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I got inspired by a few things and may have gone a little overboard. Regardless, here's a flutterblimphead and a story to go with it.
A particularly reserved yellow pegasus knocked on the front door of a bakery. She held onto one arm with the other pensively while waiting for a response, a heavy dark green turtleneck sweater and long jeans hiding much of her body from any prying eyes.
"What was it Pinkie wanted me to help with again?" she mused to herself, brushing strands of her long pink mane out of her face. Though before she could wonder long, the top half of the split door swung open, and a decidedly not reserved pink earth mare appeared and leaned out, planting her hands on the bottom half of the door in such a way that her arms accentuated her already ample cleavage.
"Oh, Fluttershy! Great, you're here!" the bubbly baker all but shouted into her friend's face, balloon marked white tank top and jean shorts barely containing her curves.
"Hello Pinkie," the pegasus quietly replied back. "So, what did you- yeep!" She let out a tiny squeak as the overexcited mare grabbed her by the shoulders and pretty much just pulled her straight inside without bothering to open the bottom half of the door.
"Come on, I'll show you!" Pinkie shouted as she whisked her friend inside, abruptly placing her back on the floor in front of the baking counter. Fluttershy remained stiff as a statue for a moment out of shock, and nearly toppled over before she caught herself and regained her composure. She was not a stranger to her pink friend's antics, but they always seemed to catch her off guard regardless. As she shook her head free of the confusion a baking tray of cookies was shoved into her face. "Lookie!"
Fluttershy had to pull her head back to avoid getting a snoot full of baked goods, and looked at the tray. On it were strangely shaped cookies of all different colors, each appearing like a pony's head with huge, silly looking eyes skewed in every direction but straight. Each face was also framed by a pair of wings, seeming to imply they wer-
"They're PegaPastries!" Pinkie clarified, interrupting Flutter's train of thought with the answer she was about to get to. "It's Pegasus Appreciation Day, and I'm having a huuuuge sale in celebration!"
"Pegasus... Appreciation day?" the timid birdhorse parroted back, unfamiliar with having ever heard of such a day.
"Yep! It's a new holiday I just came up with and had signed into law this morning!"
Oh, well that explains- "...Signed into law?"
"Mmhmm!" The excitable baker chimed back, finally retracting the tray and moving behind the counter. "Mayor Mare was a little on the fence at first but she came around when I told her Earth Pony Appreciation Day would be next week. Aaaand that the race of the day gets a free dozen cookies of their likeness. And before you ask, Unicorn Appreciation Day was last week, heehee."
"Oh, I... see. So, uhm, you said you needed me to help with something?"
"Oh yeah, come on out back!"
Leading the semi-flustered yellow winged pony by the wrist, Pinkie drug her through the back door and into the small courtyard out behind the bakery. There Fluttershy noticed a particular assortment of items, including a moderately sized cardboard box, a pile of strong rope, and a large gas canister painted an oddly familiar orange color. Pinkie finally let go of her and continued forward, stopping in front of the items and swinging her arms out wide in a flourish.
"Taadaa! I bought a custom advertising balloon from Pongyi Inflatables! I didn't actually get a great look at it though, it just said 'Pegasus Inflat-' and that's as far as I read before I ordered it. But I'm sure it'll be perfect for bringing everyone in for Pegasus Appreciation Day!"
Fluttershy stood blankly for a moment. "Uh, that's great Pinkie, but what do you need me for with it?"
"Oh, right, duh. Since I've gotta bake a dozen specialized cookies for every pegasus in Ponyville, I'm too busy to set it up right now, so I figured you could do it for me! Partly because, y'know," Pinkie slipped around behind the perplexed pegasus and grabbed hold of her wings at the bases, wiggling them a bit, "it's waaaay easier to tie a balloon up to a roof when you've got a pair of these!" Fluttershy instinctively clamped her wings to her back when Pinkie messed with them, only relaxing when she let go and started moving back to the bakery. "And don't think I forgot the significance of that! You'll be getting two dozen cookies for the help. I'll be back out to check on you when I can okay don't worry good luck have fuuuuun!"
The backdoor closed quite abruptly to serve as a punctuation to the pink partier's rapid assault of words, making Fluttershy jump just a bit as her gaze had followed her friend the whole way. Scratching at her head a bit she finally gave a light shrug. "Well, okay then." Turning around to take stock of things, she ruminated on how to proceed. She'd never set up an advertising balloon before, but it surely wasn't that difficult. Walking over to the nondescript cardboard box, she pulled open its flaps to find an unassuming folded up brick of vinyl inside, a shade of yellow that was actually pretty close to her coat color. "Oh, that's neat," she said, reaching inside to try and pull the mass of plastic out. She grabbed a single flap and pulled it up, a portion of the inflatable unfurling as she did. There were more colors inside, and the more she pulled out the less she could figure out what it was supposed to look like. Was Pinkie sure this was a pegasus?
