Verdant gave a yawn as he wandered into the rebuilt lab, where High Gear was fiddling with the dials on the console she stood behind. His day at the flower shop was rather tiring. A part of him had hoped Gear had changed her mind and cancelled tonight’s experiment, but he knew that was very unlikely.

Y’know, I’m starting to wonder how many times this place has been rebuilt due to some sort of freaky accident. Verdant stretched out his forelegs before he stepped onto the teleportation platform. “So, how’s things been, Doctor?”

“Hectic, but nothing too terrible,” High Gear replied, barely looking up from her console. “Making sure everything’s in working order, making wedding plans, dealing with parents not believing that I was inside Princess Celestia for about a month.”

“Gotta say, that was one of the weirder things we’ve had to deal with.” Verdant gave a roll of his neck before his eyes fell on the bespectacled scientist once more. “Speaking of having to deal with being inside ponies’ digestive tracts, have you ever considered making something so I have an easier time getting out of stomachs? While the thought of a free sandwich is nice, I don’t like coming out of butts.”

“I’ve been talking with some ponies in the chemistry department. Hopefully they’ll have something worked out by the next time we do this,” High Gear said before sighing and placing a hoof upon a switch. “Honestly, I’m starting to think you’re cursed or something.”

“It could be,” Verdant replied with a shrug. “Maybe my great-grandfather pissed off a Zebrican witch or something. At any rate, I’m ready.”

“Alright. Here we go.” Pulling back on the switch, the platform beneath Verdant shined with a warm yellow light before the shamrock stallion vanished in a flash of white.

“So… where did he end up now?” High Gear muttered aloud as she started to fiddle with her tracking device.

Looking carefully at the screen, she saw the emerald-coated pony was nowhere within Equestria.

“That’s odd.” Quickly adjusting the settings, High Gear expanded the range of her scan. It was then the blip from Verdant’s tracker reappeared far to the north.

“Hmm… Interesting.” High Gear tossed a pair of saddlebags onto her sides before heading out the door and down to lab 18, where she saw Pixel Flash and several of her colleagues working on assembling an arcade cabinet.

“Hey, Pix! Mini!” High Gear called out, making the violet mare nearly drop a circuit board before facing her. “How’d you like to go to the Crystal Empire?”

***

In a flash, Verdant felt himself enter freefall before splatting down into something firm. What was odd to the forest colored pony was that everything he saw, himself included, was bathed in a cornflower blue light and he felt a familiar tingling in his fur. It was the feeling of being encased in a pony’s magical aura.

Looking over his shoulder, he saw he was in a football stadium sized bowl of strawberries being carried in the aura of the ruler of the Crystal Empire herself, Princess Mi Amore Cadenza.

“Excuse me, Princess!” Verdant exclaimed as he tried to move closer, but it was to no avail. Casting his eyes downward, he saw that his body up to his shoulders had sunk into one of the many strawberries the alicorn carried.

“Oh Faust curse it, I only got out of an alicorn’s digestive tract last week! Do I really have to do it again so soon?!” Verdant’s annoyed shouts went unheard as the princess pushed open the doors to a rather opulent bedroom where an alabaster unicorn stallion with a tri-toned blue mane rested on the nearby plush bed, surrounded by rose petals.

***

It was a night Princess Cadance had long waited for. Duties had kept her and her dear husband from being able to spend intimate time together, but now that was over. Thanks to weeks of careful planning, Cadance could finally spend the night with him rather than just next to him.

“Good evening, dear.” A warm smile graced Cadance’s royal countenance as she kicked the door behind her shut and sauntered over to the bed. “I’ve been thinking of something rather intimate for tonight.”

“I hope it’s not something that involves food,” Shining said as he sat up on the bed. “You got a really nasty yeas-”

“Trust me, this won’t be anything like last time,” Cadance interrupted before she sat down on the bed. “I’ve got something that won’t require a doctor and several weeks of creams afterwards.”

“Do tell.” Shining Armor sounded greatly intrigued as she grasped a strawberry in her magic. “What do you have planned?”

