Story 1 (August 2017 Theme: Starlight Glimmer as Pred, Prey, or Both): Everypony's Equal As Food. Warnings: Hard Vore, Cooking
Fluttershy sat alone in solitary confinement with the brainwashing loop on full blast. Had she succeeded in her spy mission she wouldn’t be in the house all by herself, but she had made just a bit too much noise when she found Starlight Glimmer’s secret about her cutie mark. Fluttershy barely had time to get to the ground before the guards had been called and she was captured. So she sat in a house on the edge of Our Town with no help to fight the brainwashing.
In sameness, there is peace. Exceptionalism is a lie. Free yourself from your cutie mark. Choose equality as your special talent. Difference is frustration. To excel is to fail. Be your best by never being your best. Conformity will set you free. Accept your limitations, and happiness will follow. You're no better than your friends.
The others weren’t faring much better. Morale was low when Fluttershy hadn’t returned after the mission. It was critical that she returned with the cutie marks, or at least a way to escape. But while Twilight was worried about Fluttershy, the brainwashing loop wore on her mind.
In sameness, there is peace. Exceptionalism is a lie. Free yourself from your cutie mark. Choose equality as your special talent. Difference is frustration. To excel is to fail. Be your best by never being your best. Conformity will set you free. Accept your limitations, and happiness will follow. You're no better than your friends.
However, while the loop was working on Twilight and breaking through to her, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash were doing their best to resist the brainwashing,
In sameness, there is peace. Exceptionalism is a lie. Free yourself from your cutie mark. Choose equality as your special talent. Difference is frustration. To excel is to fail. Be your best by never being your best. Conformity will set you free. Accept your limitations, and happiness will follow. You're no better than your friends.
Time slowly had no meaning for either the group or for Fluttershy. While they could keep track of when the sun rose and set, it was difficult to keep count of how many days had passed. Fighting against the words piped in at all times of day and night took more concentration than they had realized. Hours began to run together, then days. The only consistent thing seemed to be two ponies bringing them food at what they assumed to be the same time each day. This continued for nearly two weeks until one day, early in the morning, Fluttershy awoke to the sounds of the loop again. This time, however, she was unable to push any of the brainwashing from her mind. When the ponies came to bring her food they could see the pony was ready. They left Fluttershy to her food and immediately ran off to tell Starlight Glimmer.
Fluttershy was too hungry to notice the ponies had left, nor did she notice any passage of time. When the door opened up again, Starlight Glimmer strode in and looked over Fluttershy. Silently, Starlight Glimmer beckoned her to follow. Obediently, Fluttershy stood up and followed after Starlight, leaving behind her solitary confinement and half eaten breakfast. No words were exchanged as they approached the town square, where two groups were already gathered.
On one side were the citizens of Our Town and on the other, the rest of the mane six. It was a familiar site for all. Every few days the ‘new recruits’ would be trotted out and asked if they were ready to join their little community.
Fluttershy seemed well rested, while the rest of her friends had varied expressions ranging from tiredness to worry to agitation. Finally, Starlight motioned for Fluttershy to stand before her between the two groups before breaking the silence with her words.
“Gather round, friends, gather round! We have wonderful news today. Fluttershy has decided to join our nice community, isn’t that right, Fluttershy?”
Fluttershy enthusiastically nodded her head. “Oh, yes! Now I know that I’m not better than anypony else and that I shouldn’t try to better myself. My best self is how I’ll be once I’ve joined your nice little town!”
“We shall perform the welcoming ceremony shortly,” Starlight continued before turning to address the others of the mane 6. “And now that Fluttershy has agreed to joined us,” Starlight continued, “We've also gathered you out here to ask if any of you are ready to join us! There are so many friends to be made once you realize you don't need your cutie marks or the talents that come with them.” The response wasn’t as enthusiastic as she had hoped, but it didn’t surprise Starlight in the least.
“Not interested!” responded Rainbow Dash .”You may have them now, but we're going to get our cutie marks back!”
Applejack’s response was about the same. “Y'all don't understand, do ya? You can't force nopony to be friends! It don't work like that! Isn’t that right Twilight?” There was a pause before everypony turned to look at Twilight with confusion in their eyes. “Twilight?” asked Applejack again, concern in her tone.
Twilight had taken a step toward Starlight and the crowd of ponies while Applejack was speaking. “If I agree to leave my cutie mark in the vault, I'll really be happier?” she asked with complete sincerity in her tone to the gasps and horror of the rest of her friends.
“Of course!” replied Starlight. “How stressful your life must have been, making so many decisions every day. You must have had many times you had to force yourself to look prim, proper and perfect when you felt lousy. All the pressure to be the best in the world. Life is so much better without all those worries!”
