Author's Note

Reader beware: This part is particularly messed-up, but it will be the only one to go THIS far.

No, seriously. You think I'm kidding? If you have a weak stomach/ aren't into brutal consequences and digestion, skip this chapter. It's hardcore.

You have been freaking WARNED.

Desaturated (Gore/Body Horror: Reader Beware)

“So,” Chrysalis said, stifling a belch, “my vibrant little bonbon! Mayhaps you’d like to fulfill your promise to sweet little Fluffernutt—”

“FLUTTERSHY!” Rainbow screeched, lip trembling as she levied the extremes swirling within her. “Her name was FLUTTERSHY! You ate her, and you didn’t even know her name!”

“I try not to get attached, my little sherbet scoop. Plenty of time for that later, once we become… closer.”

Rainbow Dash just noticed a dark flash in the corner of her eye. Not sparing a thought, her hind legs struck, colliding with the face of the drone closing in on her hindquarters.

The drone guards hissed as they slowly closed in. Rainbow leapt to an equine pugilist stance, squaring off with them. “Forget it, freak! Nopony puts nothin’ in my butt on a first date!”

In spite of herself, Twilight tilted her head at the statement, and noticed her remaining friends looked to be in various states of thought as well. Inwardly, Twilight filed that one under “stuff she didn’t need to know.”

There was silence as the fight prepared to break out, until Chrysalis’ laughter filled the air.

“No no, stand down.”

The drones looked to her, almost agitated.

“If baby doesn’t want her shot, then fine. It makes no difference to me. Either way, the result is the same.”

“Just one minute!” Rainbow growled. “Just give me one minute with you alone! I’ll lay you out! I’ll make you sorry for what you did to them!”

“Oh ho ho!” the queen chortled, a hoof to her lips. “Well in that case, stop talking about what you’ll do, and come at me. I’ll even withhold my magic, just to make it interesting. Just bear in mind: this is for keeps.”

With a blast of air, Rainbow Dash launched herself at the changeling queen, whose snapping teeth missed her by inches. Rainbow swung right with a foreleg at Chrysalis’ head, which ducked beneath. Chrysalis prepared to lunge once more, but for a hind leg kicking out and smashing into the side of her head, perfectly placed.

Chrysalis reeled a moment, snarling at the sensation as Rainbow Dash landed squarely in front of her. A pair of great black legs raised up to crush her, and she slid beneath them, squaring up for a hit on her translucent midsection.

She hesitated. The sight of the belly that had taken her best friend gave her pause. She adjusted her aim elsewhere, but was interrupted by a great sting in her tail.

The queen had reached beneath with her long neck, fangs sinking into the shock of multicolored hair making up her tail, and pulling up violently. Rainbow yelped as she was catapulted out, impacting the cold, solid dungeon wall opposite her. She fell in a heap against it, scrambling to right herself as Chrysalis approached.

Rainbow felt a surge of adrenaline as the queen suddenly charged towards her, and with a great flaps of her wings rocketed skyward… right into the ceiling.

Her vision swam as her head collided with the stone. Steeling herself, she shook off the sudden blast of pain, dashing down with her leg extended to smash the queen’s spine.

She missed, grazing her back as she slid onto her side, colliding with the ground. Rainbow scrambled to get up, only to feel the air leave her lungs as a porous black hoof slammed into her gut.

Blinded by the pain, still dizzy, she clutched her stomach. In a split second, she recognized her mistake, struggling to escape before the hoof stamped down harder. She cried out, working to lift it off with no avail.

“I think that’s your minute,” Chrysalis mocked. “Too bad. I almost felt some of those hits. But it seems bravado wasn’t enough to take you off the menu.”

“N-no way!” Rainbow gasped. “If you think I’m gonna let you eat me, you’ve got a hoof-sandwich coming to you!”

“Well, yes actually,” Chrysalis laughed. “Hoof, hock. Head, tail. I’ll be eating all of you, so that goes without saying, you silly thing.”

