“Come on, Twilight, make with the magic!” Rainbow Dash huffed from a corner of the Golden Oaks Library. She and Applejack sat side by side, looking bored out of their skulls as the smartest unicorn in Ponyville had her snout buried in a hefty tome of spells. Twilight peeked up from it only when Applejack gave a loud, exaggerated yawn, giving her two friends an annoyed glare.

“5 more minutes,” she promised, before diving headfirst back into the pages. Rainbow and Applejack looked to each other and rolled their eyes. “Just keep your minds clear and focused on something you truly desire. The spell won’t work properly if you let them wander.”

“I’m desirin’ some lunch right about now,” Applejack muttered to Rainbow, who giggled.

“Yeah, I skipped out cuz’ I thought this would be over and done, lickety-split. But I think I’m wanting something more than just a meal if this spell really does do what Twilight says.” Rainbow scratched her chin, her mind constantly floating back to the obvious things that the pegasus always considered. Speed. Strength. Endurance. Qualities she’s worked an awful lot on, with clear results. Though, Rainbow guessed, any sort of edge to help her become a Wonderbolt couldn’t hurt.

“You’re right,” Applejack agreed, although she found it harder to admit her own true desire wasn’t a big heaping meal for lunchtime. She tucked her hat down over her eyes and began to reminisce. Thinking what it would be like to be Apple Bloom’s age again. No worries or concerns about Sweet Apple Acres. Spending her days going from school to home and lounging out in the fields. Napping under an old golden delicious apple tree with the lovely aromas lazily wafting through the air. A wistful sigh escaped Applejack’s lips as she closed her eyes and waxed nostalgic, almost forgetting where she was.

A snap of a closing book tore the two mares from their thoughts, Rainbow and Applejack bonking heads as they shot up straight. “Done!” Twilight said, cringing seeing her friends rubbing ears with an eye clenched. “Er, the Dearest Desire spell should be ready...” Twilight ushered the book aside, the purple glow from her horn remaining illuminated as she brought forth a clipboard and quill. “Are you both ready?”

“Read as I’ll ever be,” Applejack stood and stretched.

“Lay it on us, Twilight!” Rainbow bowed as if to pounce, tail flagging behind her.

Twilight smiled and lowered her head towards the other two ponies. “Alright. Here goes nothing. Remember that I want you two to stick around after so I can take some comprehensive notes on the subject, to then report to the princess.” Applejack and Rainbow Dash nodded impatiently, and Twilight Sparkle closed her eyes, furrowing her brow in concentration. Her horn sparked back to life in an instant, light flooding the library, drowning out the sunlight pouring in. Applejack lowered her hat over her eyes while Rainbow threw a foreleg across her own, only hearing the thrum of magic building and Twilight grunting with effort. Then, in a thunderous snap, the light vanished and pink plumes of smoke erupted where the two test subjects stood.

Twilight peeked her eyes open to see nothing but the pink stuff, though she heard her friends coughing away as the smoke billowed. Twilight used her magic to throw open the windows, letting the excess flow out of the library while she waved a hoof in front of her face. “Girls?” Twilight called between coughs of her own. “Are you alright?” 

“Alright?” The bright smoke thinned out suddenly, with the assistance of big strong wings. Not the lithe sharp ones of a pegasus pony, but ones much longer and more-encompassing. A powerful downstroke of the large wings blew the rest away, and where Rainbow Dash stood moments ago stood an equine of similar color scheme, though different in most other respects: Sharp talons on the end of forelegs; a flaming rainbow mane that now hung below shoulders; muzzle dotted with a potent, powerful beak; and a height standing taller than most ponies in Ponyville: Rainbow Dash the Hippogriff stood high and mighty with her chest puffed proudly. “I’m better than alright! Your spell worked, Twilight!”

