The darkness of the early morning hung in the air as Cadet Verdant Range woke up within his squad’s assigned barracks.

As the shamrock stallion stretched, he saw that Hat Trick, Winter Gem and Iron Forge were also waking up while two of the beds were empty. One was Swiftsword’s; her bed was empty and freshly made.

The other, to Verdant’s right was the bed of the squad’s griffon cadet, Jaylin Blauhäher, as she was busily making her bed.

“‘Morning, Jaylin,” Verdant said as he rolled out of bed and faced the blue and white colored griffon, her obsidian talons shining in the moonlight as she tucked in her sheets. “Have you seen Swift?”

“Yeah, she’s outside trying to get a handle on teleporting,” Jaylin replied as her squadmates rolled out of bed and started to tend to their beds. “The captain should be here any minute, so I’m gonna wait outside for him.”

“We’ll be with you shortly, Jay,” Verdant replied as the griffon hen finished up her bed and headed for the door.

After Jaylin stepped out the door and closed it behind her, Iron Forge let out a disgusted sigh. “I still can’t believe you’re truly friends with that beast with what her kind has been doing to ponykind for years.”

Verdant rolled his eyes at Forge’s statement as he started to fold his sheets. He had known the griffon nearly all his life before he started as an apprentice for a flower shop in Canterlot, so he knew her history.

Jaylin was a war orphan. Years ago, a griffon warship attempted to invade Dream Valley, but all the griffon soldiers were slaughtered by the defending pony forces.

When the guards inspected the warship, they had discovered something that startled them. It was a griffon egg that would hatch a few weeks later. According to the logs, the egg belonged to a pair of soldiers named Gregory and Elsa Blauhäher.

A great debate swept the small town of what to do with the egg. Some wanted to smash the egg before it could hatch, some wanted to try to return it to the distant Griffon Kingdom while others wanted to pass the egg off to another town so it’d be their problem. Eventually, however, a musician named Sweet Music and her husband, Herbal Mixture, volunteered to take the egg in and raise the hatchling as their own.

When the egg finally hatched, the baby griffon quickly latched onto the two as her parents. Because of how much the baby griffon looked like a bluejay, the pair decided to name her Jaylin, along with granting her her birth parents last name.

According to Verdant’s parents, they were scared of the baby griffon at first, but then they saw her playing with young Verdant happily and soon grew attached to her.

Over the years, Verdant and Jaylin had come to love each other like siblings. When Verdant joined the guard after the flower shop had gone out of business, he soon had a happy reunion with his dear friend who he hadn’t been able to see for the last four years.

“Trust me, Forge,” Verdant said as he offered the cobalt unicorn a mild glare. “Jaylin wants to protect Equestria from those that want to harm it, despite all the crap you give her. Remember that.”

“Right,” the unicorn replied with his Trottingham accent. “And we definitely won’t end up inside her one of these days.

“Guys, it’s too early in the morning to be arguing,” Winter Gem complained as she tucked in a sheet. “Can you at least save it until after breakfast?”

“Fine,” Verdant and Forge replied as they returned to tending to their beds.

After a few minutes, the four ponies finished up and lined up outside alongside Jaylin and Swiftsword.

In the early morning darkness, Swift’s horn glowed brightly as magical energies flowed through it and crackled. Soon after the four arrived, the carolina blue unicorn began to laugh.

“Your timing is perfect, my squadmates,” she boastfully said as her horn began to glow brighter and brighter. “I believe I’ve figured out how to teleport.”

“Uh, shouldn’t you wait for Captain Barrier to show up to make sure nothing goes wrong?” Verdant asked as a fly started to buzz about near Swift’s muzzle.

“Relax, my friend,” Swift dismissively replied as she waved her foreleg at her squad mate, not seeing the bug hanging out near her nostril. “I have everything uh… uh… uh…ACCHOOO!!!”

As Swiftsword sneezed, an explosion of light blue flooded the grounds, blinding those all around her. When the light faded, Jaylin slowly started to see that she was the only one standing outside the barracks.

