Caveman draw bellies

[scarletshnoz]

And here we have what was the start of my posts for October 2023

Got to posting this here at the start of October by complete accident B)

Anyways these two are just faking this, Janine actually just got fat from drinking too much of baja Ben's mountain dew baja blast.

And this wasn't meant to be an endorsement of modern Spider-Man btw, this is the first and last time I'll draw Ben Reilly as fucking Chasm lol

[scarletshnoz]

Sally XL (4/5) ~ Part 2

"How's your stomach now?" Sonic asked, hoping he finally had the green light.

"Well… The princess began her planning. …I feel like I can move now, at least." She finished, sitting back up.

"Great, so I should-" He tried to take off again only for Sally to softly grab his wrist.

"I'm not seconds to bursting like this now, but I still might not have digested enough for it to not kill skinny-me." She slid across the seat, standing up beside him.

"It might be safest to just wait a few hours… Her voiced feigned disappointment.

The blue one began cursing internally.

…Besides, I didn't want to be stuck with any of the leftover calories anyways."

"Fair." Sonic tried and failed to mask the disappointment in his own voice. He let her wrap her thickened arms around his own.

"Your memories are still fine though right?" The hedgehog asked, searching for an excuse.

"Yup, I still remember my life as a size two." Sally feigned a little attitude.

"Cool, mine are fine too. But if either of us start to forget I might just have to juice."

"Well if I start to think all of this… She grabbed her underbelly and shook it violently, sending her entire torso wobbling, priming to see if it'd get a reaction out of him. …is normal it doesn't really matter, you're the one who can undo this. And the rings haven't had any affect on you… right?" She asked, with a smile and an angled brow.

Sonic cleared his throat. Then scolded himself, he just had to keep it together for another hour or two, then he was home free.

"Nope, I remember my anorexic gf." He answered, hoping she hadn't already deduced the obvious. His jovial shield returned. He held the door for her on the way out of the restaurant. She made sure to graze her softened breasts and belly against his own chest and abdomen. Looking back she could see Sonic swallowing his own saliva. Again, she had to suppress a giggle.

'I can work with this just fine…'

Her boyfriend quickly caught back up, taking her back into his arm.

"So.. What do you wanna do now then?" He asked.

"What? All of this was your idea, shouldn't you have the backup plan?" She poked him.

"Touché, I dunno, just ride it out with a movie at your place or my place?"

"Ugh, my place. I need to change out of these boots…" She whined, just then another idea came to her. The sky blue combat boots she was wearing had already been upsized, but only to fit the 'barely above average' body she had hours ago, they had already been uncomfortably tight before they entered Chuck's and now, as Sonic again sported the ring, she was in the middle of undergoing another 'growth spurt'. Her puffy calves were now oozing out the tops of the boots, the light brown flesh now molding a bit above and around the collars. They felt fit to rip any second, so the princess subtly added a squat to her walk, compressing the meat already compacted in her footwear. She then flexed her calves.

*Shhrrrrrpppkkkk!* Vertical tears formed down the sides of her calves, starting from just below the top lining of each boot.

The princess let out a deep sigh, acting as if she were frustrated.

The couple stopped in their tracks. Initiating the next faze of her little stunt Sally bent over in front of the hedgehog as she tended to her boots. Her massive rear stretched and wobbled on display before his eyes. Sally arched her back downward and pushed her butt as far up and out as possible. She also made sure to make as many little grunts and wiggle her body as much as she could throughout the process. Sonic watched as her poor little chipmunk tail was propelled to and fro between two overgrown tawny coloured butt cheeks, getting bounced back and forth like a volleyball. The young man tried to casually turn his head away, were it not for his inability to swim he would've dove into the pond they were passing over to cool himself off. He was snapped back to the situation at hand by the Princess tossing the torn garments at him, the overstretched boots wrapped around his dome. Sally had opted to just remove them, now barefoot. Since her jacket had already been discarded, the pudgy chipmunk now stood completely naked.

"Those were actually upsized you know, and you still burst me out of them." The girl continued to lay it on. "I think it's actually a good thing I wasn't wearing a dress or anything, I would've popped out of those even sooner.."

"I'll buy you new ones." Sonic tried to hide the shake in his breath.

"Don't bother. I have tons just like it, I'm sure they'll all be xxl's by the time we get back too." She 'complained'.

"Carry me." The princess smiled, opening her arms expectantly.

"What? Again?" The hedgehog asked.

"Well normally I'd be fine walking barefoot on gravel, but I've got almost an extra hundred pounds pressing down on the rocks now and oh, hey! The calluses on my feet have magically been softened! Carry me." The princess closed her eyes but continued to smirk.

Sonic sighed.

He grunted as she hopped into his arms, which began shaking the moment they had to support her weight again, making it difficult for him to secure a comfortable carrying position. Her hunched up, squished belly and breasts jiggled madly as he shuffled her in his arms. While he had mostly regained his energy back from the prior ride, Sally was now even bigger than she had been before. Maybe another ten pounds heavier. Her impossibly soft, cloudy thighs engulfed his left arm and hand, while some back fat was starting to press against his right. As his arms were already fatigued the hedgehog opted to try to get back to the castle as quickly as possible, rather than pacing himself.

As the couple zipped through the city's trails. Sonic was momentarily distracted from his own fatigue by how he could now physically feel Sally getting fatter in his arms, noting how the pillowy lard of her thighs drooped millimeter after millimeter downward between his fingers. The same could be said for the meat on her tricep being cupped by his right hand. The blue blur was continuously tossing the princess up into a better position as his arms began to give up for good, he was sucking back air like his life depended on it but his girlfriend's home was now within eyeshot. Unfortunately for him the rest of his body was feeling the burn as well, muscles in his back he'd never felt before were suddenly making themselves known and even his legs were starting to wobble.

Just before the finish line Sonic's knee buckled unexpectedly.

"Woah!" Sonic's lower body crumbled as he was running at super speed. He struggled to keep the princess in his arms, resulting in her falling mass pulling him face forward.

"Ah-hah!" Sally yelled before the two were sent tumbling up the brick road.

She landed on her back, her upscaled glutes partially cushioning her fall. Sonic fell face first into her. His face getting shoved straight into her belly, his mug getting completely enveloped by her memory foam-esque middle. Apparently and thankfully enough food had been broken down now that her gut was no longer taught. The hedgehog had been completely sheltered from any scuffage by his airbag of a girlfriend.

With no real injuries, Sally quickly recovered and smirked, she could feel Sonic's breath on her belly as she violently jiggled underneath him.

He weakly crawled up along her body, his head poking up in between her breasts.

"You okay?" He asked between pants.

"Fine, you need to start lifting weights." She smiled at him cockily, her bright blues managing to see him through her frayed bangs now hanging in her face.

"Uh-huh.." He groaned, letting his head drop into her. Causing her water bed of a body to wobble again.

"Can I just like… lie here for a couple minutes?" He pleaded.

"Sure, you earned it slugger." She mocked.

Sonic's eyes widened as he remembered his big predicament. He realized he could still feel Sally growing underneath him. Her boobs slowly closed in on his chin and he could feel himself getting raised slightly higher into the air by her expanding belly. He quickly threw himself off of her. Struggling back up to his feet.

"Nevermind, didn't need it. Second wind." He postured.

Sally just kept smiling.

_______

The two finally stumbled into the princess’ quarters. Sally let Mr.Hedgehog in before herself, locking the door behind her.

“What do you want to watch?” Sonic asked as he fell into her sofa, with the remote in his hand. He fully expected her to intentionally pick some historical drama that’d bore the pants off of him.

“Your pick.” She answered, throwing her shredded clothes somewhere she’d remember to later repair them, if she even had to.

“Really?” He asked in surprise, he fully expected to not be hearing the words ‘your pick’ at all for the forseeable future.

“Yeah.’ She answered casually, meeting him on the couch. She let her heavy thighs rest atop his lap, her head cuddling up against the top of his shoulder.

Sonic cleared his throat again. “Actually Sal, do you want me to just go run it off now?” He asked. “Doesn’t seem like you’re too full anymore.” He bargained.

“Oh? You’re not too tuckered out?” She teased.

“Told you, second wind.”

“Well, actually…” Sally held her chin, smirking. “Do you want to order some delivery?”

The blue blur needed to do a double take, he couldn’t have just heard her right. “Huh?!”

“Well… you were right, my hang ups with junk food were out of control… The princess acted … I was using freedom fighting as an excuse for my erm, classist palette… She chuckled. and these rings exposed that… There’s no reason for me to fight you on this anymore with these, but since things are already like this… She poked her own squishy tummy. doesn’t it make sense to run the ‘culinary tour’ all in one go? I’m not sure how much of what we had at Chuck’s I would’ve actually liked if I was normal or which were because of the rings… but I guess it doesn’t matter right..? If I still get the positive experience?” She cooed.

She could actually see the beads of sweat trickle down Sonic’s face. Again her ability to contain her own laughter was being tested.

“YaaAAAaaAAAaaAayYyy….” He ‘cheered’.

“I knew you’d turn to the dark side if I just got you in the booth.”

The chipmunk rolled her eyes. “Well then… She leaned over, placed one hand on Sonic’s thigh and allowed her full weight to press on it. She reached with her other arm to grab the ring on Sonic’s hand and slide it off. Her belly grazed his leg. 'We don’t need this right now, the spare tire is needed for a bit longer."

"So uhhh…." Sonic continued, looking uncharacteristically uncomfortable while being so close to Sally. "...What do you wanna get?"

"What do you wanna show me?" The tip of her nose met his own.

"Well… you've never had shawarma before. There's a really good, greasy place that does delivery…"

"Mhm…" Her eyes gestured to him to continue listing off potential candidates.

"There's also that super greasy pizza place you'd never try…"

"Right… The one you always say is the best." She happily responded, making sure to sound genuinely interested.

"And uhh… That place with all the weird types of corndogs.." He droned on.

"That taco place, the place with the really good chicken… the place that's all normal fast food stuff but it's actually all vegetarian…" He began counting on his fingers.

"Cool, sounds good." Sally's eyelids dropped.

"Which one?" Sonic asked, perplexed.

"All of them." She answered nonchalantly.

"You're joking." He swiveled his head to look her in the eyes.

"I told you, you won. I'm trying everything." She replied casually.

"Yeah but… all of that at once?"

"What? Super speed digestion." She pointed to the ring now on the coffee table. "And we've still got the entire night. We've got time." She stated, her tone belying confusion that he'd even ask such silly things.

"It's going to make you bigger." He reminded her of the rules.

"It's not like I'm in great shape as is. I've already had an extremely embarrassing day of my friends, our family and the general public seeing me tubby. Being fat just in front of you isn't a big deal at this point."

Sonic's nerves really started to run. Realizing that if Sally got even larger his own preferences would be warped to match.

"Oookayy…" He concurred, getting up to grab the phone.

______

Sure enough after half an hour multiple orders (which combined together could feed a small army) arrived at the palace. Sonic came back into the room after tipping all the delivery boys, struggling to balance it all.

Sally went for the pizza first, just as he had and she was trying to ensure he got as little of the food as possible. After the xl thick crust pizza with four toppings had been eradicated the princess moved on to the shawarma, she got about halfway through it before slumping back into a familiar position.

"Ooouurgh, getting too full again." She whined.

"Ring time?" The hedgehog inquired.

"Ring time." The princess confirmed in her lethargy. She got up, cradling her underbelly in her hands.

"I'm gonna go take a shower while I digest." She walked off. "Don't touch any of my pile!" She warned, as she hung out from the entrance into her attached bathroom.

Once he heard the water running Sonic began assessing what he could and couldn't get away with. He wanted this to be over as quickly as possible now. Sally would obviously notice if her digestion slowed back down to its usual speed, so he opted to keep the ring on. He realized he had to pace himself quickly enough for Sally to not notice it from the shower. He first took a few forkfuls of the shawarma, hopefully not enough for his love to notice it wasn't the same amount she'd left. Next, he chipped away at the popcorn chicken they'd ordered, just enough for it to seem like they were just a little stingy with the portion sizes. He then did the same thing with the fries supreme they'd gotten her from the taco place. And finally he ate one of the three corn dogs in each box, knowing she wouldn't know how many were supposed to be there.

Subtly stuffing her also seemed to be buying himself some extra time without Sally driving him wild, she didn't usually take half-hour long showers. She might have just been waiting for her tank to feel completely empty before stepping out.

After the blue blur had taken everything he could, he finally heard the water stop running. Shortly after his pointed ear perked up at the sound of louder footsteps than he was accustomed to approaching the bathroom door. Sally stepped out… and she stepped out a whole new woman.

Her BMI from the time of their stint in the outskirts to their leaving Chuck's diner would presumably have been in the 'overweight' category, now however, she had certainly tipped over to the highest category… The fifth and final: obese.

And obese she looked. The princess was no longer 'thick', she wasn't 'chubby'... she wasn't even 'tubby'. Sally Acorn was fat, there was now no other word that could describe her while remaining honest, well, no other word that'd be less blunt.

She was finally getting chunky enough now that her hourglass frame was starting to over inflate and lose its voluptuous shape. The red head’s body was beginning to look more round than anything now. As a tubby girl her bell-shaped belly still seemed somewhat sculpted around her abdomen underneath. Now however, Sally's adipose had multiplied so much that its sheer amount meant it could no longer outline the true shape of her muscular and skeletal systems underneath. Space that could be filled now had to be filled, there was simply too much excess flesh for unused room. And the sheer mass, the sheer weight of her lard ensured her body wouldn't be filling out into any kind of proper shape. Her bell-belly had loosened and spilled out into an ovular blob, an amorphous orb now flowed out from the princess’ middle. A significant underbelly existed regardless of how she posed now, even with her standing straight there was enough of an under roll to fill one's hand. The hourglass form of her belly's tortilla countershading had, too, been completely destroyed. Below her tortilla coloured breasts was a stretched and disfigured shape that almost resembled an oval, however it was more compressed on the upper half, and very stretched looking on the lower. The sag of her belly pulled her skin and fur downwards, tugging it down around her underbelly and tucking it into the squished space between it and her fupa. Her underbelly acting like a roller on a converter belt. Already before, the end point of her (formerly) little tortilla shape had been made invisible by her under belly, now however the same could be said for about a quarter of the entire pattern. Making its shape look extremely bottom heavy, as the bottom half left visibility long before reaching its peak.

The chipmunks ridiculously wide thighs were starting to seem squished up against each other even whilst standing. No longer did they part just up above the knees, her tawny coloured legs now continued rubbing against each other until being halfway down her knees. As fat pads had emerged to sag over and swallow her knee caps, they bulged out in every direction including into one another.

And it would only take angling one of her legs by basically a single degree for the widest points of her calves to graze. Freed from the confines of her combat boots, Sonic could now see a prominent pair of cankles. The fat on her lowers legs falling onto and spilling over the tops of her feet. Her feet, which had already been flattened but now, looked as if they'd been pumped up with air. Her feet looked round and puffy. They inflated even to their tips, with small amounts of fat spilling in-between and overtop her toes, making them look far stubbier than they had before. This was not helped by the fact that even they were round now, thick tubes of soft meat now surrounded and enveloped each digit.

As Sally first stepped out she was brushing her amber bangs out of her face, for a moment her wide biceps and more specifically, her new bingo wings drooping off of them obscured her face. Her wrist and hands had gone through a similar transformation to her ankles and feet, in that she no longer had wrists. The rounded tubes of fat that were now her forearms hardly seemed to end when they reached her hands. Instead of a boney line segmenting the two, the meat on both sides of her forearm merely pinched in slightly, as if someone were squeezing a balloon noodle. On the top of each 'wrist' was a small crease to still allow for some articulation. In an identical state to her feet Sally's hands now looked like they had never seen a moment of hard labour in their lives, they were now pampered, greedy looking paws. There was no longer a crease on her hand for each knuckle, they had been pumped with too much fat for even that. Sally's hands and fingers resembled a latex glove that someone had blown as much air into as possible, the chub had completely buried and plowed over each knuckle, the soft flesh rolling over onto the base of each sausage-like finger.

As she dropped them down however, her visage could be seen. Before Sally's face had only filled out moderately, enough that if someone looked at it they'd realize something was different, yet may take a second to be able to place what it was. The edges had merely been softened to give her a slightly rounder face. Now Ms. Acorn's mug was noticeably chubby. Her cheeks had puffed out to become quite cherubic and pinchable, their form had now risen up past her cheek bones, inching closer and closer to her eyes as the fat struggled to find space on her face. No longer just looking a little rounder, Sally's face was now widening significantly past her brow line. It drooped lower down as well, as enough lard had been battered over her petite face that her jaw line had been obscured with a soft fat roll packed under her jaw bone, acting as a new chin, but not acting well as it blent fairly well into her puffed up neck.

It was strange seeing Sally's dark red hair and bright blue eyes resting on what seemed like a different girl's face. A girl he thought was gorgeous.

The moment she had stepped out into view Sonic's heart dropped, for several reasons.

One reason, being each time he saw Sally at a new size now, history was being re-written so that he'd always loved her looking like that, the longing one feels for a long time lover was combined with the surprise of essentially seeing a person you're immediately attracted to for the very first time in the young man’s mind. It created an overpowering excitement. Now it really was like each time Sonic saw Sally at a new size, he was seeing her for the first time.

The other was dread of this fact. Sonic could immediately feel the stress piling up into the back of his neck. If each time Sally got bigger his own preferences in women changed to compensate… then said preferences were truly cracked now, as his skipping heartbeat was confirming for him. He could almost feel the brain damage. Sally was definitely already chubby back at his uncle's, but within the realm of reason, any unshallow mobian gazing at her could have described her as a 'bbw'. It wouldn't be too difficult to find people who would also have been attracted to that Sally, there were enough folks into such body types that plus-size models of similar statures could be found on magazine covers and at least one dancer at every nightspot. Attraction to sizes like the one Sally had now grown into however, could likely only be described as fetishist. Niche would be one of the nicer words to describe it, other options could be taboo, weird, or gross.

Sonic was gross now. It was already a shot to the old ego when stuff like this happened, outside influences altering his personality in some way without his consent, but he'd never gone through one like this before.

"What? No jabs this time?" Sally smirked, knowing. She’d watched him stare for longer than he'd realized.

The hedghog cleared his throat, struggling to regain composure. "Was trying to think of one but I think I used all the good one's up already, 'sides, nothing I'd say would even be an exaggeration at this point." He cocked his brow, thinking he’d saved face.

The princess rolled her eyes.

"Yeah, I put on even more than I was expecting... Felt like I was digesting in the shower forever. Did you forget you had the ring on and kept eating?" She tried to hide her grin.

Sonic was caught off guard. "Ah, yeah I did for a sec. Sorry Sal." He tried to say casually as she walked towards the couch.

Or, mostly walked, the princess’ stride had hints of a waddle forming in it.

Sonic's pupils bobbed up and down watching his girlfriend jiggle. And jiggle she did. Back during their fight in the outskirts Sally's soft flesh moved near the normal amount on most parts of her body, even her stomach. In terms of a horizontal sway, chubby Sal's didn't really have one, it could bounce up and down with a quick enough vertical movement or intentional shaking like Sonic had given her. Her thighs would sway to the sides with enough movement but that was about it for any swaying, aside from her breasts, of course, which moved every which way with the most ease. The only part of her body which actually jiggled properly then were her softened brown butt cheeks. Now however, it seemed like most of her body was moving in some way, at least a little bit. With just a normal step her boobs, thighs, biceps, butt and lower belly all swayed to and fro. Her upper belly, her cheeks and again, her boobs bounced vertically. Quaking, minor jiggling could be seen almost everywhere else, the spots with looser fat: her calves, the fat pads on her knees, the backs of her thighs, the bottom center of her underbelly, etc…

"This is so weird." Sonic restated the obvious as Sally passed the arm of the couch.

"It was your idea." Sally cooed.

