send a letter to my father and check in on him. He’s probably worried sick and I haven’t said a word to him since. I promise as soon as this shopping trip is over I will send one immediately!”

As Law and Thimble struck up a conversation talking about what just happened, Sturdy trailed behind, lost in thought “And maybe, it wasn’t really the material stuff that makes the Turners happy, but the love they have for one another. Maybe that was the answer to the riddle that has been vexing me this entire time. Even with the thought of their house being sold it looks like they still remained tight as ever. Huh, maybe I should try doing that with father more. Spend time with him instead of remaining alone and by myself all the time,” Sturdy smiled to herself as she looked up at the approaching evening. Part of the reason she had gone down to Oakenwood was to figure out how to better herself, and at long last, she may have finally found the answer. All it took was a different perspective and the wise insight from another fellow Titan.

Meanwhile, now many miles, Big Mac looked up at the sky at the setting sun, admiring the night sky as it began to peak out. “Well, Ah think that Ah did pretty good today. How’s about Ah get some shut eye and then resume tomorrow. Hopefully by then Ah’ll have everything fixed up nice and neatly,” he thought. 

Big Mac sauntered over to a nearby mountain that reached up to his chest. Leaning back against it, Big Mac checked the surrounding areas, making sure it was clear, before putting his colossal hooves up on the second mountain range next to him with a BOOM. Pebble sized boulders rained down from where he rested his gargantuan hooves.

“Now that’s more like it,” Big Mac thought with a small smirk as he put his forelegs behind his head in a resting position, pulling down his hat over his eyes. Who would have thought that he’d be using an entire mountain as a pillow and another one as a hoof rest? Certainly not him. “But boy howdy does this feel mighty good,” Big Mac thought as he settled down to sleep, letting his tired muscles rest from a long day of hard work.

Thank goodness he didn’t snore or else nopony would be getting sleep that night





“Arrgh! We’ve tried everything!” Twilight exclaimed as she blindly tossed aside another crumpled piece of paper over her head “I don’t know what we’re doing wrong!”

Luna snorted as the paper ball bounced off her head “Have faith Twilight Sparkle, I am sure we shall find the answer we are looking for eventually,” she said as she levitated the wad of paper and tossed it into the waste bin.

Meanwhile, over by the whiteboard, Celestia was busy going over the various spells that the three of them had come up with over the course of the two days. So far nothing had work. Big Mac’s fur had been completely resistant to them no matter what variation of the spells they casted or how many times they altered them.

“Maybe I have been looking at this all wrong,” Celestia thought as she looked over the markings on the board. 

They knew that spells wouldn’t work, Blueblood had confirmed that much when they tried casting spells on him when he was a titan. Even a blast from the elements of harmony didn’t work.

“So why bother with a spell at all then?” Celestia wondered “Why not use something…different?”

And just like that, a lightbulb lit up in her mind as she put the pieces together. They really had been going at this all wrong! Just because spells didn’t work before meant that they would work now. There are different forms of magic available to them aside from spells. 

“If Big Macintosh is completely impervious to spells from the outside, then perhaps a shrinking potion that he has to swallow would suffice!” Celestia thought excitedly as she began to erase the board

“Wha-HEY! Princess! Why did you erase all my equations?” Twilight wailed at the sight of her precious knowledge getting scrubbed away by the eraser.

“Because my faithful student, my dear sister, I believe I have just come up with the solution to our predicament!” Celestia cheerfully said as she began to write on the board. Looking back, she saw she had Twilight’s and Luna’s full attention. Celestia smiled back at the two behind her ecstatically “We’re going to create our own, original shrinking potion to counter that spell!”
> Chapter 7-  A Mega Resolution
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Equestria was no stranger to weird, strange, or fantastical things, so much so, that ponies sometimes needed to take a step back to process it all. Firstly, Princess Celestia apparently had a sister nopony knew about that she rocketed off to the moon in the world’s most extreme time out. Secondly, there was the supposably mystical and magical artifacts that guard the kingdom known as the elements of harmony, thirdly a race of bug ponies known as changelings apparently exist and are considered hostile to Equestria ever since their queen lead an invasion on the capital and gatecrashed the captain of the guard’s wedding, and lastly an empire made up of crystals just randomly popped a few months ago that the royal sisters were aware of but had slipped their mind until recently.

All of these events seem like something straight out of a fantasy book, ponies had through they had seen it all. But as we all know, Equestria is (for some reason) the epicenter of the fantastical, and this will be no exception. It had all started on a bright an early morning. Ponies were all out and about as their days began. And that is when it happened:

RUMMMMMBLLLLEEEE!

Ponies all around Equestria winced as the very air itself seemed to shake. Something large, no something absolutely titanic was causing this to happen though the sheer act of moving. Ponies shuddered along the ground as it rapidly shook slightly, their heads darting left and right, trying to figure out what was going on. But it wouldn’t take them long before some of them had the ingenious idea to look up. And what they saw absolutely made their jaws drop to the ground with an BANG! 

A stallion could be seen walking out across the horizon. A stallion so incomparably big that he was practically his own horizon, silhouetting against the morning sun. This absolute Titan was so humongous that he seemed to be moving in slow motion across the land. Thunderous BOOMS reverberated through the air with each one of his mighty hoofsteps landing on the soft, malleable earth below him. But as the hoof lifted, there seemed to be no damage left behind.

Big Macintosh stared down at the world below him with an amused look on his face. That morning that he had woken up early and had gotten straight to work, wanting to meet his goal of surpassing the size of mountain ranges and cities around him. And to his delight, there were still plenty of damages around that he could repair. He had next gone to a village that had supposably been visited by Enterprise Pursuit and Lily Shine. While they didn’t outright harm the village itself, they sure didn’t bother cleaning up their mess after they left. After quickly sorting out the damages, thankfully well before anypony had woken up, Big Mac had found his size increasing even more.

But unfortunately, after those repairs were finished, he couldn’t seem to find any more damages anywhere around the kingdom. This was both good and bad for him. Good because this meant that all the repairs were complete around the kingdom and everypony could go back to living in peace. But bad for him because this meant he couldn’t get any bigger from fixing the damages. And he was only slightly bigger than a mountain.

Big Mac huffed in disappointment “Nnope,” he rumbled as he gazed around at the miniature landscape. His ears flopped down at apparent defeat. Looks like his goal wouldn’t be reached after all. Big Mac looked down dejectedly as his hoof scraped the ground absentmindedly, pondering what to do. 

“Ah could head back ta Ponyville an wait. Ah reckon tha Princesses and Twilight are almost done with that fancy counterspell. Though me being there could cause a disruption in tha town,” Big Mac though, now tapping his humongous hoof against the ground in thought. Ponies in the nearby village stirred as they heard loud THOOMS and felt the ground rumble. Some were rolled out of their beds, another had their coffee spilled in their face because of the vibrations, and one poor sap was tossed around in their bathtub amidst the shaking. Big Mac was completely unaware that the simple act of nonchalantly tapping his hoof on the ground was affecting the tiny ponies in such a big way.

But as the Titan contemplated about his next move, his eyes fell to the colossal gash in the earth he had created when he was scraping his hoof just now. But as he tapped his hoof on the ground again to repair the damage he had accidently caused; Big Mac had an epiphany that struck him like a ton a bricks. So what if there was no damages left to fix? Hasn’t he been growing just fine by simply walking? He does, after all, have to fix the ground constantly because there’s no way it can support his titanic size. So all he’d have to do is walk around for a bit, continue growing, and he’ll reach his goal in no time!

