The warm afternoon sun in Vanhoover was beaming down on Verdant Range as he stood boredly beside the mobile kiosk full of flowers beside him. Atop the kiosk was a large sign that read Pretty Petals Portable, the name his boss had picked out when she decided to try to branch out the business. He sighed as he looked down the road, seeing the movie theater, showing the new Rom: Spaceknight movie while the other way led to a hill that ended at a wide open park.

At least I’m getting paid well for this. Verdant sighed to himself as he was internally begging for a customer to show up. It’d been over three hours and not a single person had shown up to buy even a single flower.

He reached into his vest pocket to check the time when the device started making noise.

“Ring ring ring! Ring ring ring! It is, Jaylin!” The phone repeated in a mechanical voice before Verdant answered the call.

“Hey Jay, what’s up?” Verdant asked as he leaned up against the kiosk.

“Not much, Verd,” a young woman’s voice came from the other side of the phone. “Just finished doing some rock climbing with Stormy Sea and since we’ve got a bunch of coupons for Pizza Pizzazz, we’re thinking of getting some. Wanna join us?”

“Sounds good,” Verdant with a smile as he stretched, not seeing that his foot had knocked one of the blocks by the mobile kiosk’s wheels. “Hopefully Banana Sweet should show up so I can end my shift within the next… fifteen minutes or so.”

“Nice.” From his friend’s tone, he could easily picture her fist pumping at his response. The sound of her boyfriend’s chuckle on the other end of the phone all but sealed it. “Also, I accidentally got three tickets for the live action Glitter Force remake instead of two. Wanna catch it this Friday?”

“Sorry, but I’ll have to pass on that,” Verdant replied as he idly moved his leg back and forth, lightly pushing the block further and further away. “I’ve actually been asked out on a date with Beanstalk that night.”

“Oh ho oh!” Jaylin sounded rather amused by what the green-skinned boy had said. “Mister Five-Foot-Three going out on a date with Miss Seven-Foot-Two. That’s gonna be quite the sight.”

“Well, Beans is pretty nice and… well, I consider her height a plus.” Verdant was rather grateful that he hadn’t turned on facetime so Jaylin couldn’t see the blush forming on his cheeks.

“Hopefully it goes well, Verd. Oh, and try not to get a case of death by snu-snu. See ya in a bit!” Jaylin hung up with a click just before Verdant sighed. He knew his old buddy would probably come up with a bunch of other jokes for his date with the tallest person in school; taller than any of the teachers.

Before he could put his phone away, Verdant saw that the kiosk cart was starting to roll away from him. Acting quickly, he grabbed onto the cart to try to keep it from rolling down the hill. However, the cart was far too heavy for him. Verdant felt his shoes scraping against the sidewalk, making it clear to the young man that there was only one place the cart was going and that was down.

In a panic, instead of letting go of the cart, Verdant leapt onto the cart. He immediately came to regret it as the cart rolled down the empty street, barreling down the hill and towards the park.

***

In the middle of the park, a bespectacled girl with pale blue skin and short violet hair took in the sight of what she and her girlfriend had spent the last two hours assembling. It was a large circular metal disk with panels that could light up. It was a thing of beauty.

“Gear, was there really a reason why we’re doing this test out here instead of inside a building?” Beside her stood a purple skinned girl with her long hair dyed in pink, yellow and blue. She wore a gray jacket with black pants, a button on her jacket resembling a d-pad and the four buttons on her one pants pocket that resembled colorful controller buttons. High Gear couldn’t help but wonder if her girlfriend deliberately picked out her clothes to look like a retro video game console.

“Principal Five-Stars took away my weekend lab privileges when my last experiment ended with her car catching fire,” High Gear said as she opened up her backpack and pulled out a small guinea pig that she put on the platform. “Now we have the teleportation device’s transmitter here and the subject should arrive in my basement where my sister’s waiting.

“If this works, it may be the most important breakthrough in scientific history,” Gear said as she stepped away from the platform and pulled out her phone.

“And if it fails?” Pixel Flash asked as her girlfriend quickly tapped on her phone, bringing up the teleporter’s controls.

“Then we either wasted a Saturday afternoon or I’m out ten bucks to replace the guinea pig.” Pix was somewhat taken aback at High Gear’s response.

Before she could utter another word, Gear tapped her phone. The teleportation pad started to glow with white light as it let out a deep hum.

“Teleportation test commences in ten… nine… eight…” Before she could utter another word, the guinea pig darted off, leaving the pad completely vacant.

“No! Get back here, you stupid lit-” High Gear was drowned out by the teleporter brighter and louder while the sound of a scream quickly approaching.

“Gear, look out!” Pix screamed as she pulled Gear away from the platform just as a speeding cart full of flowers with a terrified teen zoomed past them. They soon made it onto the platform and vanished in a flash of white light.

The two girls were gobsmacked by what they had just witnessed. Pix could only stare in shock as the guinea pig ran up to her and nuzzled against her shoe.

Quickly shaking her head, Gear closed out the control app and brought up her sister’s contact info. “Gusty, did anything just show up on the pad?!” She hurriedly said.

“Nope. The only thing that’s happened is I put the laundry through,” the voice from the other end of the line replied, making Gear let out a defeated sigh.

“Okay. Thanks, Sis. Bye.” Ending the call, Gear took off her glasses and rubbed the bridge of her nose. “Well, hopefully that guy’s safe, wherever he shows up.”

“If he’s still alive.” Pix said as she picked up the guinea pig.

“Oh, crap…” Bullets of sweat started to form on Gear’s brow. “This is gonna keep me up all night.”

***

Verdant’s screams were finally stopped after he and the cart were consumed by a flash of light. In an instant, he found himself going from the park, praying the cart would start to safely slow down, to a place where the distant sky seemed to be made of bricks.

The cart suddenly dropped, knocking Verdant loose as he tumbled onto the greens below him. The cart then rolled over before coming to a halt, smashing itself into several pieces.

With a groan, Verdant pushed himself up and started to survey his surroundings. Looking about, he saw that what he had thought was the sky before was just a gigantic brick wall far in the distance.

