*S*tory written by Star Sage
“Okay, so if I move this cadet to this watch, and have the lieutenant in charge take a double shift,” mumbled the white unicorn, lifting up a mug with his magic and bringing it to his muzzle as he also moved a quill across the parchment before him, slowly working out the shifts he would give for the next week's guard. Of course, this would normally have been done in his office as he drank coffee by the pot, but today was special, and he was instead, out amid the Crystal Empire, enjoying the sights...which were mainly his roster sheet, much to the consternation of the purple alicorn across from him.
“Shiny,” she said, expecting him to look up at her. He'd been the one to invite her after all, to come out and spend a day in the Empire. He'd seemingly forgotten about her, however, leaving her to just sip on her own tea, while staring at him across the table. Around them, the cafe they were at was mostly empty. Nothing much was happening now with the Equestria Games over, and everypony having gone home. That had meant peace, quiet, and hopefully some time to chat, but instead it had meant boredom, and staring at him as he did reports and stuff.
“Shiny!” she said louder, getting a similar response to the first, meaning nothing, causing Twilight's wings to flare up in irritation, and forcing her to take a few deep breaths. Calming herself, she at first wanted to just walk over and knock the report out of his magical grip, but then remembered a new spell that she'd learned recently, and wicked grin slowly grew across her face. It would do just fine for this, and so she began to charge her magic, gathering the mana in her horn, and slowly mumbling the incantation of arcane lore she'd learned from a book in the Castle of the Two Sisters.
With a burst of purple, she let loose the magical spell, aiming it right at Shining Armor's head, only to have him duck down just before it hit him, not even grazing his mane as it flew through the air. The Crystal Empire, living up to its name, had the spell rebound off of a reflective bit of stone, moving down the street farther, and then off a window and into the air, before hitting another spire. Ping ponging all across the street, the spell finally hit a small crystal lamp, and then went shooting back towards Twilight, who had only enough time to cover herself with her wings.
The spell hit home, and instantly Twilight felt a falling sensation. Not falling downward though, more like falling inward, if that made any sense. She was weightless, and seemed to be moving towards her own center from all directions at once. It felt really weird, and when it finally stopped, she had to suddenly catch herself with her wings, as now down was a long way to fall, as she was now that size of a small mouse, which slowly floated down onto the table.
She sighed as she landed, her hooves tinkling on the soft crystal of the table top. She'd actually figured that reducing her brother's height would have made him notice her more, or at least been funny, but now, staring at him, or rather up at him, he seemed farther away than ever. He hadn't even noticed the magical energy she'd fired, leaving her to just start trotting over towards him, her wings flapping in frustration at her sides as she did so.
“Shining! This is really not a good time to be so absorbed in your work!” she shouted up at him, and the unicorn either could not hear her, or more likely, just ignored what he heard.
“Oh for Celestia's sake,” she swore, as she flapped her wings lightly to fly onto some brown thing that was sitting in front of him. It took her a second, as she sailed over whatever it was, to realize it was the daffodil and daisy sandwich he'd ordered with her own, which she'd eaten about fifteen minutes ago, and he hadn't even taken a bite out of yet.
“And you haven't even touched your food! Mother would be displeased with you right now!” she cried out to him, and Shining Armor mumbled something that she couldn't hear, his voice a much deeper pitch than she'd expected. Before she could say anything else, however a new problem other than being ignored presented itself. Namely her world took on a blue magical hue, and she felt pressure from above pushing her down into the soft bread, before everything started to rise.
She tried to cry out again, but found herself unable to draw the breath to shout, as the sandwich rose off the plate, and then stopped, giving her a good view of Shining's face, his eyes scanning one report after another, the huge blue orbs never once coming to rest on her as he slowly opened his mouth wide, revealing a cavern of quivering flesh, sharp teeth, and tendrils of liquid saliva that moved everywhere, snapping as the jaw parted farther and farther.
All at once, the sandwich was in motion, and Twilight found herself diving into that mouth, the spit coating the bread, and then her as she was swept within. Shining didn't even bite down or anything, his muzzle large enough that the entire sandwich Twilight had taken several minutes to eat, was instead jammed whole into his mouth, his magic letting go while his teeth clacked together behind it. The sudden jerking stop threw the tiny alicorn off her perch, landing with a splat on a long, thick member that undulated beneath her.
