Between Small Bravery and Big Shyness

After all those adventures, Rainbow Dash had to admit her attraction to be smaller when Fluttershy was nearby. The latter, although surprised, had received it well. Part of herself would never have imagined that from the blue pegasus, but another part of her accepted it wholeheartedly. Actually, she felt some kind of relief in the end, although it was hard to explain.

There was a period when those things were no longer mentioned. And then, one day, Rainbow told Fluttershy about her feelings. About her desire of doing it again and bringing there a potion like last time, without the surprise. Fluttershy interrupted her before she gets on her high horses by putting her hoof on her mouth.

“Shhh… I understand but… The fact is…”

“I get it if you don’t feel like it,” Rainbow sympathized. “This is quite… weird. Sorry bothering you with my crave for shrinking.”

“Listen, I don’t think like that,” Fluttershy assured. “Would…you like to join me tonight at the clearing behind my shed? I have to show you something. Please, come alone.”

“You can count on me!”

Once the night settled, Rainbow Dash went behind Fluttershy’s shed and walked for quite a while before reaching the desired place. There, the yellow pegasus has been quietly waiting for her, sitting on her flank and contemplating the forest.

“I’m glad you came, Rainbow,” Fluttershy began. “There’s something I kept to myself following my mission to cure the dragon. I don’t understand much about it myself, I just know that… well, just watch.”

Suddenly, Fluttershy seemed to focus on something and, little by little, her body grew in size. She grew slowly, until she reached the height of a tree nearby and then got even taller. Rainbow Dash soon found herself facing a thirty feet tall giantess (ten meters).

“Wah!” Rainbow exclaimed. “Without Twilight’s help?”

“I stored a lot of magical energy during my interventions,” Fluttershy explained. “It looks like I can control my size now.”

“Is it true?! That’s even better then!” Rainbow said enthusiastically. “Can you grow more?”

“I guess… I never went beyond that. I must say I was very scared the first time it happened. I almost alerted Twilight. I was so terrified, the only thing I wished at that moment was to regain my initial size. And then…”

Upon these words, Fluttershy began to shrink until her muzzle came just in front of Rainbow’s.

“I did get my normal size back but…”

With that, her shrinking resumed. Little by little, she found herself below the torso of the pegasus, until she was no longer as tall as her shins. In the end, she was smaller than blades of grass.

“I kept shrinking until I was Angel’s size! I didn’t know what to do! But focusing more…”

Fluttershy grew again and came back to Rainbow’s size once and for all.

“I finally managed to get my original size back! Following this event, I became aware of my ability but didn’t tell anypony about it. And when you talked about this desire to become small again, Rainbow, I thought it was the right time to tell you.

Rainbow Dash was speechless. She never thought it could be possible, but magic did still have unexplored limits. She didn’t know what to say about this.

“Humph… Rainbow. If that doesn’t suit you… I mean, if you don’t like… well…

Rainbow interrupted her with her hoof and whispered to her.

“No, that’s perfect. You’re so great, Fluttershy.”

Fluttershy couldn’t suppress a faint smile and some redness on her cheek. She was happy to feel accepted by her best friend. Others would surely have considered her some kind of monster, but Rainbow Dash looked cheerful about this particularity.

“Thank you,” Fluttershy replied, full of gratitude. “So, would you like to do something in particular?”

The blue pegasus knocked both of her front hooves together and exclaimed:

“Well, Fluttershy, I’d like you to make me feel very small compared to you! Go ahead and reach the top!”

“All right!” Fluttershy replied, feeling confidence coming back thanks to her friend’s encouragement.

Fluttershy laid down next to Rainbow. She closed her eyes and began to focus. Rainbow Dash first saw her flank growing, reaching her muzzle and then continuing its ascent even higher. Fluttershy quickly reached thirty feet (ten meters) but she continued to grow beyond this threshold. Her hind hooves were right in front of Rainbow and kept outgrowing her as she grew. Her entire foot could now cover the surface of any house, then the one of Twilight’s castle, then even a good portion of Ponyville along its length.

When she opened her eyes, she was amazed at how tall she had reached. Surely the same height as when she was taking care of the dragon. Fortunately this time, the darkness of the night and the clearing being sufficiently apart from the town were enough for her not to be seen by prying eyes. In the end, she liked to feel big. Especially when Rainbow was around now.

Thinking of Rainbow, she began to look for her on the ground, but she saw nothing. Nevertheless, she felt almost imperceptibly something caressing her right hind hoof. Looking as best as she could, she made out a tiny blue shape flying its way along her hoof, brushing the fur on her coat that had become immensely tall. She felt the gentle caress all the way on her leg, then it went around her flank, until it went up along her spine. The pleasant sensation of massage made Fluttershy shiver, as Rainbow moved closer to her head.