Turning his gaze down, he saw that what he thought was grass as he sped by was instead some sort of large green leaf. Verdant felt a sense of panic start to overtake him. As he looked around more, he saw something he initially thought was a brown rock outcropping was actually a gigantic crouton. Just beyond the crouton was a bit of what looked like sky blue porcelain.

“Oh crap, have I been shrunk again?!” The young man nearly screamed as he stumbled back. He then quickly reached into his vest pocket and started to reach for his phone. “Gotta call Twilight. Maybe she can hel-”

The shamrock teen was cut off as a thunderous boom shook his surroundings, sending him stumbling onto his back while more thunderous noise drowned out the sound of the camera on his phone going off in the fall. Soon, he saw the source of it all.

Looking behind him, Verdant made out the image of a gigantic teen girl that seemed to be sitting down in an unseen chair in the distance. Her skin was a light amber color and her eyes were a deep cyan. Her long hair was crimson with yellow streaks.

Her attention wasn’t on the micro-sized man in her meal however, but on the computer monitor beside her bowl. Still, even as she scrolled over some sites, she picked up her fork and brought her gigantic hand over the bowl.

And now I’m getting a terrible sense of deja vu. Verdant tried to run, but he was getting nowhere fast as the girl’s fork stabbed into the enormous lettuce leaves he stood on.

As the metal towers that were the fork’s prongs stabbed into the lettuce, Verdant fell to the leafy floor. The wind was still knocked out of the shrunken lad as the fork pulled him, the cart and the green vegetable into the air.

Verdant’s minuscule fingers dug into the leaf as he was assaulted by massive g-forces. When he felt the intense force from the girl’s hand movement lightening, he was horrified to see that he was headed for her wide open mouth.

“Dammit, not again!” Verdant screamed as he tried to think of some way to avoid ending up in another stomach. He briefly considered jumping off, but was unsure if his reduced height would allow him to survive a fall onto the desk below, much less her floor.

It didn’t matter as before he could even attempt to pull himself off the leaf, he found himself being pulled into the dark, humid cavern that was the girl’s mouth.

Verdant was terrified as he saw her uvula dangling at the back of her throat just before her pulling the fork back and causing him smack into the back of her lips as she sent him tumbling face-first onto her spongy tongue.

The shrunken teen saw the chunks of lettuce and the smashed up remains of the cart on the tongue for a brief moment before the pink leviathan shifted the meal to the side of the mouth, right onto giant, pearly teeth.

Looking up, Verdant saw a massive molar coming down to crush him into a paste. Acting as quickly as he could, he was barely able to leap off of the teeth as they began to mash up the lettuce and wooden fragments.

“This can’t really be happening! Once was more than enough!” Verdant wailed as his hands dug into the girl’s taste buds. However, his clinging would be stopped when the mashed up, gooey pile that was once a bit of salad slammed into him. It was then he felt himself sliding towards the back of her throat as she was tilting her head back.

The shamrock teen could only wince and brace himself as he felt himself being pulled down into the girl’s throat as a thunderous swallow echoed about the organic chamber.

Unlike when Twilight had swallowed him, this time was much less pleasant for Verdant as he was squeezed down by the girl’s powerful throat muscles and ended up being coated in a mixture of saliva and salad before he saw a valve up ahead that opened wide to welcome him into the girl’s stomach.

With a splat, he landed onto what he could only assume was once a piece of toast the girl had for breakfast before a sizable bit of former salad landed on top of him.

Groaning, the teen slowly pulled himself out from under the sloppy mix that was the giantess’ meal and away from the stomach valve to avoid having anything more land on top of him.

Briefly taking a moment to survey the large pulsating chamber that was the stomach, Verdant swallowed uncomfortably. There was a collection of piles of unidentifiable former meals that sat within a bubbling lake of acidic juices.

Sighing, he looked down and saw that he still had his phone in his hand. Quickly checking it, it seemed to be in perfect working order and getting a pretty good signal, considering where he was.

Bringing up his contact list, he quickly scrolled through until he’d reached the contact info for Twilight Sparkle.

“Well, if anyone can help me get out of here, she can,” Verdant muttered aloud before he hit the call button.

After a few moments of ringing, he heard someone picking up.

“Verdant, it’s a surprise to hear from you again,” Twilight’s voice came from the small device as more of the gigantic girl’s lunch began to pour in. “How are you doing?”

“Could be doing a lot better, Twilight,” Verdant replied as he scratched the back of his head. “Would you believe that I somehow got teleported and shrunk, ended up in a salad and then got eaten?”

“...Honestly, yes. Especially considering what happened when I met you,” Twilight answered as Verdant slumped down against the stomach wall. “Do you have any idea where you are right now?”

“Besides ‘in a stomach’, not really.” Verdant sighed as he took in the sight of what might be his final resting place. “But, I think I heard my camera going off earlier. Maybe it got something useful.”

Pulling the phone away from the side of his head and setting it to speaker phone, Verdant quickly brought up his gallery and saw something. “Alright. I managed to get a photo of the girl that ate me.”

With a few quick taps, Verdant sent the photo off to Twilight. He thought he heard the girl on the other end of the line stumble back from the sight of the photo he sent.

“Verdant, you’re inside a friend of mine! You’re inside Sunset Shimmer!”

The green teen sighed as he rubbed the bridge of his nose. “I remember. She’s your friend that’s a unicorn from another dimension.” The fact that I can say that and that I’m currently shrunken and inside her stomach speaks volumes about how weird my life has gotten in two weeks.

“Yes, but this means I should be able to get her to throw you back up pretty easily. Hold on tight, you should be out in a few minutes.” Twilight suddenly ended the call, leaving the only sounds left for the shrunken teenager were the sounds of Sunset’s body processing her meal.

“Well, hopefully this’ll be over quickly…Wait a sec, I wasn’t shrunk by that plant this time! How am I gonna grow back?!” Verdant panicked voice echoed throughout Sunset’s stomach just as he was sent stumbling back from the giant woman suddenly moving.

***

Finishing up her lunch, Sunset stood up and dumped off her bowl in the sink before she picked up her bag.

Right. Gave Ray plenty of food and water, got my phone, my wallet, my keys, everything’s all set to go. Sunset thought to herself as she prepped to head out. After all the usual stresses of highschool, working as a sushi chef and magical issues she and her friends had to deal with, she was looking forward to just having a pleasant afternoon shopping for groceries, shampoo and some other supplies. Today would be a nice, relaxing day without anything weird to bother her.