A broad grin broke across Macintosh’s muzzle as he said “Eeyup,” his deep baritone voice shaking the ground below some more as the extremely tiny ponies watched the gigantic stallion lift his immense leg and effortlessly step over the town. The bulky hoof landing a few miles away with another tremendous BOOM, the ponies and houses bouncing up out of their foundations as Big Macintosh set out, now that his original goal of fixing up the kingdom had been achieved, it was now time to fulfill his personal goal of becoming the largest thing alive in all of Equestria.

And now that time had come, sometime later after everypony had properly woken up and got to behold the gargantuan stallion towering over everything in sight. Big Mac surveyed the tiny world around him with a bit of a smug and pleased smile. His head and torso already breaking through the clouds above and towering high above them

He had truly become Mega Macintosh.

Where cities and buildings had once stood tall and proud, they had been reduced down to nothing more than gray little pinpricks protruding off the ground. Big Mac sauntered up to where Manehatten was, the entire city, once large enough to house him formally, was now no bigger than the size of a coin to the red apple titan.

Big Mac’s shadow completely engulfed the puny city almost immediately as he slowly walked up to them, letting everypony in the city feel the weight and power of each one of his mighty steps. Far down below ponies were being bounced around from the rhythmic strides as they tried to figure out what in the world was going on. It wasn’t long before their attention was drawn to the colossal being heading towards them.

Big Mac, feeling much more playful than usual, tried to contain his laughter as he kept a straight face and looked directly ahead as he thundered forward, wanting to mess around with the little guys a bit. His colossal hoof landing next to the tiny city with an earth-shattering BOOM! Once more sending the buildings and ponies by his hoof bouncing up into the air comically. As the ponies down below picked themselves up, they stared up in awe at just how much bigger Big Macintosh had gotten since the last time he visited. Before he was about as tall as the biggest building in the city, and when he left he was around the same size as the nobles. Now though, big wasn’t even the appropriate word to describe how absolutely massive he was now. To put it into perspective, the buildings on the ground barely rose up a fraction next to the tan part of his hoof. The ponies down below truly felt a sense of fear creeping into them at the sight of somepony so monstrously colossal.

“Hmmm, Ah could have sworn there was a tiny little city somewhere ‘round these parts,” Big Mac announced jokingly as he looked left and right exaggeratedly, but deliberately not down. The ponies down by his foot held their hooves up to their mouths as they tried getting the titans attention. Hamming it up even more, Big Mac began to tap his hoof against the ground again, taking care to set his muscular hoof down next to the city and not directly on it “Now where could they have gone off to?” Big Mac wondered out loud. The shockwaves sent from each tap began to bounce around the infinitesimal sized buildings and ponies once again. 

But the ride had stopped just as suddenly as it started. As the city ponies stumbled around trying to figure out what happened, they heard Big Mac’s deep, thunderous voice from high up in the heavens joyfully “Well how about that! Ah think Ah just found where tha little folk scurried off to. Hmm, though Ah could have sworn y’all used ta be bigger. Are ya sure y’all are actually ponies? Lemme take a real good look at ya little ones,”

The world rumbled as the enormous hoof next to the city rose up, positioning itself directly over Manehatten. Ponies watched fearfully as Big Mac lowered his hoof down towards the city, before anchoring it towards the side and sliding it under the ground like butter, effortlessly tearing out the little city out of the earth. The entire metropolis balanced perfectly in the frog of his hoof with plenty of room to spare

“Now then, let’s see if Ah caught me some itty-bitty little ponies or some teeny-weeny little bugs,” Big Mac said playfully as he raised the city to his face. Down below ponies watched helplessly as their entire city was plucked off the ground like a stone as they were held up by to be inspected by Big Mac. His emerald green eye filled the sky, filled with mirth as he gazed down at the hundreds of ponies held in his grasp.

Big Mac chuckled gently as he examined the city he held before saying “Ah’m just joking everypony. There’s nothing ta be scared of,”

And just like that, the city let out the breath they had been collectively holding. All of them fearful at the fact that Big Mac might have let all that power go to his head like the nobles did. But he wasn’t like them, not in the slightest. He was the biggest, friendliest, and most lovable pony around.

Big Mac’s playful smile faded away, with a softer, kinder one taking its place as he gently brushed the tiny city and its inhabitants against his broad chest, pulling them all into a giant hug “Mmmm, now don’t that feel nice lil’ ones?” Big Mac rumbled as he gently rocked the city against his muscular frame “Ah’m sorry for tha little scare back there. Just having some fun that’s all,” The ponies didn’t seem to mind this at all thankfully, they were perfectly happy to get the world’s biggest hug from the world’s biggest pony. Sure it had been initially a little scary staring up at the humongous spire of red fur and muscle, but being nestled into the ultra-soft fur from a several mile tall pony was a great way to make up for it.

After a little while Big Mac set the city back down into the ground, a smirk beginning to overtake him once more as he rose back up into the sky, looming high above them all “So, how bout it little ones? Do Ah look more powerful than last time y’all saw me from down there?” Big Mac asked. He was pleased to hear the tiny little squeaks of approval from down below as the ponies praised the friendly titan. “Well, glad ta hear that!” Big Mac boomed happily has he flexed his muscles “Course, Ah couldn’t have gotten this big without y’all’s help. Thank y’all again for letting big ol’ me fix up yer lil’ itty bitty city!” 

And just like that Big Mac leaned down, his colossal face getting closer and closer to the miniature city below. The titanic stallion nuzzled the entirety of Manehatten softly, giving his thanks to the mite sized ponies who helped him get so much closer to his amazing size now. The city ponies were smothered against the warm strands of fur of the giant nosed their diminutive forms. Standing back up to his proper height, Big Mac winked at Manehatten as he called down “Well then, Ah’m off. Ah’d say this would be good by fer now but Ah’m sure y’all would still be able ta see me strolling round tha little kingdom!” With a hearty laugh, Big Mac set off again, taking care to stomp down next to the city as he departed, bouncing up the tiny city one last time as he walked off.

The world shuddered as he wandered around, taking in the sights of the tiny kingdom of Equestria “It all just looks so…tiny,” Big Mac thought as he passed by a few pebble sized mountains, his hind hoof squashing the cluster into dust, leaving behind a several mile wide hoofprint as he walked by, only for them to spring back up in an instant thanks to the aid of his magic. Big Mac stopped walking as he loomed over the kingdom. From his elevated height he could see for miles around him. But he instead opted to turn his attention to a familiar patch of land a little way aways from his right hoof. There lay Ponyville and Sweet apple acres. It was all Big Mac had known most of his life, and now it lay so small in front of him that he could simply sweep his hoof across the ground and effortlessly brush the entire town, orchard, and inhabitants away like it was nothing but dust. 

Big Mac frowned slightly as he resumed walking, taking care to step around his extremely itty-bitty hometown as to not frighten them. “It’s all so strange ta think that all Ah have ever known mah entire life can now fit on that flat side of a coin if Ah was mah normal size,” he thought as he stopped by another town. Lifting up his hoof, he compared its size to the settlement, it was big enough to completely flatten it with plenty of room to spare. “Was this tha feeling that them nobles felt when they were galivanting around tha kingdom? Big Mac wondered “Ah guess Ah can see why they got so power hungry once they all got back ta Canterlot. They wanted more, and who could stop them? Certenly not tha Princesses or Mah sis and her friends. All they were interested in doing was throwing around their weight and bully tha little guy,” 

Big Mac reached down and plucked up the village he had been comparing the size of his hoof too. Gently raising it up, he nestled it gently cuddled it against his cheek as he apologized for the intimidating display. As he set it back down, Big Mac decided to leave them with a little parting gift, tapping his hoof against the ground he was able to spruce up their village, making it look more presentable and nourishing the crops. The populace cheered for the titan as he made his departure, jostling the world as he stomped away “But like Ah said, Ah ain’t like them other titans. Ah will always look after tha little guy and do mah best ta help and support them. Not go running off ta Canterlot and demand favors just cuz Ah’m huge. An speaking of Canterlot…”

Big Mac trailed off as he looked down with a small smile. There laying before him was the now utterly tiny Canterlot mountain. The residence of Canterlot were staring up at him in anxious anticipation. The last time a titan had appeared in front of Canterlot, it had resulted in all of them being held in the frog of a mega sized Blueblood for a better part of the day, with all of them completely powerless to do anything to stop him. But that same anxiousness that was festering within them quickly melted away as they saw the Titanic form of Big Macintosh looking down at them with a friendly smile as he tipped his hat in greeting.