“You gross...ugly…”

The queen’s horn ignited, and she scooped the unwilling pegasus between her crossed forelegs as she sat up into a great bear hug. “Oh by all means though, struggle as you like. There’s a reason I want you alive for this.”

“You’re sick!” Rainbow shouted, kicking out in all directions to escape. “You’re a twisted evil hag!”

“Oh, be careful what you say, little one,” Chrysalis said, head leaning in to lap at her face, “soon you’ll be part of this ‘twisted, evil hag.’ ”

“N-never!” she cried, front hooves pressing against the legs holding her tight.

“Mmm-mmm,” Chrysalis hummed, shaking her head. “Not never, dear. Now.”

Rainbow froze as Chrysalis sighed, jaws opening to lower onto her head. The lips passed over her colorful scalp, the tongue tasting her as it sucked on her skull like a great fuzzy sucker.

“Ah-uh!” she uttered, eyes wide as the changeling queen moaned into her head. She went slack at the sensation, a deer in the headlights, until the great black lips began descending over her eyes.

The encroaching darkness gave new life to her survival instincts, and her free forelegs flailed against the queen’s hard black head. Her hind legs kicked out uselessly on the stone floor, until she realized the best she could do was push herself faster into the monster’s gullet, and went immediately slack.

“Let me go! I’ll kill you from inside if I have to!” she shouted defiantly, fear creeping into her voice, much like the great serpentine tongue creeping slowly into her mouth.

“Wh-wha— ah! Nnng…” she slowly groaned, as the tongue explored her mouth, her eyes covered by the dank darkness.

Rainbow’s senses eventually returned to her, and she tried sinking her teeth into the fleshy intruder.

Chrysalis groaned, tongue retracting as she released Rainbow’s slick, sweaty head for a moment, giggling. “Oh, I like that,” she told her. “My broodmates are too gentle with me, so protective and careful. Never rough. I’ll reward you for that.”

Rainbow sat dumbstruck, as the mouth moved in once more. “Y-you… you freak—”

Chrysalis returned to engulf Rainbow’s head, lips slipping under her chin to suck on the pegasi’s neck. All the while, her forelegs continue to press against the head lowering over her. All the while, Rainbow’s muffled protests sounded within, growing louder as the lips began sucking in her shoulders. One, then the other, and slowly encompassing the wriggling forelegs.

Chrysalis paused, her mouth full as Rainbow’s head sat at the back of her throat, pinned forelimbs left to scrabble uselessly against the process. The queen adjusted her grip, slipping her forelegs to sit beneath Rainbow’s rump, and drawing her higher. Her prey still wriggling in her grip, she took a deep breath through her nostrils, and took a great, rolling swallow.

A slight bulge appeared in the pit of the queen’s throat, which increased the pitch and volume of its complaints as Rainbow’s forelegs were finally pinned and useless to her. Legs waggled in the air, seeking purchase, and Rainbow’s prized wings did their best to resume the work of her forelegs in pulling herself out.

Eventually, however, her wings literally folded to the will of their devourer. They, and the tips of her forelegs vanished from sight as Rainbow was slowly swallowed up.

From here, Chrysalis increased pace, a few steady swallows working Rainbow’s midsection down, until she reached her toned hips.

From here, as they watched abhorred, the queen’s long tongue emerged from beneath Rainbow’s belly and curved itself up and over her crotch.

The bulge in her throat gave a confused murmur, before angrily mumbling as Rainbow’s legs kicked out against the molestation.

The tongue pressed in on her sweaty, fight-slickened folds, tasting and probing as its owner slowly sucked her down. The protesting moans reaching a fever pitch, they all heard a shriek as the tongue wormed its way into her maiden passage.

None of it lasted, as Chrysalis used the tongue’s newfound grip in her marehood to help shovel Rainbow’s rump into her mouth. A rolling swallow forced the round bulge halfway down the long neck, and left only her hind legs and tail visible.

At this juncture, the mumbled voice in the queen’s throat became fitful and scared, as Chrysalis sought an end to it. Lifting Rainbow’s legs high, Chrysalis tilted back, swallowing steadily as the rest of her slipped easily into the predator’s waiting throat. The bulge shouted all the way down, finally to be deposited in the belly, where the noise paused a beat.

