In High Gear’s laboratory, the blue-coated mare impatiently tapped a hoof against her teleporter’s console and pouted. Looking up at her wall mounted clock, she noted that Verdant was late by nearly an hour.

Gear sighed before she slumped against the machine. “What’s the friggin’ hold-up?”

A moment passed where the only sounds were the faint hum of electricity, High Gear’s breathing and the ticking of the clock before the door was gently pushed open.

Gear stood at attention, hoping her guinea pig had arrived, but quickly became crestfallen when she saw the pony coming into the lab wasn’t the short green stallion with the white muzzle, but the tall green mare that was her roommate.

“Oh, Hi Beans. What brings you here?” Gear asked as she slumped once more.

“Well, I just checked on Verdant and he’s got a pretty nasty cold right now,” Beanstalk said as she made her way to the console, carefully trying not to trip over some of the cables. “He said he’s really sorry, but he won’t be able to do any tests this week.”

“Oh, Faust dammit,” High Gear mumbled before she stepped out from behind her console. “Guess I’ll have to go to Plan B.”

As High Gear trotted past Beans and headed for the door, Beans nervously swallowed. “Please tell me that doesn’t involve me becoming your test subject.”

“No,” Gear replied as she reached the door. “Knowing my luck, if I tried to teleport you, it would end with a chunk of a city being crushed. I’ve got something else in mind.”

High Gear slipped out the door, leaving Beans alone in the lab. Less than a minute later, the bespectacled mare returned with a blue-colored potted plant on her back.

“If anypony asks, a bird flew in and stole this from Lettuce Leaf’s lab,” Gear said as she placed the pot on the teleporter.

“Wait, if you can use anything as a teleportation subject, why do you keep using Verdant?” Beans asked as High Gear headed back behind the console.

“Because I want to see what the machine can do to ponies. I’ve already tested inorganic materials, but tests on living things are important, Beans. Guess I’ll have to settle for this flower.”

The hornless unicorn then pushed forth a large lever and the machine started to hum to life. A bright white light soon flooded the room. Once the light had died down, the two saw the plant had vanished.

“Alright. Now we’ve got to get in contact with the Baltimare branch and… Wait…” Gear paused as she carefully examined the numbers on the console’s display. “Shit! I forgot one of the ones for the coordinates. Now I’ve got no clue where I just sent that blue rose.”

“Um… Gear,” Beans nervously spoke up. “That wasn’t a blue rose. That was poison joke.”

“Oh… Crap…” Gear felt a torrent of sweat forming on her brow. “Well, hopefully nopony will get hurt.”

***

In another Vanhoover, where the city was not populated by ponies, but instead a bipedal species known as humans, a teenaged boy was diligently working on someone’s lawn.

The sixteen year old had pale green skin, short brown hair and icy blue eyes. He was wearing a yellow vest over his forest green jacket and a white t-shirt. His pants were a dark green that contrasted against his clean white sneakers.

He happily hummed to himself as he pushed an old-fashioned manual mower along the grass, enjoying the pleasant weekend weather.

The boy’s humming ceased as the house’s front door opened up and a man with a cane stepped out of the house. The man’s skin was a dark shade of gray that matched his pants. The thing that stood out most from the navy-blue jacketed man’s appearance was his hair. It was a dark blue with a light, almost cyan streak in the middle of it.

The man’s dark blue eyes swept over the freshly mowed lawn before they settled on the teen.

“Good work, Verdant,” the man said as he hobbled closer to him. “How long do you think it’ll be until you’re finished?”

“Not much longer, Mr. Barrier,” Verdant cheerfully replied to the older man. “I’m just doing some finishing touches. Should only be a couple minutes.”

“Thanks, Verdant,” Barrier said as he drew closer. “I was never the best at garden work and I didn’t want my niece to think I’m too lazy or feeble to take care of the lawn.”

“No sweat, sir.” Verdant kept pushing the mower along. “So, I recall you promising a form of payment for this work.”

Barrier gave a mild roll of his yes. “Yes. Would you prefer cash or me giving you some extra credit in history class?”

“Hmm… I’ll have to get back to you on that,” Verdant said as he rubbed some sweat from his brow. “Say, might I ask why your niece is coming all the way from Canterlot?”

