Starlight Glimmer put her quill back into its inkwell and leaned back to reexamine the document in full. As her eyes slowly scanned each of the lines one last time, she couldn't help but to lick her lips out of habit. Though she felt a slight tremble develop in her legs, she breathed a long sigh, reminding herself that there was still work to do after this. She knew she couldn't stifle her excitement for very long, but luckily, with the completion of this spell, she might not have to.
  Once she was satisfied with the document, she nodded to herself, checking off a final box on her mental checklist. She rolled up the parchment and set it aside, before drawing out one more sheet of parchment and laying it out before her. She drew her quill once more and began to write once more.
 "Dear Princess,
  "I have a proposal for you, if you are so inclined to hear my request. In my studies, I have found a powerful spell, that very well may end many of our problems. All I ask of you is to meet with me one week from now, at Canterlot Castle..."
 ...
  Twilight walked up the steps to the grand palace that lead to the Princess's throne room. She had dwelled on the invitation to this mysterious ritual for the past few days, excited for what her pupil would have come up with, but equally nervous that she might get carried away overdoing it again. Sure, she had come a long way, but that didn't mean that old habits didn't die hard. Despite that, however, she let Starlight have the benefit of the doubt, and just reassured herself before finally walking into the wide open portal to the royal court.
  Within the massive room, she was greeted with the sight of a small group of familiar looking ponies; one unicorn pupil, and three alicorn princesses, all flanked by a small handful of guards. She was almost surprised for a moment, that even Cadance had come down south for this meeting as well, leaving the duties of running the Crystal Empire for such an event. Whatever her pupil had in mind for them, it must have been rather significant if the two alicorn sisters weren't enough for this hearing. It only intensified her split feelings she felt even more.
  "Greetings Twilight," the tallest of the princesses suddenly called out "You're just in time. Do make yourself at home." Princess Celestia spoke with a voice just as warm as ever, even if she sounded a little more monotone than usual. She stood straight in her throne, tired eyes staring straight at the youngest alicorn as she approached. Twilight sighed gently, as she reached the foot of the elaborate structure the two elders sat on, and gave a quick nod of her head to her teacher.
  "It's always a pleasure, Princess," she said politely, before turning her attention to the unicorn. "So, Starlight. You sure seemed pretty excited in your letter, is this what you've been working on for the past couple weeks or so?" The unicorn nodded in response and took a scroll from her bag, using her magic to unroll it in front of Twilight.
  "I was a little worried I wouldn't be able to get this done in time for when Starswirl's commit passed over Equestria, but I found a solution that should be stable," the unicorn said as Twilight began to look over the scroll, speaking quickly as though she was already up to speed with this mysterious project. "It was difficult to estimate the proper distribution using Neightonian limits, but I figure if we use Mandelbreigh's fractal geometry therum, we can get a rough but useful model of Equestria's neighlines, assuming we can get an accurate measurement of their Hoursedroffian dimension. Now, if we're quick we can-"
  Twilight cleared her throat loud enough to shock the unicorn out of her expository trance. "Well, yes that sounds fascinating, but, what are you trying to do? Especially with something as unstable as Equestria's neighlines?"
  Starlight grinned a little nervously, and her cheeks visibly reddened a little. "Oh, right right, sorry, I've just been working so hard this morning, I guess I'm forgetting my manners," she said with a little chuckle. "Well, I figured...since things are a little bit peaceful for now, why don't we take some initiative and help every pony in Equestria all at once?"
  Twilight's eyes widened at this suggestion, almost having to stifle a gasp. She knew a Starlight solution from a mile away, and this one smelled particularly suspicious. Starlight must have realized Twilight's thoughts, as she immediately started to stammer in response.
  "I-I mean, you see, it's just a little...push to help ponies help themselves," she said a little shakily "It's not like I want to...turneveryoneintozombies," she mumbled a little quieter, before clearing her throat. "N-No no, I just want to open up ponies' eyes to the problems in their lives and...help them see how to fix it?"
  "...Starlight," Twilight said slowly and expectantly "This spell looks frighteningly similar to Mage Meadowbrook's truth telling charm but on a much larger scale. It'll likely make it so no pony in Equestria, maybe even the whole world, would be able to keep a secret again."
  "What? I mean, I'm not trying to ruin anyone's life. Just giving ponies a...a teeensy bitofclarvoyance..."
  There was a slight pause, as Twilight dropped her face into her hoof and sighed out long and slow. Glimmer looked nervously back and forth as she did, though didn't drop the facade of hope for her mentor to accept this plan of hers.
