“Ah, home at last.”
Twilight stepped off the train at Ponyville station and gently ruffled her wings. Sure she could have flown to Canterlot, but there was something relaxing about being able to spend time just staring out the window or reading a good book whilst travelling. Flying required concentration, besides rain had been forecast before she left. She didn’t fancy flying much in poor weather. Nopony was waiting for her to arrive, not that they would have been. There was in fact, nopony now at the station. Any that had gotten off the train with her had made their way into town or home. She decided that she should do the same.
The ground was still slightly wet from the aforementioned rain that had come and gone by this point. It was never pleasant feeling that under your hooves. She gently stretched her wings, not having used them for a few days now and decided to fly the short distance back to the castle. She only had her small saddle bags across her back so taking off was relatively easy. Once in the air, she took herself up to a few hundred feet and started to glide across town.
Ponyville looked normal, at least as normal as could be. Nothing seemed to have changed in the short time she had been away. Below her, she could make out ponies going about their business. The Princess had a look around, she was sure her eyes were playing tricks on her as she swooped over rooftops in town back towards the castle. Ponies were making their way around town yes, but either she was lower down than she thought she was or suddenly in the short time she had been away, ponies had gotten larger. She shook her head and laughed a little.
“C’mon Twilight, don’t be silly! It was a long train ride. Besides they all look about the same size. Get home and see your friends.”
She put her mind at ease for the rest of the short flight, electing to concentrate on where she was going rather than trying to snatch glances of the ponies below her. Before she knew it, she was back at the castle doors. Letting herself inside she let out a yell. “Hello? Guys!?”
She heard some shuffling coming from the area of the map room, looking down the hall a door opened and she could make out in the distance her friends. As they got closer, she squinted again. Then again. Then finally, she couldn’t squint anymore as the six of them had now gotten close enough that she could easily make out that her long train ride thoughts of being overtired from the trip was just not the case.
All of them, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Applejack and Spike had gained weight. A considerable amount each. Her pony friends all had large bellies that were extremely close to sagging on the floor. Chubby cheeks on their face and even chubbier ones behind them graced their back portions. It was like as soon as she left they had all gorged themselves on something. But what that was, she had no idea.
“G-guys?”
“Hey Twilight! Back already!?” Pinkie asked, she was her usual jovial self. Usually though she had that little bouncy spring in her step. At her size, that was no longer possible, the pink pony seemed content to rock herself back and forth. “Let me give you a hug!”
As Pinkie leaned in, Twilight was only able to manage a “Glurk!” as her now massive friend squeezed her tightly for a welcome home hug. The added weight certainly gave that hug a whole lot more power. Eventually she let go, and Twilight was able to spend a few seconds recovering before looking at her friends again to make sure she hadn’t been seeing things.
“Yes, back already. But I have to ask...what happened?”
“Whatever do you mean darling?” Rarity asked her, the look on her face quickly turning to concern, hardly noticing any sort of irony as she waddled her frame forward to get closer to Twilight.
“Well, you guys! You’re all...fat!” She couldn’t sugar-coat it any longer and there really wasn’t any other way to say it. All her friends just looked at each other and smiled, Rarity even let forth a small giggle.
“Oh that!” Rainbow Dash spoke up. “Yeah, sorry Twi, we were wondering why you seemed so flustered.” the pegasus said with a chuckle.
“There’s um, a new place that opened in town. Applejack found it actually…” Fluttershy started to say, before her earth pony friend took over.
“Yeah! Spotted it as I was walkin’ in the other day to take some apples for delivery. It’s just called ‘Chaos Theory’. Name is a little odd but apparently it’s a really successful fast food chain. They’ve just opened up in Ponyville!” Applejack explained.
Twilight pondered the explanation for a second. “Really? Because I’ve just come back from Canterlot, I never saw one.” she said.
“Pffft, please darling. Canterlot wouldn’t have a fast food chain. Too upmarket. The manager told us that they usually go for towns like Ponyville. Much more of their sort of clients there.” Rarity said with that small air of authority that she sometimes carried when explaining things.
“I see, well clearly you’re all fans, you’ve been a few times since it opened?” Twilight asked.
“Well it was a grand opening, and all this week the food is half off! We thought we’d take advantage.” Rainbow said.