“Bye, Ray. I’ll be back in a bit,” Sunset called out to her pet as she headed out the door. Though she thought she was ready for everything, there was one little thing she’d forgotten.

She’d forgotten to charge her phone, leaving her unreachable as her bespectacled friend tried to contact Sunset to tell her about her shrunken passenger.

***

Verdant grew rather bored as he floated on a chunk of what was once one of Sunset’s meals, being rocked back and forth by her movements. It’d been nearly ten minutes since Twilight had hung up and he hadn’t heard a single word from her since.

“Ring ring ring! Ring ring ring! Phone call! The boss!” Verdant heard his phone ringing in his pocket. Quickly pulling the phone out, he unlocked it and answered.

“Hi, Miss LeBlanc,” Verdant tried to sound casual, though he was sweating bullets trying to think of something to tell his boss.

“Verdant, where the heck are you and the cart?!” The woman on the other end of the phone angrily exclaimed. “Banana Sweet went to take over your shift, but you and the cart were both missing.”

“Unfortunately, Boss, there was an accident,” Verdant bit his lip as he tried to think. There’s no way she’d buy that I’m on the other side of the country inside a girl’s stomach.

“Well, what kind of accident?” Verdant’s boss was clearly rather cross from her tone. Thankfully, Verdant came up with something that could get him out of trouble.

Taking a breath, the tiny teen delivered the lie that’d pull his butt out of the fire. “I was watching the cart when a skateboarder bumped into it, knocking it off its blocks and sending it rolling down the hill. I tried to run after it, but it was too fast. By the time I caught up with it, it was completely smashed to pieces.”

“Do you have any proof about this?” Miss LeBlanc sounded disbelieving about what Verdant was trying to sell her.

“One sec,” Verdant said before bringing up his phone’s album once more and pulling up another photo he’d accidentally taken, this one of the smashed up cart. The photo was a bit blurry, but this worked out for the green boy as it made the lettuce leaf look like grass and the sides of the bowl look like the sky.

A moment later, he heard his boss let out an exasperated sigh. “Alright. I believe you. The cart’s FUBAR. What about the flowers?”

Looking at the stomach juices beside him, Verdant saw a purple flower petal slipping from the salad remnants and quickly dissolving.

“A horse ate them,” Verdant bluntly answered as watched more of Sunset’s salad turn to soup. “I wasn’t able to sell any and a horse ate the entire stock.”

“Dammit all!” The shrunken teen thought he heard his boss banging her head against the wall. “Was there anything salvageable?

“Not a bit,” Verdant replied as he saw a mashed up pile of wood, salad and electronics falling into the acid. “On the plus side, since we were only using debit and credit, we didn’t lose any money in the till.”

LeBlanc groaned from her end. “Were you at least able to get info from the horse’s owner?”

“I’ll have it by the end of the day,” Verdant replied as he watched some of the stomach juices bubbling near his feet.

“Right. I’ll bill them for the flowers, but the cart’s coming out of your salary. Understood?”

“Yes, Ma’am,” Verdant said, followed by a sigh. “I’ll be sure to text you once I get her contact info.”

“Good. Now, with that out of the way, I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend.” With that, she hung up.

With the matter of covering for the cart’s destruction done, Verdant brought up a facetime call with Jaylin. After two rings, a pale blue skinned girl appeared on his screen.

“Hey Verd, where are-” The words died in her throat as her green eyes dilated at the sight of the flesh wall behind her friend. Jaylin quickly moved away from where she previously stood and seemed to have ducked into an alley or alcove.

“Verdant, are you in a stomach?!” She asked in a harsh whisper, her dark blue hair looking a little frazzled.

“Yeah, specifically the stomach of a girl in Canterlot named Sunset Shimmer,” Verdant answered as he turned the phone to show his friend a pile of mashed up food. “That used to be a bit of salad and Miss LeBlanc’s flower cart.”

“Holy shit,” Jaylin muttered as Verdant turned the phone back to him. “Guess you weren’t making up that stuff about that Twilight girl.”

“I wouldn’t make this sort of thing up. Now I’m just waiting for Twilight to call her so she can throw me up. Suffice to say, I’m not gonna be able to meet you and Stormy for pizza.” Verdant sighed as he slumped against the stomach wall.

“Well… Once you get back, I'll buy you a pizza. Just… Damn, this is crazy.” Jaylin said, clearly stunned by what was going on.

“Tell me about it. Next, I’ll call my parents and tell them that something came up with some friends so I’m out of town and won’t be back until tomorrow.” Verdant said before blowing a strand of hair out of his face.

“Right, just… stay safe, Verdant. I’m really worried about you.” Jaylin said, the worry clear in her voice and etched all over her face.

“I’m sure I can handle it. See ya later, Jay.” Verdant gave a reassuring smile as he waved to his friend before the two hung up.

Just as he was about to call his mother, a clench from the stomach sent the small island of food Verdant was on adrift, sending him coasting towards the center of the acidic lake.

“Well, this looks pretty bad… but I’m sure Twilight’s gonna reach Sunset any second now and I’ll be out of here in no time.” Verdant tried to reassure himself, but he couldn’t keep the fear out of his tone entirely.

A beeping came from his phone, alerting him to a text he’d just received. Quickly pulling it up, he saw that message was from Twilight.

Bad news. Sunset’s not answering her phone and she’s not at home. My friends and I are looking for her, but we’ve got nothing so far. Try to keep calm. We’ll get you out ASAP.

Verdant felt his heart sinking like a stone. If Twilight couldn’t get to Sunset quickly, he’d be done for.

Looking down, the teen felt his chest tightening as he saw his edible island start to break apart and shrink.

“No, no, no!” He shrieked as he frantically tried to look around the stomach for something nearby he could leap to, but he found himself surrounded on all sides by the bubbling gastric lake.

Things grew worse as he felt his digesting raft start to sink under him. Feeling doomed, Verdant curled himself up into a ball and took a deep breath just before the food underneath him collapsed, dunking him down into the acid lake.

