Manehattan; the city of endless opportunity. Business was abundant and at its peak during the fall season. The holidays were just around the corner. For most, it was time for the black market period. Businesses like Pony, Micoltsoft, Maresubishi, and the like were reeling in for their profits. The same went for the renowned suit making company Velvetere. A young businessmare, Azure Tropica, is the vice president of Velvetere. True to her name, she has warm indigo fur. She stands taller than the average mare, and her body was very slender and streamlined. Adorning her figure, she could always be seen sporting a navy blue dress suit. It compliments well with her deep violet eyes and silvery flowing mane.
The month was Neighvember, just over a month until Hearts Warming eve. Azure was at the Grand Mareiott in the center of Manehattan’s business district, busy helping to set up the company’s annual sales meeting in the convention center. She was trotting up and down the convention hall, speaking to the sales director in a worried tone of voice into her headset. “How many are attending?... Fifty?... I only have the plans set up for twenty, if even that much!” She put a hoof to her head as she sat down in a nearby chair. “Y-yes sir. I apologize for the misconception… The meeting space will be ready by Monday.” She hung her head down, limply shaking it from side to side. The stress was becoming too much for her to handle. “Water. I need a good splash of water..” She thought to herself as she stood up, and began to trot back to the hotel lobby.
Before Azure could reach the lifts, she was stopped by a cheery voice. “Hey, hey! You’re from Velvetere, correct?” A flamboyant young mare, much opposite from Azure, spoke from behind a small stand. The entire stand seemed to be sweets, ice cream, and brownies. Azure turned to the mare, and gave a single nod. The mare behind the stand smiled a wide, toothy grin. “Say, what a coincidence. We’re right next door to you both here and at our flagship, Mardi Gras Catering.” The mare looked down to the array of confectionaries. “Say, have you ever tried our Vanilla Mountain pudding?” She asked as she picked up a small spoon topped with a creamy, off white substance. Azure looked down to the spoon, and put a hoof to her chest as she shook her head. “I’m sorry. I appreciate the offer, but I have intolerance to dairy products.” She politely refused. “Oh, come now, this is just a little bite. Come, give it a try!” The mare from behind the stand requested once again. Azure was about to refuse a second time, but she shrugged it off. Heck, what could one small bite do? “You know, yes, thank you. I need something sweet right about now…” Azure spoke as she took the spoon, and opened her mouth. Once the creamy liquid touched her tongue, the indigo mare was taken aback by how rich and flavorful the dessert was. Her eyes widened as she swallowed, and pulled the spoon from her mouth. “Wow, this is really good. This is coming from a mare who doesn’t like sweets.” She found herself giggling a bit. “Thank you so much, I think I will have to come by again later and grab another sample.” Azure nods to the mare, and the mare smiles right back at Azure. “I’m very glad you like it, sure, come back and have some more if you wish.” The mare nods. Azure waves before she turns to head back towards the lifts. Her stomach begins to grumble a little from the lactose. She presses a hoof to her tummy and takes a deep breath before heading into one of the lifts “Worth it.” She says to herself as the doors start to close.
A quick trip to the drug store later, she arrives back at the hotel with a small bottle of water in hoof. She also held a small bottle of aspirin. She popped a couple pills from it and took them with a large drink of water. She makes her way over to the lifts before a call comes in on her headset. She puts a hoof to her ear and adjusts the microphone. “Velvetere and Company, Vice President Azure Tropica speaking.” She winced as she heard her boss jabbing commands at her. Apparently she needed to double the amount of tables and seats. Her eyes flushed with disbelief. “Sir, if we do that we will need to use three board rooms. One of them is already being used for a wedding. I-“ She was cut off by the phone line cutting out. She sighs and puts her hoofs to her head. “This is a nightmare..” She groaned as she entered the lift.