“Just a sexy little game, Shining,” Cadance brushed the strawberry against the surface of her plump lips before planting a wet kiss on it. “The game goes like this. I’ll put a strawberry in my mouth and then you and I will prench kiss with you trying to take the strawberry into your own mouth to swallow it.

“If you manage to swallow my strawberry, you win a point. If I swallow it first, you get no points. After a point’s scored, we switch roles. Does that sound good?”

“It sounds great, Cadance,” Shining Armor said softly before leaning in and kissing Cadance on the lips.

“Excellent.” Cadance grinned before winking at Shining and sticking out her tongue. Dropping the strawberry on top, she pulled it into her mouth with a quick tongue flick.

***

Verdant soon found his body and the strawberry it was lodged in being pulled from the bowl and up in front of the princess’s face. “Oh, of friggin’ course. She couldn’t have grabbed one of the dozens of strawberries without shrunken ponies in them. Noooo, she had to pick up the one with me in it!”

After a brief moment of the princess’s booming, volcanic voice that forced him to cover his ears, Verdant saw his strawberry was being pulled closer to Cadance’s massive lips.

To his mild surprise, her mouth didn’t open to toss him inside her, but her lips remained firmly shut before she brushed the strawberry and Verdant against the plump surface

“Urgh, it’s like rubbing against the walls of a bounce house, but hotter and wetter,” Verdant grumbled before he saw the princess pucker her lips and begin to smother him against them, giving him and the strawberry a generous coating of royal saliva before she pulled it away once more.

Verdant sighed, feeling rather annoyed as he tried to listen to their conversation while keeping his ears covered.

“Well, there’s only one way this’ll end,” Verdant said as he saw the pink princess open her mouth wide and float the strawberry over her extended tongue. “At least I’ll be halfway to a sandwich after this.”

It wasn’t long before Verdant and the berry were plopped down onto her tongue and tossed inside her mouth with a flick. Her massive maw remained surprisingly still, not making any effort to toss the mighty morsel between her teeth to mash it up.

Feeling as if something were wrong, Verdant looked back towards the entrance and saw Shining Armor was approaching; his mouth open wide and tongue outstretched.

“This can’t be good,” Verdant muttered to himself as Shining Armor sensually pressed his lips against the princess’, sealing their mouths together as the unicorn’s tongue entered Cadance’s mouth.

The colossal serpent brushed against Cadance's tongue, the strawberry and Verdant’s back, drenching the shamrock stallion in slobber.

Verdant sighed as the stallion’s tongue repeatedly brushed against him. “And to think, I once dreamed about something like this with this stallion. But now we’re both taken and I’m gonna be eaten. Did I wish on a monkey’s paw or something?”

The shamrock stallion felt himself being more and more drenched as he and the berry were passed about by the passionate osculating pair. With how rapidly he was being pushed and tumbled about by the entwining tongues, he found himself quickly growing dizzy.

Just as his cheeks started to turn greener, Verdant found himself suddenly pulled back so he and the berry were within one mouth.

Looking towards the wide open entrance, Verdant saw the tittering face of Princess Cadance just before the mouth sealed shut.

“At least I’m in the better looking of the two,” Verdant muttered before the berry was pulled to the back of the prince’s throat. With a hard swallow, Verdant and the strawberry were sent down Shining Armor’s esophagus. The alabaster unicorn’s throat muscles were so strong, Verdant had briefly wondered if the esophagus would crush the strawberry while he descended.

To his surprise, the whole berry landed down inside the stallion’s stomach atop a pile of slurped up noodles and a vegetable broth. The shock of the impact managed to knock the shrunken stallion loose, sending him tumbling into the soup.

“Well, I’m inside a stallion’s stomach for once,” the earth pony muttered before paddling over to the undigested noodles and shaking himself dry like a dog. “At least it’s a bit of a change of pace.”

Looking about, Verdant had hoped to see something that could allow him to escape the stomach, but sadly all he could see were the usual assortment of digesting food, pulsating walls and bubbling juices.

