"Who knew there was a hollowed out cavern right behind Neighagra Falls?" Pinkie asked. She looked out through the waterfall that the cave was convieniently hidden behind.

"Again, if you brushed up on your geography or Equestrian modern history, you would have known that. Neighagra falls used to be a tourist trap." Twilight answered, pointing towards a decomposing candy cart. The pink mare began to scavenge for any left over candy, finding stale taffy and a long expired bag of fruit snacks.

"Aw, somepony beat us to the good loot," she whined, chewing the rock solid candy; the sound of bricks braking echoing through the cavern. "Needs some seajelly." Pinkie turned towards Twilight with a facial expression that said, "hand it over." Twilight shook her head, denying her friend of the substance that had screwed them over.

"No way, I think the seajelly has done enough to us." Twilight refused.

"But it's all we have left for food right?" Pinkie begged, grasping the unicorn's leg.

"You're right," the unicorn answered. "We'll just have small doses if we need to, but for now expired candy will work." Twilight grabbed a large clump of taffy. "Mmm. Strawberries."

"I'm jonesing real bad Twilight. I need that seajelly." Pinkie begged.

"I had way more than you, and I feel fine."

"Well not everypony has a high tolerance to seajelly!"

"I ate a tree," she answered bluntly. "Which is a way better substitute than seajelly."

"But seajelly will make that tree taste like-"

"Chocolate, I know. That's why I ate it." Twilight said in a justified sense of embarrassment.

The night sky darkened as Twilight predicted, and she was glad that they were even slightly ahead of her schedule; besides the fact that they were left behind by the train and were missing the convention by two or so days. Pinkie Pie slumped against the wall, reaching out for the discarded sweets.

"Twilight, how long do you think it'll take until somepony actually goes looking for us?" Pinkie asked, looking beyond the opening of the cave. The view of Equestria magnified with the rushing water.

"The search will probably start the moment we reach Fillydelphia." Twilight joked.

"Two mares declared missing found ten minutes later in Fillydelphia." Pinkie Pie said, imagining the headline. They giggled at the silly thought and watched the water rush past them; the magnified view of Equestria at sunset giving them a breathtaking view. What was even more breathtaking was the train passing the waterfall. The two watched the train move by. accompanied with a chance of getting picked up along the way.

The sheer cold of the night was something that neither of them wanted to experience again. The water often splashed away from the path and would splash Twilight or Pinkie Pie with the near freezing water.

"Not again..." Twilight groaned, wiping the liquid out of her mane. She was absolutely freezing, and was forcing herself in a fetal position to keep warmth in her body. Twilight then thought of the seajelly; some of the after effects that produce a warm feeling finally presenting itself useful.

"If the situation called for it, I think I could risk another attack." Twilight conjured the jar in front of her; she stuck her hoof into the jar and ate a hooffull of it. Seconds later she felt her internal body temperature rise, and the warm feeling engulfed her again. Her second dose of the seajelly seemed to have been more responsive; the effects happening in seconds rather than minutes. Twilight thought it was a good thing since she had to eat less, but the hallucinations told a different story.

Twilight looked into the reflection of herself in the water. She saw that she had wings sprouting from her back; she tried to move them and they moved like she had commanded them to. She ran her hoof across the feathers, feeling the soft slippery feathers. She smiled a wide goofy smile and turned to her sleeping friend.

"Hey I have wings!" Twilight shouted, receiving a groan from her friend.

"Cool." Pinkie said lazily, turning to her side away from the unicorn.

"I'm just gonna go and take these wings out for a spin,' she said, looking to her sleeping friend for approval. Pinkie Pie only waved her hoof to give her blessing on an ill advised attempt at flying. Especially since Twilight had a pair of make believe wings.

Twilight looked out to the edge of the waterfall. The sounds of water smacking the bottom the only noise in the cave. Twilight bent her legs and prepped herself for an optimal running position. The purple unicorn took off running towards the gap; her hoofsteps echoing in the cavern. She reached the edge and jumped, blasting through the water. She closed her eyes and let the breeze hit her. She extended her nonexistent wings and felt the wind pick up more.

Twilight opened her eyes and found herself falling towards the basin in which the waterfall emptied out, and she didn't care that she was going to fall into a body of water that will give her hypothermia. She fell into the rough waters; she felt nothing but warmth in the pool. Twilight let herself just float lifelessly. The unicorn ran out of air in her lungs, and the water rushed into her mouth. Twilight didn't feel any pain and she let herself just drown, growing more and more unconscious by the second.

