Sleipnir Colony - A Short Story Collection

“This is it, again…”

Di hovered her pad by the much wider doors to Blubber King. It had been a rather swift refit this time. In previous franchises where she worked making a place bigger the customers sometimes took many weeks, even months. The ponies of Sleipnir however were impatient, and as their branch of Blubber King had not been open very long the powers that be had managed to get everything needed and fitted within four days.

Not much about the place had changed, some small rearranging of the dining area to accommodate some of the larger pads that were now out for the bigger ponies. The main thing was the front doors, double as wide as they were previously. Di knew there were still going to be some ponies getting wedged but, at least now it was less of a worry.

The doors opened and a slew of customers waddled or hovered in. Deprivation from food for these fatties was one thing, but a favorite brand closing its only outlet on the whole colony? An absolute disaster. Hungry tums blooorrrppped!and gloooorrrpppeeedd! as the customers lined themselves up at the various register lines to order what they had been denied for days. Di observed as her staff went to work and gently hovered herself back behind the line to check the kitchen.

The drones, as fantastic as they were at delivering food to the customers were only fantastic when there was food to be delivered. She saw ponies who had now ordered, tapping their hooves on their tables as the usually quick to be delivered food simply wasn’t arriving. An eyebrow raised in concern and she brought her small inventory pad to her face. Not using her own hooves, no no no. The pad lifted it effortlessly to her muzzle and it displayed a very distinct lack of burgers, in fact not just one kind of burger but all kinds of burgers. The patty supply seemed abnormally low seeing as they had just reopened. They were practically out!

She hovered her pad around the kitchen to the main grill. It didn’t take her long to see what the hold up was.

“W-worth it…”

Fireflash, a young pony who had started out at a rather slender size all those weeks ago when the place opened for the first time was now totally unable to move. His gigantic fat thighs were struggling to do anything as his overblown tum wobbled and jostled underneath him. He looked incredibly satisfied and slightly blushly. Di made her way over to him.

“Let me guess...you ate all the burgers you cooked.”

“I-I couldn’t resist. S-sorry Di but the fresh batch for today just looked...so...good.” His sentence finished with a small drop of saliva dripping from his maw as the gluttonous stallion simply flopped back and leaned against the fryer behind him. He clearly had no regrets, his fat and pudgy body rippling in pleasure as he sat and awaited his fate.

“Well...number one, you’ve eaten most of out patty stock and gone way over your allotted daily allowance. So strike one there.” Di said, with a slight hiss of annoyance in her voice. “And number two, you’ve probably just ruined reopening day for the branch.” The hiss becoming deeper and less contained. “Thirdly and finally. You’re now so fat and bloated you can’t even work the grill and you’re of no use to me. You know where this is going RIGHT?” The hiss now a full blown shout as other members of the team stopped their tasks to see the commotion. Fireflash simply looked up with a huge smile.

“Fired?”

“Fired.”

“I had a good run...I’ll be back as a customer.” He replied, almost giddy as the consumed food was starting to become a bit too much for the stallion to handle. “But I can’t move, I may be fired but you can’t get me out of here. I could probably just eat some more of what’s left of the patties before you can get enough ponies in here to move me.”

‘Oh young ponies, how naive.’ The fast food manager thought to herself. “You think we haven’t thought of that? One moment.” She brought the small inventory screen up to her muzzle again and clicked through a few buttons. A notification popped up only she could see. Call Accepted, Pad Inbound. She continued to speak to her now ex-employee.

“You're not the first of my employees to gorge themselves stupid you know. Or to such a size that you’re fat hooves no longer touch the floor beneath you…” As she said that, a grav-pad that was ponyless appeared from a ceiling hatch and hovered down towards the floor. “Every Blubber King is equipped with one, and it will scoop you up and deposit you home. How you get inside the house though, that’s your call. Apt punishment for ruining reopening day!” She went back to a hiss from a yell. The pad hovered inches above the floor, and with an almighty thrust from its engines wedged itself under Fireflash, who let out a small yelp as the hard surface made contact with his flabby body.

