Pinkie and Anon get lost at sea. With no rescue in sight, the pair takes advantage of a strange discovery to rescue themselves. Inspired by nobby's Pinkie pic: http://nobbydraws.tumblr.com/post/102769401115/huge-horses Day 1 >I've been tasked with escorting Ambassador Pie to the annual Interplanetary Friendship Conference being held this year on some rich dude's personal island in the Pacific. >Said rich dude has also offered to personally ferry the ambassador and some of our delegation using his personal yacht. >Had I known the old geezer was pushing 100 and only had his son on board as crew, I probably would've insisted on joining everyone else on the professionally-staffed cruise ship. >Oh well. At least he seems to be capable of following the GPS. Day 3 >Ambassador Pie declared that we were going to be the 'Partiest Party Boat That Ever Partied' minutes off shore. >Which is good, because that apparently activates her strange ability to pull party food out of the aether. >Certainly better than the old man's crate of liver and onions. >"It's my favorite!" he says. Blech. Day 4 >Would've thought we'd be there by now. >There's a lot of dark clouds where we're headed. The old man's nearly week-old weather report says we're in for light showers. Day 5 >That's a lot of lightning for 'showers'. Day 5.75 >It's a fucking hurricane. The winds and waves have already stripped the boat's radar and radio antennas. The old man is tying to get the satellite phone to cooperate. >Ambassador Pie has started singing songs about proper life vest use. Day 6? 7? >We are so fucked. >We capsized sometime during the night. Despite the panicked rush to get out, it seemed that everyone had made it to the self-inflatable rafts that had been on deck. >I say 'seemed' because that was the last we saw of the others. Once inflated, the rafts were practically torn from the ship and scattered in all directions. >My sole raft mate is the ambassador, her boundless energy swept away like everything else in the relentless winds. >We're holding on to each other for dear life and the ambassador's sadly singing a song I can just barely hear. >"Ha ha ha..." Day ? >The hurricane finally moved on and the seas have calmed. Our tiny orange raft is lost in endless dark seas under oppressively gray skies. >I asked the ambassador this morning if she could grab us some food. >She mumbled something about 'plot convenience' before curling up and going back to sleep. Day ?+5 >The sun made a brief appearance today and Pinkie - she insists I drop the formal title now that we're good friends - has cheered up to almost normal levels. >"Making new friends always puts me in a good mood!" >We've been passing the time by telling each other stories about our lives. >Mine don't even come close to hers, but she never seems any less interested about them. >I'm just getting into the story of how I won my college's unofficial keg stand championship when she goes completely stiff and starts shaking around. >It's the 'Pinkie sense' she mentioned. Hopefully this means we're going to be rescued soon. Day ?+6 >Not a rescue, but an island! A fairly lush one from the looks of it. >We break out the paddles and make our way towards it. We'll probably make it by nightfall. Night ?+6 >It might be small, but it's here and it's solid ground and there's food. >After a feast on guava and coconuts, we turned our raft into a makeshift tent and spent the night on the beach. Land Day 1 >After getting a fire going and having breakfast, Pinkie and I spent the rest of the day walking the beach around the outside of the island. >It's larger than it looks - maybe about 6 miles around. >It's mostly flat, but there's a few high hills in the middle with a valley and stream between them. >We followed the stream up one of the hills to its source. >It's fresh and seems clean enough. >It's oddly quiet here, no birds, no other animals. I haven't even noticed any insects. It's kind of creepy. >Shaking off the feeling, I help Pinkie grab a few more fruits for dinner before we head back to the raft. Day 2 >We've moved our camp inland and uphill, leaving the raft weighted down on the beach to signal rescuers. >It takes almost no time at all to get a decent shelter set up, so Pinkie suggests we spend the rest of the day playing hide-n-seek. >After a few rounds it's back to being my turn to find her. >She's really hidden well this time, I've been searching nearly an hour. >I'm about to give up when I hear leaves rustling. >As I get closer, I finally spot her out in the open, absolutely demolishing some kind of berry bush. >I stealthily crawl up behind her, determined to get her back for the heart attack she nearly gave me two turns ago. >I'm just inches from her tail when it twitches. >I wait for her inevitable greeting but she suddenly just vanishes into thin air. >I'm left staring at the space she used to occupy when a voice yells out behind me. >"HI NONNY!" >After my heart rate settles, I vow to figure out how she does that. >Turning around, I'm greeted by her smiling face, red berry juice dripping from her muzzle. >She raves about how good the berries are and insists I try them. >Too bad she's already picked the bush clean. >She makes up for it that night by preparing a huge and tasty dinner of all sorts of fruits and roasted palm hearts. >I had thought we'd have leftovers for days, but Pinkie's still eating long after I've finished and shows no sign of stopping. >By the time it's over she's left immobilized on her back, gently rubbing her ridiculously distended belly. >She manages a strained 'g'night Nonny' before passing out for the night. Night 2 >It's still dark when a massive roar jolts me awake. >It was close and the fire's died down enough that I can't even see Pinkie. >I hear it again, so close and so loud it sounds like it's practically over my shoulder. >I feel around for a rock, a