“Howdy down there little ones!” Big Mac boomed pleasantly as he leaned down towards the specks “How are y’all doing down there?” 

Big Mac chuckled as he heard the familiar sounds of ponies squeaking down below him, all of them attempting to call up to him or trying to get his attention. All of them relieved that this new titan meant no ill will to them “Awww, Ah love all y’all too! Now don’t y’all worry none little ones, Ah promise Ah won’t scare y’all like them no good nobles did. Apple Family honesty!” Big Mac thundered proudly in his deep voice as he leaned up and placed one of his gargantuan hoofs on his chest, his eyes closed and head held high.

Down below in Centerlot Castle, the door to one of the sleeping quarters opened and out stepped a sleepy Blueblood. Nightcap on his head, pajamas still worn, and teddy bear held tightly in hoof as he sauntered down the hallway, stopping a pair of guards as they passed by, a stallion and mare, the two of them talking excitedly “You two! What in the world is with all that noise? It sounds like somepony’s outside my window yelling with a megaphone!” Blueblood grumbled as he blinked sunlight out of his eyes “I want to know who’s doing that this instant so I can give them a piece of my mind! It’s only 11 in the morning, some of us need their beauty sleep!” The two guards giggled as they tried to suppress their laughter “Well your highness, I think you should take a quick look out the window. The source of your trouble is visible from there,” the stallion guard said 

Blueblood’s brow raised but he nevertheless complied. He was too tired to argue with guards so early in the morning. Making his way over to the window he sleepily he gazed out to his left and right before turning back to the pair of guards behind him, both of them still trying and failing to conceal their laughter. Blueblood gritted his teeth “Is this a joke? There isn’t anything there!” he snorted in frustration

The same guard from before pointed back at the window with a wide grin “Your highness, if I may, the sky seems to be unusually red this morning, wouldn’t you agree?” he asked

“What do you mean red…?” Blueblood asked as he turned around as gazed up. His sentence trailing off as he took in what he was seeing. Towering high above them all was an absolutely gigantic earth pony stallion. One so large that he could easily flick away the city like it was a gumdrop. He was even bigger than Blueblood was when he became a titan!

Blueblood’s eyes went wide and his ears flattened against his head. He let out a squeaky “MEEP!” of fear as he backpaddled away from the window, his teddy bear falling to the floor as he turned around and scampered back to his bedroom in fright

“Aren’t you going to give him a piece of your mind your highness?” The mare asked cheekily as Blueblood fled past them in panic and back into his room. The two guards couldn’t hold it in any longer, they burst out into laughter as they saw the door slam and the bed mattress groan under pressure. No doubt caused by Blueblood diving back into bed and probably throwing the covers over his head.

“Looks like Bluey finally got to see what that was like from down here,” The stallion said as he wiped a tear from his eye.

The mare giggled in agreement as she gazed back out at the window. This new titan was currently leaning down and conversing with several of the ponies that had gathered around his massive snout, talking to local residence, the press, and even some members of the royal guard, all of them chatting in a friendly tone. There were even a few foals playing around on his nose. Looks like this giant had allowed them to climb up after they asked.

“I gotta say, I like this guy already,” the mare commented as she watched the scene outside the castle.

“Gonna have to agree with you on that one,” the stallion commented as he walked up to stand beside her in front of the window “This sure beats what happened when Blueblood was big. Though, I never thought I’d see the day a pony who’d been turned giant acting all friendly. At least not after the debacle with Enterprise, Lily, Jet Set, Upper Crust, Blueblood, and Sturdy Step,”

“I think you let that one experience muddy your thoughts on that growth spell,” the mare said teasingly as she bumped him with her hip “Though I gotta wonder, do you think the Princesses would use that growth spell on the guards when they find it?”

The stallion tore his gaze away from the sight of Big Mac bouncing the miniature sized foals around on his muzzle as he looked at his partner with an amused stare “Giant royal guards?” he asked 

“It seems like a good idea,” the mare said defensively, puffing out her cheeks a bit as she looked at him “With all of us that big, you’d think there’d be no need to put the elements of harmony at risk every time there was a crisis,”

Her partner grinned “You just want to try being giant, don’t you?”

The mare hung her head “Yeah…it looks like fun,”

Back outside, Big Mac had just finished safely setting the last foal down next to their parents. Standing back up, he let his shadow fall over the tiny mountain as he showed off his massive size to the capitol down below.

“Well, Ah got ta head out now lil’ ones, it was nice getting ta meet y’all!” Big Mac boomed as he tipped his hat one final time with a smile. Canterlot cheered for the mega sized stallion as they watched his colossal form walk off, causing the entire mountain the tremble with each one of his steps. All of them happy to have gotten the chance to meet such a friendly titan.

Big Mac was feeling pretty good as he walked, a skip in his step as he grew even more as he traversed over the horizon and the flat looking land. He had gotten to help out Manehatten, fix the damages around the kingdom, help out Oakenwood, and even fulfill his own goal of reaching this enormous size. Needless to say, Big Mac felt like he was on top of the world. But he was so caught up in his achievements he didn’t notice a few tiny shapes buzzing around his eyes.

If we zoom in a little on them, we can see quite clearly that these little shapes are the Wonderbolts. All of them frantically waving their hooves wildly as they called out trying to get Big Mac’s attention. But for somepony as absolutely massive as Big Mac, this was easier said than done. To Big Mac, they were smaller then small. Tinier than specks. And he wasn’t paying attention to them over the thunderous sound of his hoofsteps. But thankfully, somepony else had joined the effort of getting Big Mac’s attention.

Big Mac took notice of what appeared to be a tiny little multicolored line buzzing around his eyes every few seconds. He let out a small snort of annoyance, sending the Wonderbolts flying from the simple exhale from his nostril. All of them squealing as they were blown away from the hurricane grade wind. But thankfully, the originator of the rainbow, Rainbow Dash, had the foresight to grab onto a strand of fur that was on Big Mac’s nose before he had done so. 

“W-Woah!” Rainbow exclaimed as she felt Big Mac’s powerful steps shaking the strand she was on. As she let go, she rocketed back up towards the titan’s eyes flying back and forth, squeaking out his name frantically. Big Mac came to a stop as he noticed the rainbow streak in his field of view once more, the pieces falling into place in his mind as to who that could be.

“Ms. Dash? Is that you down there?” He asked, his powerful voice shaking the air around Rainbow Dash who unfortunately was positioned right in front of his mouth when he did so

“Holy moly, that’s seriously loud!” Rainbow exclaimed as she covered her ears with gritted teeth. After the ringing had stopped Rainbow flew right over to Big Mac’s mountain sized ears and held up the megaphone she brought with her

“Hey Big Mac! The Princesses and Twilight said they finished the antidote or whatever to turn you back to normal! They said they need you to go over to Ponyville right away so they can give it to you!” Rainbow Dash hollered as loud as she could.