"Hm... Maybe I should secure the rope before I start with this." Dropping the tangled mass of vinyl for a moment, Fluttershy stepped over to the coil of rope and grabbed one end. Unfurling her large wings she hopped into the air and flapped up to the roof with ease. Upon reaching a proper height, she noticed there were an awful lot of potential places to tie the rope, and eventually settled on one chunk of the decor that looked the sturdiest, looping the middle of the rope around a few times before pulling it tight and descending back down to the ground with the end still in hand.
"Okay, now I just gotta tie it to the balloon somewhere... I guess it should have a place but..." the confused yellow pony looked over the heap of colorful plastic, still unable to make heads or tails of it. "Hm... Oh! I know. I can probably find it easier once it starts filling out properly." Moving over to the helium tank, she picked up the end of the hose and curiously poked at the nozzle a few times, before returning to the crumpled heap of inflatable. She spent the net few minutes searching every surface of the thing she could looking for a valve, pulling more of the puzzle of plastic out of the box in the process, until finally she found a reasonably sized hard plastic valve on one end of the thing. "Oh good, there it is. Now I just gotta..."
Thinking ahead of herself, Fluttershy reached back and opened the valve of the tank. Compressed helium started sputtering out of the hose in her hand, which admittedly startled her just a bit. With that accomplished she reached down and tugged on the valve. It didn't budge in the slightest. "...Hunh." She tugged harder, and the bottom of the valve pulled upward, lifting some of the attached vinyl. She planted one hoof on the surface beside the valve to keep it in place, before tugging again, yet the stubborn port remained closed. "Oh, would you just-" Mildly frustrated, Fluttershy gripped the end of the running hose sideways between her teeth and committed both hands to trying to pry open the tiny airlock. She dug her fingers around it to get as much purchase on the rim as possible, even flapping her wings instinctively to try and increase her pull force. "Hnnnnnggggg..."
At last, with a resounding PWOP, the valve popped open. And with a resounding "Yaip!", the unprepared pegasus accidentally flung herself backwards once it came loose, her yelp of surprise launching the hose into the air above her as she staggered back, kicking the box of inflatable over and away before she finally tripped backwards over the rope coil and landed her petite butt on the ground right in the middle of it. "Oof!"
She lay in a daze for a moment, head leaned back and mouth hanging open as she groaned. "Oooohhh..." Soon enough, gravity guided the airborn hose nozzle back earthward, landing right inside a convenient hole and lodging itself inside. "Hmphh?!" was all Fluttershy could squeak out as she found a strange tube invading her mouth. The impact bringing her to a bit, she sat up and looked around to see what was going on. Spying the hose poking out of her mouth, she traced it back to it's source, namely that orange canister she was going to use to fill the balloon with helium that currently was emitting an angry hiss as it pushed its content through the hose.
Confusion and panic setting in didn't do the timid pony any favors on her predicament, as rather than spitting the hose out she looked down past her ballooning cheeks to her midsection. To be totally honest this wasn't the first time she's found herself with a high pressure hose stuffed into her mouth, and so she had an expectation to see her belly quickly begin to bloat up beneath her forest green sweater. Curiously though, it seemed that that part of her anatomy was remaining as flat as a washboard for the time being. The turtleneck of the sweater felt awfully tight though...
When she reached up to try and loosen it the perplexed pegasus found the probable cause of the lack of air in an expected place, as her hand bumped into what felt like an inflatable rubber ball, but she soon realized it was her own cheek! Emitting a startled whimper, Fluttershy grabbed hold of her massively bloated cheeks, sticking out at least six inches from their usual location. Apparently the neck of her sweater was so tight it wouldn't let any of the air through! Wait, how did that make sense? She'd been able to breathe fine, right? So why was this any wow was that her nose?
Still too bewildered to think about simply opening her mouth, Fluttershy watched her petite booper begin to bulge with the invading gas along with her cheeks, which themselves now approached the size of basketballs stuck to the sides of her face. Her diminutive nostrils soon poofed out into fat little donuts on the end of her growing muzzle, sealing themselves shut. Seeing such a thing seemed to finally put the idea into her head she could probably just open her silly mouth and take the hose out. Or rather she could have, had the pressure inside her growing face not squeezed her lips shut around it enough that she couldn't even move her jaw anymore. With panic setting in again, she took to trying to tug the hose out manually, but that had about as much success as her first attempts with the valve. Sure she probably could have eventually gotten it in that case, had she not been distracted by her ears suddenly ballooning outward on top of her head.