“Hello, guys?” Jaylin asked in confusion as she quickly turned her head about, not seeing or smelling any trace of her missing squad mates. “Where’d you all go?”

***

Verdant Range, blinded by Swift’s light, heard the sounds of four other ponies groaning around him. However, what shocked him more was the feeling under his hooves.

Instead of the somewhat damp feeling of grass covered with morning dew, what was under his hooves was wet and fleshy.

The shamrock stallion’s vision slowly started to return to him, allowing Verdant to see that he and four of his squadmates were within a long tunnel of pink flesh.

Before he could force himself to his hooves. A booming voice echoed all throughout the chamber.

“HELLO, GUYS? WHERE’D YOU ALL GO?”

Despite the voice being like thunder, the five ponies within the organic cavern recognized the voice of their griffon comrade.

“Oh dear Faust,” Forge frightfully said as he hopped to his hooves. “Swift teleported us into Jaylin’s stomach! We’re all going to die in here!”

“No, she didn’t and no, we’re not!” Verdant barked as he slowly got to his hooves. “I’ve been in multiple stomachs, including Jaylin’s. I can safely say this isn’t her stomach.”

“Right, so we’re just stuck inside a different part of Jaylin’s insides,” Gem said as Hatty helped pull her up. “Where in Tartarus are we then?”

“Call me crazy, but judging by the smell, I’m guessing weren’t not inside her butt,” Hatty said as he gazed around the moist passageway.

“Well, our first priority should be to find our way out.” Swift’s exclamation echoed around the living tunnel. “Everypony, fall in line behind and follow me. We must stick together to best ensure our chances of survival.”

“And why should we follow you when you’re the one that got us into this mess in the first place?” Hatty flew up to in front of Swift’s face, their muzzles only a few shrunken centimeters apart.

“The first reason is seniority.” Swift’s horn glowed as her aura appeared around Hatty’s wings and snapped them shut, making him fall to the flesh floor. “The second is I could easily best any of you in a fight. Now, save your energy, Hat Trick. We may need it later.

“Now, fall in and follow me!” The light blue mare commanded as she started to head down the tunnel into organic parts unknown.

“How can we be sure we’re even going in the right direction?” Gem piped up as she and her fellows followed behind Swiftsword.

“Well, we don’t have many other options, now do we?” Verdant replied. “Besides, if we can’t go in one direction, we can just turn back.”

After a few moments of silence hung in the air as the five trudged along the hen’s innards, Hatty eventually broke the silence with a smirk as he gently elbowed Forge in the side.

“Hey, Forge. How does it feel being inside a lady for the first time?”

The purple pegasus’ companions all groaned at what he said before Forge glared at him.

“You do recall I can set you on fire, right?” Forge said through gritted teeth, silencing the pegasus.

***

Jaylin was growing somewhat nervous at the sudden disappearance of her companions when she saw the approach of a charcoal grey unicorn with a two-tone blue mane. In response, Jaylin fell into a guard-like posture and threw out a salute.

“Good morning, Captain,” Jaylin said as she saw the stallion’s right brow rise.

“Cadet Blauhäher, where is the rest of your squad?” Captain Barrier barked as Jaylin set her talons down.

“I don’t know, sir. Swiftsword attempted to perform a teleportation spell and they all vanished in a flash of light.” Jaylin’s response made Barrier’s brow rise even higher.

“Is that a fact?” Barrier said before his horn glowed with cerulean light. Jaylin felt a tingle on her beak and claws before Barrier’s glow appeared over them. She then felt her beak being forced open and her talons being spread apart.

“Hmm… No trace of cleaned off blood. Seems you’re telling the truth,” Barrier said before sighing and ceasing his magical hold on her. “Well, my original plans for today had you and your squadmates practicing team combat exercises. Since that’s no longer an option… head to the kitchen and start peeling potatoes before chopping onions. Understood?”

“Sir, yes, sir,” Jaylin replied before Barrier dismissed her and headed back into the castle.

With a sigh, Jaylin started to make her way towards the palace. This feels like I’m being punished because Swift made them all vanish.

