My Little Pony: The Human Chronicles

Episode 17: Deep into the Pinkie

Recap: Last time, after failing to stop Discord, the chaos master himself sent Toby to the space between Earth and Equestria called the Limbo realm, a place where there was no escape. But thanks to the spirit of his Mother Toby makes himself an opening and went back to Equestria to see that Discord had just broken reality while he was away. After reuniting with Spike and freeing the girls the team fought Discord once again, this time Toby waited patiently to attack instead of rushing into things like he did last time. Eventually after seeing Spike and the others getting hurt Toby managed to merge with the Elements of Harmony and become the Harmony Knight allowing him to defeat Discord once and for all. Now permanently trapped in Equestria, Toby now does his best to keep his new home and his friends safe at all costs.

Several little birds chirped a happy little song as they flew through the air to greet the new day. As the flew over and around the top of a tall tree like the rotating planets in the solar system, Toby was sitting cross-legged on a flat rock, his eyes closed and his face composed, he appeared to be meditating.

Unknown to him, a certain pink pony was poking her out from behind him constantly and looking at him with wide eyes filled with curiosity. She did her best to keep quiet and not disturb him but unfortunately her nose had begun to twitch, ready for a sneeze.

"Ah… ah… CHOO!" Pinkie Pie sneezed.

Her loud sneeze startled Toby greatly, making him cry out loudly before falling over onto the ground. Toby groaned softly.

Pinkie Pie leaned down to him. "Oops! Sorry Toby! I kind of a bad head cold today," she apologized before sneezing again. "See?"

Toby raised his head, looking greatly annoyed. "Is that so…?"

Pinkie Pie nodded rapidly. "Uh-huh!"

"Then… shouldn't you be in bed or something?" Toby questioned.

"Oh, I'll do that later, right now I want to spend time with you and the girls!" Pinkie Pie chirped, before sneezing and blowing her nose with a hankie that she had just pulled out of nowhere. She then leaned towards Toby. "So… whatcha doing?" she asked ever so curiously.

"Meditating," Toby replied. "It helps calm the nerves."

"Is it fun?" Pinkie Pie inquired, before sneezing.

"It was a few seconds ago…" Toby mumbled.

"So… do you want to go over to a party with me?" Pinkie Pie asked excitedly. "It'll be fun!"

"Normally I would," Toby stated, before getting up. "But I promised Twilight that I head to her place for another magic training session and trust me I'd rather go to one of your parties then study but… I Pinkie Promised so…"

"Oh! Got it!" Pinkie Pie nodded, completely understandingly. "Too bad… I was really looking forward to having you at the party, but you can't break a Pinkie Promise, no matter what so…"

Toby noticed the sad and slightly disappointed look on her face and smiled a bit. "Hey, you know you can come along if you want,"

This instantly cheered Pinkie up as she started to bounce up and down. "YAY!" she cheered, and then she sneezed again.

"But you have to stay quiet during the exercise," Toby added.

"Aw…" Pinkie Pie moaned.

"But afterwards we'll go to your party," Toby finished.

"YAY!" Pinkie Pie cheered.

"Ok, then let's get moving." Toby said as he started to walk off. "And don't even think about it, ok?"

"About what?" Pinkie inquired raising a brow.

"Your planning on bringing the party to Twilight's place so I can go to your party AND have my lesson, aren't you?" Toby asked knowingly.

"But… I didn't say that…" Pinkie Pie said slowly.

"You were thinking it," Toby stated.

Pinkie Pie gasped sharply and suddenly appeared in front of him before leaning closely. "Are you psychic?" she whispered.

"No. Are you?" Toby countered.

Pinkie thought for a moment then shrugged. "Not usually. Now come on last one to Twilight's is a rotten egg!" she sang before bouncing off and sneezing at the same time.

Toby sighed. "I'm almost afraid to know what goes on in that pink little head of hers…" he muttered. "Luckily I'll never know."

Toby then proceed to follow the Pink party pony to Twilight's.

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Later at Twilight's house, Toby was already working hard following Twilight's instructions for his exercise. Precisely and carefully he placed each of the books in front of him together and set them all up so that they looked like a perfectly balanced mini house made entirely of books. He smiles satisfied till a sudden sneeze from Pinkie Pie, who was seated a little ways behind him, causes Toby to lose his focus this causing the books to fall. Steam emits from his ears as he growled in anger.

Pinkie Pie rubbed her nose and smiled nervously. "Sorry," she said.

Spike leaned in next to him. "You seriously brought her along even know you knew she had a cold?"

"Well she was so upset when I told her that I couldn't go to her party because of it, was I going to say 'no'?" Toby inquired.

"Good point…" Spike nodded.

Twilight cleared her voice to get their attention. "Come on Toby, focus, this training requires your full attention," she told him.

"Yes, Mom." Toby said flatly. "Just relax, I'm all over it."

Toby began to magically place the books back in the shelves simultaneous which seemed to strain him a bit, and just when he looked like he had it under control… Pinkie's sneeze disturbs him and causes him to drop some of the books.

Pinkie Pie rubbed her nose and noticed Toby glaring at her with a red face. "Wow… you look really mad… that's a whole new shade of red for you," she remarked.

"Could you please control your sneezing Pink?" he asked her.