Twilight rushed to Rainbow’s side, clipboard in tow, and was already scribbling out some observations. “Look at you, Rainbow! You wanted to be a… kind of a griffon!” She took more notes and prompted Rainbow to extend a wing. Rainbow was lost in showing off her new form to Twilight for a moment, not taking note of any burgeoning habits and instincts now bubbling away in her mind. Something else snapped Rainbow from the moment. “Hey. Where’d Applejack go?” Twilight, too, blinked out of her stupor of discovery and started looking about for the lost earth pony. Rainbow and Twilight got their answer when they heard a light coughing noise from about their ankles, where some smoke still lingered. They saw a familiar hat waving it away, although the hoof grasping it was too small to be their friend’s. When the smoke cleared, a collective gasp rang out in the library, as a chubby little filly Applejack stood before them. Satisfied, Applejack put her hat on, only for the bring to sink over her eyes. She brushed it up and beamed at her gawking friends.

“Time for another childhood!” a slightly higher-pitched Applejack pronounced. “Yee-haw!” With a laugh Applejack took off, galloping about the library which seemed much bigger to her now. Twilight was furiously taking notes, muttering about things like age reversal and time distortion. Rainbow, however, stood stock still and was tracking every moment of the playful filly. The dormant prodding deep in the recesses of her mind lit up, and she was suddenly reminded that she hadn’t had a bite to eat that day.

And her friend galloping about the library was starting to look very tasty…

Twilight had sat herself down, tongue poked out, working on her third page of notes. Rainbow flared her wings and confidently strode past her, talons clicking to the wood as she slowly encroached on Applejack. Applejack stopped when a looming Hippogriff shadow encompassed her. She looked up and beamed at her friend. “What the heck kinda griffon is that, Rainbow? Ain’t seen nothin’ like it before!” Rainbow merely stood in front of Applejack and lowered her head, until the pair were at eye-level. Rainbow flicked her longer tail as a small growl escaped from her middle, her pink eyes narrowed and focused on the filly before her. “Uh-oh...”

“Sorry Applejack but I’m starving!” Rainbow leapt forward, broad wings splayed and claws outstretched. Applejack yiped and bolted, leaving the hippogriff with nothing but an oversized hat in her clutches. She laughed and tossed it aside while Applejack made a desperate gallop for the exit. “Always did enjoy a good chase!” Rainbow Dash took off with the assistance of her much more powerful wings. Applejack’s heart pounded in her chest as she motored her stubby legs towards the door, but she was no match for the physicality of the hippogriff chasing her. She didn’t make it halfway across the room before she felt talons clasp around her chubby sides and grip tight, Applejack’s legs still motoring despite being lifted into the air. “Lunch time!”

“Rainbow!” Applejack gasped, spun around and ending up snout-to-beak. “Knock it off, consarn it!” Other oaths died on Applejack’s lips, the filly’s eyes going wide as Rainbow’s beak did the same: A massive drooling maw was showcased to the filly, avian tongue ladling out and beckoning her in. Rainbow greedily lurched forward, cutting off a squeal from the filly and devouring half of Applejack on the spot. A contented murmur arose from Rainbow’s throat as she ate Applejack, chewing and compressing around the plump filly’s juicy form. Applejack’s hinds kicked and her tail flailed, but nothing stopped Rainbow Dash from enjoying her lovely meal.

Until Twilight saw what was going on.

“Rainbow Dash!” she exclaimed, trotting their way. Rainbow, who’d just clamped her beak around the pudgy rear end of Applejack, turned to face Twilight with a quizzical expression. Applejack’s tail flagged in desperation as saliva ran down her cheeks in viscous rivulets and a tongue played about the furry rump.

“Mmf?” Rainbow inquired.

“Hllllp!” a voice from her gullet roared.

“This… is… fascinating! You’ve clearly inherited the basal instincts of a pony predator! And you and Applejack are playing out the roles perfectly, just for the sake of this experiment!” Rainbow slowly blinked, then grinned, eyeing the purple pony over. If she played her cards right, Applejack wouldn’t be the only pony she could eat up that day. Her nerves burned to leap at Twilight just that moment, but she knew things would get complicated with that magic of hers. So, fighting against the yearnings from her stomach, Rainbow gripped a talon around Applejack’s flicking tail (now the only part visible), and slowly pulled the nearly-devoured filly from her jaws. She dangled the filly by the tail while Applejack gasped for breath, soaking in drool and wide-eyed in panic. “Tell me Rainbow what’s going through your mind while you’re on the ‘hunt’,” she giggled, turning to a dangling Applejack. “Applejack: As a filly being chased by a big scary predator, what was going through your mind?”