Starlight Glimmer motioned for both ponies to step toward her and embraced both in a hug. While embraced she turned to one of her guards and motioned to her house with her head. “Please go to my house and grab the two jars with their cutie marks.” The guard headed toward the house before Starlight turned back to the other 4 of the mane 6. “It’s a shame you haven’t decided to join us, but with two of you down it’s just a matter of time before you will be joining us as well. Take them back inside and lock them up again! We’ll have the ceremony shortly.” The others were led back inside the brainwashing cottage, all of them stealing glances as Starlight Glimmer led their other friends in the direction of the Cutie Mark Cave.
After a short trip the group approached the cave. Once at the entrance, Starlight Glimmer motioned for Fluttershy to stand with the guards posted just outside the cave entrance.
“Please stay here, Fluttershy, I’ll be along shortly for you.”
Starlight then led Twilight back into the familiar cave. Once the pair were near the Staff of Sameness, she motioned for Twilight to stop in the center of the cave.She removed the jar containing Twilight’s cutie mark from her saddlebag and set it down before she wrapped the jar’s lid in her magic. She slowly opened it and released the stolen mark. It hovered in the air briefly before zipping back onto Twilight’s flank. Twilight was perplexed.
“But… why? I thought we were giving up our cutie marks!” asked Twilight with panic in her voice. “I… I didn’t want it back! I want to give it up and-”
Starlight Glimmer shoved a hoof onto Twilight’s mouth to quiet Twilight before she could devolve into a panicked rant.
“We must return your marks. They had been removed in haste, not to mention multiple marks pulled at once. We must remove them properly so they can rest here in the vault.”
Starlight picked up the Staff of Sameness in her magic and targeted Twilight’s flank. Warm magic wrapped around Twilight’s mark; the pain from the removal was different this time. It didn’t hurt quite as bad as the last time. In fact, this time it felt rather nice and almost liberating.
At the same time, Twilight began to feel strange. As the mark slowly peeled off from her, her stomach began to feel empty. VERY empty. Empty enough to let out a loud, needy groan. She felt like she was getting hungrier by the second until finally, the mark was completely pulled off and placed in the vault. Both her and Starlight were surprised that in place of the cutie mark wasn’t an equals sign, but that of a stuffed pony.
“Well, that’s... different. I wasn’t expecting that to happen!” exclaimed Starlight Glimmer over the sound of the very loud growling from the alicorn’s stomach. Starlight called for one of the guards to enter and gestured to Twilight. “Bring her back to the village and put her in with the others until we get back. I’ll have to look into why her cutie mark didn’t change into an equals sign.”
The guard gave a single nod and motioned for Twilight to follow.
“We’ll go get something to eat right?” she asked, the answer fading away as the two left.
Once Twilight was led away, Starlight brought her attention back to the task at hoof. “Now then, bring in Fluttershy,” she called out to the guards. Fluttershy slowly made her way into the cave. “It’s time for your ceremony. Please step forward to the center of the cave and we can begin.”
Fluttershy stepped forward, though there was a little hesitation. She hadn’t overheard everything, but she had heard enough to be slightly frightened. What had happened to Twilight, the fact that the cutie mark hadn’t changed to an equals sign, even seeing how Twilight was reacting. “Oh… uh… ok…” she said softly, not quite as confident in what she was doing.
Starlight didn’t pick up on the hesitation at all. She was too preoccupied with levitating up the Staff of Sameness and aiming it at Fluttershy’s cutie mark. Starlight’s magic coursed through the staff and engulfed the mark. Fluttershy began to feel the warmth of the magic surrounding her mark as this time there was no pain. But just like with Twilight, something felt weird. As the mark pulled off, a tiny, nagging need began to grow inside of her. A need that grew stronger and stronger until her cutie mark was pulled fully from her and placed in the vault. And just as had happened with Twilight, a new mark appeared that did not resemble an equals mark at all. It looked more like a spitroast. Once free of the magic, Fluttershy found her voice again just as she turned to Starlight Glimmer and grabbed at her, needingly.
“Oh… Oh Starlight Glimmer! Please. I… you must… please oh please you must!” seh began to beg. Her words and ranting seemed to make no sense.
“Fluttershy, it’s much too late to back out now that the ritual is complete. Let us return to the village and we can set you up in a new-”
“No, you don’t understand!” she said hastily. “We DO need to get back to the village, but you must prepare me!”
Now it was Starlight Glimmer’s turn to be confused. “Wait. Prepare you? For what?”
“To be eaten!” she blurted out. “I… I don’t know how I know, but if something happens to the Elements of Harmony bearers, they get consumed by the Element of Magic to preserve the power! I won’t go back to normal if I don’t get eaten by Twilight!”
