Barbara the shrunken cheerleader ran across the gleaming white tiles of the Squishington High School locker room. Her vibrant low cut top and miniskirt left nothing to the imagination as she dodged through the maze of skimpy thongs and worn socks like a varsity athlete. The billowing steam made her struggle to see even five feet ahead of her, her thoughts swam clouded in horror. She knew if she could just get through here she could find her boyfriend Chad and get to the antidote before someone spotted her.
Suddenly without warning a barefoot stomped out from behind the skyscraper sized shower curtain, the small woman fell face forward and hit the foot head on, she babbled in panic as she looked up and saw her now giant friend Ash staring down at her with a raised eye of disgust.
“Ewww, who let a shrinker in here?!” she called out to the other showering girls, several mumbles simply reached out before one said “Just squash the pervert they can’t turn back after all!”
The room jeered and laughed as Barbara could only let out a strained sob, Ash's foot raised up slowly, water droplets ringed around the shrunken girl as she was left in its shadow, the toes wiggled teasingly over the tiny, “No wait! I’m not a shrinker! that nerd bitch from science class shrunk me! I can prove it! Ash it's me, I’m your friend we’ve known each other since-”
SPLAT!
Her squeaks never even reached Ash’s ears over the roar of the showers going off, Barbara popped like a dramatic ketchup packet that seemed to spread wider than her two inch form could believably contain. The gooey mess squelched around the cheer captain’s soft wet sole, her foot curled at the gross sensation.
“Eurgh, disgusting pests. You're lucky I can still rinse you off in here…”
Ash quickly retreated back under the warmth of her shower, without even thinking she began scraping off the gorey mess now staining her foot. The bright red puddle, all that remained of Barbara’s pulped form slowly oozed into the shower’s drain beneath the naked titan as she hummed a catchy song to herself.
The world shimmered into a poorly animated transition as the words…
STOMPER PART 2: END OF TERM
…popped onto the screen in a cheesy neon red font. Badly animated blood dripped down from the number two awkwardly before a boot stomped down on top of the logo.
“I swear there can’t actually be that much blood in those things, they are tiny!” Riley mumbles through a mouthful of popcorn before pausing the film. She adjusts her glasses, then absently redoes her ponytail, smoothing back stray curls that have started to frizz. With her legs tucked beneath her, she shifts slightly on the couch, her soft frame sinking comfortably into the cushions. She wasn’t quite sure what to make of her new-ish flatmate Sadie yet, but they shared the same university course, and through induction week, they’d discovered a mutual love of terrible horror movies.
The other girl simply pouted at her like an upset puppy “It's called dramatic licence!” taking another sip out of her beer and placing it alongside several identical empty cans. Her pale skin and dyed dark red hair shimmered in the light of the frozen television light, her socked feet twitched side to side propped up on the old glass coffee table. Her hand was absentmindedly playing with her wavy locks that enveloped half her face as the awkwardness ticked at her slightly, the nervousness between the two was thankfully starting to fade away but only at the expense of the drinks starting to pile up.
Riley however felt almost too colourful compared to her near monochrome roommate, with her striped top and bright leggings did rather make them look like an odd dysfunctional pair. The nerd had been terrified at the thought of sharing a living space with a complete stranger having lived isolated in her home bedroom for so long but thankfully Sadie turned out to be a perfect match given their niche interests.
The living room was like any typical university accommodation. Small, sparse and still somehow messy, dotted about with unopened luggage, old unfinished takeaway boxes and a full kitchen sink they kept promising to sort out. Controlled chaos the two occupants would argue to the landlord whenever he decided to nose about the place without asking.
Sadie and Riley’s Saturday had started in particularly predictable nerdy fashion, of course the new 4K remaster of the entire Stomper! series had landed early that morning by the postie and the two eager students couldn’t wait to re-devour the entire series they’d already rewatched countless times.
Sure, the effects might be dated and the plots badly contrived but that did not matter one jolt. It was still a lot of fun despite growing out of the feared shrinking risk age themselves, most even laughed at the concept, shrinkies that could regrow back to normal size? Now that really was the realm of fantasy!
