How To Survive Your Giant Marefriend

Oh crap! Oh crap on a flipping cracker! Doctor Whooves had really screwed the pooch this time. He had made miscalculations before, but never had he made a blunder this bad.

It was supposed to be a simple experiment with his newest invention: a shrink ray meant for the purpose of making large objects small enough to store anywhere. But the machine had gone haywire and exploded, expelling a wide ray of energy that had left him shrunken down to a measly inch tall. And he had a hunch that he wasn't the only one. There was no telling how far the ray would stretch or whom it would affect, but he knew he needed to find a way to fix it before something worse happened because of it.

All of a sudden, the door to the laboratory swung open, causing a gust of wind that nearly blew the doctor over. In bursted his beloved grey-coated, blonde-haired assistant and marefriend, Derpy Hooves. She may have been a bit scatterbrained, but darned if she wasn't every bit as sweet and friendly as they come, always looking for ways to help out her fellow ponies. Her eyes, while crossed, were beautiful to look at and she had the most adorable laugh ever.

Unfortunately, at the moment, there was no reason to laugh as the titanic mare gazed around the room searching for any sign of his presence. "Doc?" she called out. "Are you in here? I was just coming to see you when I saw a weird light and was wondering if you knew anything about it. Hello? Doc?"

The tiny doctor shouted at the top of his voice, jumping around and trying desperately to get Derpy's attention. Alas, it was useless. She began to roam around the lab in search of him, unaware that he was almost literally right under her nose. Her feet created created thunderous earthquakes every time she stepped. The minuscule stallion had to scramble like an ant to avoid getting squashed under the weight of her feet.

Finally, the doctor managed to find sanctuary behind the leg of a table, taking a moment to catch his breath. "Doc, are you playing hide and seek?" the pegasus mare asked somewhat playfully. "I'm gonna find you."

"Oh goodness, I hope so. Preferably, before I get crushed like an insect." he thought. Then suddenly, he remembered that he was wearing his rocket-powered jet boots. With a flip of the switches on the backs of his boots, rocket thrusters sprouted out of the soles as the engines began to warm up. The doc quickly got into blast off position, spreading his legs and propping his arms against his sides, and with a tap of his heels, he was up, up and and away.

He flew straight for the back of Derpy's head, feeling certain that she couldn't possibly ignore him now. That is, until Derpy bent down to search under a desk. He had to swerve quickly to avoid hitting the wall. When she stood up again after hearing a swishing sound, he circled back around and brushed right past her face. The smoke trail he left behind irritated Derpy's sinuses, making her have to sneeze. As the doctor circled around again, aiming straight for her face, the sneeze was already building up.

Once the shrunken doctor was mere inches away from her face, the giant mare unleashed a sneeze that blew him completely off course. He lost all control of his flight pattern and hurtled straight into the rim of his chair. Luckily, the cushion on the seat made for a soft landing as the jet boots gave out. Dazed and disoriented, he rubbed his head to relieve the pain of the collision.

Above his head, Derpy had decided to take a break from her search to analyze the situation. "Hm. Well, if the doc's not in here, then where else could he be hiding?" she wondered out loud. "I need to sit down and think about this."

"Oh no!" The doctor panicked. His jet boots were kaputt, so he couldn't fly away. He gazed up in terror as Derpy's gigantic butt came crashing down on him like an asteroid from space.

The shrunken stallion struggled under the immense weight of the colossal mare on top of him. There was a reason that other ponies called her Bubble Butt behind her back and it wasn't just because of her cutie mark. Her enormous, yet shapely, rear was making it very difficult for him to move, but at least he had oxygen so hopefully he wouldn't suffocate.

Just then, the mare realized that she felt something moving under her bottom. She stood up and saw what looked like a tiny bug lying in the middle of the impression she'd left in the cushion. Upon closer inspection, however, she realized with a shock that it was in fact the very pony she'd been searching for.

"Doc?! Is... is that really you?!" she asked, barely able to process what she was seeing. The doctor gave her a tiny nod. "B-but.... how.... w-why are you so.... uh.... s-s-so, uh....."

"Minuscule? Diminutive? Compact? Vertically AND horizontally challenged?!" The doc could go on and on with all the possibilities.

"Uh, I was gonna say... pocket-sized!" the pegasus replied carefully, with an awkward grin.

"Indeed. Well, the simple answer is, there was a mishap with my shrink ray."

"Is that what that light was earlier?"

"Yes and now I need your help to properly assess the situation and find the best solution. There's no telling how many other ponies were affected by that burst."

Derpy lifted up the little doctor and held him in her palm, giving him a gentle look. "Don't worry, Doc. You're the smartest pony I know. If anypony can find a way to fix this, you can. I just know it." All this passionate praising made the stallion's face heat up with embarrassment, but it wasn't enough to numb the pain he still felt from being sat on. Derpy noticed his pained expression as he pressed his hands against his back and arched backwards. "Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry I sat on you. I didn't know you were there. I didn't break anything, did I?"

"Oh, no worries," he said. "Nothing a bit of soothing tea and yoga won't fix. Now come along, Derpy. We've got much work to do." The grey pegasus smiled and carried him outside to see just how many ponies had been affected, per his request.