"Sorry Toe, but my nose is like my party cannon lately!" Pinkie Pie exclaimed. "It's just always wants to go… BOOM!"

Toby sighed. "I know, I know, just… next time you're gonna sneeze do us all a big fat favor and hold it in," he told her sternly.

Pinkie Pie then crossed her legs. "Well I can't hold it in, when you gotta go, you gotta go!" she joked before giggling.

Toby was defiantly not amused as he growled angrily and every part of his body, aside from his head, became consumed by a pillar of flame. The joke literally had him burning up in anger.

Twilight whistled sharply, catching the attention of everypony and causing Toby to instantly calm down, the flames around him instantly disappear.

"Ok, then, I'm done," he said calmly.

"Well, at least you've learned to calm down faster after three years," Spike muttered half sarcastically.

"Ok, Toby, our next spell will be transforming three items into items used for a formal attire," Twilight explained.

"So… like a tuxedo, a cat and a cane?" Toby inquired.

Twilight nodded. "Exactly! You can try it out on Spike,"

"WHAT?" Spike exclaimed.

"Relax, it's not gonna hurt Spike." Toby assured him, he then turned to Twilight. "It's not, is it?"

Twilight shook her head. "Nope. Here, let me demonstrate."

"Are you sure?" Toby inquired.

"Of course! Why wouldn't I be?" Twilight Sparkle asked.

"Well… ever since Discord blasted you like that your magic has been a little… wonky." Toby admitted.

"Wonky?" Twilight echoed.

Pinkie giggled and sneezed at the same time. "That's a funny word! 'Wonky'!" She giggled and sneezed once more.

"Yeah, every time you do a spell lately something bad happens!" Toby stated.

"It does not!" Twilight Sparkle denied a little defensively.

"Oh yeah? When I asked you to conjure me a new shirt… I ended up looking like a baby." Toby said. "I asked you to get some dirt of my clothes… I ended up barfing."

"I'll vouch for that, after I was on the receiving end of that blast…" Spike groaned disgusted.

"Yeah, well you like worm cupcakes, like that's not gross!" Toby shot back.

Twilight cleared her throat, getting their attention. "Ok. I'll admit my magic's been a bit off lately for some reason… but don't worry, nothing's gonna happen this time."

Toby scoffed to himself. "I have yet to see any indication of that," he muttered.

"Spike, get ready." Twilight told him.

Spike nodded, zipped away and came back wearing a rock on head, a wreath around his neck and holding a stick in his claws. Twilight begins to charge up her magic but as she did so she began to groan and struggle a bit, much to Toby's concern.

"You sure you're ok, Twi?" Toby asked her.

"I'm fine, I'm fine!" Twilight told him defensively as she continued to charge up their magic, only instead of the usual magenta aura it slowly became an eerily yellowish color.

"Twilight… I wouldn't do that…" Toby warned.

"I can handle it!" Twilight Sparkle insisted. The shadowy image of a familiar Draconequus being appeared in the room, but only for a brief second, so brief that nopony in the room noticed it.

"Now… I just need complete concentration…" Twilight began. Toby then noticed that Pinkie was about to sneeze.

"Ah… ah…" she began but Toby quickly plugged her nose to stop her. As she and Spike breathed a sigh of relief and Toby let go of her muzzle, Pinkie Pie instantly sneeze disrupting Twilights concentration. She screamed, startled as a magical bolt of energy fired from her horn and bounced all over the library till it struck the very center of the room and projected a bright flash of light that blinded everyone in the library. The light shined out from the windows, which Fluttershy, Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Rarity all noticed and were soon blinded by.

When the flash ended, and Pinkie Pie opened her eyes she saw that she was the only one that was still in the library.

"Huh? Twilight? Spike? Toby?" she wondered. "Huh? Where'd everypony go?"

---

As Pinkie continued to look stumped not knowing where any of her friends were, the three mentioned friends, along with Rainbow, Rarity, Applejack and Fluttershy, were all inside something, something so dark none of them could see much of anything.

Silhouettes of all five ponies including Toby and Spike shamble around the dark area they were in. Horse sounds, grunts and confused muttering from all seven were heard. Rainbow Dash made her way towards the teenage human and crunched down on something with her hoof.

"OW!" Toby cried.

"Toby? Is that you?" Rainbow Dash questioned surprised.

"No, this is Pinocchio," Toby said sarcastically. "Oh, of course it's me! Who else wears shoes in this town!?"

"Good point." The rainbow maned pony nodded.

"Toby? Twilight? Spike?" Rarity called out. "Is that you?"

"Yeah, it's us!" Spike called back.

"Where are we?" Fluttershy wondered.

"And how the hay did we get here?" Applejack added.

"I don't know… I really don't…" Twilight replied distressed.

"Yo, anypony with a horn! Turn on the light!" Toby shouted. His hand, along with Rarity and Twilight's horns glowed with their individual magical auras. They all appear to be standing in a large, pink and squishy area that seemed to be almost alive.

"Uh… guys? Where are we?" Toby asked baffled.

"No idea…" Spike breathed as he tapped the soft ground they were standing on with his foot. "It's squishy whatever it is."

"Yeah and almost… alive." Toby added.