“I love it when we get the rare non-Stomper kills in these, like she had no clue that was her mate!” Sadie beamed, her infectious spirit made a small smile curl on Riley’s closed off shy demeanour. She was cute even she couldn’t deny, she’d known too many people without hobbies or interests and they all bore her senseless, to see someone so passionate was hot.
Riley turned to face the girl as she read the new Bluray’s booklet, her finger trailing down the list as she crossed off extras from previous releases, utterly lost in her own mental checklisting.
“I think it's because they realised by this point they needed a bit more variety, it's why they had the Stomper change shoes more often I think?” Riley clicked her neck, she’d slept funny on it the night before.
“The high heel boot is iconic though, it's like Jason without a machete!” Sadie sighed, turning to face the other woman she sized up Riley’s relaxed form, her chocolate skin and dark straight hair looked as radiant as always.
A small blush crept on her face thankfully hidden by the dark room, the blackout blinds had been shut to ensure proper movie watching etiquette had been established, they were roommates of culture after all.
Turning her face back to the menu list, keep it together you’ve only just met her she repeated to herself religiously.
“Shit! I knew something was up, this is missing the deleted scenes for some stupid reason, do you have the original DVD release for End of Term by any chance?” Sadie questioned quietly, her face still engrossed in the list and its now glaring inconsistencies were making her blood boil, of course they fucked up another premium release she grumbled.
“DVD rack next to my bed if you wanna to fetch it.” Riley replied casually, grabbing a slice of the remaining pizza stacked by her side. Sadie was about to leave but slowly her sight crept upwards watching Riley dangle the slice over her mouth before plunging it down, she felt a slight twitch in her loins, her pale face went almost as colourful as her hair.
Bad Sadie, Bad. Don’t think vore-y thoughts in public! You can furiously masturbate to that image of your hot roommate later! She was her first ever roommate and already her head was playing up with her making her act stupid. Riley’s not gonna be into that, keep it together! Don’t ruin everything!
She hopped off the couch and went down to the short corridor to Riley’s bedroom, they’d only been here a week or so but she’d never actually been in here yet. It felt like she was suddenly crossing one of those early days boundaries, but hopefully it just meant Riley was starting to relax around her.
Her socked foot tapped on the cold wooden floor and was quickly followed by the next, she noticed Riley’s room was in shambles with clothes strewn everywhere, neither of them had lived far from home she guessed. Her own room was in a similar state of disarray so there was no judgement on her part.
She saw the old fashioned DVD rack in the corner of the room and quickly began flipping through the titles. She of course had several of her own back home but well, only cinephiles of high standard like them continued to own such relics of a bygone era.
Sadie continued to tut with each DVD case passed over, she suddenly felt like she was being watched for some reason but quickly shrugged it off, continuing her mission it wasn’t long before a familiar title screamed out of her, there we go…
“Huzzah!” She cried to herself with a grin yanking the original release out of its perch as the other cases quietly clacked together. She smiled and turned to walk away but her face stopped in shock as she noticed the small glass case next to Riley’s bed.
Her eyes went wide like saucers as she walked closer and crouched closer to the shrinky terrarium.
—
Mina’s breath was stuck in her throat as she crouched in the corner of her small glass home, the few inch tall pet shivered as the stranger walked by thankfully not noticing her, the plastic plants and sand beneath her intentionally offered her no cover to hide from the looming giants. Unlike the shorter everyday figure that made up her owner this new giant really was towering and lanky by comparison, a black choker adorned her pale neck along with dark eyeshadow.
She vaguely knew this giant was named Sadie, she had never seen her in the flesh before, she simply existed as that loud voice that rumbled through the thin drywalls that kept hurting her poor ears. Now she could finally put a face to it and it didn’t ease her fears.
“Mistress protect me...” She kept whispering under her breath repeatedly, a mantra of safety that had helped her through the past few difficult years, her owner had shielded her from the now dangerous world.
Riley had been her best friend since primary school, but those days felt long gone now. They used to do everything together, but then she saw the DVD Sadie was peering down at and a pang of betrayal hit her, it had been her who introduced Riley to the Stomper films in the first place.
They’d rewatch them constantly into their late teens so now seeing this new giant holding the billboard sized case with those familiar covers stung, it didn’t shock her she’d be replaced one day she thought glumly.