Starlight Glimmer grinned an evil smile. “I… see. And if all the Elements are not devoured? What of Twilight?”
Fluttershy shook her head. “She’ll continue to hunger until all of them are devoured. Nothing will sate her hunger!”
Starlight’s smile grew wider. “It seems I have a solution to two problems… very well. Let us return to the village and we can prepare you for a scrumptious feast,” she said with an evil chuckle.
By the time the pair of ponies returned to the village, there was a bit of a ruckus going on near the brainwashing hut. The guards were in the process of dispersing a crowd of citizens from the front of the hut; the reason for the crowd was immediately apparent: shouts and sounds of fighting from inside. Starlight Glimmer motioned for one of the guards to come over. “Please take Fluttershy to the food preparation hut. Since deciding to join us she must have a job, right?” she asked. “Toss her in one of the empty pantries and lock the door, I’ll be with her shortly for her orientation.”
The guard gave a simple nod and beckoned for Fluttershy to follow him, surprised with how eager the mare was to follow. Once the two were out of view, Starlight turned to the remaining two guards to address them.
“Would somepony like to explain just what is going on, here?” she growled, looking first at the guard on the left then to the one on the right. “They couldn’t have staged another escape attempt!”
“N-no ma’am! Not an escape attempt but it’s really bad!” came the hasty reply from the unicron on the left. “We brought Twilight back like you said and were about to close and lock the door when she pounced! Then all the noise started up and it drew a crowd! We closed the door quickly to keep the other ponies from seeing what was going on and when we finally could check… well, there’s a number of ponies that went missing and… well,” the guard looked nervous. “You probably need to see for yourself.”
Starlight Glimmer was on the verge of anger. Ponies didn’t go missing from her village! They certainly would disappear, but they never went missing. She stomped to the door then flung it open. She was greeted with the sight of a rather plump looking purple alicorn with a pair of orange hooves sticking out of her mouth. Before she could even process what was going on those hooves disappeared past Twilight’s lips and the bulge moved downward to join the bulk in Twilight’s midsection. This was followed by a very loud, crass, and undignified belch that shook the house and caused a large bookcase to topple over. Hiding behind the bookcase was the last of the other mane 6, Rarity. She spotted first the large Twilight, then the open door and Starlight Glimmer.
Starlight finally snapped out of her confusion and anger when she realized the pony prisoners hadn’t escaped. No, they had just vanished down Twilight’s throat and into her belly. Once her anger subsided she remembered what Fluttershy had told her. “Oh, yes, right, of course. No, there’s no problem here. Something about elements and eating, I wasn’t really paying attention to what my next meal-” she paused a beat. “I mean, Fluttershy was saying. All I remember is infinite appetite.” It was at that moment she saw Rarity cowering in the corner. She watched the mare tense up and ready to attempt an escape. Rarity took off in a mad dash just to have the door slammed in her face.
“No no no no! Let me out Twilight’s gone crazy!” came the panicked cries. The sound of magic could be heard, followed by muffled protests and a very loud gulp. The loud gulp was followed by a very loud belch. Starlight cracked the door slightly to look inside and grinned. She could see the fourth pony’s outline in Twilight’s stretched stomach as well as hear the telltale sounds of digestion. She smiled and closed the door again.
“We are to repurpose this building. It is no longer a welcoming room for new ponies, it shall be a punishment room for those who get out of line. What constitutes out of line will be left solely up to me. Now, return to guarding this shack, I have other business to attend to at the food preparation hut.”
Meanwhile, Fluttershy found herself shoved in a dark, musty, empty pantry. As soon as the door was closed she heard the telltale sound of a lock sliding in place. In response she stood up and bolted to the door. She began to pound on said door, and demanded that she be let out. But her words and pounding fell on deaf ears; the guard already left to continue his duties elsewhere.
Time passed. How much Fluttershy didn’t know. She spent the entire time trying to get out of the dark pantry. In fact, she was still banging and yelling when Starlight finally entered the food preparation hut. In the middle of one of her hoofs pounding on the door, the pantry was unlocked and the door opened. Fluttershy nearly struck Starlight Glimmer but with her balance thrown off, she only managed to fall forward and embrace Starlight in a tight hug.
“Oh! Starlight you’re here! It was so scary in there, all dark and lonely! You’ve… you’ve come to prepare me for Twilight finally?” she asked hastily.
Starlight Glimmer simply gave a nod and motioned for Fluttershy to let go of her and to approach the kitchen area. “But of course my dear Fluttershy.”
Fluttershy made her way to the kitchen area and looked around. Various cooking instruments were strewn about, freshly clean and ready for preparing the next meal. Her body shivered in anticipation as she glanced back toward Starlight Glimmer. “So…. how… how are you going to prepare me?” she asked, voice shaking slightly.