"Hmmmh!" she squealed again, raising her arms around her bulging cheeks to feel her ears. Squeezing at them she found the soft, thin yellow-furred flesh of each had puffed up like marshmallows, squeezing shut yet another opening and muffling any sounds she could hear, save for her own mumbled cries which remained loud and clear. Astonished, she sat there with her ears in her hands, feeling them grow to three times their normal size in an alarmingly short period of time. If only she hadn't opened the valve on the tank so much... The valve! She could just turn the valve off!
Fluttershy scrambled to her hooves as quickly as she could, determined to stop this absurdity before it could grow any more out of hand. The bloated elements of her face bobbled as she stood herself up unsteadily, their size and the volume of the lighter than air substance in them making her feel considerably light-headed. She stumbled towards the tank, one hoof still tangled in the coils of the rope. The pressure flooding into her head was immense, and it was hard to even see straight by the time she laid her hands on the tank. In fact, she could hardly remember which way to turn it! Which way was closed? Maybe if she just turned it a little bit to see...
The flow of helium suddenly surged stronger, indicating that that was very much the wrong direction. The oversized beachballs that were her cheeks jiggled as she emitted a muffled yelp at the burst, and she nearly let go of the valve handle. She just had to turn it back the other way now, that's all! But it was getting so hard to think... The pressure in her head continued to increase from the ceaseless invasion of gas, and she screwed her eyes shut in determination, the surface of her forehead itself now even starting to swell. If she could just... turn... the valve... before...
With a squeal and the sound of rapid inflation, the shy pegasus' tender teal eyes suddenly billowed out of her face like the party balloons this tank usually filled. Startled, her hand slipped off the valve handle, spinning it yet further open and pulling the tank to the ground as she staggered backwards in confusion. Another sudden surge of air flow caused her overblown head to wobble as it abruptly bloated larger. A fuzzy picture of the clouds above was all she could make out, and she was confused as to why she couldn't move her eyes anymore from their skewed wide perspective. The addled airhead of a pegasus could only clutch at her bulging cheeks, the sides of which were now almost two feet away from where they ought to be. She was starting to look more like a weirdly animate bobblehead than a proper pegasus, with every feature of her face inflated so large as to be utterly useless for what it was once meant to be.
"MMMPH! HMMMPH!" Well beyond panic, she could only moan into the hose that tirelessly filled her balloon of a head with helium, the feeling of every surface of her face stretching like rubber all she could comprehend as her thoughtspace grew more and more empty. She desperately pawed at the undersides of her cheeks as they outgrew her armspan, causing her to lose yet more sense of how big she was getting. Her wings shot out straight behind her, twitching erratically as she slowly lost control of her every faculty, the only thing keeping her standing now being the excessive amount of helium flooding her highest point. Her vision grew steadily fuzzier and out of focus as her soft eyes ballooned to the size of exercise balls each, before quickly surpassing the size along with the rest of her face. Her ears looked more like the decorative domes of some of the roofs in Canterlot by this point; two great puffy yellow pyramids atop her monumental mockery of a face, which squeaked and squealed like a bundle of tightly bound weatherballoons. The now seemingly tiny ribbon of pink that was her mane now seemed completely out of place sitting atop her bulging dome, nestled between the two great spheres of white and teal that she used to use to see. Even those once tiny tires of her nostrils now resembled real tires, insignificant amounts of gas leaking out of their puckered puffy openings as her titanic thinker made a pitiful attempt to vent some of the vast pressure continually growing inside it.
A shadow was starting to cast over the adjacent bakery as the nearby blimp of a pegasus head continued to swell ever larger. Fluttershy had all but lost any sense of herself she might have still had by this point, her arms and legs sticking straight out and down to her sides in a stock still pose, twitching every so often as any signals they once might have gotten were now lost in a hazy cloud of more helium than thought. And it seemed that helium was finally beginning to do it's job, as her hooves slowly left the ground as she began to lift off. The rope she had tripped over remained looped around her ankle, and soon pulled itself tight as the fallen tank sitting on the rope thankfully kept the wayward airhead from floating too high. All she could do now was mindlessly whimper and moan as her bloated face stretched more and more into a ridiculous parody of the adorable pony it started the day as.
"Fluuuutershyyyy!" The backdoor of the bakery soon flung itself back open, as the busy baker called out to her helper. "I saw something getting big, did you get the balloon set- WOW!" Pinkie quickly ran outside past the forgotten pile of vinyl, stopping underneath the immense yellow balloon that floated just overhead, looking up at it in total awe. "This... is... great!" she shouted in unknowing glee, raising her fist into the air with a jump and accidentally bumping against the underside of a cart-sized cheek. "Oh I knew this would be the perfect balloon for this! It looks just like a huge silly pegasus head! Oh, and it even has a cute little body hanging underneath!" The absentminded earth mare ran over to the confused and woefully undersized body attached to the bottom of the mumbling blimp, seemingly unaware of it's actual origin. "Oh this is super great, thanks so much Fluttershy! ...Fluttershy? Hey where'd ya go silly, I haven't given you your cookie payment yet!"