Mezzanine level, the doors opened. Azure wasted no time heading back to the Mardi Gras table. “Could I have a couple more of those samples, please?” She spoke in an aggravated tone as she rubbed her temples. The mare catering tilted her head a bit to the side as she fetched two more of the spoons. “Of course, is everything alright, dear?” She asked as she held out the two spoons piled up with the vanilla cream. Azure nods silently as she sticks both of the spoons into her mouth. “All I need is a sugar fix, I’m getting a terrible migraine.” Azure replies as the taste touches her tongue once again. She sighs with relief as the creamy goodness fills her mouth and pleases her taste buds. “I think I’ll take one of these to go, if it’s possible.” She found herself speaking. The mare behind the stand shakes her head. “Oh, that isn’t a problem at all. We’re giving these away free, this evening only!” She says as she pulls out two small cups, each filled with a light colored cream and a dark colored cream. “Would you like Vanilla Mountain or Chocolate Volcano?” She asked as she set the cups down. Azure looked at each and grabbed them. “Both please. Thank you.” She said as she quickly trots over to the mares’ lounge with her sweets. Her stomach began to gurgle in protest from the substances Azure was ingesting. But frankly, the mare didn’t care. It was sweet, and made her feel better.
Azure entered the door to the lounge, and stepped inside before quickly locking the door behind her. Once in solitude, she could finally decompress. She groaned, and small tears formed in her eyes as she sniffled a bit. “Curse mister Velvetere…” She said as she pulled out a couple more aspirin pills, and downed them quickly before rubbing her head once again. “Sweets…” She muttered as she began to take small bites from the pudding. Each spoonful was a journey away from all her life’s problems. She didn’t waste any time to dally and return back to the hardships. Spoonful by spoonful she ate the delicious pudding. The lactose was causing her stomach to bloat out from behind her suit, and emit what sounded like lion roars. Azure looked down to her boisterous belly and gently rubbed it. “I think I’m overdoing it… But I need it right now..” She winced a bit as she felt her intestines contracting as it struggled to digest. She looked back up, and continued eating.
After a short time, both of the pudding cups were emptied. They both lay on their sides, leaving a couple stains in the carpet leading up to a very emotional, and very bloated Azure. She looked as if she were in the early months of pregnancy, but instead of a foal kicking in her tummy, it was the angry burbles and worbles of her large gut trying to digest the foreign substances dropped into it. Azure’s insides were working like clockwork, but, thanks to the aspirin, she wasn’t feeling any pain. Her hoofs were still sticky with pudding, and she sucked onto them. Her eyes shimmering a bit as tears welled up in the corners. “Why is this happening to me?” She whimpered as she continued to suck on her hoofs. Soon, the pudding was all gone from her hoofs. She pouted. Azure needed more of it, she needed to have that feeling of serenity. “Just for today…” She said as she looked down to her gassy belly, a large, round ball sitting comfortably in her lap. She frowned as she pressed her hoofs over the rumbling and quaking surface. Her hoofs depressed rather far into her stomach, and the pressure from her hoofs causing the gurgles and glorps to become even louder. “Stupid lactose… I hope I can drop this in a breeze…” She said as she heaved herself up. Her belly jiggling and bouncing at every slight move she made, accompanied by sloshes and gloshes from her stomach contents moving about. She put a hoof onto the bottom of her belly to keep it from moving, and upsetting her digesting as she walked back towards the door.
“Mardi Gras Catering.” Azure spoke to herself as she began to unlock the door. “Oh dear…” The mare looked down at herself and blushed with embarrassment. “I’m going out there looking like this..?” She groaned and hung her head down. She might as well get through this as quick as she can. She took a deep breath as she opened the door, and stepped outside into the convention hall. She stood up proudly as she usually did, but now sporting a round food belly. She did coax a few concerned stares from ponies which recognized her. She simply kept on walking, trying to conceal her embarrassed blushing. It was hard enough that she was being looked at, but it just added to the humiliation that her stomach could be seen lightly bouncing with each step, and could be heard churning and bubbling as she walked past ponies. Just a five minute walk later, which felt more like a five hour walk, she arrived at the entrance to the Mardi Gras flagship. She took in a deep breath, and stepped inside.
She stepped into the lobby, facing a desk with a mare sitting, and sleeping, at the security console. Curiously, Azure simply walked right past the drowsy mare without a problem, even considering the fact her digestive system was performing an orchestra as it worked away. She now found herself in an empty lobby. Azure checked the map on the wall to see where she should head first. She spoke quietly to herself. “Loading dock, electrical, custodial…” Her eyes soon landed on a promising looking room. “Holding vats?” She leaned in closer to the map as if to see it better, and traced a hoof in the path she would need to take. It ended up being just down a narrow hallway, two rights, and through the third door. She nodded, and started on her way.