“You and the rest of the town, it seems.” Twilight replied, looking slightly disappointed at this stage. “Anyway look, thanks for the welcome home guys but I promised Princess Celestia that I’d finish this research in the next week. I’m sorry I can’t join you in what is clearly quite a bit of indulgence but I have to get this work on. Just come fetch me out my room if there’s any huge emergency okay?”
“Alright Twilight, that’s assuming, one of us can get in…” Spike replied, her friends watched as she trotted away to her room to get to work. It was going to be one of those weeks where they hardly saw her. No matter, they had their own things to be keeping busy with. Twilight had her research.
-
Five days passed between Twilight arriving home, the work was...intense to say the least. She had a deadline to meet and despite Celestia now being far more lax on her timescales for her work, Twilight still felt it was best not to keep the Princess waiting too long. Besides, it was just common courtesy not to. She had other things she wanted to get on with anyhow.
The mare had hardly left her room in that time, Spike had brought her food, water and whatever else she needed while working. It was one of those times when she was completely buried in her research, so much so that she only glanced at him a few of the times he came in. Often muttering a “Thanks.” as he dropped off another plate of food for her. Funny though, he usually asked how she was doing, but he seemed eager to just pass her the food she needed and then vanish again.
Regardless, the work was done. Now all she had to do was send it, which meant a trip into town to the mail office. The alicorn emerged from her room, shutting the door behind her and trotting down the hall of the castle. It was silent, although as she got closer to the map room she could very obviously hear distinctive noises of chews and lip smacking as she approached.
The map was...well it was hardly visible, most of the space on it was covered in food delivery boxes, cast aside drinks containers and an assortment of other items you get with delivery food. Twilight could hardly believe her eyes, it had only been five days and her friends had only grown in size in that time. Pudgy, glorping bellies and the noises of belches and gurgles emanated the air as the chewing continued. None of her friends seemed to have noticed the purple alicorn had entered the room. She wondered how long she could stand there before anypony noticed her, or just how long each of them were going to be able to fit in their chairs in here. Casting a glance over at them all she could already see the majority of them were virtually spilling out of their seats, gigantic bellies trying to make a break for the floor as their tums were being filled with food.
After a few minutes, and nopony taking note of Twilight she just decided to leave. She had a job to do. She made a mental note that she had to speak to her friends later. This gorging seemed to be getting quite out of control and she couldn’t believe just how big they were all getting. Even Rarity and Rainbow, who were always keen on keeping a slim figure due to their jobs seemed to be having no problem in stuffing their faces. It was odd to say the least.
She had noted Applejack had made mention of the name of wherever all this food was coming from when she had arrived home. Chaos Theory. Well the name seemed like it was causing chaos, at least with her friends. She left the castle and started to trot towards town, determined to get to the mail office to get her work to Canterlot in a timely manner.
But as she walked, it was the same story. Ponies in town were huge, fatter. The town was practically facing an obesity epidemic as she passed lardy pony after lardy pony on her way to get her errand ran. Eventually she had to stop and ask where this new place was, which was a little difficult as most ponies seemed to have their snouts buried in some sort of food. Every box they were eating from had the Chaos Theory branding printed on the side. When she did finally get a reply out of a pony she didn’t even stop eating. She simply pointed a hoof down the road and gestured vaguely in the direction of where it would be. Hardly paying Twilight any attention, too focused on the food.
It wasn’t too hard to find, there seemed to be a huge line stretching out the door as Twilight bypassed it and made her way into the building. She had no intent on buying any food, just seeing what seemed to make this place so amazing that ponies were literally queuing out the door to get another portion of the food. The building itself was rather large, in fact it could have given city hall a run for its money in terms of size, but the design was far more boxy and simple. There was just a large sign that had Chaos Theory printed in huge, neon letters above the entryway and a rather happy looking pony eating what looked like a burger flashing back and forth.
Inside, the queue continued up to a rather busy counter. A number of ponies, surprisingly just as fat as those waiting for food were waddling about operating fryers, getting drinks and filling orders for the hungry customers. There was hardly any talking inside, just the sounds of registers ringing up and as she had heard back in the castle, lips smacking and ponies eating. Twilight herself decided to take a seat at one of the empty tables. She had to admit the interior, despite it being full of obese ponies was rather nice. Set out like an old style diner. For a few minutes she just observed, watching what was going on. It was almost far too well organized for a place called Chaos Theory.