Rarity shuddered. "Why do I have such a dreadful feeling that I am going to need a nice, long, relaxing bubble bath after this?"

"Calm down, at least we're not knee deep in slime." Toby pointed out.

"Gee, thanks for that lovey mental picture." Twilight Sparkle said sarcastically.

"Hey… where's Pink?" Applejack pointed out noticing that their party loving friend was not with them.

"Weird… I thought she got teleported here with us…" Fluttershy stated surprised.

"So where is she?" Rainbow Dash inquired.

Everypony shrugged until they all heard a familiar voice that seemed to be coming from every direction around them.

"Guys? Girls? Anypony? Where the hay did you guys go?"

"Who said that?" Rarity wondered.

"Me."

"Pinkie? Is that you?" Toby questioned.

"Toby? Where are you? Are you playing hide and seek, because if you are you win!" Pinkie Pie's voice stated.

"Never mind us, where are you?" Toby asked her.

"In the library silly! Where are you?" Pinkie asked back.

"In some kind of… squishy place, though the weird thing is… it sounds like your right next to us but we can't see you." Toby said.

"Me too!" Pinkie Pie added.

The seven of them then begin to hear a strange yet faint sound coming from a far but could be heard all around them, just like Pinkie's voice.

"Wha… what is that?" Fluttershy squeaked afraid.

Toby listened closely, the sound made a 'thumping' noise that continued to pound over and over again.

"Wait… that sounds like… a heartbeat." Toby realized, he felt his chest. "But it's not my heart… so…"

It took a few minutes before all the pieces seem to fall into place for Toby; the squishy yet almost alive area they were standing in, the fact that they could hear Pinkie everywhere and the sound of the heartbeat…

"Guys… I think I know where we are…" he told the others.

"Where?" Fluttershy inquired curiously.

"Think about it, the squishy area, the heartbeat and the fact that we can hear Pinkie everywhere, doesn't that point to only one explanation in particular?" Toby questioned.

Everypony, besides Twilight, looked a bit confused and rubbed the back of their heads while pondering what he meant.

"Well… based on your facts… I think your saying somehow… we're inside… Pinkie Pie!" Twilight Sparkle realized.

"Bingo." Toby nodded.

It didn't take long for the statement to sink to everypony else's skulls and after it did they all screamed at the top of their lungs. Outside, Pinkie could hear them all screaming but for some reason didn't pay much attention to it and instead focused on the breeze that was swirling around the library and blowing pages of various book..

"Ooh! That breeze feels nice!" she said.

---

Back inside Pinkie, Rarity had just began to pace back in forth in a panicked state.

"We are never going to get out of here! Great Heavens we are all going to die in here!" Rarity proclaimed. "We're all going to die inside Pinkie Pie!"

And with that she fainted in a dramatic manner but immediately sat back up to avoid laying on the fleshy ground.

"Nopony's gonna die." Toby assured them. "Now let's stop focusing on the negative and focus on the positive."

"There's a positive?" Spike inquired.

"Not really, just trying to buy us some time before somepony loses her mind." Toby whispered to Spike while gesturing to Rarity, who looked extremely worried and uncomfortable at the moment.

"Maybe I can use a spell to get us out!" Twilight Sparkle stated.

"Worth a shot." Applejack shrugged.

"No, wait!" Toby started to say before Twilight began to charge up her magic only for it to turn yellow and fire a small bolt of energy that bounced all over the squishy area. Everypony did their best to dodge the blast.

Outside, all Pinkie felt was a strange sensation inside of her that made her giggle a bit.

"Ooh! That feels funny!" she exclaimed happily.

When the bolt finally faded, everypony stood right back up and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Well that didn't work." Spike remarked flatly.

"Say… when I talk to you is the only thing you hear is…" Toby said before making a bubbly fish noise with his lips.

"Sorry… I really thought would work…" Twilight Sparkle admitted sadly.

"So now how do we get out of here?" Rainbow Dash questioned.

"Our most efficient option is through the intestine." Toby said.

"Finally, somepony with a plan!" Rarity proclaimed dramatically.

"And… after the intestine?" Spike inquired.

"We'd probably end up in the toilet." Toby replied casually. "Are we all swimmers here?"

Horrified and grossed out looks appeared on everypony's mugs as Toby's little plan swam through their minds.

"Uh… maybe that should be 'Plan B' instead?" Fluttershy asked hopefully.

"Agreed!" Rarity said loudly.

"Then I guess the only way out is up and through the nose!" Toby declared.

"Oh, no, no, no! I'm not climbing out of Pinkie's snot filled nostril!" Rarity exclaimed, completely disgusted.

"You're welcome to go out the other way." Toby told her as he the others started to walk ahead.

It didn't take long for Rarity to make up her mind. "Tally-ho!" she said as she began to follow everypony else.

"Pinkie! We're gonna try to find another way out of your body, until then take it easy, ok?" Toby called out.

"Okey, dokey, lokey!" Pinkie Pie chirped before starting to walk off, just everypony inside started to proceed on ahead as well.

They walked and walked down the fleshy like tunnel of a part of Pinkie's body which they had no idea which part it was or more precisely, they did not want to know. Eventually Rarity started to complain and whine along the way.

"Oh Celestia, I can't take all this!" she proclaimed. "Can we please take a break for a little while?"