She just had to be the unlucky one she sighed, everyone grew up knowing there was that small chance you’d end up as a shrinky, or shrinker as the Stomper series had charmingly termed them, she’d heard all the phrases now: buggie, tinies, vermin - It was just an easy way to avoid calling them people.
It wasn’t too long after her nineteenth birthday she recalled her life as a pet began, her dream college to study creative media had accepted her application only for it to be cruelly snatched away when one morning she woke up tiny. Her family had quickly decided to give her away to her best friend’s family to take care of, having thought how close she and Riley had been growing up together would provide the ideal new home for her.
It didn’t exactly turn out how she was hoping to say the least.
She had become a pet in every sense of the word. She had been promptly registered and renamed to Minnie, it was a childhood nickname Riley had given her that quickly lost its quaint edge and a red collar around her neck proudly embroidered with her new name in gold.
Over the years, she had tried her best to suppress her old life but all those attempts kept failing. Mina accepted she was only good at masking her true feelings. Eventually though she had started to find some small bit of peace in her new role of caring for her mistress. She knew what Riley was like though, she struggled to accept the loss of her one friend, she guessed renaming her Minnie was to help cope with that struggle but she couldn’t be entirely sure.
But that damn fucking DVD! It kept flooding painful memories into the small woman, Riley never showed her off to her other friends, she was hers plain and simple. It was protective in a way she actually appreciated given her own struggles with crowds growing up, so seeing this strange goth-y redhead barge into her safe space was increasingly setting her on edge.
Mina continued her hiding behind the plastic branches, her body would be clearly visible with even a cursory glance at the habitat but it was all she had, the loud booming screech of “Huzzah!” hurt her ears again, letting out a sad whimper of pain before the giant’s hungry eyes gazed at her small home, Mina’s eyes went wide in alarm.
The loud soft slaps of the giant feet got closer and closer. No please she could only beg to herself mentally, her eyes watering not used to strange giants like this one being so close, she had become a solitary creature for her mistress. Riley always knew she struggled with people, they both had when growing up and she had tailored her new existence to help her settle in - much to Mina’s shame it had worked almost flawlessly.
The giant stomped in her tracks, her face almost pressed into the glass, the billowing steam of her nostril fogged up the glass like a huge looming dragon, the eyes blinked as her head tilted, staring at her partially obscured body.
“Aw, aren’t you a widdle cutie, its okay you can come on out. Let's get a better look at you~”
Mina found her legs obeying without even realising, her training to respond quickly to a giant’s calls overrode her fear response. She stood on the soft sand of her warm bulb lit home, no more a human being than she was someone’s pet lizard or hamster, her lips continued to tremble in fear as she stood out in the open.
The titan’s eyes just continued to stare wordlessly, looking up and down at her body like a piece of meat. She’d long since learned not to cover herself, everything she was and would be was displayed out.
“God, you’ve got some great tits.” The giant redhead almost drooled, Mina looked confused - not sure how to take the odd compliment quite yet.
“Thank.. thank you mistress.”
The giant simply chuckled in response, Mina crooked her head confused.
“Awww, Riley’s properly trained you huh? that’s adorable, so you're her lil lady then?”
Once upon a time, when she was younger Mina had crushed badly on Riley. Though she never acted up the courage to say it, far too terrified of it possibly ruining the one true friendship she had in the world. It was now oddly comforting, in some small way, she was Riley’s and always would be.
“..Y-Yes ma’am, I am hers.”
Sadie couldn’t help but snigger further, her face crumbling in further giggles at the odd sight of the formal shrinky.
“Okay okay… I can’t handle this whole kink thing she’s instilled in you so just call me Sadie.”
“Yes.. Sadie.” It felt alien, calling someone by their name - it just brought up what had been taken to her, was this a kink thing? she struggled to question what she was now.
“So.. you gonna tell me your name tiny?”
“My mistress named me Minnie.” She left it open slightly, hoping maybe she’d ask further but instead the stranger simply chuckled. A playful look warped into a devious smirk, “Cute. That's it, I’ve decided you're joining us for movie night.”
What? she blinked confused but the giant’s hand reached down without any delay.
Mina let out a surprised yell as the carry handle on the top of her glass case was grabbed by Sadie, she slipped across the floor of her enclosure as the giant left with her prizes.