Not long after he fell into the lake, the shrunken boy’s head breached the surface, gasping as he took as fresh of a breath as he could within the digestive chamber.

“I… but… what the…” Verdant was utterly perplexed by what was happening. Or rather, what wasn’t happening. He didn’t feel himself burning or even tingling as he saw Sunset’s salad being dissolved. Not even his clothes were damaged. It was as if he was merely floating in a large hot tub.

Pulling his phone up from the liquid, he was surprised to see it was utterly unscathed as well.

“How the heck is this crap possible?” Verdant briefly pondered before he started to write a reply text to Twilight, kicking to keep afloat.

Could you please send me her contact info? Maybe I’ll be able to reach her.

Also, I’m apparently acid proof since I fell in and nothing is happening. Even my phone’s working perfectly.

A moment later, Verdant received a text from Twilight with Sunset’s phone number, email and address. This was soon followed by another text.

WTF?! How is that possible?!

Before the shrunken boy could answer, he felt a current pulling him under the surface of the digestive fluids. Within the juices, he saw what was the source of the undertow. The valve to Sunset’s intestines was open wide, pulling him towards it.

Verdant tried to swim away from the open valve as it pulled him and some of Sunset’s lunch down, but the current was too strong for the boy that hadn’t even had a chance to catch his breath.

Soon enough, he was pulled into the duodenum with the stomach valve sealing tightly behind him. The green teen was dragged along with the gastric juices and slurry that was Sunset’s salad. He tried to reach out and grab some of Sunset’s villi, but this didn’t do much. They were simply too wet and slick for him to get a good grip.

After several rough twists and turns, Verdant finally managed to use both hands to get a grip on a villi, pulling himself free of the rushing torrent of liquid.

“Well, this is something I was hoping to avoid,” Verdant said as he tried to catch his breath in the winding tunnel made of thousands of wriggling tendrils.

Looking back the way he came, he only saw more and more of the villi lining the walls as they curved upwards.

Carefully loosening his grip on the villi so only one hand was holding him, he reached out to try to grasp another to hopefully drag himself back towards the stomach.

No matter which villi he attempted to grip, they were just too slippery for him. After several futile attempts, the young man could only sigh in defeat.

“Guess the only way out is the crappiest way possible.” Verdant let go one villi he had managed to hold onto, causing him to start to slide along Sunset’s small intestine, thankfully much slower than when he was pulled along with the stomach juices.

Eventually, growing bored and frustrated at his slow pace, Verdant started crawling along through the tight, wriggling tunnel.

Realizing how much time had passed, he remembered that he should call his family so that they wouldn’t worry.

Briefly pausing in his crawling to bring up his phone and creating a contact for Sunset, including picking a ringtone for her, he brought up his mother’s phone number and hit call.

He set the phone to speaker as he slid it into his vest pocket. After a few seconds of ringing, a voice began to fill the intestinal tract.

“Green Blazer Realty, Emerald Shine speaking. How may I help you?” A chipper woman’s voice said as Verdant reached a bend in intestine.

“Hi, Mom,” Verdant said as he carefully tried to maneuver the bend, hoping to land on his feet as when he reached the lower level.

“Oh hi, Verdant. Sorry about using the standard business greeting, I was just in the zone,” Emerald’s voice said as he slowly tried to cling to villi to lower himself. “So, what’s up?”

“Well, you remember when Barrier’s niece came to visit a couple of weeks ago?” He asked before his grip slipped, causing him to land on his rear against the damp villi.

“Ah, yes. The cute purple girl with the glasses and ponytail. I remember. What’s up with her?” Her voice said as Verdant moved to his hands and knees to continue his not-so-fantastic voyage.

“Well, a major accident happened when they were setting up a flower display for some sort of school spirit thing.” Verdant bit his lip as he tried to come up with an excuse good enough that his mother would buy. “Long story short, it’s all hands on deck to try to fix this thing while remaining under budget and on time, so she’s got her friend Sunset giving me a ride to Canterlot.”

Verdant grimaced as he heard his mother’s sigh from the other end of the line. “I wish you’d told me first, Verdant. Will this be an overnight trip?”

“Pretty much a certainty, yeah. Sorry about springing this on you, Mom, but I didn’t want to let her and her friends down. Besides, you know I’m really good with flowers,” Verdant apologetically said, feeling really bad about needing to lie to his mother, but knowing she’d think he’d gone crazy if he told her the truth.

“Alright. I’ll tell you father in a few minutes. Just be careful dear and try to give me a heads up next time.” Just as Emerald finished speaking, the sound of water impacting came from beyond the intestinal walls. “Is it raining over there?”

“Uh, yeah, it just started to rain here. Still, we should be fine. Talk to you later,” Verdant quickly said, trying to wrap up the call.

“Bye, Dear. And remember, if you’re going to get inside someone, be sure to bring protection. Bye.” Verdant rolled his eyes as his mother hung up, drawing a sigh from him.

“Well, now that that’s done, it’d probably be best to update Twilight,” the green boy said aloud as he paused his crawling to pull out his phone.

He tried to call Twilight’s number, but all he got was a busy signal.

“Wonderful. Guess I’ll have to update her later.” Putting the phone back in his pocket, he resumed his long trek through the tract, crawling deeper through Sunset’s body.

Eventually, he reached another downward bend in the path, but found it full of digestive liquid, along with globs that were once Sunset’s food.

“Well, guess I’m going swimming,” Verdant muttered before he carefully dipped his feet into the flooded tunnel. Taking a deep breath, he dunked his head under and began to swim through the intestine.

***

Sunset let out a contented sigh as she slipped on her pajama top. Her day had been more pleasant than she had hoped. She’d managed to get everything she was after on sale and had just finished a long, relaxing shower. With the rest of the weekend ahead of her, she planned to kick back and play some video games when she heard a voice coming from behind her apartment’s door.

“Hopefully she’s back, but I’m not sure.” She recognized the voice as her dear friend, Twilight. She made her way over to the door and pulled it open just before she saw her violet friend was about to knock.

“Oh thank goodness, she’s here. I’ll talk to you later, Dash,” Twilight said before putting her phone into her bag.

“Hey Twilight, what’s up?” Sunset thought she saw her friend’s left eye twitch as she stepped into the apartment.

