Sleipnir Colony - A Short Story Collection

The ship shuddered a little, a small jolt at it finally touched down at the dockyards. It had been a fairly short journey from the twin colonies of Balius and Xanthos for the two Equestrians, their ship only making a short stop there to refuel. They hadn’t even gotten off to look around, most colonies were the same. Bland and boring, nothing like the beautiful world back home they got to enjoy.

“Did we have to travel in a cargo frigate? I’ve had an itch on my flank I’ve been unable to scratch for the past 2 hours. It’s not like this ship is well attended to.” Wheat Sheaf, a rather crotchety stallion grumbled. His wife, Gold Grain was in much higher spirits however.

“Please dear, you know it was the only ship that could fit our bulk. Besides being farmers has its benefits, at least we could use our own transport rather than hire one.” She replied.

“I suppose...anyway hang up your vid-call. We’ve arrived and they need to prepare us to disembark. I can’t exactly admire the place if all I can see in my face is you.” He continued to moan, that was her husband though, always slightly sour. A life of working on a farm did that to you.

“Fine, see you on the planet. I do hope the inhabitants of this one are more to our size that what we’ve heard. The heaviest pony on the planet only weighs 5000ibs! Can you believe it! That’s a lightweight back on Equestria!” She laughed a little, and hung up her call.

The frigate had made planetfall in the dockyards towards the entrance, and a number of ponies were crowded around having heard of visitors from Equestria, it had been many moons since the last ones came and went and there was still talk of their size. Sunnyside, on her way home from a work shift had taken up position near the gates by other jostling and wobbling ponies, trying to see if they could see what was about to appear.

“Big ponies from Equestria right?” Sunnyside asked a mare stood next to her.

“The biggest, they put us to shame. I heard these two are farmers, here to talk about an offworld shipping contract with some of the upper parts of society. They had to build a whole new wing on their house just to fit them in!” The mare she was talking to replied. “Apparently they eat most of their produce, and still have enough to ship off world and make a good profit!”

There was a hiss as the bay doors to the frigate swung open, nothing but a black interior visible. Then there was a slight click and something rumbled out the front into view.

Sunnyside couldn’t believe her eyes, what appeared before her looked like the biggest, fattest, hugest mountain of flab she had ever laid eyes on. It was hardly a pony anymore, more a rump with a belly attached and a few vague outlines of distorted flab where hooves and a head would normally be. The massively distended cutie-mark of a piece of gold coloured grain adorned the flank, it must have been as big as a billboard. As the pony disembarked the ship the sloshing from its body was audible. There were huge great guuuuurgle! And sloooosh!’s from its tum as even the most uneven movement by the pad caused it to jiggle.

There was no way to make out hooves, where they should normally be was just covered by rolls and rolls of fat. Sunnyside couldn’t even begin to make out a head at this distance. The only thing maybe more impressive was the rump, it must have easily been twice as big on its own as the biggest pony she had seen on the colony, maybe even three times. Two gigantic balls of wobbly, blubbery flab that almost seemed to defy gravity with their size.

The anti-grav pad it was positioned on was at least as wide as even the biggest street, ponies around her gasped as they took in what they were witnessing. The pad itself was manned by a much smaller but still rotund pony, there was absolutely no way in tartarus that the pony on board was able to control it themselves.

“Ohhh I knew it!” The mare she was still stood next to excitedly exclaimed. “That’s the biggest anti-grav pad you’ll see on this world for a while! They make them much much bigger on Equestria. That pony must be at least 20,000ibs.”

From behind the first pony, another appeared. This one was somehow larger than the first. A similar width pad supported him, or her. Sunnyside wasn’t sure, any features of a sex long since buried in fat rolls. The mare next to her continued to ramble excitedly.

“There’s the second one! That’s the wife! She must eat the bulk of the profits! Looks a little heavier, 25,000ibs I’d guess.”

“They’re that big on Equestria?” Sunnyside asked innocently, snorting at the use of the phrase a little bigger by the mare.

“And bigger, have you never heard how big royalty is? They’re six figure sizes easily. Most of Canterlot was flattened long ago by the princess. Some even say she is Canterlot! They think in a few years one of them may even break the seven figure mark in weight!”

“Over a million ibs!?” Sunnyside said flustered. “That’s huge! And I thought that the largest pony on the colony was big!” She continued to watch as the two pads came to stop in the dockyard, a few worker ponies lining up into a makeshift road to clear space.

“Gang way! Let the visitors through! Important business to attend!” The dockmaster barked as the ponies shifted to one side. Sunnyside could hardly make out features. It was like watching two huge blobs of jelly move gracefully forward through the aid of the technology supporting them. She finally managed a view at where the head should have been she could only see a faint blue glow, and summised they must be on a vid call each...to each other? They were so fat they had to do that to speak? She shunted her weight as the dockmaster ordered and stood off to one side to allow them to pass.

“It really is sad, these ponies can still walk on their own hooves! Their own heads are still mostly visible! I can’t see a single pony with a head swallowed by a neck!” Wheat Sheaf almost spat in disgust down the line to his wife, his words inaudible to the ponies close by watching as he neck fat blocked out any sound leaving his lips apart from directly in front of him.

“Please darling, remember this is a colony. They’re still developing? They couldn’t bring all the technology from Equestria with them. They’re still creating pads like the ones we sit on and bigger houses. They did build accomodation in our honour just to fit us.” Gold Grain tried to say in a soothing town to calm her husband. “Besides if you get all flustered you’ll burn precious calories.”

“I guess so. They better at least have good food here.” He really was an old fusser.

“We’re having meals shipped to us remember? I’m sure they’ll provide.” His wife replied in the call.

“Very well, let's be on our way. I expect a hearty meal when we arrive to discuss getting our product here!”

“Of course dear. They know we’ve had a long trip.” Gold Grain terminated the call and sighed, letting her pad driver take them to the destination. Hopefully they wouldn’t be here too long, she missed the rich, fattening produce of their home farm, but the trade deal was too lucrative to pass up and not make the journey.

Sunnyside still stared on in awe, the ponies now down the end of the road were still visible due to their bulk. ‘“Someday, I’m gonna be as big as them, maybe bigger…’ She thought, and waddled her way towards home.