“They already finished it?” Big Mac rumbled

“Uh huh! They’re waiting over at Sweet Apple Acres right now to give it to you! So, C’mon!”

Internally Big Mac sighed “Well, looks like this is it. Ah had a good run while it lasted,” he thought sadly “Aright, hold on tight down there Rainbow, Ah’ll get us back there in a jiffy,” Big Mac said. Though he couldn’t see it, Rainbow saluted and held onto one of the strands of Big Mac’s fur on his ears. Big Mac, being a colossal as he was, simply took a step and leaned down, already next to Ponyville. Rainbow Dash thanked him as disembarked from her giant ear ride, touching back down on the fields near the barn where the Princesses, Mane 6, Spike, and the rest of the Apple family were waiting.

“Howdy everypony,” Big Mac thundered “Ah guess this is it huh? Y’all got the counterspell ta this?”

Twilight stared gobsmacked up at Mega Macintosh as his humongous muzzle leaned down to them, completely covering their field of view as well as all of Ponyville. 

“W-W-Wow,” Twilight breathed as she stared up at the titan, she glanced at the potion bottle she held up in her magic “Will this even be enough to shrink him back?” she wondered “He’s so much bigger than I ever could have imagined!”

The others fared no better, all of them gawking up at Big Mac’s titanic form in shock.

Luna leaded over to Celestia, whose jaw was almost on the ground as she stared up at the enormous red stallion looming over them all, and whispered “Sister, never have I been so relieved that somepony as trustworthy and responsible as the element of honesty’s older brother became a titan,” 

Celestia closed her mouth and whispered back “I do agree Lulu. Could you imagine just how disastrous things could have been if Blueblood and his cohorts had grown to such a size?”

Luna nodded. It had been annoying enough to deal with the spoiled nobles and their petty desires, the thought of them this big seemed too dreadful to think about.

Next to her, Twilight turned to Rainbow Dash and handed her the potion bottle “Rainbow, can you fly this up to Big Mac toss this in his mouth?  

Raimbow nodded as she took the bottle in her hooves and shot up into the sky. Down below Twilight raised her hooves to her mouth and yelled up to Big Mac “We made a potion to counteract the growth spell Big Mac! Since we don’t have the actual spell book with us ever since Blueblood lost it! we decided to make this from scratch, so hopefully we got it right and it won’t mutate the spell on you even more!”

Rainbow Dash came to a stop in the air and hovered in front of Big Mac’s muzzle “Alrighty big guy, open up!” she hollered, holding up the potion bottle.

Big Mac complied, although he was sad that his time as a titan was coming to an end, he knew that he had to be responsible and mature about this. Acting like a foal over this wasn’t what his Ma and Pa would have wanted, because that wasn’t how they raised him. Big Mac opened his mouth, the gigantic casem releasing a torrent of warm, apple smelling wind, blasting Rainbow Dash back a bit. 

With a yelp she fumbled with the bottle a little as she struggled to regain her mobility, the ponies’ eyes down on the ground widened as they all silently begged Rainbow Dash not to drop the bottle.

“Don’t worry I got it!” she yelled out after a second “Here ya go Big Mac!”

Arcing her foreleg back, Rainbow throw the bottle as hard as she could into Macintosh’s mouth. She watched the little bottle sail through the air and into the gaping abyss. Big Mac closed his mouth with a tremendous BOOM and swallowed as he stood back up, the air rumbling as he once more covering the land in his shadow.

“So…what happens now?” Big Mac asked the tiny cast below.

Nopony moved as they all stared up at him in silence, all of them waiting for something to happen. But after about a minute Applejack turned to Twilight “Are ya sure you and tha Princesses got it right Sugarcube?” she asked.

Twilight looked panicked “I think so, I’m sure we did! Right?” she asked as she looked around at the Princesses. 

Celestia looked back at her and the rest of the Apple family uneasily “While we did the everything we could, it is indeed possible that the potion we developed may not have worked. As it was stated before, we do not have the spell book that made Big Mac grow in the first place, meaning that we do not know the proper magical elements used in the spell and what their proper counter may be. There are several ways to construct a spell you see, many ways to create one certain outcome. Similarly to how there is more than one way to solve a math problem. However, without the original glyphs here to show us what was cast, we cannot properly make a counter to them, only make an estimate to the best of our ability based on the variables present. This coupled with the fact that the spell was mutated due to prolonged activation may indeed result in the shrinking potion not working,”

“So what are ya saying Princess? Are ya saying that Macky will be like that forever?” Granny Smith asked

“Not to worry Mrs. Smith,” Luna spoke reassuringly “If it does not work it will only be until we find the book or administer a stronger potion. He does not have to say that way permanently,”

“I don’t think we need to worry you guys!” Spike exclaimed “It looks like it is working!”

Everypony stopped talking immediately as they heard Spike. Turning their attention skywards they watched happily as Big Mac’s gargantuan form slowly get smaller and smaller.

“Yay! It actually worked!” Apple Bloom said happily as she bounced around

And after long last, Mega Macintosh had returned back into good old Big Mac. 

“Eeyup,” Big Mac said nonchalantly “It’s good ta be back everypony,”

For a moment nopony moved, but just as suddenly the Apple Family, Mane 6 and Spike all broke into a mad dash towards him and promptly jumped onto the stallion as they wrapped their hooves around him in a hug, sending poor Big Mac falling onto the ground with his hat flying off as the group dog piled him with hugs, all of them happy to see the country pony back to normal

“WELCOME BACK MACKY!!” Pinkie squealed happily as she latched onto his back and hugged him with an iron grip “You know what this call for? A super-duper Big Mac isn’t a giant titan anymore and is back to normal party!”

“T-Thank ya kindly Pinkie,” Big Mac wheezed out.





“Even after all this time, Ah do have ta admit, Pinkie knows how ta throw one mean party,” Applejack said with a yawn as she and Big Mac made their way to their rooms. 

“Eeyup,” Big Mac agreed as the two of them tiredly walked through the hallway

Pinkie had been true to her word, not long after Big Mac had shrunk back down to normal, she had promptly sent out party invitations to everypony she could find in Ponyville. It had only taken her a few minutes to completely clear out the newly refurbished barn (courtesy of Big Mac) and turn it into a party house, complete with cake, sweets, drinks, and several party games. The whole town as well as the Princesses had turned up for the occasion, in celebration of the potion working and Big Mac was back to normal.

Several of the townsponies had come to talk to him about the experience and what it was like, Big Mac, being as little bashful, did his best to retell the tale for eveypony present. His audience hung onto his every word as he described the feeling of being so huge and the absurd change in perspective. Even Rainbow dash was impressed because she always focused on speed, she had never actually flown that high before until she was trying to get Big Mac’s attention. The Princesses looked on approvingly as he described the events that took place in Manehatten and how he repaired the city after the Noble’s rampage through it (though he did omit the little detail of plucking up an entire stadium full of ponies and posing for pictures with all of them in hoof. They’ll find out when the press publishes the article) and Granny Smith smiled proudly as she heard Big Mac recount his story at Oakenwood and how he stopped to help them, even giving a little family advice while he was there.

After the story telling was done Pinkie had them hit the dance floor and try out some of the party games she had set up. Big Mac wasn’t much for dancing, so he went back to conversing with Mayor Mare and Zecora about some of the things that had happened while he was a giant. The CMC and the rest of their schoolmates rushed straight over to the party games and half the town went over to the dance floor. Even Princess Luna got in on the action and danced with Pipsqueak, the latter ecstatic he got to see his favorite Princess on a day when it wasn’t Nightmare Night. Princess Celestia on the other hand was perfectly content with sitting at the table while she sneaked cake slice after cake slice. All of which disappeared down her gullet as quickly as she received it.

