Rainbow Dash Goes Up in the World
The pegasus mare started as she looked around her room, everything spinning for a moment that passed, leaving her dizzy. When she blunk away the spots in her purple eyes, she found the room was still spinning a bit. Or rather, it seemed to be growing tighter. The walls seemed like they were closing in, their fluffy white texture getting closer and closer, before, at last, she felt her head smack into the ceiling, the cumulonimbus giving slightly as she pressed against it.
Her house was shrinking, was her first thought, and Dash quickly began to think of why that might happen, her mind going through all the rains and stuff that caused clouds to contract. Then she looked at her night stand, and realized that the book she'd left there last night, the book she'd barely been able to lift since it was a special edition Daring Do signed by the mare herself, was getting smaller along wit the room.
She was growing, and fast. Her hooves were already curled under her body, and still her wings were starting to feel pinched between her and the roof. Worse, her face was planted against the wall, shoved up into the clouds which tasted like stale cotton candy, while her butt was pushing against the opposite wall behind her. She was getting boxed in, and she didn't like it, her mind panicking as she began to whip her head around every which way, trying to think of a way out.
Luckily, her growth kept going. Well, I supposed luckily, as she kept getting larger and larger, her hoof already bigger than her bed, and her eyes as large as another pony's whole body. This meant that the walls around her bulged outward, before, with a poofing sound like a pillow being smashed hard enough to burst, it came apart. Bits of cloud went everywhere, spreading outward in all directions, along with a few personal effects that sailed into the sky.
Dash was quick to follow them, pumping her wings, she was startled by how strong they were, her powerful flap enough to send her home down towards the ground like a rock, while she stayed hovering in the air. Still fast, despite her girth, she rushed downward to save her home, catching it just a heartbeat before it hit the ground, and then gently setting it down.
That was when she noticed it was so tiny. Her home, she'd been living in a two story deal she'd made herself, was now small enough to fit in her hoof. And she was still growing. Already she could be seen from Ponyville, her visage that of a monster, which caused them to start ringing the bell at the school, warning everypony to stay indoors.
She panicked herself, wondering just how big she was going to get, and the answer only seemed to be, very big, as her titanic size soon dwarfed the trees of the mighty Everfree, which barely came up to her ankles. Heck, she could see a hydra running from her, yelping in four different tones as she continued to grow upward.
She realized she needed some altitude, as she felt the trees start to get pushed back by her ever growing hooves. She flapped her wings only once, and found her head in the clouds. One particularly solid one stopped her flight though, as it slammed into her, and made her reel back in sharp pain. She rubbed at the stop, changing her latitude to the object, and then saw, to her horror, shock, and some excitement, that what she'd slammed into, the thing only as large as her own head now, was Cloudsdale, a massive sprawling city.
She stared in amazement as tiny, colorful shapes passed this way and that, several blue streaks coming out of the biggest building to push at her, trying to make her move away from them. They couldn't have been more than specks to her, however, and her slightest movement a massive quake to their minscule forms. Heck, her fur had to be a forest of blue, limbless trees to them. Of course, she didn't want to hurt them, and moved away from the city.
She was still growing though, and the city was soon only as large as her hoof, and still getting smaller, while her hooves were growing dangerously close to the ground. She decided to flap her wings again, this time vaulting into the sky, away from the ground as hard as she could. She rocketed straight up into the late afternoon sky, staring downward as the world played out before her, becoming a sphere as she drew farther, and farther from it.
Finally, she stopped, as she had trouble breathing, looking down at her world. It was breathtaking, truly. She was so mesmerized by it, that it took her many long moments to look around her, and when her gaze was finally ripped away from her home, she found she wasn't the only one floating up here. Beside her, hanging like a silent ball in the sky, was the moon. And she was slightly bigger than it. She was literally like a second moon for her planet.