“Proud little fool,” Chrysalis cooed. “I told you how this would end. All your talk, all that fighting, just for the same fate as your friend. Was it even worth the effort?

“You were already mine, dear fool. Gulping you down was just a necessary formality. The moment Twilight interfered, she sealed your doom.”

Rainbow could be heard shouting inside, the belly rocking, small distended points bulging as she kicked and fought from within.

“Oh, but one last thing,” Chrysalis sighed. “As you opted out of receiving my drone’s elixir, this next part is going to take… well, quite a lot longer.”

The queen’s belly burbled, and before long it was attempting to shrink as it had before. And as before, its occupant screamed, anguish filling the air as Rainbow couldn’t help but shriek girlishly. The odd sob punctured the screams, the sounds of what must have been pleading emanating from within.

Unlike the others, the shrinking belly made little progress, instead flexing against its agonized occupant. Eventually however, the sound of distinct snaps punctuated the screams, which only increased in volume.

“Stop it!” Twilight shouted, not daring to cover her ears. “Just end it! Why won’t you just END it?!”

“Well, you see,” Chrysalis explained, rubbing her shrieking gut. “I implemented the elixir my drones pumped into your other friends, not only as a means of arousal and humiliation, but as a kindness.

“It acts as an accelerant to my digestive acids. Pumped full of it, the acid can do its job in seconds from within, where otherwise it has to slowly eat you away from the outside. Your poor fool of a friend traded humiliation for another sort of suffering. It was her decision.”

Twilight shut her eyes against the piteous sound, hoping and praying it would be over soon.

“Oh? What’s that?” Chrysalis said, pretending to extend her ear to listen to Rainbow Dash. “You want out? Well… all you had to do was ask.”

Twilight's eyes shot open, and she watched in shock and horror as Chrysalis held a hoof to her chest, as if to belch. Before her eyes, the lump in the stomach emptied, and slowly crawled its way back up the long neck.

Snapping her head forward, Chrysalis vomited onto the stone floor in front of her, a noxious, bubbling bloody soup. But in the middle of it, was what had become of Rainbow Dash, still screaming at full force. Only tangentially aware of her freedom, she slowly crawled forward, with whatever energy she could muster.

What they beheld made Twilight wish Rainbow Dash had stayed and passed on. Rainbow Dash’s flesh was steaming, a sizzling sound playing background to her ear-splitting wails. And flesh was nearly all there was, scarcely a patch of blue or any other color left on her, save for some stray follicles which now seemed to simply be laying on her.

Her skin was pink in the best places, but mostly it was an angry red, irritated. Open sores adorned her, smoking like craters. The worst of it was her various orifices. Her pelvic region was bleeding openly, flesh ragged. Part of her pubic bone was showing amidst sickly looking muscle. At this point, it would be impossible at a glance to tell if Rainbow Dash had been a mare or a stallion.

Her face was a ruin. By some miracle, she still possessed lips, but a hole had been burned into her cheek, and part of her skull was visible. Many places were pure muscle, still present enough to see the agony and fear in her face. Much of her nose was burned away, something akin to a hole left in its wake. Her ears were simply gone. She looked positively ghoulish.

A ruined hoof, the formerly solid keratin now limp and hanging off her leg, reach up and rubbed her eyes. Eyes that looked raw, the crimson color gone from them. “I c-can’t see!” she cried. “Where is everypony, I can’t see-hee-hee!” she sobbed.

Twilight hated herself for wishing to stay silent, but tried to move forward, before the changeling drone behind her pulled the chain on her neck. “We’re over here, Rainbow! Follow my voice!”

Piteously, Rainbow Dash crawled forward, assisted by only one foreleg. It occurred to Twilight that the stomach had tried kneading her, and that the snaps and crunches they heard were that of bones. It was if the stomach chewed her.