“What’s up? WHAT’S UP?!” Twilight gritted her teeth, making Sunset nervously swallow. “Everyone’s been trying to contact you for hours! Why didn’t you answer your phone!”

Sunset was taken aback by what Twilight said. “That’s weird. I had my phone on me all day. I don’t know why I didn’t hear your calls.”

Sunset moved past Twilight to her desk, picking up her phone to try to see any notifications, only to see the screen remained black.

“Wait, why’s it… Ah, crap. I must’ve forgotten to recharge it.” Sunset sat down at her desk chair and reached into a drawer, pulling out a cable before connecting it to her phone and computer.

A few seconds later, the screen turned on and showed the phone was now charging at one percent power.

“Alright, so what’s the problem?” Sunset’s question made Twilight sigh as she came up to her side.

“Apparently, Verdant got into some sort of teleportation accident that caused him to shrink and end up in your lunch.” Twilight adjusted her glasses as she saw Sunset’s eyebrow rise.

“Wait, Verdant? As in that green guy from Vanhoover you swallowed?” Sunset said disbelievingly as Twilight pulled out her phone. “How’d he get teleported all the way from Vanhoover to here?”

“I don’t know, but I do know you ate him,” Twilight said as she turned her phone to the orange girl, showing her a photo of her own face from within a bowl the exact same color as the one that once held her salad.

“Oh no…” Sunset paled as she stared at the photograph, making a cold sweat pour down her face.

“Last time I got in contact with him, he said he was in your stomach and somehow not being affected by the acid.” Twilight stated as Sunset slowly stood up from her seat. “Hopefully, he’s still alright so we can get him out.”

“Right. Looks like he’s taking another ride on the vomit comet.” Sunset swallowed before turning her attention back to Twilight. “Say, could I have his contact info? I figure since my phone’s part of the reason he didn't get out hours ago, it should be my phone that at least tells him to get ready for his ride.”

“Alright,” Twilight said before she brought up her contacts. With a few quick taps, a ping came from Sunset’s phone with a notification about a new contact.

“Here goes nothing,” Sunset said as she unlocked her phone and started to call Verdant, setting her phone to speaker mode.

***

Swimming through the flooded intestine, Verdant eventually started to feel his lungs ache as he soon came to a tightly sealed orifice.

C’mon, lemme in! The shrunken teen started to panic as he repeatedly hit the valve, hoping that it would open up. He could tell that he didn’t have enough air to try to swim back to get more.

Fortunately, the large clenched muscle soon did as hoped, sending him, along with a mixture of digestive juices and former food, into Sunset Shimmer’s large intestine.

Verdant gasped as he took in a breath of foul smelling air. While he was glad that he was no longer holding his breath, he wished he wasn’t in somewhere that smelled like the inside of a sewer.

The liquid around him drained away thanks to the intestine absorbing it while Verdant weakly tried to stand up. Just as he hobbled to his feet, a song started to come from his vest pocket.

“Stupid horse, I just fell out of the porsche! Lost the money in my bank account-”

The sore teen pulled out his phone and answered the call, setting it to speaker phone once more. As he stuffed it back into his pocket.

“Verdant, are you okay?!” He heard Sunset’s voice exclaim both through the phone and far off in her body as he leaned against the intestinal wall.

“About as well as I can be, considering the circumstances,” he tiredly said as he turned his gaze upward, seeing the long tunnel of flesh he’d need to climb. “I’m sore, tired and drenched in all sorts of stuff I don’t even want to think about.”

“Well don’t worry, I’m gonna get ready to throw you up in just a few moments and then we’ll try to find a way to unshrink you.” Sunset reassuringly said, but Verdant could only sigh as he sat down.

“Unfortunately, that’s not an option.” He rubbed the bridge of his nose before looking up once more. “I ended up being pulled along into the small intestine and now I’m in the large.”

“WHAT?!” Sunset exclaimed as her body wildly shook. Verdant could only assume that was from her suddenly standing up, making him let out a panicked shout.

“Oh, sorry about that, Verdant.” From Sunset’s embarrassed tone, he assumed that she was blushing from accidentally rocking him around.

“Is there any way you can get back up to the stomach?” Twilight’s voice asked as he stood up and started to stretch his arms.

“Not a chance. I tried to climb back up pretty early in the small intestine, but I couldn’t get a grip on the villi. Now that I’m in the large, there’s a good amount of digested food and juices to make it even harder.”

“Dammit all,” he heard Sunset frustratedly mutter. “I guess that this means that the only way out now is… well, the worst way.”

“Tell me about it. Still, I don’t think I’ll be getting out of here tonight. I’ve got a long climb ahead of me before I even reach the halfway point.” Verdant sighed before he walked up to the intestinal wall and cracked his knuckles.

“Hold on. Before you start climbing, I’ve got an idea.” Sunset’s words made Verdant’s right eyebrow raise before he felt her moving about once more.

The giantess’ movements made the shrunken young man bounce somewhat before soon, everything started to tilt, sending Verdant landing on his face, but seeing what was once a long vertical climb was now a horizontal tunnel.

“Alright, I’m laying down in bed. This should make things easier for you.” Sunset’s voice came through the phone once more as the achy teen boy rose to his feet once more.

“Thanks, Sunset. I think I’ll only make it part way before I try to go to sleep. Right now, my everything’s aching and I'm really tired.” Verdant slowly started to walk along the intestinal tunnel, feeling like he was running on fumes at this point.

“No problem. We should be able to get you out in the morning.” Sunset comfortingly said before a couple of light quakes came from elsewhere in her body from what Verdant could only assume was her softly patting her belly.

“I’m going to call my family to tell them I’m spending the night to help Sunset,” Twilight said, sounding somewhat distant from the phone. “Hope you manage to get a good night’s sleep… while stuck in Sunset’s butt…”

“Thanks, Twilight. Good night.” With what little energy he could muster in his arms, he reached into his pocket and ended the call.

Verdant pulled himself along through the passageway that was Sunset’s bowels for as long as he could. He had no idea how long he’d been walking, but decided that he’d best get ready to sleep. He was rather grateful that he was starting to become somewhat nose blind… Somewhat.