Far below, several Princesses met, and plans were made as they tried to think of how this happened. Above them stood a friend, one on such a scale that if you looked close you could see clouds hanging around her form. She was a world unto herself, and one they must visit and help, as she seemed to be growing even larger, and if she got too much so, they wouldn't even be able to see her anymore, as she became the heavens themselves.
Spitfire sighed as she put on her uniform, the covering of her body locking her away from the world, while the morning sun blazed in the sky overhead. She was content with her life, Captain of the Wonderbolts, and all around, a well respected pony, and yet, she still felt like something was missing, like she should be bigger than she was.
Distracted by her internal thoughts, Spitfire pricked herself with her newest medal, given by Princess Twilight herself, the thing was shaped like a star, and it caused Spitfire to cry out in surprise. She pulled the badge away quickly, for some reason, it felt hot now, like it was being held over a fire or something. She blew on it to let it cool down, before finally sticking it on her chest beside her other medals, and then moving towards her home's gym for morning exercises.
She barely made it three steps. This was because, with every step towards the door, it seemed to grow closer like she was leaping towards it. It took the captain a second to realize why, as her hooves came down with louder, and louder clacks on the wooden floor. She looked down when one of those clacks became a crack instead, and found that her hoof had literally smashed its way through the floorboards.
At first, she thought it was just this lousy construction. The Academy was pegasi built, but they were more used to working with clouds than wood. She was quick to discover that wasn't it though, as her head painfully slammed into something, and she ducked down to rub it and look upwards to find the ceiling, one of those high, vaulted ones, was now literally right above her head, and it was growing closer all the time.
Her eyes went wide, and Spitfire's mind raced as she tried to think of what to do. Of course, this was so far outside her training, her thoughts just kept whirling around in circles as she first ducked down onto her knees, and then head to curl up into a ball to avoid touching the ceiling. That only helped for a few second, as her body soon became so large that the room started to get cramped. Her but press painfully into book shelves, and her hooves crushed her bed against the other wall.
Outside, everyone could see the captain's quarters start to bulge in odd ways. The walls pushed outward, and the roof went up. This was odd enough that it attracted a crowd of pegasi to watch, with none being brave enough to approach it, until the roof and walls blasted apart with cracking sounds like small explosions, and out of that rubble came a huge cry of relief, along with an equally huge Spitfire in her captain's uniform.
Spitfire's wings flared outward in relief as she was let loose from her bindings. Of course, her mind was fast to realize that she was both, a bit too big to command now, and worse, she was still growing larger. In fact, now that she was outside, her growth rate seemed to have stabilized at a good doubling every fifteen seconds by her measurements, meaning she went from the ten meters she'd needed to bust out of her home, all the way up to a hundred and sixty within the span of a minute.
Her size allowed her to look out over the whole Academy, and her hooves, now as large as the buildings on site, stamped on the ground with earthquake like tremors. She realized she needed some altitude to get herself away fro everypony, and so flapped her wings hard, trying to rise upwards like a rocket, taking herself into the air.
She figured at she'd hit the atmosphere's edge in a second or two, but oddly, her wings didn't seem to stop finding air to push against, and so she kept going upwards, until at last, she just stopped, and then looked around. She was in a black void, with nothingness all around her, except for the light of the stars, and her eyes shot about in every direction.
She wasn't panicking yet though. She was a Wonderbolt, her training told her just to try and fall towards the ground when she couldn't see any landmarks, and somehow, irrationally, that training was still kicking in, letting her stop her wings for a moment, and then just drift. It kept her mind from spinning off into thoughts of how she was still breathing, and how she would find her way home.
Then she felt it, something grabbed her. Four somethings actually, with golden, dark blue, pink, and purple light surrounding her, and dragging her through space until she found herself right next to a big burning fire. It took her a few seconds to realize that the orb she was floating next to, one only slightly larger than herself, was the sun. The Princesses had used their magic to put her in the sky next to the sun, and she was now one of the biggest things in the sky.