Starlight Glimmer gave no answer as her horn lit up. With two quick spells, fluttershy was devoid of her fur, mane, and all her feathers. Once satisfied with her work, Starlight pulled a large, deep pan over and placed it on the counter. She motioned for Fluttershy to step up into it. She watched Fluttershy climb up onto the table and settled into the pan, all the while as Starlight prepared various vegetables like onions, carrots, and potatoes to place on Fluttershy.
Once the vegetables were prepared, Starlight strode over to one of the large ovens. With a loud click she turned it on. Fluttershy watched as the heating elements inside began to glow a bright red. Her attention was brought back to the pan when Starlight slapped her nose with a carrot. “Come on now, we need your attention here, not at the oven yet! We don’t want to disappoint Twilight, do we?”
Fluttershy blushed lightly, drooped her ears, and gave a nod. “Oh. Um… I’m sorry. You’re right, I was getting distracted,” she apologized. “I just can’t help imagine getting all nice and cooked for Twilight.” Starlight began plopping the cut up vegetables on either side of Fluttershy. Once satisfied with the amount of vegetables in the pan along with Fluttershy, Starlight picked the pan and pony with her magic and carried them over to the oven. When the door was about to be opened, Fluttershy glanced back at Starlight Glimmer with a confused look on her face. Starlight noticed it immediately.
“Oh, I’m sorry, I don’t have any kind of baste or anything prepared. Once you begin roasting and sweating it’ll start to make a sort of gravy anyway, right?” she asked. She watched as Fluttershy’s expression turned to one of understanding. “Besides, I can prepare a gravy while you cook.”
“Oh, right, yes, of course,” came the reply.
Starlight then opened the oven door. Heat blasted the pair in the face as the air became wavy from the heat inside. “Now my dear, dear, Fluttershy, don’t you find it cold out here? Wouldn’t it be nice to be somewhere nice and warm?” Starlight asked. There was no surprise when Fluttershy nodded. She did feel cold without any of her fur. “Very good. In we go!” With those words she slid the pan with the pony into the oven and closed the door. “Now don’t go anywhere, I’ll be back to come check on you.”
Fluttershy watched through the glass of the oven as Starlight Glimmer walked away, leaving the pony in the high heat.
Time passed. Seconds into minutes. At first it was rather pleasant for Fluttershy in the heat. It was dark and warm inside the oven and at first it felt almost safe. It reminded her of the sauna back at the Ponyville Spa. But the longer she stayed inside, the more she began to sweat. And the more she sweat the more she found the heat cloying. Her wings, devoid of feathers, drooped in the increasing heat and her breathing became heavier in the heat. It continued to get hotter. More beads of sweat formed on Fluttershy’s nude body and dripped down into the pan below. She felt tired and drifted off to sleep.
Fluttershy then awoke with a start. An odd coolness wafted over her hot body, evaporating what little sweat was still on her body. How much time had passed? Fluttershy didn’t know, but It felt like hours had passed.
“Nnnnngh… h-huh? How… long?”
“Hush Fluttershy, I’ve only taken you out of the oven for just a brief time. Remember I told you about the gravy? Well I’ve had time to prepare some and I’m going to pour it over you.”
“Ooh…” came Fluttershy’s soft voice. “I’ll… be perfect… for Twilight.” The heat had sapped a lot of her strength, which made talking difficult and slow. She felt as the cool, at least to her, gravy pour over her nude skin. Spots were already looking brown but she was far from done. Once satisfied everything was ready, Starlight returned Fluttershy to the oven and closed it.
“The next time I come back you should be finished. Enjoy the rest of your sauna!”
More time passed in the heat; Fluttershy felt weaker and weaker. She eventually stopped sweating and her mind began to fog over. Three or four times she passed out as her skin became a deep brown. Patches of her cooked flesh caused her a slight pain with every tiny movement she made. And each time she felt that twinge of pain she was brought back briefly to consciousness then, she would pass out again. It was during one of the times she was passed out that Starlight came to check on Fluttershy.
Starlight checked the clock on the wall and smiled. Fluttershy had been cooking for a good 4 hours and should be ready to be pulled out. She opened of the oven and took a deep sniff of the now cooked mare. “Oh Fluttershy, you smell so delicious,” she complimented before carefully removing the pan from the oven and placing it on the counter. Carefully she grabbed the cooked pony in her magic and gently placed her on a plate. She then licked her lips and levitated over a large fork and carving knife. “And you look delicious too. I just don’t know where I want to start.”
She looked over Fluttershy’s cooked body as she poked different spots of it with her knife. Her eyes settled on the cooked mare’s cutie marked flank and she shrugged. “Well, guess I could start with her flanks. I was going to take them anyway.”
