On a pleasant winter evening in Vanhoover, High Gear was hectically working behind her console to make sure everything was set up properly.

“Okay, it’s fully set up so it should work as intended for once,” she muttered aloud.

“Heard that song and dance before, Doctor,” Verdant said from his spot on the teleporter. He shot a rather annoyed look at her, to which the scientist rolled her eyes.

“Are you still mad about last week?” the bespectacled mare asked as she paused in her checks.

“Yes, dammit!” Verdant angrily exclaimed. “I had to spend the night inside your guts because you didn’t want to bother doing anything to get me out until the next morning when you shat me out! I’d say I’m rightfully pissed off!”

“Well, if you end up in stomachs nine more times, I’ll buy you a new sub from SubNeigh,” Gear replied nonchalantly.

“I’d like my sandwich from somewhere else. Last time I bought a sub from there, the bread was covered with blue mold.” Verdant’s words made the scientist wince.

“Right, you can pick a different place for it,” Gear said before holding a hoof over a button on the console. “Ready?”

“Yeah, lets get me sent to a stomach, probably in Ponyville.” Verdant gave a stretch on the platform.

High Gear remained quiet, giving him a flat look before pressing a hoof down on the button. A bright flash of light soon filled the room.

Once the light had died down, Verdant was missing from the platform. Gear let a moment pass before she looked to the scanner on her left foreleg and did a city wide scan to see if Verdant was still in Vanhoover.

Seeing how he wasn’t in Vanhoover, she was satisfied with the result… until a nagging feeling made her widen the scanning range, causing her to receive a ping from Ponyville.

“Oh, Faust dammit!”

***

In a bright flash, Verdant reappeared in a dark space. He fell a short distance until he landed on something soft and a bit sticky, finding himself stuck up to the waist as he sank into the mysterious object.

The shamrock stallion tried to look around, but wherever he was, it was too dark to really make anything out.

Verdant tried to pull himself from the sticky object he was stuck inside of, but his attempts to struggle free were futile.

Once his attempt to break free stopped, a distant yet familiar voice reached his ears.

“Mom, is it alright if I have some hot chocolate with marshmallows?”

“Wait, I know who that is!” Verdant shouted as he realized who was speaking. “It’s Sweetie Belle!”

***

At the modest house where Sweetie Belle lived with her parents, Hondo Flanks and Cookie Crumbles, the young filly had just finished wolfing down her dinner. The speed at which she inhaled her meal was rather shocking to the older unicorns.

Sweetie wiped her mouth a napkin before looking towards her mother with a bright smile. “Mom, is it alright if I have some hot chocolate with marshmallows?”

“Well, so long as you don’t make yourself sick, dearie,” the plump pink mare replied as her husband rose from the table and picked up the dishes, carrying them to the sink. “Would you like it made with milk or water?”

“Milk, please,” Sweetie answered before hopping from her seat. She felt a wobble come from her stuffed belly before she started to follow her mother into the kitchen while Hondo started to scrub at the dishes.

A few minutes passed as Cookie quickly made the hot beverage for her daughter. Once the steaming mug was placed on the counter, her horn glowed as she opened one of the cupboards.

***

Verdant was momentarily blinded from the light that suddenly came pouring in around him. Once his eyes adjusted however, he could see exactly where he was.

He saw that he was stuck up to his waist in a sticky white marshmallow, much like the dozens, if not hundreds of others that were sealed in the clear plastic bag with him. Looking up, he saw the top of the bag was pinched closed with a white plastic clip.

“Oh no…” Verdant muttered as it dawned on him that he may soon be devoured yet again. The feeling deepened tenfold as he suddenly felt the bag being yanked out of the cupboard. In only a second, he found himself floating in front of the eyes of Cookie Crumbles, hoping that she would somehow spot the tiny speck of green amongst the mass of white treats.

Sadly, he went unnoticed as Cookie removed the clip from the bag and started to tip it over the steaming hot mug.