Through the muddled haze of helium that flooded into her immense puffy head, Fluttershy could just barely make out someone calling to her somewhere far below. Was that... Pinkie? Had she come to help? Help with what, though? She couldn't remember what she was doing, or why she seemed to be so high in the sky... Something about a balloon? Maybe she let it carry her away. But why couldn't she see it above? Everything was so fuzzy... It sure sounded like there was a balloon somewhere, all she could hear was squeaks and creaks as it kept getting bigger. And oddly, it felt like it was all over her face too. But how could that be? None of this was making any sense to her, but if Pinkie was here maybe she could get her down, and hopefully shut off that constant hissing too.
After circling the twitching body of her friend a few times in search of her, the perplexed pink pony gave a shrug. "Guess there was an animal emergency or something, oh well. I'll give them to her next time I see her. But for now I gotta get this awesome balloon into position! Oh, hang on." Pinkie crouched down to closer inspect the rope haphazardly wrapped around the airhead's ankle. "She didn't do a suuuper great job tying this rope on, huh... Oh well, nothing I can't fix real quick!" Taking a different section of rope and first tying it securely around her other ankle, Pinkie unbound the first one and tied it up similarly, before joining the two a little further down and properly securing them with a nice big knot. "There we go, that'll hold ya even in Cloudsdale's strongest windstorm!"
Standing back up and returning her gaze to the still growing head balloon above, Pinkie traced the hose back down to the fallen tank, bending down to stand it back up and placing a hoof on the rope below in it's stead. "Gee, I wonder how big this balloon's supposed to get? It's already bigger than the whole Sugarcube Corner! Hmm... Oh well! The bigger the better I always say! I'll just leave the tank plugged in while it's up there." Releasing her hoof's hold on the rope below, the immense blimp of a friend slowly began to rise again, still muttering incoherently. Pinkie pulled the rope as she floated up, pulling out the slack and guiding the eyecatching blimp into her rightful place floating just above the Corner. The tank dragged along behind for a moment, before it too was lifted up along with her, the untold volumes of helium still inside eager to fill this new yellow container. "There we go! Boy, I hope Fluttershy knows how much this helps me out, this is sure to bring in ponies from all over to buy stuff! Oh, speaking of I've still got heaps of cookies to bake! Better get back to it!" And with a happy skip, the oblivious party mare went back inside to finish her task, the new advertising blimp swaying in the wind above, squeaking, creaking and mumbling as it continued to grow.
Sure enough, the enormous balloon face floating above Sugarcube Corner attracted all sorts of attention, causing ponies from all around town to come in and ask where she got it, as well as buy and sample various baked goods. Everyone said it was the biggest balloon they'd ever seen in town, larger than even most parade balloons in the holiday parades. And such a silly shape too! Like a goofy looking pegasus with her great big eyes splayed to the sky above. And most amazing, it just kept getting bigger! Truly an amazing piece of craftsmanship to be sure
High above the Corner, Fluttershy had little idea how helpful she was being, with more helium in her overblown head at this point than normally found in a regulation zeppelin. Her truck-sized ears had long been sealed shut, making the only thing she could hear the slow, continuous hissing of the dangling tank still filling her, as well as her periodic involuntary squeaks. If she could have seen clearly out of those house-sized eyeloons, she'd at least have known there wasn't a prettier day to lounge about in the sky. And the various pegasi patrons coming to the shop seemed to agree, as they flew up and settled down all over the airy expanses of her face, making a functional plaything out of this curious new blimp. Some giggled as they toyed with that little tuft of pink mane atop her bloated cranium, others finding joy in bouncing about on her burgeoning snoot ahead or her billowing cheeks out to either side. Some of them even cozied up on top of the squishy teal platforms of her irises, marveling at how soft she was even at such absurd sizes.
And even as her head outgrew the nearby town hall three times over, the tank seemed to still have yet more to give, and she was in little position but to take all it had. You'd think the immense shadow she was casting over the town would become a problem at some point, but that too solved itself when eventually every surface of her head had stretched so thin that she started turning translucent, much to the awe and delight of the crowds below. Sunlight soon shined through Fluttershy's astonishingly massive hollow head floating high above much of Ponyville, painting the streets below in fractured patterns of yellow and teal. Her once pretty little face had become an amazing collection of impossibly huge colorful bubbles seeking to outgrow the very town itself. It was a wonder how she still held together with so much internal pressure fighting to fill her, but she didn't have any cause or means to worry about it at this point. All she could do now is drift and grow, for as long as the circumstances saw fit.