After a few minutes, Jaylin arrived in the palace kitchens. Shortly after confirming things with the cooks, Jaylin washed her talons and started to peel the many potatoes with them.

Hopefully they show up soon. Jaylin thought as she finished peeling a potato and passing it over to one of the chefs. I already get a ton of crap for being a griffon. I don’t need to be blamed for my squadmates' disappearance.

As she finished up peeling her second potato, the hen felt a familiar uncomfortable sensation coming from within her belly. It was a feeling she’d been dealing with ever since she turned twelve.

And the cherry on top of this shit sundae, today’s an egg day. Wonderful. Jaylin quietly grumbled as she finished the potato before moving on to a third.

***

The five shrunken ponies marched along through Jaylin’s insides, unsure both where they were in the hen’s body and even if they were headed in the right direction to make their escape.

As they trudged along, they eventually saw the tunnel suddenly curve upward. Coming up to the curve, the quintet of ponies gazed up and saw that attached to the distant ceiling was a large collection of yellow orbs with one in particular dwarfing the rest with its size.

“Oh, now I know where we are!” Verdant exclaimed as he gazed upon the above organ. “That’s one of Jaylin’s ovaries! We’re inside her reproductive system!”

“Wait!” Forge shouted as he looked down at the damp, fleshy floor. “Are you saying we’ve been inside Jaylin’s vagina this whole time?!”

“Well, no. I don't think we’ve ever been in that part of her. I think we’ve only been in her oviduct so far.” Verdant responded as he started to head back the way he came. “Y’see, from what I read on griffon anatomy, their reproductive systems have an odd mix of mammalian and avian traits. They lay eggs, but past the shelling gland, the reproductive tract ends with a vagina instead of a cloaca that joins with the digestive tract.

“Well let’s just get going,” Gem grumbled as Swift rushed ahead of Verdant so she was still in the lead. “I don’t want to be inside a griffon any longer than needed.”

“Aw, c’mon, Gem. We’re in Jay’s sex organs. What’s the worst that could happen?” Hat Trick’s remark made the four ponies by him all groan.

“You do realize you’ve just doomed us all, right?” Forge said as he shot Hatty a venomous glare.

“Relax, nothing’s gonna happ-'' The pegasus was cut off by a loud tearing noise coming from above and behind the five.

Verdant sighed as he rubbed the bridge of his snout. “I tried not to say anything, but I could tell from how large one of the egg sacks was that Jaylin was about to ovulate. I didn’t say anything since I didn’t want to jinx us.”

“Everypony, run!” Swift commanded before she and her compatriots all charged forth.

After a few seconds, the five heard more tearing before the organic floor shook from a large impact behind them. Briefly looking over his shoulder, Iron Forge saw that the cause of the shaking was a massive yellow sphere that started to roll towards them.

“Incoming yolk!” The cobalt stallion screamed as the colossal orb started to quickly barrel after them.

As the five ran forth, they saw Jaylin’s inner walls were dripping with a clear goo that was coming from all around them and greatly slowing their progress.

Inevitably, the gigantic yolk caught up and bowled the five ponies over. However, to the surprise and slight relief of the ponies, instead of being crushed by the griffon’s ovulation, they found themselves stuck to the yolk as it continued to roll through Jaylin’s body and be bathed by the fluid dripping from the walls.

After a few moments, the yolk eventually came to a stop while the massive amount of goo around it started to take an egg-like shape.

When the rolling yolk had finally stopped, the five stuck ponies let out a sigh of relief before they realized they could somehow safely breathe the clear fluid.

“Well, at least things can’t get any worse,” Hatty said before his squad mates groaned.

“Hat Trick,” Swift said from her spot stuck to the yolk. “Do us all a favor and shut up.”

Just as Swift finished speaking, the five saw that the outermost parts of the goo was starting to harden into solid white plates.

“Ah, so this is the inside of the shelling gland,” Verdant said as he gazed out at the walls that were slowly being blocked off by bits of eggshell.