“She said she’d help set up my new computer and I promised I’d take her to Science West.” Barrier said from his spot on the stone pathway to his door. “She’s been eager to see it ever since the news about some new exhibits they’d added. I couldn’t tell you which ones.”

“Sounds like a good way to spend the long weekend,” Verdant replied with a shrug. “Hope you have a good time.”

“Same to you, Verdant,” Barrier replied as he turned around and stiffly made his way back into the house.

Only a few minutes passed before Verdant had finished taking care of Barrier’s lawn. The grass was a nice, vibrant shade of green and all the blades were nice and even. Verdant gave a proud smile at his work before he took the mower to Barrier’s backyard shed.

With his job complete, the boy started to head towards the sidewalk when an odd, crackling sound reached his ears. The sound seemed to come from above him.

Looking up, he saw a brief flash of light before something hard smashed into his face and shattered. Verdant groaned and stumbled back from the force of whatever struck him.

As the pain started to dull, Verdant looked to the patch of grass where whatever hit him had landed.

What he spotted was rather odd. It looked to be the remains of a flower pot, with the fragments of the pot scattered near the soil and flower.

Despite Verdant’s interest in flowers and other plants, he’d never seen a flower quite like this one. It was an oddly vibrant shade of blue all over, not a speck of green to be seen.

The boy took a step closer to the flower, only to stumble back when he saw what looked like a current of blue electricity arcing over it.

“What’s going on with this thing?” Verdant asked himself as he stared at the flower in confusion. As he started to get back to his feet, he felt an odd feeling he couldn’t quite pin down that seemed to suddenly spread all over his body.

Looking out to the street, he saw that a tree across from him had started to grow further away while the ground beneath seemed to be coming closer.

A feeling of intense panic started to wash over Verdant as he realized what was going on. To his great shock, he was somehow rapidly shrinking.

How the hell is this even possible?! Is this like some of the crazy stories of magic in Canterlot I heard about? Verdant’s mind raced as he tried to scramble off the grass. By the time the shrinking seemed to stop, he was a tiny speck. He wondered if he was the size of a mite or even smaller.

“This isn’t real… this is just some insane dream… it has to be…” he tried to reassure himself as walked along the massive stone slab that formed part of the pathway to Barrier’s door. “I’m going to wake up soon and just wonder if I’ve got some kind of micro fetish or something.”

Verdant felt a chill run up his spine as he heard a loud booming coming from far in front of him.

Looking up, he saw someone he’d never seen before drawing closer. It was a bespectacled girl around Verdant’s age. Her skin was a faint lavender while her hair was a dark indigo with two streaks, one pink and one purple, that she wore in a long ponytail.

Hidden behind the black frames of her glasses were deep amethyst eyes. She wore a short-sleeved shirt that alternated between light blue and purple stripes with a white collar and cuff. Around her neck was a magenta bow with a purple clasp in the center. Her skirt was a deep violet that had pockets, and two kinds of stars. Some were smaller six-pointed and light purple while others were twelve pointed, primarily pink with six white points. Carried in her left hand was a large violet suitcase with one of the two-toned stars emblazoned on it.

Verdant’s eyes however were locked onto her feet. They were clad in deep blue and indigo shoes with pink laces that covered her knee high socks which also matched the blue of her shirt. The reason he couldn’t take his eyes off them wasn’t due to a personal preference, but because they were the part of the giant girl that was approaching him, likely to crush the unseen teen.

“Crap, crap, crap!” Verdant exclaimed as he tried to run towards the grass, only for an angry looking ant to emerge from the blades. He tried to turn back and run diagonally in the opposite direction, but the girl’s steps were looming ever nearer. Each step boomed like thunder and they were growing closer every second despite his best efforts.

Verdant fought back the urge to look over his shoulder, knowing he’d see the colossal shoes approaching to bring his doom.

Suddenly, however, the explosive sounds of the girl’s steps came to a halt, replaced by a loud hum. Fighting against his instincts, Verdant decided to stop and look over his shoulder.

His green skin turned pale at what he saw. From his perspective, the giant’s shoe was less than twenty feet away from him. Had she taken another step, at best she’d step over him, but it was just as likely she would have crushed him to death.