"Yeah, but it felt more natural before when I was just doing it to bug you. Now that we're both doing it on purpose.. it feels… off."

The chipmunk laughed through her nose. She stopped herself from sitting down. Her boyfriend's reaction had reminded her of something. She turned back around, pacing over to her dresser.

At that point Sonic got a good look at Sally's backside. Her rear had gotten so fat that her butt cheeks were starting to look crammed up against each other, even as she stood. They too, were finally starting to lose their form. Before her butt, for the most part, kept its shape and was just getting larger, but now her cheeks were loosening. Her bulbous, spherical glutes were starting to look a little more squared, or more like rectangles with softened edges as her formerly lean derriere had warped from taller than it was wider, to far wider than it was tall. Sally looked wide no matter which angle you looked at her from, now, but it was especially the case looking straight at her from behind. Her big flabby hips and butt at this point, had barely any distance separating them from her broadened, fat shoulders. They were only separated by some new back rolls, the princess had finally acquired enough back fat that her love handles now simply kept going past her sides and wrapped around her back. The extremely squeezable looking rolls of dough rested atop her glutes, thanks to the fact that her rear was now beginning the process of turning into a 'shelf'. Her back rolls expanded and shrunk in size non-stop, being squished out with any twisting of her spine as they were sandwiched between her massive bottom and shoulder blade fat. The poor rolls sat at the smallest part and point of most articulation on her densely packed back, they crushed back into her body only as they neared each other directly in front of the princess's spine. Loose fat washing down from her upper back enveloped her shoulder blades, however they wrapped underneath the bottoms of them. The extra fat created new creases in her back, above the crease was this wrapping upper back fat and below it were her previously mentioned lower rolls. They adequately substituted the lost definition of her shoulder blades, however they were lower down, as the soft flesh had to bunch up below her scapulas. The two diagonal creases forming in her mid-back traveled down to the middle of both her sides, forming into the tops of her love handles; they even wrapped further forward to the very sides of her belly, since something now needed to help segment its upper and lower sections. If Sally were to bend all the way to one side, that side's crease would crack all the way out to the center of her belly.

But that was not all. In addition deep, vertical creases formed just above the previously mentioned scapula lines as the fat on her upper back squished into the fat on her triceps, or rather, her bingo wings. The two creases worked in tandem to outline exactly where her shoulder blades were supposed to be underneath the blubber. The two creases even squished the fat in between them outward, creating bulging fat pads which further helped to substitute the shape of her shoulder blades. If one were to look from a side profile they would receive further confirmation that her glutes weren't as rounded as they had been. The peak of each cheek was no longer reaching much farther out than either the top or bottom starting point of either of them. And the peaks were now lower down than they had been as her butt began to sag slightly. Each glute curved diagonally down out to the outside sides of her hips/thighs as the fat on the bottom outside corners were simply too far away from the actual muscle of her glutes that their heavy mass was not supported well enough and thus slid down. The bottoms of her cheeks and the fat on the backs of her thighs created deep folds, one could fit almost their entire fingers in them. The deep crevice bulged out around the tops of her thighs. The tops of her thighs also squeeze out to the sides where they met her hips. Dimples could be seen just beginning to form on the bottom halves of her butt cheeks, and even more slightly up their outside indents as well.

There were signs of cellulite in other sections of her broad body, for example, all down the center of the backs of her thighs. Very faint dimples formed atop the points where the actual muscle and bone of her arms ended and her bingo wings began, as the thicker, bulging fat wrapping around her arms transformed into the loose dangling fluff. The point on her breasts where her pectoral muscles met her biceps were starting to see some dimpling as well.

Sally came back with her inflated arms filled with picture frames. Her biceps pooling over the tops of her forearms as the limbs bent to hold them.

"What're you doing?"

"I was just curious." She said, again smiling.

The red head knew now that she had to lower her wide butt down on the couch more slowly. She placed one hand down on the cushion to slow her fall onto it.

There was now far less space between the two on the couch than usual, but there was still enough wiggle room for the princess to dump the horde of photos into.

Sonic picked one up. It was that old original photo from knotholes underground. He remembered this photo, though it looked quite different at this point. As he'd already expected, Sally's younger self had her (accidentally) bleached pink fur, jet black hair and.. now the new spare tire.

More peculiarly however, were the changes to everyone else. Sally was still leaning into Bunnie, her metal hand was now being swallowed by pink flab. Antoine was no longer to Sal's left side. The hedgehog remembered he'd wanted to be in the center of the photo.. and more importantly, next to Sally, but Antoine had quickly inserted himself into that spot. Back then he'd still had his crush on the princess too, or at least, he was supposed to have had it. Now Antoine had been standing on the other side, next to Ms. Rabbot, he seemed to be gazing at her the same way he did with the princess originally. Now, Sonic was finally standing in the spot he'd wanted back then: at Sally's side, Tails was right next to him, with Rotor, or 'Boomer' still, standing in the back.

"Apparently the rings didn't give Antoine the same treatment they did me." The blue blur scoffed, tilting the photo to show beau, only realizing after it'd left his mouth that his choice of words was a little too telling.

"Oh wow- Sally leaned over, needing to exert more effort in doing so to fight against the resistance of her belly. -Yeah, I was wondering about that…" She responded, not even bothering to hide her disappointment. She'd hoped they kept her and Antoine's history the same by making him a chubby chaser too, thinking it would have resulted in Bunnie being retconned into a big girl too.

"And by 'same treatment as you' you just mean the history right? Your heads okay?" The red head asked, she grinned mischievously.

"Oh, yeah, no I'm fine." Sonic broke eye contact. She wanted to dig into him a little more but she didn't want to show her hand just yet.

"It’s changing things in new ways now.” The princess observed flatly.

“What do you mean?” The hedgehog asked.

“Before, when I’d only but a few dozen pounds on, I was looking at these old photos and I was the same size throughout.. the size I was at that point.”

“Yeah..?” The hedgehog's inflection signaled for her to keep going.

"But now in these older pics I’m actually smaller than I am today. Look.- Sally pointed to her pink, teenage self. I must be over fourty pounds lighter there than I am now.” The princess dumped a bunch of the photos she’d been looking at in Sonic’s lap.

“I actually did gain the weight now, or at least some of it.” She observed.

The next photo in chronological order wasn’t much older, they took it in celebration of the creation of Knothole village. There, Sally did in fact look a little heavier than in the previous pic, maybe a few pounds shy of an extra ten. The next one was after ‘knothole village’ had become ‘knothole kingdom’, it was during the day Nigel had knighted Sonic. The shot contained just Sonic and Sally together, his arm was wrapped around her, but instead of placing his hand on her hip, it seemed he was trying to get it closer to her belly without being too conspicuous, and there Sally’s belly again seemed bigger than in the last one. Again it seemed to be around ten pounds.

The next picture was shortly before they first announced to the King and Queen that they were courting for marriage. Sonic was kissing Sally, again she seemed bigger.

In each new picture the chipmunk was about an equal distance larger than she was in the last, you could literally perfectly track her growth over the years before reaching the more recent pictures, where she appeared as she did now, though even in those she looked ever so slightly… slighter than she was now.

“I wonder if that was just from me getting older, or if you did that…” She poked, Sonic cringed at the thought.

He’d already finished skimming through the timeline and had returned to a specific picture: It was of his 16th birthday. Sally was in the middle of finishing off what looked to be a huge chunk of birthday cake, while he was already handing her another plateful with a smirk. Behind the two of them Sonic could see his parents, Bernie was clearly trying and failing to suppress a look of concern when the flash hit, and while it was harder to notice, Jules was doing the same.

His blue brows crammed more and more intensely into each other as his cringe deepened.

The princess savoured it for a moment… Sonic feeling a similar embarrassment to what she’d been through the past few days…

She didn’t let it hang for too long however.

“And look at these.” Sally held up all of the photos that had Amy in them.

As Sonic looked at the first picture the chipmunk had of Amy after she’d aged.. everything was in order, same Amy. Her pink bob, her dreamcasters dress, and most importantly her petite, little body.

But in each pic it grew less and less petite. Each photograph with Ms. Rose showed a more drastic gain than Sally’s, going through a more extreme metamorphosis as she’d started from her actual size... and from the looks of it gained over a much quicker period.

Unlike Sally however, the hedgehog's size seemed to fluctuate rather than slowly but consistently increasing. From what seemed to be around the time just before the Xorda attacked, Amy appeared to be nearing the size she was when they saw her today, maybe a few pounds lighter, only to then seem to start shrinking throughout the year Sonic was off-world, when everyone thought him to be dead.

By the time the blue blue starting seeing himself in the group photos again Amy only seemed a little less than ten pounds heavier than her original weight.. and floating around there until a little later, when she suddenly started ballooning again. Sonic rolled his eyes, he could tell she started putting weight back on again as soon as he and Sally first broke up.

The princess was already chuckling (unlike Knuckles) before showing him, her laugh gradually rose as she watched his reaction.

“Alright, that’s enough of that.” Sonic scoffed, now smiling, himself.

‘Right, back to the gluttony.” Sally cooed, carrying all of the photos back.

The blue one resumed the romcom he'd chosen out of pity. The red head walked back. Sizing up the buffet on her coffee table.

"Sooooo…" She reached down to restock her plate, finding allies for her half-eaten shawarma. She made sure to angle herself so that Sonic had the perfect view and bent over way more than she needed to. Her belly and breasts drooped straight down as she'd bent into a ninety degree angle. The hedgehog got the perfect view of Sally's full-moon. Her blobby butt cheeks were squeezed and pulled into a completely different shape, a tighter one as all of the dimples had been filled in with compressed lard. A lot of that mass had been squished over into the sides of her thighs and hips, making them look even wider. With her thickened legs not parting the entire way down her thighs there was now a welcoming crevice which started as early as her knees and didn't end until the top of her butt crack.

Sonic's quills stiffened up at the sight, he wanted to look away, but he didn't want to.

"I'm clearly bigger, I wonder how much my stomach's stretched. Do you think I could eat the rest of this in one go now?"

"Uhh…"

The hedgehog scanned what remained of Sally's portion. One and a half shawarmas, three rice dogs, a chicken burger with popcorn chicken poutine and a fries supreme left from the burrito place.

"Well you did eat a lot at Chuck's… but I dunno Sal…" He said, actually slightly concerned for her well being.

The princess stood back up, towing a packed plate. As if on cue, it gurgle, demanding the food her nostrils could smell.

They both stared in shock for a second, still neither of them were used to how bratty her gut had gotten. "I think I can do it." She smacked her globular belly to Sonic's surprise, sending violent ripples throughout it.

Sally smiled as he again had to clear his throat.

_________

As the movie resumed the red head only finished off her one half eaten shawarma, before leaning back into the couch's back pillows and slipping into Sonic's side. He felt way more weight resting against his left side than he was used to from his gf. She noticed his little squirming as she nuzzled into him. She craned her neck, her nose almost bopping his chin. From the intimate angle her big blue eyes looked up at him, she cocked her brow and asked-

"I thought you said you weren't shallow?" -facetiously, grinning at him cockily.

The blue blur scoffed, putting up a smile of his own.

"Is that why you're suddenly in a rush to shrink me down, I finally got fat enough that it's a turn-off for you?" She continued, obviously still having fun.

Sonic was caught off-guard by that, quickly hit with a mix of different feelings. On the one hand, Sally had realized he was trying to speed this along now, but on the other, at least she was completely off the mark as to why.

"It's not that, you're just crushing me." He kept up his smirk.

"Uh-huh. Again, this is what I would look like if I'd actually been going along with your diet all this time. Not just a little soft. 'This a better argument for you Sonic?" The chipmunk pushed, rubbing her tummy as she spoke.

The hedgehog rolled his eyes. "Oh, for…"

He placed his thumb on Sally's softened chin and leaned down to kiss her. He placed his hand on her pillowy hip, though it took a moment to get there, with him being unused to his girlfriend's current anatomy his hand got stuck in the fold of her side for a moment. Sonic's hand was raised so much higher off the couch cushion than he'd expected, how high up the peak of Sally's hip was compared to her head accidentally helped Sonic really sell the kiss.

He pulled away, looking at her, unamused. "Satisfied?" He asked expectedly.

The princess jovially scratched her chin in thought. "Hm, a little." Her grin still hadn't ended. She sat up a little bit, her eyes coming closer to being level with his own.

"Would you still love me though..? If this were real?" She primed him further, playing with her food.

"Wow, I never thought I'd have to worry about these with you." Sonic teased, dodging the question.

"These what?" She chuckled.

"The 'would you still love me if I were a worm?' questions." He asked in a mock-feminine voice.

"Well, would you?" She brought it right back.

"I was still chasing you when you were a robot and you think I'd bail on you for being tubby?" It was too difficult for him to discreetly adjust himself with her on top of him like this.

"Ooo…" Sally mockingly cringed. "The second non-direct answer and a false equivalence."

"Well.. It's a stupid question." He reaffirmed, trying to keep his tone light, but secretly he was a little stirred by how seriously his partner actually was about this all of the sudden. He realized he may have been digging himself a completely different hole.

"Is it..?" She cooed. She realized her opportunity to really lay it in. She slid even further up him, bringing even more of her body oozing into his lap. "You know, no one's going to remember this… Maybe I should stay like this for a while as a little test. Keep getting bigger." She had to start restraining her evil grin.

Sonic had had no chance to squirm discreetly. Sally was right over top of his lap.

Underneath her belly and left thigh, the chipmunk could feel his thighs shimmying to more comfortably position himself, while desperately trying and failing to do it low-key.

…

Sally feigned shock. Intentionally widening her eyes and opening her mouth in phony innocent confusion.

The hedgehog slammed his eyelids shut and cringed in defeat.

"Sonic..?" She asked mousily, holding her surprised expression. Sonic said nothing, still hiding under scrunched eyes. "...Sonic…" The princess feigned a more empathetic tone. "Do you like this..?" She sounded dumbfounded.

"...Uhhh…." He tried to search for an excuse better than 'it's just been too long since our last tlc', but couldn't find one under the pressure of his predicament.

"Sonic… I get it… But you shouldn't've lied…"

"What..? What?!" His mind was spinning.

"I mean, yeah, I never would have agreed to put any weight on if you'd asked before… But with these rings, I would have if you'd just explained how important this is to y-

"Woah! No!" For the moment, Sonic once again had innocence he could sincerely defend. He threw his arms up defensively, in what little space he had to do so.

"What?" Sally still hadn't given it up, seeming perplexed.

"It…" He stopped before he finished, struggling to belch up the words that were burning his throat.

He let out a frustrated sigh. "... It's the ring Sal…"

"It's the ring that are what..?" She asked, wanting to hear him say it.

She received nothing but an annoyed scowl in response… Sonic had by this point realized she was toying with him.

*Shrnnk*- haahahaaaaaaaaa!" She 'ugly laughed' right in his face.

"Alright, alright…" Sonic responded, bitterly. Piecing together that she must have known since they were leaving Chuck's.

"...It's out." He admittedly, flatly talking overtop of Sally's continued giggle fit.

"Now get off of me please, so I can go fix us both…"

The blue blur put his hand against her squishy side and gave a faint push, gesturing for her to move.

Sally abruptly cut her laughing off to say- "Nuh-uh."

"Huh?" Despite his confusion the frustration was still very apparent in Sonic's voice.

To answer his puzzlement the princess leaned back for a second to swipe her last shawarma off the tv tray, along with her plate. Looking back at him she shoved the whole wrap in her mouth and pushed it all the way down her throat.

"Can't shrink me down on a full stomach, remember?" She said smugly.

Sonic squinted his eyes. "Why..?" He asked, completely bewildered.

She leaned her face right into his, with their noses kissing. "I went through a little transformation I wanted no part of, it's your turn Sonic." She told.

He was struggling to find the will to resist.

"How do you like your new quirk?" She asked, smiling at him menacingly.

"Mmf!" Before Sonic could say a anything in protest Sally put her mouth to his. In the middle of the spontaneous make-out session, she grabbed his hands and guided them to where they needed to go. She sunk his one hand in the milk-chocolate ocean that was her plump rear, while bringing the other to grip her girthy underbelly.

Breaking off the kiss she could see the blue blue was already struggling. Her analytic mind serving her even now. She could see how flush his face was, hear his quickened and irregular breathing, his quills had stiffened and started to fray like she knew they only did when he was getting way too much adrenaline and with her belly was spilling into his chest she could feel his fast and intense heartbeat.

Through his eyes she could practically see Sonic battling these new intrusive thoughts Sonic was bombarded with a sea of overwhelming feelings a young person would get the first time their intimate hyper specific desires were finally being fulfilled, he was having such a hard time fighting himself… he felt like a teenager again.

Sally looked down at her gut, or rather his hand squeezing her gut, before her own eyes looked back to him expectantly.

"What are you waiting for Sonic? Don't you want to see me jiggle..?"

Without his consent his own hand began tugging the chipmunk's spare tire up and down, shaking her entire body in the process. It was as if a massive mobian sized plate of jello had been placed atop his lap. Her breasts bounced up and down off her belly into her extra chin, her thighs shook below her on his lap and her rear quaked in and out of his other hand behind her.

The princess laughed again.

"You're going to regret this so much when you do get back to normal." She reminded, smugly.

Sonic said nothing in response, he couldn't.

"Maybe next time you'll think twice before pulling a stunt like this." She reminded.

His silence remained…

"So Sonic…" Sally continued. "... Now that it's all out there..." His heart immediately sank, he knew what she was going to ask.

"Do you want me…- She made sure she stretched her words out. …Even..? She leaned into the side of his face, whispering sultrily in his blue ear. The young man almost sounded like he was asphyxiating.

…Bigger?"

A moment hung as Sonic struggled to find any kind of coherent sentence, before, as if on schedule, the back leg on the side of the couch snapped. Sending Sonic falling backwards onto the floor and Sally splashing on top of him.

The two of them both stared at each other surprised for a moment, now fully intertwined with one another as she laid on top of him. The princess' amber hair fell into his face. She recovered faster, smiling as if she'd somehow planned that. Finally Sonic too, responded. He grabbed the back of Sally's hair, snapping her head back, he forced his mouth back onto hers… Eventually they broke off.

Sonic cringed as the word left his mouth. "Yes." Sally laughed, triumphant. "I win Sonic." She sang.

[scarletshnoz]

Sally XL (4/5) Part 1

(Sorry had to split this chapter in two because of the character limit!)

Merrily approaching the couple was a young, pink hedgehog girl. She had her usual energetic smile, her short bob hairstyle and her red headband. She wasn't wearing her usual dreamcasters dress however, no, there was no chance that was fitting her now. Amy too had now fattened up to the other side. Sonic's eye judged that she wasn't quite the size Sally was, but Ms. Rose wasn't far off. While at this point Sally was grazing, if not in the 180's Amy seemed like she could say the same for the 170's. While Sally had softened out into a plush hourglass despite her tummy, Amy had filled out to be more of a pear. The princess received compensation for her troubles in an f-cup rack that rivaled Rouge's own, while less fat had made its way into the hedgehogs 'girls'. They were maybe d-cups now. Instead the extra adipose had been distributed more to her hips, rear end and upper arms. Despite weighing less Amy’s thighs and calves were wider than Sallys with less of a womanly curve to them. Her biceps and shoulders were comparatively massive on her. There seemed to be no curve really separating where her shoulders became her arms, they were just bloated beige sausages protruding from her body. Her shoulders even peaked up near her head a bit, looking quite pronounced. It made sense that Amy had filled out more in certain areas, fat followed muscle. Amy had trained her body more to be strong, optimized for head on assaults with a melee weapon bigger than she was, as opposed to how Sally's had been conditioned for flexibility, acrobatics and tight spaces. Sally quickly smacked her hand over her mouth. Her lower eyelids raised as did her cheeks.

"Gnsrhkk!" The chipmunk immediately began struggling to contain a giggle fit as their friend continued jogging, or rather jiggling towards them. More so in shock rather than amusement (unlike his other half) Sonic managed to string along a coherent sentence to greet her.