"We've only been walking for ten minutes!" Toby pointed out.

"Seems like forever," Rarity stated.

"Quit your whining already, Rarity!" Rainbow Dash told her. "The quicker we walk the sooner we can get out of here!"

"Hmm, maybe…" Twilight Sparkle began to say.

"No." Toby interjected.

"You don't even know what I was going to say!" Twilight pointed out.

"You were going to say that maybe you could port us out, or perhaps I could." Toby explained.

"Oh… I guess you did." Twilight Sparkle said slowly.

"Yep. And besides, how would that work?" Toby demanded. "I can't teleport where I can't see and your magic is on the fritz!"

"Maybe… we could try teleporting together?" Twilight Sparkle offered.

"That could work." Toby admitted.

"Ok, everypony stand together, we have to work fast." Twilight told them.

Everypony nodded and stood close to Toby and Twilight as they both charged up their magic for a teleportation spell. Their blue and magenta aura's started to glow and thanks to the mysterious yellow aura they begin to mix together until suddenly they all disappear in a flash of light.

Outside, all Pinkie felt was a strong shiver that shook her a bit, startling everypony that was around her. She giggled from this.

"That felt funny! Can you guys do that again?" she asked. Pinkie expected to her a response from her friends inside her but instead heard nothing. "Girls? Toby? Spike? Anypony? Hello!"

---

While it seemed as though her friends were finally out of her body, in actually they were still inside of her, only in a far different place then they were before.

In a flash of light all seven of them appeared what seemed to be a red sea, when they realized that there was no oxygen to breath they all covered their mouths and held their breath. Toby then snapped his fingers and scuba gear appeared on all of them, allowing them to breath.

They each took a deep breath and sighed in relief, happy that they could finally breath again.

"Now where are we?" Rainbow Dash asked.

Toby watched as several little round and red tube like objects moved right past them all "Judging by the large amount of red blood cell it looks like we're in Pinkie's blood stream," he deduced.

Rarity shivered. "Ooh, this is just several different types of wrong!" she proclaimed.

"While I can't disagree with ya there, whining and complaining isn't gonna help!" Toby told her.

Twilight moaned. "I thought for sure that would work!"

"So did I." Toby admitted. "I guess we both share a blame on this one."

"How about instead of playing the blame game, we get the hay out of here!" Applejack stated.

"I'm with Applejack." Fluttershy added.

"Yeah, yeah, just let me think…" Toby began to say.

Spike then saw something up ahead that makes his pupils shrink. "Uh… Toe? Could you possibly think faster?"

"Why?" Toby inquired.

The purple and green dragon pointed up ahead. "That's way."

Everypony looked to where he was pointing and saw large white blobs traveling down the blood tunnel and heading their way.

"Uh… what are those?" Rainbow Dash questioned a bit confused.

"Oh crud… white blood cells!" Toby realized. "And their heading this way!"

"White what now?" Applejack asked confused.

"White Blood Cells. They're the cells in your body that are programmed to eliminate germs." Twilight explained.

"And right now they think we're the germs!" Toby added.

"Oh that's bad…" Fluttershy stated fearfully.

"No duh it's bad!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed.

It was then that Rarity couldn't take it, she then screamed. "Everypony for herself!"

She then zoomed off in the opposite direction of the approaching white blood cells.

"Oh gee thanks, that's very touching of you!" Toby called out sarcastically.

"Who cares? RUN!" Rainbow Dash yelled.

"You mean… SWIM!" Twilight added loudly. All six of them then began to swim in the direction Rarity was headed with the white blood cells hot on their tails.

Outside, while everypony else was swimming for their lives inside her blood stream the party pony herself happily hopped and skipped through down blissfully while singing 'La, La, La' over and over.

Of course, every now and then the pink pony began to sneeze which shook her whole body like an earthquake and made everypony that was inside her bouncing around the blood stream tunnel.

"Pinkie! Stop bouncing!" Toby called out. "Just stay still!"

The shaking in the tunnel suddenly ceased.

"Oops! Sorry! Forgot you guys were in there!" Pinkie Pie admitted.

"Hey… Why are we swimming when we can be poofing? Twi, let's you and me get us out of here!" Toby exclaimed.

"What? No way! Who knows where we'll end up this time!" Rainbow Dash pointed out.

"Well it's either that or being destroyed by killer white blood cells!" Toby stated.

"Kid's gotta point Rainbow!" Applejack agreed.

"Alright, hang on!" Twilight Sparkle told the others, as they all grabbed onto her and Toby who grabbed one of her forelegs.

"I got a bad feeling about this…" Spike bemoaned.

"Thanks for the support, pal." Toby said sarcastically. He clapped his hands, grabbed Twilight's front hoof again and once again began to concentrate. Their blue and magenta aura's started to glow then in a flash they disappeared right before the white blood cells could catch them.

Outside, Pinkie was playfully rolling in the grass before a strong shiver shook her body again and sent her flying up till she grabbed onto a tree branch, standing next to her was a cute little brown squirrel.

"Oh hello Mister Squirrel!" Pinkie Pie said cheerfully.

---

Back inside her, Toby, Spike and the of the Pony Gang suddenly appeared in another squishy looking area, only this time they were standing on what appeared to be a little boat which was floating on a bubbly and steamy milky green liquid.

