"...and so, it is with muh deepest gratitude that I, Papa Gumbo," announced Papa Gumbo in front of his manor, his family behind him, his grandson Jamba at his side and Terra on the other, and Marsh Moss standing behind the crowd as everypony watched Papa Gumbo pull out a fancy-looking certificate, "am proud t' confer upon Terra, Knight o' Harmony, this certificate o' honorary citizenship! Terra, for all you've done for us, we welcome you as a member of our community an' our family. You will always have a home here in Hayseed Swamp village, as does our new friend an' neighbor, Marsh Moss!"

The locals and visitors all cheered and applauded Terra as well as Marsh Moss, the huge being stifling giggles as he felt some of the local foals climb onto his body due to how it tickled. Marsh was happy, for in spite of having every right to hate him and turn him away, the ponies of Hayseed village had not only forgiven him but embraced him like family.

After giving Marsh Moss his name, the huge swamp beast (what the locals were now calling him, as a term of endearment) had helped to set all the goo ponies free, as well as Papa Gumbo. Once they'd come to, Jamba and Terra had both assured them all that Marsh Moss was not the monster he was before. He had been healed, and all he needed was friendship. Gumbo had been the first to speak, and he'd said to Marsh Moss that all who called Hayseed Swamp home were meant to be friends.

Marsh Moss had helped everypony get home to the village, and Gumbo and Jamba and Terra had assured their family, friends, and neighbors that all was well and Marsh was their friend, not the monster he was before.

"And with th' formalities outta th' way..." Papa Gumbo said with a playful edge, "let's get this SWAMPI GRAS BACK ON!!!"

Again everypony cheered, and the celebration was back in full swing. Music and laughter filled the air, along with the delectable aromas of cajun style cooking. Looking around, Jamba smiled, glad this was all back, and that everypony was alright. Earlier, his family and friends and especially his Papa Gumbo had all slapped him on the back and said they were so proud of him. sure, he'd tried to downplay his role in it all, but Terra had to step in and remind him how it was Jamba, not the knight, who'd truly saved the day. Had Jamba not been there, Terra admitted he was afraid he might have had to do.

Once they took a moment to step away from all the festive hullabaloo, Jamba gazed up at Terra, still finding the reversal of it to be baffling. While Terra, having finally let it sink in that he'd become a Geo Pony, was experiencing a little (big) clumsy awkwardness with his new body. He kept forgetting how big he was, had to eat an entire feast to fill his new beast of a belly, and his tail kept knocking things over because he wasn't used to it being so long and thick now. Still, he liked how he could use it to grab things.

"So... ya gonna stick around for th' rest of Swampi Gras?" asked Jamba.

"...Nah. If you don't mind, I'm starting to get a bit homesick," Terra shrugged. It still bewildered him of how big he was now, compared to before. He could see Jamba was still big for a pony, but now he was twice the goo pony's size, and probably a lot heavier, that he thought to himself, Wonder if I oughta go on a diet...

Aloud, he said, "After all this, I've had my fill of excitement to last me a while."

"Heheh, well, compared to filling this," Jamba gave Terra a teasing poke in in the tummy, making him giggle from how it tickled, "that was probably a lot easier."

"Hahah, yeah, probably," Terra shrugged, but then the both of them fell silent and there was a sadness, before Terra said, "Would you... be interested in a pen-pal?"

"You mean... letters?" Jamba perked up, liking the idea. "Huh, never hadda pen-pal before. Sure! Be nice t' keep in touch."

Smiling, Terra held out his hoof (being careful since it was now much larger) and Jamba smiled back and gladly shook hooves with him, the two of them sharing a smile that was both appreciative and admiring, and Terra promised, "I'll write to you soon. Be seeing you, Jambalaya."

"Au revoir, Sir Terra," Jamba replied, his eyes wavering just a little with sadness.

Terra nodded and turned to leave when he felt a tap on his tail, and Jamba said, "Terra?"

"Yes?" Terra asked as he turned to look at Jamba again, and was caught off guard to see Jamba had reared up and stretched his gooey body just enough for him to sneak a quick peck onto Terra's cheek, and then Jamba gave him a wink and said, "Safe travels, friend!" and scampered off, stifling a coltish giggle.

Terra stood there a moment, touching his cheek and feeling a flush of warmth, his face pink'd with a little blush, and he chuckled to himself before he headed to the dock

The flight back to Ponyville wasn't long but it was a tad lonely. Terra was just glad that his increased size and weight wasn't too much for the Slipstream. Finally, he arrived and touched down onto the private airfield beside Blueblood's warehouse and workshop, and he returned the Slipstream before making his way back into town.