Looking up, Verdant saw the titanic teen girl pull a smartphone from one of her pockets as her bespectacled eyes remained locked on the sparking blue flower.

Wait, there could be a way to survive this! Verdant thought to himself while the girl was distracted. If you climb onto her, you might be able to get her attention and get saved! Besides, it’s bound to be safer to be on the top of her shoe than on the bottom.

With his mind going a mile a minute and adrenaline coursing through his entire body, he took a running leap onto the shoe. He was very thankful that the materials of the shoe afforded him a good grip while the girl seemed to still be distracted photographing the flower.

Verdant’s muscles felt as if they’d been set on fire as he climbed his way onto the top of the shoe, where he soon slumped against one of the brightly colored laces to catch his breath.

“Looks like all that time at the climbing wall with Jaylin paid off,” he weakly said as he tried to catch his breath. Looking towards the shoe’s edge and the ground below, he’d assumed he’d somehow managed to quickly scale what had to be over thirty feet nearly straight up in the time it took the girl to write a text message.

“It’s amazing what you can do when you’re well motivated,” he said as he looked back towards the girl’s body, making sure to keep his gaze from going past her knees.

He didn’t have time to ponder how he’d climb up or get her attention as the giantess had started to move again. Verdant tightly clung to the shoelace and her footsteps brought her to the house’s front door, where she gently (to her anyway) knocked a hand against it.

***

Twilight Sparkle was happily humming to herself as the Vanhoover taxi brought her to her destination. She’d been rather excited for this long weekend trip. Not only did she get to spend time with an uncle of hers that she hadn’t seen for a year or more, but he’d also promised to take her to Science West, Vanhoover’s famed science museum. They’d recently added a great deal of new exhibits that she’d been looking forward to seeing.

While she would miss her friends and family while she was away from Canterlot, she would call them all once she was settled in at Barrier’s house.

“Alright, ma’am. We’re here.” The cabbie said as the car pulled to a halt. Looking out the window, she’d spotted the small, somewhat old-fashioned looking home with “380” written in metal numbers by the door.

“Thank you,” Twilight responded before paying the cabbie and stepping onto the streets with her suitcase in tow.

Taking a deep breath of the seaside city’s refreshing salty air, the young woman started to walk down the short stone path to the door.

Partway into her walk, her eyes were pulled from the house to the sight of a smashed flower pot that was laying on the lawn, an odd blue flower sticking up from the remains.

That’s weird. Why would Uncle Barrier have a smashed flower pot on his lawn? I know he wasn’t particularly fond of gardening, but this doesn’t make any sense. She pondered to herself before she saw what looked like electricity coursing over the blue plant, making her let out a curious hum.

And now this has officially gone from weird to possibly dangerous. Twilight pulled her smart phone from her pocket and snapped a photo of the plant, managing to capture the image of the strange energy coursing over it.

With the photo snapped, she started to quickly type up a text to someone who she hoped would know what was going on.

Sunset, I just found this weird blue plant with some energy flowing over it. Any clue what it is?

With one final press, the text and photo were sent off. That accomplished, Twilight slipped the phone back into her pocket and made her way to the front door, where she gave it a series of gentle raps.

After a brief moment, the door pulled open and the cane-wielding man offered Twilight a smile.

“Ah, it’s great to see you again, my dear,” Barrier said as he and Twilight pulled each other into a hug. “How was the trip down here?”

“A bit lonely. My friends, parents and BBBFF were all busy, so I had to take a bus and then a cab,” Twilight replied as the hug broke off and the two walked into the house. “Still, it wasn’t too bad.”

“Glad to hear,” Barrier said as he made his way towards the kitchen. “Would you like something to drink?”

“Well, I am a little parched,” Twilight responded as Barrier came out with a tray, a pitcher of water and some glasses. “I think I will once I text my-WHOA!”

The violet girl suddenly found her right foot slipping out from under her. To her great thanks, she’d been right next to Barrier’s recliner, so her trip was rather short and soft.

“Oh, sorry about that,” Barrier said as he set the tray down on the coffee table near the recliner. “I forgot to mention I had the floors waxed earlier, so it’s a bit slippery.”