Through the seemingly deserted halls she walked. One corner, turn right, another corner, turn right. One… two… three doors down the hallway, Azure turned towards the large metal slab. The words “Holding vats” were impressed in the thick metal. Azure sighed as she put a hoof to the door, and pushed it open. It creaked and groaned as the door slowed to a halt. Inside, the room was totally dark. She peers inside, and squints her eyes to see if she could see anything. Light switch. She flipped it on, and the room filled with a few flickering flashes of light before the room was illuminated with a bright white glow. Fluorescent tubes silently hummed in the silence of the large room. The only objects present were two large silver vats sitting along the back wall, opposite of the door Azure was standing in. One of the giant cylinders reading “Vanilla Mountain” and the other reading “Chocolate Volcano” Azure’s mouth dropped as she saw the ungodly amount of pudding, now stored just for her. She slowly stepped into the room, her hoof steps echoing off the tall concrete walls. She slowly approached the two vats of pudding, and stared up at them with awe.
She wanted to eat the luxurious sweets. Her mouth began to water a bit as she looked for a way to get inside of them. It wasn’t too long before she spotted a small outlet nozzle poking out from the very bottom of the elevated vanilla vat. Her eyes widened, and her stomach began to grumble in protest. She furrows her brow, and nods once before she stands right under the nozzle. She takes a deep breath and closes her eyes before she pulls down the lever, and breaks it off. She collapsed onto the floor and opened her mouth as wide as she could. The creamy goodness began to flow down into her mouth. She choked in surprise at how fast the pudding was flowing, but she eventually found a way to grab as many mouthfuls as she could. Her face was overflowing with the pudding, pooling around her body as she struggled to eat the pudding. Each swallow was a struggle, but the taste was overpowering. She continued to gulp down by the mouthful until she couldn’t take in any more. Her stomach was much more swollen than it was to begin with. She looked to be in her last weeks of pregnancy as it just out a good few feet above her. She rolled over out of the stream of pudding, and lay down on the cool cement floor. She gasped for breath as she looked up to the lights on the ceiling. She felt terrible, yet so great at the same time. Her belly visibly wobbled and shook at every small move she made.
Before she could relax, she realized that the feast was far from over. She tilted her head back and saw the chocolate pudding vat. It was taunting her, merely calling her by name to come and partake in the chocolatey goodness of the Chocolate Volcano. She struggled to sit up, she grunted as she found she could barely sit up due to the weight and size of her stomach. But once up, she sighed. Snap! Snap! Her ears perked up as she heard the sound. She felt her belly spilling out of her constrictive suit. Her jaw dropped as she looked down to her newfound weight. “That was my favorite suit..” She grumbled as she held up the broken button seams in her hoofs. She shook her head. No matter, it was time for chocolate. She looked back over to the chocolate pudding vat, and started on her way over to it. She stood up slowly, her legs wobbling as she got used to her new center of gravity, and took baby steps towards the silo. Once she was at the opposite nozzle, she smiled with a dazed look as she pulled down the lever. Azure rolled onto her back and dove under the stream of chocolate pudding. Hacking and choking at first, but getting the hang of it once again. She was feeling far too full to take in any more, but she must, dear Celestia, she must. She laid under the stream for a good two minutes or so before she definitely felt she was about to burst. She shook her head, and scooted out from under the stream.
Azure lay there on her back between the two vats, the pooling of the vanilla pudding coming into contact with the chocolate pool. She sighed happily, and rubbed her massive stomach She couldn’t even connect her hoofs together any more she was so full. Her stomach was concocting a symphony of different bubbling and gurgling sounds as it angrily worked away at the intense amount of pudding the mare stuffed into herself. The walls of her belly visibly shook and jiggled at every small shockwave produced by her digestive system. The food was happily churning in her stomach acid, and the lactose weaving havoc in her gut. Azure smiled as she stared up at the ceiling, and found herself drowsy from all her work. She yawned, stretched her hoofs out, and shut her eyes slowly.
As she laid, she felt she was being carried on a private cloud to paradise. She in fact, was being hauled into an ambulance on a gurney. Needing to have three stallions’ help to put her on, she giggled in spite of herself. What a day she had today. Blacked out for forty eight hours in a medically induced coma, she woke up in the hospital. Azure blinked her eyes awake, and found herself in a plain white room with some wires and lines going into her right hoof, and a few sensors attached to a monitor was placed on her still rotund belly. She smiled as she looked over to the monitor, watching the lines dance around as it monitored her digestion. “Worth it.” She shut her eyes, and went back to sleep.