In the next 4 weeks, Sunset was numerously asked by Twilight for Starlight’s wishes, dozens of tubs were sent over and Starlight kept eating and eating to her heart’s desire. And in between, she kept making the most clever excuses she could think of to convince Twilight to keep sending.

“Okay, surely you’ve come up with your exact opinions now!” Twilight once said to her, out of concern and impatience.

“Uhhh... nope. Not yet. Just need a liiittle bit more, if you and Sunset wouldn’t mind.” Starlight said with a full mouth. Twilight gave a little irritated huff.

And during the course of those 4 weeks, Starlight had grown bigger and bigger, fatter and fatter with every tub she ate clean. She soon had to resort to eating while sitting on the floor, for her bed couldn’t support much more of her weight. Eventually though, the time finally came that her love of ice cream has died down and that Starlight have had enough. But, by then, she had eaten... about... 50 or so tubs and had gain so much weight that her belly was now a few centre meters off the ground and her bottom was as big as a hippo’s.

She was soon slowly trotting her way downstairs towards the library, where she knew Twilight would be. She had predicted correctly. Twilight was in the library reading where she had previously left off on a certain book called “The Princess’ Guide to Reforming Sirens”. It had been roughly a year since she started reading it. It was a big, detailed, complicated nugget of info. Before she started reading Chapter 36.5b, the doors to the library were flung open.

“Well, it’s about time. I sure hope finally thought of a-“ Twilight said out of slight irritation, but she immediately stopped and stared when she saw Starlight. “Wha- I- uhh...” She shook her head to clear her current thoughts. “Well, now that I’m absolutely certain you’ve eaten enough of that ice cream, how does it taste?” she asked.

“Oh. Uhh...” Starlight suddenly remembered the reason all this ice cream was sent to her in the first place. She thought for the best description for the taste she could come up with. “It was uhh... perfect.” There was a little pause.

“Perfect? That’s it?” Twilight asked out of confusion. “After all this time, all that ice cream, all that- that... weight you’ve gained, all you can think of to describe the ice cream is just... perfect?!”

“He-he, uhh... I might’ve been too busy eating to think properly.” said Starlight with a nervous chuckle.

Twilight simply face-hoofed and gave a small angry sigh. “Well, now that I know for sure that this was all a complete waste of time, I know exactly what you should do now. I’m going to message Sunset right now and you are going to tell her-“ she was interrupted by Starlight.

“To tell her ‘thank you for all the ice cream.’? Sure thing. I may be overweight, but I’m not mean. Anymore.”

“Well, that’s not what I was going to say, but alright. You do make a good point.” She immediately grabbed the journal with her magic and wrote to Sunset that Starlight is coming to thank her. After a few minutes, Sunset replied to Twilight saying that she's now standing next to the portal and is awaiting Starlight’s arrival. “Okay Starlight,” Twilight told her, “she’s ready for you now.”

Starlight nodded in response and made her way towards the portal mirror. She managed to squeeze her head and front hooves through the mirror and on the other side. But, after a few seconds, she found that she couldn’t move herself any further forward. “Huh?” She hadn’t realised that her massive belly, huge fat and hippo sized flanks were plugged up against the sides of the mirror. The hole in the mirror was too small and tight to allow the rest of her fat pony body to fit through.

“Uh, is there something wrong?” Sunset asked, a little confused.

“Wait, hang on.” Starlight said, as she attempted to brace her human hands against the portal statue and pull herself forward. She pulled hard with all her available strength and pushed her hind pony hooves forward. But, she still stayed put, which meant only one thing...

“He-he, I, uhh... seem to be a bit... stuck.”

“A bit?” asked Sunset with a stern look on her face. “Well, I’m not surprised that you’re stuck. Look at you. You made yourself as big as a sumo wrestler!” Starlight started to blush with embarrassment. Sunset pulled out her journal to inform Twilight of the situation.

“Oh yeah.” cried Starlight suddenly, “I was gonna thank you for buying all the ice cream for me, but now, I feel that’s now going to turn into an apology.” Sunset sighed with guilt as she continued writing. She was lucky her job at the sushi restaurant gave her just enough pay for this.

Meanwhile, Twilight was staring with irritation at the blocked mirror and, yes, at Starlight’s massive plot. “I knew I should’ve warned her about this,” she mumbled to herself, not that Starlight could hear her in her current state, “but constant fan mail and friendship problems just had to stop me.” She then received Sunset’s message in her journal. “‘Twilight, Starlight seems to be stuck.’ Gee, I can’t imagine why.” she said with an annoyed tone. The message continued. “I’m going to try and push her back into the library. Maybe you can pull her back in?” Twilight replied with a simple “sure”.