“RIGHT, JUST SAY WHEN, SWEETIE.” Cookie’s words echoed like thunder as a few marshmallows ahead of him began to tumble out of the bag.

Verdant’s gooey prison soon joined its brethren, splashing down in the steaming chocolate lake.

“WHEN!” Sweetie exclaimed, just as Verdant’s vessel bumped into another, soon followed by two final marshmallows falling from the bag and into the drink.

“I HOPE YOU ENJOY IT.” Cookie smiled warmly as her magic engulfed the cup, making it float down to Sweetie Belle’s face before she grabbed it with her hoof.

“I WILL. THANKS, MOM!” The melodic thunder of the filly’s booming voice made Verdant wince in pain when suddenly, the cup began to tilt.

Looking up, he saw the filly’s maw opening wide as the chocolate lake quickly became a river that was swiftly poured inside of her.

Verdant let out a sigh of annoyance and defeat as his marshmallow floated over Sweetie’s lips, carrying him into the filly’s mouth. “Eight more to go.”

The raging current pulled the puny pony along as it formed a whirlpool at the back of the filly’s throat. Verdant tried to reach up and bite the uvula, but it was too far out of reach and he was instead pulled down into the steamy drink and then into her esophagus.

Verdant was barely able to hold his breath as he was pushed downward by Sweetie’s throat. He and his marshmallow was sent tumbling all about by the force of her esophagus and the flow of the hot beverage.

Soon the valve to Sweetie Belle’s stomach opened up below him, dumping both the drink and stallion inside. Verdant coughed and sputtered as he tried to clear the hot chocolate from his airways before he once again tried to pull himself free of the marshmallow.

Thankfully, likely due to the heat of the drink and a little bit of Sweetie’s digestive juices, the shamrock stallion was able to break free of his gooey prison.

“Oh thank Faust, finally,” he muttered as he tried to shake off the bits of melted marshmallow on his lower half.

Looking about, Verdant saw that the filly’s stomach was nearly full and getting even fuller thanks to the hot chocolate and marshmallows pouring in. Thanks to the large dinner she’d had, the valve to the esophagus was closer than it’d ever been, even as the brown waterfall continued to gradually bring him towards the top.

“Hmm… Y’know, this might make for a good way to escape,” Verdant said aloud as for a moment, the hot chocolate stopped pouring in. “It would be nice to escape through the mouth for a change after going out the back end the last two times.”

As he began to ponder how far he’d need to jump to reach the value, a powerful shake tossed Verdant and the stomach's contents about. Once he recovered from his dizziness, he saw that the stomach contents had all been shifted even nearer the top, to the point where he could reach the valve by simply standing on his forelegs.

A smirk crossed Verdant’s face as he rushed over to the esophageal opening.

***

As she took a long drink of her hot chocolate with marshmallows, Sweetie Belle quickly made her way to her bedroom. Once she arrived, she carefully jumped onto her bed, making sure not to spill a single droplet onto her freshly cleaned sheets, before laying down on her slightly bloated belly.

Maybe with all this practice, I’ll be able to beat Apple Bloom in that pie eating contest Pinkie’s holding on Saturday. Sweetie thought to herself before she polished off her hot chocolate. With a contented sigh, she set her mug aside and pulled a book over to read.

The little filly enjoyed her book for nearly an hour before feeling the call of nature. Sweetie hopped off her bed and started to make her way to the bathroom.

Maybe I shouldn’t have had so much water before having that hot chocolate. Sweetie Belle thought to herself as she came up to the bathroom door, seeing a light under the gap. “Oh boy. Could you please hurry up in there?” she asked as she felt her need for relief grow stronger.

“Just a moment, Sweetie,” Cookie Crumbles’ voice came from behind the other side of the door, followed shortly by a loud flush that made the filly wince.

As she heard her mother’s footsteps approaching, Sweetie Belle felt a tickling in her nose, making her start to deeply inhale.