But alas, soon the Princesses had to depart and head back to Canterlot as it was getting extremally late. And it was around that time most of the townsponies decided that they had their fill of the event as well and that it was time to turn in for the night. Everypony had thanked Pinkie for setting up the event and congratulated Big Mac for returning to normal before heading out.

Rarity and Sweetie Bell both headed back to their home, Twilight levitated a sleeping Spike onto her back and bade everypony good night as she went back to the library, Fluttershy left with Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo, and Pinkie, after cleaning up everything in a blink of an eye, gave Big Mac one more bone crushing hug before hopping back to Sugarcube Corner with Mr. Cake, Mrs. Cake, Poundcake, and Pumpkin Cake following behind.

As the rest of the Apple Family returned to their newly fixed up house, once again thanks to Big Mac, they all said their good nights as they all departed to their rooms. Now leaving Big Mac and Applejack alone as they sleepily made their way up to their rooms.

But as they finally came to Applejack’s door, she stopped outside it, not going in. 

“Hey Mac,” Applejack spoke up “Can Ah ask you something?”

“Eeyup,” Big Mac replied

Applejack rubbed her hoof silently as she stared at the ground, as if trying to find the right words to convey what she was thinking. Big Mac just stood there silently as he waited. After a while Applejack looked back up into his eyes “Why didn’t ya, you know, just stay at tha farm while you were growing and such? Didn’t ya trust the rest of us ta put things right?” she asked hesitantly, as if afraid of the answer.

Big Mac sighed mentally, he had a feeling he would have to bring this up at some point “Sis,” Macintosh began “Ah suppose Ah should just be honest with ya. With ya being the element of honesty an such,” he said chuckling a bit at the irony. But the small smile that had formed soon faded away as Big Mac looked back at Applejack with a melancholy expression “If Ah’m being honest, being big made me feel good. Real good in fact. It made me feel better tha Ah had been in a while. When I found out tha Ah had suddenly gained a major increase to mah earth pony magic Ah felt like Ah could actually use it and do something meaningful with mah life for a change, feel like Ah was actually doing something meaningful and feel meaningful. Tha growth was just a happy bonus.”

“Macky? What are ya saying?” Applejack asked softly, a troubled look on her face “Of course ya are meaningful. Hay, everything ya do around here is meaningful. Why would ya think otherwise?”

“Is it though AJ?” Big Mac asked glumly as he leveled his gaze with hers “Ah just felt like all Ah did was the same thing over an over again here. Always just working at tha farm alone. Ah just don’t feel like Ah actually did anything ta stand out anymore. And that sort of thing is hard ta do if yer in a family as big as ours. Ah just feel like nopony even acknowledges me anymore because Ah don’t have any of tha standout qualities that you, AB, an Granny all have,”

Applejack opened her mouth to reply but Big Mac held up his hoof “Let me explain what Ah mean AJ, Ah don’t want ya getting the wrong idea here,” he said. Applejack’s eyes widened in slight shock, but she simply nodded and kept silent.

Big Mac sighed heavily before continuing “Before all this happened Ah kept asking mahself, what exactly was there Ah had that made me stand out? Apple Bloom an her lil’ friends are well known around tha town because of all their attempts ta get their cutie marks, Granny Smith goes ta town frequently and everypony admires her because she was one of the founders of the town, and you AJ, ya got about as famous reputation as a pony could get. One of the elements of harmony, made yer debut by saving tha Princess’ long-lost sister that she sent to tha moon of all places, and yer constantly being called on mission appointed by tha princess herself, like stopping that dragon from smoking up tha sky or dealing with the fallout of tha whole titan debacle. Ah can’t think of anypony who doesn’t know who ya are.”

Applejack nodded slowly as she processed what Big Mac had just said “Ah see, but what does this have ta do with you leaving tha farm and becoming all giant Macky?” she asked.

“Ah’m getting ta that,” Big Mac replied “With all of this wonderous stuff happening to all y’all on the daily Ah just couldn’t shake tha feeling that it was just undermining everything that Ah was doing at the farm. Even at supper when we share how our day had gone, all Ah seem ta say is ‘Ah did farm work’ or ‘Ah planted crops and fixed something that was broken.’ Then comes you, Apple Bloom and Granny saying stuff like how they met with the mayor ta discuss how ta organize an upcoming celebration, or AB telling us about some wacky adventure she and her friends went on ta get their cutie marks, or you telling us how ya went to Canterlot ta see tha Princess again or stopped some threat to tha kingdom again. Ah just feel like Ah’m becoming invisible ta everypony,”

“Ya feel like everypony is just looking past ya now because ya don’t feel like yer noteworthy anymore?” Applejack asked with concern as she walked up to Big Mac slowly, placing a hoof on his shoulder

“That about sums it up AJ,” Big Mac sighed as he looked down with shame “Even at recent family gathering now most of tha family just either ignore me and go straight to talk with y’all or just give me a passing ‘Hi” an move on to somepony else like Ah’m not worth tha time anymore because they know Ah don’t have anything of note ta share with them,”

Big Mac raised his head land met Applejack’s gaze sorrowfully “But do ya know what’s even worse than that? Is tha fact that Apple Bloom don’t look up ta me no more. Ah remember that she always used ta go on about how she wanted me ta teach her how ta do all sorts of things and skills she could pick up. Or even how she just wanted ta spend time with me after school before going off crusadin’ with her friends. But not anymore. She don’t think Ah’m worth it anymore because Ah’m not tha family hero. You are Applejack. Everytime Ah see her all Ah can hear is her endless praise for you an Granny ever since she found out she founded the town. She barely pays me any mind anymore. Ah’m- Ah’m just afraid she’ll forget about me like everypony else has. Ah just thought that since Ah had mah new magic Ah could actually do some good for once and help around the kingdom like you always do. An with mah size increasing everytime Ah used it, everypony would have no choice but ta look up at me while Ah was helping them. It just felt like tha old days were back for once and Ah was actually accomplishing something by helping all them,”

Big Mac broke off, he looked away as his eyes began watering a bit as he finally spoke out loud the thoughts that had been haunting him for months. But to his surprise he felt Applejack gently wrap her forelegs around his torso in a hug as she lay her head against his chest. He looked back down at her and saw that her eyes were also watering as well.

“Oh Macky, why didn’t ya say so sooner? Ah had no idea ya felt this way,” she said sadly as she tightened her grip around him gently.

“Ah didn’t think it mattered that badly AJ,” Big Mac murmured as he felt Applejack directing the two of them into her room. Once inside Applejack let go and faced him.

“Big Macintosh, of course it matters! Why wouldn’t it? Everything you do has meaning to it. Yer one of tha most lovable and dependable ponies around! Yer always there ta help, everypony in town knows yer face, an yar the one we all depend on ta keep the farm running. Without ya we’d be in more trouble than an apple with a worm in it,” Applejack declared with a hardened gaze.

“Ah know that sis, but-”

“No ‘buts’ Macky! Ya have value. Ya always did. Even if ya didn’t see it in yerself,” Applejack said “When ya left, after a while Apple Bloom was in shambles when she came back. After she saw ya leave she was worried ya won’t come back or something silly like that. She was really worried aboutcha. She kept going on about how she was wanting ta spend more time with ya now that she an her class was getting time off because she hasn’t done that in a while. She does care about ya still Macky. Ya do have meaning ta her, me, Granny, and tons of other ponies.”