She took the fork and slowly slid it into the soft rump flesh. She then brought the knife over and began to slice into the flank. The knife easily sliced into the cooked meat. But as she was carving she heard a sound that slightly startled her. The soft, barely audible voice of Fluttershy herself. With no strength left to lift her head, Fluttershy tried her best to glance backwards with her eyes. “S-S… Star… light?”
Starlight jumped slightly at the voice but quickly returned to carving off Fluttershy’s cutie mark. “Oh, you’ve survived the cooking I see. Don’t worry, I’m just about finished preparing you.”
Fluttershy let out a very small, “Yay!” while giving a very small, nearly imperceptible wince of pain as her cutie marked flank was cut off. Starlight caught the piece of pony flesh in her magic ad walked around to Fluttershy’s other side. She made sure to walk right in front of her as she took a bite of the cooked pony flesh. Fluttershy watched weakly, thinking the bite was just a taste test. But when Starlight let out a pleased sound of delight as well as shoving the rest of the flank meat into her mouth and swallowing it down, Fluttershy realized what Starlight was up to. Though subtle, Starlight Glimmer noticed the change in Fluttershy’s expression.
“Oh? Didn’t I tell you? I prepared you to be MY dinner!” Starlight said with a delightful cackle in her voice. “These Elements of Harmony sound powerful. Too powerful to stay around. Twilight will stay hungry and devour anypony who defies me while you… you’ll end up as more flank fat and whatever is left, fertilizer for the crops.”
With those words, Starlight proceeded to Fluttershy’s other flank and sliced off her cutie mark on the other side and devoured it. “If it’s any consolation, you did turn out quite delicious.”
The next thing Fluttershy knew, she was being flipped upside down with her belly exposed. She felt as the knife Starlight was holding plunged into her. She felt as the knife slowly sliced through her belly and her cooked organs spilled out. The scent of cooked meat hung heavy in the air. Starlight used her magic to start pulling out the sweetbreads and set them to the side, taking bites randomly out of some of them. Pleased with the taste she began to eat more than she was setting aside until she was eating everything she could get her hooves on.
The entire time, Fluttershy was in agony, though her cries and groans were barely audible. Too weak to fight back, she could only feel each time one of her organs was grasped in the warm magic and yanked easily out. It felt unnerving to her to say the least. Though her thoughts were muddled from the heat and sweat loss from the cooking, a single thought bounced around. She wasn’t going to become part of Twilight and the Elements of Harmony would cease to exist. Equestria’s saviors were defeated.
It wasn’t until Fluttershy felt lips pressed to her own that her thoughts were broken. Slowly her eyes drifted to look Starlight Glimmer in the eyes. There was nothing but malice and an almost animalistic look in them. She pushed her tongue deep into Fluttershy’s mouth and wrestled her tongue into her mouth. Starlight bit down hard and severed the cooked tongue, ending the impromptu kiss quickly. A loud gulp echoed in the small room as she swallowed the tongue down. Already Starlight’s belly was rounder with everything she had been eating.
The next thing Fluttershy felt was the warm magic inside of her chest cavity again. The warmth gripped at her still barely beating heart. Fluttershy let out a small squeak realizing what was coming.
“Well, Fluttershy, I suppose it’s time to end you completely now. So sorry you didn’t get eaten by Twilight. I’m sure she would have found your taste as delicious I did.”
As soon as she finished those words, she yanked hard on the pony’s heart and pulled it free. Fluttershy quickly succumbed to the loss of her heart, becoming just a roast for Starlight to enjoy. And enjoy she did.
An hour or two later Starlight finally exited the hut. She sported probably the largest gut she had had in some time as she strode out. She carried a few picked clean bones as well as the stripped skull of the pegasus she had eaten. She made her way to the old welcoming hut and hung the two femurs on the door and placed the skull on a post nearby. A warning to any and all who would defy her or her ideals, or any arbitrary rule she put in place.
“Everypony will be equal as my food.”
Once satisfied with her work she plodded off to her own hut a loud belch echoing through the small town, followed by deafening silence.
Story 2 (September 2017 Theme: Back to School): Applebloom Cheats (On Her Diet) Warnings: Painless digestion, turning of fillies to fat, exercise, and one very disappointed Twilight Sparkle
Applebloom sat in the classroom at her desk, her belly full, wobbly, and sloshing. With her newfound bulk she barely fit in the small classroom desk.
“I don’t know why we let you talk us into these things!” came a muffled protest near the top of Apple Bloom’s belly. The voice was distinctly Scootaloo’s. “Remind us again why we’re doing this.”
Before Applebloom could respond, another voice sounded lower in her belly; it was Sweetie Belle.