—
“I found it!”
Sadie’s sing-song tone rumbled through the small flat, Riley simply replied with an unenthusiastic “Whoop.” not even taking her eyes away from her smartphone.
Before double taking seeing her roommate casually carrying in Minnie’s tiny case.
“What..? why did you bring Minnie?” Ignoring for the moment the really odd boundary breaking of Sadie handling her pet without her permission.
“She’s so cute! I can’t believe you didn’t tell me you had a pet with you this entire time!?”
“Because Minnie is a very timid shrinker, she’s best kept in quiet places…”
Sadie just smirked and placed the glass box on the coffee table gently, Riley just gave her a confused look at the sight. She was outgoing; she thought charitably, cute and outgoing wasn’t what she expected of the punkish girl when they had first met to tour the student flat, it did chalk at first against her quiet booksmart with her in-your-personal space mentality but she’d adapted quickly and enjoyed her company, she didn’t have a clue why the girl with the never-ending list of besties and girl friends stuck so close to her.
“Come on, cooping her up in that messy bedroom can’t be doing her any good. She can enjoy the movies with us two, it just seems so mean leaving her locked in that box for hours on end without company whilst we have all the fun, no?”
“I… suppose,” She looked down at Minnie deep in thought, she watched her small form tremble like a leaf staring up at her, the terror of being moved out of your comfort zone was something she was understanding more and more as time went on with her new roommate, she understood her pet’s worries because she was feeling similarly. Maybe it would be good for her little gal to get out more like her?
A slight smile pierced her unsure face, “You know Sades, it was actually little Minnie here who first introduced me to these films before.. before...” Riley’s face quickly dipped again. She was lost in thought for a moment before Sadie resumed talking, not picking up on her odd blip.
“Awww, it's perfect then! I’ll get the DVD sorted then, do you mind me holding her?”
The nerdy girl sat back a second to take in the request, clicking her tongue, she turned to stare at the artificial redhead. Riley didn’t even let her own family handle Minnie anymore, well Sadie could at least handle her drink she mused, better than herself probably, “Okay fine, maybe not too long? she’s very precious to me.”
Sadie’s eyes lit up like a Christmas tree but she nodded respectfully. Riley couldn’t help her dry chuckle hearing Minnie let out a shocked squeak as Sadie’s looming hand opened the roof latch of her abode, “Easy… easy there little girl don’t panic, come to momma~”
The tiny wiggled against the huge fingers wrapping around her like a boa constrictor. For Mina the air whooshed around her suddenly as she was brought before the new giant’s titanic face. The monstrous sized eyes took in every detail of her bare body, the clear hint of lust made her feel deeply uncomfortable for the first time in what felt like ages.
She let out a yelp as the other huge hand had stopped lingering around the palm and started prodding her. The finger jiggled and pushed one of her boobs in, She wasn’t used to such rabid touches from even her own owner making her fall onto her rump startled. Riley kept one eye slightly on her and the other on her phone, seeing her pet was in safe hands made her focus drift further away.
“God her boobs are amazing, it's almost a shame she shrunk.”
Riley’s hand launched to her face as she burst out laughing struggling to breathe, “Oh god yeah…! yeah she had those melons before she became small, I remember we practically had to fight weirdos off with a stick!”
Mina whimpered as Sadie continued to play with her like a living stress toy. She had grown accustomed to the sensation of touch being a purely objectified experience. She couldn’t quite recall the last time she was hugged normally, assumedly it was her mum the night before she shrank but she struggled to even remember her face these days, she possibly had blonde hair but that might only be because she knew that was her own.
Riley finished replying to a discord message and jammed her phone back on silent mode, that server had distracted her far too much today she grumbled under her breath. Grabbing the remote she looked towards Sadie if she should start the movie now who simply gave a thumbs up with her free hand. The movie began without another word being spoken as the two giants focused on settling down properly for the long haul.
Mina just sighed pitifully as she took in the warmth of Sadie’s palm. The smell of alcohol wafting down on her from above was already making her feel nauseous, she hated the stuff. Sadly she knew from that alone it was probably going to be a long marathon.