***

Jaylin let out an annoyed sigh as she looked down at her belly. Though she knew this was something coming for a while, she still had a fond dislike for the entire process.

She could tell from her recent urges and cravings that her body was preparing to make an egg. Now the time was drawing close and there was nothing she could do about it.

“Hey, Jaylin!” As the hen stepped out of the kitchen into the hall, a voice made her halt and smile before she turned to face the source.

The voice came from one of the few ponies that treated her like a fellow pony. Even more than that, he was a stallion that the griffon had come to love. He was a sea blue pegasus stallion with a light grey mane and deep green eyes. His cutie mark was a dark cloud shooting a lightning bolt at waves below.

“Hey there, Stormy Sea,” Jaylin said before she walked up to the pegasus and the two shared a nuzzle. “You’re just the pony I needed to see after all this.”

“Is something wrong, Jaylin?” Stormy concernedly asked as he broke away from the nuzzle.

“Oh just that my squad mates vanished thanks to Swiftsword’s magic, but I still got punished with KP and to top that all off, I’m gonna have to push an egg out of me later.” Jaylin huffed as her wings drooped, brushing against the marble floor.

“Omph, that sounds really rough,” the pegasus said as he gently patted his mate on the back.

“Yeah, it is,” the hen replied before a smirk crossed her muzzle. “Still, once the egg’s out, we can have one of our little midnight rendezvous tonight, and that sounds like something we could both use.”

Stormy chuckled before he planted a kiss on the side of her beak. “I’ll be looking forward to that, but I hope the egg’s not too much of a pain for you.”

“Well, we can only hope,” Jaylin said before she gave Stormy an affectionate lick on the side of his cheek. “Once it’s out, I’m gonna take it to the kitchen and scramble it. Wanna have some?”

“Ugh… not really,” Stormy replied as he found himself unable to look Jaylin in the eye. “No offense, but I don’t really feel like eating something that came… y’know, out of you.”

“No problem,” Jaylin said before chuckling. “Well, I’ll see you tonight, Stormy.”

“Love you, Jaylin,” the pegasus said before he gave her beak one last kiss. “I hope your day gets better.”

***

It was nearly noon when Jaylin had returned to the barracks. Captain Barrier had made her both run and fly laps around the palace grounds with extra weights bound to her limbs. While her limbs were aching, the more pressing concern to the hen was the feeling that the egg was nearing the end of her body and it was getting increasingly uncomfortable. She knew that it was only a matter of time before the egg came out, regardless of how she felt about it.

Jaylin quickly made her way onto her bed. Normally, she’d have just grabbed her pillow and headed into the bathroom to either lay the egg in private or with Verdant to help her, but the barracks were vacant save for her and she doubted she had the time to reach the bathroom with how sore her body was.

She quickly squatted down over her pillow as she felt the egg making its way through her sensitive insides. She tightly gripped the sheets as she felt the egg starting to be pushed out of her body.

After a brief moment, Jaylin gave one hard push and felt a great relief in pressure as the egg finally exited her body. With a sigh of relief, Jaylin fell forward onto the bed. After all she’d gone through this morning, the feeling of the egg being out was the best experience she’d had in hours.

Jaylin took a few minutes to let her aching muscles relax before she pulled herself back up and turned back to look at her pillow.

Sitting atop the pillow was a large offwhite egg with a few large green spots decorating it while it glistened in the sunlight thanks the the fluids coating it. Jaylin let out a chuckle as she looked over the egg.

“How my people put up with pushing one of these things almost the size of our heads out of them every month, I have no clue.” Jaylin picked up the egg and used her pillowcase to wipe the egg clean.

“Hello there you little box full of protein and fat,” Jaylin said as she turned the egg in her grip. “Do you miss being in Momma’s belly? Well don’t you worry, because I know for damn certain you’re not fertilized, you’ll be going right back inside right after I can get into the kitchens and scramble you up.”

The hen gave a little chuckle as she slid out of bed, grabbed her saddlebags and carefully slipped the egg inside.