“Escapin’!” Applejack cried, trying to take swings at the hippogriff holding her prone but not connecting. “Twilight, Rainbow’s gone crazy! She’s tryin’ to eat me!”

“Oh, is that what you thought I was doing?” Rainbow cut in with a knowing smirk and a wink to Twilight. “I was just… playing the part of a griffon-like predator for the sake of Twilight’s magic test thingy.” Rainbow casually dropped Applejack to the floor, but before the filly could flee, her tail was stepped on by a claw, holding her in place. While Applejack did all she could to that leg, Rainbow licked her lips and addressed a very curious Twilight directly: “It’s electrifying, Twilight. The chase and anticipation all build up while you’re going after something as… delectable as a pony.” She demonstrated, to Applejack’s dismay, by leaning down and slowly licking across the filly’s side, up to her face, and down again. “Mmmm… see? I’m drooling more just thinking about it.”

“I see, I see!” Twilight said, flipping a page on her clipboard and furiously scribbling more notes. “And what about you, Applejack? What would a pony in your position say right about now?”

Applejack was beside herself. “Help me! Rainbow’s gonna gulp me down like one of Granny Smith’s sweet apple pies if you don’t stop her!” She was now trying to wrestle her tail free from the pinned position, though froze when she was casually rolled onto her back, subjecting her pudgy gut to several squeezing licks and nibbles from a grinning Rainbow Dash. Applejack’s fear spiked as she let out another high-pitched scream.

“Excellent, excellent!” Twilight continued, eyes all on the clipboard now. “You can’t really interview animals in these situations. This is some fantastic insight, girls!”

“You think this is good, wait until you see what happens when I ‘eat’ Applejack. She’ll give you the truest reactions then!”

“What?!” Applejack hollered. “Twilight, stop her!”

Twilight, though, was nonplussed. “Oh don’t worry, Applejack, you’ll be fine.” The urge to complete her report for Princess Celestia, along with her ignorance at what was actually going through Rainbow’s mind, kept her rooted to her seat. “Go on, Rainbow, this should be really informative!”

Applejack trembled. Twilight wasn’t going to help her. She was trapped and being leered over by a hungry hippogriff! Rainbow Dash’s instincts roared in delight, knowing now there would be no stopping her from enjoying a fat filly for lunch! Applejack yelped as her tail was suddenly yanked upward, once more being dangled in the air. She tried kicking her legs in desperation, but felt a warm sensation crawl over her hinds: Applejack looked over her back and gasped, seeing the pair clamped together and shoveled into a yawning, drooling beak, with a tongue wrapping around them for good measure! “Twilight! Help! S-she’s eating me aliiiive!” Rainbow’s eyes were focused down on Applejack, drool dribbling down twitchy hinds. Applejack the filly let out another holler when deadly talons were brought up to her barrel, clutching to her pudgy sides like one holds a sandwich. Twilight’s ears flicked when Rainbow hungrily shoveled Applejack backwards, beak clamping down on the filly’s rear and tongue slipping out to press against her stomach. “Somepony help!”

“Perfect… perfect!” Twilight, blind to Applejack’s plight, commented. She idly flicked away a drop of saliva that had managed to land on her clipboard. Rainbow Dash worked her beak open and closed around the plump filly, Applejack’s butt sinking into the hot sweltering maw of the voracious hippogriff. Twilight stepped closer and looked Applejack in the eye. The filly thought salvation was near, but that hope was dashed when Twilight spoke. “Applejack, can you tell me what you’re feeling right now? Ponies being chased by someone wanting to eat them tend to feel great amount of distress but what’s it like in the heat of the moment, at the point of no return?”