Of the obviously broken bones, the most obvious was her right foreleg, which she held gingerly while the other worked unimpeded. The second most obvious had been her back. Rainbow’s lower body stood limp, dead weight as she crawled over. She was paralyzed from the waist down.

Lastly, her wings. Frail things in the best of times, even given who owned them, not one feather survived the partial digestion, and the flesh was too soft to be much match for the acids. They hung off her by stray muscle and sinew, the bones themselves naked to the world.

This had happened to her in under two minutes, under the worst circumstances. Part of Twilight wondered what kind of horrible substance was capable of it.

But most of her was preoccupied with the pitiful wretch hobbling towards her, whimpering and crying the entire time, so slow as to mock her very nature. To mock her very name.

“Please,” Twilight asked, pulling against her bonds, “let me go to her!”

“Oh, in due time,” Chrysalis answered.

“Oh Celestia, no!” Rarity whimpered, unable to look at her any longer.

“He… help me!” Rainbow pled. “I can’t feel my legs! Plea-hese! I just want to go home! I just want to go home!”

Rainbow Dash looked and sounded like she had burst into tears, and yet none came. Twilight suspected her tear ducts were gone as well. She had nearly reached Twilight’s hooves.

Chrysalis sighed. “Very well. How like a family pet. First you want out, and just as quickly you want to be let back...inside.”

Rainbow Dash spasmed in fear, scrambling the last foot to wrap her forelegs around Twilight’s. All while the cruel queen slowly made her way over.

Twilight knelt down, the noxious smell coming off Rainbow not enough to deny her comfort sorely needed. She gently embraced her, in tears.

“D-don’t let her take me Twilight! Don’t, I can’t go back in there! I can’t! I can’t!”

“I-I” Twilight stammered, desperate to make the promise… but knowing that if Chrysalis wanted otherwise, it would be impossible to keep.

“Oh,” Chrysalis uttered, “but you said you wanted to go home. And I will take you to your home, little one.”

“TWILIGHT, DON’T LET HER TAKE ME!!!” Rainbow screamed.

“I…”

“PLEEEEASE!!!”

“I- I don’t know how!” Twilight shrieked.

“KILL ME!” Rainbow screamed.

Twilight’s insides froze. She couldn’t even process such a request. “Wh-what?!”

“KILL ME!!!”

“If you insist,” the queen said, arriving at last, and stuffing the start of Rainbow’s lifeless hind legs in her mouth.

“NO! NOOOOO!!!” Rainbow moaned, all thoughts of dignity gone. She clung to Twilight’s leg with all her remaining might, and Twilight tried to do likewise.

“Hold on, I’ve got you!” she said, even now seeing Chrysalis working her way up towards Rainbow’s waist.

“PLEASE, KILL ME!!!” Rainbow repeated, screaming into Twilight’s face.

“I— I CAN’T!” she cried, almost stunned at how selfish that sounded, but how impossible the proposed task was for her.

At that moment, the tug of war with the changeling queen ended. Rainbow’s “good” arm snapped with the effort, and she was dragged away from her. All the while Rainbow screamed, trying in vain to smash her own head against the cobblestone, trying to escape the hell that awaited her.

Chrysalis barely wasted any time. Already she had stuffed Rainbow Dash’s lower body into her throat, raising her off the ground and angling up.

A silent scream of terror left Rainbow as she was swallowed up a second time. Slowly her midsection slid out of view. Then her chest was gone. And at last, her blind eyes seeming to bore into all of theirs, her head and forelegs began sinking.

“Daddy... Mommy-eey…!” she moaned, before Chrysalis’ jaws sealed her in once more.

One quiet swallow was all it took for the pony-sized lump to return to the prison of the queen’s belly, and the horrible sounds began anew.

It took a full five minutes for the sounds to cease. Another ten for Chrysalis’ form to return to normal, bones crunching the whole way.

Twilight was uncertain if the five minute mark was the point that Rainbow finally died. It could have been her vocal chords gave out, from screaming herself hoarse, or the acids wearing them away.

What she was certain of, was that she would give almost anything to have her poor poor friend back in her arms… and have done her the kindness of stamping her skull in.