  "Even...if the elimination of privacy could help ponies," Twilight began slowly "you'd need an incredible amount of energy just to start the process...and who knows how much more to keep it from growing unstable and driving ponies mad."
  Starlight grins wide and nods enthusiastically "Well, that's why I've summoned you four here! With your help, we can keep this spell stable indefinitely!"
  "Even with all of our efforts combined, we'd only have about half of the energy we need to do anything on this scale!" Twilight says, a little exacerbated "As strong as we all are, this is way beyond us."
  "Well, the whole ritual helps take care of that! As long as we follow the steps laid out in the spell, we don't need the individual might of five spell casters!" Starlight replied confidently, even puffing out her chest a little.
  Twilight snorts in frustration, before turning to her own mentor. "Celestia...you've got my back on this one, right?"
  "I believe Starlight knows what she's doing. It's alright by me." Her mentor stares down at Twilight with an almost blank expression, with the faintest hint of a polite smile. Her sight is fixated on her, but...it didn't really feel like Celestia was really looking at her. Twilight suppressed a shiver, as a sharp chill ran down her spine.
  "L-Luna, what about you? You of all ponies should know the minds of other ponies intimately. Isn't this wrong?"
  "I agree with my sister." Luna replied, slowly, almost hesitantly "Starlight is a smart pony. I trust her." The moon princess had an almost hollow look to her, looking almost tranced by something, even as she stared right into Twilight's eyes. Combined with her lacking enthusiasm, the cold feeling in the pit of her stomach only grew deeper.
  "Cadance?" she barely managed to mumble out, "Is there something wrong with Celestia and Luna today?" But when Twilight turned to actually look at the princess of love, she beheld a visage even more decrepit than the first two. Her pupils were pinpricks, her body was held straight and unnaturally stiff, her vacant smile looked like it belonged more on a clown doll.
  "Whatever Starlight Glimmer says," the pink alicorn said in reply in a robotic sounding, monotone voice, without even looking at Twilight, rather, seeming focused on something far in the distance. It's like she wasn't even there.
  "Starlight?" Twilight said slowly "What did you do to them?" The unicorn screwed up her nose and turned her gaze away from her mentor.
  "I might have...hypnotized them all into...agreeing with me is all," she says with a nervous chuckle "I mean, believe me, they would have agreed with me either way. I just need their total cooperation so we can ensure we have enough power..."
  "What the heck, Starlight, I thought we've already talked about this!" Twilight snapped at her "It's one thing to do it with our friends, but the Princesses? Are you crazy?!"
  Starlight simply smiled and waved her hoof lazily toward Celestia, who's horn started to glow a brilliant sunflower yellow. Before Twilight could react, she was enveloped in a thick, warm aura, grasping tight around her entire being, before she was lifted up and off the ground, effectively trapping her in a magical prison.
  "Wh-what the heck? Starlight!" Twilight cried as she writhed in the air. She concentrated on using a teleportation spell, but found that all her horn could do was spark uselessly. She was helpless to do anything but squirm feebly and watch as the unicorn approached her, with an off putting, faux sincere smile.
  "Please please, Twilight, I'm exhausted from putting three incredibly powerful ponies under my control," Starlight said with a gentle hum, before running a hoof along Twilight's cheek "Can you please just cooperate with us for a little while? I promise. Everything will be alright."
  Twilight quaked gently in the magical grasp, trying her best to shy away from that hoof, but ultimately unable to do more than just squirm. "And what...are you going to do?"
  "Oh...nothing really." the unicorn hummed. She then made a 'come hither' gesture toward Cadance, who nearly immediately sprang forward, stopping just before the smaller pony. "Oh, Cadance?" she asked softly.
  "Yes, Starlight Glimmer?" Cadance asked in response, in that same trained, obedient tone.
  "Would you be so kind as to lend me your energy?"
  Cadance blinked twice before nodding slowly. "Of course, Starlight Glimmer, whatever you say." She then brought her muzzle down low, as if to bow to the unicorn before her.
  The blood in Twilight's veins immediately began to boil. Did Starlight really intend to turn these near godlike beings into nothing more than lowly subjects, bound only to her and her whims? The thought almost gave the young alicorn a headache out of rage. But then, as though to spite her very thoughts, something completely unthinkable, and more over surely impossible, happened.
  Without so much as a glow or a flash to imply a prepared spell, Starlight simply opened her mouth wide in front of the hypnotized alicorn, as though to eat her muzzle. But her jaws stretched open wide enough to take in an entire pineapple. Or maybe more aptly, the head of the defenseless alicorn who stood before her now.