“I missed breakfast, so I’m gonna enjoy having eggs for lunch.” Jaylin chuckled before she secured the saddlebags to her sides and made her way towards the door.

***

Within the egg within the griffon, the five ponies had grown rather bored. They remained stuck to the yolk and now the shell had fully hardened into a thick wall of white. While counting some of the bumps on the eggs interior and pondering about how they were able to talk and breathe managed to kill some time, but it had eventually grown tiresome.

“Well, on the bright side, once the egg’s out, Jaylin’s gonna toss it in the trash, which’ll break it and let us all escape… Right?” Hatty said, trying to sound optimistic while hiding his fear.

Verdant however, only sighed in response.

“Verdant, why’d you sigh like that?” Gem asked as she tried to look at the emerald earth pony, her tone making it clear she was on the verge of panic.

“Jaylin… doesn’t throw her eggs away,” Verdant glumly and tiredly said. “She eats them.”

“WHAT?!” Forge screamed as he looked in Verdant’s direction, his pupils becoming the size of gnats. “You mean to say this beast just eats the eggs she lays?!”

“She knows her cycle well enough to know her eggs won’t be fertilized,” Verdant replied as he spoke with closed eyes. “And since they’re unfertilized, full of protein and the fact we eat other kinds of eggs, she figures she shouldn’t let the eggs go to waste.”

“Oh Faust, it’s not bad enough we end up in a griffon’s vagina, but we’re gonna be eaten and die!” Forge exclaimed, sounding on the verge of tears.

“First, we weren’t in her vagina. If anything, we’ve likely only reached that particular part of her body very recently after we ended up in here,” Swift authoritatively barked. “Secondly, Verdant, does Jaylin eat her eggs raw?”

“No, she prefers to cook them up in a frying pan,” Verdant replied as his eyebrow slowly rose. “Sometimes she fries them, sometimes she scrambles them and sometimes she makes omelets.”

“Then that is our ticket out of here!” Swift triumphantly smirked as she looked at her fellow cadets. “Once she cracks the egg open, the five of us should all be plainly visible on the yolk. Once she sees us, she will tell somepony and they will alert the medical staff and restore us to normal size!”

The four others excitedly agreed with what Swiftsword had said when the entire egg started to shake.

“This is it, everypony!” Swift shouted as they could feel the egg was being pushed by Jaylin’s inner muscles. “We’re leaving this griffon’s body once and for all!”

Verdant closed his eyes and quietly sighed. It’s okay. They’re not as familiar with getting eaten as you are. She doesn’t know she just jinxed you all.

***

As Jaylin walked through the palace halls, humming a happy tune with the egg in her bag, the young hen soon neared the kitchens when she suddenly picked up the scent of smoke.

Slowing down to investigate the source, she soon saw another guard cadet, a lime green unicorn mare named Toil ‘N Trouble, standing outside the kitchen doorway which was now blackened and missing its doors.

“What happened, Toil?” Jaylin called out in askance to the mare with the two-tone purple mane who grumbled before answering.

“Apparently some moron screwed up in the kitchen and caused an explosion,” Toil answered as Jaylin reached her and looked past into the charred remains of the kitchen. “While nopony was hurt, all the food and equipment was ruined, so none of the guards or staff are gonna be getting lunch.”

“Aww, that sucks!” Jaylin groaned before she reached into the bag and pulled out the egg. “I was gonna cook this bad girl up for lunch.”

“I… Please tell me that egg didn’t come out of you.” Toil’s already green face took on a somewhat greener tone.

“Guess I’ve only got one option,” Jaylin said, ignoring what Toil had said.

Holding the egg in front of her face in both of her claws, the blue and white hen slammed the egg against her beak. A large crack formed along the center of the shell before she lifted it above her face.

Opening her beak wide, she cracked the egg fully open with a quick movement of her talons and dumped its contents into her maw. The yolk and white had barely touched her tongue before the griffon swallowed it all down and let out a sigh of relief.

“Hmm… I do make them good,” Jaylin said before she licked her beak and dumped one half of the egg shell in the other. “So, did the trash can survive the explosion or will I have to find somewhere else to dump this off?”

