In a dark land called Equestria, it was ruled over by two conquering, incestuous tyrants. One was Daybreaker, the dark queen of the sun, and Nightmare Moon, the evil mistress of the moon.

For many a century, the two ruled over the land with an iron hoof, making all bow before them or be destroyed. However, after many centuries, Nightmare Moon grew ambitious, seeking to take the kingdom entirely for herself rather than sharing with her dear sister any more. It was then that she came up with a plan to allow her to take the kingdom for her own and all she’d need is the aid of a single pony. One of the kingdom’s greatest assassins.

***

Atop a high tower in the capital city of Canterlot stood Nightmare Moon and one of her personal guards. She was a light blue unicorn mare with her royal blue mane tied into a ponytail and a pair of swords at her sides. On this night, despite Nightmare Moon often making her moon shine brightly and fully in the night’s sky, it was hidden by a sky full of dark clouds, blanketing the capital in black.

“Are you sure he’ll be here, Your Majesty?” The guard pony asked as she turned her attention away from her mistress to the only stairway to the tower’s top.

“Rest assured, Swiftsword, he’s one of the best assassins to ever be in my employ.” Nightmare Moon replied as she stared out at the twinkling lights of the city below. “He will be here, and he’ll make himself known with a show of his skills.”

An instant after Nightmare Moon had finished speaking, Swiftsword fell forward. She was unmoving as a dart was sticking out of her neck.

Quickly spinning about and igniting her horn with cyan and violet light, she found that sitting between the parapets was a stallion dressed in an outfit made of dark green green leather, his face covered by a hood.

“Good evening, Your Majesty,” the hooded stallion said as he held up a blowpipe in his hoof for the dark queen to see. “Seems your security has improved since the last time.”

“Ah, Verdant Range. It’s good to see you again.” The ebony alicorn said as the stallion stepped out from the parapets and walked over to Swiftsword. “And it seems despite improving my security, you’re able to take them out without much effort.”

“It’s why I make top bit,” Verdant said before he pulled out a dart and stabbed it into Swiftsword’s back, making the mare let out a muted scream before he pulled it away. “She should be fine momentarily. So, what’s my current job, Your Highness? Need me to take out another ‘would-be hero’ that wishes to put an end to you and your sister’s rule or slay another dragon and make it look like food poisoning?”

“Neigh, my dear assassin,” Nightmare Moon smoothly said as she placed a hoof under his chin and raised his muzzle so her cyan eyes could look into his icy blues. “The target I wish for you to take out this time is my precious sister.”

“Oh, now that’s quite the target,” Verdant said as Swiftsword slowly started to rise to her hooves. “And since you’re having me target a queen, it would be fair that I charge a queen’s ransom.”

“Rest assured, should you succeed, I shall pay my sister’s weight in gold and more,” Nightmare Moon said as she leaned closer. “I may love her with all my heart, but if the choice is keeping her or taking the throne, then the throne will be mine.”

“Very well then,” Verdant replied as he saw Swiftsword make her way towards him, obviously in a great deal of pain from the toxins he’d injected her with. “Now, do I have to arrange a plan to take her out, or have you prepared a wicked scheme for bringing about her end?”

Nightmare Moon darkly chuckled as she retracted her hoof from his chin. “Swiftsword’s already planned things out to take care of her in a way that will make use of your rather unique skills.”

“Oh?” Verdant brought a hoof to his chin in curiosity. “Well, so the grand plan involves me getting inside your sister? How naughty.”

A titter came from the alicorn of the moon as she covered her mouth with her left wing. “My sister has made her intentions to eat a pony sized chimichanga for her dinner tonight. However, what she doesn’t know is that her meal will be her last for it will contain an undetectable vial of poison strong enough to kill even an alicorn of her size if ingested.”

“Ah, am I to assume that the vial has been coated with indigestible mystibane in order to let it avoid the magic scans?” Nightmare Moon answered Verdant with a quiet nod, impressed by his astuteness. “Still, how am I supposed to remain undetected by her scans?”

“That is rather simple, my dear assassin,” Nightmare said with a grin that let her bare her rows of razor sharp fangs. “My sister and I have a fondness for meat, so her chimichanga will be made with fresh meat from the freshly executed. As far as her scans will show, you’ll just be more meat for her meal.”

“Very well then,” Verdant nodded as he stood firmly at attention. “Now, should I head for the kitchen to prepare for your sister’s dinner?”

“Swiftsword will escort you and place the poison vial in the chimichanga with you,” Nightmare Moon answered. “Now, be quick, Verdant, and you shall be rewarded handsomely. Begin Operation: End of Day.”