Her ears pricked up at a familiar voice, but an extremely unfamiliar sight. “I’m sorry, but these tables are reserved for paying...oh Princess Twilight! Do excuse me. I didn’t realise we had royalty in our establishment.”
Twilight recognized the voice, it sounded almost like Discord. But the pony that greeted her clearly was not. It was a unicorn, with a blue coat and white mane. In fact she had never met him before, the only other distinctive feature was a cutie mark that appeared to show a very simplistic spatula with sizzling steam rising from it.
“Oh no bother, sorry I’m just watching. I was away from town for a short while and when I returned, suddenly everypony seems to have put on quite a few pounds and was raving about this place to me. Even my friends.” she replied. The pony she was talking to took a seat opposite her, smiling he seemed happy to answer her queries.
“I see! I see! Well I’m Grilled Cheese. General Manager running this new Ponyville branch. We only opened around a week ago, but ponies here seem to love it!” he enthusiastically replied.
“That seems evident, you’ve got ponies queuing out the door and all my friends are hooked. In fact I’m starting to worry they won’t be able to get in or out the castle soon…” she wavered off, not paying much attention to Grilled Cheese and just observing what was going on around her.
“Yes yes, ah your friends They are regular customers here. And they order take-out too.” he replied.
“I know, our map room seems to have turned into the eating room.” Twilight said, turning her attention back to the stallion opposite her. “Tell me though, there was no sign of this place before I left and you’re in a part of town I visit often. How did you get this built so fast?” she asked.
“Well it’s not called Chaos Theory for nothing, but i’ll leave the name interpretation up to you…” the stallion replied. “Anyhow this is just another branch. We’re expanding our operations across Equestria. Ponyville seemed like an ideal town to set up the next one, and it seems we weren’t mistaken.”
“Indeed…” was all Twilight said. Just then, one of the workers emerged from behind the counter carrying a tray of food Towards them both, laying it down on the table in front of her. “What’s this?” she asked.
“A free sample, I think you must be the only pony in town who hasn’t tried what we’re offering.” Grilled Cheese replied. “Please, I insist.”
The tone at which I insist was phrased didn’t sound too friendly to Twilight. She pushed the tray towards him and got up from the table. “Thank you, but I was just curious. I have an errand to run, thanks for your time.” she said, leaving the General Manager looking slightly dismayed at her rejection.
Twilight decided it was best to head back to the castle after getting her work sent off, she had only been out an hour or so anyhow. Hopefully her friends would still be gorging themselves on all that food. She had to talk to them,
Going inside, oddly the map room was empty. Only Starlight occupied it, she hadn’t actually seen her since she got home. But all Twilight could exclaim upon seeing her now massive pupil was “Oh no, you too?”
“Me too what? And hey Twilight. Welcome back, sorry I haven’t said hello. I’ve been a bit busy.” Starlight replied. Again that was more than obvious, Starlight was just as fat and bloated as the rest of them, her snout buried in a box of Chaos Theory food. She looked more than capable of bursting out the chair she was almost wedged in.
“Oh um, nevermind. Do you know where the others are? I was hoping to talk to them.” Twilight said.
“Ah, missed them I’m afraid. They decided rather than ordering more takeout, they’d head to the restaurant this time. If they go they get some sort of preference for being the elements.” Starlight replied, diving her snout into another box. “You been? The food is incredible.”
“Yes I stopped by…” Twilight just said, turning tail and leaving Starlight to stuff her face. As she turned to leave, Starlight managed to haul herself up and waddle her way over to her friend.
“Hey you okay? You sound as if you could use a hug.” Starlight said, moving in closer.
“N-no I’m fine...Starlight, wait…” but Twilight could get her to stop, Starlight had already leaned in for a hug. Trying to slip around her, Twilight pulled her body down which firstly meant her face met a huge, jiggling tum. Sliding underneath it seemed Starlight had lost track of her, as she pushed her legs together and Twilight felt herself squished against those huge, thunderous thighs she had developed with all the eating. In the few seconds she was trapped there, her mind actually started to wander, it felt...nice. The warmth and softness there was rather pleasant. But she quickly pulled herself free and out from underneath her chunky friend, who looked at her with an perplexed expression on her face.