“At least I’m now at the halfway mark,” Verdant signed before he looked up towards the valve. “Hopefully more food’s not coming down.”

***

Cadance was deeply enjoying the passion she felt as she and her beloved clashed their tongues against one another to claim the strawberry prize. The intimacy and warmth had been something she had missed for so long, so she reveled in every second of it.

Just as her wings began to stretch out and stiffen, she was surprised to feel Shining Armor pulling away, leaving her mouth feeling rather empty.

Slowly opening her eyes, she saw Shining had a coy look on his face and the strawberry in his mouth. With a wink to the alicorn of love, Shining closed his mouth and managed to swallow the berry whole.

“Wow.” Cadance was stunned as she saw the bulge in Shining’s throat travel down before it disappeared into his chest. “Didn’t think you could swallow something that big.”

“Guess I’m just full of surprises.” Shining chuckled before pulling a second strawberry from the bowl and holding it in front of his face. “Now it’s your turn.”

With a gentle toss, the strawberry landed in his mouth as Cadance drew close. The princess placed her hooves on his shoulders and wrapped her wings around his back. With a tender sigh, she leaned in close and sealed her lips against his before gliding her tongue against his.

Cadance shuddered as she thoroughly enjoyed the dance of her tongue against her husband’s as they clashed over the berry. Passion and lust however soon turned competitive. Cadance wanted to win this round and she knew just the trick.

Slowly, her right wing trailed down Shining Armor’s back. The movement went unnoticed by the unicorn until she used the tip of one of her feathers to stroke the base of his tail and back exit.

“Eeep!” Shining Armor jumped, giving Cadance the perfect chance to strike. With his grip on the berry loosened, she quickly pulled the berry into her mouth and pulled back.

“Hey, no fair!” Shining foalishly grumbled while Cadance gave a mischievous chuckle before she easily swallowed the berry.

“All’s fair in love and war, and that includes lovers games like this,” Cadance replied before stroking his back with her wing. “Now the score’s all tied up.”

“C’mon, Cadance. No more cheating,” Shining said as the princess picked up the third berry of the night.

“Alright. No more tricks like that,” Cadance said before tossing the berry into her mouth. “Weddy foh wound three?”

Shining Armor chuckled before he closed the gap between the two of them and pressed his lips against hers.

The game lasted well into the night with Cadance coming out as the victor with a score of eighteen to fifteen.

With their bellies full and the bowl emptied, the two lounged on their plush bed for several minutes wrapped in each other's forelegs.

“I missed moments like this,” Shining broke the silence of the night before giving her a tender kiss.

“Me too.” An affectionate grin spread across Cadance’s face before she rolled across the bed and raised her hind end. “How about we have a bit more fun before bed?”

“With pleasure,” Shining Armor softly laughed before he rose up and set his hooves upon her back.

***

“Rut me, I’ve seen less strawberries in a fruit salad,” Verdant muttered as he looked about the now filled stomach. A pile of fifteen berries were all about the stomach, slowly starting to digest within Shining Armor’s juice.

Verdant stretched out and yawned before slumping against one of the muscular walls. “Well, hopefully these two will be going to-WHOA!”

The shamrock stallion was knocked about from Shining Armor’s sudden movements. An undigested berry nearly struck him, but he was able to quickly jump out of the way.

“Does he need to take a piss before bed or-” Verdant was interrupted by a sudden movement that sent him and some berries slamming into one of the walls. “What’s going on?!”

A second sharp movement from the royal stallion had sent Verdant and some of the fruity treats flying into the back end of the digestive chamber. Before he could try to get his footing, another thrust had struck, sending him tumbling forth once more.

“Oh great,” Verdant mumbled as the faint sounds of a mare’s moans managed to penetrate the stomach walls. “I’m trapped in somepony when they’re having sex. Again! Still, at least I’m not in the reproductive tract, so I’m unlikely to be unexpectedly ejected or something.”

Several minutes passed while the royal couple shared their great moment of passion while Verdant felt he was becoming a living tennis ball with only a very brief moment of pause for him to attempt to rest his sore body.