“Because, Scootaloo, we’re supposed to help Appleboom with her quizzes today. She had to help at the farm to get ready for cider season right when the new school year started and Cheerilee was nice enough to let her take a make-up test.”
The belly responded with a loud glorp and gurgle. Apple Bloom’s attention turned to Cheerilee when she strolled inside. While turning her head, Applebloom saw she wasn’t the only one there for a make-up test. Dinky was there because her mother mistakenly thought it was ‘Take your daughter to work’ day, Button Mash had missed the test because he was binge gaming again (but Cheerilee owed Mrs. Mash a few favors), and Snips and Snails were there because they flunked their tests yet again.
Cheerilee silently passed out the tests to the ponies spread out in the classroom. She then walked out to the teacher’s lounge to wait, trusting the ponies to not cheat. Not that they could, though; every pony was there for different tests and some there for two. Once they were done with the first test they could turn in the first one and get the second.
Applebloom glanced down at her test, a cocky smile on her face. She’d ace the test easily with her plan! However, her smile faded and the color in her face drained away to white when she saw the test. What was in front of her was not the spelling test Sweetie Belle was supposed to help her with.
“Aw, horseapples!” she cursed at her belly.
Both Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo picked up on the curse and squirmed lightly to get Apple Bloom’s attention.
“What’s the matter, Apple Bloom?” asked Scootaloo.
“Yeah, what’s wrong?”
“Miss Cheerilee gave me the history test first!” she whispered to her sloshing gut. “I’ll get a good grade on this but Sweetie Belle won’t be around long enough for the spelling test!”
“Well, maybe if you hurry through the history test, you’ll get to the spelling test faster!” suggested Sweetie Belle.
“I told you this was a bad idea!” retorted Scootaloo. “Let’s just go ahead and get this history test over as quick as possible, maybe she can last long enough to help for at least a few of the questions.”
It took Apple Bloom three times as long to get her history test done than normal. While Scootaloo’s help was greatly appreciated, it didn’t help when her and Sweetie Belle would argue about facts.Especially when Sweetie Belle answered incorrectly first. And every time it happened there followed a 10 minute discussion about how Sweetie Belle was right and Scootaloo was wrong that devolved into just uh huhs and nuh uhs until Apple Bloom could reign them in again.
As such, it was nearly 3 hours before she could finish and turn in her history test. And turning in the history test was an ordeal in itself. Normally it would just be a short walk up to the front of the classroom and back to her desk (which was already difficult with her plump body holding two ponies). Instead, she had to walk out the classroom, down the hall to the teacher’s lounge, back down the hall to the classroom and back to her seat. She wouldn’t have minded this turn of events had she received the tests in the proper order. But now…
By the time Applebloom made it down to the lounge and back, her belly was noticeably smaller and the rest of her body had plumped up. She gave a poke to said belly as she sat down, giving a small whisper. “Sweetie Belle? You still there?” she asked, taking a glance over her body. There was no extra cutie mark yet, but that didn’t mean Sweetie was still able to help. A weak response was all she got, but it was enough.
“Yeah… still… hanging on… I think I can… still help.”
Apple Bloom looked down at the test and sighed in relief. “At least it’s a multiple choice test. Alright, first word is um… ‘delicious’.”
“D-e-l-i-c-i-o-u-s.”
Applebloom quickly marked the right answer and moved to the next word.
“Next word is ‘stretched’.”
“S-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d…”
This continued for some time, but there were many more words on the list than she had anticipated. “Of course she’d give a slightly harder test as a make-up…” Apple Bloom whispered to her gut with a sigh. With each word asked, Sweetie Belle’s voice got softer and less coherent.
Apple Bloom jumped slightly when she heard the classroom door bang open, her attention briefly drawn away from her test. She was somewhat surprised to see two fillies walk into the make-up room. “Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon?”
“L-e-s-b-i-a-n-s.”
There was a soft chuckle that came from Scootaloo, though her voice wasn’t much louder than Sweetie’s.
“She’s gone all loopy with how digested she is now! Think you lost your helper… and I’m not far behind.”
In fact, Sweetie Belle’s cutie mark was almost fully formed on Apple Bloom’s belly, with Scootaloo’s quickly appearing as well. Apple Bloom let out a small sigh and nodded. “Well, thanks for the help y’all gave already. I only got through a third of this test so… here’s hoping I don’t bomb the rest of it. As soon as I’m done I’ll head over to Twilight’s and get y’all back.”
Her belly responded with a loud gurgle and a glorp, silencing the orange filly and plastering another cutie mark on her belly.