“Wow, you really didn’t want that hug.” was all she said, before returning to where she was and going back to stuffing her face, Twilight observed her eating. Her face was getting pudgier by the second - in fact she was struggling to stuff her snout inside the box she was quickly emptying of food. Her lardy cheeks were overflowing from the sides. As she pushed down to the bottom to get the last of the food, there was a rather unceremonious shrrippppp as she tore through it.
She would wait for her friends to return, no point confronting them in a public place. Chaos Theory had to close sometime.
-
“H-hey, one at a time!”
“Darling please, we haven’t grown that big…”
“I um, think we have…”
“Hooey, that was a heck of a session. I feel fit to burst! Hey, you think it’ll be long before our order arrives?...”
“Pffft, fit to burst and wanting more! That’s the spirit!”
Twilight had waited patiently for hours for her friends to return to the castle. She watched from down the corridor as they had to make their way single file into the foyer. Their bulks now so hefty that they could just about squeeze through the entrance door in a line. They each made their way to the map room, intent on even more stuffing, despite having just gotten home from doing just that.
As Twilight entered behind them, she heard a rather disappointed Dash say “Aw man! Looks like Starlight didn’t leave much from her order for us...just a few fries.”
“Don’t you think you’ve all had enough?” was the first thing Twilight said, squeezing her way between Fluttershy and Applejack who hadn’t gotten to their seats yet. Finally, they took notice of her. Much easier to do when you’re not snout-deep in a box of food.
“Hey Twilight! Ohhh, is that a trick question!?” Pinkie asked. At least their attitudes remained the same. Twilight just grinned, and asked one thing of them.
“No, no. Not at all. But I’d really love to see you all take your seats round the map. We haven’t discussed anything lately. Shouldn’t be a problem right? You know, the really heavy, crystal seats that are all made for each of you specially by the castle?” she said. This moment would be interesting.
“Hah, I think Twilight maybe hasn’t had enough food today! Of course that’s not gonna be a problem, why would it be?!” Rainbow confidently replied with her usual bluster. Twilight went to her seat first and easily managed to get in and sit with no issues. The other five positioned themselves in front, and for lack of a better word, tried.
And tried.
And tried.
The stuffing session they had partaken in throughout the afternoon at Chaos Theory had clearly added more to their already massive frames than they cared to admit. The chairs now seemed rather puny compared to the absolutely massive ponies that were trying to cram themselves into them. Twilight watched each of them with an amusing grin on her face.
Rainbow was uselessly trying to flap her wings to give her leverage to push herself up onto the seat. Pinkie was wobbling around her seat but having no luck getting in. Rarity, with her delicate nature was gently trying but getting nowhere. Fluttershy too. Applejack seemed to be trying to almost force herself into a sitting position that was clearly not working.
After a few minutes of the five of them trying to wedge their lardy rears in their seats, the majority of them gave up and simply sat on the floor. Except Rainbow, who seemed totally convinced she was going to be able to get herself in. “C’mon….just a little bit….there!”
Well she was in place, for about a second. As soon as her wings stopped flapping the lardy mare just slumped forward, onto the floor with the rest of her friends. Twilight looked at them, triumphantly.
“Well perhaps that was unfair. Maybe this will help.” she said, summoning in a number of much larger chairs next to the large crystal ones around the map. Wider and with more room for the obese ponies to position themselves in, her five friends seemed to have little problem getting into them.
“Hah see, nothing wrong with us! We got in!” Rainbow said, again rather triumphantly.
“Yes but, not to the chairs you’re meant to be in.” Twilight replied. She also neglected to mention these chairs were made of less sturdy stuff than crystal. Her mind started to ponder how long they’d last…
“Please darling, why the concern? We’re just looking after ourselves.” Rarity said.
“Rarity, of all the ponies, I can’t believe you’d say that. Have you five not looked at yourselves? You’re massive! Your stomachs practically form beds under you! Don’t even get me started on the fact your flanks are so wide that you can’t even fit into the crystal chairs around the map anymore.” Twilight said, finally making more serious inroads into the topic she had touched on earlier when she had gotten home.
“So we put on a couple of pounds. Is that such a big deal?” Applejack asked, dismissively waving her hoof in front of her face.