“No problem, Uncle,” Twilight warmly replied as she adjusted her glasses and dusted herself off. “Still, thanks for all this.” She then picked up one of the glasses and the pitcher and quickly filled it up.

“Your guest room’s all set for you and the wi-fi password is VelvetRoom. All one word, capital first V and R,” Barrier said as Twilight quickly downed her glass of water before letting out a small, satisfied sigh.

“Thanks,” Twilight then heard a series of beeps coming from her pocket. Pulling out her phone, she saw that Sunset had sent her a reply. With a few taps, the message appeared on the screen.

Twilight, do NOT touch that plant! That’s a plant from Equestria called Poison Joke. It’s a really dangerous plant that can cause weird transformations if you touch it. I don’t know how it got here, but it needs to be disposed of ASAP. Be careful with it.

Twilight quickly typed up a reply. As she did, a ringing came from another room and Barrier excused himself to check the source.

Got it. I found it outside my uncle’s place, but didn’t touch it. I’ll get some gloves and have it disposed of shortly.

Once the reply was sent, Barrier made his way back into the living room, a cellphone in his hand.

“Twilight, it’s for you,” Barrier said as he handed the phone to her. Twilight wondered who would call Barrier in order to talk to her as she picked up the phone.

“Hello?”

***

Verdant felt his stomach lurch with each step that Twilight took into the living room. The forces he felt were more intense than anything he’d ever felt in his life.

Looking about, it was quite the shock to see his neighbor and history teacher’s living room now looking bigger than most of the city. In the distance, he saw Barrier had entered the kitchen.

“Okay, maybe I can start to climb Twilight once she sits down or something… And that’s a pretty big if right thERE!” Verdant’s words turned into a mighty yet unheard shriek as the girl’s foot slipped on the waxy floor, sending him hurtling into the air.

Verdant briefly wondered if he was flying at jet speeds when he felt his back crash into something smooth and solid. While he winced from the pain, he slid along the smooth surface before falling off and landing on his face.

He laid against the smooth, hard surface in pain for a brief moment before he forced himself to his feet to see where he’d landed. Looking up, he saw he was in the bottom of a glass that had been placed onto the coffee table in front of the gigantic girl as she dusted herself off.

It was then to his great horror that Twilight grabbed the glass he was trapped in and poured what to Verdant was a lake’s worth of water. Verdant was swept up by the fearsome current, but he managed to pull himself to the surface and breach, filling his lungs with air.

Once he did though, he saw the glass was being tilted forward towards Twilight’s open mouth. Verdant could see some of the white-water river pouring inside and quickly being chugged down by the girl who naturally didn’t see the micro-sized man.

“No, no, no!” Verdant’s screams were drowned out by the crashing waves as he felt himself being pulled along into her massive maw. A new wave of terror swept over Verdant as he passed over her lips and into the mouth. He briefly felt himself scraping against the surface of her tongue as he was being pulled along further inside.

He tried to make a futile grasp at her uvula as he drew near it, but one of the waves pulled him under the water’s surface.

When Verdant next managed to breach the surface, he felt himself being pulled down by the powerful force of her throat muscles.

He felt himself repeatedly smacking against the walls of her undulating esophagus before he finally dropped down into a massive fleshly chamber.

Verdant coughed hard as he laid atop a mushy pile he’d landed on, trying to clear his airways of the water and the smell of digesting food.

Once his coughing had ceased, he gazed around the organic room, seeing that he truly was trapped in Twilight’s stomach. Looking down, he saw what he was standing on was a semi-firm, chewed up pile of what he could only assume was a sandwich she’d had earlier.

“Well, this is just peachy,” Verdant said as he slumped down against the stomach’s wall. “Guess I’m stuck inside here until I end up digested. Can’t I just get a little bit of good luck right now?”

Just as he finished speaking, he heard a beeping coming from his vest pocket. He casually pulled out his phone and checked what the notification was.

“Huh. Twenty-five percent off the next order I place with Food Wagon. That’s neat,” Verdant said as he put his phone back into his pocket. After a brief moment had passed, realization hit him like a speeding train. “WAIT, I GET A SIGNAL IN HERE?!”

Quickly pulling his phone out once more, the tiny teen saw that he somehow still had three bars and his phone seemed to be perfectly functional.