“I… you just… Y’know what, I’ll take care of this,” Toil said as her horn glowed with a dark light and pulled the egg shells away.

“Alright. Thanks, Toil. I really appreciate this,” Jaylin offered the unicorn a smile before she started to walk away. “Have a good afternoon.”

“Yeah… you too…” Toil replied before she felt her stomach turn and used the shells as a makeshift bucket.

***

The insides of the egg shook with every step that Jaylin took, making the five trapped ponies start to feel ill from the intense rumblings.

“Urgh… How long until she gets to the damned kitchen?” Forge groaned as he prayed his stomach would settle.

“Hold strong my friends. I believe the kitchen is not far now!” Swift said, trying to sound as optimistic as possible, despite their current situation.

Verdant strained as he tried to make out whatever sounds came from outside the egg shell, but he couldn’t decrypt a single word or even whose voices were speaking.

Suddenly, the egg shook more intensely than ever before for the five ponies inside. Most gritted their teeth from the intense forces while Hatty let out a surprised yelp.

“Hold strong, my friends! Our freedom from the egg is close at hoof!” Swift barked before something slammed into the side of the egg the five shrunken cadets faced, causing a large fissure to form along the shell.

“Get ready…” Swift commanded as Verdant nervously swallowed and the egg shifted once more so the fissure was now below them.

Very quickly, the fissure widened and the egg split open, momentarily blinding the five joyous ponies with daylight.

However, the joy quickly turned to horror as they saw that they were now plummeting directly towards Jaylin’s open beak. The hen’s eyes closed and her tongue extended as they hurtled towards her throat like a falling meteor.

“No, NO, NO!!!” Forge screamed as the bottom of the yolk slammed into Jaylin’s tongue and was quickly pulled down past the griffon’s uvula and into her throat.

The griffon’s gulping boomed like a massive explosion as the yolk turned in her throat, giving the five puny and panicked ponies one final view of Jaylin’s uvula, beak interior and the outside world before it closed shut in the distance.

Only a moment later, the egg contents fell into the hen’s empty stomach. The impact of landing against the fleshy floor managed to dislodge the ponies from their spot on top of the yolk.

The squad quickly scrambled to their hooves as they gazed around the pulsating sack that contained them and the raw egg.

“Oh Faust, I’m in the one place I never wanted to be in,” Forge shuddered as his eyes darted around the organic chamber. “WE’RE INSIDE A GRIFFON’S STOMACH!!!”

“Hang in there, Forge,” Gem said as she slung a foreleg over the cobalt unicorn’s shoulders to try to calm him. “We will find a way out of here. We’re not gonna die today!”

“In that regard,” Hatty said as he took to the air and looked over the edge of the egg and pointed. “I’m pretty sure we can’t swim in that stuff.”

Taking a few steps forward, Swiftsword cautiously trotted along the surface of the yolk until she could look down and see a pool of bubbling liquid forming around the base of the egg.

“Right, the acid level is rising, which means we need to think of a plan A.S.A.P.,” Swift said as she backed towards her squadmates and brought a hoof to her chin. “Verdant, have you been able to survive stomach acids before?”

“Well, yeah. Every time I’ve been in stomach acid before, it hasn’t done a thing to me.” The shamrock stallion’s eyes fell onto the unicorn mare as she seemed to have the start of a smirk forming on her muzzle.

“Right, I believe I’ve got a plan,” Swift said as her horn began to brightly glow and her eyes became hard as steel. “We are going to escape Jaylin’s stomach by making her vomit. Gem, I want you to pick up Verdant and repeatedly toss him into the stomach walls as hard as you can.”

“Wait, what?!” The shrunken shamrock stallion exclaimed as Gem’s jaw went slack.

“Hatty, I want you to slam into the walls as much as you can while flying. Forge, you and I will strike the walls with concussive magic blasts,” The unicorn mare seemed to ignore Verdant’s comment as she continued to give orders. “If we do all this, we might be able to escape!”