—
The evening was rolling in quickly for the odd group, the last vestiges of sunset was slowly fading away. The living room’s soft ambience was the dim red glow of some hastily set up gamer lights that lined the ceiling, the two had decided it gave a cinema ambience to the small shared living room. Mina thought it looked cheap and tacky but what did she know?
“It always makes me piss myself laughing knowing how easy it is to tell who the final girl is in these early ones.” Sadie sighed theatrically, spreading her arms across the couch. The pair had finally started to relax more in each other’s presence. A small pile of Blurays and DVDs were piling up underneath the television now as the films were ticked off one by one.
Now they had decided to park the series and take a slight detour for the lesser known Stomper! spinoff movie Gulper! which for no obvious reason at all was Sadie’s favorite in the franchise so she insisted Riley give it a try. It still made her furious to this day that the sequel was never greenlit despite not even being born when it first released.
“What do you mean..?” Despite being film students Riley’s speciality was more academically inclined compared to the sometimes annoying production trivia section that comprised Sadie’s hyperactive brain.
“Right so… look at the raven haired one with the glasses. She’s the only one in these shots that has that odd edge fringing around her, the rest are all actual real shrinkers and she’s on a greenscreen. I mean its the eighties of course they fucked that shit up on a low budget.”
Riley paused for a moment and craned her head forward like that would somehow help her see better, fucker was right she grumbled. The shrinker really was quite obviously differently lit and her shadows didn’t line up with the other actors in the scene. Her eyes lit up with silent fury towards her delighted roomie.
“Bastard! Are you kidding me you spoiled the movie?! you know this was the only one I hadn’t seen yet!” Riley slapped her roomie’s arm lightly with a half-hearted whine, “Hey! don’t shoot the messenger! and anyway it's not really about who survives right? we're just here for the fun kills!” She smirked back, unphased by the half-hearted annoyance as she took another bite of pizza.
As the name Gulper! implied several of the ‘tiny actresses’ were unceremoniously devoured much to Mina’s despair, her eyes were glued to the screen unable to stare away as it just got worse and worse. She cowered in her mistress’s safe hand; she'd only recently been returned to her when Sadie had gone mooching in the kitchen for additional snacks and had promptly lost interest in Riley’s tiny pet.
Those... those are real people, like me being eaten. it kept dawning on her as she tried to ignore it, their final moments captured forever on celluloid film to the delight of a devoted fanbase, it made her feel sick. The hours she and Riley had spent watching these films, all teens loved these movies, especially nerds like them. Everyone was constantly worried about shrinking but your parents always said, “Don’t worry, it's super rare!” or “You are more likely to be hit by a car.” was no consolation for those who actually shrank like her and had everything taken away in a blink of an eye, she was painfully aware as she saw each and every life cruelly taken away for no reason at all.
The amount of times either giant commented on the group of shrinkers terrible acting choices made her heart go out to those poor people. Sadie joked they only had a ‘one film contract’ those final iconic screams took on a new meaning now she understood they were not acting. They had no legal rights so they were simply picked and chosen to star whether they liked it or not. Many probably didn’t even know about this series, blissfully unaware of the fate that awaited all of the diminished portion of the series’s cast.
Mina’s eyes glazed over slightly, the ringing sounds of death laced wails and screeches quietly burnt into her psyche, piled on like a terrible socially acceptable LiveLeak feed. She enjoyed the credits the most because the screaming finally stopped.
—
“You know, what’s-her-name... Annie Cartwright? I think? you know the final girl in this one - yeah director got very lucky. They oddly don’t draw attention to it but she shrank shortly after filming so they nabbed her for the first squish of Stomper! IV Squishmas Time.” Sadie rambled like a wiki entry come madly to life. Riley couldn’t help but smile as she took a big sip out of her can, she hiccupped softly swirling the remaining beer. Simply keen to enjoy the sight of Sadie lost in the moment.
“A Stomper! movie? with actual continuity? praise the fucking lord. We’ve had a different actress playing the Stomper in every movie already.” Riley finally broke back in, I mean are you truly a fan if you aren’t slagging it off at every single step she thought to herself with a big smug grin.
Sadie laughed, “Yeah that’s because the first one wasn’t the actual Stomper, the actress had terrible feet or something and that’s why she only wore the boots. So for first sequel when they introduce the character properly as we know it now they got some foot fetish model to play her instead, and well it was the sequel that made double the money of the first so it's fair to say it did the trick.”