“Ah-aahh-ahh,” She deeply drew in air just as the door swung open and her mother stepped forward.

“Aaachoo!” The filly let out a powerful sneeze that sprayed a fair bit of mucus all over Cookie, with some of it flying into her mouth and being accidentally swallowed on reflex.

“Gahh! Sweetie, please cover your mouth when you sneeze,” Cookie said as her filly zipped past her and slammed the bathroom door shut behind her.

“Sorry, Mom!” Sweetie shouted from behind the door, followed shortly by a loud sigh of relief.

Cookie gave a quiet chuckle as she started to head for her bedroom.

***

Verdant pushed himself onto his forelegs and grasped the slick flesh of the stomach’s valve. After a brief moment to prepare, he hoisted himself up, pushing himself through the orifice and into the bottom of the filly’s esophagus.

However, the instant he entered the muscular passageway, the filly’s body tried to push him back down into the stomach.

Gritting his teeth, Verdant gripped hard onto the wet wall, holding firm as the esophagus tried to force him back down to be digested.

Against the intense motions of the filly’s body, he pushed onward, slowly and painfully making his harrowing journey upward.

Nearly an hour into his climb, Verdant had finally managed to escape Sweetie’s esophagus, entering the back of the filly’s throat.

“Oh, thank Faust,” He gasped to himself as he continued his climb, now moving much more carefully. He knew that if he tickled her throat, she would end up coughing and sending him flying to Faust only knows where.

An immense quaking suddenly struck him, nearly causing the shrunken stallion to go tumbling back downwards. After a moment, what was an intense quake had become more of a gentle tremor as the filly started to walk after jumping off her bed.

As he tried to calm himself down, Verdant decided to look downwards, only to immediately regret his poor choice. His brief view let him see not only the esophagus he’d just escaped, but the passageway that led into the filly’s lungs.

He quickly snapped his attention back upwards, where he saw he was behind the bottom of Sweetie Belle’s dangling uvula. Just beyond that, he could see sparkling teeth and the back of her lips. It seemed his escape was tantalizingly close.

“AH…” The filly’s body shook once more as a powerful wind pulled against Verdant, nearly causing him to lose his grip.

“Oh Faust…” Verdant squeaked as more of the powerful inward winds fought to pull him down.

“AAHH-AHH… AAACHOO!” An explosive gale burst from below the puny pony, sending him hurtling upwards at incredible speeds. Verdant could barely process the event as he was sent flying through a much tighter flesh tunnel, where he was smacked by slime and hairs both before being sent flying out of Sweetie Belle.

The miniscule stallion was sent flying faster than when he’d been ejected from Big McIntosh’s body. Already he was sore from the g-forces and the smacks of nose hairs that he’d just endured. He barely had time to tell up from down before he was sent hurtling into a pair of plump pink lips.

The shrunken stallion struck the lip’s soft surface, only to bounce and keep going thanks to the sneeze’s momentum. Soon he’d bounced off the top of a tongue and crashed into the back of a throat, where a familiar reflex pulled him downward.

With a disoriented groan, Verdant soon realized he’d been swallowed yet again just before he was dumped off into the mare’s stomach, landing on a chunk of chewed up pasta and vegetables.

Verdant sighed and remained still on his back, silently hoping the tiredness and soreness would fade away while the mammoth mare moved about, completely unaware of the stallion inside her.

“Seven more,” Verdant said just as the pain started to finally fade, immediately before he was shaken about from the mare climbing into her bed. Thankfully, compared to everything else he’d had to deal with today, her movements to get into the bed were fairly gentle.

“Well, guess I should just try to wait in here until Gear shows up.” Verdant said as he looked up to the esophageal valve, seeing it was a good deal farther away than the one in Sweetie Belle. “At least things should be relatively pleasant, right? … I just jinxed myself, didn’t I?”