After all, that orange tank was sure to run out eventually, right?
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A particularly reserved yellow pegasus knocked on the front door of a bakery. She held onto one arm with the other pensively while waiting for a response, a heavy dark green turtleneck sweater and long jeans hiding much of her body from any prying eyes.
"What was it Pinkie wanted me to help with again?" she mused to herself, brushing strands of her long pink mane out of her face. Though before she could wonder long, the top half of the split door swung open, and a decidedly not reserved pink earth mare appeared and leaned out, planting her hands on the bottom half of the door in such a way that her arms accentuated her already ample cleavage.
"Oh, Fluttershy! Great, you're here!" the bubbly baker all but shouted into her friend's face, balloon marked white tank top and jean shorts barely containing her curves.
"Hello Pinkie," the pegasus quietly replied back. "So, what did you- yeep!" She let out a tiny squeak as the overexcited mare grabbed her by the shoulders and pretty much just pulled her straight inside without bothering to open the bottom half of the door.
"Come on, I'll show you!" Pinkie shouted as she whisked her friend inside, abruptly placing her back on the floor in front of the baking counter. Fluttershy remained stiff as a statue for a moment out of shock, and nearly toppled over before she caught herself and regained her composure. She was not a stranger to her pink friend's antics, but they always seemed to catch her off guard regardless. As she shook her head free of the confusion a baking tray of cookies was shoved into her face. "Lookie!"
Fluttershy had to pull her head back to avoid getting a snoot full of baked goods, and looked at the tray. On it were strangely shaped cookies of all different colors, each appearing like a pony's head with huge, silly looking eyes skewed in every direction but straight. Each face was also framed by a pair of wings, seeming to imply they wer-
"They're PegaPastries!" Pinkie clarified, interrupting Flutter's train of thought with the answer she was about to get to. "It's Pegasus Appreciation Day, and I'm having a huuuuge sale in celebration!"
"Pegasus... Appreciation day?" the timid birdhorse parroted back, unfamiliar with having ever heard of such a day.
"Yep! It's a new holiday I just came up with and had signed into law this morning!"
Oh, well that explains- "...Signed into law?"
"Mmhmm!" The excitable baker chimed back, finally retracting the tray and moving behind the counter. "Mayor Mare was a little on the fence at first but she came around when I told her Earth Pony Appreciation Day would be next week. Aaaand that the race of the day gets a free dozen cookies of their likeness. And before you ask, Unicorn Appreciation Day was last week, heehee."
"Oh, I... see. So, uhm, you said you needed me to help with something?"
"Oh yeah, come on out back!"
Leading the semi-flustered yellow winged pony by the wrist, Pinkie drug her through the back door and into the small courtyard out behind the bakery. There Fluttershy noticed a particular assortment of items, including a moderately sized cardboard box, a pile of strong rope, and a large gas canister painted an oddly familiar orange color. Pinkie finally let go of her and continued forward, stopping in front of the items and swinging her arms out wide in a flourish.
"Taadaa! I bought a custom advertising balloon from Pongyi Inflatables! I didn't actually get a great look at it though, it just said 'Pegasus Inflat-' and that's as far as I read before I ordered it. But I'm sure it'll be perfect for bringing everyone in for Pegasus Appreciation Day!"
Fluttershy stood blankly for a moment. "Uh, that's great Pinkie, but what do you need me for with it?"
"Oh, right, duh. Since I've gotta bake a dozen specialized cookies for every pegasus in Ponyville, I'm too busy to set it up right now, so I figured you could do it for me! Partly because, y'know," Pinkie slipped around behind the perplexed pegasus and grabbed hold of her wings at the bases, wiggling them a bit, "it's waaaay easier to tie a balloon up to a roof when you've got a pair of these!" Fluttershy instinctively clamped her wings to her back when Pinkie messed with them, only relaxing when she let go and started moving back to the bakery. "And don't think I forgot the significance of that! You'll be getting two dozen cookies for the help. I'll be back out to check on you when I can okay don't worry good luck have fuuuuun!"
The backdoor closed quite abruptly to serve as a punctuation to the pink partier's rapid assault of words, making Fluttershy jump just a bit as her gaze had followed her friend the whole way. Scratching at her head a bit she finally gave a light shrug. "Well, okay then." Turning around to take stock of things, she ruminated on how to proceed. She'd never set up an advertising balloon before, but it surely wasn't that difficult. Walking over to the nondescript cardboard box, she pulled open its flaps to find an unassuming folded up brick of vinyl inside, a shade of yellow that was actually pretty close to her coat color. "Oh, that's neat," she said, reaching inside to try and pull the mass of plastic out. She grabbed a single flap and pulled it up, a portion of the inflatable unfurling as she did. There were more colors inside, and the more she pulled out the less she could figure out what it was supposed to look like. Was Pinkie sure this was a pegasus?