“Pfft, boys are such pervs like that.” Riley only commented with an eye roll, Yeah.. boys.. Sadie thought to herself guilty, she certainly hadn’t been staring at those sexy dark soles whenever Riley wasn’t focused no siree…
Minnie however did catch her staring several times and found herself oddly on the back foot worrying the tiny would grass her up to her mistress. A devious smile bloomed on her face that made the shrinky flinch as an idea started half forming in her buzzed head.
“What about Minnie? Is she… trained?”
Riley looked at her confused for a moment before her face formed an ‘o’ shape, “oh.. yeah she’s fully trained, aren’t you cutie?”
The palm holding Mina twisted and wrapped around her securely before dropping her between the two giants on the couch. Riley’s resting foot wiggled expectantly, light wrinkles flexed invitingly to the tamed girl. Mina sighed, it wasn’t exactly the life she imagined she’d have growing up. She had wanted to make models or be a director, instead she was now cleaning the grime off her once dearest friend. She crawled forward without needing a further command, the routines that binded them where firmly embedded already.
The soft brown of her skin led to the slightly paler hues of the looming sole, she reached it finally pressing her hands into the soft buttery surface and without fanfare began to lick in long brush strokes, gentle at first before her tongue did long swirls against the soft skin. Her hands gripped tighter for a better hold. Mina had found herself taking pride in her ‘work’ as of late.
“Such a good girl~” Riley’s voice cooed above her, “You won’t ever find a better trained shrinky than my little Minnie here.”
Sadie just quietly sniggered at the sight. It fascinated her seeing the tiny woman had seemingly no fight left in her. It made her wonder just how much of it was just for show, did she hate it underneath that little bonnet of a head or was she a secret pervert like her that’d actually enjoy it? she was probably trained to give the best answer that’d please those that towered over her she guessed. All right then keep your secrets she smirked.
“Hey, do you mind if I record this? it's priceless!” She kept her cool hoping she hadn’t crossed a line but Riley simply shrugged. Sadie quickly took out her phone and pressed the camera in close, she zoomed in recording the tiny hands sinking into the spongy surface, Sadie bit her lip at the show. She could smell a whiff of odour even from this distance, no doubt far more extreme for the pet pressing herself against it.
Having filmed enough after a few minutes she turned the phone off, Oh that was so headed straight to her private collection. She was going to rub herself silly later.
Riley didn’t even notice her odd display, too distracted by the art and power of cheap eighties cinema.
—
Even as the next film drew to a close Mina shivered remembering that huge obelisk of a phone recording her from above, like an animal at the zoo being prodded to do tricks. Thankfully relief had finally washed over her once it vanished.
Something was off with Sadie the girl knew, perhaps not dangerous to her specifically but the way she was being viewed as a curiosity was unsettling to say the least. It was something she’d need to keep an eye on even if deep down she knew she had no power to stop the woman if it did turn worse.
After about half an hour Riley had quietly given her the sign to stop with an affectionate tap, despite her dire situation she did appreciate her mistress never overworked her. She pampered the giant and was coddled in return, which had become their unsaid social contract.
Right now she was tucked on the rim of Riley’s short neck top. The intense body heat below her was a welcome reprise from the cold clammy surface of the foot, and like every day of her life now she simply sat snuggled there like a small lap animal as the titans talked over her not even acknowledging her.
"I just… never got the point you know? I get it's a sequel to the third movie but ignores the continuity of the last two films but still ends up recasting the main lead from third movie too? You know, the best part of it? Feels pointless..." Riley had wrapped herself up in a warm blanket in the interim, the autumn nights beginning to roll in had brought in the colder climate. Sadie casually watched Minnie’s head cutely popped out between Riley’s short top. She was pressed tight to her owner, her small pale face contrasting the darker skin. It really was a shame she shrank she had been stuck musing to herself, she was exactly her type.
"Well yeah, the original actress couldn't exactly reprieve her role, she got grilled into the insole of that pink high heel halfway through Stomper in London, If I remember right that ended up sold to a private collector for 30k last I heard, its somewhere in.. New Zealand now I think?"
"Wow, Is she still in it?"