***

Cookie gently climbed onto her bed, moving close to her husband. She gave him a kiss on the lips which he quickly returned.

“Say, Cookie. Are you feeling a little… y’know, frisky?” the mustachioed stallion inquired as she slowly slid down his form.

“Not too much, dear,” she replied as her face drifted close to his lap. “I’m a bit tired, but I am feeling a little hungry.” Cookie gave a flirtatious wink, drawing a chuckle from her husband.

“Well, who am I to deny a hungry mare?” Hondo said as she drew closer to his groin.

***

Verdant could hear the mare he was trapped within give a lusty moan, making her belly rumble about. “Please tell me she’s not doing what I think she’s doing.”

Verdant would receive an answer a few minutes later when a deep, masculine groan reached his ears and the torrent of thick, sticky white goo began to pour in and flood the stomach. The shrunken stallion found that both himself and the rest of Cookie’s previous meal had gotten a generous coating of the thick fluid.

“Urgh… I wish I could just pretend this was hot yogurt…” Verdant groaned as he tried to shake some of the semen from his coat. His efforts proved futile as more of the spunk flowed into the stomach. “Hopefully I can at least stay in here for the night instead of going out the back door.”

***

The next morning, Cookie and Hondo were having a pleasant chat as they prepared their breakfast.

“By the way, remember that you promised you’d help Rarity set up the cri-” Cookie’s words were interrupted by a knock at the front door.

“Just a moment!” Cookie called out as she approached the door, where she spotted a bespectacled blue mare with a beeping device on her foreleg. “Can I help you, Miss-”

“Doctor High Gear,” the mare in the lab coat said before turning off her foreleg device and grabbing one of Cookie’s forelegs. “Ma’am, I need you to accompany me to Twilight Sparkle’s. It’s very important and about something currently residing in your stomach.”

“Okay, but could I bring my husband and daughter along?” Cookie asked as she pulled her foreleg away from the scientist.

“Sure, fine, whatever,” Gear dismissively said with a roll of her eyes. “Just please try to be quick. The first train back to Vanhoover leaves in half an hour and I don’t want to wait another two hours for the next one to get home.”

***

One stomach pumping and magical restoration later, High Gear, Verdant and the marshmallowy unicorn family were headed towards the train station. The shamrock stallion gave a yawn as Sweetie Belle quickly walked up to him.

“This is incredible, Mr. Verdant!” She excitedly said as she bounced by his side. “I can’t believe you were inside both me and Apple Bloom!”

Verdant groaned as Hondo brought a hoof to his face and Gear bit her lip. The earth pony stallion could see the suspicious looks and death glares the citizens of Ponyville were giving him. “Are you trying to get me killed, Sweetie Belle?”

A filly gave a mischievous grin and chuckled before Cookie looked to the crowd of ponies glaring at Verdant. “Not like that, folks! He was in a shrinking accident and got eaten!”

The ponies seemed to accept what she said and started to disperse.

When the five arrived at the foot of the train station, Cookie looked down to her young daughter. “Sweetie, how about you go play with your friends while Daddy and I have a discussion with Mr. Verdant?”

“Okay, Mom!” Sweetie replied before she darted off towards Sweet Apple Acres.

Once the filly was out of sight, Cookie and Hondo let out a sigh. “Sorry about this, Verdant. This was quite the mess we got involved in.”

“Eh, I’m starting to get used to it,” Verdant replied before turning his attention to High Gear. “Still, at least I’m getting paid and rewarded for this.”

“Still, I think we know a way to make it up to you,” Hondo said before he leaned over to whisper in the shamrock stallion’s ear. “My wife and I are swingers and we’re more than willing to ‘have a little fun’ with you.” When Hondo pulled back, he gave Verdant a wink, making him blush.

“Uh… Well…” Verdant said as he examined Cookie’s form. While she was a bit on the plump side, he did find that she was a fairly attractive mare. When his eyes reached hers, she gave him a rather flirty wink. The shamrock stallion’s coat then turned beet red. “Um… I’ll run it by my girlfriend.”