Applejack sighed before continuing with a smile “But not only that, ya used yer size an power ta help out ponies who were put in trouble by them no good nobles. Fixed up everything nicely. An for that Ah couldn’t be happier. If ya think that didn’t have meaning buster think again! Ya saved a lot of ponies by doing that. An from what Ah hear ya even became something of a role model while you were at it. That’s something ta be admired Macky. Ah don’t think even me and the girls have properly done that yet. But all of Equestria knows about this, and about you. And Ah can tell you that they’ll be forever grateful for tha help. Now that, that right there is pretty meaningful if ya ask me.”

A small smile arced on Big Mac’s lips “Thanks AJ, Ah needed that,” he said looking at her

Applejack gave Big Mac another hug “Ah’m happy ta help big brother. Thank ya fer trusting me and telling me about this,” she said as they broke apart “Ah’m happy ta help,”

Big Mac made his way too the door, placing a hoof on it, he looked back at Applejack “Goodnight AJ,” he said as he stepped out.

Applejack smiled as she closed the door “Good night big brother,”





The morning came with Big Mac waking up happy and comfortable in his normal bed. While he will admit sleeping against a literal mountain had been cool and all, nothing will ever beat the familiarity of his bed. After going through his morning routine, he headed downstairs for breakfast, stopping to give Apple Bloom a big bear hug, which the little filly happily accepted. Once finished eating, Apple Bloom headed off to school, Granny Smith went off to town, and Applejack and Big Mac went to work in the fields to go buck the remaining trees they missed the day Big Mac had first grown.

“Bet ya wish ya still had that fancy magic,” Applejack laughed as she knocked down all the apples on a nearby tree

“Eeyup,” Big Mac said as he did the same with a smirk. 

After some time, the two of them had filled up over a dozen barrels of apples, which Big Mac volunteered to take back to storage while Applejack opted to continue working. As he made his way over to the barn, where the storage was kept in the back, he heard Granny Smith’s voice floating across the fields.

“Macky! Big Mac! C’mere! We have visiters!” she hollered.

Big Mac unhooked himself from the harness and walked over to where he heard Granny Smith calling him. Making his way to the front of the house he saw three ponies standing at the front poarch, talking with Granny Smith. A stallion, a mare, and a young colt around the same age as Apple Bloom.

Granny Smith’s face lit up as she saw Big Mac making his way over “Ah there ya are Big Macintosh. Say hello to our guests. They’re here from tha next town over looking ta buy some of our Zap Apple Jam,” she said.

The stallion in front smiled at Big Mac and raised his leg, extending his hoof out “It’s a pleasure to meet you sir, My name is Homburg Turner, this is my wife Trilby Turner, and my son Thimble Turner,” he said.

Big Mac smiled as well as the two of them shook hooves “Pleasure ta meet ya as well Mr. Turner. Ya said yer from tha next town over correct? That’d be Oakenwood right? Ah heard there was some trouble going on with tha harvest there,” he said

Homburg Turner grimaced as he nodded “You’d be correct sir. Our town hadn’t been receiving our shipments of rainclouds from the weather factory and because of that most of our crops have dried up. But just yesterday, if you can believe it, a miracle happened, and all of our crops just magically sprang up! I’ve never been so thankful before in my life. It saved our farm and home. We already made back most of the money we lost and then some, so as a little treat we decided to visit the famous Sweet Apple Acers and try out your signature Zap Apple Jam,”

Big Mac nodded “Well, Ah’m glad that everything worked out for ya Mr. Turner. Do ya know how all yer crops came back ta life?” he asked

Homburg Turner shook his head “Haven’t the foggiest idea. Everyone around town was saying it was the work of another one of those Titans but they can’t give much more detail other than he was a stallion and had red fur. A little generic considering there are many stallions that look like that. They couldn’t make out any more details because he was so big! Not even a look at his cutie mark,” he said

Big Mac smiled internally as he replied “Well, that’s a shame. Ah would have liked ta hear all the details but since not much was gathered Ah guess that’ll be enough,”

“Indeed,” Homburg sighed

“It really is a shame though,” Trilby Turner spoke up “I would have liked to thank him for saving the town,” she said.

Big Mac nodded in agreement, though none of the ponies present noticed that little Thimble was staring at Big Mac with wide eyes.

“Now then, y’all said ya came here for the Zap Apple Jam correct?” he asked

“Yes that’s right Mr. Macintosh,” Trilby Turner said

“Alrighty then, Mah sister Applejack is in the fields right now and she has the key to tha jam storage. Ah can take you ta her and we can go getcha the amount ya want ta buy,” Big Mac said

“Actually Macky Ah can take them,” Granny Smith spoke up “You go finish putting away them apples you brought back an then you can join us, ok?”

“Eeyup,” Big Mac agreed. He watched as Granny Smith beckoned the family to follow her as she lead them towards the fields.

But as they were leaving, Big Mac noticed that Thimble wasn’t following them. “Aren’t ya going to youngin?” Big Mac asked the little colt, who was still quietly staring at him.

Recognition flashed in Thimble’s eyes as he suddenly bounded forward and GLOMPED onto Big Mac’s leg happily, hugging him. 

“Thank you for saving our home Mr. Macintosh,” Thimble said enthusiastically, his little tail wagging.

Big Mac’s eyes widened before he let out a warm chuckle “Ah see ya recognized me youngin,” he said, patting Thimble on the head “How did ya know?”

“When you were leaving, after all the Townsponies went away, I saw your cutie mark,” Thimble said

Big Mac smiled “Well, looks like tha cat’s out of tha bag for me. Ah was happy ta help you and yer town lil’ one,”

Thimble grinned as he gave him one last tight hug before galloping off after his parents as fast as his little legs could carry him, with Big Mac watching on happily.





Later that day after saying goodbye to the Turners, Big Mac and Applejack were back to working in the fields. Apple Bloom had come home from school and she had brought her friends Sweetie Bell and Scootaloo with her so the three of them could have fun. They were currently in the fields with Big Mac and Applejack peacefully playing ultimate frisbee.

At least it was peaceful until one of them threw the frisbee a little too hard and the disk was carried by the wind into the Everfree forest. Then the arguing started.

“This is all yer fault!” Apple Bloom said, pointing at Scootaloo.

“Me?! Sweetie was the one who said throw it hard!” Scoots hollered as she glared at Sweetie Bell.

Sweetie Bell gave them a stink eye “I only said that because you guys were chasing after me so I wanted to get you off my back! Now who’s going to go get it?”

Before the three of them could continue bickering, Big Mac called to them from across the field “Girls why don’t ya head inside for a spill? Ah’ll go get yer frisbee ok?”

“Awww,” the CMC whined

It took a little more coaxing and a firm voice from Applejack but the girls did eventually go inside the house. And Big Mac found himself wandering around the forest trying to find a plastic disk.

“It’s gotta be around here somewhere,” he thought as he pushed through the leaves and branches.

Thankfully after about a minute or two of searching, Big Mac finally found it tucked neatly between the topmost branches of a particularly large tree.

Big Mac sauntered up to the base of the tree, turned around, and bucked the tree as hard as he could.

BANG! 

Turning around, Big Mac peered up at the top of the tree again. Only to see the frisbee was still in the same place as before. Frowning, he turned around and tried again. And again. And again. Only to be met with the same result.