“Very well, Your Majesty,” Verdant replied before he and Swift started to trot towards the stairs. “Good night, my queen. Perhaps after my time inside Daybreaker, I shall spend some time inside her far more attractive sister.”

“Oh, Verdant,” Nightmare Moon chuckled and smirked at the stallion. “Flattery will get you everywhere.”

“Long live the queen,” Verdant said as he descended the steps by Swiftsword’s side.

***

The pair entered the royal kitchens, where the chefs seemed to pay the pair no mind. In the middle of the kitchen, a gigantic tortilla was being spread out.

As a unicorn stallion brought a large pot full of meaty sauce, Swift held up her hoof. The chef halted while Verdant laid down on the tortilla, stretching out his limbs.

“Ma’am, what’s this guy doing?” The chef was met with a glare before her horn flared with pale blue light and pulled one of her swords from her hips and pointed it at his neck.

“Your only concern is to finish preparing Queen Daybreaker’s snack. This pony is one of the ingredients. Understood?” The Carolina blue mare glared at the chef, who only nervously nodded.

“Very good,” Swiftsword said before her horn flared and pulled a small item from her saddlebags and stuffed it into Verdant’s vest. “Now, you may proceed with the preparations.”

“Y-Yes, ma’am.” The chef nervously said as he stirred up the contents of the pot before using a ladle to pour it over the tortilla and Verdant.

***

In the crimson colored dining room, Queen Daybreaker impatiently awaited her coming meal. Last time she was this hungry, it was when a chef made her a birthday cake, unaware the queen despised sweets and instead loved spicy food. After that, a new chef took her place while the old chef was now fat on the queen’s curvaceous rump.

Just as she was starting to feel the urge to eat her chef, he entered the room with the item she’d longed for. It was a chimichanga that was big enough to fit a pony or two in its filling and stuff with ruby reaper peppers imported from the Crystal Empire.

“Ah, excellent work, Chef.” The mare with flames for a mane said as she picked up the gigantic piece of food in her forelegs.

As the alabaster queen opened her fang filled mouth wide, the pony within the chimichanga felt somewhat apprehensive of what was about to happen.

I hope Swift’s crazy plan works. Verdant felt the intense heat of Daybreaker’s mouth through the walls of the tortilla. While he had been eaten before in the past, this would be the first time he’d do so without being shrunk.

Queen Daybreaker, driven by her hunger, decided to not bother chewing her large meal. She instead stuffed a large chunk into her fanged maw and started to swallow it whole.

In less than a minute and after several powerful swallows, the chimichanga had disappeared down her throat, giving her a large, distended belly.

Daybreaker gave a sigh of relief as her ravenous hunger was partially satisfied as a unicorn entered the dining room. She was a violet coated mare with a short indigo mane with pink and purple streaks. A small pair of glasses rested on her snout while a high-collared cape rested on her shoulders. A set of sharp fangs poked out from under her upper lip.

“Ahh…” Daybreaker gave her large belly an affection rub, oblivious to the mare’s entrance. “And Twilight said I couldn’t eat a pony sized chimichanga.”

“I said ‘You shouldn’t!’” The violet unicorn barked as Daybreaker turned her attention to the chef.

“Now, make me another! I want to savor this next one.” Daybreaker proclaimed while Twilight rolled her eyes. “In the meantime, I’d like five buckets of ruby reapers.”

***

Within the queen’s stomach, after several minutes of struggling, Verdant managed to free himself from the tortilla and breached the surface of a pile of peppers.

Verdant groaned as he shook some of the sauce off of him, ignoring the peppers resting atop his head.

“Well, that was disgusting, but Operation: End of Day is a go!” Verdant said as a smirk formed on his muzzle.

The emerald assassin chuckled as he started to reach into his vest. “Now I’ve just got to open the vial and…”

The stallion stopped when he reached his pocket and instead of feeling it touch smooth glass, he felt he touched rough paper covering something hard.

Looking inside his pocket, he saw that instead of a vial full of poison, it was a roll of coins.

“Wait, where’s the damn vial?!” Verdant panickedly said as he quickly looked through every single pocket in his outfit. “WHERE’S THE DAMN VIAL?!”

***

As the queen started to munch on the tip of her second giant chimichanga, Twilight’s sensitive, vampiric ears stood at attention as she thought she heard heavily muffled screaming coming from Daybreaker’s distended belly. “Did you hear something?”