“A couple of....okay, I need to demonstrate the size of the issue to you.” Twilight said, vanishing and reappearing next to Applejack with a short distance teleportation spell. “Now don’t move.”
“W-what are ya gonna do Twi’?” she asked.
“Very little, but just watch.” she held up one of her forehooves and pushed it against Applejack’s belly while the rest of them watched. Twilight was easily able to push the majority of her arm and hoof down into Applejack’s glorping gut. In fact it was so massive it was able to vanish almost all the way before Twilight stopped.
“If you weren’t so fat, do you think I could practically get my whole hoof up to my shoulder in there!” she asked, watching as a rather unsure Applejack tried to bumble her way out of an answer starting with “Well ah, ya see Twilight…”
This however was interrupted, as Twilight pulled her arm out she heard behind her a distinctive CRACK as one of the chair legs on Fluttershy’s seat cracked and tilted her sideways. The mare giving an “Eeep!” as her jiggling, fat frame started to tip over. Thankfully she was spared going sideways as the pressure now on the remaining legs was too great, and her fat body just crushed the remains of the chair under her. With a huge CRUNCH from the chair shattering under her rear and a heavy blush on her face Fluttershy just managed to squeak out a “W-whoops.” and to top it all off, Rainbow Dash let out a huge “URRRAAAPPPPP!!!!” from her lips. The jostling of her body from when she had tried to force her way into her seat had been too much from before and finally her gut had to give something out. Finally, like Fluttershy, the belch set off a chain reaction of wobbles and jostling in her flab that caused the chair under her to give out with a second CRUNCH in as many seconds. Although all this happened in under a minute, it was easy for Twilight to just raise an eyebrow, look at them all and say.
“I think that more than makes my point.”
They sat in silence for a moment, trying to think of what to say to her.
“If that map summoned any of you right now, do you think you’d be able to solve whatever friendship problem it had for you?” she asked.
“Well...if it didn’t involve much walking.” Rainbow said.
“Guys, this is...I am just lost for words. Look at yourselves! I had to summon in special chairs just for you to sit round the table, which by the way, are only made of wood. That would explain why Fluttershy crushed it under her fat ass!” Twilight said with a more serious tone. Fluttershy just blushed in response. Rainbow Dash snickered. “Really Dash? I don’t see your seat fairing much better…” Twilight said, the pegasus quickly stopping her laughs.
“C’mon Twilight, don’t be such a grumpy guss!” Pinkie said, her own chair creaking rather unceremoniously under her massive weight. “Perhaps some food will help you calm down?” she offered.
“What food, there isn’t any here? Besides it looks as if you five have eaten enough to last another month at least.” Twilight asked, which quickly, she wished she hadn’t. She jumped back slightly as the map table filled with boxes marked Chaos Theory that appeared seemingly from nowhere. “Wha...what? How?”
“Ah, that’s our take out order darling. We made it before we left. You can order there and they’ll magic your food to you once it’s ready. Genius isn’t it?” Rarity said, already the five of them were helping themselves to it. “Really dear, you must eat something.” she said, offering a box of food towards Twilight whilst the rest eagerly started to chomp and chew at their meals.
“No...no thank you!” was all Twilight stammered, quickly leaving the room for her fat friends to gorge themselves on the food. She had to get help. This was more than an obesity problem, this was an obesity epidemic. She had to ask for help from Celestia and Luna. As quick as she could she returned to her room to write a letter to ask for their help. She only hoped it would get to them in time. She was thankful when Spike, in the middle of a meal himself, a few moments later belched out the reply. Celestia seemed concerned. Stating she’d look into what Twilight had said and would get back to her when she knew more. Now she only had to wait, but how long...she had no idea.
-
“I can’t believe I’m doing this…”
It had been over a week since the message had been sent, and as of yet, despite asking for an update Twilight had not received one.
Twilight had tried her best to keep herself sane around the constant gorging, her friends growing at an incredible rate. Right now, due to their eating to sizes now making them utterly immobile and unable to move under their own power at all, she was currently dragging two carts via her magic back from restaurant that had Spike and Starlight occupying them.