"Heeeyyy Ames… He awkwardly chimed.

"You going for a jog?" He asked as she finished closing the distance between herself and the couple. Peculiarly enough despite Amy's apparent softness, she was actually clad in workout clothes: A sports dress in a similar style to her usual, although a bit less detailed and presumably more than a few sizes larger. Black spandex shorts covered her thunder thighs and seemed to help them prevent the jiggling… a little bit. Apparently she had been working up a bit of a sweat as well.

*Huff*...Yeah… *Huff*... She responded, almost sounding defeated. The young girl had been dreading this conversation a bit for a while now, however she wouldn't be showing it. While Sonic had seen Sally gradually transform into the chonker to his left side the last time he'd seen Amy she'd just been the same teeny little thing she’d always been, his eyes hadn't been given the time to adjust. It was bizarre seeing his friends mint green eyes behind what seemed like someone else's cheeks, hearing her voice come from this bigger girl he'd never met before. ...sorry Sonic, but apparently the princess won't be sharing you anytime soon and I'm not going to settle for just being eye candy." She said just sternly enough without actually coming off aggressive, she fluttered her lashes.

Sally tilted her head away to obscure her increased giggling. Sonic cocked his brow. Pondering the strangeness of being surrounded by the two most prominent women in his life as they were both double their usual sizes would have to wait a moment.

"For now I've decided I'm just going to focus on being the best freedom fighter I can be. And all this just gets in the way you know…” She sighed, jiggling her midriff whilst looking up at him, she then placed a hand on the blue blurs shoulder. Young Rose had long since struggled between her ideals of being a freedom fighter like Sonic and being with Sonic as unfortunately, the two didn't seem to be very compatible. After reaching maturity Amy had enjoyed stuffing herself with all the chocolates she could buy and desserts she could bake. Her culinary skills increased along with her BMI, but reality eventually set in as she began tipping out of the 160's. She was getting slower, her range of motion was slightly beginning to restrict and she was getting tired faster. While Sally too was a freedom fighter Sonic was the one she idolized the most of them all and she didn't have Sally's tactical mind to compensate for the lack of physical fitness anyway... Amy quickly discovered that she could swing her hammer pretty well, she wanted to take on the same role as the blue blur did and was fit to, but becoming less so with each pastry she slid down her throat in the name of love. Whether it was out of indecisiveness or just sheer belief in herself even Ms. Rose didn't know, but she just maintained the absolute highest amount of cuddle fluff she thought she could tow whilst still having a shot at being a great heroine… although that meant she'd never be quite as thick as Sally. Amy had hoped the pudge she had would be enough, but even though Sonic had eventually started sending some signals in the times when he and Sally were split up nothing ever actually came of it, and now the two of them were back together… again… and at this point had been for months now... more if you counted the time Sonic spent in the middle, waiting for her to be deroboticized. ...Don't be sad Sonikku, I'll pack it all back on the next time Sally slaps you." She winked to the two. Amy had kept telling herself and others that eventually Sonic would be hers, but whether she would admit it or not she was clearly running out of time here. She’d decided that while Sally was making him happy for now that she would experience being the version of herself she had wanted to be ever since she was a little girl, unrestricted by anything else. Then next time… if there was a next time the two separated, Amy would go all out. She would unapologetically gorge herself to Sally's girth and maybe even beyond as it would likely be her last chance. Then after living the two extremes, maybe she'd finally be able to decide what she really wanted… Amy was relieved as Sally took the joke amazingly well, she burst out laughing even. Sonic didn't seem to take it so well though, the female hedgehog thought it odd but decided to focus back on her run.

"...Anyways, back to it!" The pink one ran off, the princess was still struggling not to fall to the ground with her laughter. Sonic held his hand to his forehead, massaging his temples.

"She thinks I'm with you 'cause you're bigger…" He groaned as he struggled to hold up his collapsing girlfriend.

"In this timeline you probably are!" Sally practically screamed through her laugh attack, Sonic's brows furrowed and his pupils shrunk.

'That's… a weird coincidence' Sonic thought.

The chipmunks' shaking knees struggled to bring her back up. As she got herself mostly upright using Sonic's arm she had to wipe a tear from her eye.

"What did you think was going to happen, Sonic?" She asked, having an easier time getting her words out now. She sounded out of breath from her little episode, she definitely looked light headed to her boyfriend.

"These rings make it so that I was always a whale, but they have to keep everything else the same. We still had to have gotten together somehow!" She continued.

"Woah, hey! I'm many things, shallow isn't one of them." The hedgehog folded his lanky arms, brows furrowed.

Sally held her softened chin. "Hm... maybe not.-

-But we obviously wouldn't've had all the time we spent out on the field together, you would've had to be physically attracted to go out of your way to court me." The tomboy deduced. Her detective skills showed, she’d experienced enough reality alterations, time travel and alternate zones by this point that applying them to these scenarios had become second nature.

"I… Yeah that makes sense…" Sonic sighed, wiping his hand down his face.

"And it looks like everyone knowwwss~" The princess cooed, smugly. She spun around in front of her love to look into his eyes. She took his hands into her own.

"So, honey! Ready to go to Uncle Chuck's and face your family with your fat girlfriend? How do you think Bernadette will look at you now when she sees you forcing me to pig out? Hm? What about Jules?" She asked threateningly, savouring having the advantage again. She fluttered her big eyes as she brought the tip of her nose up to his own. Sonic tried to stifle a gulp.

"Unless of course you want to just slim me down now and save yourself the embarrassment." She placed a hand on her hip.

"Nuh-uh!" Sonic shook his head violently, his long quills flopped about. "I did not wait three days, blow double my money on food and take a headbutt to the nose just to wuss out! If this timeline's me doesn't sweat what people think about it then neither will I!" Sally cocked her eyebrow but firmly kept her smile. She'd see about that.

After a quick pit stop at the castle to let the princess don an upsized vest and pair of boots, the couple strolled into the diner. Sally made sure to have her arms wrapped around Sonic's all lovey-dovey. The couple had most eyes on them as they entered, as was per usual when they went out in public. The princess also caught a few girls sizing up Sonic, another thing she’d had to grow used to long ago. Before, the two of them were both a catch, whether one based it on their status or on their looks, as the two were both in peak shape. Before Sally got an equal number, if not more of the same ogling her boyfriend did… now however all she was receiving were the semi-disgusted glares of the same girls staring at him. Apparently some people were still the same as they ever were in this new reality. Before they came in, Sally had thought about arching her back and pushing her stomach out to get even better responses at Sonic's expense, now however, she was doubting that little joke. The chipmunk subconsciously clung even tighter to her other half.

"Hey mom!" Sonic called to his mother as he always did, signalling that he was heading for his reserved booth, however this time he was also probing. His voice didn't beget uncertainty though it wasn't full of his usual bombastic confidence. The hedgehog escorted his girlfriend to her side of the booth, both were trying to hide their insecurity, both engaging in this unorthodox little game they’d made for themselves. Sonic held Sally’s hand as she plopped herself down, both displayed exaggerated date etiquette in an attempt to be coy. Despite the looks she was getting making her feel hyperconscious, Ms. Acorn was still a rail thin girl in a chubby ones body, kinesthetic memory had her drop onto the red leather cushion as one could afford to if their weight was barely in the triple digits. A loud thud was accompanied by the sounds of pained creaking, both parties winced and Sally avoided making eye contact with anyone else in the restaurant. The princess' entire torso swayed up and down in her lap. She could even feel the softness of the bottom of her chin jiggling, as it was pushed up and pulled down by the mass of her bouncing breasts just below.

She quickly hid her surprise, plastering a cocky expression over her face.

"Oops.. was that loud?" Her smile quickly stopped being an act as she watched Sonic roll his emerald eyes, for a moment she felt as though she was already getting the hang of this.

"It's not too late to back out Sonic, pretend you just had to ask Bernie a question then leave?" Sliding a little into the cover of the booth further helped to return Sally to her usual confidence. Enough to make that comment feel more like a deal than a plea.

"Nah, we're committed." He laid one arm on the table and leaned in.

"Feeling hungry?"

"Not particularly, bu- *ggrrROOoooOOAAANaaannn* Her stomach moaned, instantly her eyes widened and her face flushed.

…Sonic thought it was adorable, really. All of his doubt and sense of self preservation went out the window at the sight, he was once again intent on getting the most out of this experience.

"You sure? I might'a had the ring on too long in the forest. You sound completely empty, darlin’." He cooed.

"If you had let me finish, I was going to say but I have no problem making a scene clearing the menu." Sally's thick, black brows furrowed as she forced a smile.

"Ahhhhh, tubby's finally getting confident in her big belly~" Sonic had his lips puckered as he spoke in a mock tone.

"Eh-hem." A feminine voice could be heard clearing its throat.

"Mom!” The blue blur shouted in surprise as his quills stiffened. His head swivelled to the side and his torso straightened up at super speed. Bernadette stood at the end of their table, notebook in tow. “….Heeyyyyyyy…." He nervously smiled, the upper half of his face cringed profusely.

"...I'm going to pretend like I didn't hear whatever that was..."

Sally had already started slipping downward in her seat like Sonic wanted to, she felt her heart fall down into her stomach… only for it to bounce back up into her throat. She nearly followed her instinct to bury her face in her hands. 'Stop.' Her brows straightened and her lip stiffened.

'Suck it up Acorn, you're not getting a better chance than this.' Sally forcefully fought against the muscles in her face as they tried to shut everything, she instead held an expression that belied mild annoyance. "Seriously Sonic, the evening’s just started. Try to keep it in your pants while we're still in public." She scoffed in a snobbish tone.

Sonic was taken back. His eyes squinted at the chipmunk, his face clearly disgusted. Bernadette was as uncomfortable as any son's mother would be hearing this.

"Yes Maurice, please…" The elder hedgehog concurred, jittering a little as she stood.

"I-! Ugh… sorry mom…' The younger hedgehog laid his head in his hand. He realized trying to make up an excuse at this point would only be more embarrassing. His mother had given him many concerned and/or disapproving glares in her time, but Sonic had never seen one like the one she was currently giving. He clung to the understanding that once he set Sally back to normal his mother would likely just forget the past few seconds ever happened.

"...Anyways, what can I get you two?" The clipboard kept bouncing in the indigo hedgehog’s hands, displaying her continued discomfort.

"Uhhh… jumbo chilidog with a side of smoked meat poutine for me, mom…" Sonic answered.

Bernie looked back to the princess. "And for you, sweet pea?"

Sally paused, she actually had no idea what to order. Despite having eaten at Chuck's literal hundreds of times she had almost none of the menu memorized, only the salad menu. Not a single thing popped in her head, there had never been something the princess had seen and wanted but kept herself from ordering, because she actually enjoyed the salads. She never needed anything else.

"Um… Sorry Bernie, would I actually be able to see the menu?" The princess asked.

The older woman chuckled. She thought Sally was joking.

"The four cheese penne would probably be a good starter Sal." Sonic tried to assist, uncharacteristically without a hint of mockery. He was so close but this could've been the moment to make his beau sneak out through the ladies room, or just order another damn vegetable plate. He couldn't let this have all been for nothing, so he suggested something non-greasy and with no meat. It wasn't one of the dishes he was hoping for the chipmunk to try that evening, but despite that it was still one of his favorites and was still packed with more than enough carbs to burn Sally's normally dainty hands.

Bernadette cocked a brow at her son referring to the pasta as a 'starter' but kept from commenting, she figured she must’ve embarrassed the poor princess enough.

"Uhh.." Ms. Acorn surprised herself with how put off she was at the idea. She didn't get turned into a fatty and forced out in public just to eat glorified macaroni and cheese. She was going to find something appetizing.

"Maybe we should start with appetizers actually?" She looked to Sonic, actually taking the issue seriously for a moment.

"Oh, sure!” The blue one darted up, instantly catching the lifeline. “Sorry mom, hold off on the 'dog and fries."

"Oookay, what appetizers then?"

Sonic looked to Sally, expecting an answer.

"..." The princess froze up again. She didn’t know the appetizer menu either.

It clicked in her head again. “Well...whatever you want me to eat, since you're so excited today." She brought back the snobby tone.

She was finding shelter in the act, actually using it to facilitate a dialogue that’d help her decide. She felt a tinge of guilt hit her as she noticed the clear discomfort the moment continued to put poor Bernie through.

Even if Sonic could think of a witty retort that would absolve him somewhat, he’d realized he apparently just needed to end this moment as quickly as possible, his gf was playing harder than he expected her to. Again, through gritted teeth he answered. "Sure, the macaroni balls, cauliflower bites, pickle spears, moon bread and some french onion soup."

"Sure thing." Bernie chimed, she jotted the order down as quickly as she possibly could and paced away even faster.

Sonic realized that his mother, in the awkwardness, had forgotten to ask them for drinks. "Oh! And two Dr.Cherries ma!" He called down the aisle before turning back to his plus one. "Rrreaallllyyy?" He tapped his finger on the table.

"What? Isn't that what you wanted? For me to try what you want?" Sally cocked her defined brow, smirking.

"Well I was hoping mom would've given us some time before coming over, you couldn't've at least tried to wing it for the first round?"

Sally shrugged with a smile. "Hey, you think I know what to order? I can't remember the last time I asked for anything other than a salad here."

"You genuinely can't even guess what would be on the normal people menu and you're wondering why I felt the need to do this?" Despite still being tense he managed a smile.

"Normal people, really..?" The chipmunk droned. She laid forward into the table, her upper belly consumed the lip of it.

The hedgehog leaned back in as well. Trying not to get too distracted by the sight of Sally’s big boobs drooping down, they were even grazing the top of the table. "Yeah. The only other people who eat nothing but greens are people who are trying to lose weight."

Sally had noticed where Sonic’s eyes had been lingering for a moment but thought nothing of it. "Yeah, Sonic… and after just two days on your diet I should be. Shouldn't that tell you something? Is it not embarrassing?" She threw her hand up.

"Woah, hey! No fair! I've been overeating even by my own standards." He deflected.

"Uh-huh. Take a good look, Sonic. This is what you'd look like without your powers." Sally sat up and arched her back forward, intentionally pushing her tummy and her breasts out even further. Her chest obscured Sonic’s view of the tip of her chin. She gripped her little rolls with both hands, causing the tortilla flesh to ooze out further. Sally had to force herself not to shiver when unexpectedly the peak of her tummy actually grazed the edge of the table with that posture, despite her now sitting as far back in the seat as possible.

Sonic smiled, realizing something. "You're projecting."

The chipmunks' brows cocked, her own smile still holding. "Oh, how so?" She asked, genuinely intrigued by her boyfriend’s use of such a word. She eagerly awaited the laughable attempt at psycho-analysis that was about to leave his mouth.

"Because you make yourself think that you always have to feel guilty about being royalty and you compensate, so I have to do the same with my speed. That's what all those healthy restaurants have been for."

The blue one held a type of grin that even Sally’d rarely seen him sport.

Her sky blue eyes widened in surprise for a moment before they furrowed in frustration. "I-ugh! Maybe I just wanted my boyfriend to be healthy!" She threw her chubby arms out, again Sonic was striking an odd nerve she didn't even know she had. The subtle beginnings of bingo wings on her triceps shook from the movement.

"Nuh-uh pwincess wants me to not take advantage of my cool powers, even though nobody cares but herrrr…" Sonic mockingly pouted. Twisting his head about.

Bernadette returned with a large tray, it barely had enough surface to keep the five appetizers from sliding off the edges. "...Okay… Macaroni balls, cauliflower bites, pickle spears, french onion soup and some moon bread." The waitress announced as she slid it all onto the table one by one. "...And two Dr.Cherries."

"Thanks ma." The couple smiled before both of their grins fell at the sight of the indigo hedgehog rushing to go get another table’s order. Clearly still scarred from a few minutes ago.

The two both tried to brush past it. Sally couldn't help but cock a brow while looking down upon the greasy assortment. She looked to Sonic, clearly still annoyed.

"Okay, which of these do you want me to try first?" She droned as if it would be a chore.

"Try the macaroni bites." He breathed in an uncharacteristically soft tone. A genuine smile grew on the blue one's face, it was easily the least sinister one he'd sported in the past few days.

The redhead sighed and grabbed a little greasy ball between her index and thumb.

"No more rabbit food for the princess, she's finally getting some good dog food." The hedgehog sang as the fruits of his labour were finally upon him.

She rolled her eyes. "I'm telling Bunnie you said that." The chipmunk opened her maw, Sonic leaned in with anticipation. He hung in excitement and suspense as she tossed it in. She swallowed it down as quickly as she could without choking, as if it were a pill. Confusion began to stir in the hedgehog's mind as he saw no visible reaction on his girlfriend's face.

"Soo..?" He probed optimistically.

"This is what you had to stuff me like a pig over?" She complained, unimpressed.

"You don't like 'em?" Sonic frowned, betrayal and surprise were clear in his voice.

"I mean, it's just macaroni. Deep frying something doesn't make it better…" Sally took a bit of sadistic pleasure in the momentary look of defeat on the speedsters face, however he quickly shook it off and pressed on. "...Maybe because you're not eating it with the sauce." He slid a small plastic cup over, its contents were a fire brick red substance.

The chipmunk chuckled at how desperate her boyfriend was coming off. "Ketchup?" She half-scoffed, half-laughed.

"Sriracha ketchup." He corrected, pointing his finger up.

"And what does sriracha mean?" She asked, still smiling at his expense.

"Really? Too tasty for the royal banquet apparently. Try it." He gestured.

The princess maintained eye contact as she dunked her second ball and popped it in. Her brows raised a little and her pupils inched down a bit, Sonic could tell she was pleasantly surprised.

"Okay that's not bad." She admitted.

"Thank youuu.." He breathed out

"Happy now Sonic? All that for me to learn spicy ketchup is good with macaroni."

"Ah… that is but the first thing you will learn today my dear princess." Sonic informed.

"Okay, explain to me why you ordered the french onion." She pointed to the soup bowl.

"A good question my beautiful apprentice, you see the skinny one's meal is but the chubby one's dip." He lectured, clearly enjoying himself.

"..." The princess just stared, not totally following, but both amused and still mildly annoyed at her love’s antics.

"It's for the breadsticks." He explained flatly, disappointed by how absurdly alien this all seemed to her.

"Oh." She exclaimed with minimal energy.

Sonic pulled the Macaroni bites to himself before passing Sally the soup and cheesy bread.

"So the running theme here is just saucing anything with bread and cheese on it?" She droned.

"Are you gonna complain about every new thing?" The hedgehog whined.

"Was thinking about it~" Sally cooed.Oddly enough however, she realized before she had even reached for her first sample that she was already salivating. Her mouth didn’t usually water at the sight of food like this.

She dunked a strip of cheesy garlic bread into the onion broth before taking a bite. She smirked at Sonic, catching how intently he was watching her chew.

"What, do you want a review of every one?" She asked while covering her mouth with her fingers.

"Yeah, actually."

Sally swallowed the soggy dough, admitting. "I can see why you'd want to do that but it still feels like a waste of the soup."

"Eh, we'll still drink it." He waved off.

"Okay which one now oh, connoisseu- *GrrooOOOAAaaannnNN.*

Her belly cried again. The slowly paced, singular bites of taste testing were taunting her poor outstretched and empty gut. The chipmunk looked down at her middle, Sonic did too.

"I don't know but apparently we'd better decide fast!" He joked.

He slid over the breaded cauliflower.

"What's it sauced in?" She asked, holding it just below her chin.

"Buffalo sauce."

Sally begrudgingly threw another appetizer down the hatch.

"Meh. Probably the weakest one so far." She responded. She was actually a little shocked, this definitely seemed like something she’d totally be grossed out by, but it was at least edible to her.

Sonic stayed silent for a moment looking coyly back at her, the princess was confused about what he was suddenly so amused about.

"Then why are you eating another?" The blue blur smirked.