"Where in Equestria…" Applejack breathed.

"Uh oh… I was thinking about the Library…" Toby admitted. "This isn't the library…"

"No duh! So where are we?" Rainbow Dash questioned.

"My guess… the stomach." Twilight Sparkle stated.

A loud rumbling was then heard all around them, making it very hard for them keep their balance on the object they were all standing on.

"Yep, defiantly the stomach…" Spike groaned as he held on tightly to the toy ship.

"Hey guys! Is that you whose causing all these shivers?" Pinkie Pie voice asked from all around them. "Because it tickles!"

"Yeah… that's us, we're trying to port our way out but it doesn't seem to be working." Toby admitted.

"So… where are you now?" Pinkie inquired curiously.

"Unfortunately… it's your stomach darling…" Rarity bemoaned.

"Ooh! No wonder my tummy feels full!" Pinkie Pie remarked.

Toby looked around the stomach disgusted. "Ugh, Pinkie sure eats a lot of junk. No offence!" he called.

"None taken!" Pinkie's voice chirped.

Rainbow Dash looked around the stomach and noticed something odd, there were several little cars and ships all floating around them. "Hey… are those… Hey Pinkie! You're supposed to play with your toys not eat them!" she cried.

"Oh I know, but they always look so colorful and chewy…" Pinkie Pie admitted with a giggle.

"Oh my… that can't be good for you…" Fluttershy stated concerned.

"Well if it weren't for Pinkie's bizarre eating habit we wouldn't have this great boat to land on!" Toby remarked optimistically. "Now all we need to do is get out…"

"Oh no! We are NOT teleporting again!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed. "So don't even think about it!"

"I wasn't…" Toby said.

"Oh… well, good then!" Rainbow stated firmly.

"How do we get out, Toby?" Twilight wondered.

"Why are you asking me? You're the smart one of the group!" Toby pointed out.

"Yeah... and I'm also the one whose gotten us into even more trouble…" Twilight said depressed.

"Twilight…" Toby began.

"No Toby. This… this is all my fault… you warned me not to use my magic at that time and I didn't listen to you." Twilight bemoaned.

"Since when do you guys ever listen to me?" Toby pointed out. "I mean, when it comes to non-life threatening situations that is."

"He's got a point." Rainbow Dash nodded.

"Uh… ya'll? I hate to interrupt the pity fest but that little boat is sinking and sinking fast!" Applejack called out.

The others looked and saw that she was right, the boat was not only sinking but it was also melting due to the green liquid it was floating on.

Fluttershy and Rarity shrieked and held each other tightly, with scared looks on their faces.

"What's happening!?" Rarity exclaimed.

"It's the stomach acid!" Twilight cried.

"Stomach acid?" Spike echoed.

"Everypony, don't touch it! This stuff will skin you alive… not to mention your eyes will explode and your hair will burst into flames." Toby told them.

Rarity grimaced. "EW! Oh that would just ruin my next visit to the Gala."

"Way to focus on the real problem Rare." Rainbow Dash said sarcastically.

Toby sighed. "Look Twi, I know your upset right now but beating yourself up isn't gonna get us out of this!" he told her. "Now the only way any of us are gonna get out of here is if we work together. As. A. Team. Ok?"

Twilight thought for a few seconds and realized he was right. She sighed as well. "Your right, Toby," she smiled. "And good news for all of us; I have a plan!"

"Well spit it out because we literally don't have all day!" Rainbow Dash said, reminding them of the sinking boat.

"Oh, right!" Twilight remembered.

"So… what's the plan? H-How do we get to Pinkie's nose?" Fluttershy inquired.

"Well… if you look up you can see it's a straight shot up the stomach to the esophagus and then the nose! We just need to get up there." Twilight Sparkle explained.

"How?" Rarity questioned.

"We just need something to launch us up there…" The purple unicorn began.

"Me, Toby and Fluttershy could probably fly everypony up there." Rainbow Dash suggested. "Right, guys?"

"Um… maybe…" Fluttershy said slowly.

"Yeah, maybe, but we can't carry them up the whole way, our wings we'll get tired and when that happens…" Toby started.

"It's a one way shot to a stomach acid filed doom…" Spike finished grimly.

"Then maybe we can use something… natural gas!" Twilight exclaimed.

"Natural gas?" Applejack echoed.

"Like this!" Spike said before burping out green flames. This made Pinkie Pie giggle and shake all over. "That's tickles! Do it again! Do it again!"

"Serious dude, find a better way to receive letters!" Toby told the dragon disgusted.

"Oh you can't mean you want Pinkie to burp us out…" Rarity said slowly and horrified.

"Afraid so, but she can make a big enough burp…" Twilight started to say.

"You can hop on to the gas bubble and ride the shockwave out of there!" Pinkie Pie voiced said, finishing Twilight's sentence. Everypony inside her stomach was stunned silent.

"Wow." Toby remarked.

"Yeah… that's… what I was gonna say…" Twilight Sparkle admitted slowly. "How did you know?"

"Just a hunch!" Pinkie Pie shrugged.

"Ok, let's hope your plan works, Twi." Toby said.

"That goes double for me!" Rainbow Dash agreed.