Author's Note

Happy Holidays, everyone! I hope you enjoyed this little chapter. Been planning this one for a long time and I'm glad it's done.

And now, it's time to vote for the chapter after next.

1. Swift Snort (AP): Verdant is training with his fellow soldiers on Butterfly Island and we see one of the misadventures there.
2. Lovely Nights and New Beginnings (Alternate Ending): Verdant was called upon to impregnate Cadance with Shining Armor's sperm. Well over a year after his successful mission, Princess Cadance calls him back to the empire. What could she want this time?
3. Dating Delights: Verdant goes out on a date with a fancy mare he met during a dating service and things seem to go swimmingly... until he learns she's a cannibalistic serial killer with a shrinking fetish.
4. Betty: The Last Cutesaur: Verdant is recruited by Daring Do to explore an island full of long lost flora and fauna, only to encounter a creature that supposedly went extinct eons ago.
5. Bibinba's Inside Story: While playing Marinara Party with some friends of his, Verdant accidentally lands on the wrong space and finds himself staring down an imposing longma.
6. Double Trouble in the Fire: A teleportation accident ends up sending Verdant to another universe where he meets Dr. Overdrive and a green mare with a white muzzle named Shamrock Meadow. When the two try to get him back home, things go awry and the emerald pony pair end up in the kitchen of Spitfire.
7. Dragon of the Wastelands: In the wastelands that were ruined by mega spells, a small band of ponies wish to reach the town of New Griffinstone. To get there, they hire an odd unicorn mare who goes by the name of Verdant Range.
8. Dog Day Afternoon: On a day out, Verdant finds himself stumbling upon a patch of Shrinking Violets... and a rather hungry Diamond Dog.
9. Happy Hearts & Hooves Day (AP): Verdant wants to give Erica a wonderful Hearts & Hooves Day. After learning she has a fetish for shrinking and vore, he knows what he'll do to make his special somecreature happy.
10. Death to Daybreaker: In a dark world ruled by Daybreaker and Nightmare Moon, two vicious tyrants who plot and scheme against each other, the Mare of the Moon decides to put an end to her sister once and for all. For this, she's going to need a rather skilled assassin.
11. Tales from the Mirrorverse - Digestions & Dragons: Set after the events of "Antacid's Creed", Verdant is assigned to Celestia's elite privateer, Magic Barrier. His first assignment: recover the treasure from a hibernating dragon's stomach.
12. Verdant vs. Verdant: Battle of the Bug (AP): A distress message from the Mirror Universe reaches Princess Celestia and Verdant is tasked by King Sombra to save the life of Queen Chrysalis from one of the most evil and dangerous assassins on the mirror world; Verdant Range.
13. Sweet & Shining Strawberry Snacks: Another round of teleportation leads to another disaster for Verdant as he's teleported to a bowl of strawberries in the Crystal Empire just as Princess Cadance and Shining Armor are about to have a sexy little game.
14. Sailing into the Blue: In the war with the griffins, Captain Barrier comes up with a plan to allow them to infiltrate the Griffin Kingdom and turn the tide of the war. All they need is a boat, Verdant's knowledge of anatomy and a lot of Shrinking Violet potion.
15. Dinner and a Magic Show: On a date with Beanstalk, Verdant attends a magic show starring a local star named Hocus Pocus. He volunteers for one of her tricks, but then things go wrong.
16. Ponies and Portals: Verdant is poached by a mare who is competing against High Gear's project by working on creating long range portal spell. However, things go wrong and Verdant finds not only is he shrunk, but his body has become a strange creature with weird appendages and clothes... along with being in a package of peanut butter and crackers.

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Hope you all have a safe and happy holiday season. Next time, we follow not the tale of a shrunken stallion, but a micro-sized man. See ya then!