Despite the thick and massive flesh walls, Verdant could hear the passionate moans of the prince and princess in their lovemaking. Their voices were reaching a fevered pitch while the stallion’s stomach was starting to kick into overdrive, creating a large amount of gas bubbles.

As the pairs’ moans reached a climactic fervor, Verdant was sent head first into the surface of a large gas bubble.

The bubble quickly burst and with a force like a hurricane, Verdant was rocketed up Shining Armor’s esophagus.The world of the prince’s body was a rapid blur as he saw himself fly past Shining Armor’s teeth and into a second mouth, smacking against a uvula before being swallowed down once more. In a matter of seconds, Verdant had splashed down into his second royal stomach of the night.

“Faust dammit…” Verdant weakly groaned as he laid atop the surface of her digestive soup. “At least it’s only four to go now.”

***

As Shining Armor and Cadance felt themselves coming down from the high of their lovemaking, the pair kept their lips firmly pressed against each other.

The alabaster unicorn started to feel a bubbling up in his stomach as Cadance stroked the back of his mane. Despite wanting to pull back to avoid burping in her mouth, Cadance’s grip around his back and waist was too strong, leaving the gas only one way to go; into the mare below him.

Cadance’s eyes shot open as she felt the rumbling in her mouth courtesy of her husband. The taste of digesting strawberries and the feeling of what she assumed was spit striking the back of her throat and being swallowed on reflex, making her grip loosen.

Shining Armor slowly started to pull back as the blush on his face made his snowy coat match his wife.

“Sorry about that, Cadance.” He said as he nervously rubbed the back of his neck. “I wanted to pull back, but-”

“It’s fine, Shining,” Cadance cut him off as she patted his shoulder. “It’s a minor thing and it happens.”

“Still, I wish I could do something to make it up to-” This time it was the unicorn stallion that was interrupted by his partner belching and making him feel spit hitting the back of his throat before he swallowed.

Cadance let out a chuckle as a faint, nearly undetectable blush crossed her features. “Well, I’d say that makes us even now. So, wanna hit the showers?”

“Yes, please,” Shining replied as he felt himself slip out of Cadance and off the bed. “After that, I’m feeling up for some hardcore cuddling.”

***

Verdant didn’t have much time to relax as he felt the princess’s digestive juices start to bubble up beneath his shrunken form. The bubble quickly rose close to the top of her stomach before it burst, rocketing him up once more, this time through Cadance’s throat.

The tiny pony was fired like a cannonball from Cadance’s mouth and back into her husband’s again, where he smacked against the back of his throat before he was quickly swallowed down on reflex.

“Dammit, dammit, dammit!” Verdant mumbled he was pushed back towards the stallion’s stomach by his esophagus muscles. “At least I’m only three more trips from that damn sandwich.”

The minuscule mammal was spat into the stomach, splatting into a pile of goop that was once a strawberry.

With a tired sigh, Verdant curled up into a ball to try to get some sleep.

***

Shining Armor was enjoying the early morning light and the scent of the dew on the palace grounds as he trotted about on his patrol. As he looked out one of the palace windows, a mare in guard armor came rushing up to him.

“Sir, there is somepony here that wishes to do a sweep of the palace. She says it’s of great importance.”

“Well, let’s see what exactly they want to sweep for. Take me to ‘em,” Shining Armor said before she started to guide him to the main entrance, where he saw a bespectacled mare with a blue coat and violet mane in a lab coat, a purple coated unicorn with a multicolored mane, a grayish-violet unicorn with curly blue mane and red glasses, and an earth pony who was a good deal taller than him.

“Good morning, ladies,” Shining Armor said as he approached the quartet. “Now, why do you want to do a sweep of the castle?”

The lab coat sporting mane reached into her jacket and pulled out a business card that Shining Armor took in his magic before she started to fiddle with the dials of a device of her foreleg.

Looking over the card, he saw that it read, “My name is Dr. High Gear and if there are any others with me, they are my assistants. We work for the Vanhoover Institute of Science and Technology. If you’re reading this, it’s because my guinea pig, Verdant Range, has been teleported to this location and is likely trapped in somepony’s stomach. We require whatever cooperation needed in order to recover our currently missing personnel.”