Once her belly was finally still and her helpers unable to help anymore, Applebloom turned back to her test and sighed. Knowing only a third of the right answers, Applebloom had to guess on the rest. As such, she spent another hour and a half on her spelling test. Once she finally finished and stood up from her seat, she glanced down at her slightly smaller belly. She immediately noticed the cutie marks of her friends were gone and she briefly panicked. But when she was able to find the marks not faded, just moved, she let out a sigh of relief. Oh thank Celestia, they just got moved to my thigh and rump.
With how much time that had passed, her two friends had been processed into fat for her body. Scootaloo ended up near one of Applebloom’s thighs, while Sweetie Belle ended up as rump fat. Now less encumbered by her belly it didn’t take nearly as long to get to the teacher’s lounge.
“Hey Miss Cheerilee! I’m sorry it took so long to finish my tests, but I’m finally done! Thanks for being understanding and all, you know how things get around cider time. Well, I’ll see you tomorrow!”
Applebloom turned quickly to run out as fast as she could to get to Twilight. She already anticipated Sweetie Belle yelling at her once she was returned to pony form for ending up as Applebloom’s ass, but she didn’t have control over where their transformed bodies ended up!
“Hold on there, Apple Bloom, you can’t run off just yet! Didn’t I tell you about taking the fitness test today?”
Apple Bloom halted mid-step and turned pale. Was it already time for the Princess’ Fitness test? “I uh… no?” she replied. She hesitated to ask her question. “I uh… well… um… can’t I just take it tomorrow? I kinda have something I already planned to do after my tests.”
Cheerilee shushed her. “I’m sure whatever it is you have planned can wait til after the test. You know this is scheduled on certain days and since your name starts with ‘A’ you're going on the first day. Now run along to the playground. Rainbow Dash is administering the test today.”
Applebloom sighed as she made her way to the playground. She needed to get to Twilight’s as quick as possible since she knew her friends didn’t like staying as fat for too long. She just didn’t know how to get out of the fitness test until she had a realization
“What had Cheerilee said? Rainbow is giving the test. And since Rainbow knows Twilight…” She gasped in understanding. “Rainbow will let me take my test later!” Applebloom galloped over to the playground, a wide smile on her face.
When she finally made it there, however, her face fell. She was expecting it to be just one on one, not a crowd of fillies and colts. She was there to make up some missed tests. Then she facehoofed when she realized that while SHE was there for a make up test, the fitness test itself wasn’t a make up. She sighed again, made her way through the crowd and up to Rainbow Dash, then tapped her on the side to get her attention.
“Hey um… Rainbow Dash?” she asked softly, trying not to draw attention from the other ponies.
“Oh, hey Applebloom! Cheerilee said she’d send you out here. You ready to get yourself a medal?”
Applebloom slowly shook her head and motioned for Rainbow to lean down closer.
“Is there ANY way I can take this on another day? Or even later today?” she asked hopefully. “I really need to go see Twilight really soon. I may have cheat-”
She stopped mid sentence and gulped. Sure Rainbow Dash was a good friend and all, but if she was helping out with the fitness test, did that mean she was technically a teacher? And if she told Rainbow Dash the full truth, she could end up in big trouble. She took a quick glance at herself and had an idea. With the extra fat on her body, her lie would be easy to sell.
“Cheated?” Rainbow Dash finished when Applebloom paused. “ It better not have been one of your tests,” Rainbow replied with a sigh. “I don’t want to have to report you to Cheerilee and-”
“On my diet!” interrupted Applebloom, a bit louder than she had meant to. “I cheated on my diet and I was going to get to Twilight to use her magic to undo what I did.”
Rainbow Dash took a better look at Applebloom and finally noticed the earth filly was much heftier than she remembered. Applebloom did her best to cover the cutie mark on her ass so Rainbow wouldn’t notice.
“Geeze Applebloom, how many apples have you been eating lately?” Rainbow joked before leaning down closer to whisper in her ear. “Sorry kiddo, I can’t just let you do it later or tomorrow. Cheerilee made that expressly clear. Look, if you just do the minimum you’ll be out of here in no time, I promise!” She paused long enough to look at Applebloom again, noting the hesitation. “Or you can run off and have to explain to Cheerilee AND Princess Celestia why you cut out of her fitness test.”
Applebloom weighed her options and gulped. Any activity would burn off a little bit of her friends, and she had already figured the time it would take to get to Twilight’s Castle (at least the route she had planned from the schoolhouse to the castle) wouldn’t burn off too much fat. A little bit of extra exercise wouldn’t hurt and besides, Rainbow Dash HAD said she could just do the minimum and go. She finally got a look of determination on her face and nodded. “Just the minimum and I’m in!”