“Horseapples! That thing’s caught real tight now ain’t it,” Big Mac though in frustration as he glared up at the stubborn disk

“Now Ah wish Ah still had that magic,” he sighed “Ah wish Ah was bigger so Ah can just reach up and pluck it down,”

But no sooner had he thought that did a familiar green glow engulf his entire body. Big Mac’s eyes widened as he felt himself rise up once more. Going from 6 feet to 10 feet to 15 feet and coming to a stop at 20 feet tall. His head once more as the same height as the trees.

“N-Nnope!” Big Mac exclaimed as he stumbled about in place in shock. Calming himself down he stared at his newly diminished surrounding around himself. From the trees now as tall as him to the mice sized thimberwolves that were fleeing away in terror.

“How did this happen?!” Big Mac thought in alarm “Ah thought that tha Princesses fixed this here growth! Why do Ah still have mah magic?”

But as he calmed himself down, Big Mac thought back to what Celestia has said earlier:

“it is indeed possible that the potion we developed may not have worked. As it was stated before, we do not have the spell book that made Big Mac grow in the first place, meaning that we do not know the proper magical elements used in the spell and what their proper counter may be,” 

Big Mac shook his head “So did they get it wrong afterall?” he thought “Wait, they said that the spell mutated right? Meaning that it’s acting a different way then it’s supposed to. An they gave me tha shrinking potion to shrink mahself back down. Now, Ah ain’t no unicorn who knows fancy spells but won’t that mean that Ah have the shrinking potion working alongside tha growth spell inside me now?”

Big Mac blinked “Well, it’s worth a try,” he thought. Big Mac closed his eyes, willing himself with every fiber of his being to turn back to normal. And to his luck, he did feel like his muscles were tensing up and tingling. When he opened his eyes again he found himself back to normal size.

Big Mac grinned “Eeyup!” he said happily. He turned to the tree with the frisbee still stuck in it and approached it’s trunk. “Now Ah wonder, if Ah still have mah size. Do Ah still have mah increased magic?”

He reached out and tapped the hard wooden trunk. At first, nothing happened. Until suddenly Big Mac felt his cutie mark tingling. Turing around he saw that it was glowing brightly. Turning back to the tree he could see the familiar green magic arching up the leaves and the branches. Big Mac willed the tree to extend its branches and in an instant, the frisbee dropped to the ground. He waited for himself to grow again like before but this time nothing happened. Big Mac was ecstatic “Ah really can’t believe it. It’s really all still here! Looks like tha potion didn’t completely remove tha spell after all. All it did was allow me ta grow an shrink whenever Ah want! Ah even have tha increased magic still!”

Big Mac was almost beside himself with excitement as he bent down and grasped the frisbee in his teeth “Ah’ll go give this back to tha girls now, then later tonight when everypony has gone ta sleep Ah’ll go an give these powers a test run. Looks like Mega Macintosh ain’t done yet!”

And that was exactly what Big Mac did. He headed straight home and gave his little sister and her friends their frisbee back before heading back out into the fields with Applejack. But now he was working much more quickly then before because he was eager to finish up quickly so he and Applejack could call it a day and head back to the house. 

After the work was done, Big Mac and Applejack returned back to their house for supper. Big Mac rocketed through his food, Granny Smith jokingly commenting that it looks like his humongous appetite had returned as well, getting a good laugh out of all of them.

Eventually it was time to wrap up for the day, much to Big Mac’s relief, as the Apple Family all bade each other good night. One by one they all retired to their room and went to bed. Big Mac waited until they were all out like a light before making his move. The large stallion silently crept out of his room, tip hooved down the hallway, the stairs and out the door.

Big Mac inhaled the fresh night air deeply before setting out for the Everfree forest. There was one particular destination he had in mind that he wanted to go to test out his magic.

As he trekked through the dense forest basing his direction on the accounts Applejack has told the family many times before, he kept his ears sharp for the sound of any sort of beast that may try to jump him, but thankfully no creature seemed to be out and about tonight. Big Mac was able to make it to his destination without any trouble: the castle of the two sisters.

He stopped in front of the entrance, taking in its damaged state. Time hadn’t been kind to it. There were holes present everywhere in the stone walls and roof. Vines and other greenery were entangled all over the place.

“This is where AJ got her element? She’s lucky tha place didn’t fall apart with her inside it,” Big Mac thought as he looked at the structure with disapproval “Well, time to see if this really works or if earlier was just a fluke. And if anything, at least this place will be fixed up for AJ and her friends if they ever come back to visit,” 

Walking up the broken down structure, Big Mac placed his hoof onto the wall and concentrated, trying to feel out the magic within him. Once more his hoof began to glow with a green light, similar to that of his Cutie Mark. The magic expanded from his hoof and spread up the castle walls, slowly engulfing the entire thing. Big Mac stepped back as in a flash of light; the Castle of the Two sisters were completely repaired.

Happy with his handiwork, Big Mac wanted to test out the extent of his magic, so he tried casting the spell at a nearby tree cluster without physically touching it. And just like last time, the magic spread from his hoof and shot through the ground over to where he wanted it to go. The emerald green magic struck the tree and instantly made the nice and healthy.

Big Mac smiled proudly “Eeyup. Looks like Ah still got it. An now for tha final test,” he said. It was time to see just how much control he had controlling his size. Concentrating again he felt the familiar tingle feeling throughout his body and felt himself rise up in size. First at 10 feet, then 30 feet, and then stopping at 100 feet tall. Big Mac looked around with a satisfied look, his head and torso rising high over the forest “Excellent, looks like Ah still got all mah magic with me still. Ah just have better control over it now,” 

Big Mac closed his eyes in concentration once more and returned to his normal size, once more standing at the entrance of the old castle. “Now fer some experimentation,” he thought as he focused again. He knew that he could grow into a giant whenever he wants and shrink back to normal. But can it work in reverse? Can he shrink himself too? He focused on the same feeling he had whenever he wanted to shrink and once more his body began to glow. Big Mac watched in astonishment as his surroundings began to get bigger and bigger. The grass around him rising up and the tree tops getting even further away. When Big Mac released his magic he was now the size of an ant.

“This. Is. AWESOME!” Big Mac, or now we should say Tiny Mac exclaimed as he looked around himself in awe. Everything seemed so different how. The Trees loomed high above him like mountains, the grass as tall as the trees now, a random mushroom off to his right was as big as a house, and the small crack in the stone on the castle’s walkway was now as big as a ravine. 

Tiny Mac made his way over to the mushroom and looked up in amazement “This is so cool,” he thought as he tried shrinking himself even more. His size reduced further, and his surroundings became even bigger than before. When he finished, he was now a quarter of a millimeter tall. Tiny Mac was ecstatic, this meant that he had complete control over his size! He could grow and shrink himself to whatever size he wanted

“Thank you mutated spell and botched shrinking potion,” He thought with a chuckle.

Feeling like he had enough, Tiny Mac restored himself back up to Big Mac once more, though he did add on a few extra inches just for fun. Big Mac groaned and flexed his muscles, getting out any lingering stiffness as he looked down at the tile with the crack in it.

“Crazy ta think that just a second ago Ah was tiny enough ta run around on that like it was a hoofball field. Now mah hoof is practically covering tha entire thing. An that crack looked so big Ah thought it rivaled Ghastly Gorge. Now look at it. So tiny it looks like ah lil’ strand of fur.” He thought with amusement

But as Big Mac took his gaze away from the tile and stared back up at the newly revived Castle, a sudden thought jolted his mind “Now hold on, Ah have control over mah magic ta this degree, Ah can even affect things without touching them like Ah demonstrated with them trees. Does this mean Ah can use mah size magic on other things besides mahself? Only one way ta find out.”