“N-not so fast Twilight! Kinda full in here…” Starlight said, she had really gorged herself immensely on the meal. Twilight had just about been able to use her magic to get her back in the cart to get her on the way to the castle with Spike. “O-oohhhhh that was a great session, can’t wait to go back for more!” she excitedly exclaimed as the cart was pulled along.
Twilight may not have agreed with what was going on, but she couldn’t deny helping her friends.
These weren’t exactly small carts either, but both Spike and Starlight were easily spilling over the edge. Their massive bulks filling the carts to the brim. Twilight dragged both of them back towards the castle after an intense eating session, every little bump in the road causing one, or both of them to belch as their bellies sloshed around trying to digest all that food. Eventually arriving back, she parked the two carts outside. Starlight asking Twilight “J-just leave us here for a while, g-gotta digest…” as Twilight left the two of them to digest their food. It was a sunny day, they’d be fine.
“G-gosh I’m so huge…” she continued from within the cart. There was sloshing too, she could see Starlight trying to grope at her belly and miserably failing to try to get a feel of its size.
Upon entering to the castle, Twilight once more entered the map room that now seemed to practically permanently house her friends. Each day it seemed to get smaller and smaller. The five of them had passed immobility a while ago and now were on their way to filling out the room with their increasing bulk. At the present moment, Twilight entered just as they had finished another meal. The room echoing with “Urrrrpppsss!” and “Bwaaarrrppps!” as the fat, immobile ponies let their stomachs settle.
The room was filthy, with only Twilight to clean up the spent wrappers, boxes and other flotsam it was starting to pile up rather quickly. The map itself was hardly visible anymore. The table stuffed full as much as her friends, except with garbage.
“Girls…” Despite her speaking, all Twilight heard was chewing and the smacking of lips. Her friends had hardly noticed her, their massive bodies making them far too fat to allow them to freely move their necks and observe her entering the room.
“GIRLS!” The next loud shout seemed to get their attention, at least Applejacks.
“Ah Twi! Yer’ back! We just finished...could ya order us some more food perhaps?” Applejack asked hardly batting an eye. Twilight just stood there, looking a her friends immobile bodies.
“Really?”
“Really what? It’s a pretty simple request…” Rainbow said.
“I mean really, you guys look like you’ve eaten enough food to feed several families, for at least two weeks or more. Have you seen the huge pile of garbage from all you’ve eaten? Not to mention the rest lying around the room. How much more food could you possibly want!?” she cried out.
“M-maybe we have over indulged?” Fluttershy started to ask, but she was cut off by a loud belching from outside.
“Hold that thought, I’ll be right back.” Twilight said, leaving the map room and trotting out to the carts that still held Spike and Starlight.
“Do yah think she’s gone to order more food?” Applejack asked.
“I hope so! I could eat a whole bakery!!!” Pinke enthusiastically replied. “And then the bakery in the next town over!”
Outside, Spike had shifted his position in the wagon slightly but both seemed to be rather out of it after being filled with food. There was a roll of parchment laying the ground besides him.
“Finally!” Twilight exclaimed, this was what she had been waiting for. Unrolling the letter with her magic she began to read…
Dear Twilight Sparkle
On your suspicions myself and Luna paid a visit to the closest branch of the Chaos Theory franchise. We found no issues as you’d suggested in your previous letter. The food was actually quite delicious. In fact after talking to the owner of the chain, we have both asked if they could bring a branch to Canterlot. They seemed hesitant at first but one supposedly should open next week. Twilight I can only thank you for bringing this to our attention. Quick, affordable and tasty food is just what the ponies of Canterlot could use.
Yours faithfully, Princess Celestia & Princess Luna
Twilight’s eyes darted back and forth across. She had to double check what was written. For a moment he stood, not believing what she had just read. Finally she let out an extremely loud, frustrated “ARRGGGHHHHH!!!” before stomping her way back inside the castle. She was not pleased. Returning to the map room her friends were scrounging around for any leftovers from the previous meal. Like true fatties a number of the boxes had been discarded almost full. There was still apparently a fair amount of food to eat.
“Something wrong dear?” Rarity asked her, taking note of her rather upset looking demeanor.
“I give up. Nopony thinks anything is wrong. You’re all the size of houses and none of you care.” she said, sounding utterly defeated.
“Well I think house-sized is a bit of an unfair comparison…” Fluttershy said. At this point Rainbow managed to heave her massive bloated form forward slightly, putting together a small collection of what food was left.