"And that makes three of us." Twilight admitted.

"Ok Pinkie, find a large bottle of fizzy apple cider, it's my barn!" Applejack called out.

"Okey, Dokey, Lokey!" Pinkie Pie's voice chirped.

"Wait… you had apple cider in your barn all this time and you didn't tell me!? Rainbow Dash exclaimed.

"It's fizzy apple cider. You see after Toby told me about some fizzy drink called soda pop me and Big Mac have been experimenting with a spare barrel of cider in order to make it fizzy." Applejack explained.

"How come you haven't shared it to anypony?" Fluttershy inquired.

"Well like I said, it's an experiment so… it might have some side effects…" Applejack admitted.

"Then I guess it's a risk I'll have to take!" Pinkie Pie declared. "Now… time to get the cider! Don't move everypony!"

"Really? Where are we gonna go?" Toby questioned flatly then looked down at their sinking ship. "Other than down I mean…"

Outside, Pinkie Pie began to zoom over towards Sweet Apple Acers almost like a pink blur. She zoomed past Applebloom, Big McIntosh and Granny Smith and blew a gust of wind past them as she ran by. She soon arrived inside the barn and started looking around for the barrel of Fitzy apple cider. As soon as she found it she smiled widely.

"Ok, everypony! I found the cider!" Pinkie said to her belly, where the others were.

"Good job Pinkie, now chug!" Toby told her before turning to the others. "Anypony have an umbrella?"

"No… and it's not raining in here." Spike pointed out, a bit confused.

Toby just smirked and folded his arms while Pinkie got ready to drink the cider. "Three… two… one," he said slowly.

Pinkie chugged down on the cider hard and when she got all of the liquid into her mouth she swallowed hard. From inside the stomach, Toby and the others all felt the cider come down on them like rain. Everypony, except for Toby who just stood there smiling proudly, attempted to shield themselves from the cider rain.

"Oh no! My wonderfully styled mane shall be ruined!" Rarity cried out in alarm. "Oh! Ah! Oh! It's coming down too fast! Ah! Oh! Oh! Ah! Help me!"

"Well… is this is just… great." Applejack remarked sarcastically as Rarity continued to cry out in panic.

"Hey, I warned ya." Toby told them. "Now, the gas bubbles should be popping up soon so… hold on to something."

Everypony quickly grabbed onto a different part of Toby tightly, much to his annoyance and slight discomfort. "I didn't mean me!" he proclaimed.

"But if we hold onto you we'll have a more decent chance of not having our fabulous looks ruined by Pinkie's flesh melting stomach acid." Rarity pointed out.

"Oh, gee, once again, how touching of you." Toby said sarcastically.

Spike then noticed bubbles were beginning to form all around them. "It's working!" he cried.

Outside, Pinkie looked like she was just about to unleash a massive belch when Apple Bloom and Big McIntosh came into the barn.

"Hey Pinkie Pie, what are you…" The school pony began to say but before she could finish Pinkie let out a very loud and powerful burp that sent both of them flying out of the barn and knocked the doors off their hinges. Inside all the bubbles that were around the seven friends all burst and released a powerful blast of air that sent them shooting out of the stomach.

They all went flying through Pinkie's throat and just when it looked like they were going to get to her nose they ended up zooming right past it.

"Too far! TOO FAR!" Toby shouted as they flew past the nose. They soon ended up hitting the squishy ceiling of something that Pinkie cry out in pain and fall over. They all felt the thud and were about to fall right back down the esophagus when Toby used his magic to levitate them all in the air.

"Whew! That was close!" Toby remarked.

"Uh… I thought we were going to Pinkie's nose… this isn't her nose." Rainbow Dash stated, matter-of-factly.

"The power of that belch must have been too powerful!" Twilight Sparkle remarked.

"Well at least we know the Apple Fizzy has no side effects… unless one counts a too powerful burp as a side effect." Applejack thought.

"I'll say! And she didn't even say excuse me!" Rarity proclaimed, which made Applejack roll her eyes.

"I agree." Toby nodded. "Hey Pink! Ya mind?"

They all hear Pinkie giggled then say…

"Excuse me!"

"Thank you." Toby said.

"So… where are we now?" Fluttershy asked quietly.

"My guess… we're in Pinkie's brain." Toby concluded.

Spike looked around. "Where? I don't see it!" he pointed out. The little dragon then saw a little object in front of them. "Is it behind that disco ball covered in streamers on a stick?"

Toby looked around nervously. "Well… actually…"

"Oh…" Spike said slowly realizing what he meant.

Outside, the Apple Family all gazed down upon the giggling and twitching Pinkie Pie confused.

"Uh… Pinkie?" Apple Bloom asked slowly.

"I got ponies inside me, I got ponies inside me and their walking in my brain…" Pinkie Pie sang. The Apples all exchange glances while Pinkie sneezed loudly again.

Toby then remembered something important. "Uh, oh…"

Twilight remembered it also. "Uh, oh…"

"Why are you… uh, oh…" Fluttershy said as she remembered it also.

"That was three 'uh, oh's what gives?" Rainbow Dash inquired.

"I think we forgot about something…" Toby admitted.

"And that is?" Applejack asked, hoping for an answer.