  Without hesitation, Starlight drew Cadence's head in towards herself, until her chin pressed against the soft pink tongue just within the small cavern, and then simply continued to tug at the princess, pulling her muzzle ever deeper into that maw, before those jaws stretched over the crown of her head, and with a simple motion, her lips clamped down around her neck.
  Left speechless at the ease at which Starlight had engulfed the princess's entire head within her maw, she did nothing as the horrifying sight continued and, with a deep, guttural swallow, that head was pulled down into the unicorn's throat, evident from the now impossible and visceral bulge that hung below her neck. which only grew wider as more and more of Cadance's body was engulfed by the smaller pony.
  Within moments, Starlight's lips had stretched themselves over Cadance's shoulders and began to travel down her chest, as her throat simply worked down more and more of the large body, pulling her in one swallow at a time. In almost no time at all, the pink alicorn's waist vanished between those lips, leaving only those broad hips and those toned thighs.
  Starlight then rolled back onto her rump and, in an impressive feat of strength, lifted the lower half of that pony up and over her head, before relaxing her throat, and allowing her to come sliding in. Her jaws and throat stretched around those wide hips, which slid down the fleshy tunnel with a bit of effort, but once she had claimed them, those ping legs standing up right in her maw disappeared swiftly, as a quick few swallows dragged those thighs and calves into her maw, and within moments, was able to close her lips over those hooves, finally claiming the entirety of the pink princess.
  Then, after a sturdy swallow, the unicorn let out a long, loud sigh, and rested her hooves on her now utterly bloated belly, filled with the vague form of the pony who stood before her only moments ago. With a soft hum, Glimmer stroked her hooves up and down the massive form of her belly, feeling the bumps and curves of the mass inside.
  "H-How is that even...possible?" Twilight said once she finally found her voice "This is barbaric! Who taught you this...vile magic?" she said, voice quivering as she barely kept herself from sobbing outright.
  "Oh, I assure you," the unicorn replied "I discovered this on my own a looong time ago. I just never quite found a use to turn an entire pony's body into pure energy until...well, something as big as this came around." Starlight paused and put a hoof up to her chest, scrunching up her nose for a moment, before letting out a small burp, which only constricted her stomach a little more. "Ah...and how delicious they turn out to be," she hummed lazily as she gestured toward Luna.
  "Th-this just isn't right," Twilight sputtered, starting to lose her voice again, as the next princess, although somewhat hesitantly, followed in the pink one's hoofsteps, and approached the small unicorn, but this time, turning away from her, and laying on the ground, with her hindlegs outstretched far behind her, mere inches from where Starlight sat.
  "Hm...maybe. But this way's slightly easier on the throat," was all Starlight said, before lifting up both of Luna's hind hooves, each nearly the width of a pony's head as it was, and put together it ought to have been quite the feat. It did not, however, make her hesitate for even a moment, as she opened that horror inducing maw once again and closed it around those hooves.
  For a moment, her cheeks bulged out with the form of those broad things stuffed inside, but she worked up enough leverage to make the plunge and, with a tug from her magical grip, they pushed into her throat, which immediately took hold of them, and began to pull the larger princess in earnest.
  Within only a few swallows, Luna's sizable rump pressed up against Starlight's wide stretched lips, which strained to contain her broad hips, squeezing tight around that rump for a few moments, until Starlight's throat overcame the width of that rump, and pulled the huge mass in, ballooning up as the round shape passed through, one twitch at a time, before finally disappearing down into her slowly growing belly.
  In no time, Luna's belly and chest befell a similar fate, and it wasn't long before the moon goddess's forelegs were pushed up high above her head, which was quickly becoming framed by that maw. With a few more firm swallows, those lips soon overtook her nose, and left the mare inside only a small window of the world left to see, for the brief moments she had, as Glimmer consumed more and more of her, until those broad forehooves slipped in with a light pop, letting her close her mouth once more. It didn't take long for the second princess to slip down into that hot, tight stomach, which growled loudly in complaint, as she was packed in by that powerful throat.
  And again, she let out a deep sigh as her belly, which was now far larger than she was, settled, with the two still charmed mares wriggled into a comfortable position inside the hot chamber.