Rainbow was no taller than an ant compared to Fluttershy, but her speed was enough to make her feel all the sensations. Fluttershy could even feel the blast of air from her acrobatics on her eyes when the blue pegasus passed in front of her huge pupils and stabilized just above her muzzle.

“Fluttershy, you’re superb!” Rainbow exclaimed.

“You too, Rainbo…”

Fluttershy had replied instinctively with enthusiasm, forgetting the amplified sound of her voice. This caused a small shock wave which was enough to wake up all of Ponyville. Soon, all the little windows lit up. Fluttershy knew all too well what this meant and made a quick, panicked decision.

Suddenly, Rainbow saw Fluttershy’s muzzle move away from her and get closer to the ground. Fluttershy was shrinking fast, for fear of being seen, she had already reached thirty feet tall again (ten meters).

“Hey, wait!” Rainbow warned as she returned to the ground next to Fluttershy.

When she landed, Fluttershy was already no taller than a filly. She was continuing to shrink, reaching only one foot, one inch, one tenth of an inch… (thirty centimeters, one centimeter, one millimeter…)

“Stop!” Rainbow exclaimed.

With that, Fluttershy opened up her eyes again and realized that she had become minuscule. She had never become that small before, and was stunned as she gazed at the four blue hooves that exceeded her height a thousand times and the face of the pegasus that replaced the Moon. Rainbow looked worried, maybe she couldn’t see her anymore.

“Rainbow! Did you hear that racket?”

Rainbow Dash turned around to see Applejack joining her at a gallop. The din caused by her hooves was enough to shake the ground under Fluttershy, who struggled to keep standing up. In front of her, Rainbow chose to sit.

“I… I was looking for where it came from too!” Rainbow replied.

“I wonder what it was. That sound was so loud!’ the cowgirl exclaimed. “I’d never hear anything like that, even in Tartarus!”

Fluttershy was right next to Rainbow’s huge hooves and set out to use them to climb on the pegasus. Feeling a slight rubbing on her coat, Rainbow was convinced it was time to leave.

“Whatever it was, it must be far away now. And I’m sleepy,” she said, yawning. “See ya tomorrow to talk about it?”

“I’m still worried about it,” Applejack expressed. “I’ll keep searching for a bit, but I think you’re right.”

“Goodnight then.”

Rainbow stood up as she felt her fur wriggling on her back. Fluttershy shouldn’t risk falling in any way.

“Hey, Rainbow! You wouldn’t have seen Fluttershy by chance?”

Her ears perked up and she turned towards Applejack as she replied.

“You know her, she must be scared to death! She won’t leave her house tonight, I assure you.”

“Yes, indeed. I was wondering if she’d have taken flight too…”

With that, Rainbow Dash flew away and returned home. Exhausted, she went to her room. All these adventures made her slump on her bed where she fell asleep like a log.

In the early morning, Rainbow Dash woke up as usual, still dazed from her night. And like every morning, she put her white and blue striped socks on. She wouldn’t show them to anypony, but it was part of her morning ritual to better wake up.

She was in the beginning of her breakfast, sitting on her chair, when she felt something rubbing her right hind hoof. Realizing there was a bump underneath the cloth, Rainbow Dash quickly made the match.

“Oops, Fluttershy, I completely forgot about you! Why haven’t you regained your normal size all this time? Can’t you grow anymore?”

Hearing those words, Fluttershy proved the opposite, and the bump began to grow under the sock. Soon, the bump reached two inches and the fabric started to give way.

“Uh, not now Fluttershy! Rarity is not going to like sewing all of this again and it will be difficult for me to explain.

The bump reacted and shrank again, even disappearing completely, Fluttershy now becoming imperceptible behind the fabric, being much smaller than its thickness.

“Okay, I think I get it,” Rainbow observed.

With that, she began to take her sock off gently. The cloth slid down her hoof and a tiny yellow grain escaped from it. Landing on a carpet, the grain stood there for a while, next to the sock that was a hundred times bigger and Rainbow’s hoof. Then, it started to grow, Fluttershy’s features becoming more and more distinguishable.

Returning to her normal size, Fluttershy looked a little tired but still happy.

“You slept with me all night?” Rainbow questioned with a smirk.

“Yes, but with my real size.”

“Then why were you that small and hidden inside my sock this morning?”

“Uh, surprise?” Fluttershy replied, smiling.

“That’s what I thought,” Rainbow agreed.