“Wow. When High Gear tricks out a phone, she really tricks out a phone!” He happily exclaimed as he went past the lock screen and brought up his contact list. “And Goldie said the waterproofing was a waste of money!”

Verdant brought up Barrier’s number and quickly rang it up. After a brief yet tense moment where it rang, he heard Barrier’s voice on the other end. “Hello?”

“Mr. Barrier, it’s really urgent!” Verdant panickedly said. “Please, I need you to put your niece on the line right now!”

“Verdant, are you okay?” Barrier asked, worry clearly in his voice.

“I may not be much longer! Please, put her on the phone!” Verdant’s shout echoed throughout the pulsating chamber.

After a moment of silence, Twilight’s voice reached Verdant’s ears in stereo, one source being the muffled yet booming version of her voice from her throat while the other was the more normal voice that came through the phone. “Hello?”

“Hello, Twilight. My name’s Verdant Range,” he hurriedly said as he tried to stand atop her former lunch. “You don’t know me, but I’m Barrier’s neighbor and one of his students. Listen, this is going to sound insane, but I’m currently shrunken down and trapped inside your stomach.”

“Wait, WHAT?!” Twilight’s shout and sudden standing up made Verdant fall back into the mushy pile. “That’s impossible!”

“I wish it was, but it’s true,” Verdant replied when an idea struck him. “Hang on, I’ve got an idea.”

With a few quick swipes, Verdant brought up his phone’s camera and held the device aloft. With a click, he snapped a selfie with some of Twilight’s stomach and digesting food in the background. A few seconds later, he had the photo sent to Barrier’s phone.

“Oh no…” Twilight’s gobsmacked voice echoed about before the chamber shook once more, most likely from her sitting down. “Verdant, do you know what caused this?”

“I think it had something to do with that weird flower that crashed on my head. I started shrinking right before you showed up.

“Right. This is bad. Still, I do have an idea to buy us sometime. Hold on.” Twilight’s voice disappeared for a brief moment. “Alright. In order to try to buy you some time, I’m going to try to dilute the acid in my stomach.” Her voice seemed a bit more distant and echoey. Verdant assumed he was put on speaker phone.

“Okay, and how are you going to do that? I’m guessing you’ll-” Verdant was interrupted as several loud gulps came from above before a large torrent of water began to pour in. The tiny trapped teen found the mushy pile he was standing on acting as a raft as the liquid levels rose.

***

Twilight let out a small sigh as she finished off her tall glass of water before turning her attention to the phone on the coffee table. “Alright. That water should dilute the acid somewhat, buying you a bit of time while I try to see if I can fix this.”

The bespectacled girl then pulled out her phone and called up Sunset, setting her phone to be on speaker as she handed it to Barrier who set it on the table.

“Hey Twilight, How are things?” the teen’s voice came out clearly through the phone.

“Bad, Sunset. Remember that poison joke plant I told you about? It turns out it hit someone and now they’re shrunken,” Twilight replied as she carefully tried to lean back against the couch.

“Wait, what? I thought poison joke would take overnight to kick in,” Sunset said in shock. “Right, I’ll call up the other Twilight and see if she knows the cure recipe. Is the victim okay?”

“Not really, Sunset,” Verdant’s voice emanated from the second phone. “I’m currently trapped inside her stomach right now and have no idea if I’m going to end up being digested.”

A loud thud came from Sunset’s end, followed shortly by the sound of her quickly picking up something papery. “Wait, what?!”

“Yeah… that’s what happened,” Twilight embarrassedly said as she rubbed the back of her head. “I just drank a lot of water to try to dilute the stomach acids, but to be frank, I’m surprised Verdant’s still alive right now.”

A tense silence held in the air, making Twilight imagine Sunset’s gobsmacked face and right eye twitching.

“Right. We've got to get him out first,” Sunset said, already sounding tired.

“Any ideas how?” Twilight asked, her eyes firmly locked on her phone.

“Well, if you don’t mind him seeing your goods, you could take a laxa-”

“No!” Twilight exclamation cut Sunset off, her face quickly turning beet red.

A faint titter came from Sunset’s end while a groan came from Verdant’s.

