Country-sized Country Girl

Applejack felt a gentle poking against her muzzle. She grumbled and waved it off "Five more minutes" she mumbled. She felt another prod and then a voice calling her name.

"Wake up, Applejack!" She heard Twilight’s voice.

Applejack rubbed the sleep from her eyes and looked around. On her muzzle were three glowing dots, one purple, one blue and one white. The purple dot shot a fireball the size of a pinhead between Applejack’s eyes, barely singeing her fur, but creating enough force to get her attention.

“Twilight?” Applejack moaned "What happened? What’s going on? Where are you?”

“I’m the glowing speck on your muzzle.” She heard Twilight’s voice. “You've... had a little growth spurt…”

"That’s one way of putting it…" said Luna.

Applejack’s eyes widened as she saw the city of Cloudsdale floating in the distance. Then tire city was almost the same size as her head. She finally realized just how big she was. “Oh gosh! I'm huge!” She gasped. “I didn’t hurt anypony did I?”

“Against all odds, nopony was hurt.” Said Twilight. “You did make quite the mess of things though… You flattened all of Baltimare.”

Applejack felt her cheeks flush as she noticed the wet patch near her crotch. "Aw shucks… I was masturbating in my sleep, wasn’t I?”

“You kinda used Canterlot as a sex toy.” Twilight grinned.

“I…I’m really sorry about this everypony…” Applejack gulped.

“It’s okay Applejack.” said Celestia. “It was Flim and Flam’s potion that caused you to grow.”

“Besides, you were asleep for the entire incident.” said Luna. “We are pretty sure that absolves you from guilt.”

“But what should I do now?” asked Applejack. “I’m afraid to move. One wrong move and I could wipe out an entire city.”

“Don’t worry.” said Twilight. “We’re going to get you back to your normal size.”

“How?” asked Applejack.

“The cause of your growth is based on the toxin of the Poison Joke. We have evacuated everywhere between Canterlot and the South Lunar Sea.” said Luna. “You are going to go to the sea and bathe in it.”

“Try to watch your step.” reminded Celestia. “Just because our cities are evacuated, doesn’t mean you should romp all over them.”

“Okay…” Applejack timidly stood up, tons of dirt and debris fell from her skin and crashed onto the land below. “I’ll try.” She timidly walked over to the nearby sea, doing her best not to step on anything that looked important. But it was hard, each one of her hoof-falls was almost equivalent to a meteor slamming into the planet. Drops of sweat poured down her face, and she winced with every step she took. “Sorry…” She blushed. “The cities are hard to avoid…”

“You’re doing fine.” said Celestia. “Just try to be careful.”

At last, Applejack reached the sea. She didn't want to cause a tsunami, so she gently inched herself into the water. The water barely came up past her knees, even lying down in wasn’t enough to fully cover her.

“This isn't ideal, but it should be enough for a bath.” said Twilight.

“But to fix Poison Joke, ya need to take a bubble bath.” said Applejack “Where are we going to get all the soap?”

“That’s where Cloudsdale comes in.” said Twilight. “They’re going to hover over you and drop soapy water on you.”

“But what if this doesn’t work?” Applejack frowned.

“If worse came to worse we could always banish you to the moon until we found a proper solution.” said Luna “I’d recommend against that option if you can help it, though. It’s not fun.”

“Yeah.” Applejack grinned. “Let’s try the bath thing first.”

“Try not to move too much.” said Twilight. “We’re going to send down squads of pegasus to scrub your fur.”

“Alright…” Applejack gulped. “I’ll try to be careful.”

Applejack leaned back and allowed the city of Cloudsdale to dump hundreds of thousands of gallons of soapy water all over her fur. She could see the weather factories of the great pegasus city were working overtime to produce such a large number of clouds, which drizzled a thin mist onto her fur. Well, it was a thin mist to Applejack, to a normal-sized pony it was a torrential deluge of sweet-smelling water.

After about an hour, the warm mist stopped. Cloudsdale hovered over the ocean to replenish its water supply, and hundreds, if not thousands of tiny pegasus flew down from the city with large brushes to clean the gargantuan pony’s fur.

Applejack couldn’t even make out individual ponies. They were barely visible specks crawling through her fur. Applejack took care to avoid moving, but she was amused that many pegasus, who she just knew were stallions, seemed to heavily favor the fur around her marehood. After an hour or so, the pegasus returned to Cloudsdale, and the city created more clouds of soapy water to send over the island that was Applejack.

“How many cycles do you reckon this’ll take?” asked Applejack, her voice easily heard over the storm’s thunder.

“As many as it takes to get you cleaned up and shrunk.” She heard Twilight’s voice in her ear.

Applejack just sighed and slouched into the sea. She ran her slowly ran her hooves across her chest, in part because she wanted to help clean herself off, and in part because she had spent the last two hours barely moving.