"Well.. what's left of her I guess." The pair giggled together, without even realising it the two were starting to lean into each other. Sadie hid her blush well whilst Riley remained... Riley, unaware but happily content in the moment. They both enjoyed each other’s warmth even if it wasn’t said out loud, especially with the flat’s broken boiler.
“See I just thought they had a different actor playing her as a shrinker in that one, never knew she actually shrank.” Riley chimed in, “Yeah they did local casting and it made her quite a celeb for awhile in the middle of bumfuck nowhere. So the moment she shrank her family sold her to the studio for a decent price.”
“Rough, but I get it to be honest? suffering for the art as it were.”
“God, you sound like our tutor already, next you’ll be telling me the feminist reading of the giant gal stomping tinies~” Sadie teased, pressing herself closer into Riley.
“Something.. something… I think Prof Mabel’s reading was internalised dynamics of gendered oppression or.. something.. Okay I haven’t got around to her full essay reading list yet but its in my emails somewhere but I’ll get there! I mean rewatching this counts as primary research surely…?”
“First of all, you can just admit it's hot, and second it technically counts as primary I guess? But you’ve already seen these countless times!” Sadie laughed, tapping Riley’s shoulder, again neither complained the films kept getting paused or talked over.
“Pfft, I still got merit on those assignments and I didn’t use any chatGPT nonsense like Benny or Delia got caught with.” Riley hadn’t even took notice for a second that Minnie had fallen off her ledge down the interior of her top till she felt the familiar kicking of small limbs. She smirked as she pried her top open and saw the tiny trying and failing not to slip further down between her tits, her hands came in pulling the pet up like a claw machine.
“Oh? having fun down there little miss~”
Sadie barked at the sight of Minnie, “Aww, she’s a cute little pervert isn’t she? I could just gobble her up!” Mina choked at the phrase. Having rewatched some of the films tonight that made her shiver in fear. She was on the flip side of the coin now, she used to laugh and cheer at each crunch or swallow, unable to see the real person in the moment. Now all she could see was herself forced into those scenes, the thought of that warm rancid breath, of chewed up pineapple pizza and beer sending her to a horrible final resting place.
No. She couldn’t accept that possibility even for a slither of a second, but she simply lay helpless between the ebony pincers. Her mistress was obviously not seeing any harm in the comment like her, Mina instead simply just went still.
She hadn’t realised she’d begun tearing up, the giants didn’t like it when she cried audibly. Anything that reminded them of what she made them feel guilty she could only guess, the way Riley had closed herself off from her with a front made it all the more difficult, she was grateful at least she was too small for them to often notice her get upset.
The new girl however from her vantage point of the side did see the shrinky’s streaked face and tilted her head unsure what to do, Mina couldn’t tell if it was confusion or sympathy. She probably didn’t even realise it was her comment that had set her off.
Riley resettled herself back into a comfortable spot and placed the shrinker on her left shoulder. Mina was a bit nervous by Sadie’s proximity leaning against her mistress, not at all used to her anxious owner being close to anyone like this. A long dormant twinge of jealousy shot through her but was immediately stifled, she just turned away and stared distantly in front of her.
Of course she still loved her, even if she had told her she didn’t think Riley would truly grasp that she meant that as a person not as a pet. But just like how her longing stares growing up went unnoticed she saw Sadie’s blushing and lustful stares similarly thrown aside without realising.
God how could a woman so smart and brilliant and beautiful be so blindingly… stupid?
It did make her smile slightly that she really hadn’t changed after all these years, only she did. She just wanted to shout kiss her for fucks sake! Kiss whilst you can! before... before you fade away and become nothing. It won’t last forever, take what you can, she wished she could tell her younger self that every day.
Oh great, now you’ve upset yourself further, well done Mina she chastised herself, it didn’t help to think about these things she repeated to herself.
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“Please..” Trish the tiny schoolgirl croaked, “I’m not like other shrinkers I promise, this woman? she had this device..”
An evil laugh trickled down around her, filling the moonlit room.
“Well done, that was me dipshit.”
“No…”
“You survived longer than most of the others. I'll give you that.”