"Hm... Maybe I should secure the rope before I start with this." Dropping the tangled mass of vinyl for a moment, Fluttershy stepped over to the coil of rope and grabbed one end. Unfurling her large wings she hopped into the air and flapped up to the roof with ease. Upon reaching a proper height, she noticed there were an awful lot of potential places to tie the rope, and eventually settled on one chunk of the decor that looked the sturdiest, looping the middle of the rope around a few times before pulling it tight and descending back down to the ground with the end still in hand.
"Okay, now I just gotta tie it to the balloon somewhere... I guess it should have a place but..." the confused yellow pony looked over the heap of colorful plastic, still unable to make heads or tails of it. "Hm... Oh! I know. I can probably find it easier once it starts filling out properly." Moving over to the helium tank, she picked up the end of the hose and curiously poked at the nozzle a few times, before returning to the crumpled heap of inflatable. She spent the net few minutes searching every surface of the thing she could looking for a valve, pulling more of the puzzle of plastic out of the box in the process, until finally she found a reasonably sized hard plastic valve on one end of the thing. "Oh good, there it is. Now I just gotta..."
Thinking ahead of herself, Fluttershy reached back and opened the valve of the tank. Compressed helium started sputtering out of the hose in her hand, which admittedly startled her just a bit. With that accomplished she reached down and tugged on the valve. It didn't budge in the slightest. "...Hunh." She tugged harder, and the bottom of the valve pulled upward, lifting some of the attached vinyl. She planted one hoof on the surface beside the valve to keep it in place, before tugging again, yet the stubborn port remained closed. "Oh, would you just-" Mildly frustrated, Fluttershy gripped the end of the running hose sideways between her teeth and committed both hands to trying to pry open the tiny airlock. She dug her fingers around it to get as much purchase on the rim as possible, even flapping her wings instinctively to try and increase her pull force. "Hnnnnnggggg..."
At last, with a resounding PWOP, the valve popped open. And with a resounding "Yaip!", the unprepared pegasus accidentally flung herself backwards once it came loose, her yelp of surprise launching the hose into the air above her as she staggered back, kicking the box of inflatable over and away before she finally tripped backwards over the rope coil and landed her petite butt on the ground right in the middle of it. "Oof!"
She lay in a daze for a moment, head leaned back and mouth hanging open as she groaned. "Oooohhh..." Soon enough, gravity guided the airborn hose nozzle back earthward, landing right inside a convenient hole and lodging itself inside. "Hmphh?!" was all Fluttershy could squeak out as she found a strange tube invading her mouth. The impact bringing her to a bit, she sat up and looked around to see what was going on. Spying the hose poking out of her mouth, she traced it back to it's source, namely that orange canister she was going to use to fill the balloon with helium that currently was emitting an angry hiss as it pushed its content through the hose.
Confusion and panic setting in didn't do the timid pony any favors on her predicament, as rather than spitting the hose out she looked down past her ballooning cheeks to her midsection. To be totally honest this wasn't the first time she's found herself with a high pressure hose stuffed into her mouth, and so she had an expectation to see her belly quickly begin to bloat up beneath her forest green sweater. Curiously though, it seemed that that part of her anatomy was remaining as flat as a washboard for the time being. The turtleneck of the sweater felt awfully tight though...
When she reached up to try and loosen it the perplexed pegasus found the probable cause of the lack of air in an expected place, as her hand bumped into what felt like an inflatable rubber ball, but she soon realized it was her own cheek! Emitting a startled whimper, Fluttershy grabbed hold of her massively bloated cheeks, sticking out at least six inches from their usual location. Apparently the neck of her sweater was so tight it wouldn't let any of the air through! Wait, how did that make sense? She'd been able to breathe fine, right? So why was this any wow was that her nose?
Still too bewildered to think about simply opening her mouth, Fluttershy watched her petite booper begin to bulge with the invading gas along with her cheeks, which themselves now approached the size of basketballs stuck to the sides of her face. Her diminutive nostrils soon poofed out into fat little donuts on the end of her growing muzzle, sealing themselves shut. Seeing such a thing seemed to finally put the idea into her head she could probably just open her silly mouth and take the hose out. Or rather she could have, had the pressure inside her growing face not squeezed her lips shut around it enough that she couldn't even move her jaw anymore. With panic setting in again, she took to trying to tug the hose out manually, but that had about as much success as her first attempts with the valve. Sure she probably could have eventually gotten it in that case, had she not been distracted by her ears suddenly ballooning outward on top of her head.