“Twilight…!” Applejack begged, but she only let out a gasp as her middle was suddenly compressed, Rainbow’s beak crunching down around her middle. The tip of her blond tail was compressed to her back and all-but-vanished from view, Applejack groaning as the heated wetness from inside the hippogriff mouth soaked through it. Her rump cheeks compressed in the back of the maw and Applejack tried desperately to wriggle her way forward. Rainbow murred with Applejack rubbing herself against her tongue, and greedily swallowed. GLRP! Applejack let out a raspy squeal as her hindlegs and butt sank into the hippogriff gullet. Rainbow shoveled her flailing forelegs in under her chest, leaving Applejack with nothing but her head poking out the hungry hippogriff beak. “Twilight, this ain’t some experiment! R-Rainbow’s really eatin’ me!” As Twilight took dutiful notes and seemed to take the filly’s response as purely informative and hypothetical, Rainbow chuckled darkly around her. Applejack cringed feeling the vibrations all about her devoured body and the hippogriff tongue sliding over her delectable form. After a second ULK, Applejack’s vision was framed by a dripping beak, chin now rested on the tongue. “R-Rainbow Dash, please! Don’t eat me!”

With her claws free, Rainbow brought one up to tease around the protesting filly’s muzzle. Then, with a single talon, she pressed against it. Applejack in desperation tried to bite at it, but the compression of the beak kept her lips shut. She could only utter out muffled pleas of protest and fear, watching in disbelief as Twilight occasionally looked up to her, gave an encouraging smile, and went back to her note-taking. Rainbow’s claw was half in her own mouth as a series of small gulps and swallows ushered Applejack towards the throat, her head starting to incline with it pressed on the tongue. Rainbow drew out her claw, a line of drool bowing and breaking as she did so. Grinning, she pointed her still-open muzzle at Twilight, who peered deep into the offering. Twilight saw a wide-eyed filly trembling in terror and staring back at her, thick lines of slobber lining her and dribbling from the roof of the mouth. Applejack’s whimpers and whines stifled when the thick avian tongue slapped up across her entire face, and Rainbow firmly closed her beak with a clack. Twilight gasped when the hungry hippogriff swallowed Applejack whole and alive, the resounding GLURK reverberating about the library. Faint muffled cries rang out from the descending filly bulge. Applejack’s scrunched-up devoured form squelched down Rainbow Dash’s neck and chest before suddenly sloshing into a now-sagging cyan-colored stomach. Rainbow shuddered in delight as her belly filled, lazily licking over her beak and letting drool fall freely to the floor. “Y-you can write down that a predator feels… mmrr… so good after eating something so squirming and delicious, Twilight,” Rainbow imparted. Twilight eagerly scribbled down these observations while Rainbow basked in the ecstasy of having eaten up a scrumptious tasty filly.

“Wow, Rainbow Dash!” Twilight exclaimed. “Thanks for going to all this trouble just for me!” The hippogriff gave her a quizzical look, one that was slowly morphing into something more sinister as Rainbow felt familiar hungry instincts tickling at her again. “You went through the whole process of eating a pony just for this experiment!”

“Oh, sure, no prob,” Rainbow commented, her smile broadening when she heard a muffled cry from her bulging belly. A follow-up grumble pleased her more, though she knew she wasn’t quite sated yet. Not with a fully-grown adult pony, with plenty to enjoy, standing before her. “And Applejack really got into her role too, didn’t she?”

“Absolutely.” Twilight stepped forward and gave the sagging stomach bulge a few strokes. “Well done, Applejack!”

“Mmmph!” the bulge cried, Applejack curled in on herself as latent stomach fluids began pooling around her. Twilight’s ears flicked when a bubbly gurgle rang out.

“What was that?”