Sally did a double take, shaking her head and sure and behold… there was another chunk of cauliflower in her mouth. She looked down in surprise. Her puffy hand had thrown another piece in and her jaw had begun chewing, both without her consent.

"I- She tried to recover -because I'm hungry. My stomach's probably four times the size it's supposed to be right now."

"Here then, take the pickle spears."

She sighed. "I didn't even know people deep-fried pickles."

"Remember the dip!" Sonic slid over the ranch, sounding like a parent trying his best to get their child to internalize a lesson.

"Of course, gotta double the calorie count on every single thing!~" Sally sang sarcastically before swigging the pickle and taking a crunch.

The princess’ eyes really widened on that one. "Mmm!" Ms. Acorn moaned in delight. And finally the feeling of satisfaction traveled up Sonic's chest at the sight.

"Ay, we found one!" The young man smiled whole-heartedly.

"Oh well this one's cheating, it's pickles and ranch!" Sally spat, too defensively.

"But the batter and grease make it better right?" He pried.

"Not enough to justify making a vegetable unhealthy."

"Nah, you get it." Sonic breathed smugly.

Sally rolled her eyes, finally smiling with him, at least for a moment.

Sonic let himself become preoccupied with the cauliflower. After finishing the last bite he scanned for the next thing to eat and decided he wanted some of the pickles too. He reached his hands to the basket and-

"Did you total the pickles already?" He asked. Now surprised, himself.

"Yeah?" Sally responded in a bratty tone, the last one was seemingly in her mouth as she spoke. She was apparently annoyed at the question.

"I wanted one, you know!" Sonic's voice broke from a chuckle, he couldn't be angry about this if he wanted to be.

Sally grinned. "Well… you wanted me to eat like a pig, there you go. Pass the macaroni bites back over, you don't get any of those either."

"I knew you liked them!" He poked back as he met her request.

"Well my boyfriend turned me into a meat planet and that's what I like the most out of what's in front of me." She protested.

"Uh-huh. I'm wearing you down." Sonic declared before chowing on some of the breadsticks.

"I take it you're still hungry enough for the actual meal then?" The blue one enquired, clearly excited. Even if she was full now, she wouldn’t be in a moment. Sonic sneakily slipped the ring back on his finger under the table to help her break those starters down more quickly.

"Yes." Sally huffed.

"I barely feel like I've eaten anything yet…" She admitted while curiously staring down at her squishy middle, there was still some annoyance to be heard in her tone, although it was closer to neutral than in her previous similar observations. Surprise and even intrigue could be detected as well.

"Ha! Normally you'd be full from just two appetizers!"

"Yes Sonic, thank you for reminding me…" The annoyance was now prominent again.

"Okay, I guess I should go sneak you a menu before you clear all the cheese balls too." She squinted at him.

Sonic momentarily left the booth before returning with said menu.

"Uh, you already know what you're getting right?" The chipmunk asked as she opened up the catalog.

"Yup. You just worry about what you want." He cooed.

"Today has had nothing to do with what I want…" She groaned to a frown from Sonic.

Sally stared at the salad menu for a moment, longingly, before begrudgingly skipping past it and the appetizer menu. Her sky blues began skimming through the main courses.

'Fish and chips, breaded shrimp, 6oz steak, 8oz steak…' She read. "I take it I'm not getting away with chicken alfredo or the eggplant parmesan..?"

"Nah. Good stuff's all on the next page." The hedgehog leaned over the table enthusiastically, he was already smiling again.

The princess flipped the page.

'Roadhouse burger with sweet potato fries and chipotle mayo, cheesy beef burrito with a side of fries supreme, crispy chicken sandwich with a side of popcorn chicken…' She had to suppress a gag. Her nose was already sneering unconsciously. Low quality meat aside, the grease alone on any of these could likely have the princess vomiting in the ladies room within the hour. .

Sally paused at that thought, a little uncomfortably.

'Is Sonic right? Am I really this snobbish?' She thought to herself as she frowned, silently staring down at the pictures displayed on the paper.

Since she was just a little girl Sally had put as much effort as she possibly could into not coming off as elitist as the rest of her family, or as pampered as the princess' and queens before her. Her let-out hair, her faintly tomboyish demeanor, her history leading the freedom fighters… that original aim had gone on to completely shape the person she'd grown into. Or so she thought. So she wanted. Guilt began to well up in the princess.

For the first time Sally reminded herself that it was much cheaper for people besides herself to eat like this than to grab fresh veggies everyday, much less caviar and gourmet risotto.

"Find something?" Sonic asked. Snapping the chipmunk back into reality.

"Oh. Uh, no, still looking."

"Can I make a suggestion?"

"You may." The princess was going to make herself nauseous just from how much she'd been rolling her eyes.

"Try the pulled pork." He pointed to a sandwich at the bottom of her page.

Her disgust returned, only slightly apologetically. "You had to point at the nastiest thing they have?"

Sonic waved his hands. "Full transparency, pulled pork used to gross even me out before I tried it. But I swear it tastes way better than it looks."

Sally just sat silently, staring pleadingly into her boyfriend's eyes.

Sonic laughed. "You can pick something else on here, just seemed like you needed help deciding." He shrugged

Sally huffed, for the first time in a long time having to force herself to be humble. "I'm not really enthusiastic about anything on here, might as well."

The hedgehog smiled.

"You'll eat it if I don't right?" The princess pleaded again.

"Only if you at least try a bite first." Sonic stated paternally as he booped his scowling girlfriend's triangular black nose.

"We can get you a big side anyway in case you don't like it. Want a poutine?" He asked whilst flipping their single menu to the 'sides' page.

"Sure. It's just cheesy fries with gravy, I'm surprised it meets tonight's criteria." She joked.

"Oh well we're gonna get you one of the juicy kinds." His voice rolled.

"Of course."

"How about the butter chicken?" He cooed.

"Uh, sure." She tried not to actually fight. While chicken was her favourite of the meats; the chicken in the corresponding photo didn't exactly look the most appealing. She could see Bernadette strolling back up to their table anyway.

Before his mother could even get a word out Sonic was on top of the situation.

"The twin pulled porks with a side of butterchicken poutine for Sal, ma."

"And you still wanted the chilidog with the smoked meat?" She asked, receiving some unnecessarily fast nods.

"Okay, coming right up." The indigo hedgehog responded as she gathered up the empty baskets of fallen appetizers.

"Oh, we're still working on the macaroni bites mom." The young man tried to stop his mother's hand from taking the third basket away.

"It's empty Maurice."

Sonic let out a gasp of mock betrayal as he looked at Sally.

"Did you finish those off while I was grabbing the menu?!" Sally opened her mouth as she was about to attempt to embarrass Sonic in front of an audience again, only to not even have a chance for the words to leave her mouth. Bernadette practically sprinted away from the table as Sonic's sentence ended.

Sonic flexed his neck and raised his shoulders in the awkwardness.

"We should get her a fruit basket when this is over…" Sally smiled faintly with a cocked brow. "And one for Amy." She joked. The two laughed, Sonic nervously, Sally sincerely.

"I can't believe she fattened herself up just to have a better chance with me…" Sonic lamented as his index and thumb rubbed just below his brows, obscuring his eyes.

"But it seems like it finally taught her a valuable lesson about moving on, maybe I should just lose the weight naturally, this seems like the better timeline!" The redhead continued wisecracking, clearly still finding the humor in their encounter.

"Well, we did see a bunch of other girls in the city porked up too. I wonder if anyone else we know was hit?" Sonic didn't ponder if that was a weird thing to say until the words had already left his mouth.

"Well Bunnie and Nicole looked the same when I saw them this morning, but that was about fourty pounds ago now. I don't think things had really changed until we got back from the outskirts." Sally held her chin, secretly wanting revenge for their prior comments. A feeling quickly rushed up inside Sonic at the idea too. Only to immediately be attacked by other, more negative emotions like white blood cells attacking a disease. The hedgehog didn’t even have a chance to properly process the sensation before it mixed with the others to create a disorienting combo. In digging through his own confusion he suddenly realized-

"Thank god my mom is the same." Sonic placed his hand back atop his forehead, he got very lucky. That would've been uncomfortable.

Sally cocked a brow at what Sonic had said, finding it a little odd. She could understand that being a little weird, but she wouldn’t have thought it would warrant that strong a reaction.

"Well if 'ringworld' you likes 'em big. I wonder if Mina and Fiona were my size when you were with them?" Sally taunted again, trying to picture it. Having no idea the effect such thoughts would have on the hedgehog. Sonic’s heart beat really sped up at them, he felt a slight pressure at the top of his throat and a little heat flash across his cheek line. His cocktail of 'intrigue mixed with shame of said intrigue' was strengthened.

"Okay, one: I don't think Fiona can get chubby, two: again, I never had anything with Mina!" Sonic pointed to Sally, chuckling. Subconsciously choosing to repress what he had just been, and still was feeling for a moment.

Bernie returned, towing the large order with two separate trays. To the sound of a- "Thanks ma." And "Thank you Bernie." Respectively.

Sally stared down at her dishes: one consisted of two sets of hamburger buns separated by piles of stringy flesh spilling out from between them, looking like they actually just straight-up plopped raw unprocessed intestines down on the buns. Though she knew it was more likely made out of lips and anuses.

She quickly opted to go for her side dish first. A type of poutine she didn't even know existed, she didn't know there were any other types beyond the traditional actually. Perfectly fine looking french fries were soiled, buried under fast food-quality chicken and slathered under an excrement-esque paste. Again, the princess liked her lean meat, but this chicken (if it was even actually chicken) was trying everything to fight off the 'lean' part. It looked pumped up and was again, covered in and oozing out a thick goo. She'd never seen meat so swamped in its extra contents, with so much heavy sauce. It may as well have been a particularly grotesque sou-

'Stop.' Sally paused her runaway thoughts, she closed her eyes and scowled.

Before her mind could start acting on its own again she darted her fork out into the sauced fries and forcefully shoved it into her maw. Sonic then slipped the ring off as low-key as he’d put it on.

Her gag reflex activated the second her lips closed on the sloppy fries, another second later and her tongue actually processed the taste of the chicken curry.

Her big eyes opened back up. "Mmm!" She moaned, her voice held in a high pitch due to her surprise.

Sonic gave a wide open mouthed smile at her reaction, anticipating what she'd say.

She swallowed it quickly. Having to stop herself from darting her hand out for the next bite. She noticed Sonic's enthusiastic stare and awkwardly regained her composure, clearing her throat. "Not bad."

"Not bad?" He cocked a brow, smiling?

"Better than the cauliflower at least." She postured, now going for that second munch. This time it was Sonic's turn to roll his eyes.

"What's this sauce anyways?" Sally asked with a full forkload of food in her mouth. After a second Sonic realized it was probably the first time he'd ever seen her talk with her mouth open.

"It's the same as butter chicken you'd eat solo." He answered, still holding his cocky grin.

"What's the sauce for that?" She asked sheepishly, between bites. For some reason despite having felt at least a little satiated a few moments ago, her gut already felt completely vacuous again.

"It's a curry I think, spiced tomatoes and butter sauce." He answered calmly, watching his girlfriend struggle to keep a straight face and fail to contain the speed at which she was hammering the poutine.

Sally cocked her brow, smiling between her full cheeks. "Wow, surprisingly worldly for you." She poked, again with a stuffed mouth.

"A lot of junk food is actually- Sonic said in a jokingly snobbish tone. -sriracha's from yurashia." He continued.

"Wooow." She mocked.

"Yeah, maybe we should consider this a cultural lesson for the princess." He coyly rested his head in his hands.

"Yeah, because Northamer is the only place where healthy food comes from." The red head replied sarcastically, reaching her utensil back down to grab another portion without looking, only to be caught off guard when the prongs of her fork met only the plate.

"But not the only place tasty food comes from, huh? You totaled that." Sonic's smile never dropped.

"Uh-I…" She reformed her scowl, but she couldn't hide her blush, before the chipmunk could come up with another excuse Sonic spoke first.

"I love you…" He said longily.

Sally was halted by confusion at his adoring eyes.

"You're so stubborn." He cooed.

Sally was again caught off guard.

"I'm stubborn?" She asked, flabbergasted.

"You clearly liked that but you can't just admit it. You liked most of the appetizers too." He pointed.

"I'm stubborn… She deflected …You wasted three days and a massive chunk of your own money to make me two hundred pounds. Just so you could get me to try some junk food." She reminded.

"I don't think you're two hundred pounds princess, though maybe after the pulled pork… He joked …And hey- He shrugged. -was there any other way I could've gotten you here?"

Sally crossed her arms. She had to heave her inflated mammaries up to do it, and they were squishing up against her jaw, which pressed the fat in her face up and made her cheeks look even chubbier than they already now were… but she did it. "No." She admitted in a scoff.

"I rest my case." He bowed.

"Yeah, no, you're right. Tooootally justified." She responded facetiously.

"You know it's crazy that I even had to do this." Sonic defended.

"You didn't have to do anything." She groaned.

"Shouldn't've had to, any other woman, heck, any other person would've lunged at the opportunity to be able to let go and eat whatever they want without having to worry about gaining weight." He explained.

"I told you Sonic, it's not just about the weight. You could keep me thin but running doesn't get rid of every other unhealthy thing eating like this would do to me." Her arms remained crossed.

"I'm actually pretty sure these rings do." His voice rolled with a small laugh. "I made you chubby with the rings and now time's been rewritten so that you've always been a big eater. When I shrink you back down I'm sure it'll be as if you've never touched anything other than kale again."

Sally's eyes rolled back in her skull as she sighed.

"And even now, your stomach can hold quadruple what it usually could right now. You've got a once in a lifetime opportunity to experience the best part of being tubby and be a size two again tomorrow." He continued his pitch.

"Lucky me."

They both looked down at the twin pulled pork sandwiches sitting in front of her.

"Full yet?" He inquired.

"...Well… I'm not actually hungry anymore but I'm still not even close to full." She breathed.

Sonic opened his mouth to again try to talk her into trying more. But before he could think of another line Sally lifted the first sandwich up in her hand.

"Okay, this one I'm genuinely still grossed out by." She cringed as the massive patties’ soggy buns morphed around her thickened fingers. She needed both hands to cradle the massive pork burger, both due to the sheer size of them and because they would otherwise fall apart. It did kind of smell good though…

“Hey, you’ve liked pretty much everything else I picked. Trust me.” He smugly reassured.

Sally sighed before biting in, as her teeth first sunk into the pork burger she noticed she never had to struggle to suppress a gag.

“Huh.” She said in surprise looking back down at the sandwich. Taking another bite.

“Doesn’t taste anything like you think it would, does it?” Sonic asked, finally returning to an innocent tone.

“No, the textures’ different too.” She said half-paying attention to his words, half-chewing.

“So, good..? Bad..?” The hedgehog inquired, leaning over the table.

Sally’s pupils rolled up higher as she focused solely on the taste. It somehow tasted a lot better than it smelled, and especially to how it smelled when Bernie first laid the trays down. It felt like the meat’s odor improved after her mind realized the smell was actually associated with a great taste, right? Although thinking about it the pork already smelled a little less revolting even when she first lifted it, right before she took her first bite.

She hovered her hand over to the next pattie before taking another big chomp, realizing that there was also a subtle improvement to the taste, or at least her perception of the taste. Her last bite of that patty was also more pleasant than her first. The sandwiches were inexplicably becoming more delectable to her as she ate through them, transitioning from surprisingly decent to what was now beginning to border on genuinely delicious.

Sally took a moment to ponder if this had been happening at all throughout the course of their entire meal and she had just failed to notice.

By the time she was taking her final bites, she was sampling more so to confirm her own suspicions rather than for Sonic’s sake. Sonic himself had been left in suspense throughout this process and was at this point now visibly confused.

“Sonic…?” The princess finally responded.

“Uhh… yeah??” His brow cocked.

“Do you think these rings could affect me too..? Beyond the obvious?” She gestured to her new spare tire.

*Urp*... uff….” The chipmunk stifled a burp, having finally found the point where said spare tire would start to feel full.

“Uh… what do you mean?” He asked.

Sally had already finished all of her own food, her brows furrowed and her eyes squinted in contemplation as she stared at the jumbo chilidog in Sonic’s hand, not yet bitten into. She quickly swiped it out of the hedgehog’s hand. While the hedgehog had a hyper fast reaction time even before consciously speeding up his own perception, he never in a million years thought he’d have to be on guard and protective of his chilidogs around Sally.

“Hey!” Sonic cried.

She then stuffed the first few inches of the dog into her maw. Sonic's mouth dropped and his eyes widened in pure bafflement. Sally’s eyes widened too, her pupils became dilated.

“Mmmm- The chipmunks mouth moaned without her own permission. She was shocked and terrified at what was happening.

-mmmMMMRK?!”

What was usually a mess of heavy spices which somehow failed to be at all flavourful, that awkwardly mixed with bitter beans had suddenly become the most delectable thing Sally had ever put in her mouth. The sloppy liquid beef she used to struggle not to vomit at the mere sight of now gave a hot dog an appreciated extra juiciness and softness. It slid down her throat with ease.

…Sally just ate and enjoyed a chilidog. And a jumbo sized one at that.

"...Sal…" Sonic paused, in pure shock.

"...You just ate a chilidog…" He stared. The awkward silence hung for a moment, before the expression on Sonic's face slowly started to shift to excitement. "I wasn't even going to make you try one, I never thought you'd actually-"

"That's what I'm trying to say!" On top of the panic Sally’s voice was now slightly laboured from being overstuffed.

"Because we both know I would've barfed the second it got in my mouth! But I… liked that… The princess said with an overdramatic amount of horror evident in her voice. “Sonic, the rings are changing me to fit this timeline!" She swung her arms out.

Sonic paused. If the rings magically changed Sally's palette from that of a fitness freak to a proper couch potato, and this new world's Sonic apparently liked big chicks... Was that why he was so attracted to Sally as a chubby girl? Why he was thinking he actually preferred her with the spare tire over her usual lean self? Why he couldn't stop wondering if any of the other girls had plumped up too..?

'Yeah that tracks.' He had to stop himself from smacking his forehead in front of Sally, hoping not to give her any clues that this was happening to him on the flipside. She'd have a field day with it. He felt like an idiot for not immediately realizing that was what was happening to him, although maybe he shouldn't, maybe the rings were making it harder for his mind to piece that together?

Regardless, after his frustration with himself subsided he let himself properly feel relieved for a moment. He just had to play it cool for another few minutes in the restaurant then Sonic could shrink Sally back down and fix his brain.

"Eh, no biggie." He replied nonchalantly.

"Yes, 'biggie'!'" Sally protested.

"It just changed what food you like, and probably how badly you want to do some planks, as long as your memory's still fine. We can just switch it back, same as your waist." He smiled again, posturing.

"Oh yeah it's fine we can just switch it back… She mimed sarcastically -I'm getting brainwashed!"

"Cool, maybe I should just wait it out. I'd love to have a Sally that wants to go for poutine every night." He mused, making kissy faces.

Sally stared daggers at her boyfriend, her patience having truly come to an end with this shenaniganry.

"Like you want to live in the timeline where Bernie remembers today. The second we step out of here you're sprinting around Mobius." She demanded.

"Alright alright… I got what I wanted. I just have to finish this off before mom comes back again." He gestured to his remaining jumbo dog.

"Ugh, I should've just ripped a piece off your last one off. That was too much." The princess slumped back in her seat, cradling her belly. Feeling less soft than it first had when she walked in, as her fat was being condensed between her skin and her packed stomach.

"Well yeah, you ate most of the appetizers, your butter chicken and both your pulled porks, then yeah my chili dog. You did great, proud of you darling." He reached over to pinch her cheek, her chubby cheek.

She merely looked at him, tired.

"You want this last one?" He cocked a brow as he stood over the table, doing a better job posing that he was still completely in control of the situation than he was expecting to. Maybe too much better.