"Hmmmh!" she squealed again, raising her arms around her bulging cheeks to feel her ears. Squeezing at them she found the soft, thin yellow-furred flesh of each had puffed up like marshmallows, squeezing shut yet another opening and muffling any sounds she could hear, save for her own mumbled cries which remained loud and clear. Astonished, she sat there with her ears in her hands, feeling them grow to three times their normal size in an alarmingly short period of time. If only she hadn't opened the valve on the tank so much... The valve! She could just turn the valve off!
Fluttershy scrambled to her hooves as quickly as she could, determined to stop this absurdity before it could grow any more out of hand. The bloated elements of her face bobbled as she stood herself up unsteadily, their size and the volume of the lighter than air substance in them making her feel considerably light-headed. She stumbled towards the tank, one hoof still tangled in the coils of the rope. The pressure flooding into her head was immense, and it was hard to even see straight by the time she laid her hands on the tank. In fact, she could hardly remember which way to turn it! Which way was closed? Maybe if she just turned it a little bit to see...
The flow of helium suddenly surged stronger, indicating that that was very much the wrong direction. The oversized beachballs that were her cheeks jiggled as she emitted a muffled yelp at the burst, and she nearly let go of the valve handle. She just had to turn it back the other way now, that's all! But it was getting so hard to think... The pressure in her head continued to increase from the ceaseless invasion of gas, and she screwed her eyes shut in determination, the surface of her forehead itself now even starting to swell. If she could just... turn... the valve... before...
With a squeal and the sound of rapid inflation, the shy pegasus' tender teal eyes suddenly billowed out of her face like the party balloons this tank usually filled. Startled, her hand slipped off the valve handle, spinning it yet further open and pulling the tank to the ground as she staggered backwards in confusion. Another sudden surge of air flow caused her overblown head to wobble as it abruptly bloated larger. A fuzzy picture of the clouds above was all she could make out, and she was confused as to why she couldn't move her eyes anymore from their skewed wide perspective. The addled airhead of a pegasus could only clutch at her bulging cheeks, the sides of which were now almost two feet away from where they ought to be. She was starting to look more like a weirdly animate bobblehead than a proper pegasus, with every feature of her face inflated so large as to be utterly useless for what it was once meant to be.
"MMMPH! HMMMPH!" Well beyond panic, she could only moan into the hose that tirelessly filled her balloon of a head with helium, the feeling of every surface of her face stretching like rubber all she could comprehend as her thoughtspace grew more and more empty. She desperately pawed at the undersides of her cheeks as they outgrew her armspan, causing her to lose yet more sense of how big she was getting. Her wings shot out straight behind her, twitching erratically as she slowly lost control of her every faculty, the only thing keeping her standing now being the excessive amount of helium flooding her highest point. Her vision grew steadily fuzzier and out of focus as her soft eyes ballooned to the size of exercise balls each, before quickly surpassing the size along with the rest of her face. Her ears looked more like the decorative domes of some of the roofs in Canterlot by this point; two great puffy yellow pyramids atop her monumental mockery of a face, which squeaked and squealed like a bundle of tightly bound weatherballoons. The now seemingly tiny ribbon of pink that was her mane now seemed completely out of place sitting atop her bulging dome, nestled between the two great spheres of white and teal that she used to use to see. Even those once tiny tires of her nostrils now resembled real tires, insignificant amounts of gas leaking out of their puckered puffy openings as her titanic thinker made a pitiful attempt to vent some of the vast pressure continually growing inside it.
A shadow was starting to cast over the adjacent bakery as the nearby blimp of a pegasus head continued to swell ever larger. Fluttershy had all but lost any sense of herself she might have still had by this point, her arms and legs sticking straight out and down to her sides in a stock still pose, twitching every so often as any signals they once might have gotten were now lost in a hazy cloud of more helium than thought. And it seemed that helium was finally beginning to do it's job, as her hooves slowly left the ground as she began to lift off. The rope she had tripped over remained looped around her ankle, and soon pulled itself tight as the fallen tank sitting on the rope thankfully kept the wayward airhead from floating too high. All she could do now was mindlessly whimper and moan as her bloated face stretched more and more into a ridiculous parody of the adorable pony it started the day as.
"Fluuuutershyyyy!" The backdoor of the bakery soon flung itself back open, as the busy baker called out to her helper. "I saw something getting big, did you get the balloon set- WOW!" Pinkie quickly ran outside past the forgotten pile of vinyl, stopping underneath the immense yellow balloon that floated just overhead, looking up at it in total awe. "This... is... great!" she shouted in unknowing glee, raising her fist into the air with a jump and accidentally bumping against the underside of a cart-sized cheek. "Oh I knew this would be the perfect balloon for this! It looks just like a huge silly pegasus head! Oh, and it even has a cute little body hanging underneath!" The absentminded earth mare ran over to the confused and woefully undersized body attached to the bottom of the mumbling blimp, seemingly unaware of it's actual origin. "Oh this is super great, thanks so much Fluttershy! ...Fluttershy? Hey where'd ya go silly, I haven't given you your cookie payment yet!"