~~

The filly Twilight glared at the bathroom scale that determined her current weight. The little red needle dragged itself across the insignificant early numbers of the scale. The scale began to sway from left to right; teasing the filly with its shakiness. It swung side to side, eventually slowing to a stop. The girl looked to the scale to see her weight.

She was five pounds heavier than the last time she checked.

The unicorn shrieked loud enough to be heard in the halls of the castle. She dove face first into her bed and shouted into the muffling fibers of the pillows. She cursed everypony she knew; she cursed Celestia, the school ponies, her parents, but not once has she mentioned chocolate or any other types of sweets that were most likely the root cause of her problem. It was a few minutes of her complaining and whining before there was a loud knock on her door.

"Twily? Is something wrong?" Shining Armor's concerned voice came from the other side of her dorm's door. She used her magic to open the door, letting in her worried older brother inside. The white unicorn noticed the purple lump that made sniffling noises on the bed. Her joined her on the bed and ran an armored hoof through her mane. He muttered soft words to comfort her, and she eventually stopped her wails.

"All better?" Shining asked, smiling warmly at her. Twilight nodded, and she sat up next to him. "Now tell your big brother what's wrong." Twilight nodded again and told him a long story on the teasing from the school ponies and her weight gain. She left out the details of the diet spell Celestia left for her. The filly didn't want her older brother to look down on her for using a spell like that. "Don't listen to what everypony has to say about you. There's always going to be that one jerk that will always come up with a snide comment, but it's nothing to be self centered." He paused for a minute to let the unicorn take in the advice that the unicorn had heard hundreds of times before.

"Now I have to. My commander's going to chew my ear off for leaving." Shining said, rising from the bed. Twilight had a look on her face that pleaded to her BBBFF to stay with her. "Who's your best BBFF?"

"You are," she said with a small hint of glee in her voice, finally connecting with someone that said something wise. Her mother was nice, but she wasn't a person to talk to in her times of needs since she would always tell embarrassing stories of her foalhood.

"I know," he said cockily, running out the door to rejoin his training schedule.

~~

Twilight began to cough and sputter; the seajelly's effect had worn off, and the unicorn was coughing up full glasses of water. The purple unicorn saw the pink pony that she had assumed had just rehabilitated her, and by the looks of her own half open mouth and strange scent and taste of cupcake on her breath and mouth, she did not want to know how. Pinkie muttered to herself something along the lines of thank Celestia.

"What just happened?"

"Hypocrite," the baker insulted, shunning the purple librarian. "You said I can't have seajelly, so you kept it all to yourself!" Twilight felt bad, knowing full well that she had told her friend to not eat the seajelly.

"Sorry, It's just that it was freezing and-"

"And you think I'm not?" Pinkie asked, gesturing to her straight, wet mane, presumably from diving in to save her. Twilight noticed that this was one of the first times that Pinkie Pie was genuinely angry.

"We're cold, wet, hungry..." Twilight came up with a short list of things to complain about. Pinkie's anger faded quickly, and she returned to her bubbly self as she now knew her friend was okay.

"I think we're all rested up." Pinkie said, picking up her fallen friend.

"Yeah the earlier we head out the better."

Sixteen hours. That's how long they have been walking. Sixteen long hours of nothing but walking, and by that point they ran out of any possible conversation other than a series of pained grunts and groans. Just saying that they were starving was an understatement. Neither of them had a proper meal in at least two days, and it was beginning to kill their stamina. The two did whatever they can to nourish themselves. Walking for several hours tends to bring out the hunger in ponies.

They scavenged berry bushes, stealing berries from angry woodland creatures if they needed to. Of course Twilight triple checked the berries to make sure none were poisonous, using her extensive knowledge of fruits and herbs. Twilight would levitate it in front of her eye, stare at it, and then deem it safe before eating it.

"Safe," the unicorn said before levitating another berry in her mouth. "Safe... Safe. Uh... Safe." Pinkie Pie instead shoved hooffulls of berries into her open mouth.

Of course with Twilight being too over cautious, she scolded the other careless pony on not being careful with her food. Pinkie Pie didn't seem happy by the constant nagging of her friend and said,

"Well I guess I'm not too over careful because of a ten foot pole up my butt!" Pinkie combated, earning a shocked look from the unicorn.

"I'm sorry..." Pinkie apologized awkwardly, stepping away from Twilight.

And no one ate dinner that night...