The tip of the ‘dog bobbed in front of her face, taunting her pretty lips. "What? N-no… I…"

Sonic shoved the chilidog into her unsuspecting mouth once she opened it to speak.

"Mm-mm!?" Sonic let go of the back end and sat back down, letting Sally catch it in her own hands. She bit off the section Sonic had fed her. It's taste dancing on her tongue as she stared anxiously at the remainder sitting in her palms. Already knowing she couldn't fight it, she swallowed that first bite before pressing another massive portion all the way to the back of her throat.

"Sonic!?!" She shrieked through a stuffed maw. Her body automatically scarfing the weiner down.

"What? If you don't want it I'll take it back." He laughed, reaching his hand out to take the last bit left in Sally’s hands back only to, as he expected, get his hand swatted.

"Nnnnngh… *urp*-hugnnhhh…" Sally was practically laying on the bottom cushion of the booth now, having wolfed the whole thing down. "I can't believe you did that!" She yelled, blushing.

"I had to take full advantage while this lasted." The grinning hedgehog shrugged shrugged.

"I swear I'm force feeding you spinach for the next year." She threatened, her breath noticeably shaky from the strain. Her eyes looked deranged.

"Worth it." He mused, booping her nose. He got up from his seat to sit next to his beau on her side, cradling her.

Bernadette returned, cleaning up the large assembly of emptied out plates. She tried to glance at the bloated Sally as little as possible, but when she did, the sympathy was evident on her frowning face.

"You're going to let us pay for that, right?" Sally pleaded, in her hunched position. Her voice was slightly muffled as her breasts were squished up against her face.

"Uhmm… yeah?" Bernadette replied softly, but clearly confused.

"Oh, uh… okay?" Sally responded, dumbfounded. Everytime she and Sonic had ever eaten at Chuck's she had to fight the older Hedgehog tooth and nail to get her to take some of her money… and usually failed. 'Royalty and freedom fighters eat free here' she'd always say. Sonic too looked surprised.

The redhead looked over to him expectantly and smugly. He sighed, pulling out his wallet.

He forked over half a week's salary to his mother.

*Hic* "Still think having a fat girlfriend is better Sonic?" Sally taunted after Bernie walked off.

The blue one shrugged. "Meh, that's usually how much I spend on myself anyway."

"Ready to get back to being a gym rat, tubby?" Sonic tried to hurry, sliding off the booth as he poked his loves' stomach. She groaned at the quick influx of pressure. Her softened middle had been stuffed to a tight and rounded shape, the protruding food baby making her chubby body look even bigger.

She looked at Sonic pleadingly, her hair frayed and dangling in her face.

"...I don't think I can move Sonic…" She attempted to shift herself out. "Mmm!" She yelped, the slight movement having triggered an acid reflux.

"Ah, right.." He noted. "Okay, I'll just head out real quick and you just feel the magic lipo from here."

He let his hand graze her before aiming for the door.

"W-wait!" Sally's eyes widened, Sonic had already started to powerwalk to the door. She'd realized something just in time.

"What?" He stopped in his tracks.

"When you make me thin again we're assuming it's going to shrink my stomach down..!... She yelled in a hush, she sounded worried yet was still trying to keep anyone else in the restaurant from hearing their strange conversation. …I can barely hold all of this at this size! My stomach will burst if you make me any smaller." She cringed.

"Oh, wow… You're right…" He said in a similarly worried tone.

"So should I..?"

"Just put the ring on so I can digest this." Her eyes squeezed shut and her entire face scrunched as the words left her mouth, burning her tongue on the way out.

"Right…" He answered, slight disappointment and frustration evident in his tone. He brought out his ring and slid it back on his pinky finger.

"Oh, you're in a rush to end this now?" Sally asked facetiously, having noted how quickly he was trying to change things back now that their meal was done, rather than his suspected behavior of reveling in his victory and stalling to keep her chunky for as long as possible.

"I mean yeah, it's a little awkward to just keep taking the booth up after we've paid. And rude." He said that last bit jovially, trying to save face. He continued. "Here, I'll go get you something to help things along." He ran off back to the kitchen.

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He came back with a bowl topped with three large scoops of icecream and a large glass of ginger ale.

"Oh, dessert? Yay..!" Sally hissed.

"It's just to soothe your stomach.. Her boyfriend responded, sitting back down next to her. …look, you don't even have to eat it yourself." He started inhaling the ice cream, the ring's magic sending it into her.

"Slower, slower!" She cried, her belly creaking. Her cracked voice was the highest there that Sonic had ever heard it.

"Sorry…" Sonic groaned.

Sonic slowly chipped away, small spoonful after small spoonful of the large desert and sip after sip of the even larger ginger soda while the princes' gut broke down the tens of thousands of calories it was forced to endure. His impatience was evident, this was literally the slowest he had ever consumed anything.

The princess cringed. "I can actually feel it now, I can feel myself getting bigger…"

Sonic focused his eyes at the peak of the chipmunks belly, furthest from the rest of her body and after a few moments… he could swear it did seem to be reaching the teensiest bit farther away.

"I think I can see it." He responded, kind of amazed.

Sally looked up from her slump to see her boyfriend mesmerized by her growth, looking intently at her tummy. Mouth open.

"I think you were right about your digestion still getting faster." Sonic noted. "You think that's just because the rings are getting a stronger hold of things?" He pondered, perhaps before Sally had only been digesting with a fraction of his super speed while the ring's magic was still weak.

"Maybe, at least partially. Could also be that two days ago I had a runner's metabolism and could handle a couple extra calories… and now I don't and my body's clinging to every single one. I have a fat girl's thyroid running at super speed." She groaned.

Sonic had to adjust himself in his seat at her words. Sally cocked her brow, having noticed this.

Her eyes then shot open in realization.

Sally already knew her own mind was being altered to fit this fake timeline.. and its Sonic.. was a chubby chaser…

The princess felt the overwhelming urge to start laughing hysterically again begin to well up within her, however, she thought back to how enchanted he seemed to be at her growth a moment ago. She then grew a wicked smirk upon the realization that, after having broken eye contact and turning his head away from the princess, he seemed to be observing a booth filled with some other girls about their age. Sally recognized all of them from around the kingdom, they were of the group of women she and Sonic realized had retroactively let themselves go due to her own altered history. The two girls out of the group who’d been affected even seemed a little larger than they were when the couple first arrived in the restaurant, the chipmunk realized the fatter she was getting the looser standards continued to be with the youth. Sonic watched helplessly as those girls seemed to be subtly inflating at the same rate Sally was, until he felt her own gaze on him and swiveled his head elsewhere, whistling.

“Oh, I can work with this…” The princess’ mischievous grin deepened even further.

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I called it... Harley Quintuples in size

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Hey guys...

Sky blue

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Oh also my first time doing the early stages of berrification with Sugar here

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"Sorry 'Toine, southern gals like everything bigger..."

"Ah, yes mon cherie, but when you were first telling me 'zis I do not think I realized just how beeg you were meaning. Surely 'zis is more than enough now, no?"

"Awh, that's cute baby."

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please please please lindsay weight gain! your total drama art is soooo good!

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Big belly goth gf (2023)

Aka the last time Chris McLean was seen alive. 

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"...Oooph... You're completely sure Sonic's into this..?"

"Sally, how many times are you gonna ask?

"I know, it's just... I can't believe all that time we were together he never told me..."

"Yeah, I guess we found the one thing he's insecure about. I've spent years stalking him and that really was the first time I caught him looking at that stuff." Amy explained, her fingers crossed behind her back.

"That's why you've gotta pretend you put this all on by accident."

"Right, right..."

"Here, you can have my pancakes too. I'm not hungry."

"Ugh..."

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"Because Emma and Noah have been dating for a while now, I've clocked in a LOT of time third-wheeling with Owen, and-"

"-And they've been having a great time doing it! Owen's been a great influence on Kitty! The whole family's doing great!"

"I passed three hundred pounds Emma!"

"Whaa-aat! Don't be silly Kitty... I'd never let my baby sister get that big, haha! And I'd definitely never be DIRECTLY responsible for it! Maybe you put a COUPLE pounds on, but look! You're not that much thicker than me! See?!"

"You making yourself fatter doesn't actually make it better!"

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Sally XL (3/5)

'Well, now I know what he was so smug about.'

The princess thought to herself. Apparently those rings were either warping the memories of everyone around her into thinking she had always looked like this or they were actively rewriting history as she gained. The fact that even Nicole's memory was affected suggested the latter.

"I assume 'yer killing Sonic, why?"

Bunnie asked, audibly flabbergasted.

"Nothing… nevermind, don't worry about it guys… Thanks Nicole, back to Sonic."

Sally waved off as she rubbed the bridge of her nose.

"Kay!"

The lynx's physical form dissipated.

"'Ah guess 'Ah should leave too?"

The former robian deduced, awkwardly rubbing the back of her blonde furred head.

Sally opened her mouth to tell Bunnie she could stay but paused as she felt a sensation of fullness suddenly appear in her stomach.

"Um… yeah Bunnie, if you don't mind. Sorry for freaking out!"

Sally cleared as she started physically pushing her friend out the doorway.

"It's alright… you let me know whenever you’re ready to talk about whatever's goin' on with you two."

She offered sincerely, sliding forward on her heels as the princess moved her out. She still wasn't used to not longer having the strength that came with her robotic limbs, she wasn't used to being moved so easily by everyone.

"Will do!"

The red head responded, whilst closing the door behind her. Bunnie peaked her hazel eyes through the crevice the chipmunk had yet to close, Sally paused at the evident worry in them.

"It ain't serious is it?"

She asked.

The princess had to stop herself from saying yes, she put on a sheepish smile. Forcing a laugh.

"No… no it's not."

She admitted, it was hard but she didn't want to give the poor rabbit an ulcer. Being friends with both she and Sonic, Mrs. D'coolette had been trying to sew order among the chaos for nearly a decade at this point. Wanting the two of them to have their happy ending only to watch them constantly fight and break up, she was right to be concerned.

As the princess felt her stomach graze up against the door as she leaned, she shut it fully while carefully avoiding catching Bunnies braid with it. She quickly darted around and practically dove to her communicator.

"Y'ellow?"

Sonic answered calmly, his mouth audibly full of food.

"Stop!"

The princess demanded.

"If it means dinner's on?"

His nasally voice cooed.

"Yeah, not giving you the satisfaction."

She barked.

"Welp, them's the rules darling. More corndogs for me!"

She could actually hear his smile over the phone.

"Your stupid rules were I get fatter, not that I get so stuffed I can't walk! You put me in two food comas yesterday, I do not want to spend all day today pinned to my couch!"

She yelled.

"Yeah, alright. That's fair, I'll pace myself."

He diffused, the tiniest bit of guilt evident in his voice.

"Gee, thanks…"

She groaned.

"I'll go get some ice cream to soothe the poor princess' tummy, do you prefer red velvet or mint chocolate chi-

Sally hung up with a scowl. She looked down at the damage. Her stomach hadn't bloated out anywhere near the extremes of the prior stuffings, though it was still quite noticeable. Her tummy had puffed out enough that sucking it in would not hide the outward curve and it filled most at the lower belly, a droopy tortilla teardrop stood out from the princess's waist. Her 4-month food baby combined with the new moderate softness now found all over Sally's body made her look… domesticated. More akin to a pampered princess or housewife rather than the battle ready commander she had been two days ago.

With nothing else to do at the moment Sally pondered the nature of her 'situation'. While it meant her original plan of simply ratting Sonic out to whoever would yell at him was now no longer a possibility it also meant that she didn't have to worry about the judgemental stares or having to explain to the people in her life how she let herself go so suddenly. It also probably meant that once this was over no one but Sonic would even remember seeing her like this, it made this 'prank' feel a little less mean spirited… but only a little.

She thought back to something odd Bernadette had mentioned the day before that had caught her attention. Apparently Sonic had shown his mother some pictures to see if she looked unusual in them. Sally grabbed some of her own pictures off her dresser, if she looked like her old self then that would merely mean that everyone else's memories were being skewed.

The princess looked to a recent picture, the first picture of all the freedom fighters spending an evening together since she had been deroboticized. Antoine had just gotten out of the hospital then. Sally looked at herself between Sonic and Amy's arms and…

"Yep."

Sally noted in a casual tone, her pronounced brows closing the gap between themselves.

Her past self looked the exact same as she did now, minus the packed stomach. Her guess would have been that in this new history Sally had put the weight on in recovery, a lack of exercise and stress eating would've been the easiest way for the rings to twist events where her current size made any sense, that didn't seem to be the case however. Her own expression in the picture remained the same as well, indicating that her gain hadn't been recent in this new timeline Sonic was crafting. She looked at an older photo, her and Sonic on a date just before they announced to her parents that they decided to court for marriage and sure enough that 'broadness' was there. She grabbed the eldest photo that had survived the years fighting the Robotnik's: the first photo the original FF had taken, in knotholes underground. There Sally's teenaged self stood with her arm wrapped around the shoulder of a half roboticized Bunnie, pink and 'athletically thick'.

"Ah, I've always been like this. Fantastic."

She scowled. That certainly lined up with what Bunnie believed. As she thought about it, that sort of played into her hand a little more. Maybe telling would still be in the cards if need be. It would be easier to convince friends their new memories were fabricated if they were comprised of her overweight yet still performing her previous physical feats.

"Boop."

A digitized version of Sally's own voice noised, she turned her head to see Nicole materializing back into her room.

"The ring is unattended."

The Lynx said, proud of herself.

Sally sighed.

"That was fast."

She stated in relief.

"It's just outside the city in the little woods. He set it down on a rock."

The hologram informed, smiling despite the blatant shenaniganry afoot.

"Makes sense, he's on his late morning run. Could still be a trap though."

Sally pondered, squinting as she held her chin.

"Trap?"

The A.I asked. Her eyebrow was cocked but her tone, along with the rest of her face made it clear she was intrigued as to what exactly was going on.

"What did you do to get him to start messing with you like this?"

She inquired.

"I wouldn't eat junk food with him."

The organic one answered bitterly.

"Awh, why not? That's like his second favourite thing."

The holo-lynx pushed further.

"Not you too…"

The princess moaned as she put her hand to her face. She threw her arms out.

"I can't just start eating like he does Nicole, I have to actually be careful to stay in shape."

She immediately realized she shouldn't have said that given how she looked now.

"Oh, really?"

Nicole seemed genuinely confused for a moment.

"You've never had a problem sneaking a cupcake or two from the banquet hall… And you're still in great shape!"

She awkwardly tried to recover.

"Despite the fact that you aren't quite as thin as the girls. Wait… are you trying to lose weight now?"

She continued trying to stretch that artificial brain to make sense of her friend's recent behavior.

"Sure, I'm trying to lose weight now."

Sally said defeated. She figured that was probably the best explanation she could give at the moment.

"But not until tomorrow, right? Looks like you just had quite the big breakfast! "

The computer girl giggled as she poked the princess's stuffed-out gut.

"Nicole!"

Sally yelled, caught by surprise and blushing. She threw her arms over to block her middle from her friend's sight. She reminded herself that the weight was normal to everyone, but obviously a full stomach wasn't a permanent feature for the rings to explain for her. There was no time to wait for it to digest though, she had to get going now if she wanted that ring back.

"Look, there's no time to explain, I need to get going!"

She huffed as she ran to grab the vest she had been wearing before, as she held it in her hands she realized it was already tight on her and she still would have to worry about growing at least a bit larger if her packed middle was anything to go by. She frowned before quickly a thought crossed her mind.

"It doesn't make any sense? If history's being altered then…"

She moved over to her wardrobe and sure enough to Sally's relief there were size ten vests in her usual style waiting for her. All of her clothes had been upsized to fit her current self, even her dresses seem a bit roomier inside. Truth be told if this was a timeline where she had always been a little bigger than she would've hoped to find some clothes in here that would've covered more of her body but nope, same as before the only truly casual (and mission viable) clothing to be found covered about two percent of her torso if you looked at her from the front. She slipped into one of the resized vests only to pause for a moment, it was unfortunately possible she could outgrow this vest while still inside it despite it fitting better for the moment… Or was it?

"Why have these clothes grown but my other vest hasn't? Maybe because it was in contact with me and wearing the ring means I'm not affected like everyone else? Maybe it's dependent on the vicinity to the ring?"

She tried to wrap her brain around this magic artifact she knew unnervingly little about, but she didn't have enough time to dwell on it for too long. Sally was no stranger to going out topless but right now she really wanted to be at least a little covered. Against her better judgement she kept it on. Next, she was quickly sliding one of her now magically larger combat boots up her light brown legs. She ran up to her balcony again before awkwardly stopping herself with the aid of the hand rail. She'd probably puke if she dropped into a parkour roll right now. Nicole just quietly observed, still entertained. Sally swiveled around and made a break through her door.

"Are you going to be able to run with that?"

Nicole asked, peaking her head out the room behind her.

Sally rolled her blue eyes as she quickly dashed through the decorated rooms of the castle. She startled some guards and butlers as she slammed about through the halls without her usual grace. She wasn't too far onto the dirt trail before realizing it wasn't just a joke, her stomach was actually going to fight her on this one. The slight wincing pain that came with each bounce and press of a leg was soon coupled with acid reflux. She was already acutely aware of the little extra heaviness in her legs and the little extra effort it took to throw them forward each time, Sally frowned. She didn't need her stomach slowing her down as well.

She was nearly at the kingdom's edge when it felt as though she couldn't keep the stomach acid out of her mouth. By the time she made it out of the city's bounds she felt full-on nauseous, she slowed her pace to a half to keep from vomiting. By some miracle when she had looped around to the small stretch of forestry pressing against the outer wall of the city's forcefield Sonic still hadn't returned. Excited, Sally quickly found the rock thanks to a couple of old red sneakers discarded and left resting against it. A small golden band sat atop it. With a satisfied grin the chipmunk quickly swiped it, only to be immediately disappointed.

"An onion ring!?"

Sally fumed as she stared at the greasy side in her palm. It was exceptionally small and nearly perfectly symmetrical, but an onion ring nonetheless.

As if on cue Ms. Acorn's big pointed ear perked at the familiar sound of a distant sonic boom. In a panic she placed the onion ring back as it was on the stone and climbed up into a surrounding tree.

Sonic slid to a stop, smugly eyeing the decoy he'd left.

Through the leaves Sally watched as her boyfriend eyed his little trap. While still cocky she was able to read uncertainty on his face, it seemed as though Sonic didn't know for sure whether or not the princess was currently in his presence. With a smile the speedster slid the true ring out from inside his sock and placed it on his finger, Sally scowled. The blue blur reached his hand into a knothole a few trees away and adjacent from the one Sally was perched in, pulling out a large lunch bag. The chipmunks scowl transformed into a cringe. Sallys perceptive mind thought it was odd that there'd been no food around the rock but obviously hadn't had enough time to investigate the idea. Sonic slipped down, resting against the tree.

Acorn cursed under her breath, she wouldn't be able to get to him quickly enough from her current position. Sonic couldn't know Sally was approaching until she actually had her hands on him. Being faster than light meant that if there was a single millisecond the hedgehog was aware of her presence before she had him in some kind of hold he could zip off and she'd have no way of catching him... or he'd start play-fighting.

Sally had fought Sonic before, during the time Sonic had suffered amnesia and was manipulated by their zones native Robotnik. She had impressed herself then in that she at least kept up. Sally hadn't actually won however even though Sonic was slower back then and she hadn't had this extra fluff or taught stomach slowing her down. Even her upgraded mechanized self was just barely a match for him. There was no way she was going to be able to submit him and force him to hand the ring over like this.

Sonic having his ring back on meant sally was digesting her food with his super speed and efficiency again, while she should've been frustrated with that immediately she at least felt some relief in her stomach. Sally scratched her jaw, she didn't think she would be able to take advantage of it though, even with her mobility a little less restricted she hadn't trained her stealth with this new body oh hers. The young freedom fighter would have to sneak across a few trees to get directly above the source of her problems but would still be putting an extra thirty pounds on each branch and if Sonic heard even a single shaking of leaves it would probably be over.