“Just uh… a predator body’s reaction to having eaten some prey,” Rainbow answered with a smarmy smile. She casually rolled onto her back, splaying her legs outward, squirming filly bulge writhing about her plumped midsection. “Why don’t you come feel Applejack? Really work those hooves of yours so you can get a sense of a stomach or whatever.” Twilight took to the idea, setting aside her clipboard and standing over Rainbow Dash to bring her forehooves down against the soft hippogriff belly. Twilight even began to hum as she rotated her hooves about the furry stomach and worked them inward. She felt Applejack’s bulges and the vibrations form the tummy’s work and the filly’s cries, louder gurgles and growls starting to permeate. Rainbow Dash had a scenic view of Twilight’s rear end from this angle, noting the librarian unicorn had been exploring the sweeter side of Ponyville and having packed on some pudge of her own. Twilight’s ears perked as she heard a tongue run across a beak, Rainbow’s eyes locked to Twilight’s cheeks.

“I can’t wait to report all this to the princess,” Twilight commented as she massaged Rainbow’s stomach. “She’ll be fascinated to learn all about this whole experiment!”

“Yeah uh-huh, sure,” Rainbow muttered distractedly. Looking over the rest of the full-grown pony, she wondered if she could even devour Twilight completely. It wouldn’t be a walk in the park like it was for Applejack (“mmmph!!!”), though Rainbow was always one to push her limits. Her stomach, while building up more acids to digest her meal, was also in agreement for Rainbow to try: The hippogriff was still quite hungry! Grrrrrrwwlllll… 

“Think that’s enough now, though,” Twilight said, turning to face Rainbow. “You should let out Applejack then I can reverse the spell and we can all get some well-earned lunch!” Twilight offered a hoof to help Rainbow up, but the hippogriff snagged it around the ankle and roughly tore Twilight off her hooves to land atop her. “Yah! Rainbow?”

“Applejack ain’t going nowhere.” A louder groan bubbled out from her belly, followed by the loudest muffled cry yet. Twilight gasped when Rainbow brought her hippogriff head up to lick across her muzzle. “And my second course of lunch is right here.”

“What?! Rainbow, you can’t keep Applejack and you definitely can’t eat me!”

“Wuss like you isn’t gonna stop me!” Rainbow crowed. She wrestled her forelegs around Twilight’s back and locked the now-squirming mare in place, licking and tasting every part of the pony she could reach with her thick avian tongue. “Mmm… Guess you’ll be able to add more to your report whatever now, Twilight: A first-hoof experience all about the insides of a hippogriff!” Rainbow Dash laughed in Twilight’s shocked face before craning her beak wide open. “Ahhh...”

“N-no, Rainbow, stop, please!” Twilight cried. She attempted to bring her horn to life and cast a spell to defend herself but failing in the heat of the moment, a few fitful sparks fluttering harmlessly to the floor. A strong talon pressed to the back of her head and forced her muzzle down into the wide, dripping maw of the hippogriff that one of her best friends had turned into. “Don’t eat me!” she squealed into the abyss of the throat, feeling the back wetly clamp down around her whole head in one go! “Hllllp!”

Despite that head start, however, Rainbow Dash found Twilight a much more difficult meal to work down. It wasn’t her horn: It, along with her forehead and mane, were greedily gulped down the gullet with a powerful URLK. Twilight’s muzzle was compressed against the tight flesh and tongue, her wailing falling on deaf ears. It was the size of a full-grown pony that was making Rainbow’s pony lunch all the more difficult to devour. Far from deterring the hippogriff, though, it made Rainbow Dash hunger for Twilight Sparkle even more. Every swallow was progress, no matter how little the struggling purple pony sank further down her throat. The emerging bulges down the furry neck grew with every gulp, Rainbow occasionally stroking with a free claw. The other was hugged over Twilight, squeezing her into her own bulges as well as those of the digesting Applejack in her bloated belly. Rainbow murred deeply, eyes rolled, talon stroking up and down the twitching unicorn’s back, losing herself in the flavor. Drool freely flowed from the corners of her beak to the library floor, the rainbow hippogriff’s tail swishing along below as well.