Big Mac eyed up the castle he had just repaired. Well, it seemed like the perfect test candidate. He stepped back a few paces and focused. But this time, instead of wanting to change the size of himself, he wanted to change the size of the castle. He tapped his hoof against the ground and sent another wave of magic at castle. The magic struck it before disappearing. Big Mac waited for a second before he watched with astonishment, the castle of the two royal sisters began shrinking. Big Mac focused on the magic and shrunk the castle down to the size of a model. He looked at the small structure with amusement as he walked up to it, crouching down a little as he inspected it. If he didn’t know any better, he would have figured this as some sort of souvenir that he could buy at a store. 

Big Mac’s eyes flashed green as he activated his size magic again, shrinking the castle even more, down to the size of a pebble. He reached down and picked it up, holding the entire castle snugly in his hoof. 

“Eeyup,” he chortled as he looked it over. He was tempted to keep the Castle like this and take it back with him. Maybe put it up on display in his room. But he knew that it was pretty important, and Applejack and her friends would most likely go back and visit it at some point.

“Though that would be pretty funny,” Big Mac thought with amusement as he set the castle back on the ground and grew it back to normal size “Imagine Ah shrink tha castle while AJ an her friends were inside it and tuck it in between mah yolk while Ah’m working out in tha fields. Give them all a lil’ scare while AJ spends the day with her REALLY big brother. Though if Ah shrink tha castle down tha same size as before and AJ and the girls are still inside it, they’d probably become smaller than fleas,”

Big Mac winced, as funny as the idea was of carrying an entire castle around practically in his pocket all day, he didn’t want to frighten his little sister that badly. With a sigh he began to walk away from the fixed-up castle. “Well, I’m not really all that tired an Ah still have all night left ta have some fun an test out mah new powers. What should Ah do next?” Big Mac wondered as he put a hoof to his chin.

As he did, he gazed up at the moon hanging up in the night sky. A small smile formed on his mouth “Well, Ah do love me a nice evening stroll,”

Sometime later in the town of Oakenwood, Thimble had been put to bed already. He ha said goodnight to his parents and Sturdy Step and had finally settled down under the covers. By this point the entire town had fallen asleep, snores could be heard from down the hall coming from Sturdy and his parent’s room. And it unfortunately was keeping Thimble up.

He winced as he put one of his pillows over his ear, silently wishing for the noise to stop when he suddenly felt a tremor. Then another. And another.

Thimble’s ears perked up. “What was that noise?” he wondered as he slowly got out of bed, turned on a light, and made his way over to the window. Low and thunderous BOOMS could be heard coming from outside, causing the entire town to quake. How nopony else was waking up from this, Thimble had no idea.

“And why does that noise sound so familiar?” He wondered.

But as he thought this, his attention was directed skyward, his peripheral vision detecting movement. As he looked up his eyes went wide as he saw the shadowy figure of a gigantic pony off in the distance, stepping over some mountains as they strolled along.

“W-Who is that?!” He wondered in shock “Mr. Macintosh and Sturdy were already turned back to normal so who could that be?” But as if to answer his question, he saw the titanic figure in the distance stop and their head turn to face Thimble’s direction. Thimble let out an “Eeep!” of fear and ducked down under the windowsill. But that didn’t matter because he heard the thunderous sound of colossal hoofsteps again, getting louder as the gargantuan figure seemingly began to head towards the village.

“Why is it coming here?!” Thimble thought in alarm before it hit him. He looked back and his eyes fell on his lamp. He turned on a light! His house was the only one with a light on so late at night and it caught the giant’s attention!

Thimble groaned miserably amidst the shaking. What could he do? He couldn’t go turn it off or else the giant would see him!

“But maybe I can risk it. They’re head is probably to high to notice me duck out from under here,” Thimble whispered to himself. Thankfully the shaking had stopped. Though thinking nothing of the curious lack of giant hoofsteps, Thimble began to slowly creep towards the light. When suddenly:

“Well Ah’ll be, so that’s where tha light was coming from. Fancy seeing ya again lil’ one,” a very familiar soft yet powerful voice said from outside.

Thimble froze as he heard the familiar southern twang. Turning around he peered outside and saw a house sized Mr. Macintosh leaning down and peering in at him with a gentle smile.

Thimble gasped with delight “Mr. Macintosh!” he squeaked as he rushed over to the window and hugged the large red muzzle. 

Big Mac chucked as he nuzzled the colt gently back into the room, pulling his head back out he asked softly “Now what are ya doing up so late at night Thimble? It’s way past yer bedtime don’t ya think?”

“I couldn’t sleep,” Thimble said bashfully “But wait, how are you here? Mom and Dad told me that the Princesses turned you back to normal yesterday. It was in the news and stuff. But you’re still really big,”

Big Mac chuckled as his eyes flashed, shrinking himself back down to normal size “Well, you could say that Ah got an upgrade,”

Thimble’s eyes went wide “That’s so cool!” he said “So that was you I saw walking around out there?” 

“Eeyup,” Big Mac replied with a grin “Ah was just out on a lil’ nightly stroll around tha kingdom,”

“Awesome…” Thimble said with awe

Big Mac chuckled and ruffled the colt’s mane with a hoof “Yer darn tootin’ it is youngin. Ah gotta head back out now though. You should get back ta bed,” he said.

“Awww. Do I really have to?” Thimble whined a bit

“Eeyup. Young colts like yerself need ya rest,” Big Mac said, his inner big brother taking over. This was really no different than when he talked with Apple Bloom.

“Ok, good night Mr. Macintosh!” Thimble said politely “Enjoy your walk,”

Big Mac smiled kindly “Ah will youngin, thank you,” he said as he began to walk away “Oh, and Thimble? Keep yer eye on the sky,” Big Mac called over his shoulder as he disappeared around the side of a house in the distance,”

Thimble watched on in awe as he saw the gargantuan form of Mega Macintosh emerge from the front of the house. His figure getting bigger by the second. Big Mac took one step back, exiting the town completely as he continued to grow. First riveling a skyscraper, then mountains, and even bigger than that. Thimble looked on gobsmacked as the titan grew to such great hights in front of him. Big Mac winked down at the tiny speck that was Oakenville and subsequently Thimble Turner.

Thimble hung out his window as he waved to the titan, watching him walk away “Bye Mr. Macintosh!” He called, the booming hoofsteps now feeling much more comforting now that he knew who was causing them

Mega Macintosh walked off with a gentle smile on his face as he heard Thimble’s faint squeaks from far below as he left to enjoy the rest of his nightly stroll. “Good night ta you too as well little one,” he thought as his gargantuan figure faded into the night.





The former campsite where all this had originated from was still in a complete wreck from when the original nobles had casted the growth spell on themselves initially. The campsite had been accidently stepped on by Blueblood as he had left to go to Canterlot.

The royal guards couldn’t find it, the Princesses couldn’t find it, and Blueblood had honestly forgotten where it was. He had just picked a random spot on a map and told the other nobles to meet up there.

The spellbook still lay there, now completely depowered and vibrating violently due to the excess magic still left in there. All everyone could hope for was that no more shenanigans would come from this simple little book.

But come on, this is Equestria we’re talking about. There’s always going to be something weird, strange, or fantastical going on. And with so many colossal ponies being spotted storming around Equestria, it was bound to catch someone else’s attention. And they wanted in on the action.

A large black chitin hoof emerged from the darkness and picked up the book.

“Yessss. YESSSSS. Excellent. With this, my revenge on Equestria, those Princesses, Stupid Twilight and her friends will succeed for sure!” Queen Chrysalis cackled as she spread her insectoid wings and shot into the air, heading back towards the Badlands and the Changeling hive.

To be Concluded