Sally grit her teeth, she'd just have to stay still and hope Sonic would walk under her after he finished eating. Her big eyes were trained on the fastest thing alive as he pulled out a wrapper containing a few chillidogs and took his first bite into one. Sally expected her shrinking stomach to only last a moment but to her surprise Sonic wasn't packing it all into her in the blink of an eye. He crossed his legs, smiled and proceeded to eat at a speed comparable to someone with proper etiquette… slower even. Any other person would assume the young man was simply savouring his food, or honouring his agreement to not overtax Sally's stomach… but she knew better. The blue blur still wasn't sure if he was alone and figured he'd make his potential audience have to wait, hopefully he'd even draw her out. It took over ten minutes for Sonic to finish a mere three chillidogs, easily the most self restraint he'd ever demonstrated in his entire life. The red head took some solace in the fact that this new eating ritual was a lot less taxing on her poor gut but she had already grown restless with her current predicament and judging by the decent size of his bag the hedgehog was only about a quarter through his meal.

Sally tapped on her knees as another ten minutes passed for Sonic to enjoy his container of French onion soup, another ten for him to eat his footlong cold cut sub. By the time he was finishing up with some pickled eggs and cheese (likely the hedgehog's idea of a good source of protein) the princess' joints were starting to get sore from holding her perched pose for so long with the extra weight pulling down on her. All the while the princess had to awkwardly try to stifle the onslaught of small burps to keep Sonic from hearing, the seaward hunched pose she was in seemed to be pushing them out of her stomach. At least now he seemed to be finished.

He did a little stretch before calmly pacing to another cub in a tree and pulling out an even larger brown bag. Sally's stomach dropped, it was difficult for her to keep her profanity to a low volume now. Sonic sat himself back down and over the course of the next fourty minutes went through a small buffet of macaroni salad, bologna sandwiches, tuna subs, a thermostat of tomato soup, what were seemingly leftover calzones and of course some more chillidogs. Since the hedgehog kept his pace to that of molasses Sally's stomach never grew tight enough to the point of inducing pain, but that wasn't her only concern. In her squatted position the princess could actually feel more and more pressure on her ankles, she could also feel her derriere peaking out farther and farther into the air behind her. Her blue combat boots Were beginning to shrink into her calves too. Most annoyingly of all however was the now familiar feeling of her blue vest's arm holes cutting into her shoulders and armpits, Sally sighed.

'It hurts and it's just going to restrict me.'

She told herself begrudgingly, she had to give it up. She tugged her top off as quietly as she was able given her awkward circumstances and hung the piece on another branch above her.

After wasting his entire early afternoon practicing sadism Sonic was out of food, he knew now that Sally was somewhere around him. The fact that his beloved never called him again in anger meant she couldn't afford to, he'd hear her voice close by. After another quick stretch he began making his way out of the small forest, walking slowly. His emerald eyes scanned the treetops above and around him, expecting to spot a certain someone only for him to hear the shaking of leaves in a tree to his left side. He swivelled immediately with a grin only for him to get tackled with a considerable amount of force from his right side and smack face first into the dirt and grass. Confused, he saw an acorn roll on the ground below the tree he'd looked to. Apparently it'd been thrown into it.

"Points for the on-brand diversion."

Sonic struggled to say under the weight of his other half. Before he even had time to process Sally had taken his right arm and pulled it against his back.

"Points for that little display of patience there."

Sally smirked before blowing some of her amber locks out of her face.

"Now give me the damn ring."

She ordered while hyperextending Sonic's arm underneath her. The princess' extra padding was actually aiding her at this point. Her soft brown flesh both kept her boyfriend pinned and cushioned her a bit from the dark blue quills protruding from his back.

"So we're going for dinner?"

He grinned with his face pressed against the ground.

"Sure! There's this new vegetarian place I've been meaning to try! We can go to lots of healthy restaurants this month!"

Sally taunted, her charitability had been destroyed with her waistline. She wouldn't be letting Sonic pick any restaurants for a while.

"Nah, I was thinking we could just settle for Uncle Chuck's tonight."

He said nonchalantly, while he wasn't able to move too much he still had enough wiggle room for one trick. Sally's blue eyes widened as Sonic began vibrating his body under her at super speeds, shaking her along with him. Sally's eyes clenched shut while her hands hurt too much for her to keep her grip. With her loosened hold Sonic was able to push her off of him, leaving her to jiggle violently as she struggled to get back on her feet... and jiggle she did.

"Hmm you look a little different babe, did you do something new with your hair again?"

Sonic's raspy voice mused at the brown wobbling mess in front of him.

"Ugh!"

Sally noised in frustration. She grasped the ground as she pushed herself up, chucking the powdered dirt her hand had found as she did so. Said dirt never made it to Sonic's eyes however as he quickly darted out of its way, reappearing to Sally's naked eye right next to her. She'd lost her advantage, the scenario she'd been camping and taking in more extra fat to avoid had come to be.

"Accidentally dyed your fur again maybe?"

He mockingly held his chin in fake contemplation, before quickly hopping back as Sally tried to sneak her left foot behind his knee so she could get him back onto the ground again. Her hands missed him and the shove whiffed with her boobs bouncing around in her face, an issue she'd never come across before. The past few hours of non-consensual gluttony clearly showed, no longer was Sally at the end of the average weight range… even the athletically thick label would be pushing it, no... there was another, simpler term, it was more accurate even: chubby… Ms. Acorn was officially chubby.

Before Sally's body still showed signs that she exercised despite her increased weight, however another twenty to thirty pounds had allowed her body to fill to a shape that would lead a viewer to believe she got little more than walks around the castle. Save for her fingers, toes and skull any stiffness that still could've been found hours ago was now buried. Her collar bones had sunk completely into the layer of fat enveloping her torso. Her ribs were now completely invisible to the touch with the majority of her pelvis following suit, aside from the front edges if enough pressure was applied in the fold where her thighs met her love handles and belly. Her belly (it was a belly now) took far less than her sporadic hunch to fold into two full rolls, less than halfway down into her full range of movement and the fat covering her core would be redistributed in two. While in an upright position her middle didn't take the globular, spherical shape of a true fat woman's gut. The meat of her middle drooped into more of a bell shape with a thinner concave curve in front of and a bit above her diaphragm. It wrapped under and made room as well as support for her new f-cup breasts, showing there was still a bit of structure held together despite all the loose adipose making up her form. Her belly curved outward and grew wider the lower one looked as it met her now prominent love handles. Even when standing completely upright the undercurve of her belly's bottom took the shape of a roll, curving itself back up into her middle as it tried to swallow her groin. The tortilla coloured section of her middle had been stretched far out of it's usual shape. The pattern's new form copied the outline of her belly looking like a stretched, compressed and rounded hourglass or rather a number eight as the bottom half was wider than the top. The point where her belly fur pinched (the point where the two curves of the tortilla hourglass shape met) was lined up with where her love handles cut into her middle. The edge of the pattern could not be seen as it was tucked under the roll of her under belly, one could see a tortilla belly end before suddenly a light brown crotch appeared out from under it. A v-line was nowhere to be found as half of the extremely puffy concave mound that was now her crotch was obscured thanks to her underbelly. Sharp horizontal lines would make themselves seen in her sides should Sally lean to either side at all, said lines arched up slightly into the sides of her back. Sally's love handles even wrapped around over the back of her pelvis, sitting atop her further enlarged butt cheeks which again sent her tail up higher and closer to the small of her back. With each increase in weight Sally's little chipmunk tail seemed smaller and smaller in comparison to the rest of her. Before the fat on Sally's thighs seemed tightly packed onto and anchored to the muscles under it, that was no longer the case. Now the blubber on Sally's thick thighs swayed back and forth around the muscle at the slightest movement. Her wobbly (fittingly brown) tree trunks only stopped touching just above her knees, her ridiculous thigh gap was long gone. Even the farther reaches of Sally's body where one would always expect a solid feel were hit with blubber. Her ankles had softened, it would even take a poke to find the bones at the sides of her wrists. Her feet (if they weren't currently within her blue combat boots) would've seemed flatter and her knuckles were beginning to sink into her hands. Small new folds could be found in certain places like the tiny double fold where Sally's boobs connected to her arms or the cracks in the tops of her meaty shoulders.

Overall the princes looked soft.

Even her face looked a little different, her currently frustrated expression was made far less intimidating to Sonic thanks to the bit of extra puffiness in her cheeks.

"Hmmmm…. Let me think…"

He continued.

Sally knew she couldn't tag Sonic, she'd have to wait for when he came at her. She decided to make herself look open, jumping into a flying sidekick she knew would never land. Acorn noted how her love handle quickly exploded in size and she could feel the fold cutting deeper into her body as she tilted her hip up to perform the attack, by the time she was airborne the roll had risen up to envelope so much of her side that it had rolled over part of her armpit. One chubby flying side kick aimed at the speedsters chest and suddenly that speedster had moved too fast for a normal mobians sight to track.

"Oh! I know!"

Sonic shouted.

Sally didn't get as much height or distance as she was expecting to and was surprised by how much the muscles in her thighs and glutes had to work to keep her extra weight balanced upon landing. She was already planning on looking thrown off by her new circumference so she played up her awkward landing, forcing her front knee to wobble and internationally leaning backward a little too much. Sonic took the bait, reappearing directly behind his beloved, pressing his solid runner's bod into her soft back fat. His large gloved hands gripped her love handles, expanding the doughy mounds out even further as he pinched them.

"Hm!?"

Sally's eyes widened a little in response and her long eyelashes nearly shot out of the sockets. She couldn't hold the blush back as Sonic gave the folds some good hard shakes, creating waves as her belly jiggled madly along with them with her breasts following along to a lesser extent. She had suppressed the surprised little noise that tried to escape her mouth, Sally was expecting an attack… not that.

"You're three times the size you used to be babe!"

He smiled, still manually making his girlfriend do the truffle shuffle. Sally quickly regained her bearings in that split second, throwing the top of her head back into Sonic's long nose. Shaking her auburn hair madly as she did so.

"Ow!"

Sonic cried out.

As she performed the strike she made sure to grab Sonic's hands at her sides before he recoiled too far away. As the headbutt forced Sonic to lean back too far and Sally secured a hold on his hands she jumped back into him. She pushed her inflated rear into his abdomen and slid her feet into each of his knee pits to ensure he would be hitting the ground. Sonic's back hit the ground with the added force of Sally's presumable 170+ pounds helping him get there and crushing his lower core as she landed on him.

"Oof!"

Sally kept the momentum going and did a backward roll off the hedgehog to avoid another vibration attack. Sonic did his windmill breakdancing move to cover himself as he got back up, but after he did Sally smiled contently at the sight of Sonic holding his stomach for a moment after quickly checking his nose.

"Doesn't seem to be slowing me down honey."

She beamed. Her thick black brows furrowed, making her smile look devilish.

Sonic recovered.

"Well I just wasn't expecting you to be so rough darling. You know the rules though, if you want to spar like that you have to put extra padding on!"

The fastest thing alive smiled as he subtly stepped back before whipping another large bag of food out from it's knothole.

"You have more!?"

Sally exclaimed, the surprise on her face was evident.

"I know how to plan ahead too."

He mused coyly.

The chipmunk dove at him in desperation, but it took far too long for her to get to him. He intentionally scarfed the entirety of the bag's contents into the span of a second, causing Sally's gut to jut out from under her mid-flight. The dark blue hedgehog calmly side-stepped away from the pathetic tackle attempt, Sally pushed her fingers to her mouth to keep all the food down after landing on her hands and knees. Even still her stomach was unaccustomed to eating at such a speed. Sally slowly and shakily rose to her feet as she held her belly. Her eyes widened again as she saw Sonic had already reached for a fourth massive bag and wolfed it down so quickly it seemed like a single blurry motion to Sally. Her tummy blew out even bigger as the fat surrounding her core had to make room for her expanding stomach underneath.

"What's the matter, tubby? Too full?"

Sonic playfully asked before appearing in front of Sally. She was struggling to keep stable footing and the dismay in her expression was obvious. He was visible just long enough for her eyes to catch him as he shot his hands into her plush middle only to reappear in a crawling posting behind her legs instantly after, sending the already off balance princess tumbling over him. He effectively performed a one man bench as Sally's back smacked the ground sending the rest of her body jiggling, even her calves and biceps yet not her stomach so much surprisingly as it was already pretty tight.

"Have a little lie-down, let that pot belly do some digesting."

He ordered with a smile.

Sally whimpered, she was sprawled in a starfish position with her belly rising to the sky. Sonic revealed another two bags in his hands, Sally's sad blue eyes clearly pleaded for mercy yet Sonic continued his onslaught from within. He munched through the bag in his left hand as Sally's belly stretched higher and more rounded. He poked his index finger into her tummy, it was surprisingly taught considering all the fat that had made its home there. Only about a third of Sonic's finger was able to sink into Sally's flesh before being sprung back up, she really was just a taught balloon now. Sonic grinned in a manner unbecoming of the man labelled the hero of Mobius. He straddled the princess' belly, only sinking in so much and forcing unbelievable pressure on her insides.

"Oomph!

Sally's face was cringing in discomfort, she wanted him off but was already effectively beached. Now even the slightest movement with Sonic seated atop her stomach caused too many issues for her to even consider struggling as an option. Sally's frowned and shot eyes continued to beg for mercy, but her throat had yet to actually say it for them.

Sonic looked down, now a little pity in his smile.

"You can say uncle at any time."

He reminded, before beginning to mow down the last bag. He could actually feel Sally expanding underneath him and could swear it felt like he was rising atop her. He could feel the vibration anytime her poor innards moaned. Sonic was about halfway through this largest of the lunch bags as Sally scrunched her eyes and furrowed her brows as deep as she could. To even his surprise he heard his girlfriend's now weakened and strained voice shout out from under him-

"Fine!"

She admitted defeat, she had failed. Her voice even sounded deeper and more breathy than usual as she was likely struggling to contain the contents of her extremely bloated stomach to her throat.

Sonic stopped the bombardment of carbs and cholesterol.

"Yeah?"

He sought confirmation for what he just thought he heard.

"I'll eat your stupid food, ergh *oph*… Just get off!"

Sonic slid off the small hill that was the princess' groaning belly, before crouching down to her face. Her hair was sprawled all over her face and her beautiful mug even seemed to glisten in the afternoon sun with a bit of sweat.

"It's a date!"

Sonic smiled before leaning in to give his girl a playful peck on the lips but was stopped as she spitefully let a burp rip right in his face.

______

Doctor Ivo Robotnik sat in his quarters, as he often did these days staring longingly at old reports and schematics of his. It was mere months ago when he was finally winning again. After Years of not being able to succeed where his predecessor had failed Ivo finally had the upper hand… he finally had that blasted hedgehog near his breaking point. He had taken so much from him at that point. Fiona, after having spent time in a romantic relationship with the rodent was back under his employ. He'd put Commander D'coolette in the hospital, seemingly for the rest of his life. While not… entirely of Robotnik's doing there was disorder within New Mobotropolis' monarchy and Bunnie D'coolette: The second greatest physical threat to his empire after Sonic, had been depowered. His greatest achievement however had been that he had the princess… She had shared equal responsibility with the hedgehog in the fall of his counterpart's regime, as well as the stalling of his own rise in this zone. The fact that she was both Maximilian's daughter and more importantly Sonic's love, was just icing on the cake. While he was given the chance to simply kill her he opted to keep her as his robotic slave, both as an establishment of his power and as psychological warfare on his nemesis. He knew that choice would come back to bite him, like always his advantage was swept out from under him. He opened up his old schematics for 'mecha Sally's' upgrades.

"Huh?"

The Eggman cocked his ginger brow.

"I don't recall making her this bulky..."

He thought aloud in his confusion. The model displayed on his holographic screen looked to have triple the circumference she originally did around her core, with her limbs and shoulder pads looking proportional to this new version. Her proportions, she looked… kinda fat, if such a thing we're possible for a being made of metal.

"I know I didn't make her this bulky."

He doubled down. He wanted to further dissect this new model but forced himself to leave his inspection at face value for now.

He dug further back into his logs, searching for the princess' original model from when she was first roboticized and before he improved her.

"Hrm…"

The mad doctor held his chin in contemplation. Her build was now the same as the other. Again he had to pry his eyes away from the specs.

"Even if it were possible for someone else to hack into my network, why would they make a modification so noticeable… and pointless? Hmm… nothing else seems to be out of order."

He narrated to himself under his breath. He stopped to ponder other possibilities before immediately wondering if reality had somehow been altered. While that felt like an extreme conclusion he knew it was absolutely possible, especially if the princess and the rodent were somehow involved. He'd had his own genesis waves, it was an eventuality that either through science or magic someone else would create or (if it were the mobians) more likely stumble upon something similar. The alteration of mecha Sally's design could've been a minor change in addition to more consequential ones he'd been unaware of. Figuring it was the easiest way to begin investigating he pulled up his recognizance footage from the new post the kingdom had at Robotropolis. He had yet to watch it but he had already been informed by his badniks that his two persons of interest had been on the scene. Maybe it would be educational.

The footage played, most of his battalion was fighting back against the mobian soldiers while certain bots were acquiring the loot amidst the chaos. Quickly enough however the hedgehog had arrived with company, the fox, the Rose woman and surprisingly…

"Ohohoh!

Eggman chuckled (unlike Knuckles)

...I don't believe it…"

In his nemesis' trembling arms was the princess, at a size equivalent to his models. Obviously being flesh now she looked even pudgier. While her belly was not as big as Ivo's own he took pleasure in the fact that every other part of her was meatier than every other part of him. Limbs, rear, even their faces. Suddenly Eggman was feeling pretty good about himself. He continued watching as the rodent dropped his corpulent companion off at the station, presumably to speak with those in charge while he and the other two proceeded to destroy most of his armada. Had it not been for what he'd seen mere minutes ago Ivo would have merely taken satisfaction under the assumption that her time as his enforcer had done a number on her mind, but this was all but confirmation that something was re-weaving reality. He had just stumbled upon what was presumably the most humourous of the changes first. The scientist watched until the end in the hopes that he could gather more information, one of his less noticeable drones had remained in the air above as the rest of the surviving robots fled back to the death egg. He sped up the play speed until eventually the accursed couple re-emerged from the building, Ivo zoomed in on the two.

"The rodent looks fine…"

The villain muttered before his eyes just barely caught something. A ring on Sonic's hand, Ivo had never seen him wear jewelry before.

"Oh no…

The ginger groaned.

… I hope those are still engagement rings, I better not have missed the chance to ruin their wedding. Wait a second."

Robotnik realized, maybe these were related to the princess' sudden porkiness. He zoomed in further on their grotesquely large hands to find.

"Oh."

He said in surprise, he thought he'd never see those particular rings again.

"Yeah that's probably it. Idiots."

He concluded. He checked his files and sure enough in his oldest images of the princess she was at a comparably chunky size, not the size he knew she had actually been. With the mystery solved and the realization that while past events must have been rewritten to compensate for the lard the Hedgehog must have pumped into his woman at least it wasn't altering his memory of those past events and with the only variable being Princess Acorn's dress size he wasn't too concerned about the ramifications. There was also the added bonus that if anything, this little gaff of theirs only made Robotnik's job easier. There seemed to be no good reason for Ivo to put the drastic amount of effort it would take to get those rings back from New Mobotropolis, so he opted to simply let it be for now. Now he could feed his curiosity, how did this alternate history's version of himself go about designing Mecha Sally, how significantly had her larger frame impacted his designs..? He brought his screen back to the schematics and leaned in. It was like he was given the chance to see his masterpiece for the first time again.

_________

After being forced to accept Sonic's care for the next hour as she was ridden to the ground, Sally was finally empty enough that she could move around again and the idea of dinner seemed doable to her.