“This is insane!” Verdant exclaimed before Gem grabbed onto his hips and lifted him above her head.

“We’re running out of time!” Swift barked as Forge ignited his horn. “Operation: Geyser is go!”

The pair of unicorns launched a series of magical volleys against the hen’s stomach wall as Winter Gem threw Verdant as hard as she could in the opposite direction of the unicorns. As Verdant struck the fleshy surface of the wall, Hat Trick crashed into another section of wall between the attacking pairs.

Once Verdant splashed into the acid below, the earth pony stallion quickly paddled through the stomach juices before he clambered up the yolk. Once he reached the top again, Gem immediately grabbed onto his hips and launched him once more.

After a few moments, the five ponies’ attack had started to make the stomach spasm.

“Keep going!” Swift shouted as the spasms and clenches grew more and more powerful. “We’re almost out!”

While they heard Jaylin speaking to someone, none of them bothered to pay attention to what was being said. They were all too focused on their immediate tasks.

Just as Verdant made his way back to his comrades to be launched for the sixth time, the stomach gave a powerful lurch that launched the contents back up the griffon’s esophagus.

Hat Trick slammed into the yolk as the egg launched upwards with intense g-forces.

“Brace for impact!” Swift screamed as they saw the oncoming sight of Jaylin’s uvula, the hen’s open beak and the grass beyond.

***

As Jaylin walked out towards the barracks, she could feel her stomach doing flip-flops. The griffon hen winced as it felt like her lunch was fighting from inside her stomach.

“Cadet Blauhäher!” She heard Captain Barrier bark from in front of the barrack’s entrance, looking rather cross. Despite the discomfort in her gut, she made her way up to him and gave the traditional salute.

“Sir, yes, sir!” Jaylin said as she tried to keep from grimacing at the growing discomfort in her belly.

“Any update on the status update on your missing squad mates?” Barrier said with a note that made it clear he thought she was responsible for their disappearance.

“Sir, no, sir. I have no idea where they could be, sir.” Jaylin felt the churning in her stomach growing very intensely. She knew that her lunch was refusing to sit right.

“Well I’m not happy with that, Cadet Blauhäher,” Barrier said as he noticed a green tinge on her blue and white face. “I want to know where they are right n-”

“BLAURGH!!!” Jaylin suddenly shifted her head down just before a mess of foul smelling yellow goop erupted from her beak and splattered on the ground between the two of them. Barrier quickly took a step back to avoid having any of the griffon’s vomit splatter against his hooves.

“Urgh… Sorry, Captain,” Jaylin weakly said as she wiped some sick off her beak with her foreleg. “The kitchen was closed so I had to eat my lunch raw and I guess it didn’t settle…”

As the hen fell silent and a look of stunned horror appeared on her face, Barrier turned his attention to what she was staring at.

Slowly looking down to the vomit that was once an egg, Barrier saw something that stood out from the center of the yellow. He saw two different colored blue specks, a purple one, a white one, and a green one. Looking even closer at the specks, the unicorn was stunned to see the specks were Jaylin’s missing squad mates.

“Captain, I don’t know how they got in there! I swear to Faust!” Jaylin said as she gazed down on the five shrunken ponies while Barrier just slammed a hoof against his forehead.

“Jaylin… just get the medic.” Barrier said in a tone that made it clear he regretted getting out of bed that morning.

“Yes, Captain!” Jaylin barked before she spread her wings and flew off towards the infirmary.

Barrier groaned as his forehoof slowly slid down his face. “Give up drinking for a week, Ember said. You don’t need to drink just to get through the day, she said.”

***

Just over an hour later, after the five pony cadets were restored to normal size and washed off, they now stood in a line with Jaylin as the captain paced in front of them.

“So, let me get this straight,” Barrier barked as he came to a halt in front of Swiftsword and faced her. “Swift, without authorization or proper safety measures in place, decided to attempt to teleport. This led to the five of you shrinking and ending up in Cadet Blauhäher’s reproductive system, where you were caught in an egg that was later laid and eaten by her before forcing her to vomit. Is that correct?”