Applebloom flopped facedown into the sand of the playground’s sandbox. She was covered in sweat from head to hoof, her mane and tail were a mess, and her chest heaved as she struggled for breath. Between ragged breaths she was muttering to herself. “Just do the minimum!” she complained in a mimic of Rainbow’s voice. “It won’t take long then you can go!” She switched back to her regular, complaining voice. “Three and a half hours! I had to do 50 sit ups, 25 pullups, run 3 miles, then buck 20 trees! And it was all timed!”
With so much time wasted, Applebloom was understandably annoyed. It took a little time for her to rest, but once she was able to catch her breath she stood up. Brushing herself clean of sand, Applebloom stomped off angrily toward Twilight's castle, brushing past Rainbow Dash in a huff.
“Sorry it took so long! But hey at least you won't have to go to Twilight about your diet!,” Rainbow called out to Applebloom, but her words fell on deaf ears. “It looks like you worked off... annnnnd she's gone.”
Applebloom hadn’t heard a word anypony said when she stomped off. Had she been of a cooler head she might have thought to get a ride over to Twilight’s. But in the heat of her anger she stompwalked the entire way. It took slightly longer than usual to get to the castle. By the time she had made it to the castle, two things were certain. First, the sun was slowly setting and dusk was settling in and second, she had calmed down considerably. With a huff indicating more tiredness than frustration she finally reached the front door, lifted a front hoof, and knocked loudly.
She stood there at the door. She waited. She listened. She heard the echo of her knock reverberate through what seemed to be a rather empty castle. She reached up again to give a second knock when she heard the telltale sound of hooves clopping and echoing on bare crystal floor. Slowly the door opened and Twilight’s head appeared from the crack.
“Oh! Applebloom? I wasn’t expecting you,” she said simply, looking about cautiously. “I was expecting a prank from Rainbow Dash. She’s been on a prank bender this past week and I’m the last one left,” she continued her explanation, waving a hoof for Applebloom to come inside.
Once Applebloom was fully inside the castle foyer, Twilight could finally see all of her. A quick glance was followed by hoof meeting face and a loud sigh. Standing before her was the earth pony filly, covered with fat and looking pudgier than usual. She had seen it multiple times before, with all three of the CMCs at various times. Most times it was around a test time. “Dammit Applebloom, please tell me you didn’t…” She removed her hoof from her face and saw the sheepish grin on Applebloom’s face. “You did…”
Applebloom could only nod with a sheepish response of, “Yeah… yeah I did. Again… I’m sorry!”
Twilight just shook her head in more annoyance than disappointment. “I never should have given you the idea of cheating like this. I’m not mad it’s just… every time you have a test, one of you swallows the others to help pass the tests. I’m surprised Cheerilee hasn’t caught on.” She motioned for Applebloom to follow her to a special room in the castle. Twilight had enchanted a room specifically for what she was about to do.
Applebloom followed behind, briefly disappearing for a few minutes before finally arriving in the room, a piece of toilet paper stuck to one of her hooves.
“Alright, you know the drill. Stand in the center of the room and lift up your tail so I can find where your friends ended up.”
Applebloom let out a small blush but did as she was asked. Twilight circled around three or four times, her annoyance turning into worry. “Do you happen to know where they ended up?”
Applebloom nodded. “Oh. Um, yeah! The marks ended up on my thigh and on my butt,” she answers, picking up on the hint of hesitation in Twilight’s tone. “W-Why do you ask?”
Twilight zipped in front of Applebloom and grabbed her face, forcing her to stare right into her eyes. “I need you to be absolutely truthful with me. Did you come over right when you finished your test?”
Applebloom hesitated with her answer. “Y…. yes…?”
Twilight gave Applebloom a pointed look, not saying anything. She watched closely as the young Apple began to fidget and sweat. She wasn’t telling the truth.
“Are you sure? I wouldn’t want to have to tell your sisters you and your friends have been cheating on tests.”
Applebloom blanched and shook her head VERY quickly.
“Oh no! Please don’t tell Applejack! Please! Ok so I might have not come RIGHT after.”
“I’ve warned you before if you do this to get here right away! What was so important you waited?”
Applebloom explained how she had been detained because of the Princess’ fitness test and how despite begging and pleading, Cheerilee insisted she participate in the test.
Twilight just shook her head and sighed. “Come with me and I’ll do a deeper scan. You better hope there’s still some of your friends turned fat left in you, otherwise you’ll have to tell Rarity and Rainbow Dash you turned their little sisters to fat and burned them all off just to cheat on a test.” She paused and glanced at Applebloom again. “Well, if they aren’t still somewhere on your body, as long as you didn’t take a bathroom break we can reform them from that,” she concluded, not noticing the toilet paper stuck to Applebloom’s back hoof. At that point she led Applebloom out to another room in the castle, still chastising her as they went.