Pulling off his vest and jacket, he folded up the vest to act as a makeshift pillow while he used his jacket as a blanket. Despite how warm it was within Sunset, he still felt more comfortable this way. Not too long after closing his eyes, he drifted off to sleep.

***

“Alright,” Twilight said from the bottom of the stairs. “Your phone should be charged enough for the night, everyone’s been called so they know Verdant’s safe, and my parents are okay with me spending the night.”

“Thanks, Twilight.” Sunset turned her head to face her bespectacled friend as she tried to remain as still as possible. “Wish I’d remembered to charge my phone so Verdant could have gotten out as soon as possible.”

“Well, even if we had gotten him out, since he wasn’t shrunk by poison joke this time, I’m not exactly sure what’d be the best way to restore him to normal size,” Twilight replied as she laid down on Sunset’s couch and tossed the black and orange blanket over herself.

“Yeah, fair enough.” Sunset lightly shrugged her shoulders. “Heck, maybe if I did just throw him up, it’d just lead to Ray eating him.”

“That’s… not something I want to picture,” Twilight said as she pulled off her glasses and set them down on the nearby stand, next to an empty soda can and her phone.

“Right. Sorry. Well, good night, Twilight,” Sunset said before closing her eyes.

“‘G’night, Sunset,” Twilight yawned before a gentle snoring soon reached Sunset’s ears.

“Good night, Verdant,” Sunset whispered. Hopefully we can all get a good night’s sleep.

***

Sunset awoke from a terrible night’s sleep. The sun was just barely starting to shine through her window. Her dreams were plagued by something she could barely remember. Something about something she ate expanding inside her and making her explode.

In her tired state, she wasn’t fully cognizant of the world around her as she dragged herself out of bed, ignoring Twilight sleeping on her couch. At this point, there were only two things on the young woman’s mind.

Her second priority would be to put on a fresh pot of coffee. Her first task, however, was to use the bathroom.

With a zombie-like shuffling, Sunset made her way into the bathroom. Pulling down her pajama bottoms and underwear, she sat herself down on her toilet. After a few moments, she started to feel relief as her bladder relaxed, followed soon by a bowel movement that left her feeling at least five pounds lighter.

With her morning ritual complete, she pulled up her pajamas and panties, lowered the toilet lid and hit the lever, making it flush.

Just as she started to stretch her arms, something clicked in her mind like a light switch and her eyes shot wide open. She scrambled to lift the lid and saw nothing but clear water.

It was then Sunset let out a bloodcurdling scream.

The sudden scream caused a thud to come from her living room, followed a few seconds by some rapid pounding on her bathroom door.

“Sunset, what’s going on?!” Twilight panickedly said from behind the bathroom door.

The orange young woman shakily swallowed as she continued to stare at the empty toilet bowl. “I… I think I just flu-”

Sunset was interrupted by her phone suddenly ringing. In her shaken state, Sunset quickly threw open the door and rushed past Twilight to reach the phone, gasping when she saw who was calling her.

***

Verdant was shocked awake by an ear-splitting scream that sent him scrambling to his feet. While initially unsure where he was, he remembered the previous day’s bizarre adventure and where he had gone to sleep inside Sunset’s large intestine.

Recognizing where he was and that the scream came from Sunset, the tired young man reached into his vest pocket to pull out his phone, calling Sunset as he started to put on his jacket.

After a few rings and sudden quakes all around him, Verdant heard the phone being picked up.

“Verdan-”

“Could you please not use a scream strong enough to shatter glass as a wake-up call?” The green teen asked as he slipped his vest over his jacket.

“Oh, thank Faust, you’re still inside me,” He heard Sunset say with a sigh of relief. From the other sounds in the background he could pick up, he guessed Sunset put him on speaker phone. “I’d thought I’d accidentally flushed you.”

“Well, thankfully, I’m still in your poop chute… Boy, I never thought I’d say that,” Verdant muttered as he stood up and started to stretch. “Based on what I’m seeing, I’m in the upper bend end of the large intestine, not too far from the downward bend that’ll take me to the colon.”

“Alright,” Sunset said, sounding calmer than she did a moment ago. “If it helps, the way should be mostly empty, based on what I just did.”

“That’s a bit of a relief,” the shrunken teen said as he reached the bend. Peering over the side, he saw what looked to him to be at least a fifty foot vertical drop. “Okay, think you could lay down so-WHOA!”

Verdant leaned too far and he fell down the fleshy tunnel. In a matter of seconds, the tumbling young man landed on his back at the bottom of the vertical shaft.

“Verdant, are you okay?!” Sunset shouted as he groaned before standing up.

“I’m alright. Just tripped, so you don’t have to lay down,” he answered as he stretched out once more. “At least that saved some time and I can see the final bend, so thankfully this means this crazy trip is almost over.”

With a walk that lasted a few minutes, Verdant soon reached the end of the intestine. Looking down, he saw Sunset Shimmer’s colon and the tight ring of flesh that was her anus.

“Okay. I’m at the bend and I can see Sunset’s butthole from here,” Verdant said he stared down, getting ready for his final descent.

“Could you please take a picture of it?” Twilight’s voice came through the phone.

“Twilight!” Sunset angrily barked.

“What? This is something exceedingly rare that would normally require something like a pill cam.” Twilight replied as she thought of the research potential of Verdant’s predicament. “If it was me in there, I would try to record every second for scientific study.”

“Ugh… Look, if it’ll make you happy, I’ll let him take the one photo, but you can’t tell a soul what it is,” Sunset sighed in annoyance.

“Thank you, Sunset!” Twilight nearly squealed with joy before the orange girl’s body shook, likely from her bespectacled friend pulling her into a hug.

“Alright, since you gave me the go ahead,” Verdant brought up his phone’s camera and took a quick shot of the tightly clenched orifice. A moment later, he sent it off to Twilight’s phone. “Okay, now that that’s done, I’m gonna head down to get to the hole. Be ready for it.”

***

“Copy that, we’ll be standing by,” Sunset said as she sat her phone down by the bathroom sink. “Once he’s out, he’ll be able to use my underwear as a safety net and then I’ll be able to pull him out so we can start to work on a way to unshrink him.”