stick, anything to defend us from whatever's getting closer. >My heart leaps into my throat as another massive roar sounds out louder than before. >It came from Pinkie's direction. Oh god she's probably already gone. >I just hope whatever it is finishes me off too. I don't think I'll be able to stand being alone here. >The sound of snapping twigs is just inches away, a constant low growling following it. >This is it, Pinkie's dead and I'm about to joi- >BUUH-EEEELCCCCH >The smell of dinner washes over me. >Dammit Pinkie. >I roll back over with a huff, trying desperately to calm my nerves and get back to sleep. Day 3 >I wake up long after sunrise, the night's excitement having caused me to lose a good couple hours of sleep. >A warm mass completely envelops my back. >Pinkie must've rolled over here in her sleep. >I turn to wake her, only to be met by a muzzle the size of my head. >She's rolled over alright, resting prone on top of her still massive belly, but she's also taking up a lot more room than she used to. >Getting over the initial shock, I take stock of the massive pink form in front of me. >Her body's lengthened to just about my height. She's probably twice as tall standing. >An ominous creaking from the bamboo platforms we slept on draw my attention to the fact that she's still growing. >It's barely noticeable, but sure enough she's still expanding outwards in all directions. >Figuring out what's going on is beyond my sleep deprived brain, so I call Pinkie's name a few times in a vain attempt to wake her. >Shaking and poking is met with similar results. >That's it. >I didn't want to have to use it, but there's no other choice. >I wind up for the most devastating move in my arsenal: >The Turbo Mega Ultra Boop. >Just inches away and with positive results guaranteed, I break out my cheesiest victory grin. >Nothing can resist the ultimate power of the TMUB. *boop* >Nothing, that is, except a giant Pinkie in a food coma. Day 4 >Pinkie slept through the day yesterday. >Her growth slowed and eventually stopped as her stomach shrank back to normal, leaving her easily twice as long as I am tall. >My roasted guava breakfast is just about done when she finally lets out a massive yawn. >"Mmmmorning Nonny. That smells great." she says before she's fully opened her eyes. >By the time she does, she's up in an instant, mouth running a mile a minute. >The verbal assault is nigh indecipherable, but I manage to catch the words 'tiny', 'cute' and a handful of 'omigosh'es. >I swear I can hear ribs cracking as I'm scooped up into a titanic hug. >Once I'm able to breathe, we engage in a few increasingly silly rounds of "You're tiny" and "No, you're big/massive/justlookatthetreesaroundyoualready" before getting down to business. >Pinkie grabs a stick and within a minute has the last few days charted out for each of us in the sand down to the smallest detail. >I can't even tell her how impressive this before a massive hoof points out the difference between the two. >'Yummy berries', says the surprisingly legible note. >"What about the week's worth of food you ate?" I ask. >"Welll, you ate all the same stuff and if the berries are what turned me into Twinkie then it makes sense that I'd be really, really hungry before it happened." >"Twinkie?" >"Pinkie times 2 equals Twinkie!" she says with an enormous and enormously cheesy smile. >Vowing to come up with a better name later, we work out a couple facts: >a)Pinkie is clearly not dead or sick. b)We're stuck on an island with no access to medical or magical care. >With no point in worrying about it, we get back to what Pinkie calls her #1 survival tip: Fun! Night 4 >Today's poor hide-n-seek performance is quickly forgotten once I climb up onto my new warm, fuzzy, and huge bed. >And after today's meals, it's only getting bigger and cuddlier. >For the first time since our adventure started, I'm okay with it lasting just a little bit longer. Day 38 >I awoke atop Pinkie's back this morning and found that she'd made her way to the beach. >I scooted up next to her head and joined her in staring out into the sea. >"Do you think they're gonna find us, Nonny?" >I wish I had an answer. Day 51 >Pinkie seemed awfully determined when she left camp this morning. >She came back hours later and scooped me up without a word. >We cruised over the trees on a shortcut to the cliff that overlooked what she'd been calling her 'thinking beach'. >Down below is a progression of drawings: >Island with plants -> tiny stick figure Pinkie -> Island with no plants -> a stick Pinkie that took up half the beach -> a swimming Pinkie -> a happy Pinkie in front of a house. >"Whaddya think?" >"It's crazy, dangerous, and there's a good chance we'll get lost at sea... but it's probably our only hope. Let's do this." Day 197 >Pinkie's been completely committed to her plan. >She's cleared almost a quarter of the island of vegetation, absolutely towering over me and most of the island's features. >She tried hiding in the valley today, but the hill between it and camp isn't tall enough. >We both started giggling like idiots upon spotting each other. Day 272 >We've started calling our latest game 'Tsunami'. >Maybe someone out there will try to track down the source of those waves... Day 385 >The last of the island's food has been loaded into a bamboo box that's joined me atop the finest sailing vessel on the sea today. >Aye, she's a beaut. Superior stability even in the roughest of seas, with an island-sized keel and a displacement of 1,973,- >"Arr! Ya best not be commentin' on a lasses' weight, Nonny." >"If you drop the pirate shtick, I'll keep it in mind." >"Aww, you're no fun." >And just like that we left our home for the past year, unimaginably huge le- >"A-hem!" >...powerful legs below churning towards an uncertain future. >But wherever our adventure takes us, I know that we'll find a way to survive. Together. Fin.