Colossal drops of soapy water dripped off her mane and fur, forming a thick layer of foam in the sea below. Applejack decided to just meditate under the booming storm clouds, which was eventually followed by the scrubs of the tiny workers. This cycle repeated until the evening, when Applejack noticed Cloudsdale seemed to be getting larger and larger, until it was the same size as her, and her entire body could be showered under the city. Applejack was now forced to sit up in order to keep her head out of the ocean.

The pegasus workers were happy as well. Instead of having to scrub hairs the size of trees, they found themselves prancing through fields of orange fur like it was a odd-colored meadow.

“Alright, AJ.” She heard Twilight’s voice in her ear again. “Let’s move to the continental shelf. It’ll be shallower there.”

Applejack became smaller and smaller until she could see the individual colors of the pegasi cleaning her. Sure, they were still indistinct specks of color, but she could at least tell them apart. She imagined one of her hoofs was around the size of a skyscraper. She was still far too large to integrate back into pony society, but at least she was no longer in danger of destroying entire cities with one wrong step. She was still absolutely massive, but she could at least tell the difference between ponies, and her fur was a more reasonable size now, looking more like a stupidly large carpet that a field of wheat. She started to shrink more and more, to the point where she requested that Cloudsdale lower the water pressure of the storm clouds. As the cleaning continued, less and less water, and fewer and fewer ponies were needed to scrub here body. The cleaning crew sizes decreased from hundreds to dozens to a mere twenty pegasi as Applejack shrank down to height of fifty feet at the shoulder. But that seemed to be the limit of how far she was going to shrink. No matter how much the remaining cleaners tried, they couldn’t get her to shrink beyond that.

“I don’t get it…” Twilight frowned from the shoreline. “Why isn’t she returning to her normal size?”

“It’s possible that Flim and Flam’s potion had a permanent side effect.” Rarity shrugged. “I guess she’s stuck at that size.”

“I think you’re right.” Twilight sighed. “Alright ponies. Pack it in! I think that’s the best we’re going to do!” She yelled.

The pegasus workers gave a cheer and flew up to Cloudsdale for a well-deserved rest.

Applejack cantered towards the beach, dripping with water. She looked down and saw her friends waiting for her, as well as a blue speck zipping around the beach’s palm trees. "Hey, guys." She looked down and smiled. "Y’all be careful around me, I don't wanna stomp on any of ya by accident."

A tiny Rainbow Dash landed on Applejack's muzzle. “Glad to see you’re more reasonably sized now.” She smiled.

“So am I.” Applejack smiled back. “Least I can see you all again But I still feel really bad about what I did to Equestria. All those poor ponies are gonna be homeless now..."

"Well, at least you didn't grow so big you destroyed Equestria, thanks to me!" Rainbow huffed up her chest with pride.

"Really?" Applejack gave a look of confusion. "How'd ya do that?"

"I..." Rainbow started, before realizing that she was going to tell Applejack she had been inside her ass. She looked back and saw all of her friends gesturing to keep her mouth shut. "Uh...I... I’ll tell you later."

Applejack just hung her head and sighed. “I understand if y’all don’t wanna talk to me right now…”

“It’s not that, Applejack.” said Twilight. “We’re your friends. We don’t blame you for what happened.”

“Besides, Spike has destroyed Ponyville before, and he's not a pariah." Pinkie chirped.

“Yeah, but Ponyville is just a little hamlet, and Baltimare is a huge city!” Applejack sighed. “Heck, I almost destroyed all of Equestria! I'm sure everypony is gonna hate me now."

“Oh, come on.” Rarity scoffed. “You’ve saved Equestria at least a dozen times. I’m sure that gives you carte blanche to endanger it at least once.”

“Yeah, and Discord’s actively tried to turn Equestria inside-out before.” said Fluttershy. “And now he’s being invited to the Grand Galloping Gala by Princess Celestia. I’m sure you’ll find a way to fit back in with the rest of us.”

“I guess y’all are right.” Applejack smiled. “I just wish there was something I could do to help fix this, so I can fit in with normal ponies again.”

“Hmmm…” Twilight rubbed her chin. “I think I might have an idea.”

Applejack carefully stepped into the recently-constructed warehouse in the middle of the Baltimare ruins. A stern-looking business pony sat on a tiny desk propped up on a pair of shipping containers. Across his desk was an almost foot long name placard that read ‘Second Assistant Pony Resources Director, Micro Manager.’

Across from him were containers stacked up as a makeshift desk for Applejack to sit at. Applejack carefully sat down and stared at the tiny pony. A massive bead of sweat dripped down her mane as she went over her resume to make sure everything checked out, that and the fact that is really hot.

The business pony skimmed over her resume, presumably barely reading it. Applejack froze. “So… You have any experience in construction, Ms. Applejack?” the tiny pony asked.