She had no time to think or do anything, before Shining Armor's teeth parted, and the tongue moved the sandwich between them, causing the little alicorn to hop off the back of the tongue, realizing only a second later what a bad idea that was as she quickly flapped her wings, and with a cry, grabbed onto the uvula at the back of the unicorn's throat, causing everything around her to violently shudder mid-chew, the sandwich mulched a bit between his molars, but nothing more.
The sounds around her soon descended to coughing, and then she suddenly felt a huge suction, as below her, the muscles in Shining Armor's neck pulled apart, creating a vacuum that sucked in everything in his mouth, before closing up around it like some pink ocean, her death grip on his uvula the only thing that prevented her from being pulled down with the sandwich.
Shining Armor continued to choke of course, and so his next action was to grab his tea, and with a flick, toss the whole thing into his mouth, the flood of fluid striking Twilight like a tsunami. Worse, it made the uvula slick, and despite her best efforts, her grip lost traction, causing her to slip off it with a pop, landing amid some velvety folds of flesh that closed around her, sealing her within their softness, and then dragging her down with a thunderous gulp.
The pressure all around her made it hard to breathe, but Twilight refused to pass out, as the muscles moved like waves, passing her downward along with a load of tea, and finally pushing her out of a tight ring of flesh, where she plummeted out of the sky, and landed with a plop on an almost whole slice of bread, that was currently floating on a sea of bubbling liquid inside Shining Armor's stomach.
All around Twilight, she heard the cacophony of noises from her brother's body. The deep bellows of his lungs as he gasped for air after nearly choking, and the steady thudding of his massive heart, that now easily dwarfed her current size, pumping blood all over his body. The closest sound that which was most pertinent to her situation, that sound being a gurgling noise, as all around her, Shining's belly felt food enter, and began to do to it what it was supposed to do with food.
Quick to realize this was a bad thing, Twilight took off into the air, her wings propelling her straight up, until she smacked hard into something that felt like a wet towel, the soft flesh lining her brother's stomach conforming around her body, making it hard to move for a moment, before it bounced back into shape, and sent her downward, where she splashed into the stomach juices, which she expected to burn.
Luckily for her, her brother was an herbivore, and so, the gastric fluids were mild, meaning it did nothing to her other than make her feathers tingle, as she fought her way back to the surface, taking in a gasping gulp of the fetid air, trying to come up with some way to get out of her current predicament. She floated there, paddling her hooves and stirring up the stomach juices, until an answer came to her from below, as the bubbles congregated around her, and soon formed a bubble around her.
She had only a moment to process this, before the bubble, like a bomb, burst open. The release of gas was such that it catapulted the young alicorn upwards. She went sailing up the pipe that had brought her down, her flesh parting like the sea, and then tossing her out from between Shining Armor's lips, as he let loose a loud, terrific belch that echoed over the whole café plaza.
Twilight sailed through the air again, flailing end over end as she went, and finally landing with a splash in some lukewarm liquid. Knowing what to do, rather than fight it, she stilled her body, trying not to exert herself, and breached the surface with a deep breath, letting her muscles unwind themselves after that ordeal, and look around, finding herself staring upwards at another white unicorn, who was smiling and whooping.
“Alright Guard Stallion! That is the way we do it normal pony style!” shouted the unicorn, her voice easily recognized as Vinyl Scratch, a DJ Pon-3 Twilight sometimes listened to on the radio at nights. Twilight wondered for a moment what brought her to the cafe, when the thing she was floating in suddenly jerked upwards and she turned to find a gray mare holding it towards her lips.
“I just can't take you anywhere,” said the mare, Octavia, under her breath, as she tilted the cup and the tea flowed between her lips into her maw.
“Faust damn it, not again!” said Twilight, as she fought the current, only to be dragged down with it after a few seconds of struggle.
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“Twilight! Where've you been? I was really starting to get worried.” asked a purple dragon, as the Alicorn princess entered her home.
“Nowhere Spike, just out with Shining Armor all day,” she told him, and Spike looked a bit concerned at her as she said it.
“So you know where he is then? Cadence said he'd gone missing,” the dragon informed her, and Twilight actually smirked at that, smirked, in a way she never did unless she was plotting some prank on her brother.
“Oh, he'll turn up in a few hours. Just tell Cadence I hope she enjoyed that cupcake I made her. Now hold all my scrolls. I really need to take a bath,” she told the dragon, marching right into the bathroom, and then slamming the door shut with her magic as she hummed to herself. Spike was concerned, but knowing Twilight would never actually hurt Shining, sent the message, and then decided it best to get back to his studies.
*The End*