“Ours ain’t built for comfort, but it’ll get you home. You’re gonna have to invest in your own at your size now.” Di continued, and watched as the pad rose to its standard operating height with a rather embarrassed and still blushing Fireflash on board it. His belly groaned at the sudden movement he had to endure from the pad forcing its way underneath him. Di had one final thing to say before it whisked him out of her sight.

“Oh and you could have gone to town a little more. We don’t use Sleipnir pads, that ones straight from Equestria. You could have gotten up to 20,000ibs and it would have happily taken your weight. Not that you could have, but it would have been fun to see you try. Ciao!”

And with that, Fireflash was rather unceremoniously carried out the back of Blubber King and out of Di’s sight, at least until he returned as a customer. Her staff was still working behind her, but some had stopped to observe, including Sunny.

“Now listen up! One of your ex-coworkers has just made today a lot more difficult for the rest of us! We’re dangerously low on patties and there are hungry customers out there! I’ve put in an emergency order but we may have to tell ponies we’re out of burgers. I’ll man the grill for today. You all continue with your jobs!” Di bellowed, and watched as the rest of her staff diligently went back to work.

She hadn’t done it for a while, and her size made it slightly difficult, but she did it nonetheless. Patties were going on the fryer and finally making their way out to customers. The queue at the registers dissipated somewhat and the old manager settled into a rhythm she almost forgot she had for putting meals together.

Throughout the day not much phased her. Customers came and went. One stuck in her mind. An extremely large and lardy light blue pony who put in the biggest order. She worried slightly that she was going to take the remaining patties before the emergency shipment arrived. Looking at her she must have been an off world visitor. Absolutely gigantic, her girth and size exceeded what the biggest pads on the colony could take. Likely pushing a good 16,000 or 17,000 pounds. There was a white mane on top of the blue body she could about make out, but it quickly was sinking like the ponies head into her immense figure.

Di cracked on and pushed through her order, a massive number of patties occupying the grill for the pony in question. But she was able to fulfill it, just in time as she heard the familiar sound of the chutes to the storage area clunking as a delivery was dropped off. The emergency patties she had requested had arrived. They were free and clear for the rest of the day. She sent the order out, and observed as the massive blue mare parked her pad at one of the tables and waited for her food.

Before she knew it, the day was done. She forgot that working one of the jobs like this when busy made the day fly by. Before long Sunny was behind her having shut the doors and locked up.

“Di, it’s gone closing time. You can stop making patties. No more orders to fill.” The pegasus said, watching as her manager turned off the grill and rotated her pad to face her.

“Of course, I can’t believe I missed it...thank you Sunny. I think I would have continued making patties long into the night. Here.” She said, one of the leftover burgers having been boxed up being dropped on a counter next to Sunny for her to take.

“Oh well thank you Di, but um. What happened to Fireflash?” The young pegasus asked. It made Di smile, she seemed so unbelievably innocent to her. It was sweet really.

“Like I said, he would have been dropped off home. But he’s lost his job, I let you all take some food but not what he did. That’s abuse of the food privileges. Just remember that. Now Sunny you get yourself home. I’ll finish up here…”

She watched as the pegasus waddled her way outside. It had been an interesting day. The new building seemed to take all the ponies of the colony who had come, even that fat blue mare who was far bigger than anything they had expected. She hoped another refit wasn’t needed for a long time.

Di shut up shop, there was still a few burgers leftover and ordered a drone to pack them up and place them on her pad. She hadn’t eaten all day, even working the grill. She didn’t dare until she knew they had enough patties to satisfy the customers for the rest of the day, and that emergency delivery had not come until late afternoon. It was a miracle they had made it.

For now, she was going to head home and enjoy the delicious reward of a day's hard work when she got there.