“Well. Ah’ve raised a whole lotta barns back when I was, y’know, normal-sized.” Applejack gulped and gave a toothy grin. “And ya can just call me Applejack, or AJ. That’s what my friends call me…” She nervously tapped her hooves.

“Uh-huh…” Micro said uninterestedly.

“So… do you need any more information on me?” Applejack gulped.

“Just one more thing, Ms. Applejack.” He glanced up at her. “How is it you were able to grow to the size of a small country, and why should we hire you to help rebuild Baltimare when it was you who destroyed it in the first place?”

“Oh, that.” Applejack hung her head. “That was an accident. You see, there was this magical soda that was supposed to do the opposite of what a plant called Poison Joke does to ya, and well, it caused me to grow. A lot.”

“But you’ve mostly gotten over it?” He raised an eyebrow.

“Eyup.” Applejack smiled. “But there was a bit of a lingering side effect, as ya can see by my current size.”

“I suppose this was a traumatic experience for you?” Micro glanced up.

“Well, I was asleep for most all of it.” Applejack shrugged. “I wasn’t even aware of all the damage I was doin’. The whole thing was one big accident.”

“And how would you be able to help us rebuild Baltimare?” Micro asked. “You’re a little big to get any precision work done.”

“Well. I could do carry heavy things around real good.” said Applejack. “And act as a crane. Since most small buildings just come up to my shoulder, I helped a couple of workers lift some of their equipment up to the roof. I figured I’d lend em’ a hoof. They looked at me weird-like and all, it’s not every day ya see a fifty foot pony, but they appreciated the help.”

Micro laughed “I’m sure they did. My forepony said you were quite helpful. He said you could get stuff done in a few minutes what normally takes them an hour.” He tapped his hooves together. “But you need to understand that we can’t just -Gah!”

Micro's speech was interrupted by Applejack shifting forward until her massive beady eyes were a mere foot from him. “Please! Let me help out! I’ve got to make up for how much damage I’ve caused! And this job was practically made for me!” She begged.

“Calm down Ms. Applejack! Let me finish!” He stood up and stared her dead in the eyes.

Applejack gently sat down and stared at him.

“We can’t hire you without working out the proper safety precautions to deal with your size. We'd probably have to treat you similarly to a vehicle, but we can work out this issues later.” Micro paced in front of his desk. “And then there’s the issue of your salary.”

“Yes!” Applejack cheered. “Thank you! I’ll agree to any safety protocols you give me. I promise.”

“And your pay?” asked Micro. “Certainly a pony of your ‘unique ability’ is worth five-hundred bits a week.”

“Thanks.” Applejack smiled. “But y’all can just pay me in food and such. I feel really bad since y’all need to do this much work cause' of me.”

“I don’t mind the extra work, it means I get paid” Micro smiled. “Besides, you’re big enough that you’d probably eat your pay in food anyway, or at least half of it.”

“Thank you, Mr. Manager!” Applejack smiled and gently stuck out her hoof. “I won’t let you down.”

“Heh.” The tiny pony shook her massive hoof as best he could. “I’m sure you won’t. Now get on out there and say hello to your new co-workers.”

Applejack smiled and ducked down to avoid the rafters as she walked out of the warehouse into the sun. Rainbow Dash jumped off the warehouse roof onto Applejack’s back “So how’d it go?” she asked.

“Ah’ve got myself a job!” Applejack shouted with joy. "Ah'm gonna help rebuilt this city!"

“Awesome! With your help, all those displaced ponies will have probably adequate housing in less than a month!” Rainbow fluttered up to her mane.

“Sure hope so.” Applejack smiled. "And the sooner I can get a real roof over my head, the better."

“We’re gonna have to get Rarity to make you a custom hat.” Rainbow noted. “Your head looks really bare without one.”

“That’d be an awfully nice thing for her to do.” Applejack looked up. “It’s gonna get awfully hot out here. I could use a bit of shade over my head.”

“So what’re you going to do when you’ve finished rebuilding Baltimare?” asked Rainbow. “Stay in construction?”

“Naw. I’ll probably head back to Ponyville and try starting the ol’ farm back up. I’m sure the land’s real nice and fertile now that I’ve essentially plowed half of Equestria. It’s gonna get lonely here in the meantime though.”

“Hey! I’m not leaving you!” Rainbow huffed. “You think I’m going to let you do the hard work of rebuilding everything. I’m staying right here until the cities rebuilt.” Rainbow gathered some clouds and pushed them over Applejacks’ head. “Besides, somepony needs to give you and your co-workers some shade.”

“Thanks Rainbow.” Applejack smiled. “That means a lot to me.”

Sure." Rainbow snuggled up in her mane.

"Now tell me about how ya saved Equestria." Applejack looked back at her. "I'm still curious about that."

Rainbow chuckled. "Probably not the best question for you to ask me while I'm giving you snuggles." She smiled.