The camera cut to the point of view of a tied down shrinker. She couldn’t properly see the giant leering down at her, only a harsh outline of the woman, she was a void that filled the sky of the disused science lab. Whilst her tiny body was nestled amongst test tubes and pencils that dwarfed her.
“bu-but why are you doing this... I’m a person just like you.”
A switch flipped as the floor she was tied to lit up, one of those light up display pads. She twitched anxiously as the heat of the bulbs beneath her began to ramp up bathing the sides of her in a warm vibrant orange. She peered up at the still obscured giant, except now the flicker of light lit up two dark peering eyes.
“Nah, you are closer to the roaches I've dissected."
“What...?”
A huge gloved hand came down, Trish flinched assuming she was about to be crushed under the creaking leather but instead it ripped off a strip tape that held her neck down.
“Look down~”
The shrinker finally looked down and let out a ear piercing screech as synth music blared to life. Trish kicked and wiggled to no success blubbering at the sight.
“Look at that lil beating heart of yours, it's only going to get faster from here hun~”
The landscape sized television suddenly stopped, Trish’s screeching paused at an awkward unflattering angle but the two roomies paid that no mind, instead focused on her chest and for once not to ogle the shrinker’s bare chest.
“So you're telling me it's not like, a CGI effect at all?” Riley was getting exasperated now.
“No numbnuts! this was the 80s, it's all in-camera. I watched the 5 hour behind the scenes doc trust me.”
“Fine, explain how.” This argument had been going on for several minutes now was all Mina could groan between the bickering giants, if it wasn’t so overwhelming it would’ve been quite comical.
“Pass Minnie over and I’ll show you then.”
Huh? Mina blinked as she suddenly returned back to harsh reality as huge digits plucked her off her owner’s shoulders. She let out a tiny high pitched cry of alarm as she struggled to calm herself down.
Mina was suddenly dropped onto the pale palm of Sadie, the lingering smell of oily foods and booze filled her senses. The fingers twitched and flexed around her small body till she was held around the waist. Sadie was busy messing around with her phone briefly. Mina just faced Riley pleadingly not sure what the other giant was doing behind her, her nerves began to stray.
She felt herself being placed against a cold wall that made her skin shiver at the touch, Mina realised quickly it was the giant’s phone case. She quivered at the contact but Sadie’s fingers held her tight in place.
And then the torch light turned on, Mina held her eyes closed frightened, that image on the screen burnt in her mind told her to keep them shut.
“Wow, I never knew it lit them up like that naturally,” Riley said in awe. “Wait a mo, lemme grab a few photos…”
“Makes sense though, right? Same density at a smaller scale, a mate of mine on the games design course says they are a perfect reference for subsurface scattering effects for CGI models.”
Mina couldn’t hold it any longer and looked down, the regret instantly was palpable as her mouth twitched open and closed like a fish thrown on land.
She could see through her body like it was clear glass, the bright LED light made her bones stand out through the thick blood orange light shining right through her. The real time x-ray wasn’t what terrified her the most, she began blubbering as she really could see her own heart beating, its pace beating frantically to cope with the increased stress.
Her eyes went wide taking every small nook and cranny in, she could see the blood coursing through her tiny veins and arteries, all her organs so delicate and small compacted together in her miniscule body. She turned to face Riley, the scale difference between her had never felt so vivid in her mind.
She didn’t feel human in that moment, a human didn’t light up like some fucked up furnace? Maybe she really was closer to some roach or insect she blubbered to herself. A part of her couldn’t help but babble, was she now just human shaped? How else had she adapted to this forced size without truly realising? No wonder her best friend couldn’t ‘see’ her as Mina anymore, she was struggling now herself.
She struggled not to scream. Her eyes watered as her arms and legs began kicking at the huge finger holding her in place, silently pleading for this all to stop.
“Yeah, turn it off Sades, it's scaring her.” The light cut off and she found herself snuggled back on her mistress’s palm, a finger traced down her bare back gently as she was cooed and shushed, she happily embraced the warmth whimpering at the memory.
“Sorry cutie, no harm done right?” Sadie smiled looking down at the huddled shrinker, realising she was expecting to answer Mina simply forced herself to nod a few times as it was all she could muster.
She looked up to see Riley’s face bathed in orange light from her phone.
“Yeah I’m totally using one of these as my lockscreen.”