Twilight was panting, sweating and coated in hippogriff drool, another GULP ringing in her ears. Her wriggling shoulders were forced into the ravenous beak, along with the rest of her mane and the bulk of her chest. Her forelegs, former protesting limbs, were now all-but-glued to the mare’s barrel. Every spell cast died before it created so much as a glimmer. Every swallow from Rainbow Dash was torture, bringing her closer to the noisy stomach that she was starting to smell. She coughed and whined, cringing at, above all else, her friend eating her alive and enjoying it. Rainbow Dash’s claws were now both gripped against Twilight’s cutie marks, the chubbiness the pony possessed providing plenty to grip. Twilight yelped when those claws pulled her in deeper, twitching body limply dragging along the hippogriff form that the unicorn herself brought to life. “Mmphh, mmmph! Hlp hlp hlp!” Twilight managed, muffled cries not leaving the library. Her cries grew more intense when her horn pressed into the stomach, sphincter squelching open to receive her in the process. Rainbow Dash was even perspiring partially from her endeavors, having spent the better part of 20 minutes swallowing Twilight whole. 

Rainbow greedily clamped her beak down and around the paunch of Twilight’s stomach. Her hind legs stuck outward, straddling the hippogriff, stunned from the sudden, harmless bite. Rainbow Dash relaxed there for a bit, working her jaws up and down, bouncing against the supple flesh of her friend. Every once in a while Twilight would kick a leg or flag her tail, though Rainbow paid it no heed. Drool continued slipping from her beak, which she also ignored, though Twilight felt every bit of it meshing into her fur, seeping over her hips and past her tail down her butt, down to her legs and hooves. Twilight stopped kicking entirely when a blow was delivered to Rainbow Dash’s belly, Applejack bearing its brunt and letting out a pained squeal in protest. Twilight had gotten that earful when her head fully pushed into the stomach, Applejack acting like a cushion as she was forced inward. Bent awkwardly, Twilight could only squeal and yell alongside the much-weaker filly next to her, active stomach fluids pouring over the both of them while Rainbow casually chewed and savored the pudgy meat in her maw.

After several minutes of playful tasting and losing herself in her predatory lusts being slaked, Rainbow Dash grabbed hold of the meekly-protesting hinds of her friend. Twilight gasped and grimaced in discomfort as those legs were used to brace her body inward. The hippogriff beak slowly closed around Twilight Sparkle’s protruding rear end, squeezing out saliva with ulp, glk, ulks emanating. Twilight’s belly was scrunched tightly with it swallowed down the throat, bulging Rainbow’s neck out considerably in the process. She could hardly breath, let alone protest, as the cool library air was replaced with the humid stench of the predator’s beak, butt cheeks vanishing behind a smirking muzzle. Left with naught but a tail and lower hind legs, Rainbow enjoyed the rest of his meal rather lazily: All three equines present heard the slow, deliberate slurping up of the rest of Twilight Sparkle. The mare herself let out a raspy cry as her body contorted and was starting to force itself around the nearly passed-out Applejack. Stomach acids lubricated the way along with drool, squeezing walls accommodating and hippogriff tummy expanding to new widths. With a final slrp, the tip of Twilight’s tail vanished into a puffed-up maw.

“Mmmm... GLURK! Ahhhh, that was awesome.” Rainbow Dash cooed and smacked her beak loudly with Twilight screaming out, her curvy pony bulges rapidly descending down the hippogriff body and gathering up in the stomach.

“Twilight… do somethin’...” Applejack begged weakly, her plump filly form compressed against the bottom of the stomach with Twilight piling up behind her. Twilight herself whimpered and moaned with her body tightly packing into the stomach, legs and tail squeezing in just ahead of a now-sealed stomach sphincter. The acrid scent of active fluids nearly made both of the ponies pass out, though they somehow clung to consciousness in the wet, dripping stomach.

“Can’t… focus...” Twilight whimpered, barely able to move.

“Somepony… help… R-Rainbow Dash… ate us...” Applejack tried to wriggle or protest, but any hoof that met a stomach wall was roughly pushed back in by a hippogriff talon teased over sky-blue fur. The world shook for filly and mare alike when the hippogriff suddenly let out a long, rude belch.