“It’s a bit of a surprise to hear you don’t have a problem with him possibly seeing you… Well…” A faint blush appeared on Twilight’s face, finding herself unable to say the words.

Sunset merely scoffed. “Please, back when I lived in Equestria, seeing another pony’s butt and junk was pretty damn common. I honestly don’t think I could count the amount of times I’ve seen Princess Celestia’s pussy while she was walking ahead of me.”

Twilight’s face turned even redder. Thankfully for the glasses-wearing teen, Verdant’s voice broke the silence.

“Uh, ladies? I’ve got a problem,” Verdant sounded nervous as Sunset turned her attention to the phone.

“What’s up, Verdant?” Sunset asked in concern. She then heard the trapped teen sigh.

“Well, I’ve been trying to push my way through the hole but it just won’t budge in the slightest. I… I think I'm stuck.”

“Crap…” Sunset murmured as she brought a hand to her chin. “We’re so close to getting him out, but we need to find a way to open my anus. Any ideas, Twilight?”

“Um, well…” Twilight twiddled her fingers as her face turned red once more. “Perhaps one of the best options would be to penetrate it with something like a digit.”

Sunset groaned as she facepalmed. “You know your day’s gonna be bad when the best thing you can come up with is having a finger shoved up your ass. So, are yo-”

“Ohlookatthetime,IshouldgotakeSpikeforhiswalk.ByeSunset,I’llseeyoulater!” Twilight hurriedly said before rushing out of the bathroom.

“Twilight, wai-” Sunset was interrupted by her apartment door slamming shut, making the red-headed teen groan. “Well, can’t say I blame you for not volunteering.”

Taking a deep breath, Sunset raised her right hand up to her face with her index finger outstretched. “Hold on, Verdant. I’m gonna try to get you out.” She said before nervously biting her lip.

***

“Alright, standing by,” Verdant responded as he moved away from the orifice’s center, uncertain what would happen next as he set his phone to speaker mode.

A few seconds later, Sunset’s body shook as the anus started to bend upward and downward as he heard Sunset groaning. After it bent a few more times, the clenched orifice started to open up as the tip of an orange finger slowly entered the bowel.

“Okay, tell me when you’re on!” Sunset’s voice sounded higher pitched than normal as Verdant ran up to the fingertip.

The green teen grasped onto the finger, holding on tightly onto the finger’s grooves. “I’m on.”

“Okay, hold on tight.” Sunset said shortly before the finger began to sink downward.

***

As Sunset pulled her finger out of the back of her pajama bottoms, she felt a bit of relief as she brought her outstretched finger up to her face. Looking closely at her fingertip, she spotted a tiny speck of green.

“Right, now we just need to figure out how to get you back to norm-” Before she could finish speaking, the speck on her finger began to rapidly grow and expand. Sunset was sent tumbling to the bathroom floor where Verdant was rapidly restored to his normal size.

“Well, that takes care of-” Sunset paused as a disgusting scent assaulted her nose, forcing her to cover it. “Eww… You smell terrible.”

“Yeah. It’s almost like I was stuck up someone’s ass for several hours,” Verdant remarked as he shakily stood up. “Still, at least this is over.”

“Yeah,” Sunset said with her nose strongly covered. “I’ll let you use my bathroom and run your clothes through the wash while you take a shower so long as you never mention this to anyone who doesn’t already know about this.”

“Thanks, Sunset. And I swear, no one who’s out of the loop will know,” Verdant replied as Sunset stepped out of the bathroom and made her way out to the living room, where she saw Twilight nervously sticking her head in through the door.

“Um… Sorry about ditching you, but…”

“It’s okay, I get it,” Sunset said as she soon flopped down onto her couch. “I just want this day to be over already so I can forget about it.”

“Guess you could say it was a real pain in the butt, right?” Pinkie’s voice came from behind Twilight, making Sunset groan.

“Yes, Pinkie. It was.” Sunset sighed before she looked over to Twilight. “Is anyone else here?”

“Well… just the rest of the girls.” Twilight said as she bit her lip.

“Oh, Faust dammit!”

***

Several hours later, a now clean Verdant was standing outside Sunset’s apartment alongside her and Twilight. He had met with the girls’ friends and added them to his contacts in case something like this should ever happen again. With everything out of the way, all that was left was waiting for his mother to arrive to take him back to Vanhoover.

“Okay, so the B.S. story we’re giving her is that after a small fire accident ruined a flower display for the school’s Friendship in Bloom festival and because we didn’t have much money, bringing you in to help fix up the display was one of the best things we could do. Is that right?” Sunset asked as she tried to recall their cover while leaning against a wall.

“Yeah, and that your car broke down after we got here, so that's why my mom has to come here,” Verdant replied before sighing. “And hopefully, I never have to go through something like this again.”

Sunset snickered at what Verdant said. “You do realize you probably just jinxed yourself, considering your track record and how often magic stuff happens to us, right?”

“... Crap.”

“Well, at least you could say your trip was educational, right?” Twilight tried to optimistically say.

“Yeah, I learned so much.” Verdant rolled his eyes. “I learned I’m apparently acid proof, I learned what the inside of a colon smells like.” And I learned that Sunset’s hair’s naturally red and yellow, but I’m not dumb enough to say that out loud.

“At any rate, I hope you have a better time in Canterlot if you end up here again,” Twilight said.

“Thanks, Twilight. And honestly, it could have been a lot worse,” Verdant said before the honking of a car horn caught his attention.

Looking down the road, he saw his family’s forest green mini-van driving up to the three, making Verdant wave to the driver.

After the van came to a halt, a woman nearly the same height as Verdant emerged from the driver’s side. Her skin was a similar shade of green as his while her light brown hair was in a short bob. Her ensemble consisted of a short yellow skirt, a white blouse under a green blazer jacket and a bowtie around her neck that matched Verdant’s coat.

“Hi, dear,” Emerald said as she walked up to Verdant and gave him a quick hug that he warmly returned. “How was your time in Canterlot?”

“Hectic, but I had some fun in the end,” Verdant replied as he broke the hug. “Mom, you remember Twilight from her visiting Barrier. And this is her friend, Sunset Shimmer. Twilight, Sunset, this is my mother, Emerald Shine.”