“Yeah… I really want to come out someone’s ass in a river of shit.”

“Right. I figured that would be a last resort anyway,” Sunset said after reining herself in. “Guess that means the best thing to do would be to make you vomit. I’d suggest doing it in a bathroom sink half-filled with water.”

“Alright,” Twilight said as she carefully leaned forward and picked up the two phones. Despite how slow and gentle her movements were, she could hear the nervous shouts of Verdant as she made her way into Barrier’s bathroom.

“Be sure to clean up the mess when you’re done,” Barrier said just before she gently closed the door behind her. Considering what was happening, she wouldn’t blame him if he’d took a drink from his flask when the door was closed.

As she set the phones near the sink and started to fill it up, Sunset spoke up once more. “Good news. The other Twilight knows the poison joke cure treatment and it seems that it uses stuff we have on this side of the mirror.”

“Alright. I’m just gonna pretend I know what you two mean by this stuff with another Twilight and this mirror thing,” Verdant said with a very faint hint of annoyance.

“It’s a long story,” Twilight said as she turned off the water. “Right, so… how are we gonna make me throw up? I don’t think my uncle has any ipecac.”

A grumbling came from Verdant before Sunset spoke up. “Hang on a sec. I know a video.”

Sunset has a video about how to induce vomiting? Twilight felt oddly curious at Sunset’s words. Why would she have one? Did she look this up because the equines are unable to vomit or something? Is it different in her world? She briefly pondered when she saw the video file was loaded on her phone.

With a press of her screen, the video started to play and the sound of piano music began to fill the bathroom. Twilight’s eyes bulged at the sight on the phone as she felt her stomach begin to harshly churn.

***

As piano music began to play through Verdant’s phone, his green skin grew pale. “Oh no…” He whispered as the stomach began to churn.

The stomach’s churning started growing more rapid. Verdant tried to keep his footing on his digesting raft, but the whole stomach shifted as Twilight bent over towards the sink.

With volcanic force, Verdant and the contents of Twilight’s stomach were blasted into her esophagus. In a matter of seconds, Verdant saw her approaching uvula and open mouth before he made a hard splashdown in the Olympic pool’s worth of water in the sink.

An explosive, sickly groan came from behind the tiny teen. Turning about in the lake of vomit and tap water, he saw the somewhat disheveled appearance of Twilight. Her lavender face was somewhat greenish as she readjusted her glasses.

Verdant swam into a cleaner part of the water, where the gigantic girl was able to spot him. As she stuck one of her mighty, pillar-like fingers into the water the shrunken boy climbed onto it and was pulled from the sink before being gently deposited on the sink.

The speck of a boy pulled his phone from his jacket once more. “Well, at least the hard part’s over.” His voice came out through Barrier’s phone.

“YEAH…” Despite how weak Twilight’s voice sounded, it still boomed and echoed to the miniature man as she pulled away from the sink and sat down on the toilet beside it. “NOW I JUST NEED MY STOMACH TO SETTLE SO I CAN GET THE CURE INGREDIENTS.”

A gentle knock came from the other side of the bathroom door. “Twilight, I think it would be better to let me take care of the ingredients while your stomach settles. Besides, this way you can keep an eye on Verdant.”

“OKAY. THANKS, UNCLE.” Twilight replied before turning towards her phone. “SUNSET, I’M GONNA GIVE YOU MY UNCLE’S NUMBER SO HE CAN TAKE CARE OF THIS.

“NO PROBLEM, TWILIGHT.” Sunset’s voice rang out through the phone as Twilight picked it up. Once a text was sent to Sunset with Barrier’s number, Twilight passed the phone back to her uncle.

A moment later, Twilight gave her number to Verdant. The shrunken boy was rather grateful since he had an unlimited texting plan and he didn’t want to have to deal with long distance fees.

***

A little over an hour later, the ingredients were gathered and Verdant was restored to his normal size, just a few inches shorter than Twilight.

Once his clothes had been sent through the laundry, the trio of Barrier, Twilight and Verdant sat in the living room. A bit of an awkward tension was held in the air between the three. Her phone laid on the coffee table with Sunset on speaker

“So, would you be willing to explain how this all happened, Twilight?” Barrier asked from his spot on the recliner.