"Well… let's just say if any of you sees a scary looking head cold virus… don't let it touch you." Twilight told them, grimly.

Fluttershy and Rarity squealed as they saw something black, with glowing yellow spots and many octopus-like tentacles stuck to the ceiling of Pinkie's cranium and slowly stretching its tentacles.

Spike didn't seem concerned. "So we get a cold, what's the big deal?" he asked.

"Yeah, we would get a cold if we were normal sized… but a virus against a microscopic us will uh… make us all go bye-bye." Toby said, a bit scared.

"Oh pony feathers…" Applejack bemoaned flatly.

"Now what?" Rainbow Dash inquired, impatiently.

"Well I'm guessing the nose is right below us so… going down!" Toby cried as he ceased levitating them. They screamed as they started to fall down the passage way below them, avoiding the virus's tentacles.

They all began to fall down the esophagus this time and looked like they were going to get to the nose this time… but once again, they miss.

"Too low! TOO LOW!" Toby screamed again.

Just then Toby managed to grab onto something pink and smooth with Spike grabbing onto his leg and the girls grabbed onto him and each other via biting onto each other's tails

"I'm getting real tired of this…" Rainbow Dash said, flatly through her teeth.

Outside, the Apples lifted the still sneezing Pinkie up off of the ground.

"Pinkie? Are you sure you're ok?" Apple Bloom inquired, concerned.

"Oh yeah, I'm fine." Pinkie assured that, although during that last sentence Pinkie Pie's voice became even more high pitched than usual. She covered her muzzle in shock while the Apples gasp.

"Hey, what's wrong with my voice?" the squeaky sounded Pinkie wondered before giggling. "I sound funny!"

"Ya sound like a chipmunk!" Apple Bloom stated.

"Eeyup." Big McIntosh said with a nod.

Inside, everypony heard Pinkie's high pitched giggling.

"Hey… hear that?" Toby inquired.

"It sounds like Pinkie…" Fluttershy said slowly.

"Yeah, if she inhaled a ton of helium!" Spike remarked.

Twilight then figured it out. "That's it! We're grabbing onto her vocal cords! That's why she sounds so high pitched!" she exclaimed.

"Vocal chords huh? Sure we can't…" Rainbow Dash started to say.

"Don't even think about it, Rainbow." Toby told her sternly. Everypony glared at her also.

"Aw, come on! I was just kidding!" she protested.

"Twi, Rare; let's try and levitate all the non-flying people up, RD and Fluttershy; you two fly up to the nose." Toby told them.

"I wish we could darling, but Rainbow, Fluttershy and myself all feel extremely tried for some reason…" Rarity said, gesturing to the panting Rainbow and Fluttershy near the bottom of the chain.

"Yeah… it… it feels like… all my energy… has been drained…" Fluttershy said between breathes.

"No kidding, ugh… I feel like I just flew around the world twice and I don't have anything to show for it." Rainbow Dash added.

"To be honest I'm feeling a bit tired myself, plus I think my magic is a bit drained as well…" Toby admitted.

"That's weird because I feel just fine." Twilight pointed out.

"Then you'll have to levitate us all up to the nose, after all your levitation spell is a lot gentler then mine." Toby said.

"Uh… ok, I'll do my best!" Twilight Sparkle declared, determined.

Toby smiled. "That's all I can ask."

"Uh… y'all, real sweet and all but… could you hurry it up a bit?" Applejack asked. "Cause… this human-dragon-pony chain is about to break!"

Twilight and Toby both saw that everypony was slowly beginning to lose hold of each other and fast.

"Alright on the count of three everypony let go and when that happens Twi; you catch us and lift us up!" Toby told them all.

"Got it!" Twilight said with a nod.

"You sure about this? Twilight's magic has been off today." Rainbow reminded him.

"Hey, she always manages to surprise me." Toby stated, which made Twilight blush a bit, Rainbow noticed this and glared at her jealously.

"Just go!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed impatiently and annoyed.

"Right!" Twilight Sparkle declared. Toby let go of Pinkie's vocal cord and just when it looked like they were gonna fall Twilight began using her magic on all of them and slowly levitated them upward and toward Pinkie's nose.

"It's working, ya-hoo!" Fluttershy cheered quietly.

"Easy... easy…" Toby told Twilight gently, before she managed to levitate them right onto the entrance way to the nose. "Success!"

As soon as Twilight's magical faded off of them they all looked up ahead and say one of the holes in the noses with light shining on the other end.

"Hazah! It's our way out! I can already taste freedom!" Rarity declared happily and dramatically.

The gang took one step forward then a piece of snot landed on Spike's face, much to everypony's disgust.

"EW!" They all exclaimed, grossed out.

"Yeah, well… what I taste does not taste like freedom!" Spike stated, flatly. "Hey Pinkie! You need to do some excavating in here!"

They all took another step forward and suddenly all of Pinkie's nose hairs appeared and blocked their path, whipping at anything that moved.

"Giant attacking nose hairs… not a part of the plan…" Toby admitted.

Rainbow Dash groaned. "Was there ever a plan, Toe?"

As the nose hairs continued to twitch Fluttershy continued to shake in fear, suddenly one snapped a little too close to her and caused both of her wings to pop out and rub against the walls of Pinkie's nose.