“Yes, Captain.” Swift shamefully nodded before she looked Barrier in the eye. “The situation was entirely my fault and I accept full responsibility for it. I merely ask that Jaylin not be blamed for this was no fault of her own.”

“Rest assured, she won’t.” Barrier firmly stated. “However, starting tomorrow, you’re going to be assigned latrine duty for two weeks and once the kitchen is operational again, you’ll get kitchen patrol for three weeks. Is that understood?”

“Sir, yes, sir!” Swift said as she stood firmly at attention.

“Good,” Barrier said as he slowly made his way up to Jaylin. “Cadet Blauhäher… I apologize for not believing your story when you told me and suspecting you as intentionally causing their disappearance.”

“Apology accepted, Sir.” Jaylin replied. “Honestly, I understand why one would suspect me, despite how unfair it is.”

“At any rate, the events of today will remain confidential. I’ve forged records to indicate that the pony cadets were busy with specialized training while Jaylin was dealing with egg laying,” Barrier stated before he pulled a silver flask from his saddlebags. “Now, due to the circumstances with the kitchen, tonight’s dinner will be provided by McSoy’s. You’re all dismissed for the rest of the night.”

“Sir, yes, sir!” The six cadets responded before the captain headed back for the castle, taking a long swig from his flask.

“So…” Jaylin nervously said as she rubbed the back of her head. “All five of you were inside not only my stomach, but also my…”

Just as Hat Trick began to open his mouth, Verdant spoke up. “Yes, and we agree that none of us will make any jokes about what happened today. Especially Hatty since he knows that if he doesn’t, I’ll tear his wings off.”

Verdant slowly turned his head to menacingly look the purple pegasus in the eye. “Right?”

“Uh… yeah…” Hatty said as his wings nervously twitched. “At any rate, let’s head to McSoy’s. I’m sure we’re all pretty hungry.”

“Honestly, despite how empty my stomach is, I don’t feel like I have much of an appetite,” Forge said just before his stomach loudly growled.

“Yeah,” Jaylin said as she and her squad mates started to walk away from the barracks. “After everything that happened, I’m starving.”

“Would you say you’re so hungry, you could eat-”

“WHAT’D I SAY ABOUT JOKES, HATTY?!”

As Hatty tried to run from an angry Verdant, Jaylin merely chuckled.

Today was one crazy day. I may have had five ponies inside me earlier, but there’s still one more I’d like to get inside me. Jaylin thought before her stomach grumbled at how empty it was. Still, I should get some food in me first.

Author's Note

Hey folks. Welcome to the latest Stomach Stallion chapter. I hope you enjoyed this squad of pony cadets getting a very intimate lesson in griffon anatomy.

For those of you asking why Jaylin's internal anatomy doesn't line up with either Grimhilde or Gilda's... different universes. That, and I think this would make things more interesting.

Note, after finishing this chapter, I'm gonna be taking a bit of a break from writing due to having my vaccine shot, so I don't know when I'll be starting the next chapter. Still, I hope it'll be worth the wait.

Still, to make the fact I will be gone for a while, here's two pics to tide you over.

First is a full look of Jaylin and Verdant's squad with newly revised art.

And secondly, pics of Jaylin's lover Stormy Sea and her friend, Toil 'N Trouble.

Well, with that out of the way, it's time for the vote.

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. The Bat's Breakfast: A late night teleportation test makes Verdant in a mare's fruit salad. However, instead of going down, he's going up.
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. A Changeling Among Us: Verdant and several others are taking a cruise to a tropical vacation hotspot, but something is going around the ship and killing the others on the boat. It seems that they'll have to keep the boat operational while finding whoever's the changeling imposter that's devouring the rest.
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 she's made a robotic pony. However, something seems a bit off with this miraculous mechanical mare. What could she have planned?

Remember, only one vote per person. Also, from now on, votes 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 follow the tale of a dark Verdant in another universe as he's hired to try to take out one of his world's tyrannical rulers, Daybreaker. See ya then.