He'd expected it, but it was still a little uncomfortable for him when the locals, seeing Terra, all stared, shocked in recognizing Terra but confused by his new body. He smiled shyly, said 'have a good one' here and there, and made his way back to Golden Rose's tea shop.

Unfortunately, Terra's new size meant he had to shimmy his way through the door without breaking the frame with his X-X-X-XL sized rear end.

Urp- Yup, this is gonna take some getting used to... Terra thought as he clenched his lower cheeks and sucked in his gut as much as he could... and let it out in a sighing 'WUMPH' of relief when he managed to get through with the tea shop's door no worse for wear.

The little bell over the door rang as he closed it, and he heard Rose's voice from the back, "Be right with you, just have a seat, s'il vous plaît!"

"Rose! It's me, I'm back, and uh..." Terra looked at himself in the shop's window and couldn't deny he liked what he saw. "Uh- Well! Don't freak out but I... kinda went through a growth spurt."

"Terra! Mon ami, glad you're back," Rose responded as he backed his way out through the kitchen door, balancing a tea tray on his head and a warm teapot on his delightful derriere, and he kept talking as he turned around, "You're in for quite a sur....!!!"

Rose stood in abject shock at the sight of Terra that he didn't even notice the tray and teapot fall from his person and shatter on the floor. Terra gulped at how Rose gawked at him... and he blushed to see the pale pink-white of Rose's face turn a shade of magenta, so he dared to break the ice, and waved with his hoof and smiled awkwardly, "Bone-joor?"

The butchering of his father's first language helped Rose snap out of it, as he shook it off and stuttered and mumbled before managing to take a deep breath, and then asking with a voice as calm and collected as he could muster, "Terra... what happened to you?"

"My... Knightly Mission was successful?" Terra answered sheepishly. Seeing Rose raise a brow, Terra cleared his throat and added, "And... I transformed into a Geo Pony! Heh, believe me nopony was more surprised than me!"

"I can think of somepony who will be..." Rose responded with the subtlest hint of playfulness, his brows bobbing suggestively, confusing Terra.

"Er- What?" Terra said dumbly.

"Hmhmhm, and that somepony is waiting for you at home," Rose added before giving him a shoo-shoo motion with his hoof, "Go on, get out of here. I've a mess to clean up and you don't want to keep him waiting...!"

"Who are you talking about, Rose?" Terra asked, starting to get curious, but then Rose rushed up to him and started getting pushy.

"I must clean! You must leave at once!" Rose was surprisingly strong as he managed to twirl the big, golden geo pony `round and pushed against his plot multiple times, punctuating each shove with, "Out-out-out-out-OUT!!!"

The door shut and locked as Terra found himself suddenly outside the tea shop, and he looked back to see Rose lower the shade, but not before giving him a playful wink and then flipping the sign door to 'closed'.

Baffled yet curious by Rose's words and behavior, Terra decided he might as well go home now, as his mission was done and he was honestly looking forward to sleeping in his own-

Oh, right... Terra thought, remembering the fact he would no longer fit in his own bed. As he moseyed on home, he would smile and wave to some of the ponies he'd met and seen around Ponyville, only for them to pop their eyes, drop their jaws, or crash into something while staring at him yet didn't stop walking.

Terra could no longer avoid thinking about it. He was different. He was no longer just an earth pony, he was a Geo Pony! Every step, every shift of his increased weight, the feeling of his tail, long and thick, as it swayed behind him, the light jiggle of his bally and flanks, the increased weight on his head from his horns, and the thudding of his hoofsteps that left distinct and deeper tracks in the ground even when he was just walking.

Questions began to pass through his mind: Why had this happened? What did it mean? Was it forever? How would his friends and his family react once they saw him this way? What more in his life would change?

These questions he didn't know how to answer weighed down upon him, making him feel heavier than he already was, when he felt a faint tremble beneath his hooves. He didn't know what it as, but it caused him to look up and see his house straight ahead. When Terra had accepted Blueblood's offer to move to Ponyville, he was given his choice of housing. Of course Terra had refused to be giving a house for free, so Blueblood compromised he'd help pay for it and Terra would sell his old apartment in Canterlot as well as do some smithing service to cover the rest of the fee.