“Oh! Twily’s told me all about you!” Shining said as he turned his gaze back to the scientist as she winced from the sight on her screen. “For security reasons, I will require you to have guard escort, but you’re free to do your sweep.”

“Uh… yeah, that won’t be needed, your highness. I know where he is now,” High Gear said before she pointed directly at the unicorn prince.

“Oh… Well…” Shining Armor bit his lip as High Gear started to sort through her saddlebags. “So if he’s inside me, how are you gonna get him out?”

“Don’t worry,” High Gear replied as she pulled her foreleg out of the bag, revealing that she was pulling a long rubber glove onto the leg that she snapped into place. “I have my ways.”

To High Gear’s surprise, the alabaster stallion’s coat suddenly turned very pale.

***

After a long shower, Verdant and company were now being escorted out of the palace by Shining Armor, whose walk was now rather awkward.

“So, Doctor,” Shining Armor asked as they neared the edge of the palace grounds “While you had your foreleg… y’know, up there, did you notice any issues with my prostate? I just don’t wanna have to take another exam for my annual check up next week.”

“Oh, I’m not that kind of doctor, so it looks like you’re going to have another pony playing plumber with you next week. Sorry.” Gear’s reply made Shining Armor look rather glum.

“Well, thanks anyway. Hopefully we won’t have to do this again. I hope you have a good time while in the empire,” Shining said before he started to pull away.

“Don’t worry, we intend to,” Gear said before she started to chuckle. “I really plan to make the most of this.”

“Gear, are you gonna tell me why you brought me along here?” Beans muttered as she stepped ahead of her friend.

“Well, after spending a month in Celestia’s guts, I figure we could all use a nice vacation.” High Gear darkly laughed as she started to rub her hooves together. “It’s so sad that the natural crystal deposits in this city made tracking Verdant next to impossible to pull off, forcing us to spend an entire week just trying to track the poor fellow down.”

A look of shock and realization struck Beans’ face as Verdant let out a loud laugh.

Pixel Flash giggled before she slung a foreleg over Gear’s shoulders and planted a kiss on cheek. “You sly dog. You’re going to give us all a vacation and write it off as a business expense, aren’t you?”

“I’ve no idea what you’re talking about, dear,” Gear replied before taking off her glasses and putting them into an inner jacket pocket before replacing them with a pair of sunglasses. “So, after we check into three suites at the hotel, I suggest Beans starts looking for Verdant at a pizza place while Pix and I look by the pool. Mini, you look wherever you want.”

“Alright, I guess I’ll start with a sweep of the red light district,” Mini chuckled as the five of them headed off to find the finest hotel they could find.

“Oh, by the way, Gear,” Verdant began. “Because of what happened, there’s only three more times I need to be eaten before I get my sandwich.”

“What? Did the prince and princess play vore tennis with you or something?” Gear asked as she looked over the rim of her sunglasses.

“Yeah, pretty much. It’s a long story,” Verdant replied as he rubbed the back of his neck. “Do you really want an explanation?”

“Heck no. What I want is to lie by a pool and sip fresh mango juice, now let’s go!” Gear answered before charging off towards a gilded hotel with the others following quickly behind.

Author's Note

Happy Vore Day, everyone! I hope you enjoyed this chapter and Verdant getting three steps closer to his sandwich reward.

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 Griffonstone. 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. Squad 982's Egg-cellent Adventure: A teleportation accident causes the ponies of Squad 982 to end up inside of reproductive tract of their griffin cadet, Jaylin Blauhäher, just as she's about to lay an egg... an egg that she intends to eat once it's laid.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. Enter the Mecha Mare (Part One of a trilogy): While showing up for one of High Gear's experiments, Verdant learns that he's made a robotic pony. However, something seems a bit off with this miraculous mechanical mare. What could she have planned?

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Next time, we deal with a cross-dimension catastrophe with Princesses, Portals and Pastry Pokémon. See ya then!