  "So...Twilight," Glimmer said slowly, leaning over that wriggling gut, and putting her chin in her hooves, resting atop the two ponies she just devoured. "It would be nice to have a pony about as smart as I am to help me out with this spell...what d'ya say?" she said in a light, conversational tone "Wanna skip the whole...getting eaten part, make Starlight fat, and just get right to the help Starlight make history part?" she said, just as a loud growl escaped her stomach, which was already ever so slightly softer than before.
  Twilight, on the other hand, couldn't quite express the horror she felt, once again unable to make a sound as the unicorn now looked toward her, expecting an answer. After a moment of uncomfortable silence, undertoned by the soft sound of growling, the unicorn shrugged, and her own horn lit up, enveloping Twilight, taking her from the golden glow that previously surrounded her.
  "Well, I guess that's too bad," she started again, before making that same hoof gesture toward Celestia who, just as the others did, followed her wordless command to the letter. "I was really looking forward to it, would have been really impressive, you and I," she droned on, as Celestia took her place in front of Starlight. Celestia, however, simply stood, turned around, and backed right up to the unicorn, shading her with her immense ass, which was big enough to smother a pony to death if she wanted to. But it seemed like it was exactly what Starlight was hoping for, as, all she did in preparation, was simply tilt her head up, and open her maw again, like a baby chick waiting for her mom to feed her.
  And feed her Celestia did, lowering that massive ass down until she was all but sitting on the unicorn's face, nearly smothering her completely as she did so.
  Once again, in the most impressive display of flexibility and control, the unicorn once again let her muscles and joints relax and stretch farther and farther, opening her jaws wider and wider, until her maw finally, barely, started to stretch over the widest part of the biggest pony in Equestria. Despite that ass being wider than any any cannibal pony had any business eating in one sitting, Starlight devoured that ass inch by inch, groaning as more of the stallion killer ass pushed its way into her, and began invading her smooth throat, which had to work hard to open up for the massive hunk of meat and fat.
  The sight was simply unbelievable. For as impossible as it should have been, Glimmer's throat stretched wider and wider, and slowly consumed the ass, one pain staking inch at a time, bulging out with its massive form, from end to end, in the perfectly round shape of its meal. Finally, that bulge edged its way down, past her collar, and deeper into her body, where Celestia would ultimately end up, after a mere finite amount of firm gulps.
  Starlight took a short break with her maw wrapped around Celestia's shoulders, letting the massive Diarch simply sit there, suspended, looking right at Twilight with a carefree expression. It was off putting how calm, even pleased her old mentor looked.
  "This is pretty hot, Twilight," she suddenly said, without any hint of worry in her voice "You really should try this, huh?" Before she could say any more, she sank down another few inches, into the slimy depths of Starlight's maw, her muzzle disappearing only moments later, leaving Glimmer to finish off the forelegs, which were all that was left of the solar princess.
  With one, strong, almost greedy swallow, the golden horseshoes of the massive princess slipped past those lips and, in one moment, were gone. Pulled down to the depths of her massive belly, until she landed deep inside, filling the small mare up 5 times over, and giving her a belly that was large enough for the mare herself to stand up inside.
  With one final sigh of relief, Starlight let her head lay right atop the shifting belly, with a wide, goofy smile, as the feeling of sheer fullness overcame her. She was panting gently as she sat there, clearly exhausted from the effort, but seeming to have an unsettling amount of confidence on her face still.
  "Well, Twilight. Last chance," she said, as she moved Twilight over, right above her head, looking up with a sly, if tired, smile.
  Twilight simply spat meekly, trying to put up one last show of defiance, but hardly having the spirit to do so. And so, with the last threshold past, Starlight sighed.
  "Coulda made a great team, you know," she said, before she opened that maw once again. For all that she had forced herself to swallow, she seemed to have an incredibly easy time letting her jaws hang open wide enough to let an entire watermelon inside. Now, Twilight found herself hanging above a wet, fleshy abyss, with nothing more she could do, than to hang there, and await her fate.
  And Glimmer did not give the final alicorn much time to wait, as she immediately found herself falling downwards, right toward that gaping maw. When her rump touched flesh, she found herself easily sliding down the still slick surface of that broad tongue, and down into the loose opening to that pulsating throat. Wtihin only a second, Twilight had slipped down right up to her neck, and once those lips closed up around her neck, there was nowhere she could go, as she was pulled down into the hot, silky tunnel one twitch at a time.
  With a gentle suckle, Twilight was completely enveloped, and with one, well controlled swallow, she was pulled down into that abyss, and, in only a moment, was just gone. As the last bulge slipped down into the unicorn's chest, Twilight's fate was sealed, and reduced to little more, than another bump on the cruel unicorn's midsection.