His house was large yet simple, a cabin built up of both stone and wood with a wooden roof, a chimney, and only one stable tall because Terra had figured a house two stables or taller wouldn't be practical for a Geo Pony to live in unless it was built for Geo Ponies in mind. Next to the cabin was his forge, one he'd had built on his property so he could work from home.

Gonna have to size that up, along with... maybe everything, Terra thought with a sigh, but he was glad to see home again.

THOOM THOOM

Terra felt those tremors through his hooves, and he couldn't help but think just how familiar they felt. He then remembered how Rose had said somepony was waiting for him at home.

Could it be...? Terra craned his neck to peer around his home, and he just caught the sight of the tip of a long purple tail with a white tuft of hair disappear around the corner. Gasping, he hurried, his hoofsteps heavier and louder, but he didn't care. Terra rushed past the side of the house and came around the corner...!

...and found only his backyard. A wave of disappointment came over him, as he plopped down on his bottom, minding his tail, and hung his head, thinking himself silly for getting his hopes up.

Get real, Terra... he thought, If he was coming he would have told you in his letters- "Huh?!"

Terra honestly felt like his butt was vibrating, but he quickly realized the vibration was coming from underneath him! He leapt to his hooves, looked around, confused, when he heard the shifting of dirt ahead of him, and he looked. The middle of his backyard shuddered and shook, as the dirt and soil parted... and then he emerged!

First his gray horns, then his ears, and then his head and the rest of his huge, mighty, royal purple body, rising up as though he'd been on an elevator, Praetura Amethyst stood in all his glory as he spun `round and struck a pose as he whipped his beautiful white mane, announcing, "That rumble beneath your hooves, the vibration reaching your belly, is it hunger? It is arousal? Neither, my golden boy! It's me! Your Big Fat Geo Prince, here at last just to be with...!!"

Praetura'd had his eyes closed up until just before he was about to finish his sentence, but as he'd gotten there, his eyes had opened, and the Terra he saw before him was a bit bigger than the Terra he'd last seen shrinking into the distance at the Canterlot train station.

"...Prae?" Terra uttered, his voice low yet heavy with emotion.

Praetura's eyes gave Terra a once-over, before he narrowed them and pulled his lips back into an intrigued smirk, "Unexpected- WHOA!!!"

Terra didn't waste a moment, as he threw himself at Praetura, wrapping his forelegs around the larger Geo Pony's neck, his laughter breaking into sobs of joy, Praetura falling over onto his back, startled yet laughing as well. Even more so when Terra started to pepper his face with happy kisses, and only stopped to take a breath and gaze down at him, purple eyes meeting golden eyes, and they held that gaze for a long and tender moment, before Praetura reached up, gently caressing Terra's cheek, and Terra grasped it like he'd never let go, causing Praetura to tear up with joy as well, before saying, "But not unwelcome."

Their lips met, warm and gentle at first. But then a growl escaped from Praetura's lips as he reached up and startled Terra in pulling him down and hoisting himself up so that their positions were now reversed. Terra gazed up at Praetura, who looked upon him with wonder.

"Stormbreaker's beard, Terr, what the hell happened to you? Not that I'm complaining, that is," Praetura whispered in amazement and bobbed his brows in a flirty way.

"Heheh, it's... kind of a long story, Prae," Terra replied, still a little teary so he wiped his eyes and then said, "But- I don't understand! Your last letter said you were still busy with the new Geo Pony community!"

"I was," Praetura shrugged, "and shortly after, I was finished! Enterra is all good now."

"Didja have to name the community after me?" Terra blushed.

"What else would I name it?" asked Praetura as he then slumped to the side, laying next to Terra, gazing at him so warmly, "None of it all would have been possible if you hadn't dropped into my life. And my belly..."

"You are never gonna let me live that down, are you?" chuckled Terra with a raised brow, and oof'd a little when he felt Prae press his hoof into Terra's stomach.

"Well, now I gots me this golden gut to play with, along with some more increased... assets," Praetura growled in a sultry way as he gently massaged Terra's belly, the golden geo softly moaning from how nice it felt, not only physically but emotionally.

He looked up into Praetura's eyes, and Praetura looked back, the warmth in that moment bringing tears to Terra's eyes again, as he emotionally whispered, "You're here."

"I'm here," Praetura affirmed, and pressed his forehead to Terra's, "I'm home."

They stayed there all night, so content to be with each other under the stars, keeping each other warm with their own girths. And making love with the moon as their witness!

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