“Ahh… Haven’t had a meal like that in ages!” she crowed. Rainbow slowly rolled to her side, the ponies within scream before a splot indicated her stomach smacking the floor, it sprawling out before her. Rainbow sighed in relief. “That’s better. Much less weight on me,” she giggled, patting her belly and hearing wet thumps in result. Rainbow began to vigorously rub at her belly, taking special care to squeeze at any familiar bulges in her stomach. She smirked at seeing the outline of a filly face or unicorn rump, taking pleasure in forcing them back into the deep recesses of her gurgling belly. “Nothing compares to being a predator after a successful hunt.”

Rainbow kept at the teasing and torment for half an hour: Lifting her stomach off and reveling in the cries as she let it fall back to earth, acidic fluids splattering up and over top the devoured ponies; pressing down on her gut to make it expand outward and pancake to the floor, compressing the already-confined pair even more and making powerful churns and gurgles emit; and taunting the two eaten ponies about how easy they were to catch, trick, and eat. “Don’t suspect other ponies will do any better though. I’m the best predator there is now!” Inside the two tried to cope with all the awfulness Rainbow Dash was putting them through. Twilight tried to bring Applejack inward to protect her but it was no use: Her own bulk was in the way. Applejack was a whimpering heap, the adult-turned-filly having no idea what they could possibly due, trapped in the stomach of a sated predator. Blind in the darkness, the two’s hearing sharpened, and they picked up on every groan in the stomach, walls rubbing more fluids into their coats and causing their skin to itch.

The tired hippogriff yawned wildly after a while, the deed of devouring her friends and the subsequent lengthy playing having taken a lot of her. “Past due for a nap. Think I’ll camp out right here, around all these dumb books...”

“No… no!” Twilight cried, hearing every word. “Rainbow, don’t go to sleep. Rainbow, please!”

“Dash… l-let us out...”

But it was futile. It didn’t take long at all for Rainbow Dash to fall asleep, her thunderous snores not holding a candle to the intimidating growls and gurgles surrounding the two ponies. The two eaten ponies squealed and cried out, but no-one, not even Rainbow, heard them. It wasn’t long after Rainbow fell asleep, that Applejack and Twilight Sparkle did as well. Lack of sufficient air and an ever-rising pool of fluids ushered them into unconsciousness, leaving the powerful hippogriff stomach to digest them in peace. Hours went by, with the afternoon fading into evening. Nopony set foot in the library the whole time Rainbow Dash digested the two, though one or two did hear what they swore sounded like loud gurgles coming from inside. Within the library itself it was a near-constant cacophony of gurgles, groans, glurts and glorts. The oversized hippogriff belly vibrated and jostled, gradually growing smaller and smoother. By the time night fell, the distended stomach was a sizable paunch, but nothing compared to when Twilight and Applejack were still whole. There wasn’t much left of the two, leaving Rainbow Dash with much thicker hips along with the aforementioned belly. The well-fed equine was much more-rounded out now, something Rainbow Dash noticed shortly after waking up and letting out a loud yawn. She stretched but remained relaxed on the floor, licking her beak and looking about.

“Well look at you, Rainbow Dash. Still in your wicked cool new body.” Her claw idly traveled down to her stomach, which she gave a firm rub. “Delicious,” she reminisced, only distracted when she felt a sudden urge build up in her beak. “Hurk… OOORRRRURP!” Rainbow’s maw spread wide letting loose an even stronger belch than before. Stale saliva and splotches of tan and purple fur decorated the library floor, including Twilight’s clipboard full of notes. Rainbow wiped her mouth with a foreleg and stood up, flexing her wings and taking a few experimental steps. “Oh wow!” she exclaimed, effortlessly taking off and swooping about the library. “I’m stronger than ever! Must’ve been something I ate!” she laughed, zooming out a library window and taking to the skies, Twilight’s notes left behind, stained with hippogriff drool and half-digested pony fur. “Look out, Equestria! A new-and-improved Rainbow Dash is here, and she’s loving every minute of it!”