“Twilight, are you sure you won’t have something? You look so stressed and upset. Some food will help…”
For a moment Twilight almost gave in, the offering was tempting. But she had been asked before to get them something. She didn’t think it fair to take what little was left, she wasn’t even that hungry.
“No thanks, but I’ll go out and get you guys something. You need more.”
“Ohhhh, hooray!” Pinkie exclaimed. “Thanks Twi! You’re the best!”
“No problem...back soon.” she said, her voice still full of defeat. Perhaps getting out for a short while would help clear her head. She left the castle, trotting down the front stairs back towards town.
-
Twilight had almost tried to be blinkered before when she took Spike and Starlight into town. She just assumed other ponies had grown, but she had paid no attention to what had been going on around her. It was just get in, feed them, leave.
But now she couldn’t take her eyes off the ponies around her. They had all grown huge, immobile ponies being dragged around by other fat ponies in carts were everywhere. Houses were in ruins, the doorways no longer sufficiently wide to get their huge, lardy bodies inside. It was like she was surrounded by blubber wherever she went. At a guess, she was the only slim pony left in town.
As she passed town hall, a fat but somehow still mobile Mayor Mare was squished up on the stage, her body pressed between the back wall and only being stopped from pushing off the edge by the front lectern. In front of her, a number of other obese ponies. Either lying on their huge belly beds or or carts were listening. A number were stuffing their faces. Just in earshot as she walked by, she heard the mare exclaim.
“...with it’s grand re-opening. I am pleased to say Chaos Theory will now be open 24/7! If you’re hungry at 2am, they’ll be there!” followed by a large cheer from the crowd. There was a CRACK! The flimsy wooden lectern gave way, too much for the Mayor’s heft, sending her spilling forward as her massive bulk pushed her off the stage, ponies still cheering. Twilight was perplexed. Re-opening? It had only just opened a few weeks ago. In fact she had been there only an hour before. How could it be re-opening?
Arriving at Chaos Theory the building seemed to have enlarged in size since she had visited. This threw her off even more, it had only been an hour. In that time, they seemed to have managed to shut, almost rebuild onto a much larger premises and then open. Another banner out the front proudly read “Now open 24/7!”.
She was about to go in, but her vision was met with a massive pair of hefty rears trying to squeeze their way through the over triple wide front doors. Lyra and Bon-Bon where both trying to get in at the same time, their huge bloated bellies and then their extra wide flanks almost getting wedged as they heaved themselves forwards. It seemed the etiquette of the line had gone, and fat obese ponies were now just trying to cram themselves in as quickly as they could to get to the food.
After some sweating, pushing and puffing the two of them finally got inside, and Twilight was easily able to make her way in. The interior still retained the same look, but the seats were more massive, the tables were bigger. In fact everything seemed to have fattened up much like the patrons, to accommodate their huge sizes. Even the counter was twice as wide and seemed to have much larger, almost immobile ponies serving behind it. They still had to be able to get around however, there were customers to serve.
As Twilight waited in line, or at least the vague semblance of a line, she had another look at who was inside eating their way to immobility - if they weren’t there already.
One of the booths taken up by Vinyl Scratch and Octavia, both ponies hefty bodies pressing into the table as Vinyl was feeding them both via her magic. Levitating fries and everything else into their mouths. Both ponies far too big to be able to reach forward and use their hooves. At that moment, there was a small snapping noise. Rather comically Octavia’s bow tie, which sat around her neck, snapped off. The elastic ribbon that held it in place stretched out far too much by her spare tyre sized neck. There was a slight moment where they both stopped, before Octavia just shrugged her shoulders and Vinyl continued feeding them both. Pushing a burger between her friends lips that quickly vanished.
In another counter, it seemed a massively obese Cherilee was not only trying to eat, but also read up on some sort of work for her students. A book titled Eating And You, How Being Bigger Can Be Beneficial was balanced on her stomach as she tried to work the food around it, the pages greasy from the fat that soaked the fried food. The thin paper almost see through having had Cherilee touch it so much with her hooves.