Through the muddled haze of helium that flooded into her immense puffy head, Fluttershy could just barely make out someone calling to her somewhere far below. Was that... Pinkie? Had she come to help? Help with what, though? She couldn't remember what she was doing, or why she seemed to be so high in the sky... Something about a balloon? Maybe she let it carry her away. But why couldn't she see it above? Everything was so fuzzy... It sure sounded like there was a balloon somewhere, all she could hear was squeaks and creaks as it kept getting bigger. And oddly, it felt like it was all over her face too. But how could that be? None of this was making any sense to her, but if Pinkie was here maybe she could get her down, and hopefully shut off that constant hissing too.
After circling the twitching body of her friend a few times in search of her, the perplexed pink pony gave a shrug. "Guess there was an animal emergency or something, oh well. I'll give them to her next time I see her. But for now I gotta get this awesome balloon into position! Oh, hang on." Pinkie crouched down to closer inspect the rope haphazardly wrapped around the airhead's ankle. "She didn't do a suuuper great job tying this rope on, huh... Oh well, nothing I can't fix real quick!" Taking a different section of rope and first tying it securely around her other ankle, Pinkie unbound the first one and tied it up similarly, before joining the two a little further down and properly securing them with a nice big knot. "There we go, that'll hold ya even in Cloudsdale's strongest windstorm!"
Standing back up and returning her gaze to the still growing head balloon above, Pinkie traced the hose back down to the fallen tank, bending down to stand it back up and placing a hoof on the rope below in it's stead. "Gee, I wonder how big this balloon's supposed to get? It's already bigger than the whole Sugarcube Corner! Hmm... Oh well! The bigger the better I always say! I'll just leave the tank plugged in while it's up there." Releasing her hoof's hold on the rope below, the immense blimp of a friend slowly began to rise again, still muttering incoherently. Pinkie pulled the rope as she floated up, pulling out the slack and guiding the eyecatching blimp into her rightful place floating just above the Corner. The tank dragged along behind for a moment, before it too was lifted up along with her, the untold volumes of helium still inside eager to fill this new yellow container. "There we go! Boy, I hope Fluttershy knows how much this helps me out, this is sure to bring in ponies from all over to buy stuff! Oh, speaking of I've still got heaps of cookies to bake! Better get back to it!" And with a happy skip, the oblivious party mare went back inside to finish her task, the new advertising blimp swaying in the wind above, squeaking, creaking and mumbling as it continued to grow.
Sure enough, the enormous balloon face floating above Sugarcube Corner attracted all sorts of attention, causing ponies from all around town to come in and ask where she got it, as well as buy and sample various baked goods. Everyone said it was the biggest balloon they'd ever seen in town, larger than even most parade balloons in the holiday parades. And such a silly shape too! Like a goofy looking pegasus with her great big eyes splayed to the sky above. And most amazing, it just kept getting bigger! Truly an amazing piece of craftsmanship to be sure
High above the Corner, Fluttershy had little idea how helpful she was being, with more helium in her overblown head at this point than normally found in a regulation zeppelin. Her truck-sized ears had long been sealed shut, making the only thing she could hear the slow, continuous hissing of the dangling tank still filling her, as well as her periodic involuntary squeaks. If she could have seen clearly out of those house-sized eyeloons, she'd at least have known there wasn't a prettier day to lounge about in the sky. And the various pegasi patrons coming to the shop seemed to agree, as they flew up and settled down all over the airy expanses of her face, making a functional plaything out of this curious new blimp. Some giggled as they toyed with that little tuft of pink mane atop her bloated cranium, others finding joy in bouncing about on her burgeoning snoot ahead or her billowing cheeks out to either side. Some of them even cozied up on top of the squishy teal platforms of her irises, marveling at how soft she was even at such absurd sizes.
And even as her head outgrew the nearby town hall three times over, the tank seemed to still have yet more to give, and she was in little position but to take all it had. You'd think the immense shadow she was casting over the town would become a problem at some point, but that too solved itself when eventually every surface of her head had stretched so thin that she started turning translucent, much to the awe and delight of the crowds below. Sunlight soon shined through Fluttershy's astonishingly massive hollow head floating high above much of Ponyville, painting the streets below in fractured patterns of yellow and teal. Her once pretty little face had become an amazing collection of impossibly huge colorful bubbles seeking to outgrow the very town itself. It was a wonder how she still held together with so much internal pressure fighting to fill her, but she didn't have any cause or means to worry about it at this point. All she could do now is drift and grow, for as long as the circumstances saw fit.
After all, that orange tank was sure to run out eventually, right?
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