Taking a deep breath, Twilight gave her answer. “Well, from what I can tell, a magical flower from another world populated by sapient magical equines ended up hitting Verdant, causing him to shrink down.”

“I… would normally say that’s crazy, but considering what I went through today, this sounds kinda plausible,” Verdant said as he leaned back on the couch.

“Bare in mind that shrinking should have killed you since you wouldn’t be able to see or even breathe.” Twilight replied. “Not to mention what my stomach should have done to you…”

“Right, so it’s magic,” Barrier said before taking a swig from his silver flask. “If it weren’t for the fact I saw Verdant being so tiny and returning to normal, I probably wouldn’t buy this. However, this leads to my next question, Twilight. How do you and your friend know so much about magic?”

“It’s… a really long story,” Sunset’s voice came from the phone. “Best I could summarize would probably be that I’m a unicorn from another dimension that came through a portal in front of Canterlot High, was evil, got beaten by your niece’s counterpart from my homeland of Equestria, got better, met your niece during the Friendship Games, she got turned into a demon and dimension rifts were opened, my friends and I fixed things and now she goes to Canterlot High.”

Barrier could only sigh in response. “Well, I suppose all I’ll say is that I hope all three of you try to be safe. After what happened today, I get the feeling magic can be pretty dangerous.”

“I know the feeling, Uncle,” Twilight said as she rubbed her temples. “Honestly, I think Verdant and I would both like to try and just forget about today.”

“Ah, but you never forget the first time you have a boy inside you, Twilight!” Another voice came through Twilight’s phone. The voice made Twilight’s eyes go wide while Sunset let out a startled yelp.

“Pinkie, what are you doing here?!” Sunset shrieked at the girl that had suddenly appeared in her apartment.

“A little twitch told me I should probably be here and I just learned Twilight had a really poor time with a boy inside her.” Pinkie’s words caused Verdant and Twilight to groan and blush while Barrier had to bite his lip. “I mean he only was in her for a few minutes and she ended up puking right afterwards. Normally it takes a couple weeks for that to happen.”

“Pinkie…” Twilight murmured as she clasped her hands over her face in frustration.

“Well, I hope you have a better time in Vanhoover, Twilight!” Pinkie cheerily said. “Hope your stomach feels better soon and that your next time with a boy in you is a lot more fun!”

“Knock it off, Pinkie!” Sunset said before the call suddenly ended.

Another awkward moment passed along before Verdant rose off of the couch. “Well, I should be heading home now. My family’s probably wondering why I’m taking so long.”

“Well, goodbye, Verdant,” Twilight said as she got off the couch and grabbed the phone. “Sorry about all this.”

“Don’t sweat it, it was all just a freaky accident,” Verdant replied with a smile as he reached the door. Twilight shot him one right back. “Right now, I just hope you have a more pleasant stay in Vanhoover and that this sort of thing never happens to me again.”

“I doubt it,” Twilight said. “Honestly, what are the odds you’ll be shrunken and eaten again?”

As Verdant made his way out the door, something in the back of his mind told him that Twilight had just jinxed him.

Author's Note

Hey folks. Hope you enjoyed this new chapter featuring the Equestria Girls version of Verdant.

Now, I promised you a picture of Verdant and this was the reason why it was taking so long.

Well, here's the thing. The artist I commissioned really misunderstood what I wanted for this picture, to the point it was a hand drawn picture of him as a pony and after a whole lot of crap trying to find an artist who could do the Equestria Girls art style, I finally said "fuck it" and cancelled that. Much to my frustration, the closest you'll get to a picture of EG Verdant is a picture of made in Pony Creator.

Sorry about that.

Well, with all that out of the way, it's time to vote for the chapter after the next one.

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. Into the Sunset (EG): An accident involving a flower cart and High Gear's teleporter leads to the teen to be shrunk again and finding himself stuck in a salad in Canterlot.
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.

Remember, only one vote per person. Also, from now on, vote that only have a number will no longer counted and even deleted. I'm sorry if this seems harsh, but I did this since it makes tallying the votes easier for me.

Next time, we get to misadventures while Verdant is on a date with Beans when we get Dinner and a Magic Show.

See ya then!