Outside, the apples had placed Pinkie Pie on their couch with a blanket over her. Apple Bloom and Big Mac were both gathered around her worried whilst Granny Smith gently rubbed a wet cloth on top of her forehead. They all backed up though when Pinkie made the beginning noises of a upcoming sneeze but calmed down when it faded.

Everypony heard those noises as well and that was when Toby got an idea.

"That's it! Rainbow, Fluttershy spread your wings!" Toby told them. They did as he told them.

"Sure but… why?" Rainbow Dash inquired as Toby's angel wings appeared on his back and unfolded as well.

"Simple, we can use our feathers to help Pinkie sneeze us out!" Toby exclaimed, excited.

"Sneeze us out!?" Rarity cried out loudly and dramatically for the umpteenth time. "Oh no, I am not getting covered in snot and… whatever else in here just to get out of Pinkie Pie!"

"But we have to Rarity!" Spike insisted.

"He's right it's the only way we'll be able get out of here." Twilight added.

"Not to mention get away from the very, scary head cold virus." Toby finished. "Whom, I might add is heading our way!?"

Toby gestured to the long black tentacles stretches and making their way inside the nose, heading in the Mane Six's, plus the boys, direction.

Panicking, Rarity quickly plucked a feather from Rainbow's wing, which made her cringe a bit.

"Ow! Hey!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed.

"Well what are we waiting for? Let's get to work!" Rarity declared, with the feather still in her mouth.

"Right everypony else, grab a feather!" Twilight ordered. Each of them then plucked a feather from Rainbow's wings, she yelled 'ow' every time.

"Hey! What do I look like, a pincushion!?" Rainbow cried. "Why don't you take some feathers from Fluttershy?"

Toby just gave her a look. "Right, right, sorry…" she apologized.

Everypony then began rubbing the sides of Pinkie's nose with Rainbow's feathers and Toby, Fluttershy and Rainbow used their own wings to rub against the walls. Then outside, Pinkie's nose began twitching.

"Ah… ah… ah…" Pinkie began to say, the Apples all braced themselves. "AHCHOO!"

Pinkie Pie let out a powerful sneeze that sent her seven tiny friends flying out of her nose and once they were out they immediately popped back to normal size and landed on the ground unharmed, albeit covered in snot though. They all groaned, disgusted.

"Excuse me…" Pinkie Pie said, smiling embarrassed.

"Applejack!" Apple Bloom cried, rushing over to her sister.

Toby rubbed the snot from his face and shuddered. "Ok… that was disturbing…" he muttered.

"Oh… absolutely…" Rarity agreed, even more disgusted then he was. "Now if you'll excuse me I need to take a long… long bath."

As Rarity began to head for the door Toby soon followed her. "Same. We'll see you guys in four to… eight hours…" he cringed before heading out the door.

"Don't hurry, ok?" Spike called out, the girls and Big Mac glared at him. "What? Just saying."

The next day, Twilight and Toby were both standing outside the golden oaks library discussing the events that had occurred yesterday.

"Well… that training session could have gotten a lot better…" Toby admitted, stuffing his hands into his pockets.

"I'll say." Twilight Sparkle agreed. "Listen Toby, I just wanted to say thanks… for having so much faith in me and helping me through that."

Toby smiled. "Thanks."

"And again, I'm really sorry I didn't listen to you earlier." Twilight apologized once again.

"It's cool, the main points are that everyone got out ok and nothing really, really bad happened while inside Pinkie, you know what I call that? I really good day." Toby stated, proudly and happily.

It was Twilight's turn to smile now. "Your right."

"Although… I did see something rather troubling today…" Toby added.

"What's that?" Twilight Sparkle inquired.

"Well right before your spell went haywire I noticed your magic aura turn yellow, usually it's magenta or something." Toby said.

"What does it mean?" Twilight questioned, curious and a bit concerned.

"I don't know… it's like your spell was corrupted by something or someone." Toby said, while he paced. He then remembered something important. "Say… when Discord tortured you before he didn't do anything to you, did he?"

"I don't think so… I mean I feel just fine, really." Twilight Sparkle replied. "Why do you ask?"

"Hmm, it's probably nothing, but in the mean time try not to use your magic too much until we figure this out, ok?" Toby told her.

Twilight was a bit saddened by this, magic was her special talent and the thought of not being able do it for a while just made her cringe inside. "But… what am I supposed to do now?"

"Well… until you get your magic under control, I'm gonna have to teach you how to fight." Toby responded.

"Fight!?" Twilight Sparkle echoed, surprised.

"True, you may not be an athlete but it's the only way your gonna be able to protect yourself without your magic, plus you do have some experience, right?" Toby inquired.

"I… I think so." Twilight mused.

"Then this should be no problem!" Toby declared. "Ok, let's get to work!"

But before he could do anything else Toby let out a loud sneeze before his whole face turned pale.

"Oh no…" Toby moaned, it appeared that he had caught Pinkie's cold and all the sneezing that went along with it.

Twilight giggled at this. "Come on, let's get you home, me and the girls will take good care of you."

"Yeah… that sounds nice." Toby admitted as Twilight began to lead him home. Unknown to both of them, a shadow nearby quickly look on the form of their chaotic enemy Discord himself, the shadow chuckled before disappearing.