"I think I'm actually digesting even faster now."

Sally deduced bitterly as she stood.

"Aw, your tummy's getting used to you being a super speed piggie~"

Sonic cooed in a mock pet voice.

"Yeah? Well that's done. You're getting what you wanted, change me back."

She commanded.

"Oh, I was actually going to wait until after we ate."

"Why?"

Sally was considering assault an option again.

"Well I want you to try as much stuff as possible today, and your stomach can probably hold ten times what it normally can right now."

Sonic said mostly innocently. Sally cocked her eyebrow and folded her arms, her puffy forearms now had to rest in the soft space between her belly and generous bust.

"Wouldn't you rather have it that way too?"

He inquired with a cocked eye.

"Obviously, I love feeling like a sumo wrestler!"

She answered sarcastically.

"So you want to go after I've done all the erasing? You want to take those calories in permanently, you want everyone to remember seeing you pig out?"

Sonic reasoned, leaning far enough into her chubby face that her cheek tufts were tickling him.

Sally rolled her eyes, arms still folded.

"Fine, let's go."

She grabbed his hand and started power walking out of the forest, she just wanted this over with. Noting how with each step the band of her boots squeezed tightly into her fluid meat.

In victory Sonic gazed upon Sally from behind as she pulled him along, her hips were still the widest part of her. Her body was still something of an hourglass, just a jiggly one that swayed with every step. The hedgehog observed, despite having a few inches of pure lard over top of each glute she still had one of the best butts the young man had ever laid his eyes on. The effect of the increased curves lining her sides and back was heightened by her now unignorable bust which peeked out so far in front of her Sonic could even see them from behind. This effect was also helped by her naturally sultry voice and playfully messy dark red hair that continued to sway, now with the rest of her. Together it all made Sally look more womanly, the hedgehog supposed. Then there were the awkward parts. Sonic observed how small her little tail now looked in comparison to the rest of her, her massive rear had completely pushed it up out of the way as it claimed it's new relevance. Or how her new chubbier cheeks that despite whatever cold or demanding emotion she would constrict her face into would prevent her from looking anything other than adorable, a trait that would be frustrating for someone so often placed in charge of militaries or even a nation's government. It seemed as though her tortilla cheek tufts were only aiding in this issue. Then there was that sagging belly that hid the truth of Sally's well sculpted abdominal muscles underneath, this gelatinous sack made Sally seem a parody of who she really was: a woman known for being the epitome of physical fitness and combat readiness who'd never be caught dead eating the foods he'd since pumped into her. Sonic knew she'd blush madly if given a mirror to truly see herself in this moment. The clashing aspects all in a way complimented each other to Sonic's eye, it spoke to both how much Sonic loved this girl and…

"Man, I guess Sal's just that smokin'. I put seventy pounds on her and she's still one of the most beautiful girls I've ever seen… If anything… she looks even better?"

His face belied the surprise he felt from his thoughts there. But it was true, the way Sally's body simultaneously more mature yet jarringly sported clumsy, cute traits made Ms. Acorn just look adorable in Sonic's eyes.

He pondered himself for a moment. Sonic was a free spirit, truth be told he never really would've cared what size a girl was. Though he guessed he never got the chance to put that attitude to the test as throughout his life he'd met very few plush women and none he'd ever had romantic feelings for. Madonna, Sally, (especially) Mina, Fiona, Amy… All examples of the average beauty standard. If Sonic actually preferred larger ladies he guessed he never would've been given the chance to realize it… until now? He scratched his head as he continued following behind Sally.

'There's no way, right?'

Sonic further explored his feelings and confronted the obvious one. Whether 'Mr. free spirit' would ever admit to it he enjoyed having Sally around to keep him in check, to anchor him… at least, most of the time. Personality wise Sonic was already completely aware he went for strong women, though there was a small part of that attraction that stemmed from warped reasons. Sally was confident and extremely capable. An authority figure, a leader. While Sonic was attracted to that in of itself, nothing made him happier than when he could make all that crack. When he could get under Sally's skin, make her lose her composure, make her realize she didn't have anywhere near the amount of control over him that she wanted. He loved making this spy and master tactician get flustered, blush… become submissive.

Maybe it was the transformative aspect of this that appealed to that part of himself. Turning his girlfriend: the Battle ready athlete into the exact opposite of who she was, what she wanted to be into a big fear of hers. Soft, chubby royalty. Making her body unoptimized for any exercise, rather sitting, lying and eating and the inevitable reactions from her that would follow were what he guessed were doing it for him. Right, he would know if he liked a certain body type. Sonic realized himself, despite it adding up he was still weirded out that his kinks would take him in this direction. He still wasn't totally comfortable with the idea of his more than jovial enjoyment of this.

Sally looked behind herself to him, cutting off his train of thought. She suddenly stopped walking and smiled.

"Sonic?"

She looked into his eyes.

"Yeah?"

He kept composure.

"Carry me."

Sonic looked a little surprised.

"Don't want to burn those calories?"

He smirked as he walked beside her.

"Nah. My knees were already sore, my boots are cutting into me with every step and my thighs are rubbing. Carry me."

She extended her thickened arms to him.

Sonic's left hand slid into the slight fold in Sally's back while his right hand was swallowed whole by her derriere. Sonic's fight ending stunt had probably packed another ten pounds onto Sally's already chubby body, Sonic made sure to bend his knees as Sally enthusiastically jumped into him. With what he guessed was 180 pounds dropping into his lean arms Sonic let a grunt escape him, Sally's proud smile grew deeper.

______

The two had just made it back into the kingdom when Sonic was starting to completely lose his footing, his trembling legs were trying to prevent the couple from both going face first into the gravel trail at fifty kilometres an hour (slow for him, but still).

"You can put me down now."

Sally ordered, clearly satisfied with herself.

Sonic's now shaky arms let the princess down gently on her feet. He leaned over, placing his hands on his knees and wiping sweat from his brow as he struggled to catch his breath.

"What's the matter Sonic? Is having a big, lazy girlfriend more trouble than it's worth?"

She inquired.

"It'll be worth it.."

He reassured in between pants; he took Sally's hand back into his before resigning to a normally paced stroll in his fatigue.

Sally flexed her core and tried to suck in her stomach as best as she could, it was having some effect but nothing was going to make her look anything but husky. She frowned, trying to angle her arm to best cover her middle without making it obvious.

"You'd think with these things rewiring time, a dress or a blouse would've appeared on me or something."

She complained, though she already understood that she and whatever was making physical contact with her was not quite affected like everything else.

"Maybe chubby you is confident in herself."

Sonic said.

"Well right now chubby me is dying from how tight these boots have gotten, we need to stop by my place so I can change."

Sally quickened her pace.

As they trailed into the heart of New Mobotropolis Sally's eyes darted around her, she was scanning to see peoples reactions. Same as before none were disgusted, judgemental or even confused. People simply became excited at their appearance, smiled at them with adoration or pointed for children to tell them who they were. Sally subconsciously relaxed her free arm, letting it enter a natural walking swing. Not long after reading people's reactions Sally began to notice something else surprising. Even back when she was a little girl, before the original Robotnik had taken the kingdom Sally remembered there were very few plus-sized women walking around. The kingdom both then and now had very few citizens whose species meant a fuller figure was healthy, Rotor was pretty much the only one she had ever befriended and most mobians here kept a healthy weight relative to what kind they were. Obviously the years in Knothole where rations were more scarce meant a portion of her generation was completely accustomed to a small diet. Perhaps having been in wartime ever since they had saved the entirety of the kingdom helped further promote physical fitness. It didn't seem like that was as much the case now however.

Sally nudged Sonic's side.

"Sonic, are you seeing what I'm seeing?"

"Uhh…

He surveyed their surroundings as they walked.

… I don't think so?"

"Look at the deer over there."

She gave her head a slight nod.

Walking out of a shop was a young deer girl at a comparable age to the two, also a comparable weight to Sally.

She proceeded to gesture to two other heavy-set young girls they could see walking around town. While skinny people were still very much the majority, Sally realized the amount of rail thin girls had dropped noticeably. More girls had some softer curves, wider hips and closed thigh gaps. She even saw some civilians she recognized around town and they weren't quite their size-two selves.

"Huh."

Sonic mused, surprised.

"Guess having a chunky princess loosened up the beauty standards around here… you know we really are heroes."

He joked.

"I'm also guessing that chunky princess having won the war that saved them all helped too. If I helped, I'm guessing new me wasn't out on the field as much at least."

She looked down at her bloated body, both due to her new big bazongas and protruding tummy Sally was now only able to see the tips of her boots as she looked down with upright posture.

Another minute of seeing some size six to ten waists where two to fives should've been passed.

"I feel kind of guilty…"

Sally pulled herself into Sonic's arm.

The blue one snickered, he opened his mouth to remind her that it wasn't the end of their lives and that he'd be reversing it anyway but was stopped just before the first word left his maw.

*Huff* "Hey guys!"

A high pitched and nasally voice called out from behind them.

Recognizing who said voice belonged to Sonic and Sally swivelled, their eyes widened at what they saw.

[scarletshnoz]

Sally XL (2/5)

Sally posed around in the mirror, frowning and cringing all the while.

'I look like I've put on ten pounds! I've never had bloating this bad… Though I guess I've never really gotten it from eating… Sonic was right though, that salad wasn't even that big…

She scratched her head through her amber locks.

...maybe I'm allergic to something they put in it?'

The princess wandered back onto her couch, noting the alien feeling of the softness covering her butt squashing up against the cushion and flattening. She debated going to see Dr. Quack for some allergy tests as she'd realized she'd actually never had that done before. In her teenage years she'd obviously had neither the time nor resources when fighting to save Mobius from the original Ivo and when having limited rations to survive on allergens weren’t really something that crossed her mind… not that the veggies they had to farm would have been anyway. Though, she didn't feel anything other than puffy. No sore throat, eyes, migraine, lightheadedness … still though, if there was some oil or sauce or pesticide out there that would make her inflate this much whenever she accidentally ate it then maybe she'd best know to avoid it. She would swing by the Tommy Turtle memorial hospital, but… not until tomorrow. She'd rather not leave the castle or even her room until this went back down. The only times Sally ever covered up were when a mission meant she’d need protection from the elements or for special occasions where a dress was expected, she knew she didn’t have any casual baggy clothing that could conceal this.

She stayed seated on her sofa, unsure of what to do with the rest of her evening. She did notice she was hungry, which made sense she supposed… it may have been due to a sudden drop in her blood sugar but it was most likely that it was just because Sally usually ate dinner around this time. She realized deep down that she was overreacting but she didn't want anyone to see her like this. While she knew dinners with the rest of her family were soon going to become a special event again as she had returned to active duty she didn't want to take the chance of any of them noticing and commenting. She decided she would order delivery from somewhere, though most places that did delivery didn't have the healthiest selections and apparently even the healthiest now risked upsetting her stomach to the point where the bloating looked like she had doubled her body fat percentage.

'I'm pretty sure it's an allergy thing, but if not I'm going to have to start asking Sonic if I can pick the restaurants more often.’

If not for some sort of food intolerance this bloating must somehow be the lone work of the overabundance of balsamic in her meal this afternoon, she had already noted that the lack of restraint with portions spread even into the salad.

‘After his guilt tripping today I’m sure that’ll be a fun conversation…’

Sally rolled her eyes as she thought.

It seems even the healthiest options in New Mobotropolis’s back water establishments were still somewhat rigged. Speaking of… she felt quite greasy, uncomfortably so.

'I'll take a quick bath before the food gets here.'

She planned, she would just be ordering another salad and she had grown very familiar and attached to the options at Uncle Chuck's at this point.

She called in.

"Uncle Chuck's, what can we get you?"

The robotic voice of Sonic's father Jules rang through Sally's pointed ear.

"Hey Jules! Just a large caesar salad please, to the castle obviously. "

"Sally? It's delivery? You know you can always stop by."

The robian offered warmly.

"Oh, um sorry. Think I'm spending the night in..."

She answered awkwardly, realizing she probably should have come up with an actual excuse to avoid looking rude to her boyfriend's father and family friend.

"Alright hon, well we won't have any trouble finding the address."

"Well I should hope not."

The chipmunk bantered back.

Sally took a quick glance down at herself, fixating on how her boobs were now peeking out farther than the distance where her chin was resting as her neck bent downward. Her breasts ends were nearly where her nose was now on the x axis.

‘Maybe I’m actually eating too many greens…’

She begrudgingly pondered to herself before realizing Mr.Hedgehog would be hanging up now and quickly blurting out-

“Sorry, actually could I get a tuna salad instead?”

She said far more awkwardly than she intended.

“Oh, sure hon. Expect it in fifteen, take care dear."”

Jules said, knowing her well enough to know the crack in her voice was a little unusual but thought nothing of it. He hung up.

About ten minutes later Jules approached the table seating his wife and son. After the near apocalypse of the metal virus and with another commercial-like few months without a looming threat his father had noticed Sonic spending a lot more time with the family. He would savour it, knowing said months were probably nearing their end.

"A large tuna salad for a…

He jokingly pretended to squint his artificial eyes at the order.

...Sally Acorn, figured you'd want to be a delivery boy again for this one."

Sonic smiled.

"Meh, I guess I could for old times sake. I'm surprised she didn't do take-out though."

"I told her we'd be happy to see her."

Jules cleared himself.

"She must be busy with royal affairs, so I should be back pretty quick."

He looked to his mother, whom he had just been in the middle of a conversation with. Before grabbing the paper bag containing the salad and speeding off out the door.

With his super speed Sonic ran straight up the castle walls and vaulted over the rail of the princess’s balcony.

He knocked on the glass doors with a smile.

Sally stepped out of the bathroom with a towel around her brick red hair. Her eyes widened at the sight of Sonic eagerly waiting for her to open the door as he often did.

‘Of course.’

She moaned

‘Why did I have to order from chucks?’

The princess mentally smacked herself.

“Long time no see princess”

The blue one greeted as she opened the door.

“Since when are you doing deliveries again?”

She asked, frowning.

“I’m not, just happened to be at unc’s when you ordered. Why, not happy to see me?”

He joked.

Sally struggled to find an excuse that Sonic wouldn’t immediately realize was a lie. The fact that she had just clearly gotten out of the bath meant she couldn’t pretend she was up to something urgent.

"I'm uh… actually not feeling well now."

She answered, figuring the classic would serve her best. She tried to rush him back out onto the balcony before they broke eye contact. Obviously out of everyone Sonic would be the first to notice any changes in her body, she needed him out asap.

"And I didn't want to get anybody sick, including you… so 'git!"

She took the bag and began pushing Sonic back out onto the balcony. Only for her to almost fall forward as he whipped around behind her in the blink of an eye.

"Aw don't sweat it Sal, it's kinda my job to be here for you."

He waved, guiding her by her shoulders back onto her sofa.

She groaned, there was nothing she could do now. Sonic was as stubborn as she was and the more she insisted he leave the more suspicious she'd look.

She sat her large salad bowl on her lap, hoping that would be enough cover her puffiness. Apparently the warm water had done nothing to soothe the bloating, she still felt her thin new airbags need to deflate on impact of the cushion.

Sonic took her feet in his hands, rubbing them thoroughly. Sally cringed as he advanced to her calves, worried he'd notice the extra softness.

"Anything else I can get you Sal? Ginger soda or something'?"

"Just some warm water."

She answered with a faint smile. Despite their bickering he was a great boyfriend when he wasn’t actively trying to annoy her, which made her feel guilty to lie to him… even over something so trivial.

Within a millisecond he was back with the mug and a tv tray.

"Do the folks know you're sick?"

He asked before rubbing her shoulders.

"No, whenever I'm sick daddy acts like I have something terminal. I don't need to waste Dr.Quacks time when I know it's just a cold or a flu."

She explained, pulling from truth to aid her lie. Sally's face then contorted into a crooked smile as she let out a satisfied sigh, Sonic’s massage had reached her scalp and temples while she enjoyed her salad. She was royalty, she could have people pamper her like this any time but she would feel bad abusing her status like that. If it was just Sonic however she didn't feel so bad…

'I should pretend to be sick more often.'

She thought to herself, the temporary guilt of her lie had faded when Sonic got a knot out of her back.

Sonic had brought a puke bucket and some acetaminophen over to Sally (although she said she had already taken some), before seating himself next to her as they briefly watched some cheesy romcom.

Sally had finished her dinner and he'd soon be offering to throw the garbage out for her, she devised a way to get Sonic to leave without having to remove the large paper bowl from her lap. She immediately pretended to doze off like she'd had hours ago, letting her head slump to her shoulder.

Sonic looked at the 'slumbering' princess. Something hadn't seemed right since he'd arrived, Sally was acting funny.

Regardless he still had an obligation to be a good partner. He took the garbage from out of her lap, to which Sally cursed under her breath. He went to pick her up but paused for a moment, something seemed a little different about Sally… her body? Yeah, her body seemed different somehow. Sonic’s brain was already running through the possibilities to explain the weird differences in Sally’s behaviour, if this was an imposter then that would explain the indiscernible difference in her body type. Sonic squinted to Sally’s discomfort, then he realized. The princess’ near anorexic build had filed out a little bit, less boney and softer around the edges.

‘Bloating maybe? Nah, it’s not the end of the month yet...’

Sonic found it hard to believe that Sally of all people could’ve put on a few.

But as he reached for her he confirmed that she was softer to the touch. He lifted her into his arms and noted she was the littlest bit heavier.

'Must've been why she didn't want me seeing her.'

He rolled his eyes, having thought something was actually wrong. Her putting on a few was karmic as far as he was concerned. Apparently she had struggled to notice it as well, otherwise their lunch date would have been in jeopardy earlier today.

Sonic chuckled, maybe she did already know then…

‘Maybe she was projecting.”

The hedgehog sniggered.

It would make sense given she had spent the past few months with little exercise in recovery.

Sally continued cursing internally as Sonic brought her to her bed, laying her down and planting a kiss on her cheek. He paused for a moment, Sally didn’t quite have her usual flowery scent. Definitely still smelled nice though… kind of like… chili???

‘No way.’

He thought to himself. An intense hunger pain interrupted his confusion. His stomach had not calmed down over the evening, despite the fact that he ran back to his family's restaurant to pick himself up some chilidogs and let his mother know that he would be taking care of Sally the rest of the evening. It still felt as though he’d eaten next to nothing today. Sonic did notice the taste of tuna was stronger in his mouth than it ought to have been from just the single bite his girlfriend let him have. He looked to the ring, still planted on Sally’s petite (by mobian standards) finger. He then looked to his own. He developed a theory, it was kind of ridiculous but Sonic had encountered stranger things of a similar nature. He took off back to his house. Currently unoccupied, he could pull a bunch of the Hedgehog’s snack foods from their cupboard without further questions from his parents. He rushed back up through the balcony doors, with almost more junk food than he could carry. Sonic knew the proposition would sound ridiculous and he would likely end up hurting Sally’s feelings by pointing out her slight gain if he were wrong (which would not quite be funny enough to die over). Though, on second thought… No, he would still have to test this without her permission.

Luckily for him whilst pretending to sleep Sally had actually slipped off for real in her continued lethargy.

Sonic took out a package of chocolate chip cookies and scarfed the thirty-plus sugary treats down, he noted that the emptiness of his stomach still felt not even the slightest bit better. There seemed to be no effect on the princess so he continued his little experiment. Sonic opened a container of leftover pizza he'd had in the fridge and plowed through the five slices. Sonic continued through more of the foods he had happened to have quick access to. After gobbling down a couple hot pockets and a few slices of cheesecake Sally’s middle seemed to be jutting out more than it had when he'd first laid her down. He pressed his hand against his resting girlfriend's tummy. His hand sunk only the slighted bit before pressing against a buoyant, stuffed stomach. Sonic's eyes were now glued to the princess's middle. Further inspecting he quickly wolfed down more of his pile, with each pretzel, sponge cake and chip bag he watched in amazement as her stomach would suddenly press outward more and more. It continued reaching out farther and farther from her pelvis. Sonic stopped, satisfied and astonished. He had definitely packed her more than he needed to but he had to make sure he wasn't just imagining things. Sally's tummy looked like someone had inflated it with a pump. Sonic took his own ring off and looked at what remained of his mountains of snacks. He quickly shovelled them down his throat and by the time he was through it all it had felt like he'd actually eaten something.