Daybreaker briefly paused in biting her food to raise her head and let out a flaming belch. “Hear what?”

“...Never mind.” Twilight groaned before rubbing the bridge of her snout.

***

Within the ebony and purple colored room that were the bedchambers of Nightmare Moon, the dark alicorn was chuckling to herself as she swirled a glass of red wine in her magic.

“All hail Nightmare Moon, Queen of The World.” The towering mare said as Swiftsword slipped into the bedchamber. “How I look forward to being called that.”

“Hopefully, the poison should take effect soon, Your Majesty.” Swift saluted before she drew closer to the mane resting on the glittering blue bed.

“Excellent,” Nightmare Moon said before downing the rest of her wine. “Do you have Verdant’s payment for when we retrieve him during the autopsy?”

“Indeed, My Queen,” Swift replied as she reached into her saddlebags. “I’ve prepared a roll of million bit coins for his services.”

When Swift pulled her foreleg from the saddlebag, instead of the roll of coins, Swiftsword held within her hoof a glass vial that was stuffed with a cork and filled with a purple liquid.

“Mistress,” Swift said as she nervously rubbed the back of her neck. “It seems I didn’t put the poison into Verdant’s vest.”

Nightmare Moon growled before smacking a hoof against her forehead. “Dammit, Swiftsword!”

“Um… What shall we do n-” Swift was cut off as she felt her body being engulfed in cyan light. In a matter of seconds, the blue unicorn saw the world rapidly grow around her as the vial fell out of her hoof and rolled across the floor.

Before she could understand what was going on, she found herself rocketed into the air before coming to a sudden halt.

As she floated in the air, she found herself staring into the furious, draconic eyes of Nightmare Moon.

“AS PUNISHMENT FOR THY FAILURE,” Nightmare Moon’s voice boomed worse than the Royal Canterlot Voice to the shrunken mare in her aura, despite her voice not raising above a low growl. “THOU SHALT SUFFER AS MY ASSASSIN AND BECOME A MEAL FOR THY QUEEN.”

“Wait! My queen, stop! I beg of-” Swiftsword’s pleas for mercy were ignored as Nightmare Moon quickly opened her fanged mouth and snapped it shut around her. The magic holding her aloft suddenly vanished before she fell with a splat against her tongue.

Swift wished to beg for mercy once more, but the alicorn’s tongue flicked from under her, tossing her towards the back of her throat.

Before she could rise to her hooves again, a thunderous *GULP* echoed all about as the shrunken mare was swallowed down into Nightmare Moon’s esophagus.

The powerful throat muscles clenched and squeezed Swiftsword, forcing the struggling unicorn downward. After a few seconds, she felt as if the throat spat her out.

In an instant, Swiftsword was floating atop a chunk of pineapple in a turbulent lake of truffles, wine and bubbling stomach juices in the pulsating confines of the alicorn of the night’s stomach.

***

In the dark hallways of the palace, two guards in dark purple armor, a pegasus and a unicorn, stood at attention in front of Nightmare Moon’s royal bedchamber when the doors suddenly swung inward.

“Iron Forge!” The dark alicorn barked, making the cobalt coated unicorn run into the room and salute the queen. “Congratulations. You’ve been promoted to the role of my personal bodyguard and gofer. Do not fail me like Swiftsword did.”

“I… I won’t, Your Majesty,” the unicorn responded with a nervous Trottingham accent as kept his foreleg up.

“Good,” Nightmare Moon said before returning to her bed. “As for Hat Trick, bring me another bottle of red wine. I’ve heard it aides with digestion.”

Author's Note

Hey, everyone! Welcome to the newest chapter of Stomach Stallion. I hope you enjoyed it.

Here's a fun fact for you: This chapter is based on a series of pics I commissioned from Pembroke W. Korgi, as well as his now defunct Tumblr series about a larger version of Daybreaker called Scalebreaker. He's an amazing artist that I always support.

Speaking of art, this chapter's art is about the evil counterparts of Swiftsword, Iron Forge and Hat Trick.

Now, normally this is where I ask you to vote for the chapter after the next one, things will be different this time. Because the next three chapters are locked in, we're gonna be doing votes for the chapter after the trilogy finishes.

And now, here are the options:

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. Hot in Teacher: Set after the events of Into the Sunset, a teenaged boy named Verdant helps his friend High Gear with this teleportation experiment she's working on. However, something goes wrong and the poor boy ends up in a bowl of strawberries belonging to his homeroom teacher.

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 see what may be High Gear's greatest creation when we Enter the Mecha Mare.