  Starlight simply sighed happily and pat her belly a couple times, looking quite proud of her accomplishment, having devoured four of the most powerful ponies in all of Equestira, in one sitting no less. The digestion hardly began, and she could already feel the vast amount of energy pouring into her body, warming up every square inch of fur that lay on her cheeks back and thighs.
  But the feeling wouldn't last, as biology took over and forced a deep slumber over the mare, now powerless to resist her stomach's demand to rest, and closed her eyes, as she lay atop of her belly bed.
 ...
  Just as quickly as she felt sleep come over her, Starlight snapped awake, eyes shooting wide open and ears perking up, as wakeful energy flowed into her once again. With a yawn, she stood herself up from the stony floor she had unfortunately left herself on, and shook each of her heavy legs to get proper feeling in them again.
  She lumbered over to the small fountain at the base of the throne and quickly splashed a hoof full of the stuff onto her face. Feeling more wakeful now, she looked down into the mirror to take a look at herself.
  To her surprise, the pool of water on the ground was much farther away than it should have been. She blinked her eyes and looked again, this time taking notice of her much longer, and thicker, forelegs. Looking back along her body, she first took notice of the wings that had suddenly become a part of the landscape, and just beyond them, the much fuller ass and thighs, that seemed full of power, yet soft as a pillow.
  Having had digested and processed four alicorns in their entirety, Starlight found that she became one herself, towering high above a normal pony's height, perhaps even taller than Celestia, and touting a much pudgier body, with a rear that fill two seats back to back. To test this, Starlight turned and unceremoniously sat down in the unusually wide throne, where Celestia would have sat.
  To her surprise, she hardly even fit in it, being squeezed in on both sides, squishing her rump cheeks firmly against the gold hoof rests.
  No matter, she could always order a new throne later. For now, she remembered she had something big, and powerful, to attend to.
  In a fluid motion, Starlight scooped up the discarded scroll and brought it toward herself, and quickly read the lines she had scrawled down earlier. Then, with a glow of her horn, she started her spell, with a mystic chant.
  As she spoke each syllable, the air around her fizzled and the skies dimmed. Potted plants were tossed about and spilled their possessions across the floors, but the new alicorn gave it no heed, as she dutiful spoke each word aloud with perfect accuracy.
  And once the final word was spoken, her while body began to shine bright white, blinding anyone else who may have been in the throne room, as the spell took full effect.
  And there she was, enveloped by the hot magic sizzling all around her, lasting nearly a full minute, causing more and more chaos, before it finally subsided completely, and allowed the room a moment to breathe.
  Starlight let out a soft sigh and smiled wide. She had done it. She had made her ponies incapable of lying. Now all she had to do was test it.
  She pointed to a nearby guard, lifting his hypnotism spell for the moment.
  "You guard! Tell me a lie, what is two plus two?" she said, in her best regal voice.
  The guard, although looking absolutely confused, cleared his throat and simply sid "Eh...five, miss."
  "five."
  Starlight cleared her throat. "Hehe, um...what was that? I don't think I heard you right, did you say...four?"
  The guard gave her a sneer and shook his head. "Five," he grumbled, before shaking his head and starting to head away from the throne "And thanks for not waking me up, Celestia's gunna kill me, I swear..."
  Starlight blinked a few times, as she felt the weight of what happened fall on her.
  "No matter, I can just try the spell again, right? After all I'm still a powerful alico-" she stopped suddenly as she looked down again at her now, once again, tiny pony body. Average and familiar to the mare, with the only difference being the dozen or so waist sizes that had been added to her body, every subtle movement making her form jiggle a little.
  Reduced to nothing more than a small pony fat off of eating a few hundred pounds of meat and fat.
  "Oh no...oh no oh no, how did this happen? I didn't absorb them all as fat with that spell, did I?!" she asked the air frantically, padding her hooves up and down her body to confirm her small, pudgy stature. Just then, a sudden, mighty, unruly belch escaped her lips, and out from her throat came a couple dozen pieces of jewelry; twelve shoes, three breast pieces, and four crowns, each adorned with their respective late owner's cutie mark. Each of the pieces clattered to the ground one by one, before coming to rest in one great big pile of saliva, that coated every ornament.
  She blushed hard as she stared at the sheer amount of metal that came up her throat and glanced side to side, hoping no one saw that. Hoping that no one saw the evidence that the leaders of Equestria were nothing more than pudge on the rump of some unicorn who wasted their power on a miscalculated spell.
  "Oh horse apples," she muttered.