"Oooho, finallyyyy."

He moaned in relief. It hadn't been his usual portion size but it felt good to have something in his stomach, that plus the tuna salad Sally had apparently eaten for him was at least enough to quell the aching.

"So the rings swap our stomachs."

Sonic pondered in a whisper.

'And apparently our metabolisms too. If Sally could take in all the food I ate today and still be hungry enough for dinner she must've digested it as fast as I would’ve, which explains where the extra padding came from.'

The hedgehog deduced.

'I could probably burn all that off for her and I wouldn't have to feel bad about feeding her junk food, a straight twenty minutes of just running past the sound barrier would be more than overkill.-

-but…”

He grinned mischievously.

“If it can be fixed so easily, might as well have some fun with it first.'

He loomed over the slumbering chipmunk in the moonlight, placing his hand on her belly. It felt like an overinflated basketball.

“Let's see how quick she is to laugh when it's her with the 'potbelly'.”

He snickered, putting his ring back on so Sally's body would take the calories more efficiently. He noticed her brows were cringed as she slept, she was likely uncomfortable with her stomach so tight. He grazed his hand smoothly across her underbelly, caressing it to relieve some of the pressure. He had to rub gently so as to not wake her, but after a solid minute he noticed she was sleeping more peacefully.

Adorable little hiccups began escaping her, Sonic smiled warmly down at her before closing the balcony doors behind him. He would be making sure to have a late night snack tonight.

___

Sunlight peeked through the princess' thin blinds and rested on her beautiful face. She slowly came to, tossing her forearm over her face to give her eyes some shade. When she became conscious enough she flopped her arm back onto the mattress, revealing her annoyed expression. She couldn't believe she had accidentally fallen asleep twice, she had practically lost half her day yesterday. The only solace was that hopefully her bloating had gone down. She sat herself up but was immediately stopped by a strange discomfort in her middle.

Her heart sank and her eyes widened as she looked down, her stomach was scrunching. One hand slapped over her mouth as she gasped, the other poking her new slight underbelly, it bulged out with fat compressed from the folding of her abdomen. With the way it curved back down into her abdominal wall just above her crotch it wouldn't be unfair to say it looked like the beginnings of a roll. She began tracing fingers through this surreal new shallow fold… it looked like a crack in her middle. Evidently this new discomfort was the sensation of her body rubbing against itself. Springing upright evenly redistributed this alien fat through her center, killing the fold… yet it came right back each time she manically hunched back over.

She leaped out of her bed and sprinted to her bathroom mirror, confirming her fears. Yesterday's bloating looked as though it had doubled. Well, it was obvious now that it wasn't bloating…

"I'm getting fatter."

She said faintly in disbelief, leaning over the sink as her big blue eyes stared into her reflection.

Her stomach now had a slight outward arc and sucking in only gave more prominence to that little underbelly. It required more effort for her fingertips to reach the stiffness of a rib, any sense of muscle definition had been lost completely as her thighs and upper arms were now noticeably swollen. Her collarbones were still visible between her broadened shoulders but just barely and only closest to where they met. Her upper arms looked thicker as well with a layer of creamy 'unsculpted muscle' covering her triceps. The itchy panic-inducing feeling of folding plagued her sides as she bent from left to right as her now pronounced love handles squished up against the puffiness arcing over her rib/sternum line and the bottoms of her armpits. Her almost nonexistent chest had blown up like water balloons, going up a cup size at the very least. Each breast had expanded into teardrop-esque shapes. She could even feel the tip of her tail poking out atop a higher spot on her back than usual, she swiveled around to confirm her inflated butt cheeks had sent it upward to a different angle. The inward dent of her glutes had been filled in and forgotten as well, the result of countless workouts gone just like that. She didn't seem to be overweight, however she was now at the high edge of the average weight range… a day ago she was dangerously close to underweight. In silence… Unable to process what had happened to her she hopped her now athletically thick body slightly in the air, with less jiggling than she would've expected aside from her bust. The cellulite clung as densely as it could to the muscle it now surrounded, she at least wasn't flabby. She looked and felt like a girl who had the respectable workout regime that she did, if just kept eating one too many cupcakes. That realization had understandably done little to calm the poor girl down; however. She needed a scale. Hunched over she began ravaging through the drawers of her bathroom, cringing at both the continuous scrunching of her stomach and how far she could feel her derriere sticking out behind her. Every towel, razor and shampoo bottle had been knocked over before she focused back in and smacked herself harder than she'd intended. The scale was behind the toilet.

She stepped on it, dreading the result. The digital numbers read.

'141 mlb'

Twenty seven pounds. Twenty seven mobian pounds higher than what she weighed last time she had checked.. and presumably what she had weighed less than twenty four hours ago. It was obvious what was causing this, it was the only possible explanation. She chastised herself for chalking it up to mere bloating before.

Sally gripped the ring on her right pinky with her left hand, expecting it to slide off seamlessly. Instead it instantly snagged against the flesh on her finger above.

"You've got to be kidding me…"

She huffed under her breath, apparently even her fingers were thicker now than when they were when she had first dawned this stupid golden band.

She yanked as hard as she could, ignoring the pain but the ring only dug more and more into the meat on her finger. If she pulled any more she'd suffer a dislocation or even fillet her poor digit.

She realized she needed to either call for help or leave her living quarters looking like this to search for some lubricant and pliers herself.

She immediately began debating between reaching Bunnie or Nicole. Then she realized-

"Sonic!"

He was wearing the same ring, she chastised herself for not immediately worrying for his well being. He could be suffering the same effect, his 'fast metabolism' would likely not protect him from apparently magic carbs. She had to get a hold of him first, this was her fault after all.

_______

Sonic laid back against his bed, relaxed and reading a comic book.

His ear perked at the sound of his communicator beeping.

*Bpp bpp bpp!*

He took a wild guess who was calling and why.

"Sonic, the rings!"

Sally's panicked voice shouted.

"What about 'em?"

He feigned ignorance, his voice sounded completely innocent.

"I-I… what do you mean what about them!?"

The princess sounded completely baffled.

"Take yours off, come over."

She ordered, he noticed her voice was shaky.

"On my way."

He responded.

Within a minute Sonic paced through the already open doors of her balcony.

"Sal?"

He asked, peeking in, ready to take a look at his own handiwork. Sally was leaning against the back of her couch frowning.

She gestured to herself as if to say 'well..?'

She didn't want Sonic to see her like this, but with the chance that he too may have been affected she had to bare it. False alarm though, he seemed the exact same.

Sally however looked, if Sonic had to describe it: broader.

"Huh."

"Yeah, huh!"

The princess panicked. She winced as Sonic poked her middle.

"I thought the same thing was happening to you!"

The princess threw her arms out.

"Huh? Oh nah, I already figured these out."

He held his ring out in the palm of his hand.

"Come again?"

Sally cocked an eyebrow, why was he being so nonchalant?

"Yeah it's weird, when we're both wearing them it's like we switch guts. If I eat something it ends up in your stomach and you digest it quick, like if you had my stomach. I was starving yesterday and I couldn't figure out why."

He chuckled.

'Well, at least that means I won't be getting any bigger…'

She thought.

...She thought.

She had hoped merely taking the ring off would reverse her gain but that seemed pretty unlikely now.

"Okay. So you just have to put the ring back on and not eat anything for a couple days, with your metabolism this should melt off me."

She planned, calming down somewhat as she rubbed her temples.

"Oh, yeah! I was just going to run around a bunch and see if that worked."

"We can try that too!"

She smiled awkwardly.

Sonic’s already unusually coy expression deeppend. He leaned in to Sally's surprise, his nose touching hers. He smiled.

"On one condition."

"What!?"

She was taken back by that.

"We have a proper date at Uncle Chuck's. No healthy options, you're going to actually try the juicy stuff. The stuff people actually come for."

He said as authoritatively as he was physically capable of.

Sally's brows were pressed against each other and her mouth was agape.

"You're gonna finally experience the fun of pigging out a little, no reason not to now. Calories aren't a sweat anymore if we can just put these on and I can take them off for you."

He crossed his arms, still grinning.

"Are you serious!?"

She asked at a rather high volume, partially due to laughter… partially due to legitimate rage.

"Well if not, I could just keep my ring on twenty four seven. I'm guessing you can't get yours off or you'd've done it already…

He pointed to her thickened digit.

...so maybe you could see what it's like to really be chunky since you thought it was hi-larious with me."

He crossed his arms in victory.

Sally couldn't believe what she was hearing.

"Sonic, you literally can't get away with this. Do you really want to have to explain to our families and our friends what you're doing? They're already going to notice, look at me!"

Sonic's smile deepened, making Sally even more uncomfortable. It was clear to the princess that he knew something she didn't.

"Hey. You, me and a large basket full of chilidogs… that's all it'll take to stop this."

He declared smugly before flipping off the balcony.

Sally ran to the guard rail.

"I'll dump you!"

Sonic merely laughed as he took off below.

Sally frowned, he'd called her bluff. Fine, two could play it that way.

She tossed on her sky blue boots and vest, both were squeezing her now. Her top was cutting off circulation from her armpits to her triceps as the jacket's arm holes were shaped to suit a thin woman. Sally’s boots had one problem spot as well, the band squeezed the upper calves and the bottom of her thighs… no discomfort anywhere else yet. Wanting as few people as she knew to see her, Sally took the same path to ground level as Sonic did. She jumped off the balcony and did a parkour roll as she landed on the cobblestone trails of New Mobotropolis. She noted the minor discomfort she would usually feel in her back and shoulder when landing from such a height had disappeared thanks to the extra cushion, though she had plummeted a little harder than she was accustomed to with the extra weight. Her knees had taken a bit of strain from the start of her landing, it was a further reminder that if Sonic wasn't just pulling her leg such feats would soon become impossible to her. The princess' eyes darted about as she power walked through the crisp morning air. She kept tugging her vest forward in the hopes of covering herself a little, though there was more of her to cover now and the piece was revealing to begin with. She found herself surprised at the lack of reactions from the citizens she passed. She was expecting some pointing and whispering amongst onlookers or at worst pictures being taken but she saw nothing of the sort.

'Maybe it isn't as noticeable as I thought.'

She hoped, continuing her quick strut.

Luckily she didn't bump into anyone she knew on her way down to the Hedgehog's house.

She knocked on the door and was met by Bernadette.

"Morning princess! What's up?"

She smiled, friendly as ever.

"Oh, just wanted to talk to you and Sonic about something."

She smirked.

She further opened the door, welcoming her inside.

"Maurice! I think you're in trouble!"

Bernadette called, her smile having deepened.

"Doubt it!"

He responded, stepping out of his room looking even more cocky than usual.

"No, you are."

Sally threatened with her arms crossed.

"What did he do?"

Bernie asked, her tone belied a healthy mixture of amusement and annoyance.

What else was she to feel watching her son and his long time girlfriend squabble in their twenties the exact same way they had when they were five. You'd think after all the trauma they'd suffered together over the years they'd be more understanding with one another, more mature. Nope.

"Notice anything different about me?"

The princess gestured to herself.

Bernie just stared at her with a blank expression.

"It's okay, you're not going to hurt my feelings."

She assured, but still Bernadette said nothing.

"...You're going to have to help me here honey."

The elder hedgehog frowned.

Sally laughed awkwardly again.

"No really, it's fine!"

The chipmunk reassured, tossing her hands up.

Bernadette merely shrugged.

'Is it seriously not that noticeable!?'

Sally had to ask herself. She was flabbergasted.

'It's almost thirty pounds!'

She continued internally.

"He was already asking me if you looked funny in his pictures of you, but I have no idea what you two are seeing."

She admitted. Sally: now pretty confused herself, swiveled her head back to Sonic.

"Well Sal… want to explain it to her?"

Sally huffed. If her growth somehow wasn't noticeable to anyone else then she would simply have to wait until it became… more noticeable.

"Or do you agree to my terms?"

He pressed coyly.

Bernie stood up wandering off to the living room.

"Alright I'm tapping out, you two are beyond me. Maurice, whatever you're doing stop it."

"Wanna try someone else?"

He leaned against the wall in a b-boy pose, clearly happy with himself.

"Bunnie will notice."

Sally threatened.

"Bunnie would think it's as funny as I do."

She folded, that was probably true.

"Fine Sonic, keep it going! Make it bad enough so that she'll notice."

Sally pointed to the rug room.

Sonic placed his head in his hand.

"This isn't the stalemate you think it is."

He cooed ominously.

"So, unc's at six?"

He offered.

"Ugh!"

Sally turned out the door.

"Taking that as a no!"

He called down the road.

___

Sally had arrived back in her room, she'd been lucky enough that only some guards had seen her. Not her parents, not her brother. She sat back on her couch pouting, further annoyed by the reappearance of the scrunching sensation. Days like today when her schedule wasn't booked up and there was no disaster to attend to were usually made busy through exercising and training.

"I guess there's no point in doing it now."

She realized as she growled.

She watched TV simply waiting to feel herself get fatter so she could go show everyone to tell on Sonic. While she knew Bunnie and Amy would be no help Antoine, Tails and Rotor would come to her aid since Sonic’s folks would be spending the rest of their day at the restaurant. She didn’t want to stroll into a densely crowded space looking like a whale. However, the mere folding of her middle and molding of her rear was doing nothing but making the squirming and sighing princess restless. The feeling of butterflies wouldn't go away, how could they with her impending doom? Maybe she didn't have to wait, maybe she didn't have to give Sonic the privilege of seeing her with a full spare tire. She knew other speedsters and other mobians with abilities that could possibly reverse Sally's expansion if given the ring. Maybe if she could get Sonic's ring out of his hands she could fix this without his blessing.

Sally quickly tossed a blanket over herself before calling-

"Nicole!"

Suddenly a green frame appeared before the princess and a dark brown lynx girl materialized onto it.

"Mhm?"

She smiled.

"I need you to do me a favor, can you keep an eye on Sonic?"

Nicole looked concerned.

"Oh, is something wrong?"

"He's just messing with me, he has a little ring that he knows I need. If he leaves it vulnerable let me know."

"Oookay?"

She cocked an eyebrow but she was smiling again.

"Don't ask."

Sally frowned, knowing Nicole was going to want more context.

"Okay."

Nicole didn’t press, she simply gave a thumbs up before dispersing into green pixels. Her consciousness returned to monitoring the kingdom.

Sally sighed as she tossed the blanket off, if she were to go with her plan B where she didn't have to humiliate herself to get Sonic yelled at then she was going to need to go back out at some point to take it from him. The longer this went on the more likely she was to be seen, and she still had to worry about getting bigger.

Sally browsed her wardrobe, frowning as it was only now she wished she covered up more frequently. If Bernadette genuinely hadn't noticed her new softness while it was all out there then maybe she could effectively hide it from everyone with the right clothing.

Unfortunately nearly her entire selection was comprised of similar blue vests and combat boots, aside from pajamas and nice 'princesses-y' dresses for special occasions. It was also now that she wished she had been more fashionable in general, more patterned or stylish clothes could help distract from this excess weight yet all she had was plain and practical. She didn't need to hide her body when she was hot and her natural beauty meant no fancy accessories were required to add to it. Her dark red locks, sad blue eyes and most importantly her toned body compensated for her complete lack of fashion sense.

'Ugh.'

She held her head, she needed to calm down a little. She was acting as if she would never be her old size again when in the worst case scenario, Sonic would just thin her back down whenever he stopped getting amusement out of this… which would be after maybe a few weeks...

Sally shut her dresser doors with a huff. Any of those clothes were going to be a little snug on her as she was already, and she was likely going to graduate from a medium to a large within the afternoon anyway if her other half had anything to say about it. Sally couldn’t feel it but she was sure hundreds of calories were already being pumped into her as she sat about here, being converted to fat at super speed.

The princess laid out her yoga mat, she could at least maintain her flexibility without having to worry about her boyfriend undoing her hard work.

She descended into splits, exhaling as she tried to relax a little.

"Sally-girl!"

A raspy, high-pitched southern accent called to her from behind her bedroom door. Sally's calm was instantly destroyed, she didn't want anymore people seeing her like this than was necessary and Bunnie was most likely to pick up on her expansion after Sonic. Instantly, before Sally could make it to her blanket a blonde rabbit simply strolled in towing some chicken noodle soup.

"Hi… Bunnie."

The princess greeted her best friend in an uncharacteristically awkward tone of voice.

"Hey hon, Sonic told me you were sick. Figured I could whip you up some broth."

'Of course he did…'

She muttered under her breath.

"Oh, you didn't have to Bun."

She smiled, taking the bowl and holding it up to her midriff.

"Yeah.. but 'ah never get to cook anything fer you, also 'ah just wanted to see how you were. You doin' yoga?"

She asked, slightly confused.

"Oh yeah, thought maybe it'd help me feel better. Didn't work."

Sally responded, reaching for the blanket on the sofa. Bunnie cocked an eyebrow at the strange uncertainty in Sally's answer. She knew her best friend and very rarely if ever did she come off as anything but confident, it was especially odd given that it was such a simple question.

Bunnie frowned.

"Sally-girl... yer not really sick, are you?"

"I-

Sally cut herself off, realizing how foolish it would be to try to continue to lie.

no…"

Maybe she would be going with plan A after all... Sally sat the soup down, revealing more of her middle.

"Obviously you can tell right?"

Sally waved hands to herself.

"Uhm…

The southern belle wiggled her index finger in front of her mouth.

Sally's mouth dropped and her eyes widened, Bunnie seriously looked confused.

"Bunnie!?"

Sally cried, completely offended.

"Wut!?"

The rabbit shouted defensively and in utter confusion. She put her hand to her head.

"Did you guys just always think I was fat!?"

Sally threw her hands out.

Bunnie paused, looking Sally over and trying to think of what exactly she was supposed to say.

"Sally girl, you know 'ah would be the first to tell you if you were putting on a few. But you look the exact same t'uh me."

Bunnie mustered as sincere a look as she could as she placed a hand on the chipmunks shoulder. Sally squinted, then her eyes widened again.

"Bunnie, you're actually serious aren't you?"

"Sheesh hon, what'd you go up by? Two pounds?"

Bunnie joked.

"I think you need your eyes checked. "

Sally responded bitterly.

"Well erm, Sally… maybe it's that yer just now noticing but you've always been a little bit broader than Amy and 'ah."

"What!? No I wasn't!? I was the skinniest!"

She yelled in utter shock at what was coming out of her best friend's mouth.

"Sal…"

Mrs.D'coolette merely smirked.

"You're helping Sonic aren't you?"

Sally accused as she leant in.

"I promise I'll eat your soup if you stop playing along."

Sally's voice sounded almost unhinged, Bunnie had seemed genuine but there was no possible explanation she of all people could have believed what she was saying.

Bunnie threw her hands up defensively.

"Sally-girl... yer freaking me out now."

"I was the maid of honour at your wedding! You know my dress size!"

"Yeah, you're a ten?"

Bunnie answered, now concerned for Sally’s mental health.

"I'm a two! I-

Sally was about to shout, insulted again before she paused… her expression went blank.

"Wait… Nicole!"

The holo-Lynx reappeared.

"Aren't I supposed to be spying on Sonic?"

Nicole chuckled (unlike Knuckles).

"What are y'all spying on sugah-hog for!?"

Bunnie asked.

"What was my weight the last time I had you run diagnostics on me?"

Sally questioned, completely ignoring Bunnie's own confusion for the moment.

“...”

"One hundred forty five pounds."

She replied nonchalantly.

"I'm gonna kill him."

Sally rubbed her temples.