“Okay, I’m going to try and push you back through.” Sunset told Starlight. She then pressed her hands against Starlight’s body getting ready to push. “Okay, 3, 2, 1, NOW!” Then she immediately started pushing Starlight’s fat body towards the portal. Meanwhile, Twilight grabbed Starlight’s hind hooves with her magic and pulled with all her might. They both pushed and pulled really hard, but Starlight’s body was too big to fit through the portal hole. After a few more tries, they both stopped to catch their breath.

“Well, that’s no good.” Sunset panted. “How about I pull you instead?”

“Anything you can do to get me out of here.” Starlight sighed. Sunset quickly messaged Twilight to push instead of pull. Sunset then grabbed Starlight’s chubby hands.

“Ready? And...” Sunset then leaned back and started to pull Starlight out of the portal. Near the same time, Twilight placed her front hooves onto Starlight’s huge bottom and started to push her through. She groaned as she tried to summon the strength she needed. So did Sunset, as she grunted trying to pull back as far as she could go. They both kept pulling and pushing for several minutes, until they both gave up again. Starlight still didn’t budge.

“Wow. Such a problem I’ve gotten myself into.” sighed Starlight.

“You can say that again.” groaned Sunset. “Look, I’ll be right back. I’m just gonna fetch my friends. Maybe they can think of something.” She ran off for the school’s main entrance. “Hold on!” she called.

Starlight sighed with embarrassment, hanging alone in her trap, wondering what Twilight would say about this. “Not trying to rain on my own parade, but I think this serves me right.”

Meanwhile, Twilight was still staring at Starlight’s situation. “Not to be mean or anything, but this serves you right.” she said to herself. After next to 20 minutes of waiting in a rather uncomfortable state, Starlight saw Sunset return with a few of her human friends: Applejack, Rainbow Dash and this world’s equivalent of Twilight. They found Starlight’s current state to be quite the surprise.

“Starlight? What on earth happened to you?” asked Human Twilight in a surprised tone.

“Well... it’s kind of a long story.” Starlight giggled nervously.

“She gained a lot of weight, she’s stuck in the portal and now we’ve gotta get her out.” Sunset said quickly, trying to make that long story short. “Got any ideas?”

“Okay, let’s start with the obvious solution.” said Applejack. “All of ya stand back.” She walked up to Starlight, touched the magical orange Geode around her neck, granting her the power of super strength and grabbed hold of Starlight’s hands. “Alright, hold tight now. And... HEAVE!!!” She then used her advanced strength to pull Starlight out of the portal. But having the strength of what felt like 10 Applejacks, plus 2, wasn’t doing kindly to Starlight.

“OWOWOWOWOW!” she cried in pain. “AJ, STOP! YOURE GONNA RIP MY ARMS OFF!” Applejack stopped pulling when she heard those words.

“Oh, sorry.”

“Nice try AJ, but that’s not gonna cut it.” said Rainbow walking up to Starlight. “What we need is a little super speed!” She then granted this power by touching her own blue Geode around her neck, before grabbing Starlight’s hands. She then proceeded to pull her out of the portal with her speed power acting as a boost of strength. But the only accomplishment Rainbow received from this idea was ending up in a small crater up to her hips. “Or... maybe not.”

Human Twilight kindly lifted Rainbow out of the crater with her own Geode power: levitation. But even with that in mind, she knew her own power wasn’t strong enough to lift Starlight out.

“Well, we’ve done all we can do with our Geode powers.” thought Sunset, “So, what else can we do?” They all knew the powers the other girls possessed wouldn’t be much help. Fluttershy’s power of talking to animals and Rarity’s power to create gem shields wouldn’t be any good. Pinkie’s power of creating little explosions with sprinkles would most likely damage the portal. And Sunset’s power of reading people’s memories will only show her how Starlight became this fat in the first place. Not even Princess Twilight could use the most simple solution of just teleporting Starlight back into the library. If she can only see half of the object or pony she wanted to teleport, then she would most likely be teleporting one half of Starlight into the library. That would not end well.

Human Twilight walked up to the portal. She took a minute or three to examine Starlight’s body and the position she’s currently in. After a few minutes, she came up with the only solution she could think of.

“So, Starlight seems to be stuck because gained a whole lot of weight and thus, making her body bigger. Her body is now too big to fit through the portal. So, there’s only one thing we have left to do. We should wait for Starlight to slim down a few pounds or so. If her body is thinner, it would be easier to pull her out.” Twilight concluded.

“Huh?” Starlight was both surprised and confused. “Slim me down? You mean, not eat anything?! But, but, if I don’t eat anything for a week or something, I’ll die of starvation, won’t I?”

“Don’t worry.” Sunset reassured, “We will still feed you, but obviously, not as much as you did before. Small portions for every meal is what I’m saying.”

“Uuugggh! Fine!” Starlight sighed angrily. Sunset came up to her and placed her left arm on Starlight’s big body.

“Don’t worry, we will get you out of here.” she said, “I promise.”

Even though she now knew of the torturous stuff that is to come, Starlight still gave her a tiny little smile.