Battle of the Bulge II: Fit to be Fat (22)
[At the Pudgyville Beach…]
“Wonderful news, dahlings, we’re finally losing weight,” announced Rainbow Dash.
“Less weight means better hoof movement and that means soon we’ll be able to wear our outfits again,” said Pinkie Pie.
“Too cool what Lily Lightly did,” remarked Sunny-Daze.
“Very beneficial indeed. There are times where my pegasus friends and I will need to fly so dropping at least some of the weight will bring back our flying abilities, at least somewhat,” said Star Catcher.
“Good thing none of our weight goes to our hooves but I guess that doesn’t mean much when you have a belly that prevents putting on socks,” giggled Minty.
“So that’s why I haven’t seen you with any socks on lately,” concluded Pinkie Pie.
“It’s Lickety Split dahling,” announced Rainbow Dash.
“You don’t appear to have put on any more weight like we have,” remarked Minty.
“Nope, I know how to keep it right where I want it, literally but it won’t help you all out at all though,” replied Lickety Split. [Meanwhile in their submarine…]
“Dropping weight are they? Well I guess that’s good but knowing them it won’t be good enough for us,” remarked Mary.
“I never noticed before but why are they so shiny?” asked Stephanie.
“What difference does that make when they’re fat slobs?” questioned Stella.
“How could you have not noticed? It’s probably what makes them the brightest thing in that town,” replied Mary.
“You probably weren’t paying attention and that’s not a bad thing since that’s not important with us. How about we try a little mind control on them?” said Stella.
“Where exactly would you be able to broadcast such a thing?” asked Mary.
“These ponies use Internet so we can broadcast it online in addition to TV,” replied Stella.
“How will they not know it’s us? It’s not like they won’t remember the time we tried to remove the calories from them two years ago,” protested Stephanie.
“We can’t use our Calorie Stealer outfits or they’re sure to know it’s us,” stated Mary.
“You sure about that? It was after all two years ago. Maybe they forgot?” questioned Stephanie.
“I doubt that. These ponies may not have a care in the world for obesity but I’m sure they’d have no trouble remembering us,” replied Stella.
“What exactly would mind control do?” asked Mary.
“That would in a way force the ponies to drop all their weight, including what they consider a normal weight for their town,” explained Stella.
“Do you think it’d really work?” asked Stephanie.
“Of course it will, you just haven’t been told what I’ll do and I’ll do that now. It’ll be a news report that tells about a law passed that requires all ponies to be skinny or be arrested,” replied Stella.
“Isn’t that like what the PPHB did?” questioned Mary.
“In a way, yes but it’s a bit more extreme now because they won’t be sent to some health club, they’ll be sent to jail,” answered Stella.
“That would likely encourage them to lose weight, more than they planned but what if they don’t believe it?” asked Stephanie.
“It’ll be their own fault because my father is a police officer and if he hears this news report, he’ll be sure to keep an eye on it and will respond immediately to find ponies that aren’t following this law,” stated Stella.
“Now we definitely know not to mess with you,” said Mary.
“If we’re going to do this, we need to somehow hijack TVs and internet broadcasts, or better yet just newspapers,” said Stella.
“If we do just newspapers, then we don’t need any fancy equipment and it won’t take much time to complete,” pondered Stephanie.
“When this takes hold, victory will finally be ours,” proclaimed Mary.
TO BE CONTINUED...