Eventually Twilight reached the front and ordered a generous amount of food, paying and magically levitating it up to get it back to the castle. The whole ordeal took practically seconds. It was no wonder ponies were so big if the food came that fast. Again she decided to leave quickly, she could already feel greedy eyes hungrily eyeing up the food she had. She also didn’t fancy running into Grilled Cheese again, lest the offer of more food came her way.
A short trip later and she made it back to the castle, unceremoniously releasing the food from her magical grasp.
“There, happy?” she said, letting her friends start to eat as she parked herself in her seat. This was all they cared about now. Eating. The whole town, she was the only one left who seemed to be resisting. At least, up until now…
“You’re clearly not dear. Look, just try a single fry. That won’t hurt will it? Just one? Might lift your mood?” Rarity offered her. Twilight just sighed. The single fry dangled in front of her face, held aloft by Rarity’s magic. What would be so bad about one fry?
“Fine, just one.”
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Epilogue
She had no idea why she was so resistant to the food. No clue at all.
A good amount of time had passed now. Since that single fry, Twilight and her friends had eaten, eaten and done nothing but eat. It was impressive actually, Twilight herself once she started had rather quickly caught up to all her friends. Each of them now occupied a large portion of the map room. In fact they had gotten so large they were starting to press up against one another. More space would be needed soon if they were to grow.
The food itself was delicious, Twilight had never tasted fast food like it. After that first fry she had asked for a few more. Then a burger. Then a wrap. Then a shake. From there she had started to gorge, her friends cheering her on. Happy she had finally joined them in their love for the food. She couldn’t even remember now why she was so resistant to it in the first place. Why she had put so much effort into avoiding it and why she hadn’t just eaten some sooner.
Being fat wasn’t so bad either. She felt much more content. Her body felt soft, warm and hefty. Sure she couldn’t move herself under her own power anymore, her fat frame pushing her to immobility. But she could magic herself around. It was easy to poof off to the restaurant and then poof back with an order. Everypony in the room cheering for her and thanking her when she did. It felt nice to be appreciated.
In the middle of the seventh meal of the day, Twilight heard the door open behind her. She stopped eating, calling out “Who is it?” wondering who had arrived.
“Grilled Cheese Princess! I see you like our food now just as much as your friends!” came the reply.
“Ah come in! Don’t mind us, just eating...ehehe.” replied Twilight.
“So I see, well please don’t let me interrupt. I just wanted to drop by a small thank you to you all. You have quickly become our best customers! And with the added bonus of Royalty endorsing our store I can’t thank you enough. I hear on the grapevine it was your doing that convinced Celestia and Luna to approach the owner to open a store in Canterlot.” he said with a cheery smile, now between Twilight and Applejack, who was positioned to Twilight’s left, he squeezed through their bulk. The unicorn himself was employing the use of a levitation spell. He dropped a large number of boxes full of food on the table.
“As I said, a gift. Some new menu items to try. I’d love to hear your feedback after you’ve eaten! I’ll come back later.”
Quickly, the fat friends did their best to get at the new food, discarding their current meal. Already approving “Mmmmmms!” were echoing through the room. Twilight thanking the stallion as he left them to eat their fill.
Once outside in the clear, the pony known as Grilled Cheese vanished. In the blink of an eye, a grinning Discord took his place.
“Haha, that was too easy. Of all things I tried before, who would have thought it would be simple, addictive, super fattening food that would get them all in the end?” he said to himself with a cackle.
He looked around, there wasn’t much to observe outside the castle but he could see much of the town as he brought himself above it to look down and observe the chaos. Ponies waddling around on the streets, easily pushing against each other as they struggled with their massive, jiggling bodies. Some struggled to move at all, employing carts to be dragged along for their next meal. He laughed to himself when he saw one take a seat on a park bench, then immediately having it snap like a twig under their enormous rear, sending them crashing down to the floor. It was probably the biggest concentration of cellulite in one place, he could practically hear bellies sloshing and bodies jiggling as the now elephant-like ponies waddled their way around. If they weren’t immobile, immobility was just a few mouthfuls away. Pleased, he brought himself back down to ground level.
“All I need now, is to expand this chain across Equestria. Soon everypony will be too fat to do anything…” he continued, the grin on his face getting wider. Another blink of a spell and Grilled Cheese reappeared, laughing to himself all the way back to the restaurant. He had to get more food for the fat ponies in the castle...a lot more food indeed.