~~

"A pimple! I can't have a pimple!" Twilight shouted into a mirror. She had examined a minuscule blemish on her face. The zit had been conspicuously placed on her muzzle; the bright red pimple contrasted her purple coat enough to bother the filly. The obnoxious pimple was also enough to be noticed by anypony that looked at her face for more than a second. She stomped out of the bathroom and woke up the baby dragon that she shared her room with. Twilight retraced her steps, hoping to find the cause of her problems.

She had remembered her last night's study session. She was learning about the importance of communicating with other contrives that neighbored Equestria, and how they could improve the equine filled nation's economy. Of course she had her new study buddy chocolate to help her out. A sort of motivation to keep reading; she read a few pages at a time and then she would take a bite or two out of the chocolate bar. After an hours worth of studying, she noticed a substantial amount of chocolate on her muzzle.

"Chocolate doesn't cause acne. Right Spike?" Twilight looked at her assistant that slept in a basket by her bed. He didn't respond, so the cocoa faced filly used her magic to shake the baby dragon out of his slumber. He frowned at his caretaker and sat up from his makeshift bed.

"I don't know," he said in a rather annoyed tone. "I think it does..." Twilight planted her cheek directly against the table, groaning at her unwanted news. Twilight had heard countless times that the chocolate causes zits if eaten in abundance. The chicolate enthusiast often denied the statements, seeing no direct correlation between cocoa consumption and pimple production.

Her own thoughts weren't as bad as the teasing from the other students. It wasn't necessarily spiteful, but they pointed out her blemish followed with comments like "You're finally growing up," or "aww the foal's first pimple." Twilight was too embarrassed to lift her head up from the desk, anticipating another joke about her acne.

Another grueling day of school had passed, and her diet spell seemed to be useless. Maybe she didn't get something right, misspelling a word or a mispronunciation seemed to have been a logical reason.

"Ugh, just look at this!" Twilight yelled, grasping a layer of pudge around her gut. The filly was talking to herself again, using her knowledge of psychology to deduce her problems.

"Are you going to just do that all day?" Twilight's assistant asked, annoyed by the filly's complaining.

"Look at me I'm hideous!" Twilight screamed, exaggerating her lament.

"If you keep psyching yourself out it's only going to get worse," more advice from someone that Twilight should have taken to heart, but her denial for any logical advice seemed to get in the way so she could continue her consistent moaning. Just another tactic used by the common teenager to be cynical.

Well, she tried everything in her power. Everything except proper dieting and excersise, but who has time for that anyway? The unicorn decided to go straight to the interrogation. Celestia must have a method. The purple filly knew that Celestia had stuffed herself with cake. The personal protégée had accidentally caught her mentor in her time of... Feeding. It wasn't pretty. All she remembered was Celestia's jaw looking like it unhinged.

Memory wipe spells aren't at all accurate.

Luckily for her it was time for her another one of her weekly private lessons. Celestia and Twilight went about their business, doing the usual studying. Twilight began to count down the moments before Celestia had to leave to attend something important. It was now or possibly never since she might have not had the courage to confront her.

"This concludes our time for now. I'm going to have to-"

"Can I ask you something?" Twilight asked, looking up at her teacher. "Something personal..."

"I think you should talk to your mother about this."

"It's something I need you for." Twilight had said bluntly, surprising the princess with her straight-forwardness. Twilight began to pick her next words carefully: if she failed to capture her interest, Celestia would leave without saying a word, and if she hadn't articulated her words correctly Celestia would grow almost disinterested and uncooperative.

"I was kind of wondering if you left a certain spell for me on purpose..."

"No, I don't recall anything," she replied; Celestia kept a strange, stone faced formality to her cost faithful student. Twilight sighed, and she knew she had to find a tactic to pry information out of her.

"A specific 'diet spell,' does that ring a bell?"

"Nope not at all. I don't remember anything about a diet spell." Twilight was beginning to grow annoyed by the princess' stalling; the unicorn needed answers, and she was about to get them.

"Your made a comment on my weight." Twilight pointed out.

"Now that I remember." Celestia said, breaking her masterfully executed poker face with a teasing smile. Twilight seemed to have hated the insult, her expression souring at the useless information.

"Then what else do you remember?"

"I seem to recall a certain double calorie spell."

Author's Note

I use fanfics as a sort of self-therapy, but I'm pretty sure y'all noticed that already.

Also, if you think Pinkie Pie probably wouldn't say that to Twilight: take the most happy person on Earth, starve them, force them to walk for miles without rest, freeze them, have them craving for a certain off the market type of product; while their friend was enjoying it behind their back, and see if they're still cheery after that.