“Aw, pleased to meet you both. You seem like lovely young ladies,” Emerald said as grabbed a hand from each of them and shook them.

“Nice to meet you, Ma’am.” Sunset said with a smile as before she and Twilight took their hands away.

“Verdant was a real lifesaver. We couldn’t have finished the display for the Friendship in Bloom festival without him,” Twilight said, rather glad she wasn’t Applejack trying to sell the lie.

“Oh, that’s simply wonderful! Did you take any photos so I could see my son’s handiwork?” She asked, making Twilight stiffen and Verdant bite his lip.

“Unfortunately, Principal Celestia had us all agree to an N.D.A.. We weren’t allowed to take any photos or discuss how the display looks publicly until it’s displayed at the festival,” Sunset said, making Verdant silently sigh in relief and mouth the words, ‘Thank you’.

“Oh, well that’s a pity. Say, might I ask where you stayed overnight?” Emerald asked as she looked her son in the eye.

“All three of us spent the night at my place, Ma’am,” Sunset said as she used her thumb to point behind her. “It was a bit of a tight fit, but we managed to fit three people for the night.”

“Oh, really?” Emerald coyly chuckled before lightly poking her son in the ribs in the elbow. “Well I hope you didn’t do anything that’ll lead to the pitter patter of little feet.”

“No, he didn’t, Ma’am. He was in Sunset’s butt,” Twilight said before instantly covering her much with her hands and turning bright crimson.

“TWILIGHT!” Sunset barked as she glared at her friend, her face quickly turning as red as her hair while Verdant buried his head in his hands.

Emerald snorted before she soon broke down laughing, hobbling over to the van and banging her hand against the hood as she couldn’t stop her laughter.

“What were you thinking?!” Sunset harshly whispered to her bespectacled friend.

“I’m sorry!” She whispered back. “I just blurted it out by accident and I didn’t realize what it could sound like until right after I said it.”

After a minute or so, Emerald managed to rein herself in enough to merely be chuckling while she leaned against the van.

“Well, you certainly had an…” Emerald snickered before continuing. “Adventurous weekend. Now, come along, Verdant. Jaylin said she wants to get you a pizza when you get home and…”

Emerald smirked as she looked Twilight and Sunset up and down. “I can certainly see why.”

“I’m really sorry about this,” Verdant said in embarrassment as he moved up to the van’s passenger door.

“It’s okay,” Sunset sighed. “Let’s just… I dunno, pretend this whole thing never happened.”

“Yeah, let’s,” Verdant said as he stepped into the van, waving the two girls goodbye as they waved back.

A few seconds later, the van roared to life as Emerald started to drive the two of them back to Vanhoover.

“My, oh, my.” Emerald lightly elbowed Verdant’s side as they drove along. “I never would have imagined my son was such a lady killer.”

“Mom, it’s not like that,” Verdant's face turned red once more as he looked away from her.

“Suuuuuuuuurre, it wasn’t,” Emerald chuckled as she tapped her fingers against the steering wheel. “Your father only wishes he had your kind of love life in high school.”

“Mom…”

“Oh, by the way, you should give Jaylin a call,” Emerald said as they soon reached the highway. “She sounded rather concerned when she talked to me last night.”

“Right. I should give her a call,” Verdant replied as he pulled out his phone. She’s probably wondering what happened since the last time she heard from me, I was in Sunset’s stomach after all.

“Set it to speaker, I’d like to be able to talk to her too,” Emerald said as Verdant scrolled through his contacts.

“On it,” Verdant responded as his phone dialed Jaylin. After two rings, he heard it being picked up. “Hey, Jaylin.”

“Hey, Verdant. How was your time with the two girls you were inside?” Jaylin coyly asked, making Emerald erupt into another laughing fit.

“Oh, dammit,” Verdant muttered to himself as spotted a sign on the highway, saying that Vanhoover was over two-hundred kilometers away. “This is going to be a long trip.”

***

As Friday afternoon came, Sunset stepped into her apartment with a sigh of relief. With her school tasks done and no shifts to worry about at work, she could just relax and forget about the previous weekend.

She soon made her way to her couch and started to sort through the letters she’d taken from the mailbox and began sorting them. While most were junk, one stood out to her. It was a letter from Vanhoover that said it was from a business called Pretty Petals Flower Shop.

With a raised eyebrow, she tore open the envelope, where she found an invoice and a letter inside. Glancing over the invoice, she was stunned by the amount she was being charged.

“Three-hundred fifty…” She angrily exclaimed before halting to read over the letter that came with it.

Dear Sunset Shimmer.

Included in this letter is an invoice to pay for the flowers your horse ate. If you wish to arrange for an installment plan, please contact me using either the phone number or email address included below.

~Cosmos LeBlanc, Proprietress of Pretty Petals

Sunset’s right eye furiously twitched as she looked over the letter and invoice once more before she let out a loud skyward scream.

“DAMMIT, VERDANT!”

Author's Note

Hey folks, it's been a long time, but I'm back with a new chapter of Stomach Stallion.

Now, I'm going to assume many of you wondering, "What happened to The Bat's Breakfast? Wasn't that supposed to be the next chapter?".

I'm gonna level with you, I just couldn't make it interesting. There wasn't really much to make that chapter stand out enough to make it worth continuing, so I ended up deciding to make the hard choice, scrap it and do a chapter I thought I could make something interesting out of. To those of you who are disappointed with this, I'm sorry.

One of the things I had planned, which was introducing a new body for Beta, will happen in a later chapter and I will try to do the next planned chapter, "A Dragon's Digestion Distress", but I can't make any promises on that one. In the chapter after next, I'll reopen the polls, with some new chapter ideas I've come up with since then, like A Bright and Sunny Day, where we see a G5 version of Verdant getting accidentally eaten by Sunny Starscount.

In the meantime, I made some rough images to help one get an idea for what some of the EG cast looks like, which in order are the looks of Verdant's best friend, Jaylin, two of his schoolmates, High Gear and Pixel Flash, and lastly, his mother, Emerald Shine.

Yes, her name was Emerald Hills in an earlier chapter, but I decided to alter it. Besides, this Verdant is a different character than the one in that chapter.

Well, I hope to see you all next time and hopefully, it won't take nearly as long.